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Rubla Rhan
by Hunter
Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 08:51:26 PM PST
In grand New York, under Pale Male's wing

Where the subways hum, and taxis sing

There lived a man who liked his bling

And who would screw most anything.


With his wife he became bored

but yet his bald libido roared

So to the Hamptons he would soar

And charged his sex romps to the poor.


"Why not?" he cried,

"I deserve to roam, And smell the ocean's salty foam.

These funds may help the homeless, true,

But does not my d*ck need shelter too?"


Mere protocol would not deter,

the funds were easily transferred;

his mistress preened, her family purred,

and the city worked as their chauffeurs.


Courageously, he seized that day

(And other things along the way)

And his wife thought him a jerk

(And still the radios did not work.)


Still he was not happy, though:

He sought a quicker place to go,

A private place for a quick perk

Within walking distance from his work.


So a stately Terror Dome he built

On ground where previous blood was spilt

With a private room in which to snog

(And police to walk his girlfriend's dog.)


But one day thunder shook the ground;

The buildings fell, the skies profound

In tragedy, and yet in death unbound

Our Adonis soon would be renowned..

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Our hero, grim, undaunted!

Look! See him rise through ash and soot!

As the city lifted voice in prayer

Rubla Rhan was quickly there.


Our hero knew, in smoke and din

That what was needed most was him

Look at him walk! He stood quite firm --

And tried to stay on past his term.


Yes, through tragedy and sordid spree

Our Romeo will always be

The inverse of a Kennedy Who asks:

What can my city do for me?


Still, there is just one more dream,

yet one more path, a greater gleam,

A place beyond the city lights

Where power peaks at lofty heights.


A place past agencies coerced,

Beyond cops and dogs and humps perverse,

And power over the city's purse

And radios, and bombs, and worse.


And so he dreams of his ascent

And thinks to himself alone, when spent,
How many more there are, content,

that I could screw as President.

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Dogs smarter than we think, study shows

James Randerson, science correspondent
Thursday December 6 2007
To the dog lover, the ability of man's best friend to bark at the postman and fetch a stick is proof of his intelligence. But they may be even brighter than that. Scientists have welcomed dogs into a select club of species capable of using abstract concepts. The research showed that dogs are able to mentally sort objects into categories, a talent for abstract thought that has only been shown in birds and primates before.
The researchers trained four dogs with a touch-screen test which involved choosing between two images which appeared simultaneously. One was an image of a dog, the other a landscape. The animals indicated their preference with a prod of their noses. When they chose the dog they were rewarded with food. If they chose the landscape they had to wait a few seconds before the same two images appeared again.
Next the team tested the dogs - two border collies, an australian shepherd and a mongrel - with an unfamiliar set of dog pictures and landscapes. To pass they would need to realise that "dog" is a category of object that unfamiliar objects also fall into. Their success dropped slightly from about 80% to 72%. "It shows us that dogs are able to use more or less abstract concepts," said Dr Friederike Range, who carried out the work with colleagues at the University of Vienna.
Lastly, the experimenters used familiar landscapes as background with new dog images superimposed. Again the animals were able to choose the ones with the dogs. The research appears in the journal Animal Cognition and is reported today in New Scientist magazine.
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