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Phone Sex Is Like Wearing Orange

a: Phone sex ~
b: wearing orange

What: "I totally tried it, though, with a little success at one point in my life, but it was just a thing you try, like wearing orange for a while. I don't think it's something I could live my life with."

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Writer: Drew Barrymore
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Aug 17 2011 11:58 AM


A Geologic Vesicle

a: Vesicle ~
b: a mold

What:

"The word comes from the Latin for "little bladder." Vesicles that fill with minerals are called amygdules; that is, if a vesicle is like a mold, an amygdule is like a cast"


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Writer: Andrew Alden
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Date: Jan 1 2014 1:48 PM



a: Autocracy ~
b: grand ship going out gloriously over the seas

What:

" "As for my self, I am going to stick to democracy. Autocracy is like a grand ship going out gloriously over the seas, perhaps striking a reef, but democracy is like a raft. "It never sinks, but your feet are in the water all the time."


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Writer: Dr. Ethan Colton
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Date: Feb 3 2014 8:47 PM



a: Studying plasma waves ~
b: finding one tooth of a dinosaur

What:

"Studying plasma waves in space is like finding one tooth of a dinosaur and trying to determine what the whole dinosaur looked like," Gekelman said. "In our machine, we can see the whole dinosaur.


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Writer: Walter Gekelman, UCLA professor of physics
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Date: Oct 16 2014 6:55 PM



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