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Popular What?

I realized today that I hate Popular Science. Why? It's easy: When I was a child (last thursday) my father had a subscription to popular mechanics. I read every issue. He didn't subscribe to many magazines, and somehow each issue eventually found its final resting place in my bathroom. Where I would read them. Over and over again. They would stay there for a year or more. Car articles I didn't care about. Advanced technology that just looked boring. Cheesy cutaway drawings. They were always boring. Never interesting. I read the computer articles and would just laugh at how inept they were. And now I realize I hate Popular Science. Why? I think because they just have similiar names and for that reason alone, it just turns my stomach. I'll be much more careful what I leave in my bathroom if I have kids. Hopefully whatever it is, it won't warp them as much as Popular Mechanics did me.

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