mefi quote, no. 18

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Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is great, and has a great "Behind the Music"-type backstory which peaks with Berlioz plotting to travel to France to kill his girlfriend and her family, disguised as a maid.
posted by Gortuk at 8:43 PM PST on July 28
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I know an old woman who once got up in the middle of the night with a sore throat, and gargled in the dark with what she thought was mouthwash. It was the smell that she caught first. She spit it out and turned on the light, and has not been able to taste anything since.
posted by unrepentanthippie at 9:29 AM PST on August 26
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The street car infrasctructure was well established and pretty much covered the whole city and surrounding suburbs. General Motors, under the guise of a dummy corporation, bought out the street car company and replaced the entire network with buses.
posted by fresh-n-minty at 9:48 AM PST on August 28

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