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Celebrity is no longer a luxury in today's cutthroat world. As a concerned parent, you cannot afford to allow your precious child to enter adulthood without the vital benefits of fame. No one wants to be responsible for a child's mediocrity.

What many parents forget, however, is that fame has many faces — and as time goes on, events prove that infamy (fame's notorious cousin) is often more powerful than plain, accomplishment-driven fame.

To help parents harness their children's innate tendencies early, we are proud to present the "Baby Evil Genius" Collection of videos, DVDs and musical recordings.

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Verbal skills and logical reasoning are stressed above all other subjects. You will see a dramatic increase in your child's budding debate skills, and any verbal put-downs will be met with any of our hundreds of scathing responses.

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Ms B is apparently coming by this naturally...

Now, just suppose they'd been deliberately taught Evil Geniushood^TM from infancy... Good God! The entire world might have been remade in the image of ... Medicine Hat!

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I -- as in Moi! -- am the true spirit of Medicine Hat!

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I -- as in Moi! -- am the true spirit of Medicine Hat!

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I don't doubt it, skdadl -- but, not being an Evil Genius^TM, you lack the capacity to make that spirit realize itself everywhere (I'm sure there's some Hegelian terminology I'm forgetting, here). Just as I lack the capacity to bring the spirit of -- say -- Fairfield, Victoria to the rest of the world.

Just as well in both cases, I'm sure. The world needs variety, and besides -- being the fruit of Evil Genius^TM -- both Brave New Worlds would undoubtedly prove to be dystopias of terrifying conformity and smiling-faced oppression.

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Why is it called Medecine Hat?

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The name "Medicine Hat" has its origins from Aboriginal legends about a battle long ago between the Blackfoot and the Cree Indian tribes in which a retreating "medicine man" (shaman) lost his headdress in the South Saskatchewan River.

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So the town worthies wrote to Rudyard and asked him what he thought about finding a better name than Medicine Hat. In his reply:

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Kipling noted that Medicine Hat was a name full of "mystery and romance" and that it had a hint of "magic." "Believe me," he noted, "the very name is an asset, and as years go on, will become more and more of an asset. It has no duplicate in the world; it makes men ask questions... it has the qualities of uniqueness, individuality, assertion and power." He concluded that to change it would be to look ridiculous in the eyes of the world.

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It is such a great place. I wish we had a Medicine Hat babbler. I am m'self so out of date.

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He can do a thousand one armed push-ups.

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Why, so can I.

Oh, now I sound like the evil genius.

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The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.

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