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bd popeye said:

a little fluff to brighten your day!

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C'mon Popeye, youre far too good a person to refer to the opposite sex as "Fluff"

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Equation said:

Lol...I enjoyed the "fluff".

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Something vacuous, such as a verbal statement, without any particular meaning or value.

Irrelevant details that may cloud the issue of main concern.

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A toddler gets a haircut at a barbershop during a traditional festival known as Dragon Head Raising Day in Hefei, in eastern China's Anhui province on February 23, 2012. According to folk legend, Dragon Head Raising Day falls on the second day of the second lunar month and is the day that the dragon king, who is in charge of clouds and rain, raises his head. Getting a haircut on this day is believed to bring good luck.

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Hong Kong chief executive candidate Leung Chun-ying (2nd R) and his wife Regina (R) smile at members of the press as he holds papers confirming his candidacy for the position of Hong Kong's chief executive at the Hong Kong Registration and Electoral Office on February 23, 2012. Two-thirds of Hong Kong people think China's reported favourite candidate to become the city's next leader, Henry Tang, should quit the race, a poll showed on February 23 as analysts warned of a 'crisis' if he is elected.

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An employee directs job seekers to queue up outside the Foxconn recruitment center in Shenzhen, Guangdong province February 22, 2012. Apple's top manufacturer in China, Foxconn Technology, is having no problems luring fresh workers to churn out ever more gadgets, despite the firm's reputation as a tough employer that has put it under a thorough probe into its labour practices. Picture taken February 22, 2012.

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Former Chinese and NBA basketball star Yao Ming poses for a photograph after an interview with Reuters in Shanghai February 22, 2012. Chinese basketball icon Yao has been taken aback by Jeremy Lin's rise at the New York Knicks and thinks his style and size could make China's state sports system rethink how it selects and grooms its athletes. Picture taken February 22, 2012.

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Job seekers cross a road as they queue outside Foxconn recruitment center in Shenzhen, Guangdong province February 22, 2012.

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Employees eat their meal on a guardrail of a bridge near Foxconn recruitment center in Shenzhen, Guangdong province February 22, 2012.

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Workers sort through various plastic bottles collected at a recycling collection center in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on February 22, 2012. With a population of more than one billion people, China creates massive volumes of waste, but its recycling industry utilises not only its own rubbish but is the world's biggest importer of waste, taking in plastics from the United States, for example, before transforming them into new products to be shipped back to Western countries.

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A North Korean official talks to a Chinese paramilitary policeman who is guarding an entrance of the North Korean embassy, where a meeting of North Korean and U.S. diplomats is held, in Beijing, China, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012.

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Chinese athlete Liu Xiang (R) and Cuban athlete Dayron Robles pose after a press conference in Stockholm on February 22, 2012, one day ahead of the XL Galan Stockholm Indoor meeting 2012.

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Taiwan's Yani Tseng speaks to reporters during a press conference ahead of the HSBC Women's Champions event in Singapore on February 22, 2012. World number one Yani Tseng of Taiwan will be aiming for her second straight tournament victory when the 1.4-million USD HSBC Women's Champions event tees off Thursday in Singapore.

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Rescuers are seen at the site where a deadly gas leak occurred at Meishan Steel Plant, which belongs to the state-owned Baosteel Group, in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 23, 2012. Three people were confirmed dead, and another three seriously injured, following a gas leak accident that occurred around noon on Thursday at the steel plant. (Xinhua/Wang Wei)

NANJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Three people have been confirmed dead, and another three seriously injured, following a gas leak accident that occurred around noon on Thursday at a steel plant in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu province, the plant said.

The other seven men are in stable conditions, according to a statement issued by Meishan Steel Plant.

Gas leaked from a pipeline into a gas tank under repair at about 11:50 a.m., when 13 technical workers were performing overhaul work in the tank at the plant located in the city's Yuhuatai district, it said.

Rescuers pulled the workers out of the gas tank in the afternoon, and three died despite medical efforts.

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Villager Wu Yongsheng gets water in a cistern which is almost dried up at Muyibai Village in Shizong County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 22, 2012. Since December, the persistent drought in Yunnan has affected more than 6 million people, leaving at least 2.4 million people and 1.5 million livestock short of drinking water, said the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Wednesday. [Xinhua]

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Villager Yang Jiawei holds a mussel shell on a parched pond at Benzhai Village in Shizong County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 22, 2012. [Xinhua]

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Pupils of the elementary school of Luogong Village queue to get water from a water wagon at the village in Luliang County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Feb. 21, 2012.

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Workers pour concrete on the top of the 170-meter-high main tower of the Jiaxing-Shaoxing (Jiashao) Bridge on the Hangzhou Bay, east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 22, 2012. As the second cross-sea bridge spanning across the Hangzhou Bay, the Jiashao Bridge is expected to enter operation by the end of 2012. It will halve the travel time down to 1.5 hours between Shaoxing in Zhejiang and east China's Shanghai. [Xinhua]

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bladerunner said:

Architects are supposed to have good taste, but then again looking at the work of the post modernists, maybe not.

RE the use of the word "Fluff" Me and a buddy got two strokes of the cane on our backsides when we were overheard describing girls as fluff while at high school. Boy have times changed!

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Rescuers are seen at the site where a deadly gas leak occurred at Meishan Steel Plant, which belongs to the state-owned Baosteel Group, in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb. 23, 2012. Three people were confirmed dead, and another three seriously injured, following a gas leak accident that occurred around noon on Thursday at the steel plant. [Xinhua]

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Liu Xiang of China sits on the ground beside the course after he was disqualified for a false start in the men's 60m hurdles final at the Stockholm indoor tournament in Stockholm, capital of Sweden, Feb. 23, 2012. Dayron Robles of Cuba won the final with 7.66s. [Xinhua]

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New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin reacts after hitting a three-point shot against the Dallas Mavericks in the fourth quarter of their NBA basketball game at Madison Square Garden in New York, Feb 19, 2012. Lin's legend, if this is possible, grew. The first American-born NBA player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent had 28 points, a career-high 14 assists and five steals — his fourth double-double since Feb. 8 — while playing the entire second half.[Photo/Agencies]

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Zhang Xingliang, a 2.06-meter-(6.76 feet) tall law enforcement officer in Shenzhen, poses for photos with tourists while on duty at a metro station on Feb 21, 2012.

He says he's used to invitations to take group photos. "This height has advantages in law enforcement, as it's easy to pick out someone in a crowd," he said.

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Two children taste fresh strawberries at the International Strawberry Symposium in Beijing's Changping district on Saturday. This was the first time that the four-yearly event, which ended on Wednesday, was hosted by an Asian nation. More than 100 types of strawberry were on display this year. Zhang Yu / Xinhua

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Law enforcement officers raided an unlicensed studio in Xiaozhou village, Guangzhou, on Wednesday. The studios in the area reportedly harbor "exam substitutes" who get paid for drawing for students taking part in examinations.(Source: China Daily / Ye Wwibao)

BEIJING, Feb. 24 -- A chief examiner has been suspended after more than 430 students were investigated for cheating in arts exams at the city's polytechnic.

Of those students, 103 had hired substitutes to undertake the arts tests, said sources in the education examinations authority of Guangdong province on Thursday.

The authority confirmed in a statement that the chief examiner surnamed Wu has been removed as director of the teaching affairs office with Guangzhou City Polytechnic, one of the main sites for arts examinations in the province.

The statement said the qualifications of the students found cheating and any enrollment will be canceled. Those who hired others to take the exam will be banned from taking the exam next year.

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Wang Yuezhong (R) and his wife Nanjing Zhu Dandan from China, survivors of the Costa Concordia accident, arrive at Giglio island February February 24, 2012. The Costa Concordia foundered and capsized metres from the shore off the Tuscan island on January 13. At least 25 people died in the accident and a further seven are unaccounted for.

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A Tibetan activist shouts slogans as he holds a Tibetan flag outside the United Nation Office in Nepal on the third day of the Tibetan New Year or "Losar" in Kathmandu February 24, 2012. About 20,000 Tibetans live in Nepal with valid refugee papers, although many are believed to be residing illegally. With a growing Chinese influence over Nepal, the Nepalese government stands strong against Tibetan exiles whose protests in support of their homeland have increased in recent years. Nepal ceased issuing refugee papers to Tibetans in 1989 and recognises Tibet to be a part of China.

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A China Railway High-speed (CRH) Harmony bullet train travels towards Beijing South Railway Station, February 24, 2012. China's Ministry of Railways will start a new round of tender offers this year for its high-speed railways that could be worth up to 40 billion yuan ($6.35 billion), the China Securities Journal reported on Friday, quoting industry sources.

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This photo taken on February 23, 2012 shows Chinese children puting on their make-ups for performing as locals celebrate the 'Er Yue Er', or Dragon-Head-Raising Festival at Kushui village in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu province. Dragon-Head-Raising Festival, also known as the Spring Dragon Day, falls on the 2nd day of the second lunar month, which is said to be the very day for the dragon king in charge of clouds and rains to raise his head in folk legend. After that day, rainfall will take place more often. Originating from the rural areas of ancient Shaanxi and Gansu, Qin Qiang is the representative folk opera of northwest China.

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Baltimore Orioles pitcher Wei-Yin Chen, right, of Taiwan, laughs while talking with minor league infield coordinator Bobby Dickerson, left, during a baseball spring training workout Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, in Sarasota, Fla.

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Opposition legislators from the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) display an anti US beef banner to boycott a speech from the new Premier Sean Chen at parliament in Taipei on February 24, 2012. Taiwan activists protested at the US mission in Taipei on February 22 warning anti American sentiment could erupt if Washington pushes for the import of US beef treated with ractopamine, a controversial growth drug, following a pull by Taiwan from the US meat market with the growth drug in 2011.

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Photo taken on Feb. 25, 2012 shows the wreckage of a tourist bus in a ravine after it veered off from a section of the State Highway 207 in the county-level city of Gaoping, administered by Jincheng City, north China's Shanxi Province. Fifteen people have been confirmed dead after the tourist bus plunged into a ravine Saturday morning in Shanxi, said local authorities. (Xinhua)

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Rescuers work at the ravine where a tourist bus plunged after it veered off from a section of the State Highway 207 in the county-level city of Gaoping, administered by Jincheng City, north China's Shanxi Province, Feb. 25, 2012. Fifteen people have been confirmed dead after the tourist bus plunged into a ravine Saturday morning in Shanxi, said local authorities. (Xinhua)

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A health worker checks the status of a passenger, who was injured due to the bus plunge, in a hospital in Jincheng, north China's Shanxi Province, Feb. 25, 2012

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This photo taken on February 24, 2012 shows a group people playing on a snow-covered lake after a winter swim in a lake in Changchun, in northeast China's Jilin province. Winter activities are especially popular amongst the elderly and retired as they are believed to improve circulation and benefit health, increase the level of mental awareness, release stress, remove aches and pains, increase vitality and keep skin looking younger - and of course, an overall feeling of well-being.

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Fans of NBA Knicks' Taiwanese-American Jeremy Lin watch his play on a tv program at a local sports bar in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012.

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A fan of NBA Knicks' Taiwanese-American Jeremy Lin shows his new buying Lin T-shirt at a local sports bar in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. Beyond his strong play, there has been enormous interest in Lin because he was undrafted out of Harvard and is the first American-Taiwanese player.

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Gold medal winners China's Wu Minxia, left, and He Zi pose for photographs with their medals after the ceremony for the women's synchronised 3m springboard during the Diving World Cup event at the London 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre at the Olympic Park in London, Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012.

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Activists of the 'Hong Kong scholarism movement' stage a protest in Hong Kong on February 26, 2012. The group, which staged the demonstration amid seething resentment over rising mainland Chinese influence in the southern city, protested against Beijing's planned 'Moral and National' education legislation which demands that Hong Kong start a 'national education' program in Hong Kong schools.

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Chinese actress Li Bingbing arrives at the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, February 25, 2012.

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LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 24: Justin Han Feng (L) and Lydia Ng (R) attend a dinner reception for the Chinese delegation's official U.S. visit hosted by Joan Dangerfield at her residence on February 24, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.

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A Chinese basketball fan prepares to buy a New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin T-shirt as they go on sale at a sporting goods store in Beijing on February 25, 2012. it was reported on February 23 that Lin has filed to trademark the term 'Linsanity' with the US Patent and Trademark Office, a move that would give the rising NBA star sole rights to use the term on products. His high-scoring games, last-second heroics and precise passing helped the Knicks win seven games in a row upon his arrival, sparking a phenomenon dubbed 'Linsanity' by New York media that turned into a global following for Lin

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Photos taken on Feb. 26, 2012 shows a big hole formed during the land sink in Yuejiaqiao Town, Yiyang City of central China's Hunan Province. (Xinhua/Long Hongtao) Since Jan 1, 2012, karst(?) cave-ins have occurred in many places of Yuejiaqiao Town, Yiyang City of central China's Hunan Province. Yiyang city has seen 693 karst cave-ins, including 537 in farmland and 150 in rivers. The geological disaster has damaged 167 houses and affected more than 1,200 local people.

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