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Most of the main hosts are off this week and next, so there’s a lot of fill in work between now and January 1st.

That goes for all of you.

named Buehrle. Born on the same day as the perfect game (according to the shelter we got him from).

I intend to shave a “56” on his back next July.

I want in on that job.

Does he give chocolate to the Juvenile Diabetes foundation, too? ;)

whereupon he eats a family of 5

yes, that’s a great phrase to use with your wife when convincing her to do something like undergo surgery.

but what has she done for you lately, right?!

you could keep the cutest one and sell the other.

and i have no idea how my parents managed to raise both of us and pay for both of us. good luck, should be a lot of fun!

i don’t like anything about the twins. as you may recall, prior to game 163 last year, i flipped over a baby carriage carrying twins. if you have twins, you’re dead to me. go back to minnesota where your fucking sick kind belongs.

You are like a pain in the ass straight-A kid who bitches about getting a 98 and not 100 on a test. I struggled at a half-marathon this month to do a 1:40. Eat me.

And painfully shy and retiring in person. A wallflower, really.

I scarcely race any longer than half a mile and here you both are flaunting your jogging abilities.

Provincial OPOS.

First, each foot would be soaked in a warm mixture of herbs and animal blood; this was intended to soften the foot and aid the binding. Then, the toenails were cut back as far as possible to prevent ingrowth and subsequent infections, since the toes were to be pressed tightly into the sole of the foot. To prepare her for what was to come next the girl’s feet were delicately massaged. Cotton bandages, ten feet long and two inches wide, were prepared by soaking them in the blood and herb mixture. The toes on each foot were curled under, then pressed with great force downwards and squeezed into the sole of the foot until the toes break. The broken toes were then held tightly against the sole of the foot. The foot was then drawn down straight with the leg and the arch forcibly broken. The bandages were repeatedly wound in a figure eight movement, starting at the inside of the foot at the instep, then carried over the toes, under the foot, and round the heel, the freshly broken toes being pressed tightly into the sole of the foot. At each pass the binding was tightened, pulling the ball of the foot and the heel ever close together, causing the broken foot to fold at the arch, and pressing the toes underneath, this would cause the young girl excruciating pain. When the binding was completed, the end of the binding cloth was sewn tightly to prevent the girl from loosening it. As the wet bandages dried they constricted, making the binding even tighter.

The girls’ broken feet required a great deal of care and attention, and they would be unbound regularly. Each time the feet were unbound they were washed, the toes carefully checked for injury, and the nails carefully and meticulously trimmed. When unbound the broken feet were also kneaded to soften them and making the joints and broken bones more flexible, and were soaked in a concoction that caused any necrotised flesh to fall off. Immediately after this pedicure, the girl’s broken toes were folded back under and the feet were rebound. The bindings were pulled ever tighter each time, so that the process became more and more painful. This unbinding and rebinding ritual was repeated as often as possible (for the rich at least once daily, for poor peasants two or three times a week), with fresh bindings. It was generally an elder female member of the girl’s family or a professional footbinder who carried out the initial breaking and ongoing binding of the feet. This was considered preferable to having the mother do it, as she might have been sympathetic to her daughter’s pain and less willing to keep the bindings tight. A professional foot binder would ignore the girl’s cries and would continue to bind her feet incredibly tightly. Professional foot binders would also tend to be more extreme in the initial breaking of the feet, sometimes breaking each of the the toes in two or three separate places, and even completely dislocating the toes to allow them to be pressed under and bound more tightly. This would cause the girl to suffer from devastating foot pain, but her feet were more likely to achieve the three inch ideal. The girl was not allowed to rest after her feet had been bound; however much pain she was suffering, she was required to walk on her broken and bound feet, so that her own body weight would help press and crush her feet into the desired shape.