This is Getting Better All the Time

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Because my article on the bodybuilding website is new, it temporarily has a link from the homepage.

My essay on the Russian writer Tolstoy is featured below an ad for HEMO-RAGE, which claims to be "one of the meanest, strongest and cruelest pre-workout detonator this planet has ever seen."

Its creators "went down to the laboratory and cooked up one of the most vicious blends of raging energy inducing, strength signaling, blood volume expanding, pump activating, extreme focus enhancing, fat detonating and muscle building compounds imaginable."

They needed "extra insurance to be able to bring this explosive concoction to you."

HEMO-RAGE sounds a little too much like hemorrhage to me, but if you, gentle reader, are interested in purchasing it, please first note the warning:

"NOT FOR USE BY WIMPS. NOT TO BE USED BY ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 21 OR THE UNDEDICATED AND/OR WEAK-HEARTED."

Comments

  1. _*rachel*_September 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM

    The irony here is killing me!

    Have you found out what body part that is?

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  2. Amy PhillipsSeptember 23, 2009 at 10:33 AM

    That was surely an arm, but the belly button thing still has me perplexed. I'll look for a match while attending the Natural Northern Michigan Bodybuilding Championships this weekend and report back.

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