This study sounds dubious to me, and not just because its conclusions are morally reprehensible. There are a gazillion strains of HPV, most of them harmless, many of them more or less undetectable. A much, much larger percentage of the population (Americans, anyhow) are HPV carriers than realize or manifest; and that group amounts to much, much more than 1 percent of the population—so that control group doesn't look representative.
Unless the report is referring to just the two HPV strains most commonly associated with cervical cancer, which works better by my mental math, making for a pretty damn high correlation between these two HPVs and mouth cancer. That's not the limit to the high-risk HPV strains, but whatever—there's a kick-ass vaccine.
those are some fine lyrics. It's a bit confusing though, because half of the songs are about how great everything is, and the other half are about how shitty things are, necessitating that you take your country back from the goddamn commies.
I can't decide if I like "you can't racial profile" or "tolerate this" best.
Weiner: It's worse than that. Had the option been available, I'd have voted for Giuliani over Clinton for Senate. I still would. But I'd vote Clinton over Giuliani for President.
Text: You make a compelling argument. I suppose you realize that you and SB now have a moral obligation to turn Waring's faux paean to libertarianism, "And A Pony," into a song. Then we'll get Henley, Welch, and Kenny Layne to record it for podcast. (Why does the Cato crowd have all the musicians that don't play the oboe?)
God doesn't actually pay much attention to sport (the exception being cricket), and therefore usually derives his opinions from his agent who does spend much time watching the other sports - Lucifer. One could try bribing Lucifer's (or God's) bookies, but I don't have that kind of jack. So I summon a major demon and offer to sell my soul for the ability to make a fortune off betting on sports games, but I want a freebie first, etc..I get the free trial, then renig on my offer. Demons don't like getting jipped, so they don't talk, and I just summon another one next game.
And it doesn't matter who wants it more. Lucifer owns the refs.
28: Think of that as a vote for Pat Roberts as chair of the Intelligence Committee, if that helps. Geez. The Weld thing isn't so bad--you should be comfortable with who you are.
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Posted by [redacted] | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:33 PM
I'll have to think twice next time someone asks me for a cancer stick.
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:38 PM
Once you've put cancer and oral sex together, you can't just take them apart again.
Two great, etc.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:41 PM
More sound scientific evidence in support of abstinence-based sex education.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:42 PM
This study sounds dubious to me, and not just because its conclusions are morally reprehensible. There are a gazillion strains of HPV, most of them harmless, many of them more or less undetectable. A much, much larger percentage of the population (Americans, anyhow) are HPV carriers than realize or manifest; and that group amounts to much, much more than 1 percent of the population—so that control group doesn't look representative.
Unless the report is referring to just the two HPV strains most commonly associated with cervical cancer, which works better by my mental math, making for a pretty damn high correlation between these two HPVs and mouth cancer. That's not the limit to the high-risk HPV strains, but whatever—there's a kick-ass vaccine.
Posted by Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:42 PM
Of all the known ways you can get cancer, this is the one I find most palatable.
Posted by My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:42 PM
A bit more info. (There was an unsuccessful search for "swedish dentist" "Oral sex" in there. The things I do for the Mineshaft.)
It does seem as though it's the high-risk HPV strains, but I think we all agree that the Rosenquist is getting the cost-benefit analysis wrong.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 4:52 PM
Googling "wizard cocksucker" got me this useful site:
http://www.nlbloot.nl/uitkleden.html
For example:
"blowjobs - Ze slurpt het zaad uit zijn pik helemaal weg.
blowjobs - Ze wil maar een ding dat is een lading zaad".
The site is safe for work in 99.9% of the world.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:55 PM
Well, the text is, anyway.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 5:56 PM
The pictures, however, not so work-safe.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 6:29 PM
Then it's decided: next time I find myself at an international dental conference, I'm hanging out with the Georgians.
Posted by tom | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 6:38 PM
Das blast mein shaft! :(
Posted by Mr. B | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 7:00 PM
"Beast Fucker" is work-safe?
Posted by Matt F | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 7:01 PM
"99.9% of the world" = the Mineshaft.
Posted by ogmb | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 7:12 PM
Big pharma to the rescue yet again, you ungrateful bastards.
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 7:15 PM
Is Kerstin Rosenquist, D.D.S, cute? She sounds vaguely Jewish.
Posted by John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 7:26 PM
At least we've all got something to do while we wait for death to overtake us.
Pick hairs from between our teeth?
Posted by cw | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 7:54 PM
Or we could just rock out.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 9:06 PM
Awwww yeeeeah! Throw your hands in the air, neocon party people!
Where do you find this stuff apostropher? And have you heard the Pope Benedict techno
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 9:15 PM
those are some fine lyrics. It's a bit confusing though, because half of the songs are about how great everything is, and the other half are about how shitty things are, necessitating that you take your country back from the goddamn commies.
I can't decide if I like "you can't racial profile" or "tolerate this" best.
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 9:21 PM
Where are you finding lyrics for the other songs?
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 9:30 PM
Are you kidding, text? The clear winner: Trickle Down
(Chorus)
"Trickle down, trickle down let the money trickle down
It won't do anybody good buried in the ground
Trickle down, trickle down let the money spread around
And one day it'll be my turn and mine will trickle down"
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 9:37 PM
Lyrics. I found this deep in the comments at The Poor Man's Weekly Wanker Awards, baa.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 9:38 PM
Also, the video for "Tolerate This".
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 9:42 PM
OT, but, Tim?
(The Philosoraptor crew think this is a joke, although rightmarch seems to be for real; but they could be putting these songs out as a joke anyway.)
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 9:42 PM
sure, trickle down is catchy, but read these lyrics and tell me they don't harken to the young Bob Dylan. And they've got a social conscience too!
"Well, I ain't never seen a grandma
Strap dynamite around her waist
Or put explosives in her slip-ons
And try to blow a plane to outerspace
As a matter of fact every terrorist act
That's taken place in the friendly sky
You must understand has been by an olived skinned man
Between 18 and 35"
Posted by text | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 9:53 PM
I don't even want to know how they attempt to set the lyric, "Being politically correct is more important than saving lives."
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 9:53 PM
Weiner: It's worse than that. Had the option been available, I'd have voted for Giuliani over Clinton for Senate. I still would. But I'd vote Clinton over Giuliani for President.
Text: You make a compelling argument. I suppose you realize that you and SB now have a moral obligation to turn Waring's faux paean to libertarianism, "And A Pony," into a song. Then we'll get Henley, Welch, and Kenny Layne to record it for podcast. (Why does the Cato crowd have all the musicians that don't play the oboe?)
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:02 PM
I don't suppose you're handing out delicious candy along with those moral obligations, are you, Tim?
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:19 PM
It's on the tip of his penis. Munch on some candy as you wait for death.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:21 PM
Also, listen up you Swedish dentists! You can have my oral sex when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:25 PM
Haven't had a basketball thread this season, have we? Why are the Knicks so bad?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:25 PM
What a way to go.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:26 PM
It's basketball season already?
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:26 PM
Why are the Knicks so bad?
Answer.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:28 PM
Are the knicks an American team? I always root for America.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:34 PM
If two American teams play against each other, then I go with whichever team God is supporting.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:40 PM
How do you tell which team that is, in advance of the victory?
And what if God supports one team, but the other team wants it more?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:45 PM
I don't trust Petey's b-ball judgment much. No way do the Knicks make the playoffs.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:50 PM
Then the loss will come as punishment for avariciousness.
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:50 PM
Can God make a backboard so powerful that even He cannot break it?
Posted by eb | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:52 PM
God doesn't actually pay much attention to sport (the exception being cricket), and therefore usually derives his opinions from his agent who does spend much time watching the other sports - Lucifer. One could try bribing Lucifer's (or God's) bookies, but I don't have that kind of jack. So I summon a major demon and offer to sell my soul for the ability to make a fortune off betting on sports games, but I want a freebie first, etc..I get the free trial, then renig on my offer. Demons don't like getting jipped, so they don't talk, and I just summon another one next game.
And it doesn't matter who wants it more. Lucifer owns the refs.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:53 PM
I really hate when I'm about to mock someone, and then it turns out they used a variant spelling acknowledged by the OED.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:58 PM
God doesn't actually pay much attention to sport (the exception being cricket)
Michael?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 10:59 PM
Somewhere out there in the Internets is a discussion of whether Jesus could take Charles Barkley in the post, but I can't find it.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 11:00 PM
Unfogged no longer about Paul Deignan, in case anyone wondered. Nor I any longer using copulas.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 11-16-05 11:53 PM
Nor I any longer using copulas.
Fitting, that.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-17-05 12:14 AM
Why is there a link to Nad/eem Huss/ain in 44?
28: Think of that as a vote for Pat Roberts as chair of the Intelligence Committee, if that helps. Geez. The Weld thing isn't so bad--you should be comfortable with who you are.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 11-17-05 7:47 AM
I can't decide if this post and thread are less amusing or more, given that ogged's fastidiousness surely means he's free of cancer worries.
Posted by cw | Link to this comment | 11-17-05 9:07 AM
48, because he's always talking about cricket.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 11-17-05 11:01 AM