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The Soviets complained that Ota’s design (left) had no door; the Japanese delegation complained that the vertical line between the door and the doorframe in the Soviet design (right) made it more difficult to recognize the figure of the runner.

For Ota, the most remarkable thing was not that his design won but how similar his design was to the Soviets’. They, too, had submitted a figure of a man running out a door. He was amazed that two design teams, working independently, would develop such similar concepts, and the coincidence convinced him of the essential rightness of the running man. He came to believe he had designed not just Yukio Ota’s exit sign, not just a Japanese exit sign, but a fundamentally human exit sign, one that speaks to some primal cognitive notion of escape.

When you meet someone from Florida, know that they’ll hold their breath until you ask them if they go to Disney World every day.  You have to ask them this, or they’ll die.

Daniel Mora made a handsome theme based on Astronaut.

I put a whole pack of Juicy Fruit in my mouth on the airplane.

Megan: You smell like a ball of sugar.

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A close-up of Astronaut John Grunsfeld shows the reflection of Astronaut Andrew Feustel, perched on the robotic arm and taking the photo. The pair teamed together on three of the five spacewalks during Servicing Mission 4 in May 2009. [source]

The Friday before last it was my discovery of how to cry out the perfect turkey gobble, tonight it is the frumpy way I say the word fifth with a completely relaxed jaw that I will repeat a million times until it is no longer funny.

Megan: “How about it is not funny ever.”

EDIT: Megan and I just sneezed at the same time!~