This is the thread to share something with the rest of us that is completely random! I'll start...
I'm currently rocking out to the B-52's on iTunes.
I'm trying to think of something to eat.
I'm posting while wearing my new Christmas present, Superman jammies.
This ain't a scene. It's a goddamn arms race!
A baby platypus is evidently called a puggle.
I am watching Season 1 of Gomer Pyle USMC on DVD!
Top that!!
Originally posted by Seth Gaterra:
A baby platypus is evidently called a puggle.
The Platypus has Venom aswell...spooooky
I'm installing City of Villians!!!!
I just finished a rereading of Sandman Vol. 3: "Dream Country" and will soon reread "Season of Mists"!
Gefilte fish is essentially a forcemeat made of whitefish.
I think I gave away my DnA Legion issues by mistake.
Two of the "secret herbs and spices" used in Kentucky Fried Chicken are salt and pepper.
This holiday season my Action Figure collection broke 3000 figures.
Sometimes, I fart at inappropriate moments.
Currently in my Nintendo DS is New Super Mario Bros.
I have a lifelong addiction to ChapStick, lip gloss, lipstick, etc. If I go too long without something soothing on my lips, I start freaking out.
When it's time to change the bed sheets, I roll up in them, then wiggle out.
(Was that too weird?)
For this crowd?
I'm designing a new costume for "Arachne".
I own a pair of green silk thong underwear ...
I can't get the damn stamp off my hand that the door guy at the bar put on me last night!
I graduated summa cum laude from college.
I purposely pronounce it 'Cum Loud'.
I used to think those little seeds were called "Sesame Street seeds."
Back in the '80's, every once in a while, I actually sort of kind of enjoyed New Kids on the Block. I will now hang my head in shame.
Galileo once published some results in an anagram, in order to stake his claim to them before he had fully verified the findings.
Today I got some "bad" news. Kid Prime back in the 80's, every once in a while, actually sort of kind of enjoyed New Kids on the Block.
I'm ....
...devastated.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
I used to think those little seeds were called "Sesame Street seeds."
I love those candies from the Middle East which look like tiny bricks of glass with sesame seeds embedded in them. Crunchy, very addictive. Got some at Christmas
My dog is covered in mud.
I spilled some water into my keyboard but it still works.
For some people, it hurts when they pee.
I've eaten half a large bag of KC Masterpiece Lays potato chips while playing Call of Duty 2 on my 360 tonight. :burp:
I always have a deck of cards handy- 2 in my bag, 1 in my Jeep, 3 in my apartment...
I'm taking up golfing in the Spring.
Half-and-half is a mixture of equal parts cream and milk and has a butterfat content between 10.5 and 18%. It can be substituted for a 7/8 cup of milk and 1 1/2 tablespoons butter per cup half-and-half.
Also: U.S. recipes with their weird ingredients and volume measurements are a continuous source of vexation to me. Still, not all is lost as long as I can correctly identify a tablespoon.
Selling lottery tickets absolutely SUCKS!!!
I've bought lottery tickets less than a dozen times in my life, and never bothered to check and see if I won. Surely there is $600 billion out there for me somewhere? I'll claim it when I'm not busy posting.
Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman claims that he wrote the tune to "Jumping Jack Flash" and that Jagger and Richards swiped it from him.
I'm thinking of bleaching a sunspot next to my eye
The late major league scout and coach Mike Gonzalez is credited with coining the phrase "good field, no hit," in reference to future backup catcher and OSS operative Moe Berg.
Why can't you do it, why can't you set your monkey free?
I have used approximately 6000 tissues today. My nose hurts.
Everybody's got something to hi-ide...'cept for me and my monkey!
Everyone says they're the same, but there's a subtle difference between Trefoils and Shortbread when ordering Girl Scout cookies. Shortbread are better, assuming the new no trans fat recipe doesn't change the taste.
A work colleague has just brought half a caramel muffin to my desk.
I just ate a Monster Burger from Hardees. Yum!
I finished the script I've been working on for 3 days!
When Claire Booth Luce arrived at a restaurant at the same time as Dorothy Parker and said "Age before beauty.", Mrs. Parker responded with "and pearls before swine." and walked into the restaurant.
I think my wife is going through a mid-life crisis and she's nearly sending me into one too!
My library got laptops for public use today.
I cried watching "High School Musical"
I'm not all that fond of pork.
There's only 49 states in the USA; Idaho is completely made up.
Don't believe anything to the contrary--COOTIES ARE REAL!!!
If you follow the recipe for Toll House Cookies on the Nestle morsels bag, I recommend using twice the vanilla.
I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts.
I have to admit something of a fondness for Shameless Hussy Survivor, myself.
I have a lucky rabbit's foot.
But my other one is normal.
The Spanish version of the film Dracula, shot around the same time as the Bela Lugosi film using many of the same sets, is a better film than the English one.
Idaho is not only a made-up state, but the conspiracy to make it up is actually quite evil.
I heard Molly Ringwald was involved.
Fabio was on my plane from Boston to New York Wednesday night. He's really tall.
There are two really cute guys in my section of the choir I'm in. There were three, but one left.
I have been to more hs basketball games in the last month then I ever did in high school.
One the train ride to work today, the woman next to me was sleeping, and she kinda had her head almost leaning on my shoulder. I didn't mind.
Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz are no longer a couple.
The Thrashers are down 2-3 to the Hurricanes right now, with 13:53 to go.
You've got to wait a long time for pizza in a restaurant.
Y'know...sex can still be pretty good at 36!
Coconut syrup is the most underrated condiment.
Groundhog Day is really much better than I remembered it to be.
Smokey and the Bandit, I & II, are much better when delirious with fever and high on cough medicine.
Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
Smokey and the Bandit, I & II, are much better when delirious with fever and high on cough medicine.
What isn't?
I'm enjoying a peanut-butter and banana sandwich, a football game on TV and posting on Legion World. Could life be better?
The Lawrence Welk Show is quite entertaining when watched after downing two mint juleps before and during the Kentucky Derby.
I've seriously thought about trying out for MTV's The Real World multiple times. Essentially the only thing that's stopped me is not having access to a video camera to make an audition tape.
I also hate American Cheese, and have since I was a wee lad. Provologne is my favorite, though I like a variety of cheeses.
I am in my pjs in my living room working on my laptop drinking a dr pepper.
I have yet to watch an episode of the Legion cartoon.
Although I love many cheeses, Gruyere is my favorite.
I'd be perfect except I am much too humble.
I'm staying up late so my hubby and I can hit two stores at midnight to try and snag him a collector's edition of "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" when it goes on sale at 12:01 a.m. at the 24-hour stores.
I have never heard of "World of Warcraft" before!
I prefer chocolate chip Pop Tarts (unheated) to chocolate chip cookies.
I am currently very jealous of Seymour for having The Burning Crusade already. In our area we can't find a copy. Scott even tried e-Bay. I want to be a Blood Elf and make jewelry.... WoW rocks!
Number of times an adult can watch "Cars" with a 2-year-old before turning into a brain-dead gibbering idiot: 52
Look daddy it's Lightning McQueen . . . . asj aspdoasf9afknadpo efwjnalce adslfkjsfo
And finally the secret to 52 has been revealed.
I knew it had something to do with Pixar all along.
Random sharing: Don't feed your dog enchilada scraps, b/c you may pay for it the next time you take him for a walk.
(I didn't do it! My dog goes to work with me, and travels the 'cube network' beggin' for lunch-time scraps!)
We did not get the collector's edition of "World of Warcraft," but hubby did get regular version. I will not see hubby again for several days.
I like clemintines much more than regular oranges.
It's breezy out today according to the weatherman
Sim City 4 is strangely addictive.
I've never really liked any video games outside of Final Fantasy and Zelda games. My two brothers and all my old roomates were as addicated as the rest of my generation.
Hot chocolate is the best morning beverage.
Third day of being a shut in my apartment...damn icy weather.
The heater in my car malfunctioned today. I think it's working okay now.
i don't feel good.
on the plus side, my illusion/kinetics controller is just one level away from Phantasm!
I have not left my house in 15 days.
I can't find my damned keys!
I was out until 2:00 AM last night in Manhattan showing clients the town. Yes, I understand thats a cool job to have, but yes, I'm really, really tired right now.
I'm probably going to be up all night.
I'm living in a hotel in Chesapeake VA for the next few months.
Road Jobs Bite!
Oh Well, at least it's a Marriott.
I'm going to see Billy Joel (in concert -- not actually meet him) on May 4.
Rockhopper was right about doubling the vanilla.
Ruffles and catsup go well together.
I can't get enough of the two new races on World of Warcraft 'Burning Crusade', the latest installment of the epic MMORPG..... I have hardly come up for air or food since Scott set up my Collector's Edition on Friday night.
I'm doing my taxes done this week! The last employer forms I was waiting for arrived yesterday, and I've printed out the forms today.
With only working a half-year and being a student again, I'm expecting to get a pretty nice sum back!
New-- From the makers of HEAD ON!:
HARD ON! Apply Directly to the P***s!
HARD ON! Apply Directly to the P***s!
I can't stand the commercials, but I love the product!
It finally snowed here today.
Hooray for Peyton Manning! He got an enormous monkey off his back tonight!
This isn't exactly random, but boy, does that boy get better with age! He's like a good red wine.
Go Peyton!!!
I was cheering for Peyton too, even though I'm a fan of the Patriots these days, since they're just so damn clutch in the playoffs. But Manning deserves a ring, so I'll be rooting for him in the big game.
And to get this thread back to its regularly-scheduled randomness...
South Beach meal replacement bars are kinda gross.
I introduced the world to a new full set of sideburns today.
Wasabi peas in New Zealand are better than the ones in the United States.
I lost a pair of gloves on Metro last week.
Something else else's wrong with my television reception. I could barely see Heroes.
I watched a marathon of Digimon movies instead of watching Heroes tonight.
I just failed my class 4 (ambulance) driving test!
My free daily paper deal ended today.
(My condolences on the test, Ded.
My soda's getting watered down.
I just woke up from a nap!
10:35...time for a Rum and Coke!!
Before posting tonight, I spooned with my wife for a while.
I just finished watching all of Battlestar Galactica Season One last night.
I'm sitting onn my ample posterior in columbus Ohio waiting for some turkey (who probably isn't even at work yet) to call me back with my dispatch for today's driving...might take a while.
surf's up!
I dropped French this morning, before the 2nd class.
Frenching was my favorite class!
I took off early from work today.
I almost finished my Kate Austin sim.
FM car adapters for your MP3 are effin' awesome!
I believe a posting maraton may be beginning
In English the word 'maraton' is spelled 'marathon'.
I just brushed my teeth. I don't have a bill in real life.
I thought the posterknown as Rockhopper Lad was actually a Pyngwyn until very recently!
I need to go to bed, but I keep posting!
I'm killing time before class.
I'm listening to Live's album 'Throwing Copper'
I'm watching my younger son make a mess!
I just took a massive dump!
Live's 'Throwing Copper' is a kick-ass album! Its one of the first CDs I ever bought back when I wore a younger man's clothes.
Everyone in the house is asleep but me.
Last night I fiddled around with my new digital cam I got for Xmas for the 1st time.
The history of saffron cultivation and usage reaches back more than 3,000 years and spans many cultures, continents, and civilisations. Saffron, a spice derived from the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus, has remained among the world's most costly substances throughout history. With its bitter taste, hay-like fragrance, and slight metallic notes, saffron has been used as a seasoning, fragrance, dye, and medicine. Saffron is native to Southwest Asia, but was first cultivated in Greece.
Thanks to Wikipedia's today's featured article.
I'm just mad about Saffron
and she's just mad about me...
I'm off work till Monday at noon and, boy, do I need the break!
C is for cookie and cookie is for me!!!
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.
Llamas are larger than frogs.
Ultimately, We are all deadmen.
Sadly we cannot choose how, but
we decide how we met that end
in order that we arre remembered....
...as men.
Ala Peanut Butter Sandwiches!
"Wonder Twin powers, activate!"
"Form of... steam!"
"Form of... mosquito!"
It's a marvelous night for a moondance...
Why don't we do it in the road? No one will be watching us--why don't we do it in the road?
My dog likes to lick my toes. He's doing it right now.
I just got dragged off....15 min in the bar and I got dragged off. If only I could be so lucky all the time.
and you posted here INSTEAD?!
I just had an EKG, and I really liked the technician's cold hands sticking the thingies on my chest and abdomen.
I believe that Legion World needs a routine medical exam thread. I'm sure there's a huge audience for regular updates on all the probes middle-agers are expected to have pushed into every crevice.
Rooibos tea tastes pretty good.
I just had the flu for 5 days.
I drank two gallons of oj.
I went through two box of tissues.
Mammoth cheddar is not made from mammoth milk.
Unfortunately for some naysayers, the North East really does have the best pizza in the US, far better than Chicago, California, or anywhere. For the best in New Haven (which I feel is the best of all), try “Pepe’s Pizza”, “Sally’s Pizza” or “Modern Pizza”, all equally famous, the first being famously shipped out to Hollywood every Friday for Michelle Pfeiffer’s husband (David E. Kelly?). The best in Manhattan if of course Lombardi’s in Soho (the first pizzeria in the US), although the very best New York has to offer is in Brooklyn, at Grimauldi’s.
Now, often you will hear about NY pizza being kind of shabby b/c its by the slice and you run in and grab a previously cooked pizza…well, that’s not the case for these places. Here, you get the real deal. I’d say the best in the US comes down to Grimauldi’s vs. Pepe’s.
Momma always told me not to swallow my gum. *gulp*
Girls just wanna have fun.
Have some of my something completely random.
My bucket has a hole in it.
"The 'Bouquet' Residence! The lady of the house speaking!"
Is a post completely random if it references other posts in the thread?
I would say that this post is not completely random.
We can't send Saturn Girl becuase its to dangerous a mission for a girl
I can't believe it was really butter after all.
Damn You! These Folgers crystals absolutely SUUUUCKKK!
Jay Leno: "If you're on trial for perjury, why do they even bother to have you swear to 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?'"
Good point.
I had the chicken pox when I was three.
I think I'm about to lose my voice.
I often think when I'm about to do my taxes that I'll be able to itemize tons of deductions. Once I do them, I realize that I overestimated my deductions and the money I think I should get back
Passionately?
My cell phone is charged.
I'm out of chocolate and coconut syrup. Beware!
The film Havoc wasn't released in theaters in the United States because of pressure placed on the production by Disney (who wanted Anne Hathaway's image to remain squeaky and clean for the release of The Princess Diaries 2), but it did go to theaters internationally. Eventually it was released in the States but went straight to video and DVD. Not that anyone was missing much...
There's nothing quite like a hot cup of coffee (or tea) in the morning.
A co-worker of mine just died.
Three days before her scheduled retirement.
There's a leak in the warehouse roof at work, and I've been forgetting to call the landlord about it for about three weeks. It's in a closet nobody really uses for anything. If it was about a foot and a half over to one side, it'd go right into the emergency-you-got-floor-stripper-in-your-eyes shower stall and I might never call at all. I just have a lot of other stuff to worry about, and really, I'm not the boss or anything. Hey, it only leaks when it rains, which isn't every day or anything.
Brainy is glowering through a longbox handle.
I gave the dog his bath today.
Molly Ivins passed away on Wednesday. She died from breast cancer. She will be missed.
Keep your hand at the level of your eyes.
A dear friend of mine got turned down by the grad school to which she applied.
I had a great meal at a Chinese place last night.
lunch: rare roast beef, horseradish, mayo, salt, pepper, tomato on a nice, crusty Italian bread.
My new t shirt says
"why bother about a six pack, When you have got a full Keg"
Fooooooootttttttt-ballllllllllllll
Just a random thought that came to mind.
I found last night's game, despite a fantastic start, to well, be a bit boring. Can't really pinpoint why.
I just threw up. Its that hot.
There's a freaking moth flapping around the room keeping me awake. I thought it was a small bird.
what game was that, Cobie?
oooh Are you talking about the Soccer?
heh.
The Word of the Day for February 05, 2007 is:
concinnity • \kun-SIH-nuh-tee\ • noun
: harmony or elegance of design especially of literary style in adaptation of parts to a whole or to each other
Example Sentence:
Julia maintains that no modern play can rival the concinnity of the classical Greek tragedies.
Did you know?
The Romans apparently found perfect harmony in a well-mixed drink. The cocktail in question was a beverage they called "cinnus," and so agreeably concordant did they find it that its name apparently inspired the formation of "concinnare," a verb meaning "to place fitly together." "Concinnare" gave rise to "concinnus," meaning "skillfully put together," which in turn fermented into "concinnitas." English speakers added the word to our mix in the 1500s as "concinnity."
I go back to work today. Another two weeks at good ol' Firebag.
make the best of it, amigo! we'll miss ya!
*tee-hee* Goldmember--his thingy was made of gold! *tee-hee*
Jazz and session drummer Bernard Purdie has claimed for years now that it is actually he who plays drums on many early Beatles tracks instead of Ringo Starr.
LeVar Burton starred in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
He does not, however, star in Roots: The Next Generations.
Sequel movies are so rarely as good (or better) than the original film.
I remember every detail.
The Germans wore grey.
You wore blue.
Well, I meant the Superbowl for anyone who wasn't sure
Now its on to finish hockey season for this sports fan
Super....Bowl?
heh.
Anyway, Next Saturday Ill be frontrow for the Evanescence concert...All for Free!!!
In 2000 ABBA were reported to have turned down an offer of approximately $1,000,000,000 (one billion American dollars) to do a reunion tour.
I am listening the YOUNG LOVE 'Too Young to Fight It' and I am loving it. Great music!
Once again, our local school districts panicked and closed down the schools after a little snow dusting last night.
A toothpick? I'm not sure whether that was a brilliant twist or a total letdown!
You can burn instant pudding.
I'm watching the World's Strongest Man competition and wow, these guys can toss a keg.
Come to think of it, that might have something to do with the burnt pudding.
I had to clean up a mess at the library today. I'll spare the details.
Wait Wait Wait...it was Dodger all along? meh. Saw it coming. I should write this stuff.
My favorite filmmaker used to be Michael Mann, but after last year's disastrous Miami Vice movie, I've finally had to admit to myself that he really hasn't made a good movie since Heat, 12 years ago.
But at least I'll always have Mann's Last of the Mohicans (my favorite movie of all time), Manhunter, and the aforementioned Heat.
Last of the Mohicans not only was an awesome movie, it has perhaps the greatest theme song/soundtrack out of any movie I've ever heard. When I listen to it, I work out harder, focus better and generally am inspired.
PS - Dodger sure was cute in that movie Joey! Saw it coming too though...
I totally feel the same about the Last of the Mohicans theme song. It goes through my mind whenever I'm writing a scene that's grandiose and sweeping.
I hate those stringy things on bananas! Hate 'em! Argh!
Hmmm...glancing at the Recent Visitors rundown, I see Des is doing research...apparently in the old INVASION! threads. Wonder why?
My tongue feels large and funny
Im at the Beach. Ahhhh Bluetooth. I love thee so.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
PS - Dodger sure was cute in that movie Joey! Saw it coming too though...
Oh totally. That girl could turn me.
Liane Hansen returns to NPR's
Weekend Edition Sunday this week!
I'm addicted to Battlestar Galactica.
So, I am walking down the street and this big semi is backing into an alley. It is blocking the street and the sidewalk as it is backing in. Next to me is this old lady with a cane. She is getting impatient. So when the truck pulls slightly forward to straighten out, she strats walking behind the trunk. There was a woman who was telling her not to go, but she went anyways. Then the truck started backing up again. It was fairly obvious that the driver did not know the lady was there.
Fortunately (for the driver) she managed to make it across without getting hit. I would have had no sympathy for her if she had been hit.
Sticking your tongue into an electrical outlet will not turn you into a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger
I once did a striptease at a dance.
Bacon makes just about any dish taste better.
I went snow tubing today. first time ever.
Joanne Worley is staying at the hotel I work in!
Love her!
If I were ever tempted to do drag (I'm not) I would definitely be Joanne Worley. BIG hair and a wardrobe that can cause sudden blindness. It's a no brainer.
And I made out with two girls last night. I repeat : So Hungover.
My life seems rather boring by comparison.
just add bacon, Cramer. Miner's always right.
Mikey just got balled out for his Manifold at Daytona
I just got back from the grocery store.
I'm probably really a second tenor, but in my choir I sing first tenor.
Im making Piri Piri Chicken. Oddly enough, still slightly hungover.
This Toffee Muffin is surprisingly disapointing.
I went out boozing yesterday with my roomates and some friends. What was I thinking, I wonder, when I decided to drink steadily from 1:00 PM until 1:00 AM?
Im covered in Baby Vomit *gets washcloth*
They let us out of work early today because of the weather.
The plastic packaging from a Thomas the Tank Engine train is almost useless for scraping ice off your windshield.
If John was the walrus, why did he say, "the walrus was Paul" in "Glass Onion"?
This aint a scene its a god-damned arms race.
Geek in the Pink says:
euch Cat Empire on Letterman
Weisz Addams - / / - I Love Corn! (Scissor Sisters Fucking Rule!) - / / - Buying More Is Fun! says:
Cat Empire are still alive?
Geek in the Pink says:
evidently
Weisz Addams - / / - I Love Corn! (Scissor Sisters Fucking Rule!) - / / - Buying More Is Fun! says:
... Who knew?
Geek in the Pink says:
maaaaaaaan I really want a sandwhich but we threw all the breadrolls at the dog this afternoon
I get a company paid conjugal visit this weekend. And a rental car.
slept late, got to campus... only to find the library's closed for the storm! I have one late assignment due yesterday that I can't get finished, and another for a different class due tomorrow. Bah!
Originally posted by Lard Lad:
If John was the walrus, why did he say, "the walrus was Paul" in "Glass Onion"?
Actual answer: Because that song's about making fun of people who read all sorts of things into Beatle lyrics.
Forgot my season ticket for the train this morning and had to pay a daily return fair.
I'm finishing up my last midterm right now! (It's take-home and due in an hour and a half.)
Global Warming - - my ^$& !
Damn. I just remembered I was going to make white chocolate cranberry fudge tonight. :7
Out until 4:00 AM last night. For some reason I've been really naughty all week, and I'm paying for it right now...
rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon rubber spoon Yes!
I've been looking for a lunchbox to take to work and can't find one yet.
I had the most expensive meal I've ever purchased last night, but it was worth it.
White noise for everybody!
E tu vivrai nel terrore -- L'aldila
I want to know what Miner's meal was!
I typed "random" into Google and clicked on "I'm Feeling Lucky". This web site popped up
Random web site
I watched Ballroom dancing on PBS the other night. A few times it looked like some of the couples were about to collide and maybe fall on the floor in a big heap of feathers and glitter. But they never did.
Some bakeries sell frozen pizza dough. It's economical and tastes better than the grocery store pizzas.
I also don't feel so hot--sore throat.
I wore a new pair of shoes to work today.
Bought a new game for the PSP last week and I still haven't tried it out yet.
I just bought 9 new books.
I stayed home from work to battle the flu
Policeman got murdered here by a fifteen year old. sigh.
French Boys make me gooey
I can barely keep my eyes open right now.
Last night I finally put my 2007 Hello Kitty calendar on the wall.
Picked up the 7th Fables TP yesterday. great stuff!
I got murder in my heart for the judge.
I have to go back to work tommorrow morning...oh well, at least its overtime.
My brother and I are taking out one of our oldest friends tonight for his birtday, as he never really goes out ever (he had a baby way too early in life). We plan on making it a night to remember.
I'm getting over a bout of vertigo. It's a bit annoying really but the worst has passed.
Im not ashamed to admit that I love Zelda: Wand of Gamelon.
I almost never watch Saturday Night Live, but a few months ago I caught a rerun on E! of an episode guest-hosted by Scarlett Johnansson, and there was one sketch about a chandelier store run by a rather obsessive family who spoke with thick "Noo Yawk" accents, and Scarlett played the daughter ("...an' dis one, an' dat one, an' dat one, an' dis one...") that still cracks me up every time I think of it.
"...an' dis one, an' dat one, an' dis one, an' dat one..."
New Lost Intro (Click on the screen if it doesn't start.)
Happy B-Day Language Arts Lad! My birthdays? I shut myself in a dark (very dark) room for a week and refuse to answer the phone. It's just the way I like it.
I went to my favourite Mexican restaurant last night and still stuck to Weight Watchers.
It's been snowing now for the past several hours.
I had a horrible allergic reaction to onions on Sunday. This allergy has been getting worse these last couple of years, but this one was really bad. To make it worse, I was at the casino for a group trip and had drank alcohol earlier in the afternoon. Its an odd feeling to fight off panic at times like that.
In other news I'm better now
I find green-skinned, purple-haired banjo-playing cowgirls oddly attractive, even if they are unfaithful.
Tazo chai comes decaffeinated now.
I totally forgot that I bought some strawberry Pocky the weekend before last.
I just finished working 55 hours of overtime.
I'm thinking of closing the board in 22 minutes.
Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
I'm thinking of closing the board in 22 minutes.
ACK!!! Say it ain't so!!!
Originally posted by dedman:
Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
[b] I'm thinking of closing the board in 22 minutes.
It will only be for about 15 minutes. But I'll give you all two hour's reprieve.
So that would be 15 minutes mountain central time, no problem. I once had to wait 15 minutes eastern standard time and that was entirely unacceptable.
I'm currently enjoying a cup Celestial Seasonings Tangerine Orange Zinger Tea. It's very good. And for the record, I'm in no way affiliated with the Celestial Seasons Brand Tea Company who's wonderful teas are available at fine retailers everywhere!
we're getting a blizzard tomorrow.
the snowdrops are flowering this morning, and the sun is shining.
C is for Coffee and Coffee is for me!!!
Coffee, coffee, coffee starts with C!!!
My client this morning lives in a community where many of the houses have hangers and the streets are used for small planes to taxi on. Unfortunatly, the weather was bad so I didn't experience the novelty of being tailgated by a cessna.
I went to a leadership training today where we had to learn what bird we were: dove, eagle, owl or peacock.
I'm an owl. Penguin wasn't an option.
I was late for work every day this week.
I'm Drinking Rum and Coke...again.
<click>My master programmed this unit with some items to post particularly for this thread. This is the first installment...
I want to go to Hawaii and get lei'd!
I haven't the foggiest what that means.<click>
had a nasty cold all weekend long.
My chest hair is turning gray
I am once again attempting to give up sodas.
It's been a loooooong day. It's time for nite-nite.
We're getting 300 at our theatre this week.
Ihad a good breakfast this morning
The sound of the conga is more pleasing to me than that of the bongo.
Come on everybody, do that conga, I know you can't control yourselves any longer.
Gloria Estefan is hot, and I've had a mini-crush on her since I was a wee lad.
My roommate and I saw an ad for that can opener that you put on top of the can and it cuts the side of the can. The ad starts off "Opening cans the old fashion way is next to impossible!" Now we will say "_______ the old fashion way is next to impossible!"
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Gloria Estefan is hot, and I've had a mini-crush on her since I was a wee lad.
A friend of mine is a hairdresser who has met a lot of celebrities, and he says Gloria is one of the good ones.
When in South Florida, eat at Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza, with locations in Fort Lauderdale, Weston, Aventura, Pompano Beach, and coming soon, Plantation.
Coming back to work after five days off and opening one's e-mail is nearly enough to give one a heart attack. Maybe I'll just go home and go back to bed.
I like Shannon Farnon's Wonder Woman voice on Super Friends better than B.J. Ward's.
B.J. Ward also played Scarlett in G.I. Joe; Mary McDonald Lewis, who played Lady Jaye on G.I. Joe, had her first animated cartoon role as Lois Lane on Superfriends. Coincidence?
Oh, and every time I read a comic with the Wasp in it, I "hear" Mary McDonald Lewis' voice. I also "hear" B.J. Ward as Ms. Marvel, Frank Welker as both Giant-Man (Welker's "Fred Jones" voice) and Ultron (Welker's "Galvatron" voice), Arthur Burghardt (Devastator in Transformers, Destro in G.I. Joe) as the Vision, and Marlene Aragon (Cheetah in Superfriends, Elita-One in Transformers, and Synergy in Jem) as the Scarlet Witch.
That is such an interesting topic to me that I'm going to start a thread about it in Dr. Gy'mlls right now!
By posting this post, I've put off having to go and work out by at least 30 seconds......32......34.......36.......
300 was lousy, visual interesting at points but not worth the 2 hours or so it burns to watch.
In 1844, the Democrats were split
The three nominees for the presidential candidate
Were Martin Van Buren, a former president and an abolitionist
James Buchanan, a moderate
Lewis Cass, a general and expansionist
From Nashville came a dark horse riding up
He was James K. Polk, Napoleon of the Stump
Austere, severe, he held few people dear
His oratory filled his foes with fear
The factions soon agreed
He's just the man we need
To bring about victory
Fulfill our manifest destiny
And annex the land the Mexicans command
And when the votes were cast the winner was
Mister James K. Polk, Napoleon of the Stump
In four short years he met his every goal
He seized the whole southwest from Mexico
Made sure the tarriffs fell
And made the English sell the Oregon territory
He built an independent treasury
Having done all this he sought no second term
But precious few have mourned the passing of
Mister James K. Polk, our eleventh president
Young Hickory, Napoleon of the Stump
Originally posted by ActorLad:
300 was lousy, visual interesting at points but not worth the 2 hours or so it burns to watch.
Damn. Not what I wanted to hear.
I'm really looking forward to it, so I hope my tastes are a little different!
Spring Break started (for me)17 hours ago!
Even better, my state tax refund cleared a few days ago!
I'm listening to Lily Allen's "Take what you take" and thinking about having a glass of wine.
I've never posted from work, and likely never will.
I hate being forced to take my car to the dealer for even warranty repairs. Stupid "We only do oil changes and tire rotations on Saturdays" dealer. Why can't I take it to a real repair place and get reimbursed?! It would even save them money since a regular shop doesn't charge nearly as much as the dealer.
My dog likes cauliflower.
I'm still adjusting to that blasted Daylight Savings Time...:yawn:...zzzzzz...
I was at the St. Patrick' Day Parade in New Haven on Sunday. Let's just say I'm still recovering today on Tuesday.
I just found out I've been awarded a $5K scholarship to do a semester in Newfoundland next year!
My old car was towed away tonight. Now I just have my new one.
I'm almost there.
(Congrats, Kent!)
I had a dream last night that the boat I was on had to make a pickup from a submarine. And you were selling twisted donughts on top of it. But your sailorhat looked cute. And you invited me to freaks night at the roller skating ring. Great dream though.
I'm off work for another two weeks!!
Congrats Kent. $5K should just about pay the ferry fee.
Congrats Kent! I've never been anywhere in Canada besides Montreal or Niagra. I feel that I should fix that--as early as this Spring or Summer.
Cobie misspelling Niagara like Viagra always gives me giggle fits...
I'd probably spell it better if *someone* didn't get me banned for life...
OOOOOHHH, BAAAAN-ADA....Do you think they'd forgive us if I went over the falls in a barrel?
Only if you refused to wear pants whilst doing so Brian.
Actually I think that cute border guard is pining for your return, so she can get in that there barrel with you
Yesterday I substituted in my old neighborhood school and I didn't mug a single person.
I fear I've lost touch with my roots.
I don't have to work until noon, YHEA!....doodoodoodoo....OK, I'm bored.
I'm going to a conference in St. Catherines this weekend.
I just had lunch. I had a club snadwich, it was good!
I haven't eaten yet today.
I overworked my lats at the gym last week. They still ache and I'm thinking about postponing my back workout this week.
apparently Mr. Ed's 'real name' was Bamboo Harvestar...this makes me think a name change is in order.
Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', though incredibly boring in the beginning, is actually pretty fascinating. I reccomend it.
Wilde's last words were apparently "Either that Wallpaper goes or I do."
And I have a porno version of Dorian Grey.
Yes...I have porn.
Chocolate is spelled the same in both English and Spanish, yet it's pronounced differently. Weird.
last night I got so drunk that we stole a goat.
I'm not hungover! (Thank the Lord.)
I was supposed to go with 5 students on a field trip. Two showed up. I cancelled. I'm pissed.
I just got back from a conference in St. Catherines.
Cadbury Mini Eggs are beyond yummy.
I'm rereading the entire run of Spider-Man. I've read Amazing Fantasy #15 and Amazing Spider-Man #1-46 so far. True Spider-Man fans know that the first 90 issues or so are the best stuff, so I'm really enjoying them right now.
I recently watched a great documentary called "Dig!" about two 1960s-inspired bands -- the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols -- and their very different career paths over the span of seven years (the former self-destructs, the latter becomes big in Europe.) I didn't think either band was any good, so the film worked for me as a sort of real-life, post-alternative "This is Spinal Tap" for the new millenium, with two bad bands for the price of one. Right now I'm listening to a TRULY visionary 1960s-inspired musician: Julian Cope.
Just ordered our week's groceries online. With work and taking care of mom it is so worth the $9.95 delivery fee to have it taken care of for me. Costs me about 20 minutes of work time to pay the fee but saves me over an hour walking around the store.
But there's a certain to wandering the store isn't there? You find those snack cakes you like so well, and there's popsicles to get. And you never think to buy the goldfish crackers when you're online, and I never remember the carrot sticks.
Ooo and there's this new black currant jelly...
My partner and I are about to leave, pick up my mother and take her to Easter brunch. He's telling me to wrap it up. I'm gonna need a drink later.
Met up at the cousin's. Ham and Keilbasa as is our tradition.
A good turnout. Lot's of little kids, a couple pregnants, and a new "man room/basement" that SHE built for him. What a gal, too bad she's family. Okay, he helped but most of the ideas were hers.
Oh I forgot,
they found a dead guy next door.
How does one forget that?
His partner showed up at my cousin's door asking if anyone had seen the guy next door. He hadn't heard from him in four days, he was 84. sigh. Prayers.
There's 1500 people here at my work site now.
I fought the law today.
The law won. Somewhat. We came to a compromise, and I only paid $70 for my speeding ticket (now reduced to 'traveling fast').
PS - I hate going to court. I had forgotten how much fun it is these last five 'not getting caught' years.
When the CD I'm currently listening to is over, I'm going to put on Duran Duran's self-titled debut album, their least commercial and most underrated (when album # 2, Rio, became a hit, it was pretty much all over for them creatively.
Careless Memories rocks, as I vaguely remember from high school, when I was a big Duran Duran fan. But from their later stuff, the Chauffer was also pretty awesome.
And that Sri Lankan model from the Hungry Like the Wolf video? Oh yes please.
At the time, I was a little too young to be a Durannie. Of course, I heard and enjoyed their hit singles, but I didn't discover the debut album until a few years ago, when I went mad for just about every post-punk band that ever was, famous or obscure.
Another album I think is underrated: Simple Minds' New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84).
I am now going to have to watch out for and buy the cartoon network comic as this months has a legion poster in it and they seem to be running the odd little article or two.
Wonder if we will see a full blown strip in there anytime soon.
My soundtrack for tonight is the New Order singles collection, appropriately entitled "Singles", a double-disc set spanning their entire career up to 2005. Until my aforementioned post-punk epiphany from a few years ago, I had no idea that there was more to them than "Bizarre Love Triangle."
A friend was murdered, a student of mine.
I thought typing it out would help make sense of it.
It didn't.
When I first received the email, my mind went blank. I couldn't visualize him anymore. I couldn't remember the things we had done. I could only hear his voice in my head. I emailed the local paper and searched the internet all day looking for something. I finally found an article. With the photo, the short time we had came flooding back.
http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/04/10/floc-organizer-beaten-to-death-in-mexico Santiago barely spoke English when he came up here. He was training as an organizer where I was volunteering as a computer instructor. He was one of my first students. He didn't speak English and I didn't speak Spanish. LoL. Even after a couple years, Santiago would still not call me by my name. He called me "teacher." I haven't seen him in over a year.
Santiago Rafael Cruz with his enthusiam affected deeply many in his short time in Toledo and N. Carolina. Mexico has lost more than they will ever know.
My condolences, Blockade Boy.
Mine also BB. That is truly sad and tragic. I'm sorry for the loss you and many others will be feeling
Having something like that touch you on a personal level must be tough BB, our condolences.
whats that in australian? Im a 12. and you know what they say about boys with big feet
(Big socks)
...
and indeed...condolences.
I'm going on an hours sleep. And I have the hic-cups.
Sicilian style pizza is HUGE. C.J.'s are not.
A good friend of mine has to be on crutches for awhile.
Next week I fly to Las Vegas
The golden ratio is 1.618
A friend of mine, who has lived a very full life, wants me to help him write his autobiography.
6 1/2 hours to go and i'm off work for two weeks
Some people think an ice age is only 20 years away.
I'm thinking about applying for a job on a cruise ship.
I ate a tuna sandwich for lunch almost every day in high school.
Woke up and can't fall back asleep. I think I'll try some chamomile...wait a minute...tuna...everyday?
Apparently, the pecan is the healthiest 'nut' to eat. My go-to guy, the almond, is somewhere in the middle. I smell politics being involved in this study.
Macadamia, macadamia, macadamia.
Love those!
As for something completely random, I've now decided that during the next roleplay I'm making it my duty to cover page one with at least as many thread as inane/game threads in a daily competition with Reboot
(At least, til my attention span wanders off by day two).
The almond's closest relatives in the fruit kingdom are the other 'stone fruit' including peaches, apricots, plums, and cherries.
Some seeds have evolved an outer coating so tough that they can't break out of it on their own. They need to be partially digested (or otherwise have that coating worn or burned or eaten away) to 'crack their armor.'
To prevent them from being *fully* digested, some are toxic. Any bird with stomach acids strong enough to digest apple seeds will die of cyanide poisoning!
Me too, they're great for cleaning the rust off the bumper.
On another note, we're having a local memorial for the friend I mentioned earlier in the thread and I'm to give a eulogy. Ugh.
Anyone know any good funeral jokes, preferably in Spanish?
j/k
Oh, and one of my cats had to be put down, she'd stopped eating and was down to nothing.
sigh.
Sorry to hear about the cat Blockade Boy.
I'm drunk.
BB, sounds like a rough couple of days. I hope the eulugy goes well, and I'm sorry about your cat. Losing a pet is one of the toughest things there is.
Today I will be mowing my lawn for the first time this spring. My neighbor (Lawn Fanatic Lad) has already mowed his two or three times.
It's good to be the king.
I wonder if Cobie can post to this thread without commenting on a previous post.
I've been wondering that since January 8.
An iguana can stay underwater for 28 minutes.
The Word of the Day for April 23, 2007 is:
fulcrum • \FULL-krum\ • noun
1 a : prop; specifically : the support about which a lever turns *b : one that supplies capability for action
2 : a part of an animal that serves as a hinge or support
Example Sentence:
The development of a revolutionary microprocessor became the fulcrum of the company's success as an information technology giant.
Did you know?
"Fulcrum," a word that means "bedpost" in Latin, derives from the verb "fulcire," which means "to prop." When the word first appeared in English in the middle of the 17th century, "fulcrum" referred to the point on which a lever or similar device (such as the oar of a boat) is supported. It did not take long for the word to develop a figurative sense, referring to something used as a spur or justification to support a certain action. In zoology, "fulcrum" can also refer to a part of an animal that serves as a hinge or support, such as the joint supporting a bird's wing.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
I wonder if Cobie can post to this thread without commenting on a previous post.
Originally posted by Kid Prime:
I've been wondering that since January 8.
Bah! When you're the poster with the largest post count rules and guidelines no longer apply to you. Nothing in life is random, and I only realize that now that the essence of the *greatest* Time Trapper flows through me
BTW, I hate flavored coffee.
In other words, you got where you are today by spamming early and often?
There are 25.4 millimetres to an inch, exactly.
Pearls disolve in vinegar.
I have no tattoos. Not a single one.
I got summoned to jury duty.
I love the Beatles,theyre so awesome...
I went to a friends wedding and reception on Saturday. A good time was had by all.
Does anybody know a good website where i can buy comics?
I want the NHL Eastern Conference Championship to be Rangers/Senators and the Western to be Red Wings/Ducks. Though if the Red Wings lose to the Sharks I won't be too, too dissapointed. Then Rangers/Ducks, with the Rangers winning the whole thing.
If Loser Lad were posting, I'd be trash-talking the Sabres right now.
I saw Pete Sampras, Chris Evert, Mardy Fish, and Jim Courier play tennis last Saturday.
i want pie...really badly!
Originally posted by Dream Girl:
Does anybody know a good website where i can buy comics?
Happy shopping.
I just finished watching Spidey 1 & 2 again in preparation for viewing of Spidey 3 later today.
Bob Barker earned his black belt in karate from Chuck Norris.
I have to go to school tomorrow...*crying*...
My friend Andrea is getting married next month and she's asked our choir to sing at her wedding!
elephants can purr like kittens
I was in NYC yesterday riding on a 'New York Rangers Party Bus' through Time Square and Midtown Manhattan supporting my favorite hockey team. Unfortunately, they ended up losing. I still had a great time though, and spent 12+ hours in Manhattan bar-hopping.
A French nurse once told me I had a nice butt.
Okay, it was a Gabonese nurse, speaking french and it was right before she jabbed that damn needle in my hip.
Which brings up another random thought; why'd I have to drop my drawers to get a shot in the hip?
hmmm
On the internet, I'm a madwoman.
In my writing, I'm fearless about exploring the darkest corners of my mind.
In real life, I'm shy.
In Pensacola, Florida, it is illegal to roll a barrel down the street.
Fines go up according to the contents of the barrel.
In Pensacola, "barrel" is slang for "doobie."
In Hollywood, Florida, chances of a brighter future are dubious.
My cat just took a twosie.
Ewwwww. Gross.
Tell me about it. :rolleyes:
The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
Originally posted by dedman:
The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
but they taste good with onion and chive dip!
I watched Hot Fuzz last night (Fun flick!) and ate bleu cheese puffs as my snack.
I finished my student teaching today. God I hope I passed.
Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life.
Veteran voice actor Peter Cullen is best known for his heroic role as Autobot leader Optimus Prime on the original Transformers cartoon, a role he is reprising in this year's Transformers movie. Ironically enough, a lot of Cullen's other roles have been villainous:
Venger in Dungeons and Dragons
Nemesis in Robotix
Red Skull in Spider-Man (the show that aired at the same time as Amazing Friends)
K.A.R.R. in Knight Rider (first appearance only)
One for Rocky:
The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly.
But there are birds that "dive" into water just to get fish. Yet they do not swim...
I have an insane deadline (or two) looming and I'm FREAKING OUT!
Mechana.
Originally posted by Faraway Lad:
Mechana. Awwww, thanks!
Michael Rosenbaum is my crush du jour! (Smallville on DVD is helping me through my long nights at work.)
Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
Whenever I mention Green Lantern to a non-comics fan, they almost invariably get him mixed up with Green Hornet.
Whenever I mention the Green Hornet, people invariably think I mean the Black Hornet from Fat Albert. (He does have SOOPER POWERS)
Oops, thats the BROWN hornet!!!
Whenever I mention Green hornet, people look at me funny. I don't have many comic-reading friends.
come to think of it, people look at me funny whenever I mention choclate covered pizza too.
That is not only ridiculous, CJ, it is insane!
Uncannyxmen.net's latest updates to their issue summaries include the first six issues of Dazzler.
Dazzler.
Out of all the titles they could have updated, they choose Dazzler. :rolleyes:
![[Linked Image]](http://www.uncannyxmen.net/covers/dazzler/dazzler2.jpg)
Oooohhhh, I so wish the Enchantress had won that battle.
Originally posted by Stealth:
Oooohhhh, I so wish the Enchantress had won that battle.
As doth I, Stealth dear, as doth I.
Alison's getting an ESSENTIAL volume soon... Can I pencil you in for a copy?
Both of you?
I SAY THEE NAY!!
Stealth is indisposed, so I speaketh for her as well.
You, know, m'dear Enchantress, Mr. JMS won't let you speak thus if you hope to appear in the upcoming Thor series...
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Any Enchantress whom wouldst appear in that vile waste of paper art nothing but an imposter!
The one true Enchantress doth reside here at Legion World!!
I'm going to the Outer Banks of NC for a week later this month!
My contacts are going wonky.
Is that like a loofah/douche combo? Or do I really not wanna know?
Having sold all my LSH comic book collection 10 years ago... I've started buying it all over again.
Going to visit family next week.
For me, it will just be Paris.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Good to know.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a 'Friday the 13th'.
Dime porque (lo juro, lo juro, lo juro)
Me dices siempre solamente
MENTIRAS (lo juro, lo juro)
Dime porque (lo juro, lo juro)
No dices nunca la verdad
Originally posted by Faraway Lad:
Its raining!!!!
What?!?! In Britain? No effin' WAY!
Hey, I'm buying a great big Ark!
Sounds like you need a boat, not an ark...
I'm just sayin'...
He needs something big enough to hold enough port to last him like, 40 days and 40 nights, Abin. duh!
they dont make boats that Big.
I don't hate all of you, just most of you.
Whenever I met Legion Worlders, I store their phone #'s in my phone under their LW names. So I get a laugh whenever I see "Abin", "Kent", "Pov", "Quis" and others in there.
You can sing "House of the Rising Sun" to the tune of "Amazing Grace". They're also interchangeable with "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle".
Redheads are NOT going extinct, no matter what you may have heard.
I sat two seats away on the ferry today from someone whose breath overpowered his cologne.
Tomorrow I'm going to the opening of the brand-new Wal-Mart here. Well not completely new, they renovated the old K-Mart building.
There's not enough pie in my fridge.
I'm getting used to reading the Wall Street Journal enough everyday where I'm started to get interested in it.
My college self is very embarrassed for me.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Whenever I met Legion Worlders, I store their phone #'s in my phone under their LW names. So I get a laugh whenever I see "Abin", "Kent", "Pov", "Quis" and others in there. I do that, too, so as not to confuse them with others of the same name.
I should do that. I wouldn't want to drunk dial a Legion Worlder thinking they were my Sunday night booty call.
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
[b]Whenever I met Legion Worlders, I store their phone #'s in my phone under their LW names. So I get a laugh whenever I see "Abin", "Kent", "Pov", "Quis" and others in there.
I have real names next and then their LW names in parenthesis. This is mostly because I'm anal but also a tool to help me learn their real names when we met up. (I'm really bad with names.)
Also, I'm weirdly anal about putting peoples full names (if possible) in my phone when I add them. I just like to know who they are! Otherwise, why would I have their number..?
Originally posted by CJ Taylor:
I should do that. I wouldn't want to drunk dial a Legion Worlder thinking they were my Sunday night booty call.
because?
You know, I can't think of a good reason...
...because they're probably a loooong drive from Denver?
I've traveled 2100 miles for a booty call.
(I figure it also fit the topic)
Must have been some booty.
Every booty needs some booty sometime.
Scandium is number 21 on the Periodic Table of Elements
...down from #12 last week, according to Casey Kasem.
I'm out of chocolate.
There's no more coconut syrup.
This could be a bad day
I haven't dyed my hair in months! (Gray is the new black)
I'm procrastinating on two papers due this week.
I saw this website
Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians on Dan Savage's Blog. I thought it was a funny site.
thanks, Quis! I needed that laugh.
I have a ginger snap biscuit now I am going in search of a cup of coffee.
it's now post-peak; fall colors are ebbing and there are a decent amount of leaves on the ground.
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
thanks, Quis! I needed that laugh.
I sent the link to my sister.
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
it's now post-peak; fall colors are ebbing and there are a decent amount of leaves on the ground.
It's post-peak without even being PRE-peak here; leaves were just starting to change when the rain and wind turned everything still in the trees a nasty rust color.
So much for New England Fall colors...
I need to buy a winter jacket. The last couple years I had a pea-coat which was not only warm but very stylish. It started to fade a little and get slightly shabby so I gave it charity in the spring. But now I'm starting to get cold in the mornings...
I found a heap coat at a thrift store. now I need a hat and gloves (my usual ones are in storage).
Dad made me a mini apple pie. I ate the whole thing when I got home on Sunday.
Love smells like mayonnaise!
And the apples were from his own tree.
mmmm...apple cobbler...
I'm sorry I haven't posted much lately. I don't know why -- I don't get depressed anymore thanks to my meds -- but I'm sure that one night soon, when I least expect it, I'll start posting regularly again.
Until then, lots of love to all.
For some reason I haven't felt up to posting much lately either. Not sure why...not depressed or anything.
Still...I post a minimum each day so that Pov cannot say "wow, he finally shut up!". I'll never allow that day
Today I learned about how unhealthy soybeans can really be. It was rather depressing. From estrogen, to lowering your immunity, to inflaming prostates, to genetic altering. And my soy milk made no mention on the container! I don't know what to think anymore!
Switch to rice milk. I did. And only fermented organic soy products. Food is a minefield these days.
I'm recycling my Halloween costume from last year.
There are jellyfish the size of Volkswagens off the coast of Japan.
A woman was harrassed by security at Universal Studios Florida for breast-feeding.
Just when Countrywide Financial's stock seemed to rebound, it dropped yet again. I may have bought to early.
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
A woman was harrassed by security at Universal Studios Florida for breast-feeding.
I hope she sues the @#$%ers.
The song "Mahna Mahna", which so many of us remember so fondly from Sesame Street, originated in an "adult" movie. In the Sesame Street version, the fuzzy little Muppet who sings the "Mahna Mahna" part does a riff on "Santa Lucia".
And here all this time, I thought the name of the song was "Nomina"!
Originally posted by Pov:
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
[b]A woman was harrassed by security at Universal Studios Florida for breast-feeding.
She's Canadian, so she'll probably settle for an apology.
Egg nog sales in Denver this year are due to start 11/09/07.
Egg nog should be available year-round.
We brought home our first carton of the stuff in mid-October.
So good but sooooo bad for you. I drink the light stuff, mixed half and half with skim milk, at least until Christams day, then it's the real thing spiked with rum!
My boyfriend made me an awesome birthday cake on Saturday: 2 layers of chocolate cake with chocolate chunks, spiked with Amaretto, a layer of cherries in the middle, chocolate frosting, covered with chocolate shavings.
Any left?
One year, I begged my mother to make penuche frosting for my birthday cake. She did - and it was awful.
My friends back in my hometown lost their races for mayor and common council president last night.
Per my dentist, I do NOT have a big mouth
Baskin-Robbins offers my two favorite flavors this time of year: eggnog and pumpkin pie. Too bad I'm on a diet. Except when I'm not.
Diet?!?! It's ice cream, those are the exception to every diet.
i lie about dislikeing milk i tell every one i hate it but i dont mind it
i fell im to comited to the lie at this point and will never cop to it in real life
i lie about dislikeing milk i tell every one i hate it but i dont mind it
i fell im to comited to the lie at this point and will never cop to it in real life
i lie about dislikeing milk i tell every one i hate it but i dont mind it
i fell im to comited to the lie at this point and will never cop to it in real life
I'm angry!
I hate being angry because it eats me up and I have no coping mechanisms for it. If I was a guy I think I'd be out picking a fight right now...
my favorite Simpsons bit. Homer walks into a honky-tonk bar.
Guy#1: Hey! Yuo wanna fight?
Guy #2: Them's fightin words!
But seriously, Ronda, what's up?
A few weeks ago I was having dinner with my family. My daughters, whom I had not seen since the night before, were dressed in coordinating red, white, and blue outfits. My 9-year-old said, "you know, nobody else at school dressed up for Liberty Day."
"What's 'Liberty Day'?" I asked.
"Daddy, you know. You left us the note to remind us that it was Liberty Day."
I had left them a note to remind them it was LIBRARY day so they'd remember to take their books back to the school library.
So now we celebrate Liberty Day every Thursday.
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
But seriously, Ronda, what's up?
Oh nothing serious. Just someone close to me being insensitive and me being a drama queen. I'm fine. Thanks though. Watching Hobbes dance always makes me feel better.
Originally posted by kidflash2fan:
i lie about dislikeing milk i tell every one i hate it but i dont mind it
i fell im to comited to the lie at this point and will never cop to it in real life
I don't like tomatoes. So much so that I gag on them. I sometimes think about telling people I am allergic to them rather than just not liking them.
Originally posted by Lad Boy:
A few weeks ago I was having dinner with my family. My daughters, whom I had not seen since the night before, were dressed in coordinating red, white, and blue outfits. My 9-year-old said, "you know, nobody else at school dressed up for Liberty Day."
"What's 'Liberty Day'?" I asked.
"Daddy, you know. You left us the note to remind us that it was Liberty Day."
I had left them a note to remind them it was LIBRARY day so they'd remember to take their books back to the school library.
So now we celebrate Liberty Day every Thursday.
Seeing as I'm a librarian, for me, every day is Liberty Day!
Finally! We Libertines have our very own day! I'd better change my sheets.
The cat isn't in the cradle after all.
My boyfriend is away on business. Again. And even though I should be used to it by now, the first few days of being alone really weird me out.
Hi Pov! Hug your kitties for me! I need me some kitty comfort.
Done.
I can barely type around Beavis... he's napping on my lap.
There are at least three other people named C.J. out there. None of them know how to juggle potato salad.
I need to buy a winter coat still.
Hey, that's awesome. I had never seen it before. Thanks, Cobie.
Future (who has just returned) created it a few years ago! I was digging through his old thread and I've always thought it was one of the more awesome ones
It's one of the rare appearances of EDE without his cap.
That's what makes it such a collector's item. It was the first time his honky-fro was ever revealed to the public...
Dammit! No new comics today.
Well, at least I'm in Georgetown and there are good <strike> bars </strike> restaurants.
Ohmygod! Like Gramp's old computer died and he like don't remember any of his passwords...
But I remember mine!
So that's just like his tough noogies!
Funny enough, I may have some of your gramps old passwords around. I'll look for them
(Does this mean he lost the password to the 'Cobalt Kid' username? Finally
)
Ohmygod! Gramps, like stop posting as Mr. Cobalt!
For all you music collectors, this day back in 1877, Edison demonstrated his phonogrpah.
I'm drinking. Alone. I'm mildly concerned about myself.
I'm typing this from my brand new 24" iMac. I waited 3 months for it! I've never had an LCD monitor before. It makes my eyes hurt.
congrats on the new iMac! I'm jealous!
don't worry about the drink, if you're not doing it morning, noon and night like Cobie.
I haven't gone to work drunk in like nine months. I'm slipping
I just fininshed my last big paper of the semester (I had three due this week, two long and one short-but-very-specific). I'm allowing myself a day of laziness before starting the next two (short ones) and studying for finals.
I've lived in four years ending in 7. In each one I've lived in a different state.
Will Smith saved a cat in Men in Black, Enemy of the State and I, Robot. Or so I heard.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I haven't gone to work drunk in like nine months. I'm slipping nine months?? could Cobie be in the family way?
Harry Potter is the only movie I've seen in theaters in the past 12 months... but it was in Imax, so it was even cooler.
My boyfriend just called to say he won't be home from his business trip tomorrow, and that he doesn't know when he'll be back.
<span style="font-size: 99px;">WHOOOOO!!!!! PARTY!!!!!</span>
I've been looking at some old Blackhawk covers from the 60's, and I'm pretty sure I'm in love with Lady Blackhawk now. She's great in Birds of Prey currently...but those 60's Silver Age artists knew how to tickle Mama Cobalt's eldest son's fancy!
Did you ever see Brian Bolland's Lady Blackhawk from the mid-80s?
NO!
If you think I can handle it while at work, I may look for it on Google!
the only one I've found isn't the image I'm thinking of... it was THE must-have T-shirt from San Diego '86!
That is a fine pic of Lady Blackhawk.
I've been looking for a print of the McDaniel promo piece for the Nighwing series from some years back.
And I will always take a gander at Nightcrawler art.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
You're telling me!? I still remembered the image clearly 21.5 years later!
I want to have sex on a large pile of money.
Sorry if that's TMI, but I just had some good chocolate...
There's a Scrooge McDuck joke in their somewhere.
I want to have money on a large pile of sex!
So, Saturday morning 2am I wake up because of pain in my left side. I called the on-call doctor for my primary care physician. She said that it could just be constipation (seeing how I said I had been having some constipation off & on for a month or two) but that she could not tell over the phone.
I decided to call a cab (I don't have a car and the subway stops running between 12:30 and 5am) and go to the emergency room. I arrived at the emergency room at about 3am. At the emercency room, I explain my symptons. The doctor says "We'll take some x-rays and try some Maalox mixed with something else" (I forget what) So I do the x-rays and when I came back from that, the Maalox solution was there for me. The additional stuff numbed my throat and I did vomit a little after drinking it. The nurse also asked me for a urine sample.
They also did an EKG on me. In between each thing it seemed like hours passed. There was a TV in the bay that I was in and I turned it on at about 5:30. A new doctor came in with the results of my urine sample and x-ray. The x-ray did not show any blockage, but the urine sample had trace amounts of blood in it. The Doctor said that she thought I may have a kidney stone and wanted to run a CAT scan. I was still in pain, so I agreed, At this time the doctor had the nurse give me some Motrin and some Percocet.
I had the CAt scan and came back down to wait for the results. About an hour after having taken the medication, I was out of pain. The CAT scan showed that I did have a small kidney stone. The doctor said that it was small enough to pass on its own. She wrote me a perscription for Motrin, Percocet, and some anti-nausea medication. By this time it is 8 am. I then left to go home. I stopped by the pharmacy first (it opened at 9)
The medication is helping with the pain. I have to strain my urine, hoping to catch the stone. The doctor said that it could pass in a couple of days or a couple of weeks. My stone is located right at the kidney (the highest place it could be) It has to travel through the ureter to the bladder then from the bladder out.
So, now I must drink lots of water and hope that it passes sooner rather than later.
Best wishes from me too, Quis.
Ow, sounds painful. >< Hope it goes quick.
I hope you are feeling better sooner rather than later, Quis.
Hey--in a thread devoted to randomness, what's more random than: random Nazis!!!
Ouch Kidney Stones!
hope the pain passes away soon Kent. (and yes the pun was intended)
Originally posted by Lard Lad:
Hey--in a thread devoted to randomness, what's more random than: random Nazis!!! The Spanish Inquistion. Remember: No one expects the Spanish Inquisition…….
Hope you're feeling better Quis!
I'm trying to come up with a witty reply to Faraway Lad, something about the Spanish in Quis... but I keep getting stuck.
Today I saw a man with dreadlocks down to his knees.
I'm studying in a coffee shop right now. (I'm so hip.)
Originally posted by CJ Taylor:
I'm trying to come up with a witty reply to Faraway Lad, something about the Spanish in Quis... but I keep getting stuck.
CJ's a kidney stone...?
I just found out today that at some point before Leap Day, I have to leave the country and return to finish some paperwork so I can stay through April.
I'll probably go to France!
Well, St. Pierre, a nearby French island, anyway.
Some of my Christmas cards are tan. A was using one to try out different ink colors, to see what showed up best. And now I can't find it. Which makes me wonder who I sent a card full of scribbles to...
I hope it was me.
Sorry Quis, I found the scribbles! But I can make some just for you, if you like.
Darn, & I thought I'd have an Original Mechana abstract to auction on E-bay.
I love having posting duels with HWW--they pad up my post count quite a bit in a short time!
Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
Glad to oblige, Lardy!
Hmmm...that wasn't very random...I know:
Crap! NAZIS!!!!!
Pwn!
(Is that random enough for you?)
It's 1 a.m. I have to get up in the morning and ring a bell for the Salvation Army. G'night!
It's 2:12 here, and I'm gonna hit the sack...then I'm going to sleep!
So, I'm on a crowded subway train. There is a woman standing next to me chatting away to her companion. Over the loudspeaker, the driver announces that the train had been re-routed and that the next stop would be the last stop. The announcement is made a second time. We arrive in the station. The train has just stopped, but the doors had not yet opened. The woman says out loud "This is our stop." and starts to push by me. I said to her with a little annoyance in my voice "This is all our stop." The doors opened and people started to exit. The woman says (to my back because I turned to exit) "Well you don't have to have an attitude!"
I wish I had turned to her and said "Well, you didn't have to try to push your way out especially if you had listened to the announcement." It was probably better not to have said that.
Quis, public transportation in Boston is getting horrible! Just today my favorite aunt, Pollyanne, was there doing charity work (she's involved in an organization that places seeing eye puppies with blind orphans) and "some" guy on the subway tripped her as she attempted to exit. He then shouted at her, "HA, that's what you get you deaf old bitty! Don‘t even think about suing me because I‘m a lawyer, HA!", before he stormed out and kicked a Salvation Army Santa.
The poor dear (she's eighty seven) is still traumatized.
I'm leaving for Europe in 9.5 hours!
Every time I see a Lardy post, I keep thinking its one of mine.
As if you could match my high quality posting!
Legion World struck by non-fatal, but confusing Avatar Heist Syndrome!
This semems to have started when I was urged to take Kent Shakespeare's avatar.
Yeah, Quis and Kent started it!
Today I get to be a receptionist! (Ours took the day off, I'm covering for her.)
I *love* when someone calls all professional-like and completely loses their train of thought when a man answers the phone. I've even had one hang up, thinking he had a wrong number, only to be all confused when he re-dialed and it was still me. Heh.
Originally posted by Set:
Today I get to be a receptionist! (Ours took the day off, I'm covering for her.)
I *love* when someone calls all professional-like and completely loses their train of thought when a man answers the phone. I've even had one hang up, thinking he had a wrong number, only to be all confused when he re-dialed and it was still me. Heh.
Did the boss call you into his office and chase you around his desk?
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
Did the boss call you into his office and chase you around his desk?
Thankfully, no. He's like 60, he'd probably have a heart attack. And he doesn't have enough money to get me to not run.
Wondering whether Set has an older sibling named Down and a younger one named Hut...
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Every time I see a Lardy post, I keep thinking its one of mine.
So, dear fellow posters, if one of my posts offends you or just rubs ya the wrong way...blame Cobalt!!!
Who the heck is that in the avatar anyway? And who'se he supposed to be? I recognize neither the actor/model, nor the character.
The red/black costume looks kinda like the one worn by Tempest (aka Aqualad), but I can't imagine anyone actually having Talks-To-Fish-Jr. as an avatar...
I've always assumed it was real-life Cobalt Kid (Des Bohan) photo-shopped in Tempest's costume, but I'm not sure.
Des?
I seriously considered stealing someone else's avatar, but then I saw Eryk Davis Emu on the avatar list and couldn't resist!
Whose were you gonna steal, bro?
I was going to steal one of the Lash-as-Tenzil photomanips!
Originally posted by Lard Lad:
Whose were you gonna steal, bro?
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
I was going to steal one of the Lash-as-Tenzil photomanips!
Actually, I think it'd be kinda cute (in an old-school way)if you stole one of mine and I stole one of yours!
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
Lash-as-Tenzil photomanips
That reminds me of something I've always been curious about: there's a photomanips avatar of both Tenzil and Drura -- I always figured that Tenzil is Lash, but who is Drura?
Would you believe- Lash?!
Originally posted by Stealth:
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
Lash-as-Tenzil photomanips
Its Lash and Paris Hilton, believe it or not! Its Paris from her early 'Simple Life' days.
Avatar Heist Syndrome is in full swing. I can only assume the remedy is for all the most current posters to stop using avatars completely.
My avatar is too silly for a heist.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Avatar Heist Syndrome is in full swing. I can only assume the remedy is for all the most current posters to stop using avatars completely.
So when will you stop using one, Cobie?
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Originally posted by Stealth:
[b]
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
Lash-as-Tenzil photomanips
That reminds me of something I've always been curious about: there's a photomanips avatar of both Tenzil and Drura -- I always figured that Tenzil is Lash, but who is Drura?
Originally posted by Fat Cramer:
My avatar is too silly for a heist.
I could not agree more.
I often do eat in Klordny.
Jake Gyllenhaal turns 27 years old today.
And in 1998 on this day, Pres. Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives.
700th reply, bitches!
Let the milestone whoring be renewed!
Progresso Lite Soups are a wonderful thing.
I'm yawning away at work after the office party last night
Better than partying away after a yawning party last night.
You can teach a C.J. to cook!
I made a grilled cheese sandwich last night using the new sandwhich maker my friends gave me for Christmas.
I did all the cooking for Christmas dinner for the first time!
In the past two weeks I've seen Atonement and Alvin and the Chipmunks in the theater and watched the first two Bourne movies on DVD.
I've consumed many chocolate martinis.
I had a lovely Christmas dinner with my landlords' family.
It's been warm lately, and snow's been melting, so I've been taking long walks again, including a few trails I thought I wouldn't get to until spring.
It's snowing.
Guess that's not all that random for Colorado...
One cubic mile of seawater contains about 50 pounds of gold.
I had a pint of Ben & Jerry's 'Too Twisted' ice cream for lunch. And a diet coke.
I'm probably going to hell, but I've got to stop by the gym first...
I only have one more Christmas gift to buy (for our Yankee Swap). Otherwise, I finished my shopping for Christmas 2007.
I'm becoming increasingly worried that I'm addicted to on-line porn ...
Why drugs are bad :
So over new years we all went out and did stuff, as one does on New Years. Jolly times were had by all, however a friend of a friend who happened to tag along decided it would be a good idea to take some of "the ectasy".
As one does.
Well not this one but I digress.
In any case, round 2 in the afternoon the next day we get this phone call from aforementioned friend, Frantic and babbling, insisting that there is a Leprechaun in his cupboard.
Theres a Leprechaun in my cupboard!
There's a Leprechaun in my Cupboard!
And so on and so forth ad infinitum...
Of course there couldn't ACTUALLY be a Leprechaun in his cupboard, as Leprechauns have a tendency to not exist in real life (technically).
So we try and calm him down over the phone.Which doesn't happen, So we make a trek to his house, with the intention of...Oh I dont know. Giving him a nice cup of tea and a pat on the shoulder...
So we get over his house and he's curled up in the proverbial foetal in the corner of his room
THERE'S A LEPRECHAUN IN MY CUPBOARD!
THERE'S A LEPRECHAUN IN MY CUPBOARD!
"Dude" we say "There's no such thing as Leprechauns" (technically)
And we open the cupboard to show him...
"See...There's no LepreOHMYGOD!"
There's a Leprechaun in a cupboard.
Or, in actuality, A Down Syndrome boy dressed all in green, cowering in the cupboard, tears streaming from his face.
Seems Mr Ectasy had found him in the neighbouring park, All loved up on goof balls, And decided the kid was his new best friend.
So he took the kid home to play, Freaked out, decided he was a Leprechaun and shoved the poor thing in the cupboard for a good 6 hours.
Discreetly we redeposited him back in the park and are still laying in wait for the police to come a knocking on a quest for a missing child.
Ok police thing is a lie, But randomness, thy name is Joe.
True Story
Awesome.
Joeboy has the best stories...
Remember, kids: Just Say "NO!"
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header"> Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Originally posted by SharkLad:
I'm becoming increasingly worried that I'm addicted to on-line porn ...</div></div>Just say no! Pov and I have a help-group here on Legion World.
I remember you sending me a link to one of those self help groups Young Cobalt.
All I can say is thank the gods I didnt open it up on the works computer
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Joe, that sounds like a "My Name is Earle" episode.
You can't make a chocolate omelet with the usual veggies. You have to use M&Ms, peanut butter cups, and the like
Sorry, but the rest of CJ's post and anything posted since is lost for good.
Girls have more tastebuds than boys.
There's only 84 more days til the softball season starts up again.
I have forgotten what random thing I posted that has since gotten lost.
Has anyone else ever noticed that in animated shows they pronounce Lex Luthor's name as "LEW-thor", but in live-action shows and movies it's pronounced "Luther"?
Originally posted by dedman:
Girls have more tastebuds than boys.
And yet... they frequently have such bad taste in men...
a "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The other night, after having two margaritas with dinner, I had a bizarre dream. In the universe where this dream took place, the Archbishop of Canterbury (and it was the current archbishop, Rowan Williams) had written a novel which had been turned into an opera in which my friend Zach, who has a gorgeous tenor voice, had starred. This is background info and did not actually take place in the dream. In the dream itself, after choir rehearsal--which was held in a supermarket--Zach and another friend, Andrea, and I all decided to go out for breakfast (very odd since the choir we're all in rehearses in the evening). While we're waiting for our breakfast order to be filled, the archbishop comes in with copies of the novel on which the aforementioned opera was based, which he autographs. He apparently really liked Zach in the lead role, because he wrote on my copy "I
Z" (that is a big heart to represent "love"). The archbishop, being Welsh, would, of course, pronounce "Z" as "zed", so it sorta said "I heart zed".
A most disturbing dream!
I've lost 17 pounds since December 1st.
No, it's not because my arms fell off.
Strangely enough, possums don't like being poked with spoons.
Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
For over one hundred years, a mummy, now believed to be the mummy of Rameses I, was on display at the Niagra Falls Museum.
When I was a kid, we took a family vacation to Niagra Falls. I remember going to this museum, but not of seeing the mummy.
Robert Zimmerman wrote a song about Highway 61, located back in my old stomping grounds of Minnesota.
Following the North Shore of Lake Superior, it runs from Canada through St. Paul (formerly known as Pig's Eye.)
It's a scenic tour, at one point stretching from Thunder Bay down to New Orleans.
In Baltimore, Maryland, it is not legal to take a lion to the movies.
Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.
I'm trying out for Lumiere in a local production of "Beauty and the Beast" this weekend.
Floral Park, NY was once known as East Hinsdale
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
Tomorrow I'm interviewing four different candidates to be my administrative assistant. I haven't even met one of them yet and I'm already weirded out by the fact that I'm interviewing someone for a job.
Originally posted by Teronna:
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
LIES! LIES!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.
In 1956, there was a plan to nuke Alberta to liberate the oil from the tar sands. Seriously.
I have a bubble-gun in the shape of a fish on my desk at work...Its name is "Fishgun" and has travelled through three states. However it is now mounted on a plaque, spray painted gold, and is emblazzoned with the legend : "Dont mess with Texas"
Originally posted by SharkLad:
Floral Park, NY was once known as East Hinsdale
I lived in Floral Park for about a month or so, back in 1990. My uncle used to be police commissioner there.
I am currently eating a sandwich consisting of Kozlowski blackberry jam, butter, and 12 grain wheat bread.
U.S.A. Today has a page about hockey everyday in their sports section, so I've had our office get an ongoing subscription. It was either that or the Daily News and I'm not quite ready to become a Daily News reader just yet
This is my 100th post! Whoo! Now only 900 more to 1000.
This is officially the worlds greatest sandwhich...that Im eating. No you cant have any. All for Jomer.
So tell me...what kind of sandwich is the world's greatest?
Chicken Schnitzel on Turkish bread with Swiss Cheese, Mayo, Sweet Chilli Sauce, Avocado, Rocket, Spinach, Sun Dried Tomatoes and Roast Pumpkin, Toasted with salt and pepper.
Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
Also 63% of statistics are made up
The quote "There are lies, damn lies - and statistics." is usually attributed to Mark Twain. However, he attributed the quote to Benjamin Disraeli.
Today I witnessed a fight between a business woman and a surly 7-11 worker on a jaunt to the 7-11 in search of Gatorade (hangover)...
The woman in question, clad in Prada, was cradling a sparrow in her hands, A highly distressed sparrow with no apparent injuries...
For some unknown reason Prada Woman had taken it into her mind that aforementioned Sparrow needed to be put into a styrofoam coffee mug. Presumably to be taken home and fed to her cat...I don't really know.
Surly 7-11 employee was having none of it. He intended to charge Prada Woman $1.85 for the cup.
A fight ensued, lasting for roughly 15 minutes, ending in Prada Woman stating that she was going to "Today Tonight", A local current affairs prgram, to tell them of 7-11's policy of not giving out free styrofoam cups for emergency bird transportation.
It amused me to no end...but then...most things do.
True story.
I have no more classes until Thursday.. Monday to Wednesday is the closest thing we get to a Spring Break.
Originally posted by Teronna:
This is my 100th post! Whoo! Now only 900 more to 1000. The first 100 are the hardest. You're doing great!
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
I have no more classes until Thursday.. Monday to Wednesday is the closest thing we get to a Spring Break.
The beaches in Newfoundland are lovely this time of year.
Oiyceberg! Roiyght ahead!
Joeboy's story reminded me of several customers that regularly come into the pet store where I'm a cashier. This one guy comes in every week with his cat on a leash. He never says a word to me, or to anyone else, but is constantly talking to his cat. And I mean long, serious conversations, even though they're pretty much one-sided...
How did a fight over a styrofoam cup for bird transportation remind me of a crazy cat guy? Well, only I know the answer to that...
i like about hating milk, i really don't mind the taste but i'm too committed to the lie to ever admit this to any one in real life
We don't discuss flying lemurs too much around here.
For some reason my homepage is set to the AOL Canada newspage. I don't live in Canada, and I didn't set my homepage to that site...so it's a bit puzzling.
I'd blame the producers of Due South. Anything Canadian in Chicago is their fault.
I had the most wonderful dream about the first boy who ever asked me to dance, in the 8th grade. In my dream we were all grown up, and he looked remarkably like Adam Baldwin. And we weren't dancing. I want to go back to sleep now...
Nothing better than a speechless POV
In some cultures having a romantic dream involving any of the Baldwin brothers portends certain doom. Unless it's Stephen, in which case it just means you need to get out more.
I picked up my very first Credit Card today, And have bought far too many items of clothing online. But clearly I needed a "More Cowbell" Hoody. Everybody needs more cowbell.
There is one true flavour of ice cream. The rest are merely Man's desire to decieve Himself.
Originally posted by Ram Boy:
In some cultures having a romantic dream involving any of the Baldwin brothers portends certain doom. Unless it's Stephen, in which case it just means you need to get out more.
Actually, Adam Baldwin is not one of the Baldwin brothers. No relation. So I'm safe.
Originally posted by mechana:
Actually, Adam Baldwin is not one of the Baldwin brothers. No relation. So I'm safe. Well, of course I'm happy to know you won't fall victim to the Baldwin Bros. Dream Kiss of Death Curse, but I have to admit I was a little bummed when I realized that the supply of fresh Baldwin brothers will probably run out in my lifetime.
I wasn't sure egg foo yong would be good as leftovers, but it actually reheats very well.
The only things taxi drivers in India will slow down for are cows and goats.
The only things at Cobie's house that cows and goats will slow down for are taxi drivers.
I had toast and water for dinner. I really need to go grocery shopping.
The "Gaia" in James Lovelock's Gaia theory was the idea of William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies and Lovelock's neighbour. Lovelock somewhat regretted using it when he saw that it attracted a lot of hippies who latched onto the term without bothering to understand the theory.
I\'m the Juggernaught, bitch! <warning: strong language and mildly offensive>
I'm mildly allergic to soft cheese
Last night I dreamt I was watching these cartoons that told the stories of dead DC heroes in song, kind of a Schoolhouse Rock for dead heroes. The cartoon for Hector Hall was the best.
...Last night my friend Ellen had a dream that she slept with Santa Claus. She was highly disturbed by it, Then described it to me, In Minute detail, Over coffee at a cafe called "Red Tongue". Now I am just as disturbed.
I think I'd rather the Hector Hall cartoon.
Despite its status as the coldest city in the world with a population of over 600,000, Winnipeg, Manitoba was crowned the Slurpee Capital of the world for the eighth time in a row in 2007. In Manitoba, 7-Eleven stores across the province sell an average of 8,330 slurpee drinks per month. The rest of Canada sells an average of 5,990, which makes Manitobans the world leader of Slurpee Sales.
i hate long super hero capes on every one but batman and phantom girl
Tomorrow I have the pleasure of meeting with my dean, a man I dislike and who probably dislikes me too.
My dreams last night crossed over into Terminator 2, but now that I've been awake 4-5 hours, it's hard to recall how.
I am eating a Whole Grain Brown Sugar Cinnamon Poptart for lunch. Because it is "whole grain," that means it is good for me.
I am eating a Whole Grain Brown Sugar Cinnamon Poptart for lunch. Because it is "whole grain," that means it is good for me.
...
well, I did eat two of them, as the packaging *requires*. Perhaps the double post is appropriate.
My kitchen and bathroom were painted last week. The color name is "White Satin" but this is what it looks like
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Originally posted by rokk steady:
...
well, I did eat two of them, as the packaging *requires*. Perhaps the double post is appropriate.
Have you ever heard Paula Poundstone talking about eating Poptarts (and then Pepperidge Farm Cookies)
Each of the three places where I've lived in Houston are all about nine miles from the other two.
Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
Having a splint because you've dislocated your kneecap becomes frustrating very quickly.
I find the term "snogging" to be more naughty sounding than "shagging".
I am now a writer for the gay press
It would be really great if Pringle's made a 100 calorie pack in salt and vinegar.
Watching cartoons is like taking a really good musical appreciation course.
On a night in this Friday night, I'm re-watching Robert Rodriguez's half of Grindhouse, Planet Terror. All I've heard so far is the theme song on the main menu and its already reminding me how kick-ass it is
This is a bit strange. I was just checking the weather for the next few days, went to click on the bookmark for Environment Canada weather for Liverpool, NS - and the little logo next to the bookmark name was the Legion World symbol!
I thought maybe Firefox takes some bookmark with an "L" logo and applies it to all your other bookmarks starting with L which don't have logos - but I'm sure Environment Canada has its own logo.
There's probably a rational explanation for this in terms of Firefox programming, but maybe Legion World is just taking over everywhere.
Ravenette has cool shoes. I mean they are great for keeping her feet cool.
The first Transformer I ever owned was Prowl.
Drunk off my proverbial I was wandering around a "Lucky 7" minimart the other night and discovered the most amazing thing in the world....MR SURPRISE, A bong shaped beverage with a big smiley face that also contained a toy in a kinder egg. I am in LOVE.
....Found the female version, Miss Surprise the next day upon returning to the store. Many hilarious drunken photos of myself and my friend Ellen making out with, Singing into and yes, attempting to smoke said Drinks were taken thereafter.
I might try to write something for a target audience of pre-teens and kids. Really for myself, but that's who else might enjoy it.
I love my family, and I've been intimate with romantic partners, but I'm fairly certain I've never fallen in love.
And I can transcribe the entire Transformers animated movie from memory.
My friend Ellen has a vortex surrounding her that causes her to lose things without actually leaving a room. We just spent 20 minutes looking for her mobile and eventually found it INSIDE the upholstery of the Jason recliner she was sitting on. nestled between the wooden frame and some coushining.
The party favor for our wedding is a CD of songs Lady Cobalt and I like and feel are appropriate and somewhat wedding related. I'm pleased with my ability to incorporate various 'not what you'd expect' songs in.
I just had a bottle of Stella Artois. The first time I ever had Stella was in London in 2001, with DCMBer Terence.
My new puppy Niki, who is 4 months old, is in her first show this weekend.
Kewl! That's great Semi!
Oh, and er, probably once I'm married, Lady Cobalt will secure us a puppy of our own.
Our semi-annual inventory at work yesterday came out GREAT (after sucking the last time)!
Sometimes when I'm trying to ignore someone I'll hum "Mas Que Nada" to myself.
I like to cook, yet I don't want to go to culinary school
I enjoy the posts of Anti-Lad and other alt IDs. IMMENSELY.
I'm fighting the urge to be completely spontaneous and go to Disney World this weekend ...
I just got an email saying I won a United Nations Humanitarian Award worth £245,000! Imagine that!
I'm waiting for the college to process my check so I can move into my new apartment.
I held a five-hour old baby today.
The Walking Dead is AWESOME!!!! If you haven't read it, why haven't you picked it up, yet?
I'm continuing to forego adding any new DC and Marvel comics unless I hear specifically that they are great by multiple people, or if their creative team are people I really trust to make the experience enjoyable.
Instead, I'm focusing more on Image, Dark Horse, Vertigo and other independents.
I thought "Vertigo" was pronounced ver-TEE-go until I was in junior high.
Well, my new computer is at home and hopefully by Tuesday I'll have internet access. Apparently, the cable coming into my house has been spliced too many times to handle the internet signal.
Working in healthcare, Vertigo reminded me of "Impetigo." From Wikipedia "Impetigo (sometimes impetaigo) is a superficial bacterial skin infection most common among children 2 to 6 years old. People who play close contact sports such as rugby, American football and wrestling are also susceptible, regardless of age."
(Be glad I didn't post the picture.)
So be careful all you footballers around the world!
Originally posted by Fat Cramer:
I just got an email saying I won a United Nations Humanitarian Award worth £245,000! Imagine that!
How much is the processing fee & tax? Was the check they sent you enough to cover it?
I had a Big Mac without onions today. I forgot how good they are.
I miss McDonald's cheeseburgers and how they make 'em with ketchup, a pickle slice and the little diced onions...
:mmmm:
I miss McDonald's original McChicken sandwich. My current favorite McDonald's menu item is the Filet-O-Fish.
I miss onions in general. These last few years I've become allergic to them, and it sucks!
I <3 LOLCatz...
![[Linked Image]](http://a177.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/38/l_b1bc6ed55d234571dbc7aefb7a0d0418.jpg)
Originally posted by Iron Rat:
I miss McDonald's original McChicken sandwich. My current favorite McDonald's menu item is the Filet-O-Fish.
I've always loved the Filet-O-Fish, particularly now that you can get a double filet any time.
I haven't eaten at McDonald's in years. Last time I did I was very disappointed. It wasn't nearly as good as I remembered as a child. Of course, I don't eat beef, so that excludes about three-fourths of the menu.
The only sandwich I ever get at McDonald's is the fish. Sometimes, I'll go for breakfast--their McSkillet burritos are very good.
Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
Originally posted by Iron Rat:
[b] I miss McDonald's original McChicken sandwich. My current favorite McDonald's menu item is the Filet-O-Fish.
What? For real?
I'm going to ask for a double filet for lunch tomorrow!
That rash seems to be clearing up.
The double filets are not on the menu, but I've ordered one several times in my area recently and have never been refused. The double filets cost a buck extra.
I still have keys to cars I don't own anymore.
Whenever I sleep with air conditioning or heat, I'm uncomfortable. I like a breezy night with the windows open.
I used to love the sound of the air conditioner when I was a child. I would pretend that it was the hum of a spaceship.
I guess that's why I still prefer air conditioning, although I love a cool breeze, too.
(Not *completely* random, I know.)
Isn't life just...random, sometimes?
When we start following a pattern, where no pattern existed before, that's kinda random.
I gave up eating red meat and couldn't be happier....Except when I crave a cheeseburger.
I like to use little yellow sticky notes on the various piles of work on my desk.
Blue ones not so much. But the best kind are the rare green ones.
<picturing Quis dancing around a maypole for some reason...>
Originally posted by Anti-Lad:
I hate men.
I hate men too. That's why my therapist says I should always be in the company of women, else I might get violent.
Invisible Brainiac would make one hell of an LMB Leader.
Just sayin'.
Y'know... I don't even know who the current LW Leader and Deputy are. And when are the next elections due to take place?
Its Faraway Lad as leader with co-deputies Nova Girl and Clive (two alt IDs you haven't had much interaction with). Clive is now Virgin Lad.
And leadership elections are past due by now...
BTW, dear friend, I've long since given up my role as Chief of Security. Indeed, several months ago. The Security Office, and much of the LMB and Legion World has become corrupted, some even rotten to the core. It was time for a change--perhaps a drastic one.
All part of the moral decay evident everywhere in Legion World!
It is indeed time for a change...
I change my underwear everyday - Thank you!
No, we thank YOU...
I wear underwear every day!
My alma mater was originally the Portia Law School. Named after the character from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, it was an all-women law scholl until 1938. The name was changed in 1969.
I've been watching a lot of Yes videos lately. They released their first album in 1969.
I've always thought the Yes logo looked like "YSES."
I'm traveling through Europe next week on business, which is awesome, but that means I have to travel Sunday and work on Labor Day, which sucks! Plus, its two weeks before the wedding and Lady Cobalt is not exactly thrilled I'll be gone for a week.
Tell her to save it up for the Honeymoon.
Or have her give me a call. Always glad to help a fellow LW'er in need... or at least his future Missus...
I'm still waiting for you to help me on the one that tried to kill me and make a micro out of it
She was beyond help. I had the vet put her to sleep.
Crazy-@$$ b****...
they say
"Sometimes it's not worth chewing through the leather straps in the morning."but if you do and if you mangage to chew through the straps,..#1)your free, #2)your a tad bit tougher than leather. and you've got pretty strong sharp teeth.
I did not know that two of the auf'ed designers on this season of Project Runway became boyfriends. They do make a cute couple too.
Met the DJ for the wedding tonight for a few beers (not met for the first time, we've been friends for several years). Expressed my desire for a lot of motown and other 60's music!
Semi Transparent Fellow in latin is
"Socius Perspicuus Aliquantus"
Oooooh, that's cool Semi, you should change your name for a while!
I'm partial to
Povvus Interruptus, myself.
Originally posted by Cobaltus Primus Augustus:
Met the DJ for the wedding tonight for a few beers (not met for the first time, we've been friends for several years). Expressed my desire for a lot of motown and other 60's music!
A must: "Fill me up, buttercup!!!" (I love that one!)
Cobie, if you're doing a 60's set, you can't possibly not have a special dance to "You and Me and a Dog Named Boo."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VotYIwj4kWA&feature=related
<---------------Really big fan of the Four Tops. The Temps, and others, are great too, but the Four Tops are my boys.
I like lots of the 60s stuff better now than I did in the 60s.
At my friend Brian's wedding, we made the DJ play the theme from Peanuts and we all danced like the Peanuts gang. That is we all just maded one repetative movement.
Originally posted by Lard Lad:
Originally posted by Cobaltus Primus Augustus:
[b]Met the DJ for the wedding tonight for a few beers (not met for the first time, we've been friends for several years). Expressed my desire for a lot of motown and other 60's music!
That's a great, bouncy, fun song for a happy occasion. They played that at a friend's wedding recently -- the bride was dancing with her father.
Sorry to disappoint you all, but the lyrics are "Build me up Buttercup", not "Fill me up, Buttercup". It's about a callous woman building up false expectations, not satiating unmentionable appetites.
"Why do you build me up Buttercup baby,
Just to let me down ..."
When I was a kid, I thought it was about a girl named Sylvia Buttercup. ("Why do you, Sylvia Buttercup Baby?")
That reminds me of a story from the book I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can. She claimed they played that old song "It's the wrong time/it's the wrong place/'though your face is lovely/it's the wrong face" when she first danced with her new husband at their wedding reception.
Yesterday I went to the last Yankees/Red Sox game at Yankee Stadium. It was a pretty boring game until the 7th inning when it turned hella-awesome and the Yankees pulled off a great win!
One problem: I'm sunburned like a *%$%&%*$#* on my forearms, knees and to a lesser degree, face. The knees are killing me the most.
Your job requires alot of kneeling?
Both my political and religious affiliations different noun and an adjective forms.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
How dare you make such scurrilous assertions about the dust particles in
my house!
Honeycombs big, Yeahyeahyeah!
It's not small, Nonono!
I made a green tomato sauce using a red tomato.
I always try to have at least two different flavors of ice cream in my freezer.
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that...
Favre in a Jets jersey was kind of fun!
Jake Delhomme throwing a last second TD pass against the Chargers was even MORE fun!!!
I just learned the 12 Bar Blues progression on the harmonica.
HUGEMANBREASTS is dead, and Hummer Lass killed him while under the mental domination of Harold Ryan Wyandotte.
I have six ottomans in my condo. I refer to this as my very own Ottoman Empire.
Today I asked for a cape when offered any type of clothing i would need for work.
With so few posts to go before
x 2, I must now pick and choose which topics to post in. Therefore, "words to rhyme" is out, while "Today I (verb)" is in.
I've having market pantry chickadees (i.e., Target's version of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish) for dinner.
I like pie...that is all.
I ran over my 17-yr old cat's tail with my 'chair.
That'll learn him when I tell him to move...
I'm now a smokin' hot lesbian!
When I had two female roomates for a good while, I was surprised that so many people my parents age still find that very improper.
They never watched Three's Company ?
Is that why so many old people think Cobie is gay?
Maybe it's why old people think he's a chef.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
two female roomates...many people my parents age still find that very improper.
Particularly when one of them has a gun.
Long story.
I just ate two donuts ...
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
When I had two female roomates for a good while, I was surprised that so many people my parents age still find that very improper.
The medical term for this is
Roper-Furley Syndrome.
Overheard in a men's room, from one man standing at a urinal to another:
"Hey, did you have asparagus for lunch?"
Wasn't me. I don't use urinals any more.
Warwick Castle is a medieval shell keep castle in Warwick, the county town of Warwickshire, England. It sits on a cliff overlooking a bend in the River Avon. Built by William the Conqueror in 1068 to replace an Anglo-Saxon burh, Warwick Castle was used as a fortification until the early 17th century, when Sir Fulke Greville converted it to a country house. It was owned by the Greville family, who became earls of Warwick in the mid-18th century, until 1978. Warwick Castle has been compared with Windsor Castle in terms of scale, cost, and status. Since its construction in the 11th century, the castle has undergone structural changes with additions of towers and redesigned residential buildings. Originally a wooden motte-and-bailey, it was rebuilt as a stone shell keep in the 12th century. It is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building. The castle is a popular tourist attraction and features one of the world's largest siege engines
Warwick Davis played the title character in Willow, as well as Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi.
Talented <strike>midge</strike> er, Little Person.
"Tuh-bookie Ookie" was a memorable Ewok line from RotJ... Thespianism at its finest.
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor had one of the most WTF moments in its opening minutes, when almost the entire family that was rescued at the end of the first Ewoks special was killed.
they say that cleanliness is next to godliness, but when you look it up in the dictionary cleanliness falls between cleaning and cleanly.
I had an awkward dinner tonight with several co-workers with whom I do not share a sense of humor.
Three months ago I almost lost my thumb to "the most beautiful phrase in the English language". I'll tell you the story sometime over a beer.
My wife and I had sexual intercourse tonight!
With each other!
**Purr*
Don't make me hack up a hairball.
**Purr**
Sounds like a certain kitty ain't been petted recently...
OK, let me get this straight...
You posted on LW...
Then left to have, as you say, sexual intercourse with your wife...
After which you returned to the computer to post about it on LW?
Huh.
(Isn't the usual post-intercourse activity sleeping? Or, if she's really insistent, "cuddling"?)
Anyway: TMI!!!
I'm going to try to avoid sexual intercourse tonight ...
Too many thoughts of Dick "Dick" Cheney running through your head?
A Dick in the Bush is worth... two terms in the Oval Office?
(And the Repubs gave Slick Willie a hard time for being a perv...
)
Anywayyyyyyyy, different randomness but still gross...
Working in a hospital, I've found that most people can't spell "Diarrhea."
Originally posted by Stu Rat:
OK, let me get this straight...
You posted on LW...
Then left to have, as you say, sexual intercourse with your wife...
After which you returned to the computer to post about it on LW?
Huh.
(Isn't the usual post-intercourse activity sleeping? Or, if she's really insistent, "cuddling"?)
Anyway: [b]TMI!!![/b]
Hi, I'm Lardy--have we met?
[inspects Lardy's outstretched hand carefully, then politely declines to shake it]
Update: nothing going on so far tonight.
Addendum: Lardy likes the fit and feel of his wife's lingerie.
(Man, she's gonna be pissed at him for stretching
that out... it's her favorite teddy...
)
Originally posted by LardLad:
Update: nothing going on so far tonight.
Later:
fap fap fap
Originally posted by Stu Rat:
Originally posted by LardLad:
[b]Update: nothing going on so far tonight.
fap fap fap[/b]Still later:
openly weeps.
And later still:
<sitting naked in the shower, while whimpering, hugging his knees, and slowly rocking back and forth>
Anna Nicole Smith has been dead for 597 days.
Damn you, TrimSpa!
In the movie, "White Christmas," when a picture of Rosemary Clooney's brother is shown, the guy in the picture is Carl Switzer, formerly Alfalfa from "The Little Rascals".
In the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life," the kid who Mary ditches for George at the school dance is also Carl Switzer, formerly Alfalfa from "The Little Rascals".
In the Zapruder film, the lone gunman on the grassy knoll is also Carl Switzer, formerly Alfalfa from "The Little Rascals."
In Citizen Kane "Rosebud" turns out to be Carl Switzer, formerly Alfalfa from "The Little Rascals."
Mom and her husband went out tonight for their 24th Wedding Anniversary. I teased her about it being their best year yet...
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I watched Office Space for the first time recently, and finally realized where "Pieces of Flair" comes from!
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer was never a member of Jefferson Starship.
It took me probably longer than it should have to realize that "Starship" was evolved from "Jefferson Airplane."
I probably know more about Jefferson Airplane/Starship than anybody else really cares.
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is one of my favorite guilty-pleasure songs, and Mannequin is one of my favorite guilty-pleasure movies.
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" and "We Built This City" are actually very good pop songs--but longtime Airplane/Starship fans hate them because they feel the group sold out.
Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" and "We Built This City" are actually very good pop songs--but longtime Airplane/Starship fans hate them because they feel the group sold out.
Ya
think?!?!?!
And if this world runs out of lovers,
I'll still have this mannequin that magically comes to life.
I don't think. I know. (And yes, the rejoinder is, "I don't think you know, either. :rolleyes: )
Celebrate Bisexuality Day is observed on September 23 by members of the bisexual community and their supporters.
This day is a call for bisexual people and their families, friends and supporters to recognize and celebrate bisexuality, bisexual history, bisexual community and culture, and the bisexual people in their lives.
First observed in 1999, Celebrate Bisexuality Day is the brainchild of three United States bisexual rights activists — Wendy Curry of Maine, Michael Page of Florida, and Gigi Raven Wilbur of Texas.
Wilbur said, “ Ever since the Stonewall rebellion, the gay and lesbian community has grown in strength and visibility. The bisexual community also has grown in strength but in many ways we are still invisible. I too have been conditioned by society to automatically label a couple walking hand in hand as either straight or gay, depending upon the perceived gender of each person. ”
This celebration of bisexuality in particular, as opposed to general LGBT events, was conceived as a response to the prejudice and marginalization of the bisexual persons by some in both the straight and greater LGBT communities.
In its first year, an observance was held during the International Lesbian and Gay Association, which occurred during the week of the 23rd. While at first it only took hold in areas with an extremely strong bisexual presence, it now features event such as discussions, dinner parties and dances in Toronto and a large masquerade ball in Queensland, Australia. At Texas A&M University, the week featured discussion panels and question-and-answer sessions. Princeton University celebrates this day each year by throwing a party at its LGBT Center. It has also been celebrated in Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Lardy does a great parody of "Built This City":
I built big t!tties
I built these t!tties on Rocky Road! (
)
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
Celebrate Bisexuality Day is observed on September 23 by members of the bisexual community and their supporters.
Free bi-beer for everyone at SHAKES!
I would'a though Feb 22 to be a better day for bisexuality day. 2/22.
Originally posted by Stu Rat:
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
[b]Celebrate Bisexuality Day is observed on September 23 by members of the bisexual community and their supporters.
Yeah, Quis, Stu and I are celebrating!
Easy on the Rocky Road, there...
Rocky Road?
Lardy's favorite flavor is
Rode Rocky!
<pinches Stu's butt>
Rocky, ahluvyuman!
<pursues Pepe Le Pew-style>
80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions!
My entire county in NC is running out of gasoline.
Mexico is a pretty groovy place but by day #7 or so, I was ready to come back home. At heart, I'm just not the type that enjoys the weather/terrain of those types of countries (and areas of the US). I just like brief visits.
Did either of you get Montezuma's Revenge? :shuuder:
Originally posted by Pov:
Did either of you get Montezuma's Revenge? :shuuder:
What about MonteSTUma's Revenge?
Originally posted by Stu Rat:
Originally posted by Pov:
[b]Did either of you get Montezuma's Revenge? :shuuder:
I'd rather have the former, if I had to choose.
Originally posted by Pov:
Did either of you get Montezuma's Revenge? :shuuder:
I can't remember what that's from originally.
And I don't remember it seeming so kinky and erotic unless Pov says it.
I can't believe you used "kinky," "erotic," and "Pov" in the same sentence, without also having a "not" in there between the first two words and the third one.
I saw the filmed version of the final performance of "RENT" tonight ...
I went to choir rehearsal tonight even though I won't be in town on Sunday.
I got up early and made a rare morning appearance on LW.
The Verdeja was a series of light tanks developed in Spain between 1938 and 1954 in an attempt to replace German Panzer I and Soviet T-26 tanks in Spanish service. The program was headed by Captain Félix Verdeja Bardales and led to the development of four prototype vehicles, including a self-propelled howitzer armed with a 75 mm gun. It was designed as an advanced light tank and was one of the first development programs which took into account survivability of the crew as opposed to the protection of the tank. The tank was influenced by several of the light tanks which it was intended to replace, including the Panzer I and T-26, both of which were originally used during the Spanish Civil War.
Only 28 more posts before this thread hits 1000!
...mmmmm....Arby's....
When I was on a work trip a few years ago, I had Arby's for lunch for five days straight. The only nearby place to eat was a food court, and the only really palatable choice was Arby's. I must have tried everything on their menu...
When I eat Arby's Roast Beef, I get blisters in my mouth...so I don't eat it anymore.
Ringo Starr shouts, "I've got blisters on my fingers!" at the end of "Helter Skelter".
Pov told me that it's possible to get blisters on one's fingers from too much fapping.
Originally posted by Stu Rat:
Pov told me that it's possible to get blisters on one's fingers from too much fapping.
...other places, too...
Are you speaking from personal experience?
No, I've never witnessed Pov fapping (and will be quite happy to die having never done so!).
Lardy's dying! Oh, the humanity!
Didn't we go through this already?
Lardy's back from the dead! It's a miracle!
Or a clone. Or a robot. Or a shape-changing monster. Or a time-displaced self. Or a parallel-reality counterpart. Or...
I just found out I'm prolific poster number 100!
I'd like to thank all the lurkers who made it possible, and my Mom and Dad for making me possible (waves).
Originally posted by Stu Rat:
Or a clone. Or a robot. Or a shape-changing monster. Or a time-displaced self. Or a parallel-reality counterpart. Or...
...a CHAINSAW-TOTING MANIAC!!!!
<chases Stu, saw a'blazin'>
Electric chainsaws are for girls.
Originally posted by Arm Fall Off Boy:
I just found out I'm prolific poster number 100!
I'd like to thank all the lurkers who made it possible, and my Mom and Dad for making me possible (waves).
Congrats!
Can your Mom and Dad actually see you waving from here?
Originally posted by Fat Cramer:
Electric chainsaws are for girls.
It must be the residual effects of having been a smokin' hot lesbian a few weeks ago.
Smokin' is bad for you.
Ohhhhhhhhhh, that kind of smokin.....
Only 9 posts to 1000 for this thread! Come on, pals!
You don't wanna KNOW what I did for a Klondike Bar!
I think I got food poisoning from a theater potluck last night.
Signing off, to drive out to Amish country.
Biman Bangladesh Airlines is the National Flag Carrier of Bangladesh, with its main hub at Zia International Airport in Dhaka. It also operates flights from Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong and earns significant revenue from the connecting service to Osmani International Airport in Sylhet.
Years ago, farmers and/or gardeners from Wasilla, Alaska, appeared on the Tonight Show to show their giant heads of lettuce (the growing season is short, but extended daylight causes some crops to grow to immense proportions).
Carson commented that Wasilla backwards was "All I saw."
For a second there, I thought that was another topless photo of LardLad.
I'm preparing a frozen entree that requires microwaving it for 25-30 minutes. I've honestly never had anything in my microwave for more than 5-7 minutes or so. I'm slightly apprehensive that the thing'll explode or something...
1000!
Originally posted by Stu Rat:
For a second there, I thought that was another topless photo of LardLad. [/b]you weren't the only one.
Originally posted by Stu Rat:
1000! ya know, I rarely even notice those thread-counts.
For just a brief moment I thought...
Where did Cramer get that hitherto unposted topless photo of LardLad?...and then I saw the Naked Capitalism attribution.
the more I look at it, the more amused I am at the cat mirroring him underneath the chair in the shade.
The cat's in bad shape if that deck chair should collapse...
How about this poor little
chihuahua?!
I have a headache from people's cologne ...
Originally posted by Pov:
How about this poor little chihuahua?! Speaking of chihuahuas,
here is the clearest proof that the end times are near...
Maybe California should secede.
I have to admit, I chuckled a bit when the woman barked like a chihuahua into her cell phone.
[Two weeks later, Stu sneaks into a late night screening of the movie, wearing a disguise and looking around furtively.]
Originally posted by Stu Rat:
For a second there, I thought that was another topless photo of LardLad. [/b]Nah, I'm much, much sexier! If my sexy, sexy hobbit feet were visible in my famous pic, Legion World would collapse under the strain of the collective
spooge-gasm experienced by all bear-lovers worldwide beholding them!
The Illuminati are winning.
I totally forgot my niece's birthday.
Oops.
Originally posted by LardLad:
If my sexy, sexy hobbit feet were visible in my famous pic, Legion World would collapse under the strain of the collective spooge-gasm experienced by all bear-lovers worldwide beholding them!
Thank goodness they're not, huh?
I used to think that the chorus to "Been Caught Stealing" by Jane Addiction went:
"Hey, all right!
Pumpkin Pie!
It's all mine!
Mine, all mine!"
It still sounds that way to me.
New Order's "True Faith" was one of my favorite songs, until I saw the video relatively recently on YouTube... the video totally ruined the song for me.
I reluctantly bought the 2-disc DVD edition of Iron Man today. Reluctantly, because it cost me about $25 as opposed to $14 for the regular edition! Remeber when the Special Edition WAS the regular edition, and it would only cost you the $14 or $15 as a new release? I hate how they're gouging the people who want the damn extras!!!
I find that I end up not watching 75% of the "special features" on the multi-disk DVD movies that I buy.
I found out several years ago that as a child, I was an IDIOT.
I bought
this comic new, and the last I saw it years later it was in the bottom of a closet along with baseballs, and bats, and old shoes and who knows what else.
My shirt smells like baby.
You know about Rick-rolling?
I came up with a new variant: Lard-rolling!
It involves getting someone to click on a link to, or otherwise unwittingly view, the following image:
![[Linked Image]](http://www.legionworld.net/upload/00000030/baf8.jpg)
Fucker.
I said that already, didn't I.
Can you spot the subtle differences between these two almost identical images of Legion World's very own Lard Lad?
![[Linked Image]](http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l56/Goldenbow/LardLad-1.png)
![[Linked Image]](http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l56/Goldenbow/LardLad-2.png)
The bag of cheez-its is bigger.
That's the only difference I see.
Originally posted by Arm Fall Off Boy:
I found out several years ago that as a child, I was an IDIOT.
I bought this comic new, and the last I saw it years later it was in the bottom of a closet along with baseballs, and bats, and old shoes and who knows what else. Uh, I'm almost sure that's the issue I won at a local comic con. I think it's buried in a comic box somewhere.
I literally, for the first time ever, laughed out loud at a message board post (3 posts up from this one).
Hee hee!!!
Lardy, I think you should shave your facial hair and grow out your hair like this, just to keep Mrs. Lard on her toes!!
I love it! For some reason Ringo and Paul made me really laugh out loud!
Looky pretty groovy there Lardy!
There are currently only two posters on Legion World whose total post count is in the 8000s, myself and DrakeB3004. Only one poster is currently in the 9000s: Stu (or "STU" or "Werezompire Stu" or whatever he is this week :rolleyes: ).
Dude, I STILL can't get over the matching VEST!
How th' HEL did Ram Boy do that?
The only thing that would've made it even better was some
chest hair enhancement!
Originally posted by Werezompire Stu:
Hee hee!!!
Lardy, I think you should shave your facial hair and grow out your hair like this, just to keep Mrs. Lard on her toes!!
Actually, she kinda dug it!
Does that mean... tonight... maybe?
I ain't helpin' ya!
'Sides, ya done went and sayed yuh was gonna retarr a'ter 10,000! I ain't gunna be no kin ta that!
What does all that have to do with your possibly getting a little somethin'-somethin' from the Missus tonight on account of her kinda digging your new look from that picture?
I wish!
It is not quite matching. Your shorts are light blue with dark blue on it. The vest is dark blue with light blue on it.
So that's what become of Pete Best?
The Word of the Day for October 05, 2008 is:
cumshaw • \KUM-shaw\ • noun
: present, gratuity; also : bribe, payoff
Example Sentence:
"I never heard her ask for any cumshaw that weighed less than a ton and which required fewer than a dozen enlisted men and two trucks to move." (James A. Michener, Los Angeles Times, October 19, 1986)
Did you know?
It was probably British Navy personnel who first picked up "cumshaw" in Chinese ports, during the First Opium War of 1839–42. "Cumshaw" is from a word that means "grateful thanks" in the dialect of Xiamen, a port in southeast China. Apparently, sailors heard it from the beggars who hung around the ports, and mistook it as the word for a handout. Since then, U.S. sailors have given "cumshaw" its own unique application, for something obtained through unofficial means (whether deviously or simply ingeniously). Outside of naval circles, meanings of "cumshaw" range from a harmless gratuity or gift to bending the rules a little to outright bribery.
"Cumshaw" sounds vaguely dirty.
I bet I'd get slapped if I asked a lady on the street for some cumshaw.
Originally posted by Werezompire Stu:
"Cumshaw" sounds vaguely dirty.
Adj. 1. big-boned - having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh
Dude, I'm gonna have to manufacture some brown play-doh outta my Play-Doh Factory real soon!
Originally posted by LardLad:
Dude, I STILL can't get over the matching VEST! How th' HEL did Ram Boy do that?
Wow! That's a show stopper! Is that the Lard Lad of Earth-6, where it's always the Swinging Sixties?
I'm a compulsive eater ...
I once said to a Brazilian friend, "Isn't it funny that the middle part of 'life' is 'if'?"
He said, "Only in English."
I'm finally watching Heroes Season 2 via a DVD season. Watching them all in a row (at about 6 episodes at a clip), I'm reacting quite positively to Season 2. Many of the complaints I recall are kind of mitigated when there is no long wait between episodes (re: plots dragging along).
My niece, whose birthday I forgot, called me today, and since her mother forgot my birthday, I figure it's a draw.
I ended up getting free Broadway tickets for Thursday because a client can't make it to New York, and then one of our friends gave us free off-Broadway tickets (basically the same thing) for tonight because she had extra. So suddenly, I'm going to to shows in NYC tonight and tomorrow for free!
Neither show is one I would have gone to see on my own: Rock of Ages and Mama Mia, but what the hell, I'm always up for a trip to Broadway.
Hey, Cobie! My daughter left our binoculars in a cab on the way back from Wicked last month. If you see them, send them back to us.
Will do!
Originally posted by Arm Fall Off Boy:
I was born on a Tuesday.
Mom had four kids, all born on a Tuesday. My youngest sister had my niece Mackenzie on a Tuesday as well.
None of us are particularly graceful.
Doesn't it take a certain amount of grace to blow bubbles with one's butt?
October 22 was designated International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD) in 1998. The day is intended to raise the public awareness of the millions of people who have the speech disorder of stuttering, including over 3 million Americans.
ISAD is organised by four organizations:
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Special Interest Division #4, Fluency & Fluency Disorders
European League of Stuttering Associations
International Fluency Association
International Stuttering Association
ISAD has includes an online conference, targeted at people with an interest in stuttering, as well as speech-language pathologists and their clients.
Increasing awareness of stuttering can lead to early intervention, so that young children can receive treatment to achieve a level of speech that doesn't require conscious management.
In 2007, Central Michigan University expanded the day into Stuttering Awareness Week, which extended for a week after 22 October.
Although many locales do not have support groups, there are resources for stutterers online and cooperative education groups that work with schools.
Buh-buh-buh BAY-by, you ain't seen nuh-nuh-nuh-nothing yet!
I expected a Porky Pig comment from you.
I almost bought a Neti Pot
LOL throught this whole page!
My fourth grand-daughter by my youngest son is due in January!
Gads.
Madelyn, Kindra, Jenna and possibly, Ella ~ that's just their first names, of course.
Their mom, Michelle, is Catholic so they all have three names plus their last names ~ Ames.
I just remember the first ones.
And Ames.
My oldest son has a boy and a girl ~ Courtney and Austin.
That'd be Ames, too.
My last name is Ames-Svitak now.
Well, really Crosby-Ames-Svitak.
I think I've found my home thread!
LOL
My niece is pregnant with her 7th child.
I haven't made a random post here since I posted about choir rehearsal 'way back on page 65!
Today in 1958 – In his comic series Johan and Peewit in the weekly magazine Spirou, Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced a new set of small sky blue characters known as The Smurfs.
They started a new page with my reply so my first sentence doesn't make much sense!
Pomagranits (I wish I could spell) are a strange and expensive ($3.50 ea) fruit.
Work intensive and mild tasting with a large seed in each small module.
I had a handful in my oatmeal today.
Not bad but raisins are better and cheaper.
Today is Retrocession Day in Taiwan.
Retrocession Day (光復節) is an annual observance in Taiwan to commemorate the end of 50 years of Japanese colonial rule on October 25, 1945.
Chen Yi (right) accepting the surrender of General Rikichi Andō (left), the last Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan, in Taipei City Hall.
Celebrating Taiwan's retrocession following Japan's defeat in WW2.Taiwan, then more commonly known as Formosa, became a colony of the Empire of Japan when Qing China lost the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894 and ceded the island with the signing of the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki. Taiwan under Japanese rule lasted till the end of World War II.
When the Japanese surrendered at the end of World War II, General Rikichi Andō (安藤 利吉), governor-general of Taiwan and commander-in-chief of all Japanese forces on the island, signed an instrument of surrender and handed it over to General Chen Yi (陳儀) of the Kuomintang military to complete the official turnover in Taipei on October 25, 1945. Chen Yi proclaimed that day to be "Retrocession Day of Taiwan". Taiwan has been governed by the Republic of China since.
Retrocession Day is currently not an official public holiday in the Republic of China, yet popular memorial activities are held and families hang the national flag every year on this day. The Democratic Progressive Party, which rejects the idea of Taiwan being taken back by China, had downplayed the event during their two recent terms of Republic of China rule
Originally posted by Stealth:
I'm back.
That's not random... that's AWESOME!
Today is the 72nd birthday of former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman.
Tomorrow will be the 64th birthday of Yes vocalist Jon Anderson.
My cousin's wife (I guess that makes her my cousin-in-law) is pregnant with her second child. Unfortunately, she's alergic to the pregnancy hormone and has been sick every day since mid September.
Welcome! Everyone clap for Stealth's return- but in a completely random manner! CLAP!
CLAP CLAP!
clap
<marquee behavior=alternate>CLAP clap</marquee>
clap clap clap
clap
My late maternal grandparents were married on this date in 1920. According to the marriage certificate, it was by a Baptist minister on "the side of the road."
I got yelled at by an autistic kid's mom today ...
A few people know that Gil Kane "cast" the late Paul Newman as Hal Jordan. Fewer people know that Kane "cast" Robert Taylor as Ray Palmer.
And thank you, Pov and Arm Fall Off Boy.
Last night several of my staff at the library and I went to a karaoke bar. We had a large time.
I once spent $900 on an ER bill after trying to fix a garage door opener myself.
Cost of Lowe's repair bill after I had to call them anyway?
$150.
Live and learn.
something completely random
In all the hubbub, we completely missed Dan DiDio's birthday on October 24th. Reeaaally hate that.
Next year he'll be 50. Maybe somebody will cancel him.
I'm trying to maintain my enthusiasm for being online in general, but lately have been unable to find it.
I really REALLY want some dumplings
There are a couple of Quislet, Esq. stories on this thread
It's finally cold enough in South Florida to turn off the AC and open the windows.
My current comic-related hobby is to look at covers of war comics, specifically during the 1950's. There is really some amazing stuff, and you can see how DC really was the shining beacon of that genre.
I've begun talking comics with a couple of guys, getting them interested in reading them. One of them is even cute.
I have two Ex Machina trades that I have not read.
A friend from Chrysler asked me to help him sort out the financial implications of various Chrysler/GM bankruptcy/merger scenarios.
I was at the grocery store at 3:15 this morning to get food for my 75 year old neighbor.
Oh and apparently I have a 25-year-old son.
generic Cheerios don't taste as good as the real thing ...
Originally posted by Arm Fall Off Boy:
Welcome! Everyone clap for Stealth's return- but in a completely random manner! CLAP!
[b]CLAP CLAP!
clap
<marquee behavior=alternate>CLAP clap</marquee>
clap clap clap
clap [/b]
Wow!
I'm so impressed with this great display I had to give it an encore!
Originally posted by Lad Boy:
Oh and apparently I have a 25-year-old son.
Not knowing how to respond...
A) Congratulations! Have you decided on a name yet?
B) Gee, that was a really, really long labor.
C) Does he have any kids? Because that would make you a...uhm...
D) If his name is Prince Abdabu Prettaporte don't believe him - It's a scam!
E)
I hope everything works out for the best, Lad Boy.<<<
On the bright side: no child support payments.
My mom told me that my dad voted for the gay marriage ban in Florida. After my mother pointed out why she did not vote for the ban (that is, me), my dad replied, "Oh, that's different. He's my son."
I've decided that my father's own unique brand of logic cannot be explained.
(that reminds me of an Archie Bunker bit, Rocky)
We had a little bit of snow today/last night, mixed in with the rain. It's mostly gone now, but a few flurries waft through the air now and then.
Originally posted by Lad Boy:
I have two Ex Machina trades that I have not read.
A friend from Chrysler asked me to help him sort out the financial implications of various Chrysler/GM bankruptcy/merger scenarios.
I was at the grocery store at 3:15 this morning to get food for my 75 year old neighbor.
Oh and apparently I have a 25-year-old son.
Is this gripping, bragging or just interesting facts?
The last 2 especially, are amazing!
The first because you're so nice, the other because you're so clueless!
Just amazing!
Oh, and the part of rope that you're actually using to tie a knot is called the 'working end'.
1268 – Conradin, the last Duke of Swabia, was beheaded in Naples after failing to reclaim Sicily for the House of Hohenstaufen from Charles of Anjou.
He will be avenged!!!!!
I'm up past my bedtime. Again.
1863 – Seventeen-year old Danish Prince Vilhelm arrived in Athens to become George I, King of Greece.
My real name is Candace, which means 'candlelight' in Greek.
Queen Candace is mentioned in Acts, which is in the New Testament.
I have no Greek ancestry that I know of, thouigh.
They didn't colonize Scotland, Ireland or France, did they?
Which reminds me, the middle schools in my area have decided to teach students a smattering of Greek and Latin root words this year.
Sixth grade is currntly learning (Latin) bi, duo, uni, mono, sub, re, semi and trans.
Romanian is one of the Romance languages ~ which I didn't know.
I've been the princess dinner at EPCOT center in Disney World ...
My dentist wanted to hand out toothbrushes for Hallowe'en, but her husband refused to answer the door if she did, so she bought caramels.
Originally posted by SharkLad:
I've been the princess dinner at EPCOT center in Disney World ...
In kiddy math, benchmarks are standards that you use for comparing numbers.
Originally posted by SharkLad:
I've been the princess dinner at EPCOT center in Disney World ...
So which princess were you?
no, I've been the princess dinner ... Cinderella ate me ...
Today is World Vegan Day.
World Vegan Day is a vegan holiday celebrated since 1994 on November 1 - the anniversary of the creation of The Vegan Society.
The 2004 event marked the 60th birthday of the society, and the 10th anniversary of the holiday. The 2005 event had as its theme 'TYPICAL VEGAN' to celebrate diversity and to show the world that there is no such person as a typical vegan. World Vegan Day is celebrated by vegans around the world.
I took some pictures of the fall colors today.
1852 – Count Cavour (what a great name) became prime minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expanded to become the Kingdom of Italy.
My son just bought Guitar Hero World Tour (i.e. 4). It has Eye of the Tiger, Ramblin' Man, Purple Haze, Beat it, and a live version of...
wait for it...
<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">On The Road Again by Willie Nelson</span></span>
I like the smell of the dead leaves on the ground.
I once killed a rabbit with my BB gun. My mom saw and made me bury it.
Here are your random numbers:
22
62
98
25
56
2
95
12
38
26
Timestamp: 2008-11-09 09:25:35 UTC
I use a safety pin as a tie tack
Mammoth cheddar is not made from mammoth milk.
1675 – German polymath Gottfried Leibniz employed integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the function y = x.
I hate spiders, and a small one just crawled across my arm. He's dead now.
1889 – Nellie Bly, reporter for the New York World, departed on her successful attempt to travel Around the World in Eighty Days, eventually completing her journey in only seventy-two days.
Arm Fall Off Boy, how do you feel about Spider-Man?
I was once in the men's room of a gay bar that had three stalls, all of which were being used (one by me). A man walked in and said, "Oh, full house!" From my post I quipped "No, just four queens!"
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
Arm Fall Off Boy, how do you feel about Spider-Man?
Depends on whether or not he crawls across my arm!
It's just the fact that you never know where they are going to be-sneaky little devils.
I miss Loser Lad. But I did get to talk to him through email recently and he's doing well. I wish he'd post on LW more though!
^^^Yeah, that.
You know... coming up with explanations of why historical events happened so the Legion Worlders could seduce famous people is a lot harder than it seems like it should be.
Originally posted by Arm Fall Off Boy:
I once killed a rabbit with my BB gun. My mom saw and made me bury it.
The rabbit or the gun?
Stephen Hawkings (or Hawkins) appeared on Star Trek NG, once.
He played a hologram of himself playing poker with Data, Einstein and Newton, I think.
Einstein and Newton didn't play themselves.
Of course.
I read Stephen Hawkin's "The History of Time" when I was 14. I thought it was really awesome, but I'm certain I hardly understood most the concepts fully. I still have my friends copy actually...I should reread it.
Originally posted by Candle:
The rabbit or the gun?
The rabbit. I did feel sorry for it and I never killed another animal. My Dad's a hunter and I just never had the gene I guess.
I once ran into John Shea (Lex Luthor on Lois & Clark) at a Manhattan pub years ago.
The last poem at the bad poetry reading tonight was entitled "I Whooped the Mighty Thor's Ass" by Wesley Willis.
Mighty Thor thought he was bad
He was busy harassing my girlfriend
He was making fun of her
He called her a stupid bitch
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
Mighty Thor tried to hit my girlfriend
He tried to hit her with a baseball bat
Suddenly I took a rubber hose to him
I flogged this rubber and beat the hell out of him
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
Mighty Thor got mad at me and knocked me to the floor
I got back up and knocked Mighty Thor to the floor
Suddenly, I told Mighty Thor to get his simple ass up
I told him to get out of my face before I bust his head
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
I whooped Mighty Thor's ass
Rock over London
Rock on Chicago
Quill, It's some of the best.
That person obviously attended Tarik the Mute's poetry seminars, which we used to hold here on Legion World.
There are 604 registered users on this site who have 0 posts. Can you say lurkers?
Never wear a red shirt to Target.
See, you could have asked for a tip. Then, when they complained to the manager, you could say, "I don't work here!"
I worked at a grocery store many moons ago. For years afterward, I would habitually straighten displays while shopping with my wife. I frequently heard her hiss "STOP IT!"
Lady Cobalt and I might be getting a puppy in the next two weeks. If so, I'll be posting more about it. (Lady Cobalt initiated it)
I'm a big fan of Amy Grant
I'm secretly in love with Q, Esq. because of his last post in this thread. Shhhhh... Nobody must know of this.
The National Forensic Academy first started out as the National Forensics Academy. Because of the "s", people often confused it's purpose of crime scene investigation study for a focus on speech and debate.
It's a school exclusive to members of the law enforcement agencies. They have a program of applied science, teaching a nationally recognized method of detailing crime scenes.
I've managed to get a copy of their course program. It's interesting. And I'm a little concerned.
Its raining in Connecticut.
It's friggin' freezin' in NY ...
The Sark general election, 2008, held on 10 December 2008, was the first election held in the Channel Island of Sark under a new constitutional arrangement. Sark is thereby the last European territory to abolish feudalism in 2008.
It's amazing how a puppy just makes your life better.
Does reading anime slash fiction make me hentai, or is that only if I start WRITING the stuff?
Only 10 days til Christmas.
Every time I see this thread title, I have a desire to sing it to the tune of Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me."
Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
Every time I see this thread title, I have a desire to sing it to the tune of Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me."
I don't know if it's
completely random as, indeed, I am quoting the poster above me... but:
As a teen, I lost my... umm... innocence... while that song played (and have laughed at that fact ever since).
I think I'm getting a cold ...
[notrandom]
Hey, Ex, At least it didn't happen while "The Jeffersons" was on. *
(A free cookie to the first comic book geek who recognizes this reference. Hint: It's not the Legion, unless I
really haven't been paying attention.)
[/notrandom]
I just listened to the new cd from
The Tiptons . Damn good stuff. (Picked it up at their wonderful show late last week, on a double bill with the also-excellent
Blue Cranes .)
Mmmmm... brass + drums = Wintry bliss.
I KNOW I'm getting a cold. It was a present from my son.
On Monday I caught something that ended up saving my client $6,000,000--no kidding. I'm riding high this week with praise and stuff. Kinda nice!
Perhaps Barack Obama ought to be giving you a call, Cobie.
Congrats!
My hometown area remains in shambles since the ce storm several days ago. we're relatively unscathed up here, and most of the snow (from the same storm system) has melted.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
On Monday I caught something that ended up saving my client $6,000,000--no kidding. I'm riding high this week with praise and stuff. Kinda nice!
hope he/she is appreciative and generous.
If Beethoven were alive today, he would be 238 years old. Happy Birthday, Ludwig!
Today is George Lindsey's birthday. He's 73. Maybe you know him better as "Goober" from "The Andy Griffith Show."
This may in fact be the only instance where Beethoven and George Lindsey are ever mentioned together.
The word 'plonk' makes me laugh.
Plonk!
Trader Joe's plonk has saved my life on more than one occasion during this festive yet depleted time of year.
Doubtless it will at least a few more times before '09.
[hic !]
Tonight I woke up for the first time in several days after a good night sleep. The puppy isn't crying all night! Yay! Only a few times each night but my calming voice telling him "its okay I'm here" seems to help. Luckily I perfected that voice on female freshmen at UCONN
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
[b]On Monday I caught something that ended up saving my client $6,000,000--no kidding. I'm riding high this week with praise and stuff. Kinda nice!
I'm still waiting to see if I get *something*
. Really, even a quick grand would surely keep me happy
I love the power of delegating, I just wish I was better at it.
My mom and I have hazel eyes. My dad, all my sisters and all their kids have brown eyes. My mom and I often complain about those brown-eyed people to each other.
Originally posted by Arm Fall Off Boy:
I love the power of delegating, I just wish I was better at it.
Have someone else do it for you.
As a kid, I was freaked out by "Punchy" in those soft drink ads.
I still have shopping to do.
I still have to begin shopping.
On December 26th, I will be an acting Director at my company... only because no one else in my chain of command is working.
What will you be directing,
"Much Ado about Exnihil?"
For the next two weeks, I am the amazing house husband...Antacid Lass is working over xmas but I am on break from school.
I think I would give up the power of teleportation to have an immunity to ice cream headaches.
Thought I had strep today but I didn't. Still hasn't been a good week though.
My ten digit phone number does not occur in sequence in the first 200,000,000 digits of pi, but if you drop the area code, it occurs twice.
I have no nails, and never have, in my pinky toes.
Bought Green Lantern (latest version) #1, SG/LSH #16 and #27, priced at a total of $13.25 for $5.00. A REALLY good sale.
Dude, I'm literally getting cold feet! I need to put some socks and slippers back on!
...damn random-ass temperature changes....
I'm going to be an uncle . . . again. My brother-in -law and his wife dropped off Nephew Lad with us this morning as they were on the way to the hospital for the birth of their second child.
It was casual week at work last week so I didn't shave for a couple days... was lazy on the weekend... and by the time yesterday rolled around I realized I had inadvertently grown a beard. I think I'll keep it for a while.
I think you can pull off the beard. Just don't go with the Unabomber style.
Originally posted by Lad Boy:
I'm going to be an uncle . . . again. My brother-in -law and his wife dropped off Nephew Lad with us this morning as they were on the way to the hospital for the birth of their second child.
Congrats. Do you know if it is Niece Lass or Nephew Boy?
I couldn't inadvertently grow a full beard in 6 months time. The goatee was hard enough.
I prefer Church Latin pronunciation (VEH-nee VEE-dee VEE-chee) to Classical Latin (WEH-nee WEE-dee WEE-kee).
Today in 1521 – Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, excommunicating Martin Luther from the Roman Catholic Church after Luther refused to retract 41 of his 95 theses.
I'm allergic to penicillin.
My appendix almost ruptured. When they removed it, it was 8.5 inches long. They are only supposed to be about 2.5 inches long. I had been having trouble with it for almost 15 years and didn't know that it was the problem. The doctor told me that it was less than 20 minutes from rupturing and that as large as it was, i would have been dead within 15 minutes.
My Justice League PJ pants my kids got me for Christmas features numerous individual comic-like panels of Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Green Lantern (Hal) and the Flash (probably Barry) in action poses interspersed with panels featuring their respective symbols. The Batman figure and symbol feature the classic yellow circle around the bat. There is no panel for an Aquaman symbol.
I had three front teeth instead of two as a kid.
I have laryngitis; 5 days and counting. I sound like Donald Duck with a head cold.
I'm disputing two items on eBay ...
Twelfth Night or Epiphany Eve is a festival in some branches of Christianity marking the coming of the Epiphany, concluding the Twelve Days of Christmas, and is defined by the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking".
The celebration of Epiphany, the adoration of the Magi, is marked in some cultures by the exchange of gifts, and Twelfth Night, as the eve or vigil of Epiphany, takes on a similar significance to Christmas Eve.
A more recent tradition in some English-speaking countries holds that it is unlucky to leave Christmas decorations hanging after Twelfth Night, a belief originally attached to the festival of Candlemas (2 February).
There's a little bendy snowman that one of my employees put on one of the computers on the reference desk at Christmastime. It has a green hat, green gloves and green boots. It looks more than a little like the Spectre!
i somehow took almost a year off posting?
jan 31 2008 to dec 10 2008.
Watched the animated LOSH on Youtube today.
* O Rh-positive: 38%
* O Rh-negative: 7%
* A Rh-positive: 34%
* A Rh-negative: 6%
* B Rh-positive: 9%
* B Rh-negative: 2%
* AB Rh-positive: 3%
* AB Rh-negative: 1%
Blood type frequency percentages swiped from the American Red Cross, which doesn't specify if this breakdown is national or worldwide. I'm gonna' guess national.
FedEx ripped me off. They charged $54 instead of $11.
Who drew that?
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
Cat penises are barbed
PS:
Originally posted by LardLad:
Who drew that? Phil Moy
I am inordinately amused every time I play Hayseed Dixie's renditions of AC/DC songs. I can't help it. I just am.
I only just now realized there is no "cent" symbol on my keyboard. Has that always been the case? I could have sworn there was one.
I don't think most keyboards have the cent sign. I rarely see the sign in use anymore, except in menu signs.
But you can probably still find it if your computer has a character map.
Since "The Long, Long Trailer" is on Turner Classic Movies right now, I have the song "Everything Right Is Wrong Again" by They Might Be Giants stuck in my head. I love that first TMBG album best of anything they ever did really.
My puppy is getting spayed on Monday.
Two weeks of Unemployment left. Let the grovelling for the extension begin !!
[beats self in head with nearby folding chair]
Originally posted by cleome:
Two weeks of Unemployment left. Let the grovelling for the extension begin !!
[beats self in head with nearby folding chair]
Ugh, good luck. I have 13 left so that's lucky, sort of.
I've needed to sneeze all day, and haven't, and I felt one coming on, a really big one, and I tried to hold it for just a split second as I rotated my chair to get a tissue, and then the sneeze got stifled. ARRGGHHH!
Ahhhhhhh...finally sneezed. Only took 8 hours.
I need to buy my six-year-old boy a birthday present by Saturday but haven't decided what to get him yet.
I love strawberry shortcake. The actual cake, not the little girls' toy.
"Woody Woodpecker" is a name that makes me chuckle.
Vincent Gardenia who played neighbor Frank Lorenzo in All in the Family also played neighbor Jim Bowman who sold his house to the Jeffersons.
He also played, in the series, swinger Curtis Rempley. His wife, was played by Rue McClanahan, who also played the neighbor of Edith's cousin Maude in the spin-off series "Maude".
Thankful Lardlad didn't name his boy "Woody Woodpecker."
The print hanging on the wall over my computer tells me that the 3 ships of the Cunard Line were the "Mauretania," the "Berengaria," and the "Aquitania".
I own nine copies of
this proto-psychedelic evil .
(Don't let anyone dupe you with that "rare" b.s.)
Superman and Batman both had mothers named Martha.
My Dad goes by his middle name, Wade. My father-in-law goes by his middle name, Wade. When my mother-in-law was pregnant with my wife, they were expecting a boy, which was to be named David Wade. My name...is David Wade.
Desperate Housewives made me teary eyed last week ...
Dan DiDio's last name means "Of God" in Italian.
Funny, I woulda thought it meant full of...
Never mind.
Interestingly, "Dan" is Hebrew for "Arbiter," which, according to one definition is "Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited."
Hmm.
My cats discovered how to open doors last night
Banksia ericifolia is a species of woody shrub of the Proteaceae family native to Australia; it occurs in two separate regions of Central and Northern New South Wales east of the Great Dividing Range. Well known for its orange or red autumn inflorescences, which contrast with its green fine-leaved heath-like foliage, it is generally encountered as a medium to large shrub that can reach 6 m (20 ft) high and wide, though is usually half that size. In exposed heathlands and coastal areas it is more often 1–2 m (3–7 ft). Banksia ericifolia was one of the original Banksia species collected by Joseph Banks around Botany Bay in 1770 and was named by Carl Linnaeus the Younger, son of Carolus Linnaeus, in 1782. Banksia ericifolia has been widely grown in Australian gardens on the east coast for many years as well as being used to a limited extent in the cut flower industry. Compact dwarf cultivars such as Banksia 'Little Eric' have become more popular in recent years with the trend toward smaller gardens.
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Huey "Piano" Smith is the co-author of "The Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu."
He was born today in New Orleans, 1934.
The "Spanish Flu" of 1918, which killed at least 50 million people world-wide, originated in Kansas, not Spain.
This guy (scroll down after link) was arrested for selling psychadelic drugs a county over from me. Who woulda thunk it?
When I was a kid, it really bothered me that there was a Christmas episode of The Flinstones.
My aunt told me today that she has a thousand Matchbox cars.
In Commonwealth Bay, along the coast of Antarctica, winds sometimes reach speeds of 200 miles per hour. This is the windiest spot on earth!
We have to go back, Kate! We have to go baaaaaaack!!!
im reading a story that took 38 chapters for two people to travel a week way
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye
I strongly feel that Popeye's nephew's parents should be executed.
Today, January 30th in 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, connecting the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales, one of the world's first modern suspension bridges, opened.
There's a local indy record store in town offering 25% off purchases this week, if you'll show up in a bathing suit and cowboy boots and sing something made famous by Johnny Cash.
15% off if you'll show up and sing something from
The Sound of Music or
West Side Story, no costuming required.
I'm not making this up.
I'm very glad to see Ram Boy posting here again.
I have to fix my toilet today ...
Someone on a local affairs list-serve noted that the term "cocktail" for mixed alcoholic beverages originated in my hometown. A few web searches confirm that (at a minimum) the first known appearance of the term in print did originate there.
This afternoon, I saw a couple of robins drinking rainwater that had pooled on top of the compost bin. Followed a few minutes later by about fifty starlings.
I ran into my U.S. Congressman in Wal-Mart yesterday.
This is the 200,000th post on the MMB! Wooo-hoo!
Naturaleza Muerta Resucitado aka
"Natural Death Resuscitated," by Remedios Varo (1908-1963).
(Hat tip to
this page for the translation, et al.)
i squeeled (in delight) during the latest episode of bsg!
Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper; it is also the 200th anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn.
Regardless of what the majority of returned Google search results on my real name might tell you, I'm not a composer and I never played in a Piano Trio.
A few days ago while trying to contact a friend, I discovered that the phone number PEnnsylvannia 6-5000 (73 = PE) is still in service!
The Pennsylvania Hotel in Manhattan where Glenn Miller so often played still uses the same phone number 70 years later, and the phone system greets you with the classic tune.
The phone number (201)
867-5309 is up for auction on ebay. Bids are currently over $400,000.
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Originally posted by Arm Fall Off Boy:
The phone number (201) 867-5309 is up for auction on ebay. Bids are currently over $400,000.i saw a kid in china with those numbers plastered on a trucker hat. i suspect he had nooo idea what it meant. but i cracked up. was completely random.
ASME code states that a pressure vessel must be equiped with a low-water fuel cutoff that serves no other purpose
My puppy is sound asleep.
Our music is mentally hip-hop, smoothed out on the R&B tip with a pop appeal to it.
Who said that, Lardy? The members of the Black Eyed Cheese?
Nah, it was a scroll at the bottom of Bell-Biv-Davoe's "Poison" video that I've memorized ever since...probably because that video was shown ad nauseum.
Video killed the radio star, video killed the radio star
Case With Five Balusters by Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)
Bruce Wayne's Batpole was
bigger than Dick Grayson's.
No! The things they slid down to get to the Bat Cave! Get your minds out of the gutter! For SHAME!
Wonder Woman is a lame, poorly conceived character way past her sell-by date, and no writer can make her work.
The first superhero comic I recall reading involved Wonder Woman running through a gauntlet made up of giant teeth that exploded.
No wonder the "Just Say No" campaign a decade later didn't make any objective sense to me.
Just Say No 2009: Just Say No to comics written by Mark Millar.
Commercials for food need to be outlawed, as they are cruel and unusual punishment for those of us who are dieting.
Red Lobster, I'm am coming for you, and your all you can eat shrimp and scallop buffet!
It cost $4 for a Snapple at NYCCC ...
<splash>
I've been a Legion Worlder (LMBer?) for a year!
(slow fade in of Foreigner's "Feels Like the First Time")
My 5th granddaughter was born this January 17th.
She is Bryblee Ella Ann.
My youngest son, her father, thinks she has his feet.
Originally posted by Candle:
My 5th granddaughter was born this January 17th.
She is Bryblee Ella Ann.
My youngest son, her father, thinks she has his feet.
How does he walk now? Ba-dum-dah!
Congratulations!
I'm listening to
"The Originals" right now.
That's BryNlee or Brynlee.
sigh
Thanks, Q,E!
Congrats, Shady!
(FIVE geecees?!?! You're too young!!!
)
And 1 grandson!
I WISH I was too young!
Thanks for the thought, Lardy!
yah
The research company, Montesori (sp as always) has patents on 11,000 living organisms.
They own the basic bioenginered cells of almost all of the food crops and animals on the planet.
If they don't, they own the rights to any cross pollenated or wind carried plants on ALL farms.
If the farmers try to fight, the patent laws and judges ALWAYS inforce the patents.
When the farmers go bankrupt, Montesori buys the land.
sigh
The Boston Latin School is a public exam school founded on April 23, 1635, in Boston, Massachusetts, making it the oldest existing school in the United States. The Public Latin School was a bastion for educating the sons of the Boston elite, resulting in the school claiming many prominent Bostonians as alumni. Its curriculum follows that of the 18th century Latin-school movement, which holds the classics to be the basis of an educated mind. Four years of Latin are mandatory for all pupils who enter the school in 7th grade, three years for those who enter in 9th.
The school's first class was in single figures, but it now has 2,400 pupils drawn from all parts of Boston. It has produced four Harvard presidents, four Massachusetts governors, and five signers of the United States Declaration of Independence. William Lloyd Garrison, Benjamin Franklin, and Louis Farrakhan are its most famous dropouts.
Latin School admitted only male students and hired only male teachers teachers from its founding in 1635. The school's first female student was not until the nineteenth century. Helen Magill White was the school's first female graduate and first American woman to earn a Doctorate. However, soon after White's graduation in 1877, Girls' Latin School was founded. For nearly a century, all qualified female students would attend the all-girls institution. It was not until 1972, when Boston Latin would admit its first co-educational class.
(info courtesy of Wikipedia)
Boston Latin
coming this fall on the GBS television network!
I am surrounded by Neopets, action figures and Living Dead Dolls
Almost all calico cats are female. Only about 1 in 3,000 is male, and there's a good chance it will be sterile.
There's an herb that takes the flatulence making capabilities out of beans.
The science teacher at school is going to get me some of it.
Boy, will that help around MY house!
My Chinese zodiac sign is the Horse.
The beverage Caribou, also called jus de Caribou, is a traditional Quebec winter treat, a warm alcoholic drink consisting of
wine (sometimes port), brandy (or whiskey), and sometimes maple syrup (the real stuff).
C'est tres magnifique!
you're married now. you shouldn't have been trying!
Anti-Oscars party at my buddy's place later today ! Heavy drinking and waxing rhapsodic about the glories of Battlefield Earth and Heaven's Gate will absolutely be encouraged !
Feeling 'ennuik' today.
sigh
The Oscars were better this year than they've been in the last ten years. (Usually they suck)
This is the only time of year I pay attention to college basketball-when the tournament season is ready to begin.
Asparagus makes your pee smell funny ...
Pudding has to have sugar and fats in order to be edible.
On the mountainside above Fort William, Scotland, are several huge pipes that protrude out from the mountain and lead into town; these are aqueducts that conduct water from reservoirs further up in the mountains.
The owner of the youth hostel I stayed at years ago (in a village not far away, and still within sight of the mountain and pipes) told me how he had told some Australian girls that the pipes actually contain hot porridge that directly connected to taps in each house; all residents could have hot porridge at any time with the turn of the tap.
The poor girls apparently made complete fools of themselves in town the next day asking about the porridge.
Not a pudding story, but as close as I could manage on short notice.
Tonight's fixation on pudding could not have happened without the surreally dysfunctional relationship between British pop star Lily Allen and her mother, film producer Alison Owen, who got into an argument in which Alison insisted on making pudding, her unflappable stubborness nearly driving Lily to tears.
For this, Legion World thanks you, Lily and Alison.
Right now, I'm eating chocolate pudding-flavored Skittles. Yum!
My Hello Kitty calendar's drawing for March is especially cute.
My WWF calendar's photo for March is two boobies, also cute.
Awwww. The blue-footed boobies from Galapagos? They ARE cute.
(OF COURSE I KNOW WHAT HE REALLY MEANS!! I'm just trying to drag this thread back out of the gutter.)
I tried ice skating once. My shins were sore for 3 days.
Today is trash day. We are cheapskates that only pay to have the trash removed once a month. In a family of only two humans + a compost bin + recycle-mania, this works better than you might imagine...
Trash day in my house is whenever I wear too short a pair of cutoffs and no shirt.
This is my 1,958th post, which is apparently Leader level.
<span style="font-size: 32px;">KNEEL BEFORE AFOB!</span>
![[Linked Image]](http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f88/lunchers42/zod-4-prez.jpg)
Ok, not really.
[prostrates self before Zod. Force of habit, don't you know... I've voted Zod every year since 2000.]
Sometimes you write the challenge fic. Sometimes the challenge fic writes YOU.
(If Sarcasm Kid were here, he'd know exactly what I was talking about. Harrumph.)
I never realized how much AFOB looks like Terrance Stamp.
Daylight Savings is on Saturday. Doesn't that feel early in the year to anyone?
Today is the birthday of Yuri Lowenthal, voice of Superman on the late, great LSH cartoon. He turns 38. Happy Birthday to someone who will never visit this board!
I use a lot of post-its at work. Usually it takes me about 2 days before looking at a post-it annoys the hell out of me and I have to complete the task and throw it away or figure out somewhere else to put it.
Originally posted by Arm Fall Off Boy:
Today is the birthday of Yuri Lowenthal, voice of Superman on the late, great LSH cartoon. He turns 38. Happy Birthday to someone who will never visit this board!
Not if he plans on continuing to deliver his lines with a straight face, anyway.
Anywayyy...
Here's the video for the most awesome song in the English language that's
not by Those Darn Accordions. Yes, it's
Robot Cat by Logan Whitehurst & the Junior Scientist Project (RIP).
SFW unless humor is banned in your workplace. You're welcome.
I just checked my email for the first time in 3 days. Actually got a reply to my email to Dan DiDio about "why is Lo3W so spread out if it was supposed to coincide with Final Crisis, what are you doing to us fans," lots of question and exclamation marks.
Got an apology for taking so long to respond (2 months and a fairly innocuous 'the direction for the Legion will be whole lot clearer once Lo3W concludes.'
YOUHEAR THAT PEOPLE? IT'S GOING TO CONCLUDE! AND I MAY BE ALIVE TO SEE IT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The Legion may be clearer at the end of 3worlds, but they'll just confuse everything again with the 'Faces of Evil' and 'Origins & Omens' books!
sigh
The kids I work with in 6th grade are learning the same thing about shapes that my oldest son is now learning in his first year at college.
Maybe a little more in depth, maybe not.
The world is so strange.
I decided I am not qualified enough yet to apply for a job at work that would be a promotion. I would be setting my self up for failure, I am sure.
Experience is good.
Also informative.
Then, there's networking.
You might get surprised, AFOB.
How does one fall asleep while singing during worship service? Repeatedly? Through prayer AND Bible study?
gads
I'm having a guys night out tonight in my hometown Hamden / New Haven (neighboring city) with my brother and a couple of really great friends. Should be a wild time...
My Spring break begins on Thursday!
Woodcut self-portrait -- Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945).
I'm the anti-cleome; I hate coffee.
I'm not nearly as strict as I should be with my little puppy. My wife is though. But I kind of like when the little guy gets into trouble. I know thats so bad too! But he's really great with people and other dogs, and he's a whopping 9 pounds, so all he does is just bite stuff.
Humans have 7 cervical (neck) vertebrae. So do giraffes, they're just a wee bit larger.
Boutique Chocolate--
OF SPACE !! (You'd totally buy this if it had an "L" in the middle. Don't try and kid a kidder.)
Such an incredibly gifted artist!
Damn Hitler and his death camps.
sigh
The artists who recorded the horrors of that era were such heroes/heroines.
Kollwitz lost a son in WWI and a grandson in WWII. Though not Jewish, she was still branded a "degenerate artist" by Hitler near the end of her life. An affluent patron offered to buy her way out of Germany, IIRC from reading her bio, but she wouldn't go;Was afraid of what would happen to the rest of her family.
I've never ridden a camel.
...Longest Note Held In A Hit
This record is held by Morten Harket, lead singer with group A-Ha. In "Summer Moved On" (no. 33, June 2000) he holds a vocal note for 20.2 seconds.
Runner-up, and the man responsible for the longest note held on a solo single is Bill Withers. In his 1978 (and 1988) hit "Lovely Day", he holds a vocal note for 18 seconds. We're told that the note is the 'E' above 'middle C'.
The longest note held by a woman is found in "Dim All The Lights," Donna Summer's 1979 hit (16 seconds).
It is worth pointing out that a number of recent dance tracks have utilized digital 'stretching' techniques to give the impression of extended vocals. We have management / record company confirmation that the notes being held in the above tracks were all done in 'real time' and represent genuine vocal skill.
Is it just me, or is Morten Harket just about the coolest real name in show business since the heyday of Joshua Quagmire ?
Music, eh?
I loves me some rock'a'billy. Dave Edmunds (a founding member of Rockpile) kicks it old school.
Originally posted by cleome:
[b] ...Longest Note Held In A Hit
This record is held by Morten Harket, lead singer with group A-Ha. In "Summer Moved On" (no. 33, June 2000) he holds a vocal note for 20.2 seconds.
Runner-up, and the man responsible for the longest note held on a solo single is Bill Withers. In his 1978 (and 1988) hit "Lovely Day", he holds a vocal note for 18 seconds. We're told that the note is the 'E' above 'middle C'.
The longest note held by a woman is found in "Dim All The Lights," Donna Summer's 1979 hit (16 seconds).
It is worth pointing out that a number of recent dance tracks have utilized digital 'stretching' techniques to give the impression of extended vocals. We have management / record company confirmation that the notes being held in the above tracks were all done in 'real time' and represent genuine vocal skill.
Is it just me, or is Morten Harket just about the coolest real name in show business since the heyday of Joshua Quagmire ? [/b]Morten Harket did a wonderful, unironic (?) solo cover of "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" for the soundtrack of Coneheads, an average movie with an above-average soundtrack.
Nobody does the (18)80's quite like
The Ebony Hillbillies .
I got Season 1 on DVD of The Big Bang Theory for my birthday.
The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) is a privately owned museum whose stated aim is "to celebrate the labor of artists whose work would be displayed and appreciated in no other forum". It has two branches, one in Dedham, Massachusetts, and the other in nearby Somerville. Its permanent collection includes 500 pieces of "art too bad to be ignored", 25 to 35 of which are on public display at any one time.
MOBA was founded in 1994, after antique dealer Scott Wilson showed a painting he had recovered from the trash to some friends, who suggested starting a collection. Within a year, receptions held in Wilson's friends' home were so well-attended that the collection required its own viewing space. The museum moved to the basement of a theater in Dedham. Explaining the reasoning behind the museum's establishment, co-founder Jerry Reilly said in 1995: "While every city in the world has at least one museum dedicated to the best of art, MOBA is the only museum dedicated to collecting and exhibiting the worst." To be included in MOBA's collection, works must be original and have serious intent, but they must also have significant flaws without being boring; curators are not interested in displaying art that is deliberately kitsch.
MOBA has been mentioned in dozens of off-the-beaten-path guides to Boston, featured in international newspapers and magazines, and has inspired several other collections throughout the world that set out to rival its own visual atrocities. Deborah Solomon of The New York Times Magazine noted that the attention the Museum of Bad Art receives is part of a wider trend of museums displaying "the best bad art". The museum has been criticized for being anti-art, but the founders deny this, responding that its collection is a tribute to the sincerity of the artists who persevered with their art despite something going horribly wrong in the process. According to co-founder Marie Jackson, "We are here to celebrate an artist's right to fail, gloriously."
(per wikipedia)
Museum of Bad Art web site
The area known as Alta California was colonized by the Spanish Empire beginning in the late 18th century. It and the rest of Mexico became an independent republic in 1821. In 1846 California broke away from Mexico, and after the Mexican-American War, Mexico ceded California to the United States. It became the 31st state admitted to the United States on September 9, 1850.
California is the third-largest U.S. state by land area after Alaska and Texas, and preceding Montana. Its geography ranges from the Pacific coast to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the east, to Mojave desert areas in the southeast and the Redwood-Douglas fir forests of the northwest. The center of the state is dominated by the Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world.
The California Gold Rush dramatically changed California with a large influx of people and an economic boom which caused San Francisco to grow from a tiny hamlet of tents to a world renowned boomtown in the 19th century. The early 20th century was marked by Los Angeles becoming the center of the American entertainment industry, in addition to the growth of a large tourism sector in the state. Along with California's prosperous agricultural industry, other industries include aerospace, petroleum, and computer and information technology. California ranks amongst the ten largest economies in the world, and were it a separate country, it would be 35th among the most populous countries, with a GDP similar to Italy.
(wikipedia)
I'm going to a gay seder tonight ... I've been referring to it as a gay-der ...
~ Thanks for the further info on Kathe, Cleome.
We studied her only briefly in one of my art classes.
My contribution to this thread - Glass is not a good thing to get in your toes.
Wear slippers.
What about glass slippers?
You're welcome, Candle. Always happy to meet another fan.
Pedestal Table - Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Today my little puppy comes home after his surgery (nuetering). *choke* Just like a nervous father, I'm chopping at the bit! I'm not used to this kind of stress and anxiety.
Pedestal Table ~ is that a photo or a silk screen print? It's hard for me to tell for sure now-a-days!
Glass slippers would never work for me. They'd be splinters the first time I stubbed my toe on the floor! I'd say about 10 - 30 seconds.
Perimeter of a rectangle ~ Lx2 + Wx2.
Area of a rectangle - LxW.
That's what the 6th grade math students are currently not working very hard to understand.
With the new enphasis (well, not completely new)on test scores for 'No Child Left Behind', the math teachers are going crazy trying to actually teach concepts, rather than just working on giving the answers to the test questions so the kids can get passing scores.
Sad.
ah, yes. "teaching the test."
it's funny. When I was a kid, my native New York State was held in high regard for its public-ed. Then we stumbled into standardized tests early, and sank whatever lead we have.
Now NCLB is trying to sink everyone else just like we sank ourselves.
I'm going to see King Tut and the Chinese Terra Cotta Army exhibits in Atlanta with my son this weekend.
New work schedule means I can visit Legion World during the day on Thursdays!
I'm eating popcorn, drinking a Mike's Hard Lemonade, and listening to Emma Thompson do the audio commentary on Sense & Sensibility after an especially frustrating day ...
(snip)
Originally posted by Candle:
Pedestal Table ~ is that a photo or a silk screen print? It's hard for me to tell for sure now-a-days!
You and me both, Candle. All I know is that the original is oil and charcoal on canvas.
For you country-fried Blues fans:
Winslow & Katzman : "Rowdy Blues."
So I'm working towards this big insurance/reinsurance designation and its like a 2-3 process with 8 major exams. I took the fourth one this morning (think I did really good on this one but it was basically on investing and capital structure).
But oh wow...this is a pretty damn dry subject compared to my old history exams
I just finished reading Legion of 3 Worlds #4, and was shocked to find that the Time Trapper is revealed to be...
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Capital Structure is totally interesting. The creativity exhibited by those fraudsters, I mean Financial Engineers helped lure in suckers, er.. I mean new sources of funding for risky projects.
When objects in space are pictured moving away from us, there's a red coloring visible. This is called the Red Shift.
Don Featherstone created over 750 plastic animals, but is most famous for the plastic flamingo.
Two Male Images - Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899)
It turns out, I'm not really 5'-6". I'm only 5'-5.5"
Holy Hand-Grenades! It hasn't rained, sleeted or hailed even ONCE today!!
[faints]
There's a tornado watch on for my county for the next 2.5 hours. Coincidentally, that's about how long my daughter thinks it will take before she can get to sleep...
Eleanor Perenyi who is described as an opinionated gardener passed away last Sunday at the age of 91.
Originally posted by LardLad:
I'm taller than Ceej!
I'm utterly shocked!
My current LW post count is the same as the last four digits of my wife's work telephone number... aaaaaaaaaaaannnnnd...
now it isn't.
I met a man named Earl Lloyd this week. I had no idea who he was, except a very tall, African American gentleman about 80 years old. He had on a "CIAA" basketball conference cap. I asked if he had coached there and he said that he and his wife went to the CIAA tournament every year, since that was the conference he went to school in. We had a nice conversation. He suggested I Google him. As soon as I got a chance, I did.
Wow.
He was the first black player to suit up in the NBA, the first full time black head coach, played 9 years in the NBA, and was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003. I shook his hand and got an autograph. Very cool, and such a nice man.
Originally posted by CJ Taylor:
It turns out, I'm not really 5'-6". I'm only 5'-5.5"
Originally posted by LardLad:
I'm taller than Ceej!
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
I'm taller than Lardy!
I'm taller than Hoppy, but shorter than Ceej.
I need to go to the store, but don't want to.
Tomorrow is the day the big trash gets hauled away by the city. On the "goodbye" list: mr_cleome's wreck of a bicycle, pieces that fell off the dying refrigerator, dozens of giant empty mulch bags and a broken cat box. So far.
My favorite new faux Britishism:
Hot rubbish!
(Thank you, Battle for the Cowl.)
It would be cool to have a secret room in your house.
Originally posted by Fat Cramer:
It would be cool to have a secret room in your house.
as long as you knew about it, that is.
We had two boys clear 7 ft in the district high jump. Some people will do anything to try and get out of Toledo.
I often get unusual earworms, but not being able to shake Bread's "Aubrey" for three days is especially interesting.
I don't even know "Aubrey," but now I've got "If" running through my mind.
You can find it on YouTube. It's really a very pretty song.
Step right up! See the
320 lb. woman!
When I was a young lad I once ate a milkbone (a kind of dog treat), it basically tasted like a stale biscuit.
I heard a bird at dawn
Singing sweetly on a tree,
That the dew was on the lawn,
And the wind was on the lea;
But I didn't listen to him,
For he didn't sing to me.
I didn't listen to him,
For he didn't sing to me
That the dew was on the lawn
And the wind was on the lea;
I was singing at the time
Just as prettily as he.
I was singing all the time,
Just a prettily as he,
About the dew upon the lawn
And the wind upon the lea;
So I didn't listen to him
As he sang upon a tree.
-- James Stephens (1882-1950)
I hate shopping for anything other than comic books, other art-related things (movies, etc.) and beer. It causes me great anguish to enter a 'Bed, Bath & Beyond' or even a grocery store.
My garbage got rejected again.
Heroes Con in Charlotte NC June 19-21! DC and Marvel even have booths this year. It's like a REAL comicon!
Tenzil Kem goes to an art exhibit.
Hijinks Ensue .
(main page)
Linus Van Pelt was a leading expert on such bizarre animals as rock snakes, queen snakes, gully cats, hedge toads and chicken-birds (which build their nests on mountain tops).
A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second
I do not plan to see the "Land of the Lost" movie, but I've been enjoying the marathons of the TV series on the Sci Fi channel.
Groovy collage by
Soma Venus .
Dingoes Ate My Baby was the name of the fictional rock band Oz played lead guitar for in the cult TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
My puppy Rylie turns "1" today!
As an adult on my own, I have never had:
a tv larger than 13 inch,
cable or direct tv,
other than dial-up internet,
a game console of any type (except pong),
a cell phone.
I did just buy a game controller (???) so that I could play Prince of Persia trilogy on my computer without wearing out the keyboard. These game controllers must be the gateway drug of consumer electronics because lately I've been thinking...
,mmmy Cat 576ytypred thhhis p98ost.
Thanks.
Arachne! What you been up to?
I've been busy going crazy. I'm finally feeling like myself again.
Thanks for the warm welcome home, guys.
Sometimes you just need to...
Strike up the
and party!
Xenoglossophobia is the Fear of foreign languages.
Last week, I got mr_cleome to help me load up the Subaru with as many big river rocks as we could get from somebody's newly dug-out basement in Darkest Suburbia, courtesy of Craig's List.
This weekend, time permitting, I'll be breaking sod on the corner of the lot abutting the neighbors' yard so I can place them where they'll look their best. Maybe this will distract passers-by from noticing how badly the house needs a damn paint job.
Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables.
Here is a YouTube video of a man who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. (the video is sped up. You don't need 41 hours to watch it) In the descriotion is a link to a New Yorker article about elevators including the ordeal of the man who was trapped.
Man trapped in Elevator
I'm eating BBQ corn chips.
I currently have 247 friends of Facebook. I seem to recall a significance to that number.
My favorite new app for my recently purchased iphone is Pandora Internet Radio.
Westminster Abbey was once a Benedictine monastery, but is now a Royal Peculiar.
At 6643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's highest point.
This site, featuring
kludgy repair jobs resonates with me.
SweetnSour pork from the night before, tastes best eaten cold.
I mean it.
DON'T HEAT IT UP IN THE MICROWAVE!
My Asiatic lilies are in bloom. They look fantastic, but I'm cheesed that the camera is busted-- so I can't show them off.
Chinese Restaurant News Magazine has named six toledo restaurants amongst the top 100 in the country.
Tomatoes should not be stored in the refrigerator.
I got hooked on Las Vegas after I discovered the reruns on TNT . Then I found out the writer's strike of '08 killed the show. No closure, no series finale. Crap.
I get to spend the next four weeks in Fort Smith Arkansas.
Whoopie!
What's long and hard and full of Abin?
A submarine!
Miss Laura's, in Fort Smith is "The only bawdy house" on the National Register of Historic Places.
On the more random side, I never looked closely at Reboot's avatar until last week.
![[Linked Image]](http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/customavatars/avatar45324_3.gif)
I always thought it was some sort of Quislet drawing, not an eye. Not much gets by me...
Originally posted by Arm Fall Off Boy:
Miss Laura's, in Fort Smith is "The only bawdy house" on the National Register of Historic Places.
No wonder he said, "Whoopie!"
The sapphire is given for the fifth wedding aniversary!
Guess how I know that!
:purrrrrr:
Originally posted by Candle:
Originally posted by Arm Fall Off Boy:
[b] Miss Laura's, in Fort Smith is "The only bawdy house" on the National Register of Historic Places.
The sapphire is given for the fifth wedding aniversary!
Guess how I know that!
:purrrrrr: [/b]Thanks Guys... Now Pagan Lass is gonna see that and I'll be traveling without my favorite toy!
"But Pagan... Sweetie... all the other guys are bringing
theirs..."
I am posting from work.
I have absolutely nothing to do (at last, it has been very busy here recently)
5 hours to go.
The foxes seem to have decided my yard is a good place to play tag.
That sounds wonderful, Arachne!
Maybe. We don't have much they can get into here. (Something else else got my uncle's chickens not long ago.) Hopefully they won't pick a fight with the neighbourhood cat. They are beautiful, though.
We saw our first city foxes on the banks while tooting up river on the 4th. We saw the first, wasn't sure what it was. Looked like the skinniest weasel with rabbit ears. It scooted and then we saw the pair. Didn't look anything like a dog.
I had dinner last night at Ken's Steak House in Framingham, Massachusetts, with my parents, my sister, my nephew and his girlfriend. I had baked haddock Newburg.
Comfits, Simballs, and Longjohns are all nicknames for various types of donuts.
It's fracking hot here in Arkansas, but at least there's a CBS around the corner from my hotel!
Hawg Head Comics... Whooda Thunk It????
I was South Dakota last week and saw a cool looking comic book shop...but had to work almost 100% of the time I was there so I never got to go. But I get to go back next year so I'll try to remember to do it then.
If today was my last day, I sure as FUCK would not be listening to Nickelback.
Last night was my little brother's 21st birthday. My other brother (he's a year younger than me) and I went out and joined him and his friends. For some reason, I felt like *I* was 21 again and started to party that way.
Today I am reminded: I'm not. My recovery time at 28 is helluva a lot different than it was at 21
Routinely after hearing a weather report, my father would say "They don't know!"
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
My other brother (he's a year younger than me)
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Last night was my little brother's 21st birthday. My other brother (he's a year younger than me) and I went out and joined him and his friends. For some reason, I felt like *I* was 21 again and started to party that way.
Today I am reminded: I'm not. My recovery time at 28 is helluva a lot different than it was at 21 Don't be Kruel.
The carol "The Holly and the Ivy" goes on at length about holly, but never really discusses ivy.
There are, as of today, three living verified World War I veterans. There are also three remaining Howard Johnson's restaurants.
This commercial inspired, at least in part, Rockhopper Lad's signature defense in LMB stories.
My workplace-du-jour charges fifty-seven bucks for a pair of spandex exercise shorts. No, I don't know who can afford this crap, either. But apparently, somebody can.
Originally posted by cleome:
My workplace-du-jour charges fifty-seven bucks for a pair of spandex exercise shorts...
Just get one of them then and save half the money.
I'm at work right now.
Its 2:47 am.
Everything is operating smoothly, so I have nothing to do.
In essence, I am being paid to surf the internet tonight.
Originally posted by Blockade Boy:
Originally posted by cleome:
[b] My workplace-du-jour charges fifty-seven bucks for a pair of spandex exercise shorts...
[/b]Funny, funny people, you Midwesterners is.
Listen, they don't have fatgirl sizes at this company. Where am I supposed to wear the damn things? On my arm?
Go away before I smack you with a fish.
Well, not strictly a random posting. But for some strange reason, I've had the 1976 jazz comp "Long Yellow Road" in my head all day.
So
here\'s a link, for anyone interested. Like most of Akiyoshi-Tabackin's work, it's both happy and sad at turns, so... Eh, you get my drift.
Carry on.
While cleaning out the garage Saurday, found my old '45 (that's one of those discs with a hole in the middle that us oldies listened to) of Starship's "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now." Back in the day, that was mine and my wife's song
I think I have a copy of that.
Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is a guilty pleasure of mine -- as are the Mannequin movies.
I'm a huge Jefferson Airplane/Starship fan, though I can take or leave "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now." Perversely, that was the biggest hit of the band's then 22-year career, though no original Airplane members were left. (Grace Slick joined the Airplane in 1966, the year after it was formed.)
Running/walking 6 miles in 97 degree heat (it only felt like 96) can cause your vision to stop working while standing at a corner.
I'm posting nekkid.
So there.
My favorite time of year is quickly approaching, but I don't want to rush the end of Summer--I can be patient.
I'll ditto Cobes - except for one financial aspect which I do want to see rushed, so I know what the heck I'll be doing and where I'll be living in Sept.
My sister is going through that same aspect right now Kent, so I empathize. No matter when you get them everything it always seems to come down to the wire...
Pov sent his posting clothes to me, so it my turn now.
There's another member of LW who has a birthday today besides me and Acid Digestion Lad, so happy birthday to the one who wishes to remain anonymous!
I recently found a college friend on Facebook who was one of my biggest crushes. Turns out he's married and has a daughter. He still looks great, though he has gained some weight. Not quite the stuff 21-year-old me would have hoped for, but still terrific to reconnect.
I love lamp. I, I love lamp.
Soon the crows will come.
On Friday night/Sat morning I'm leaving for Key West! We're going back for a week vacation and I absolutely need it! The countdown has begun.
It's overcast, but there's no rain forecast until Thursday.
It's like they're taunting meeeeee!!!
Chatsex takes a lot longer than the real thing.
I don't have anything that can follow Pov's post.
In my class I have student names (phonetically), Yee, Way, Yeeway, and Shoe.
edit:
I forgot Mon. Seriously, "Mon." His accent isn't British. It's Lebanese and it's pronounced "moan." So, that mystery is laid to rest.
My comic shop now has a cafe. Excellent chai lattes.
At the newspaper where I used to work, someone once tried to run a fake obituary for Mie Seiso.
Mean people suck (and so do lingering sinus infections)!
In lieu of chicken soup and fresh citrus fruit:
Almost seven minutes of the awesomeness that is Barbara Lynn (1942-___ ), playing "What'd I Say" and "It's Better To Have It."
Go, Lefties! Go!
<span style="font-size: 25px;">TIMMY!</span>
(or is it: <span style="font-size: 25px;">TIMMAH!</span>?)
I like Korn! (ugh, no backwards "r" on my keyboard)
...kinda.
Yesterday was
a record-breaking day for rainfall here , and today looks like it also might be one.
I unintentionally passed through the small hometown of a longtime LWer I have not met, but I'm obliged not to say who or where.
Yeah, there's an informative post...
two in a row!
three, now...
I just finished eating a muffin.
I'm walking in a parade Monday.
There's an ugly little girl here mouthing off and dropping f bombs like nobody's business.
I'm a little bit sunburned.
An' I'm a little bit rock n' roll!
(Yay! Somebody got that one!)
No, you're TOtally Marie. We've seen your chest, remember...
Jealousy ill becomes you, Povster.
It (very briefly) rained on my parade today.
I spent a week in Key West and posted occassionally from my Iphone. That doesn't seem like a bad way to post if you ask me.
I don't have an Iphone.
My work bought mine. Otherwise, not really a big chance of me getting one. Although if you have free upgrades, you can get a good deal, I hear.
I coulda upgraded to one when I changed phones this year, but I would have had to pay an extra (sizable) monthly fee for service, and that prospect sucked balls!
I saw General Tso's Chicken-flavored potato chips at the supermarket today.
Jeff Beck was seriously considered to replace Syd Barrett in Pink Floyd.
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
I saw General Tso's Chicken-flavored potato chips at the supermarket today.
Don't try them. They're lousy. Personal opinion.
I've been reading Silver and Bronze Age Thor's during my lunch breaks at the Starbucks down the street lately. I wrap them in the Wall St. Journal so it looks like I'm all business-like. I'm sneaky like that.
After seeing "Cool Hand Luke," I once made a bet with my army buddies that I could eat 50 Cadbury eggs in an hour. Negotiations broke down over who would actually buy them. I still think I could do it, though.
I realized today that a tomato is a fruit that thinks it is too good to be a fruit by pretending to be a vegetable.
I had a cellphone once. For a year. Work gave it to me, and a year later, when they closed down that department, I found it in a drawer of my desk.
I had one missed call. It was 'Welcome to the Sprint network!'
My son may be getting his six-year molars in. I'm not entirely sure.
I got a transatlantic care package of Dutch cookies and chocolate in the mail from a friend today.
Baked a pear-apricot-berry-plum crisp yesterday. It was fabulous.
am addicted to Medieval Empire on Facebook.
I refuse to get on Facebook. I intend to hang on to my last remaining pieces of anonymity like I'm the last polar bear clinging to the last fragment of Arctic ice.
You go, girl!
Lardy = fellow Facebook Virgin!
Lardy is sharing oh-so many virginities this eve... scary.
Surprising, ain't it?
no one ever associated the name LardLad with virginity before.
There's always a...
first time!
...and Lardy scores the hat trick!
well done, amigo.
Thank yew very much...I'll be here all week!
oh? is your car broken down again?
Nah, just a classic Vaudeville comedian-type reference.
I've been in Oklahoma City all week visiting a client but I've checked into LW when I could (without logging in). Excited to see Matlock and Dev posting again, not to mention Arachne and Sharky posting more. Add in Vee and Luna both posting more lately and this could be the beginning of an MMB revival!
...finally got an explanation for That Damn Bohan's absence!
Something else else I wrote was discussed in my college class. For the WHOLE class.
The first things I have to do when I wake up is blow my nose... I JUST HAVE TO!
Every time I see the "A Castle in the Sky" thread, my mind starts playing Don McLean's "Castles in the Air".
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Every time I see the "A Castle in the Sky" thread, my mind starts playing Don McLean's "Castles in the Air".
But it also makes me think of Mildred Bailey singing "Cabin in the Pines."
I'm listening to the soundtrack from WDW's SpectroMagic parade ...
I just got back from London and Germany. I was in the Amsterdam airport but thats it--hopefully next time I can spend some time there.
The whole trip was great but it was for business and I didn't even get an afternoon, let alone an evening or day, to myself to do anything or meet up with anyone. Oh well, such is the nature of my job...
On a whim, I bought a CD in Starbucks. I hardly ever by CD's anymore, but Starbucks does a great job at encouraging impulse buys. Moreso than actual CD stores.
It was the Pete Yorn / Scarlet Johanson duet album. Why not, right?
I AM glad God saw Death
And gave Death a job taking care of all who are tired of living:
When all the wheels in a clock are worn and slow and the connections loose
And the clock goes on ticking and telling the wrong time from hour to hour
And people around the house joke about what a bum clock it is,
How glad the clock is when the big Junk Man drives his wagon
Up to the house and puts his arms around the clock and says:
"You don't belong here,
You gotta come
Along with me,"
How glad the clock is then, when it feels the arms of the
Junk Man close around it and carry it away.
-- Carl Sandburg, "The Junk Man"
I had to perform a poem in my voice for actors class, and it was by Carl Sandburg.
Anyways, as with all acting classes, there are a lot of know it alls. So this girl I met and have been talking to, got all kinds of mad at this blond girl with hairy legs and told me that and I quote, "If she doesn't shut up, I am going to fart in her mouth."
Eeewww...I couldn't stop laughing.
My family relationships class professor actually trusted me enough with twenty dollars of her own money to get a book for her.
I'm going to a Penn State game tomorrow...its become an annual thing and should be awesome.
Shicky Gnarowitz, the cutest acoustic trio in history,
playing downtown .
No, I wasn't there. More's the pity.
I'm back on Weight Watchers, and this time, if I stick with it, work's paying for it! Thank you bosses!
The Legion Worlders whose phone numbers I have listed in my cell phone are all under their LW/LMB names instead of their real names.
I have served as a pallbearer twice in the last week. I hope I don't have to again for a while.
The bigger shock is that you didn't notice this until now.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
I have served as a pallbearer twice in the last week. I hope I don't have to again for a while.
No kidding.
I plan to pay off one of my two student loans in December with my Christmas bonus, after 7 years of paying thus far. The other one will go a bit further. Its going to feel pretty damn good when it happens. I paid my own way through college...paying them off eventually will be like a slap in the face "to the man" in some way.
The mileage on my car just became higher than the amount left on my mortgage... or the amount left on my mortgage just dropped below the mileage on my car... depending on whether you're a glass half-full or half-empty type.
The weather outside is absurdly foul. (I think this might be the first hail of the season.) I'm drinking raspberry tea, playing more Halloween tunes, and feeling stupidly chipper for a person whose net worth is holding steady at about $20 (U.S.) this week.
My cat can be the most whineiest thing around.
When the Yankees are in the World Series, the New York area is just popping with excitement!
Now if only the weather will change. Its pouring like crazy right now, and its cold.
On a recent flight from Orlando, Southwest Airlines had some trouble and had to make an emergency landing. To compensate the passengers, Southwest gave everyone a complimentary ticket,
Now I have to decide where to go.
Cool! Did they give you a date you need to use it by?
They gave me a full year to use it. And refunded my original airfare. Good customer service I think.
Originally posted by CJ Taylor:
On a recent flight from Orlando, Southwest Airlines had some trouble and had to make an emergency landing. To compensate the passengers, Southwest gave everyone a complimentary ticket,
Now I have to decide where to go.
San Diego
I'm having Jeff Moy do a commission of Monstress.
I have to go make spaghetti for my honey soon.
I add fresh vegetables and herbs to a bottled sause, then rinse the jar out with milk and add it to the sause.
Milk is so good at taking any bitterness out of the tomatoes.
sigh
When I post graemlins, I usually just pick a random character and try it to see if there actually is a graemlin. There is about 97.5% of the time.
I'm always shocked when they aren't there!
I know! I don't the Khunds have one, which surprised me before.
But its really cool when you find an awesome one that no one ever uses and are surprised by just how awesome it is. Like Command Kid, which I just did today
Originally posted by CJ Taylor:
On a recent flight from Orlando, Southwest Airlines had some trouble and had to make an emergency landing.
I was five, travelling alone from Boston to Phoenix, AZ, when our plane had to make an emergency landing, and we had to exit the plane on a big inflatable slide that came out of the plane, because we landed somewhere the drive-up ladders couldn't get to.
All the grown-ups were freaking out, but it was the funnest thing ever! A plane ride and a slide!
Of course my mom was insane when I got home. Apparently, another plane crash-landed and she read the flight number wrong and thought that was the plane I was on...
I wonder if all or most rental cars smell like cigarette smoke, my having had limited experience with them
I use them quite a bit and the answer is, 90% of the time they don't! One time my boss made them go get another one because of the smell though. The cigarette smell in cars is awful. I don't allow smoking and eating in my car.
But drinking, that's a whole nother issue...
Topaz, Beryl and Citrine are all November birthstones.
Very little, if any, of what is termed "Latin music" is, in fact, sung in Latin.
Some of that unLatin Latin music can be found
here .
And
here as well.
The white oak is the last to shed its leaves in our yard.
Whoa. A mere two minutes ago (4:18 PST), Legion World was said to have "116 guests"!!
Have I missed something? Did we get mentioned on CNN today, or what?
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This is a binturong or asian bearcat,
the first thing I ever learned about them,
other then they like to live sprawled sleeping on tree limbs
(that's what the one we saw was doing)
is that they smell like popcorn!
What a perfect little creature.
sigh
What a cute guy, with a beautiful long tail. The popcorn smell is strange!
My dog is suffering from idiopathic vestibular disease, which basically means she's totally lost her balance. It should go away in a week or so, but will probably recur with more severity each time. She's adapting fairly well, but I'm not sure I am.
I've been up eight hours straight doing homework and in three hours I have to be at work.
I can't remember what my face feels like.
Are you sort of like this?
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Sleeping on your feet?
But, Fat Cramer, I'm sorry to hear about your troubles with your dog.
We have a friend who's suffering from the human version.
Sassafras tea is boring, but chewing on a sassafras root? Wow. Flavor explosion.
I lost the power steering on my car and the power in my apartment in a manner of minutes.
(snip)
Originally posted by Fat Cramer:
My dog is suffering from idiopathic vestibular disease, which basically means she's totally lost her balance. It should go away in a week or so, but will probably recur with more severity each time. She's adapting fairly well, but I'm not sure I am.
Aww...
Sorry to hear that.
My dog is a whole lot better, although she has underlying problems related to old age (which aren't as scary as sudden severe incapacitation).
I was thinking that the name "Lardi" sounds like a European fashion model or maybe an artist.
I hear it with a midwestern drawl. "Lardi, lardi, will yew lookit that?"
Originally posted by Fat Cramer:
I was thinking that the name "Lardi" sounds like a European fashion model or maybe an artist.
Originally posted by Set:
I hear it with a midwestern drawl. "Lardi, lardi, will yew lookit that?"
Sorry, I'm technically someone else now---and may continue to be so if the roleplay that was inexplicably suspended never resumes!
As long as you keep that Jerry Ordway Captain Marvel avatar, I'll be happy no matter who you are.
Apparently "Peter, Paul & Mary" no longer refers to the 60's folk trio but is instead slang for a threesome
Originally posted by Lardi:
Originally posted by Fat Cramer:
[b]I was thinking that the name "Lardi" sounds like a European fashion model or maybe an artist.
Originally posted by Set:
I hear it with a midwestern drawl. "Lardi, lardi, will yew lookit that?"
I was wondering what happened to that! And also was thankful I wasn't a central character to the storyline this time so none of the responsibility fell on me!
It turns out those energy drinks things, that I have never really got in to (mind ya I tied Red Bull but it just didn’t taste all that good [mixing it with vodka {something else I don’t like} doesn’t it make it any more appealing] and I know it isn’t the tastiest of them) doesn’t really seem to have an affect on me one bit. There doesn’t seem to be any more pep in my step, no additional pitter with my patter, and my jabber wocked away without a care.
Nguyen Le, Terri Lyne Carrington, et al jamming on "
Voodoo Chile ".
Because why not?
That inevitably makes me think of zombies.
THEME FROM ZOMBI 2:
Dut dut dut dut dut dut dut dut
Dut dut dut dut dut dut dut dut
On a synthesizer ad infinitum.
I still have no idea what the Unplug the Jukebox thread is about.
I'll give you a hint: pop star named after an insect.
Originally posted by Fat Cramer:
I still have no idea what the Unplug the Jukebox thread is about.
Me too
Tired of the TWILIGHT hype? Then, you GOTTA see
this clip from Conan O'Brien!
I definitely LOLed at that one when I saw it (a rarity for me on the interwebz, believe it or not) and just HAD to share it! I laughed as I described it to some people at work today, and they laughed at the description as well.
Glad you enjoyed it, too, Des!
I was wondering where he was going with it. Hysterical!
I was driving by a cemetery named "Serenity Gardens" and thought I'd rather be buried in "Rock 'n Roll Gardens."
And I think I already had this conversation with somebody.
Serenity Gardens? I wonder if that's where the crew of Firefly will be buried.
Well, they already buried two! Was one of those locations Serenity Gardens?
No, it was a moon or asteroid somewhere.
People should start buying up asteroids now, because they are obviously going to be in demand as cemeteries in the future.
In one of the cutest Peanuts strips of all time, two of the little yellow birds, Harriet and Bill, got married. The bride wore a tiny little veil and the groom wore a tiny little top hat.
Dragnet (the series) is very funny.
My milk shake brings all the boys to the yard,
and they're like,
its better than yours,
damn right its better than yours,
I can teach you,
but I have to charge
Ed Reed and Dean Bowman are both great jazz vocalists, and they both apparently have doppelgangers who play pro football. Ah, YouTube, what hath thou wrought...?
"Doppelganger" is the title of one of the best episodes of "Challenge of the GoBots."
Comic Book Guy's (from
The Simpsons) real name is Jeff Albertson.
Speaking of 'Cloud Castle', one of my characters is a unicorn/narwhal baby called Uni.
Here's a few narwhales ~
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The males have the long, spiral horn that was used for Unicorn horns in the middle ages.
I painted murals of them on the walls of indoor pool site that I used to work at, which helped me recognize the one I saw at the Oregon coast a number of years ago.
The small female was feeding in a secluded bay that I love to go to.
sigh
Here's a clearer picture of the horn ~
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My cat likes having her butt slapped.
Those cat creatures are a little strange, which I love about them.
I was in a piano bar once and someone told me that I sang like an Anglican chorister. Well, as a matter of fact...
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
My cat likes having her butt slapped.
Well, who doesn't?
Nickelback's popularity adds fuel to my general assertion that there is no God.
Cleome, I
you!
So tell me, does the singer of Nickelback sound more like he's constantly clearing his throat or more like he's constipated?
More like he's doing an impression of Chris Cornell clearing his throat or being constipated.
Chris Cornell was cute when he had long hair.
Never liked his singing, though.
His problem was that he had an impressive voice but not a lot of control, so he shrieked when singing would have been better.
I think he got better as he went, though.
I got a new monitor!
The weather always seems to be difficult the week before Christmas.
The weather gets so difficult that it locks itself in its luxurious trailer and refuses to come out.
At the end of the Pequot War, the remaining Pequots were divvied up between several other tribes and by treaty were not allowed to call themselves Pequots.
One of my dad's aunts drove a Pequot.
Or was it a Peugeot?
There's a mat they sell at my temp job that's meant to be used for yoga. Y'know, some squishy plastic-y stuff in a roll that you can take out when you want a clean/soft space to stretch on, etc. They have a regular version, which is very plain-looking. (I have one like it at home, which really needs more use than it gets.) Then they have a deluxe version with hearts and flowers and other frilly things embossed all over it, a faux-silk cord tie to clasp it when it's rolled up, etc. It's called...
The Love Mat.
Every time they hand me one of these things to gift wrap for some wealthy, well-maintained Yuppie, all I can think of is asking somebody to "Come up and check out my new Loooooove Mat." I end up snerking for five minutes like an eight-year-old and sticking the tape everywhere but to the stupid-a** gift package.
It's a good thing that I don't work retail.
Dog Bless Us, Every One!
I'm starting to act like my dad ...
Twenty-five years ago today, the classic soap opera The Edge of Night aired its final episode, ending a 28-and-a-half year run. It's now been off the air almost as long as it was on.
The white zone is for the loading and unloading of passengers only.
Coffee drinkers have sex more frequently than non-coffee drinkers.
My wife surreptitiously switched me to decaf.
I didn't know it was supposed to snow this morning ...
Today was warm in Fort McMurray, it was only -30C
I'm in the breakroom, eating animal crackers, sorting them by species, as is my wont, when a co-worker leans in and whispers in my ear, "You are OCD like a mother****er..."
I'm bored out of mind and wondering why it's so hard just to get opinions on ideas.
The fact that I'm missing <strike>8</strike> 6 issues of the Walking Dead is driving me crazy so tomorrow I'm going to drive around the state of Connecticut again from comic book store to comic book store until I get them so I can read pass friggin' #24.
Have you tried a website called milehighcomics.com
Years ago, I had a mail-order subscription service through Mile High Comics. Their customer service was so shoddy, however, that I cancelled it after a few months. Maybe they've changed since then.
Believe me, they have. Although, from my last order, there was one book missing, but they included a check for the same amount I paid for the book.
I'll give any interested party five dollars (U.S.) to slap Kid Rock in the head with a big fish.
(Remember: YouTube or it didn't happen.)
What if someone took pictures?
How do I know that you didn't just use Photoshop?
Tsk.
Well I've been too busy with ff.net and this thing to even learn where the photo shop is.
http://www.legionworld.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=002168
Originally posted by Lardi:
I used to have a mullet.
Me too!!!
Anyways, on topic....I'm drinking Paralysers right now
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
Have you tried a website called milehighcomics.com
While Mile High didn't have the issues in stock (and by the way, they do a good job these days FYI), I took your advice and got them online through Amazon.com. I went to 8 comic book stores in the last three weeks--I think that was more than enough before resorting to online
Mycomicshop.com is a better place than Mile High IMO to get back issues and the like. They usually are better stocked, better priced and have nice special password sales every week to those who subscribe to their email list.
Did anyone else notice that yesterday was a palindromic date?
2010-01-02
Once again, I plan to make some changes in my working out / eating habits to try to get healthier, slim down in 2010. Nothing overly dramatic, but time to clean my body out a little and lose a good 20 pounds.
One 'tip' / 'bit of advice' I've picked up is that I should take a little time every day and do a 5 minute meditation (or even just relax, do nothing and reflect on all the good things going on in my life) as a way to relieve stress, rather than grabbing a snack or letting all the built up anxieties consume me. Seems like a simple enough thing to do but yet I don't already do it--so maybe this will help.
Originally posted by Lardi:
Mycomicshop.com is a better place than Mile High IMO to get back issues and the like. They usually are better stocked, better priced and have nice special password sales every week to those who subscribe to their email list.
I actually think one of the people I went through Amazon with was mycomicsshop.com but I'm not sure. I definitely saw them somewhere. Thanks for the tip though, I'll use them the next time I want some single issues (which hey, could be soon once I read that first issue of Chew tonight or tomorrow
).
Actually, mile high gives password discounts as well.
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
Actually, mile high gives password discounts as well.
Yeah, they probably do. In my experience, though, it's easier to find what you're looking for on the mycomicshop website and at better prices. The Mile High site is in desperate need of an overhaul in my opinion. When I shop Mile High, I much prefer their eBay store over their actual website.
I'm not a big fan of their online site, or even their main store. Most of my back issue success has been at my local satellite or my old cbs back in the Twin Cities - The Source.
Something else else (kinda) Random: Comic Book Review Month came about in my head when I learned Lardy was reading "Vikings" but had not reviewed it on Legion World. Rather than ask him to do so, I figured I'd do something more grandiose
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Something else else (kinda) Random: Comic Book Review Month came about in my head when I learned Lardy was reading "Vikings" but had not reviewed it on Legion World. Rather than ask him to do so, I figured I'd do something more grandiose Yeah, I
knew it was all about me!
Next I'll find out Lash is reading Superman/Batman and didn't tell me and my head will explode!
Actually, I'm pretty sure I mentioned that I'm reading Viking
somewhere on Gym'll's. You probably either missed it or forgot about it as you are apt to do...
Bah. I suspect that thread exists somewhere obscure like the Science Police Forum or Titans Forum.
Another example is I know some posters like Vee and Portfolio Boy collect different independent titles and want to hear more about them.
PS - you've now been roped into being Vice President of Marketing for this event!
My parents are goddamn morons.
Originally posted by Lardi:
Actually, I'm pretty sure I mentioned that I'm reading Viking somewhere on Gym'll's. You probably either missed it or forgot about it as you are apt to do... IIRC, it's in the CHEW thread. Viking 1 was reprinted the issue after Chew in TWD.
Do my stories really have the potential to be turned into actual comics?
I'm turning one of my stories into a comic book script.
In the Brady Bunch, Robert Reed played Mike Brady and Mike Lookinland played Bobby Brady
It's pretty freaking cold all over the US now. Global warming is over.
Random thought that isn't turning into a short story;
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He awoke to hear the words, “Legionnaire Wolf, welcome to the Khund Challenge Courts.”
Brin groggily took in his surroundings, his enhanced physiology shaking off the effects of the energy field that had held him in stasis. Stalling for time while his head cleared, he addressed the towering cyborg before him, “I thought only Khund were allowed to compete in the Challenge Courts?”
“That is the case. But a warrior may demonstrate his skills upon dangerous or exotic alien prey, to increase his reputation with the crowd.” The cyborg explained in a booming mechanical voice that somehow still conveyed a trace of arrogance and excitement. “You are not here to compete, Legion Wolf. You were brought here to enhance my status in the eyes of my people. You are here to die at my hand...”
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
My parents are goddamn morons.
no comment, although I'd sure like to make a few
Originally posted by Candle:
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
[b]My parents are goddamn morons.
no comment, although I'd sure like to make a few [/b]"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
- Mark Twain
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
Originally posted by Candle:
[b]
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
[b]My parents are goddamn morons.
no comment, although I'd sure like to make a few [/b]
- Mark Twain[/b]SL is 19, I think, so he has a couple of years to go.
When I was 15, I remember pushing my dad and running away across the fields, never looking behind and crying & yelling all the way.
I was still walking through the knee high snow a couple miles later, when I looked around, and there he was a few feet behind me.
He made sure I got back safely.
(I thought about the incident after I wrote here, and I'm pretty sure I was a couple years younger than I origanlly wrote down. 15 is a kind of guess but is correct, give or take a year or so. Sorry)
Yeah, well, I forgot to mention something. My dad is a yo-yo.
They'll learn more the older you get.
I mean literally, he's either manic depressive or bi-polar.
I'm sorry things are getting so tough, SK. Wish I had some advice.
Originally posted by Candle:
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
[b]
Originally posted by Candle:
[b] </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
<strong>My parents are goddamn morons.
no comment, although I'd sure like to make a few [/b]
- Mark Twain[/b]SL is 19, I think, so he has a couple of years to go.
When I was 17, I remember pushing my dad and running away across the fields, never looking behind and crying & yelling all the way.
I was still walking through the knee high snow a couple miles later, when I looked around, and there he was a few feet behind me.
He made sure I got back safely. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I had that day, also at about 19 (18 I think) only with my Ma. didn't push her, she'd have slapped the crap out of me. Got on my bike and rode 100 miles from Toledo to the Pontiac Silverdome.... and back.
I can whoop her now though.
Hang in there SK!
That is one heck of a hike BB.
Say, howdy!
Ahhhh, to be a teenager again.
sigh
Manic depressive sort of IS bipolar.
That condition can be so hard to live with, both for the sufferer and the family.
Life isn't easy sometimes, it's just worth while. For the most part.
Prayers, SK.
Not just prayers, we have to ignore him. He's like a Black Lantern, he tries to get reactions out of us.
Not your prayers, sweetie, mine. For you and your family.
I've worked with many residents AND staff with the condition.
My best friend in college has fought it all of her life, mostly unsuccessfully.
My family is just depressive.
Manic takes too much energy, I'm afraid.
Get help if you can.
There's on-line groups and probably some in your community.
You've probably heard all of that, though.
Well yeah, he is supposed to be getting help, he was checked into a psychiatric hospital in November, and it's fueled by his belief that my mother is having an affair with her friend Anthony, and to be quiet honest I don't care if she is because with all the crap he's said to her, he expects us to lap at his heels like goddamn hunting dogs when he says good and bad things to us.
Not HIM getting help, YOU getting help.
Maybe a school counselor can refer you, and your mom, AND the rest of the family.
We ALL need a helping hand.
A local pastor is usually willing to listen, too.
Well, I'm doing okay, I have grandpa, and I have people I talk to on DeviantArt, and my former Family Relationships teacher Professor Thompson over at Lehman. And you guys.
They've constantly said about therapy, but that's another thing about my family. We repeat the same arguments over and over its like watching TiVo.
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
. . . my family. We repeat the same arguments over and over its like watching TiVo.
You're not alone there!
sigh
I'm glad you have some people to go to!
Use their input and bask in their love and care for you.
And remember to
.
Well, there is one thing I've decided to do to relax, but I already mentioned it. I'm turning one of my stories into a comic book script.
I hope you share it with us!
Well, I can show the first five pages. That's as much as I've managed to do so far.
PAGE ONE
This page is basically made up of five panels from top to bottom. From panels one through five, the setting is a South American rain forest, filled with .
PANEL ONE: There is a caption box which reads “SOUTH AMERICA, 20th CENTURY EARTH”. This first panel shows the outline of the forest from afar. We can see the evening sky above as twilight has started to creep in, going from orange to purple.
PANEL TWO: We’re now closer into the forest, but not too far. It’s kind of like the view you get as you drive by a forest in your car along a road at night. But, the reader should catch a barely visible glimpse of a human outline.
PANEL THREE: The forest should be filled with indigenous flora and fauna found in South America. Plants and trees in full bloom, heavy vines hanging from branches, monkeys, birds, what have you. The sounds of birds crying out into the night. We should get a warm, misty feeling looking at the jungle. It is night in the tropic.
BIRD: RAAWWWKK!! RAAWWWKK!!
PANEL FOUR: There is a certain feeling, the atmosphere is heavy with crackling ozone. The animals sense that something is going to happen. Maybe some eyes hiding in bushes or knots in trees.
PANEL FIVE: Certain animals turn their heads as a bright light begins to illuminate the jungle from the right hand corner of the panel. Their eyes are wide in surprise and fear.
PAGE TWO
There are three panels making up this page. The first one takes up most of the page, with the bottom two rectangular ones.
PANEL ONE: A Time Sphere has appeared in the canopy. It illuminates the jungle brightly. It is big, round, made of opaque glass. At the top left hand corner of this panel we should see a spider web in the trees, with a fly struggling as the spider creeps up a silken strand.
PANEL TWO: From the canopy we should able to see a monkey, back faced towards the reader, arm grabbing a vine, hanging from it, as the door to the Time Sphere starts to slid open. Steam and smoke is coming out as the door slides open.
PANEL THREE: Okay, we see Lightning Lad’s feet, standing on the threshold of the Sphere. From the reader’s point of view we are looking out towards the canopy. There should be a glimpse of certain animals looking at him. He’s stepped out and he’s standing on jungle ground, now.
PAGE THREE
Okay, this whole page is just Lightning Lad, fully seen, his back towards the Time Sphere in the jungle.
DESCRIPTION: I’m just providing a description of Garth’s appearance. Yes, it’s the current look Gary Frank provided him in Action Comics.
CAPTION BOX: “Born a thousand years from now on the distant planet Winath, Garth Ranzz would gain the ability to generate electricity during his adolescence after a chance encounter with the weird lightning beasts of the planetoid Korbal. Traveling to Earth, Garth used his ability to help save the life of the galaxy’s richest man, R.J. Brande, alongside Rokk Krinn of Braal and Imra Ardeen of Titan, his future wife. Inspired by the legends of Superman, the three would found the universe’s greatest team of super powered beings, the Legion of Super-Heroes. Brash and head strong, a childhood friend of the Man of Steel, he’s LIGHTNING LAD.
In the caption box, Lightning Lad should be written the way it is in Garth’s “Who’s Who” entry.
The title and the credits should be written near the bottom of this page.
“ASK ME NO SECRETS I WILL TELL YOU NO LIES”
Along with writer (moi), artist (you), inker, colorist (hopefully Nei Ruffino), editors, letterer, and cover artist.
PAGE 4
PANEL ONE: The first panel is split into three boxes. In the first two, Garth looks left and right, getting a general feel of the area. The third should be from his point of view as we once again look out into the dark forest.
PANEL TWO: Garth is looking a bit peeved, irate.
LIGHTNING LAD: *Sighs* Just my luck.
(This is the first word bubble)
PANEL THREE: Lightning Lad rises up from the ground and flies above the canopy. As he flies up, we notice that the spider in its web has finished eating the fly.
BIRD: *Whistles*
PANEL FOUR: We see Rima’s outline, looking up at Lightning Lad as he flies up.
PANEL FIVE: There’s swift movement as Rima decides to follow after him.
PAGE FIVE
There are five panels on this page. The page should be made up of three rectangular panels, with one box in the top panel and another in the third.
Panel one is a rectangle with a box at the end, which, I guess, is panel two. Part of panel two overlaps into panel three, so we can clearly see Lightning Lad‘s face.
PANEL ONE: Lightning Lad is flying above the jungle canopy, the wind in his face and his flight ring visible on his right fist. He still looks somewhat mad, but homicidally mad.
THOUGHT BOX: Just my luck I get stuck searching a whole freaking jungle myself for one guy. Grife.
Garth’s thought boxes should be dark blue with a yellow lightning bolt.
PANEL TWO: Close up on Garth’s face. He’s smirking now.
THOUGHT BOX: I’m really gonna have to think of a way to thank Brainy when I get back.
PANEL THREE: We have a caption box reading “Metropolis, 31st Century Earth.” The scenery shifts to the 31st Century in flashback. It should be given a sepia tone, maybe, to indicate that this is a flashback. All futuristic buildings and skyscrapers.
PANEL FOUR: We are now inside the lab of Brainiac 5, the 12th Level genius. He has his back turned to Garth as he stands over a lab table on the left side of the panel. Garth is standing on the right side, back against the wall, arms crossed.
LIGHTNING LAD: This better be important, Brainy. I’m kind of in the middle of something.
PANEL FIVE: Close up of Brainiac 5’s face. There should be some sarcasm in his expression.
BRAINIAC 5: Yes, please forgive me if I had to interrupt you from indulging in your homicidal sibling’s delusions.
Intreging.
Should we take this to a different thread?
You comment is still kind of random, but mine are not.
3 questions besides that one.
Do you mean 20th or 21st century?
Who is Rima (did I miss the intro of that character or are those 2 panels our first glimpse?)
When you say LL is 'mad', do you mean angry or crazy?
Good visuals and descriptions!
You seem to know the set-up of the book.
:thumbsup:
Yeah, 20th Century.
Rima, as in Rima the Jungle Girl. She's one of the characters involved in that First Wave thing Brian Azzarello's doing. And yeah, angry.
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
. . . Rima, as in Rima the Jungle Girl. She's one of the characters involved in that First Wave thing Brian Azzarello's doing.
Ahhh.
Thank-you for the enlightenment!
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
I mean literally, he's either manic depressive or bi-polar.
Sometimes the only thing to do in that kind of situation is get away from it.
My clients in Oklahoma told me its 4 degrees there--they're basically in shell shock because of it.
(PS - hang in there Sarcasm Lad!)
So my dad left today he packed everything up and left for his apartment because he thinks my mom manipulated the whole thing to get him out of the house and now he'll never come back.
Okay, I'm bored.
mr_cleome found out that he attended the same High School as Jim Shooter. I wonder if that means that, in some weird way, my arrival here was pre-ordained?
It's a good thing that I'm not superstitious.
Mrs. Landingham's twin sons died on Christmas day during the Vietnam War
Sorry.
I changed my signature.
One of my favorite restaurants that closed shortly after Hurricane Ike hit reopened several months ago under a new name and in a new location, but I just found out about it recently. I haven't been yet.
Ireland and the US make Whiskey.
Scotland and Canada make Whisky.
Pink grapefruit gives me a big reason to like the wintertime. It's my favorite of the non-summer fruits.
Originally posted by Stealth:
Cleome, I you!
So tell me, does the singer of Nickelback sound more like he's constantly clearing his throat or more like he's constipated?
There're "ugly-voiced" singers that I like, too. Lemmy is the first who comes to mind. Also Ian Hunter. And Lennon, Hendrix, Dylan, Fogerty...their voices are ugly, but they're REAL!
What bothers me is when the ugliness is affected, as I feel it has been with most rock singers beginning with the early 90s grunge bonanza, of which Nickelback is one of the inbred spawn.
I'm working on a script for a Wanderers back-up.
My younger son finally lost his front baby tooth Saturday! His baby teeth take an excruciatingly long time to come out from when they first become loose.
My little sister arrived in Parma, Italy yesterday to begin a four month semester to finish her program in the Italian Culinary Institute (prestigious Manhattan cooking school with many famous alumni). She's 20--I'm so proud of her for going, it was a huge step for her.
I totally envy your sister!
I was
seriously productive at work today! Why must sleep-deprivation bring that out in me?
I saw a car today with a license-plate frame that read, "Open your home to a rabbit."
I have a free
Dreamwidth account code, for anyone who might be interested. Pop me an IM. First come, first served.
Thanks.
Oh, I'm sorry I didn't reply to ur message.
That's what you get for spending 2010 hopped up on instant tea crystals, Buddy.
I was weak, man! I need my fix, man!
You should pray to the Espionage Squad for strength. That's what I do.
I've never read any Lewis Carroll.
One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
My brother just informed me of the most horrifying slash fiction I've ever heard of.
JESUS. AND. HITLER.
My brother just informed me of the most horrifying slash fiction I've ever heard of.
JESUS. AND. HITLER.
The internet survived the torrid, er, romance that was Arby's Hat/Hamburger Helper Mascot. It can survive this as well-- if we just stay strong!!
Cleome, it's on ff.net.
The writer actually claimed Jesus and Hitler were "original characters". 74 reviews.
Dude, some wags on LJ broke the news on that one weeks ago.
I'm totally thinking of slapping a Warning: Contains no Jesus/Hitler on all my fics just to see if they'd get more hits and reviews that way.
Well my brother told me and I told someone on DeviantArt.
This thread is now one step away from becoming a late 20th Century shampoo ad.
I can't decide whether or not this should worry me.
Edward VI of England (1537–1553) became King of England and Ireland on 28 January 1547 and was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first Protestant ruler. During Edward’s reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council, because he never reached maturity. The Council was led from 1547 to 1549 by his uncle Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, and from 1550 to 1553 by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick, who in 1551 became 1st Duke of Northumberland. Edward's reign was marked by economic problems, military withdrawal from Scotland and Boulogne-sur-Mer, and social unrest that in 1549 erupted into riot and rebellion.
A Shaker named Sarah Babbitt invented the circular saw in 1810.
I've got readers in Brunei Darussalam.
I was looking at the IMDB entry for Laugh-in. In the quotes section, they had these two quotes.
Dan Rowan: [as the News of the Future anchor] Berlin, 20 years from now, 1989. There was dancing in the streets today as East Germany finally tore down the Berlin Wall. The joy was short-lived, however, as the wall was quickly replaced with a moat full of alligators.
Dan Rowan: [as the News of the Future anchor] Item: Washington, DC, 1988. President Ronald Reagan today denied once again that he is a candidate for the office of Governor of California.
The show was on from 1969 to 1973. The fall of the Berlin wall actually happened between November 9, 1989 and June 13, 1990.
Ronald Reagan was president from 1981 to 1989.
I have to take the cat to the vet today. She's got allergies, just like her Evil Stepmom. Poor little monster.
I
I'm having a blast writing reviews for 5YL and the Conway Legion.
I haven't done anything illegal in over 3 days.
When I was little we called Peppermint Patty (from "Peanuts") "Peppermint Patty Pancakes". I'm not sure why.
When I was little, I used to put a green lawn chair on my head and call myself Peppermint Patty. I'm not sure why.
Rocky, we should talk
When I was little, my favorite "Peanuts" character was Linus. The security blanket made him stand out from the rest.
There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
I'm appalled by some of the things I've posted on this thread over the years ...
I report for jury duty one week from today.
My principal shared with some faculty today that he once won a drag competition ...
I really like sodas made with real sugar, as opposed to high fructose corn syrup. I wish they'd keep the Pepsi and Mountain Dew Throwbacks around indefinitely.
I cut up my Starbucks gold card. I now drink coffee from 7-11 (or home) -- in my stainless steel Starbucks thermos bottle.
I'm a proxy Avon lady at my work. (My wife sells it, and I bring the books and orders to them and collect the money from them.)
Babies are born without knee caps.
Lately, I keep getting followed by stray cats. Seriously.
Originally posted by Lardi:
I'm a proxy Avon lady at my work. (My wife sells it, and I bring the books and orders to them and collect the money from them.)
Damn. So much for that "101 Reasons Why True Love Is Dead-Like-Blackest-Night Dead" thread that I was planning on starting in honor of it being February.
Several years ago I bought Christmas ornaments that were figurines of Charlie Brown dressed as Joseph and Lucy dressed as Mary with a doll in a manger. I use it as my Nativity scene every year.
Folk-Blues legend Elizabeth Cotten (who wrote the famous song "Freight Train"), was a Lefty who played a "regular" guitar backwards and upside-down decades before Jimi Hendrix.
My son out of the blue was interested in getting the movie Space jam, but I couldn't find it in Wal-Mart's DVD bargain bins.
I just made a Bloody Mary with Mott's Garden Cocktail and waaayyyyy too much vodka. I've been planning on trying this for weeks, and what do I do? I put too much vodka in... (And there's no more juice to add to it.)
I've come up with a new penname.
Dickie Jo Cutler.
Whale vomit (a.k.a. ambergris) is worth much more than gold.
My new flannel-lined jeans are quite comfy!
Originally posted by cleome:
I report for jury duty one week from today.
Me, too!
On Monday!
There's a Jewish segment that believe there is a feminine aspect of God.
Thank goodness!
Carly Simon has not revealed who the song "You're So Vain" is about, but has said that the letters A, E and R are in the name of this person.
Congratulations, Sarcasm Kid!
I was as surprised as everyone.
The dean frequently seemed to have me on his list. I thought he should have other things to worry about. It's not like I did it intentionally.
My boss agreed to let my son accompany me to work next Thursday for a shadowing project. I'm actually kind of excited!
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
Carly Simon has not revealed who the song "You're So Vain" is about, but has said that the letters A, E and R are in the name of this person.
There's an A, E and R in my name.
I believe she wrote the song about me, cause I'm such a studmuffin
A guy on facebook jilted my brother and now I'm comforting him by forgetting the guy's name and calling him other stuff.
Originally posted by Candle:
Originally posted by cleome:
[b]I report for jury duty one week from today.
On Monday![/b]You, me, AND Quis? We just need one more and it's a sitcom.
There's a Jewish segment that believe there is a feminine aspect of God.
Thank goodness!
Turns out, you can't volunteer for jury duty
Female canaries cannot sing.
I've never drank or even tasted a mojito. Ever.
I work with a guy named Jim Cross. If I had that name, I'd feel it I'd have no choice but to quit my job and become a hard-boiled private detective.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I work with a guy named Jim Cross. If I had that name, I'd feel it I'd have no choice but to quit my job and become a hard-boiled private detective.
Would you name your son "Chris"?
Chris-Cross'll make ya JUMP-JUMP!
I find it difficult to believe that a Great White Shark would actually make a good drummer.
Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
In one episode of All in the Family, Archie Bunker, without knowing it, issued what turned out to be a correct prophecy: During an argument with the "Meathead" in Kelsey's Bar, the latter walks out at the end, with Archie yelling out the door after him: "You're gonna get Ree-gan in 1980, wise guy!"
This is my 9898th post on Legion World.
At this precise moment I have exactly 3,155 more posts than Rocky!
Originally posted by Lardi:
At this precise moment I have exactly 3,155 more posts than Rocky! This post I just made reminded me of Jim Dale's excellent narration of the sorely missed TV series
Pushing Daisies.
That's... pretty random, Lardie...
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
I hate it when I'm writing and I'm suffering from, uh, whatever that word is that means not being able to remember the word I want to use.
Marge Redmond, the actress who played Sarah Tucker of Tucker Inn in the Cool Whip commercials of the 1970s and '80s, played Sister Jacqueline on The Flying Nun.
Lately I've been enjoying the inane post-hooker threads. I have a love/hate with them. Currently, its love.
"Hey everyone, let's all go to Magic Gumdrop Land!"
"Yaaaaay!"
"Oh but we don't have any money."
"Aaaaaawwww."
"That's okay! We can hitch a ride there with this creepy Mexican man!"
"Uh..."
"Hey ese, you want to feel the hair on the back of my neck?"
Girl Scouts and their parents' zealous cookie-selling scare me sometimes.
I prefer the term "icing" to "frosting".
I barely understand hockey at all. The term "icing" as it's used there being among the many wtf aspects.
I'm more scared to ask Cobie to explain "post-hooker" than I am scared to discuss hockey.
But only a little.
I'd guess he's referring to the 'easiness' of posting on most of the MMB threads, comparing to the 'easiness' of a prostitute. While the latter requires the compromising of ones funds (and morals), the former requires the compromising of one's dignity in the pursuit of higher post counts!
I also understand little about hockey. "Icing" for me is the stuff made with butter and sugar that is spread on a cake.
I have a recipe somewhere for vanilla icing made with butter, shortening, AND heavy cream.
They didn't mess around in the 1950s, I tell you...
I took a course back when I was an undergrad English major in the late '80s called Modern American Drama. The whole semester was devoted to two playwrights: Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams. Apparently, nothing written after 1960 mattered to this professor.
If any of you collect con sketches in a sketchbook, what kind do use?
Guys, honestly! I have to know if I need to return the one I bought for Saturday.
^No clue.
I like to use the term "post-hooker" because "post-whore" is offensive to one of the posters I'm friends with and its funnier. But yeah, Lardy has the basic idea. Padding your post-count with inane threads is the equivalent of selling yourself on the corner of 42nd Street and Broadway in 1973 for two hours of something that smells really awful. Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you
I don't think of myself as a post-whore or post-hooker. I'm more of a post-courtesan.
Snorri, the first North American child to be born of European parents (Thorfin and Gudrid), was born in Vinland around A.D. 1000
Dude, why are you worried about the sketch pad? Most artists are just happy for the paying gig and will draw in/on most anything, so long as it's not that construction paper that disintegrates when an eraser touches it.
I haven't been to a con in ages, but I remember that much.
Yeah, but then I have to SCAN them on the computer, and the binding can really screw with that. I didn't take that into consideration earlier...
You can always get a hard, light-colored pencil (or what's called a "non-repro" blue pencil, if they still make those) and draw a ruled line parallel to the sketchpad's binding beforehand-- on several of the sketchpad's pages. Maybe 1/8" to 1/3" away from where the page meets the binding, depending on what seems practical. Then politely ask the artist if he or she can stay outside that line when drawing.
I'm gonna have to remember that.
I'll be sure to share whatever sketches I get tomorrow.
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of crows is called a murder.
Is anyone else sick of those "text" commercials they keep airing?
My brother is a "junior"... my younger brother!
Callisto is a moon of the planet Jupiter, discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede. It does not form part of the orbital resonance that affects three inner Galilean satellites—Io, Europa and Ganymede—and thus does not experience appreciable tidal heating. Callisto rotates synchronously with its orbital period, so the same face is always turned toward Jupiter. Callisto is composed of approximately equal amounts of rock and ices, with a mean density of about 1.83 g/cm3. Compounds detected spectroscopically on the surface include water ice, carbon dioxide, silicates, and organic compounds. Investigation by the Galileo spacecraft revealed that Callisto may have a small silicate core and possibly a subsurface ocean of liquid water at depths greater than 100 km. Prominent surface features include multi-ring structures, variously shaped impact craters, and chains of craters and associated scarps, ridges and deposits. Callisto is surrounded by an extremely thin atmosphere composed of carbon dioxide and probably molecular oxygen, as well as by a rather intense ionosphere.
I find the words "squee" and "squee-worthy" utterly annoying!
I die a little whenever the words "loose" and "lose" are confused with one another online.
Guys, I really need votes on this to make it work.
http://www.legionworld.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=001115
One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed. This means I have a good chance of being snakebitten
not only am i a scifi geek BUT i enjoy bad tv scifi
I was at the casino yesterday and the day before. I was down $500 from roulette the first day but made back $325 playing poker yesterday morning. My luck started to change again so I called it quits, down a total of $175, which isn't *terrible*.
I like gambling and I like free drinks. I just hate losing and I hate cigerette smoke.
Originally posted by kidflash2fan:
not only am i a scifi geek BUT i enjoy bad tv scifi
I too love bad sci fi...especially the horrid made for Syfy movies they do.
The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
I really don't care for the "Quotes Without Context" thread.
Originally in All in the Family, the last name was "Justice" rather than "Bunker" and Mike was called Dickie.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
Originally in All in the Family, the last name was "Justice" rather than "Bunker" and Mike was called Dickie.
Gives the name "Meathead" a whole new connotation, eh?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I bought powerball tickets today. I buy them like once every 6 months. Everytime I buy one, I kind of assume I'm going to win for the entire evening.
I sell Powerball tickets (and other assorted lottery). Sell them long enough and you hate lottery with every fiber of your being!
i dont know why, but every time the south park people make a gay/rape/blow-job joke im laughing for freaking hours no matter how many times Ive herd the joke, watched the movie, seen the episode
This feels like the beginnings of a new LMB villain / arch nemesis for Lardy!
The Powerball Ticket!
Believe it or not, the IRS sent me a letter telling me I calculated my refund incorrectly and that they're sending me $400 more!!!
How often does that happen!?!
That's awesome! Of all the IRS employees, you got the one that's their Paula!
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
This feels like the beginnings of a new LMB villain / arch nemesis for Lardy!
The Powerball Ticket!
Nah, Lardy's greatest enemy is, and always has been: <span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">himself!
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Mendelssohn's Fifth Symphony, "The Reformation", has a motif based on "Ein' Feste Burg" ("A Mighty Fortress is Our God").
I went to the dentist today at 8:00 AM.
Sucksville.
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
Tyroc's a girl!
I think you want the
Lies, All Lies thread
It's not a lie.
http://JudeDeluca.deviantart.com/art/Legion-Try-Outs-15-156113114 I once knew a guy named Ao. His parents wanted to name him Aol but they forgot to add the L.
The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
Something else else all LWers should be doing: Using the "Message Icon"
That little yellow L* on a blue flag that is to the left of the 'quick post' or above the regular post area? Click on it. There are 14 groovy message icons you can use on your posts.
Only about 6 of us use them anymore I think (Teeds, Eryk, myself, Nighty...Dr. Mayavale?).
Nighty created them and not using them is akin to spitting in his face!
Thanks for heads up Cobie.
To tell the truth I never really knew aboout them till you mentioned them a day or two ago
I know--I only found out about them a few years ago when Eryk basically posted the same thing I just did
Now you can totally be one of the cool people and use them...and when other people realize they exist they'll see all your old posts have them too!
I have a minor but annoying injury that I'm hoping will clear up on its own before Saturday.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
That's awesome! Of all the IRS employees, you got the one that's their Paula!
I know!! Guess who's being sent an Xmas card this year.
[snip]
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Only about 6 of us use them anymore I think (Teeds, Eryk, myself, Nighty...Dr. Mayavale?).
Nighty created them and not using them is akin to spitting in his face!
All along, I figured those things were like some kind of "LMB Secret Handshake" that I wouldn't find out about for another five years.
Its like seeing the end of Usual Suspects for the first time!
I'm drinking a tropical thunder booster juice
"Reve" is French for "Dream."
I once met a man on a bus who claimed to be "?" from "? and the Mysterians," and although I had no real reason to doubt him, I nevertheless did.
The first bilingual sitcom to run in the U.S. was called ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?
39 episodes were shown on PBS from 1977 to 1980.
The ancient Egyptians bought jewelry for their pet crocodiles.
The Westfalia centrifuge has 107 discs on its upper distributor
When I worked security, we couldn't wear our boots in the bunkhouses we patrolled.
In the two years I worked security I put on and took off my boots about 70,000 times
This happened.
http://www.legionworld.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=9;t=002779;p=1#000000
Temperate climates are overrated. I've already seen moths, ants, AND fleas on the move around here in the last two weeks.
I've always hated all brands of raisin bran, with those gummy sugary raisins. So I bought plain bran flakes and added a light dusting of powdered cinnamon -- delicious and nutritious.
I'm drinking coffee and have a kitty on my lap
My kids are watching Angels in the Outfield.
My kids haven't been born yet.
<span style="font-size: 16px;">
Limeade Recipe:</span>1 1/2 C filtered water
2 T sugar syrup
Juice of 2 regular or four Key Limes
Squeeze limes into water. (Don't strain out the pulp, you wimp.) Add sugar syrup. Stir briskly. Pour over ice.
Serves 1
I've taken over 25,000 shots in my life so far.
I'm going to an Oscar party in a little bit where all the guests are gay men and most are in some way involved with classical music. It's an interesting group.
I just thought of something.
Now, I don't have anything against Rob Liefeld personally. I'm sure he's a pleasant human being. And I understand why his art is so awful.
But, what if they did a comic where the people with Liefeld's anatomy where actually SUFFERING from the way they've been drawn? Like "Oh God! My arms! They're like drumsticks!"
"A waitress at a McDonald's in Holland sold a co-worker a hamburger. The co-worker then asked for a slice of cheese in addition. So McDonald's fired the waitress for failing to charge the full price for a cheeseburger.
The evil corporate drones, doubtless dressed as Ronald McDonald, argued in a court in Leeuwarden that she had broken the rules on giving free gifts to family, friends or collegues, report the BBC.
The court responded that a written warning would have been enough and ordered McDonald's to pay her $5900 for five months of her contract. In a triumph of comedic stating-the-obvious, they said: 'the dismissal was too severe a measure. It is just a slice of cheese.'
-- Ravi Somaiya, "McDonald's Is Still Evil, But Also Now Petty"
[snip]
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
I just thought of something.
But, what if they did a comic where the people with Liefeld's anatomy where actually SUFFERING from the way they've been drawn? Like "Oh God! My arms! They're like drumsticks!"
For the same reason that you never see Harvey Kurtzman's women weeping in pain because of their gargantuan chests and weird origami-folded ankles.
"Classic" comics are full of anatomy failure on a cosmic scale. Nothing new there. I still snicker every time I think of Alison Bechdel calling the typical Kurtzman females "mudflaps." Apparently a bunch of guys like Spiegelman and such were livid at her for "denigrating" Teh Master Cartoonist in this fashion.
Ppppphhhht! They can dish it out, but they can't take it.
The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
Spoilers:
I realized a couple of days ago that not
one , but
two movie endings that I've enjoyed were ambiguous endings of movies beginning with "B," involving a French woman, an American man named, "Jesse," and spontaneous dancing to a famous piano player.
That is just a Jeopardy category waiting to happen.
Back when Jenny McCarthy was funny, she and her sister once dressed like cheerleaders and did a cheer about poo.
"Push, push, push it out!
That's what pooing is all about!"
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by cleome:
<strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">
Limeade Recipe:</span>1 1/2 C filtered water
2 T sugar syrup
Juice of 2 regular or four Key Limes
Squeeze limes into water. (Don't strain out the pulp, you wimp.) Add sugar syrup. Stir briskly. Pour over ice.
Serves 1
This sounds delightful!!!
There are 19 threads on the MMB that contain the word "Rocky" that date from before my Legion World debut on August 6, 2005. The earliest use of that word to refer to me was five days later in the "Introduce yourself" thread by Mystic Luna.
There is a thread in The Anywhere Machine titled "Stealth" that has nothing to do with me. It's about a bad action movie from a few years ago that most people have probably forgotten about.
I'm being transferred to a new school in the fall ...
I DO. YYYYYYES, I DOOOOOOOO!!
I dissected a cow eye tonight in class.
Originally Luke Skywalker was named Luke Starkiller. Starkiller is the name eventually given to Vader's apprentice in "The Force Unleashed"
I almost cried when I saw that they're planning to re-make
The Rockford Files. Leave my childhood
alone, Culture Vultures!!
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by cleome:
<strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">[b]Limeade Recipe:</span>1 1/2 C filtered water
2 T sugar syrup
Juice of 2 regular or four Key Limes
Squeeze limes into water. (Don't strain out the pulp, you wimp.) Add sugar syrup. Stir briskly. Pour over ice.
Serves 1
This sounds delightful!!! [/b]
It is, believe me. I keep a big-a** jar of homemade sugar syrup (aka "simple syrup") in the fridge just so I can indulge in this on a semi-regular basis.
On "Inspector Gadget", Frank Welker was the voices of both Gadget's nemesis, Dr. Claw, and Gadget's dog, Brain.
Each year 40,000 tons of matter from space is added to the planet earth's mass. This matter comes from space in the form of asteroids, meteoroids, interplanetary dust, and comet debris.
I use an old pair of kayak shoes as house slippers.
Originally posted by Stealth:
On "Inspector Gadget", Frank Welker was the voices of both Gadget's nemesis, Dr. Claw, and Gadget's dog, Brain.
He's done voices on a majority of cartoon series that I grew up watching.
To make Pop Rocks, the hot sugar mixture is allowed to mix with carbon dioxide gas at about 600psi. The carbon dioxide gas forms tiny, 600psi bubbles in the candy. When you put the candy in your mouth, it melts and releases the bubbles. What you are hearing and feeling is the 600psi carbon dioxide gas being released from each bubble.
Originally posted by Dev Em:
Originally posted by Stealth:
[b]On "Inspector Gadget", Frank Welker was the voices of both Gadget's nemesis, Dr. Claw, and Gadget's dog, Brain.
Believe me, I know all things Welker. He's the Mel Blanc of our generation.
I can name all the characters he played on Transformers, and even which one of them sounded like the same voice he gives Fred from Scooby-Doo (Blades.)
I know that he used the Dr. Claw voice for Darkseid on Super-Friends and for Soundwave on Transformers (although the voice processing hid it most of the time, except for one episode where the processing disappeared for a couple seconds.)
I know that he's been Fred in every Scooby-Doo incarnation except A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
I know that he's often the off-screen voice of monsters and/or animals in all sorts of live-action movies.
That good enough for you?
The knobbed whelk, a very large predatory snail, belongs to the genus, "Busycon".
Yeah... I could see that.
Originally posted by Stealth:
Originally posted by Dev Em:
[b]
Originally posted by Stealth:
[b]On "Inspector Gadget", Frank Welker was the voices of both Gadget's nemesis, Dr. Claw, and Gadget's dog, Brain.
He's done voices on a majority of cartoon series that I grew up watching. [/b]
I can name all the characters he played on Transformers, and even which one of them sounded like the same voice he gives Fred from Scooby-Doo (Blades.)
I know that he used the Dr. Claw voice for Darkseid on Super-Friends and for Soundwave on Transformers (although the voice processing hid it most of the time, except for one episode where the processing disappeared for a couple seconds.)
I know that he's been Fred in every Scooby-Doo incarnation except A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
I know that he's often the off-screen voice of monsters and/or animals in all sorts of live-action movies.
That good enough for you?[/b]Wasn't questioning your knowledge...just stating another fact about him. I love that he is still around doing stuff. I love watching for his name in the credits.
He even did Toyman on Challenge of the Superfriends.
Originally posted by Dev Em:
Originally posted by Stealth:
[b]
Originally posted by Dev Em:
[b] </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Stealth:
<strong>On "Inspector Gadget", Frank Welker was the voices of both Gadget's nemesis, Dr. Claw, and Gadget's dog, Brain.
He's done voices on a majority of cartoon series that I grew up watching. [/b]
I can name all the characters he played on Transformers, and even which one of them sounded like the same voice he gives Fred from Scooby-Doo (Blades.)
I know that he used the Dr. Claw voice for Darkseid on Super-Friends and for Soundwave on Transformers (although the voice processing hid it most of the time, except for one episode where the processing disappeared for a couple seconds.)
I know that he's been Fred in every Scooby-Doo incarnation except A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
I know that he's often the off-screen voice of monsters and/or animals in all sorts of live-action movies.
That good enough for you?[/b]Wasn't questioning your knowledge...just stating another fact about him. I love that he is still around doing stuff. I love watching for his name in the credits.
He even did Toyman on Challenge of the Superfriends. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sorry, I didn't mean to be so defensive. I hadn't yet had my coffee when I made that post.
I'm also of the controversial opinion that Leonard Nimoy's Galvatron in Transformers The Movie was inferior to Frank Welker's Galvatron in Transformers Season Three. Welker's Galvatron rules!!
That's funny, because on IMDB it says that Mr. Welker did the Spock scream for ST:III over Mr. Nimoy.
That's way cool! I'll have to watch ST:III again just for that.
Most people feel it's not one of the better Treks, even Nimoy himself! He says he directed it "with the training wheels on."
I do not believe that there is an odd number curse to the treks. 2 - 4 make up one complete story, after that, they pretty much fall flat for me until this last reboot one.
I'll respectfully disagree. I adore ST:VI, although that's partly because I've had a sapphic crush on Kim Cattrall since forever.
I've loved her since Big Trouble in Little China. It's not like I hated them, they just progressively lost more of my interest as they went on. As much as I liked TNG crew...was never huge into their movies.
I'm with you on the TNG movies. I think that First Contact is the most overrated of the Trek movies.
Yeah. What did you think of the reboot? I personally loved it and thought they cast some of the roles perfectly.
I thought it was a great looking movie with thrilling action sequences, but I think it suffered from a weak villain. I had mixed feelings about the casting -- my favorite was Karl Urban as Bones, my least favorite was Zoe Saldana as Uhura (although I do think she was great in Avatar, which made me newly optimistic about her casting as Aisha in the movie version of The Losers.)
Karl Urban was spot on perfect. Chekov was my least fave recast, but he did more in that movie than pretty much his whole history combined.
Looking forward to The Losers.
I just saw that they're talking about Hugo Weaving as the Redd Skull for the Cap movie...which I think would be a good choice.
Looking forward to The Losers as well, and I'd like to take this chance to thank you, Dev, for being the first one to post about The Losers in Dr. Gymll's Cultural Rarities. I've bumped that thread a couple times.
No problem. I need to finish up that series...I had to drop it as well as just about everything else at one point.
I love that the finger pointing gun thing made it into the movie.
The supermarket that I go to (aka the one closest to and within walking distance of my house) has strikers in front of the store. They are the warehouse workers for the store. I feel a bit bad crossing the picket line.
The tummy wants what the tummy wants.
Originally posted by Dev Em:
Karl Urban was spot on perfect. Chekov was my least fave recast, but he did more in that movie than pretty much his whole history combined.
We walked of the movie saying, 'That kid pretending to speak Russian was painful.' only to get home and look stuff up on IMDB and find out he *was* Russian. Doh.
But I was pleasantly surprised with the 'big three' of Kirk, Spock and Bones. Nero sure as hell was no Khan 'though...
My current signature is a quote from a Paulina Rubio song called "Miel y Sal."
Dev,
^Health-wise? Temperatures changing, kids getting sick...tough time for parents health!
I feel totally drained. Probably sinus due to the weather shift.
I feel somewhat better this morning...still feel off though.
Is a single soap bubble a sud?
Get well soon Dev!
The Globe theater burned to the ground on June 29, 1613, set fire by a cannon shot during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII.
I am only missing 12 of the Original Star Wars figures.
Daylight Savings was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin.
My Grandma died 25 years ago today.
, Dev.
My maternal grandmother died 30 years ago this November. Doesn't seem that long.
I lost my last Grandparent early this year.
I can hear my garbage cans rolling around in my driveway, but there's no way I'm going outside in this rain ...
At age forty, I still have both of my maternal grands alive, spry and kicking! On the paternal side my grandfather died when I was three and my grandmother about 15 years ago. My dad died five years ago of cancer, and he was the second-youngest of six siblings. All the other five are still kicking.
I just recieved one of my prizes for winning on 1 vs 100 this season
I had all four grandparents till my late 20s. Both my grandmothers passed away in 1998. My last grandparent was my maternal grandfather, who died one year ago today (March 14th).
Originally posted by SharkLad:
I can hear my garbage cans rolling around in my driveway, but there's no way I'm going outside in this rain ...
And this is coming from a Shark!
The power went out at my house for about two hours last night. That is a major concern for me because my wife Alice (aka Pagan Lass) has emphyzima and COPD. She needs a constant supply of Oxygen to breathe normally. We Have an O2 concentrator which she normally uses but when the power went out we had to shift to her back-up supply which is bottled O2.
Today I'll be looking into a backup generator for the house.
In the past, defendants in a criminal trial were not allowed to testify even if they wanted to.
Abin,
. Scary. I hope you can find something soon.
I gave somebody on LJ an idea for a new story yesterday.
Unlike Rays and other 'flat' fish that are flat in the sense that they lay on their 'stomach', with their 'back' to the surface, flounder are flat in that they lay on one side with the other side up. In other fish this would mean that one eye faces up, while the other eye is in the mud. Flounder are born like this, with an eye on each side of their head. One eye later migrates to the other side of the body so that both eyes are facing up.
<span style="font-size: 15px;">Oven-Roasted New Potatoes:</span>
<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">1 lb. new potatoes, washed but not peeled
2 C. broth (flavor of your choice), or water flavored with bullion.
2-3 T. Olive Oil, plus a little extra for oiling the pan
1/4 C. White Onion, coarsely chopped OR 1 T. minced garlic
2 t. fresh chopped or 1 t. dried Rosemary
salt and pepper to taste
*******
1) Lightly oil a glass baking pan.
2) Preheat oven to 425 F.
3) Pierce Potato skins with a fork, once or twice.
4) Put the potatoes in a pot with the broth. Add a little water if necessary so that they are covered with about an inch to spare. Parboil for 10-15 minutes. Drain and spray or rinse with cold water to stop cooking.
5) You can cut the larger potatoes in half or quarters if necessary. I prefer to bake them whole, though. 1" to 1 1/2" diameter is good.
6) Combine in the baking pan with remaining ingredients, making sure potatoes are coated with oil mixture.
7) Bake/roast in the center of the oven for 30-45 minutes, turning every 10-15 minutes in the pan. Potatoes are done when one slides easily off a fork.
Serves 2-3.
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Originally posted by Dev Em:
Originally posted by SharkLad:
[b]I can hear my garbage cans rolling around in my driveway, but there's no way I'm going outside in this rain ...
granted, not one of my finer Carcharodon moments ...
Boss had me working pickups for 4 hours. Finally got lunch...got rid of lunch. Store Mgr went home, Asst Store Manager promptly walks in and says to go home, so I don't get anyone else sick.
Gotta love bosses.
Man, barfin' sucks!
Seriously, people have been calling out at my place left and right. Problem is, when people call out habitually, it's hard to be sure if they're on the up-and-up. Some of them you just know they're blowing off most of the time.
It's a fine line to learn as a boss. As a general rule of thumb, the guys who perform well aren't gonna call out unless they really have to. The ones who don't will blow off any time the mood strikes. Sometimes, it's not that cut and dry, though. If someone's at work and clearly badly under the weather, I never require them to stay or threaten their jobs.
Me? It takes a LOT for me to call out. I work with horrific colds/borderline flus all the time. I guess we all know our limits, and they're different for different people.
I'm not defending your store manager at all, Dev. Just lending some perspective.
Very true. I can respect that it is a fine line to tread as a manager. The thing is, don't take out the things some people do on the ones that do not abuse the system. It is true that I had to leave early last Sunday, but that was due to both my kids being sick and having nobody to watch them for my wife to go to work. Her job is who we have insurance through right now.
Like I said in another thread, I do not have a problem bringing in a Dr. note when I am sick, it's the attitude in which it was requested.
The thing was...everyone at work was keeping distance from me, because of hoe I looked. The coughing fits that would bend me over were no fun either.
The thing is, I deal with the public...it's a retail store, and not exactly what I want to see someone carrying something to my car hacking up a lung all over the place.
When I came in today and handed him the note from the clinic yesterday, he asked if I was feeling better. This is where my temper showed a bit, but I had a point to make. I said no...which was 100% true, and that I would never ever call in again.
The last time I called off was in Oct...I had a 101 fever and had actually gotten the damn bug from my boss. He got all attitude then as well.
Not sure what his problem is, he seems to be all over the charts with the way he deals with things...
Not trying to tit-for-tat you Lardi...just venting.
I am a manager in a call center. I deal with people calling in all the time, so I understand that sometimes things happen, especially when it isn't just you and kids are involved.
However, I have a peer (another manager) that I know has missed almost 6 or 7 weeks in the last year or so. There was the week she threw out her back, the second week she threw out her back, when she learned that her daughter had gotten into a fight (6 months earlier). Normally, I don't pay much attention to that sort of thing, but when she misses, my job gets that much harder. I understand that things happen, but some people seem to treat their job as the place to go as long as everything is working right, not as a priority. And I don't think that is right, especially if you are a manager.
Of course, I am a manager and have to deal with this kind of thing all the time. Right now, I'm struggling with what to do with two ladies who call out entirely too often. One has had a lot of hardships over the past year. The other is just very sickly; you can look at her and see it. Both do a terrific job when they come in, but it's rare during any given week that one, the other are both don't call out.
It's funny, but both balk any time I suggest cutting them back a shift, yet neither rarely ever takes home a full two-week schedule's worth of pay on any given paycheck.
It doesn't help at all that I'm a big softy and not very bosslike at all. But for business purposes, unless something changes for the better, I'm very likely going to have to hire on more help, cut their hours and weed them out that way. It's not what I want to do, but there's only so much I and the other more reliable employees can take. The absences are just way beyond the realm of reasonability at this point.
Again, this is no comment on Dev's story, but his just brought out a situation at my work that I've been dealing with.
Same here, like I said we all have situations.
[snip]
Lardi:
It's funny, but both balk any time I suggest cutting them back a shift, yet neither rarely ever takes home a full two-week schedule's worth of pay on any given paycheck.
My nerves are scraped raw after almost two years of failing to find regular work, and I've read about this kind of thing on local boards far too often. Oh, the joys of 12% joblessness!
I should be buying
you ginger beer then.
It's gotten to the point where I wait until the very end of the required period to scout around for the required number of jobs per week. It's just so effing humiliating after a while, knowing that you could just send the recipient ten LOLCat attachments or random words from the dictionary and not significantly alter the chances of your resume being read or acknowledged on the other end. All an early-in-the-week search accomplishes is a chance to be enraged and depressed earlier in the week than Friday.
I applied for a job I temped at, and didn't even get an interview. It was several years ago, and I worked several jobs at a Community College near me. You'd think I'd at least get a little something by having done the job...but no.
Yup. It's kind of sad that I practically kiss the screen during the rare times that somebody takes five seconds to write, "Sorry. We looked at your resume, but decided to go with somebody who's not a complete LOSER, Loser!"
I'd be happy to get that. Never heard back from anything I have put out.
Boy, boy, crazy boy!
Stay loose, boy!
Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it.
Turn off the juice, boy!
Go man, go,
But not like a yo-yo schoolboy.
Just play it cool, boy,
Real cool!
William A. Mitchell, the inventor of Cool Whip, shares a birthday with...
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">PAUL LEVITZ!!</span> (...and also my kid brother.)</span></span>
[cue theme from "The Twilight Zone"]
There's a seriously odd connection there.
While I understand that Chile had better infrastructure and the insurance industry was heavily involved in providing coverage there, I don't understand why Chile's earthquake has basically gotten no media coverage and the Haiti earthquake was news you couldn't escape from if you tried. Besides those two things I mentioned, why the huge difference in media coverage?
One inch of rain over one square mile is 17,378,700 gallons of water.
BTW, these employment problems really make me appreciate the area I live in
Tell me about it. I wish I could move to a more thriving area...but can't afford it, or afford to leave teh support system I have here.
Yeah I was pretty lucky when I moved here...My parents gave me the money to make the move and one of my aunts already lived here, and let me stay with her till I got on my feet and found my own place.
If it weren't for that I'd probably still be unemployed in Newfoundland.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
While I understand that Chile had better infrastructure and the insurance industry was heavily involved in providing coverage there, I don't understand why Chile's earthquake has basically gotten no media coverage and the Haiti earthquake was news you couldn't escape from if you tried. Besides those two things I mentioned, why the huge difference in media coverage?
It's precisely because of one following almost right on the heels of the other, I think.
Tigra Cigarettes? Hmmm... Maybe I should've posted this to the All Avengers thread...
Antarctica contains about 90 percent of the world's ice and 70 percent of its fresh water. Antarctica is covered with ice an average of 7,000 feet thick. If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet). But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37C, so the ice there is in no danger of melting.
Originally posted by cleome:
[b]Tigra Cigarettes?
Hmmm... Maybe I should've posted this to the All Avengers thread...
[/b]
I'm glad you didn't, because I despise Tigra. She's a stupid werecat-bimbo.
I think Shooter did her a lot of harm in his Eighties run. Some other people actually wrote her as a pretty courageous and thoughtful character. Not, as somebody once described Shooter's version, "A bouncing bikini babe in fur."
DeMatteis kept her jokey side in
Marvel Team-Up, but still tried to remember that her backstory was actually kind of somber. I guess a lot of the writers after Shooter followed his lead, though.
All I know is, even Steve Engelhart couldn't find a way to make Tigra work, and he was the first male comic book writer to write three-dimensional super-heroines.
I'm not overly familiar with Marvel characters (excluding ROM) but all I can remember of Tigra was the "bouncing bikini babe" version.
Haven't read Englehart in a lonnnnnng time. I mostly remember him as the creator of Mantis (???).
Englehart had the Scarlet Witch save the universe -- three times!
During the filming of Fight Club, Brad Pitt chipped his tooth , but waited to have it capped until after filming because he felt it added to his character.
I am feeling much better today...
good to hear Dev
Egyptian pharaohs were considered children of Ra (Egyptian sun god) and, thus, their dreams were seen as being divine.
I don't have any Irish background at all.
Neither side of my family's ever been big on exploring where their ancestors came from. So I have no idea if I'm Irish, English, Portuguese, Lithuanian or whatever. I guess we're just certified redneck.
So far as I know, I'm all Irish
I'm just about almost entirely Irish-American with just a little bit of Native American, Spanish and WASP. But its so little that I basically just think of myself as Irish-American. My family is very big on keeping in touch with our Irish heritage.
And today, I got to go to the NYC St. Patrick's Day parade, which was great!
My uncle's wife is Irish-American, and she is one of the coolest women in the world.
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
Green bagels traumatized me in my youth.
The token straight guy in the choir I sing with is the countertenor.
I can't dance and I can't sing...but I love music!
One of the first chest-revealing swimsuits for men appeared in 1932 and was called the “Topper.” The suit had a detachable top that could be zipped away from the trunk bottoms. Unfortunately, men who chose to appear topless at the time were often arrested for indecent exposure.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
The token straight guy in the choir I sing with is the countertenor.
Straight guys in a choir are unusual?!?!
Went to a Breaking Benjamin / Three Days Grace concert, like, two months ago, and I still wake up with their music in my head.
Originally posted by Lardi:
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
[b]The token straight guy in the choir I sing with is the countertenor.
Haven't been around too many choral groups, have you, Lardy?
Well, I was in chorus/show choir in high school and college, and there were plenty of straight dudes. All of the ones I know still verify as straight via Facebook years later!
I'm double-jointed.
Originally posted by Lardi:
Well, I was in chorus/show choir in high school and college, and there were plenty of straight dudes. All of the ones I know still verify as straight via Facebook years later! I've been the only gay guy in a choir and I've seen it the other way. I think there is a stereotype, but, like any stereotype, it often is not true.
Gotta be more straight male choir members than there are straight figure skaters!
I like baseball but it takes me a good three months to get into it every year. I don't give a crap about spring training and I don't even want to know whose on the Yankees roster until 20+ games are played. The season is just way too long. I'm still watching Hockey and college basketball, I'm not ready to deal with baseball fans, who all act like they know every statistic known to man (and those statistics actually matter) and think they are the greatest businessmen since Warren Buffet.
I also get infuriated when I hear this line: "He should be able to ___, I mean, they're paying him enough!". Bah. The guy is playing a game he loves. We're the idiots who think paying them that much is worthwhile.
You know I can't smile without you,
I can't smile without you,
I can't laugh and I can't sing,
I'm findin' it hard to do anything.
The Muppet vampire, Count von Count from Sesame Street, is based on actual vampire myth. One way to supposedly deter a vampire is to throw seeds (usually mustard) outside a door or place fishing net outside a window. Vampires are compelled to count the seeds or the holes in the net, delaying them until the sun comes up.
Jim Henson - Vampire Hunter.
In a 2007 appearance on the Martha Stewart show, Cookie Monster shared his new philosophy that "cookies are a sometime food."
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
I have a mini crush on Didi from American Idol.
So do I. Wonder if she swings both ways?
I'd have a bigger crush on her if she did!
She should cover Joan Jett's rocked-out version of "Crimson & Clover."
In the movie "Scarface" the F-word is said 207 time, which works out to an average of 1.22 per minute.
I saw "Scarface" in a widescreen movie theatre when it got a limited 20th Anniversary re-release. It was 20 million times more awesome than when I'd seen it on a TV screen.
I've always liked Carlito's Way better than Scarface (if we're talking De Palma/Pacino gangster movies). Not that Scarface isn't a great movie, I just like Carlito's Way that much.
Me and my friends used to play the Scarface drinking game....everytime they say the F-word, you do a shot of beer.
I don't think I've ever seen the end of the movie while playing
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I've always liked Carlito's Way better than Scarface (if we're talking De Palma/Pacino gangster movies). Not that Scarface isn't a great movie, I just like Carlito's Way that much.
"Carlito's Way" featured Jorge Porcel in a rare dramatic role. Growing up in South America, it was impossible to not be aware of Porcel and his comedic partner Alberto Olmedo. They were sort of a Latin American Abbott & Costello updated for the swingers generation.
Their partnership ended in the mid-late 80s when Olmedo fell off a high-rise balcony during a cocaine binge.
Porcel is alive and well and retired from showbiz.
I've only seen Carlito's Way once, but from what I remember, it was quite good
Ten years later, I still have a mad crush on Shady ...
Since I grumble so much here about both not working and working, I report the following out of a sense of civic duty:
Yesterday I was going about my business in the warehouse and one of the supervisors came over to watch me for a couple of minutes. He's not one I see very often, and after a minute or so of circling around he said, "This looks great. Very organized. Oh, and it looks like you're not comfortable crouching down in the corner so I'll get Inventory to send over a table for you to set up the stock on."
I almost fell off the pallet I was stocking. It was truly a magic moment.
Thanks for listening.
Sometimes, there are good bosses.
When I was in grad school, I worked at the campus library. I arrived for work one day to find the door locked; another worker told me the boss was in a meeting with his boss. When I went back half an hour later and signed in, the boss jumped me for being late. I told him that I was on time and the door was locked because he was in a meeting. He apologized immediately; I brushed it off and went back to work. However, he was so mortified that he came over to where I was shelving books and apologized again.
His humility and respect for me as an employee have always stayed with me.
Gold melts at 1064.43° Centigrade. It can conduct both heat and electricity and it never rusts.
Edgar Allen Poe advocated renaming the United States "Appalachia".
Today is Saturday... until it isn't anymore...
Dev-Em, Mattropolis, and I posted almost simultaneously.
Fate is not a pretty girl at all...
I knew a girl named Fate.
My current signature, like the one before it, is lyrics from a Paulina Rubio song. This time, it's "Solo Por Ti" ("Only For You.")
Vanilla is my favorite flavor... (mostly)
I never noticed Terra had buck teeth before.
Originally posted by SharkLad:
Ten years later, I still have a mad crush on Shady ...
I second that emotion.
In her first few appearances, Terra also had a brown ponytail
Wasn't that a hairpiece attached to her original mask?
Or maybe I'm remembering wrong.
Most impressive memory my dear.
Why, thank you, kind sir.
I always wondered why she changed her look so quickly, not from a story standpoint, but a creative one
I am totally guessing here, but after her initial intro, I think they wanted to move away from the Kitty Pryde parallel as much as possible.
Their initial intent was to intro a girl that fans would assume was just like Kitty over in X-Men, who was recently introduced at around the same time.
I got kind of sniffly watching Terra and Beast Boy at the amusement park in the Titans cartoon.
Oh God. My daughter loves the Titans cartoon. I was working quite a bit when she started watching it. She fell in love with Terra when she first saw her. My wife happened to mention that she liked Terra. I didn't think much of it at the time, because she wasn't watching the show on any regular basis. A show here or there with her wouldn't be that bad...plus I had never seen the show at that point, so I had no idea where they would take it.
Little did I know that by the time I got home, she had been crying for a while because ther had been a Titans marathon on. I felt sooo bad. I explained a few things to her, adn she felt better when we found the comic that shows what happened to her after that season.
When does the voting end?
Sheer curtains are not always a good idea...
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
When does the voting end?
I think it's over Monday night.
Originally posted by Mattropolis:
Vanilla is my favorite flavor... (mostly)
Originally posted by Dev Em:
Originally posted by SharkLad:
[b]Ten years later, I still have a mad crush on Shady ...
Little darlins . . . gives them each a 'nose-nose' kiss.
Tee hee
On the one hand, I think that it would be incredibly rational to live on a boat.
On the other hand, I am irrationally afraid of sharks and sea monsters.
Sharks intrigue me... Clowns... not so much
This is the 2000th post in this thread.
As a kid, I had nightmares about "Mr. Bill." It still gives me the creeps.
Tommorrow I start my first day of work since Sept
In the 70's The Edge of Night had a storyline about a killer clown puppet
I just did my taxes using Turbo Tax for the first time ...
This is the first year I actually did my taxes well before the deadline.
Originally posted by cleome:
As a kid, I had nightmares about "Mr. Bill." It still gives me the creeps.
Oh Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
2 squared is 4.
2 triangled is 3.
The only private message I have saved is one from YK about a chat that was happening. in 2005.
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