T-shirt philosophy
I’m a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world: After hearing complaints of sexism from shoppers, JCPenney has pulled from its online catalog a girl’s long-sleeved shirt with the words: “I’m too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to do it for me.”
“I don’t understand what all the fuss is about,” said the designer of the shirt, who was wearing his latest T-shirt, which read: “Everything I know about gender roles I learned from 1950s TV shows.”
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Tool time: Archaeologists studying a site in Kenya have discovered that early humans made and used tools, such as axes, cleavers and picks as early as 1.76 million years ago. But when humans fanned out from Africa they took only simpler tools with them.
It’s believed the ancient humans had loaned their more advanced tools to the neighbors, who kept promising to return them but had actually sold them the week before at a cave sale.
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Now look at them yo-yos: Canada’s broadcast standards council has amended its earlier ruling and says that Dire Straits’ hit “Money for Nothing” is OK for radio play. The use of a gay slur, it said, while still inappropriate, was satirical.
With the 1985 song out of the way, the Canadian council said it would now begin its hearings on drug references in Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Puff the Magic Dragon.”
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