CRY

"Heavy the sorrow that bows the head

When love is alive and hope is dead." --W. S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore

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Here's today's useless fact:Lobster was so common in 18th-century Maine that it was used forfertilizer. In 19th-century Europe, oysters were the luxury food of theday, and lobster was considered a poor man's food.

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"'Thousands of songs have been composed about tears; almost every movie worth remembering stimulates their flow,' says Jeffrey Cottler, Ph.D., professor of counseling at Texas Tech University, and author of The Language of Tears (Jossey-Bass, 1996)" (Ralston 1998:96).

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Women cry five times more frequently than men (and average five crying spells a month).

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Humans are the only animals positively known to cry emotional tears of sadness and joy, though the vocal cries, whines, and whimpers of young mammals are similarly used to solicit aid from mothers.

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Why does chopping an onion make you cry?
Answer: Unstable chemicals.
Onions produce the chemical irritant known as syn-propanethial-S-oxide. It stimulates the eyes' lachrymal glands so they release tears. Scientists used to blame the enzyme allinase for the instability of substances in a cut onion. Recent studies from Japan, however, proved that lachrymatory-factor synthase, (a previously undiscovered enzyme) is the culprit (Imani et al, 2002).
The process goes as follows:
Lachrymatory-factor synthase is released into the air when we cut an onion. The synthase enzyme converts the sulfoxides (amino acids) of the onion into sulfenic acid. The unstable sulfenic acid rearranges itself into syn-ropanethial-S-oxide. Syn-propanethial-S-oxide gets into the air and comes in contact with our eyes. The lachrymal glands become irritated and produces the tears!

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“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.” --Dr. Seuss

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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.” --Eric Idle

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“That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that that it will go away all at the same time.” --Drew Barrymore

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“When a love comes to an end, weeklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love and wise already had one in reserve.” --Oscar Wilde

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Why do you cry?
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How to cry on cueAugust 25, 2004 Ever been the only dry eye at a funeral? Or failed to produce even a tear as the apparent love of your life sobbed his or her way through the airport departure gates? Then you'd be well aware that sometimes tears are not only warranted but expected. Plus: Instant message stick, Predicting the future, and Lust souls Radar spoke to Tony Knight, head drama teacher at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and asked him for some tips on turning on the tears any time, any place. Leading up to your first performance, Knight suggests "studying the body language of people crying. What do they look like, how do they move, etc?" Then it's show time.

1. Find an impulse for crying, such as your late dog or the person you last slept with.
2. Personalise it and make it completely about you. "Using cliched experiences normally works best," Knight adds.
3. Cry like Niagara Falls on a rainy day.
4. If that fails, wave the fumes from eucalyptus oil into your eye. "That really makes the tear ducts well up," Knight says. - Emma-Kate Dobbin

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Here's three MP3's associated with the theme of crying in one way or another. These three tracks are in the classic rock genre as crying and classic rock seem to go hand in hand it seems:

1. Guns N' Roses - "Don't Cry (Original)"

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.2. Symphonic Slam - "I Won't Cry"

3. Aerosmith - "You See Me Crying"