Does this language require a lexicon, or a decryption key?

Pervitin. Perdition, however, is not far away.

My family lived (1960s) inland from Los Angeles. On car trips to the beach, our eyes would start burning as we entered Los Angeles proper. We took a vacation trip to Hawaii. Amidst the excitement of my first jet flight (707), I noted a distinct brown band in the coastal clouds that we were climbing through.

Years later, in Vietnam turmoil and the rise of an ecology consciousness movement, and calls for "significant, meaningful, and relevant" education, my UCLA freshman chemistry professor (the late Dr. Mario Baur) announced that the day's lecture would be not from the syllabus, but instead on recent findings in smog science. He described photochemical mechanisms in smog formation.

Some years later, I worked in a Los Angeles highrise building that was not very careful about roof access. The air even at 24 stories, smelled nitric like Young Hall (UCLA Chemistry), plus a slug of ozone. Automotive rubber parts turned into glassy garbage after a couple of years: weatherstripping, wipers, radiator and vacuum hoses. Uh, what about my lungs?

Not these Australian animals: Going to Australia

This happened to a Sun 3/280 years ago. I was going on vacation. Upon arrival at my motel room, the room phone message light ominously was on. It was work, down because the engineering server was down. The cleaning crew had a little kid with them, and the server room had trash cans to be emptied. The kid did what comes naturally: flip and push all of the brightly lit switches. Notably the one to the disk drive. I talked someone through fsck for about an hour.

Wild animals repeatedly altered the human genome long ago, so it's our turn.

A Department of War must be headed by a Secretary of Offense. The current guy has outstanding qualifications.

This entire thread calls for corporal punishment.

Pigs will eventually have wings.

For the Internet to have a Philly accent, there would need to be Unicode representations for the Philadelphia alphabet (which of course would render here as gibberish): Fukin' A, Fukin' B, Fukin' C, ...

As a kid, my best source of consumer economics education was Mad Magazine. [big print] "SALE! 20% off!" [mouse type] "the prices we raised 25% last week".

Fuck everything, we're doing five blades

As a child I spotted this influential 1933 book on my RN grandmother's bookshelf and read it avidly: 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs

As a child, I had surgery in an Adventist hospital. Adventists encourage vegetarian diet. The hospital commissary was vegetarian, and served a Loma Linda Foods product called Vege-burger. This was a brand name canned product available at grocery stores in that region, with its significant Adventist presence. I liked Vege-burger. The name has been in use for 60+ years.

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