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Ask Jeeves answer: what are the pros and cons of becoming a eunuch?

1) Sounds from the past:

Musica (Musica Musarum Germana) - Jacobus Handl-Gallus

By some Czech choir. Sounds a bit funny, but then I don't think our version was much better.

"Jacobus Gallus (Jacob Handl)
(1550 - 1591)

Gallus was one of the great composers of the Renaissance period. Scarcely known today, Gallus' music stands out as a monument to beauty and spirituality. He was born in 1550 somewhere in Carniola, probably in Ribnica in Sovenia. He died in Prague in 1591."


2) Ad seen in Orchard underpass:

"Brazilian Waxing

Give your loved ones that self confidence with the feeling of being clean, smooth, young and sexy"

Being grammatically incorrect is the least of this ad's faults.


3)Cuba? It was great, say boys freed from US prison camp - James Astill meets teenagers released from Guantanamo Bay who recall the place fondly

"I thank God that my son has come back, but he has changed... He is impatient and refuses to listen to his elders. He has grown disobedient."


4) Bush's flip flops

"So Bush has a site somewhere that tracks Kerry's "flip-flops". Reader TK probably spent three seconds coming up with this list of Bush flip flops. It's not like they're hard to find:

# Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation; then he's for it.
# Bush is against nation building; then he's for it.
# Bush is against deficits; then he's for them.
# Bush is for free trade; then he's for tariffs on steel; then he's against them again.
# Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict; then he pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian State.
# Bush is for states right to decide on gay marriage, then he is for changing the constitution.
# Bush-"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. Bush-"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care.
# Bush first says the U.S. won't negotiate with North Korea. Now he will
# Bush said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to sanction military action against Iraq. Later Bush announced he would not call for a vote
# Bush was for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who enter the US. Bush after meeting with Pres. Fox, he's against it."