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Soulo makes money like Papa John’s makes pizza pies (dough is a term used for money) and your mom is on his Johnson (rapper slang for ‘penis’).

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Ab-Soul, personifying Christopher Dorner, expects arrest and federal prison at any time for his activities. Check out Dorner’s manifesto and find out why!

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Aniston skillfully demonstrates a bit of alliteration here. Gentlemen, thesauruses should be your best friend. Want to pick up a girl? Step up your synonym game.

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On a lighter note, check out the Princeton Review’s list of the top 20 party schools in America!

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Females may choose the men with the best complexion (or looks, more generally), but forward-thinking men make something of themselves. George Washington Carver was a Black botanist who engineered a myriad of products made of peanuts – as well as soybeans and sweet potatoes

This is also a reference to the Jif peanut butter slogan “Choosy Moms Choose Jif”.

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This amalgamation (16.5 standard tons) clogged things up so badly that only 5% of the normal amount of material could flow through the sewer. Imagine two fully-grown African elephants gallivanting underneath London’s streets.

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One such recipe that Orwell might be prone to decry

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Indeed, but Merriam-Webster does have a solid entry:

an aromatic beverage prepared from tea leaves by infusion with boiling water

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Rip currents are caused by waves breaking unevenly on the shoreline, creating a current that circulates back out to sea.

A swimmer caught in a rip current should not attempt to swim back to shore directly against the rip. This risks exhaustion and drowning. A rip does not pull a swimmer under water; it carries the swimmer away from the shore in a narrow channel of water. [Source.]

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In the New International Version – less ornate but more straightforward:

If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

This passage is an example of what many decry in the Bible – an advocation (some would say “order”) of violence. Critics of the Old Testament cite this passage and others to claim that morality should not be derived from this Christian tome.

With the New Atheism movement and the recent gay rights campaigns, this line has also seen increased reference – see Chris Hitchens defending Stephen Fry. However, there is some redemption for the book of Leviticus.

Remember that this book was compiled just over 2500 years ago. With this, we might then call the people of that time more barbaric or uncivilized, but anthropologist Marvin Harris would have us believe differently. His theory of cultural materialism posits that early social constructs emerge from the necessity of existing as human beings on Earth. Therefore, one reason we might see condemnation of homsexuality (esp. in males) is that because two men cannot produce offspring, which leads to a smaller population and so on. (This same line of thinking explains things like taboos on incestuous relationships – genetic mutations are more likely to become expressed.)

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