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Tonight I'm going out for a second Friday in a row! That hasn't happened since pre-pregnancy.
It's one of my best friend's bachelor parties (we call them "stags" up here) and I'm in the wedding party, so I'm helping throw it. It should be a blast! The way we do it in the Northeast, as I believe I told LW when I had my own two summers ago, is we basically set it up as a fundraiser: everyone buys a ticket for like $30 and then its all you can eat, all you can drink, great music and any entertainment provided. There is also a raffle with usually the coolest prizes (my contributions: a bottle of 12 year McCallan Scotch, a pair of boxing gloves and a soccer ball), and raffle tickets are $10 for 10 tickets. There is usually a 50/50 raffle as well for $5 a ticket. The alcohol is usually a few kegs but when we did mine, we did an open bar for the older crowd. “Entertainment” can consist of several things, and almost always has some gambling and sometimes “adult entertainment”—tonight will actually not have the latter (which doesn’t really change how much fun its going to be).
Usually you make a killing and it all goes to the bride and groom for their honeymoon. Mine was rather exceptional so we had actually 160 people (100 people is a really good one). We did all kinds of things at mine that were really cool: I got a box of good cigars where everyone can just take one when they enter, we had a poker game going on at one table, the prizes included several excellent pairs of Yankee tickets I got through work, etc. I’m throwing my brother’s in July so I can’t wait for that either.
So this should be a blast.
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Today I'm going to a memorial service. I got up early just so I could remove all the pet hair from my dark clothing when I got dressed. Still, the departed loved his pets, so maybe leaving the hair on would've been a better tribute.
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I find it bizarre that there's like 8 billion movies about the Alamo, but I can't seem to find a single movie about the Boston Massacre.
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As I write this, LW has exactly 16,000 topics.
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I find the Office to be a hilarious show that grows on you over time (but you have to let it grow on you and can't dismiss it right away). And its on basically all the time through syndication.
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The cat got himself locked in the wardrobe earlier today, but he went to sleep and didn't wake up for dinner. It took us about ten minutes of searching to find him.
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John Cleese spent $5,100 to take a cab from Oslo to Brussels, because the volcano nixed his flight.
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I'm too wishy-washy to vote in the cover face-offs.
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I sometimes get the meanings of the abbreviations "IED" and "IUD" mixed up. Which is often hilarious...
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"This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy."
-- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
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Valerie Bertinelli finished the Boston Marathon on Monday, four days before her 50th birthday. Along with her trainer Christopher Ross Lane, the actress ran to raise funds and awareness for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Just finishing the marathon was Bertinelli's goal since losing weight with Jenny Craig, for which she is a spokesperson.
She finished, running the whole way, in 5 hours and 14 minutes.
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I had a close call at work the other night. We were draining a vessel and suddenly all our H2S detectors started going crazy, so we all ran out of the danger zone. When we got out our detectors were reading 75 parts per million. We are no allowed to work in anything over 10 and 100 or higher is considered imediately dangerous to life and health.
So the four of us got all packed up with canned air and went and finished the job.
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