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OOZE AND AAHS; Why Disgusting, Slimy Movies Are So Hard Not to Watch

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19971209
Author:Stephen Hunter

As human beings, we are noble, imaginative, heroic and tragic. We will toil on until that last dingdong of doom. But one other thing unites us.

We all go to the bathroom.

You name the man or woman and I'll bet you anything that person went to the bathroom. Princess Di? Percy Bysshe Shelley? Albert Schweitzer? Jackie Kennedy? The pope? Not only did they go to the bathroom, as you and I do, but they also occasionally passed gas, burped, vomited, sweated, spat, nurtured halitosis bacteria in the billions, produced glaciers of grease that cruised down their bodies during the night, ...

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