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Because blowing your nose is not enough. (Although I think I will stick with it instead of using this medieval torture device)

Here’s how the Nori works:
Place half a tea spoon full of sea salt into the Nori and fill the container with water. While leaning over a sink, tilt your head sideways and slightly insert the spout (outlet) into one nostril. Slowly lift the Nori so the salt water flows into the nostril. Important: Your mouth must stay open! The salt water will flow through the nasal passage and come out of the other nostril.

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I am going to have to go back and read some of the articles there. Looks interesting.
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Some really bad names that parents have chosen for their children.

It’s simple. Some parents are just plain crazy. But few are as crazy as many soon-to-be parents, who, wrapped up in the fear and anticipation, the social status and expectations, go just plain mad. Mad as march hares with swollen ankles and morning sickness.

The following is a catalog of naming questions and suggestions posted on several different baby naming bulletin boards going back as far as early 2001. All entries are left unedited except for length.

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Very practical.
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Mmmm packaged hot squid rings.
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51 are now corporations and 49 are countries.

Some interesting instruments here with excellent descriptions. Pictured above is “The Musical Telegraph” from 1876.