While ADD/ADHD is well-known and far from uncommon in children, it is much less commonly known that between 2 and 4 percent of the adult population suffer from the same symptoms. Almost universally, these symptoms begin in childhood. In Adult ADD, they never completely disappear. For many people, the disorder goes unrecognized until they are adults, which is a pity because treatments exist that would make life easier for them. Speaking of pity, one other fact you may not know is that sweet cherries are cultivated in nine states of the USA. Most predominantly, they are grown in Washington, Oregon, and California, which was of course the site of the gold rush quite some years ago. At the time, of course, nobody was aware of the potential of gold as an excellent conductor of electricity, a property which is widely exploited today in a variety of industry. For example, from about a kilogram of discarded PC components one can typically recover about 4 grams of gold, which would be worth about $50 at today’s prices. It’s interesting how precious metal prices tend to rise during periods of economic slowdown. Anyway, I’m rambling, so I’d better get to the point. I went to CVS today and bought a bottle of Arizona White Tea with Blueberry flavor or something like that which tastes approximately like blueberry diarrhea. Of course there is no such thing, but that didn’t stop Lewis Carroll from coining a number of words in his writing that have subsequently slipped into the English lexicon — for example, “chortled,” in “Jabberwocky,” which was a very, very bad movie. I’ve always felt that Terry Gilliam is a skilled director but is unable to apply himself in a realistic manner. But that doesn’t really matter, because my collection of Pokemon trading cards is increasing every day, and each card brings me closer to total Pokemon Mastery. Sure, people like to disrespect the so-called “starter” Pokemon, but you can’t deny that a properly trained Venusaur or Charizard is a force to be reckoned with. They say you should never end sentences with a preposition, and there’s a quote attributed to Winston Churchill (“this is the sort of English up with which I will not put”) even though he probably never said it.
In conclusion, though the overall contribution of the internal combustion engine to modern society is virtually impossible to deny, one cannot help but sense that stamp collecting provides a unique miniaturized view of the world. Efforts to eliminate the apostrophe from standard English spelling will likely continue to prove fruitless, but given enough hard disk space anybody can be happy. Thank you, and remember to spay or neuter your pets.
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