Goof from the Brady Bunch (TV series, not the movie): During the episode when Greg is playing football and cracks his rib, he is wearing a different uniform and helmet than either of the two teams that are scrimmaging in the footage.
Damages is a great tv show.
The square of three is nine.
The triangle of three is seven.
Fabulous
metal penguin!!! <span style="font-size: 11px;">
Wish I knew the artist's name, though.</span>And another, by
Leo Sewell .
Sometimes I consider what other jobs I'd want in this world and one of them is a Volcanologist.
![[Linked Image]](http://i381.photobucket.com/albums/oo254/Quislet_esq/100_0200.jpg)
The parade grounds of Fort Warren on Georges Island in Boston Harbor. Fort Warren was built during the Civil War.
Cool! I love that sort of thing. Boston is such an awesome city to visit because there is a never ending series of historical landmarks to visit.
Okay, this is gonna take a few minutes...
Flash back a bout 9 years ago...give or take. Little Han Em was just a wee baby, and daddy was getting the hang of the whole bath thing. I'd go in and help out whenever possible, and Jen Em grately appreciated it. I'd usually finish washing her up and dry her off so mom could go change into dry clothes.
Now on one happy occasion, Jen Em said "You can do the whole bath yourself tonight." To which I responded "no problem."
So I got the water ready...not to hot, not to cold. got everything in arms reach, which could mean clear across the bathroom for me, but you get the idea. Got her in the little infant tub, rinsed her off and started getting soap on the washcloth.
My wife looks at me and says "you've got to wash her hair first." Then proceeds to watch my face drain of color. I turn and say "what do I do?"
She looks at me and after about ten seconds realizes that I have not washed hair of any kind...ever. I lost me hair when I was three years old (Alopecia Areata) , and do not really ever remember washing my own hair...if I indeed ever did.
After we both stopped laughing. She walked me through the process. It may seem simple a simple thing for most people...but then again, sticking a needle in my arm 5 times a day is a simple no brainer, second nature thing for me (Diabetic Type I).
Great story, Dev! That's a great example of those things in our lives that are so second nature to us that we forget other people have no idea about (or have forgotten).
Two of the songs karaoked last night, Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages" and the Corrs' "Breathless", were both produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, 17 years apart!
Yes, you are exactly like the wind* beneath my wings**.
And by wind, I mean chair.
And by wings, I mean ass.
Better than being exactly like the toilet bowl.
I just spent an hour fixing my internet connection. It seems better now
I just checked out that December 21, 2012--the day some people claim may be Earth's last--is on a Friday. Wow, there are going to be some rocking good parties that night!!!
Best part: if the world ends, no hangovers!
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I just checked out that December 21, 2012--the day some people claim may be Earth's last--is on a Friday. Wow, there are going to be some rocking good parties that night!!!
Best part: if the world ends, no hangovers!
Now I've got Prince's "1999" as an earworm.
The average human emits approximately 95 watts of energy as heat in the form of infrared light. A standard 100 watt incandescent light bulb emits only about 5% of its energy as visible light, the rest is given off as heat in the form of infrared light. This means the average human produces the same amount of heat as a 100 watt light bulb.
That explains Uncle Fester.
There is something really pointy inside my shirt (right by the crook of my left elbow) that keeps poking me about every five minutes, but every time I try to find what it is, there's nothing evident. It's driving me just crazy enough to complain about it, but not quite crazy enough to change my shirt.
It's Adam Cray.
You know, this could be turned into it's own thread..."What's inside Exnihils' shirt?"
A radically misplaced third nipple?
The square of four is sixteen.
The triangle of four is ten.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.
I don't wear a wedding ring. Never have.
An 1889 trial against cadres of the Belgian Republican Socialist Party revealed that most leaders of the party were agent provocateurs paid by the government?
2001's "
Hit \'Em Up Style " turns from R&B to Bluegrass, thanks to The Carolina Chocolate Drops.
There's a picture of my wife and I when we were 18 and 19 and went to a semi-formal in college framed in my living room. We look so young! (Even though its only from 9-10 years ago). It's my favorite picture of us.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
There's a picture of my wife and I when we were 18 and 19 and went to a semi-formal in college framed in my living room. We look so young! (Even though its only from 9-10 years ago). It's my favorite picture of us.
Just wait till you hit 40 and look back...
Pepsi Throwback is yummy!
Originally posted by Dev Em:
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
[b]There's a picture of my wife and I when we were 18 and 19 and went to a semi-formal in college framed in my living room. We look so young! (Even though its only from 9-10 years ago). It's my favorite picture of us.
Aw gawd...my youth.....
I'm just posting here because Officer Taylor did!
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
I'm just posting here because Officer Taylor did!
What better reason to post?
Originally posted by Officer Taylor:
Originally posted by Dev Em:
[b]
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
[b]There's a picture of my wife and I when we were 18 and 19 and went to a semi-formal in college framed in my living room. We look so young! (Even though its only from 9-10 years ago). It's my favorite picture of us.
Just wait till you hit 40 and look back...[/b]
I have under 48 hours till I hit 40.
Originally posted by Officer Taylor:
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
[b]I'm just posting here because Officer Taylor did!
There is none.
Originally posted by Dev Em:
Originally posted by Officer Taylor:
[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 Cobalt Kid:
<strong>There's a picture of my wife and I when we were 18 and 19 and went to a semi-formal in college framed in my living room. We look so young! (Even though its only from 9-10 years ago). It's my favorite picture of us.
Just wait till you hit 40 and look back...[/b]
I have under 48 hours till I hit 40.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's, er, not...so bad...
40? What's that like?
I SAID WHAT'S THAT LIKE?!!
I told you guys to take your medicine...
WHA?
Damn kids and their racket...
the tongue consists of sixteen muscles, not one.
I heard a great song on the radio today I haven't heard in awhile: "Time Won't Let Me" by the Outsiders.
This should be a Legion song for Brainy or the Time Trapper or something.*
*note - if anyone steals this idea, I expect full plotting credit!
John Quincy Adams, when he was president, would skinny dip in the Potomac river.
My son decided to lock himself in his room. He now has a door with no handle on it, as I had to destroy the thing to get it off.
He laughed the entire time.
it takes me like a month to get used to daylight savings time...
I rode in the back of a cop car and ID'd a guy who tried to break into my house.
^That happened to me too, when I was 12 years old!
Yeah, only this time I had to help them FIND the perp.
I got to slide down one of those inflatable slide thingies once when a plane I was on had problems taxing to the boarding ramp. I was eight, and thought it was great fun.
All the grown-ups were still freaking out over the 'almost crash-landed' thing.
Wimps. I wanted to do it again.
If you catch the perp, SK, you might be able to get a hotline that links up from your room to the Commissioner's office. In case other perps need to be caught!
If you think I'm being disgusting, you should try watching some of the kids shows on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. Some of the gross-out humor on those shows makes even me sick.
I watch way to much of the shows DD mentions...thanks to my daughter.
Does your daughter like Sonny With A Chance, Dev? That's my favorite, although the recent "Sicky Vicky" sketch was grosser than even I could bear.
She loves that show...loves Demi Lavato (sp?)
Suite life, hannah M., but the greatest of these is Phineas and Ferb!!!
Demi Lovato is awesome. A girly-girl who also digs gross-out humor and heavy metal.
They seem to be finding a better mix of stuff lately.
I forgot today was a casual day at work and I'm the only dope wearing a shirt and tie. Curses!
Asphalt road surface is the most widely recycled material in the US, both by gross tonnage and by percentage. According to a report issued by the Federal Highway Administration and the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 80% of the asphalt from road surfaces' that is removed each year during widening and resurfacing projects is reused as part of new roads, roadbeds, shoulders and embankments.
I had a big-ass bumblebee sharing a ride with me to work! Glad it stayed on the back windshield!
Wooden swingsets are extremely heavy. And if you ever buy one, make sure you have the proper vehicle to take one home in. Best vehicle ever used for this...a hearse. It was the easiet thing to load.
I have a little guys night out with my brother, one of my best friends and my college roomates tonight.
I need one...it's been months! (That whole pregnancy thing
)
I'm pretty sure, its going to be wild.
Vanilla flowers may only be naturally pollinated by a specific bee found in Mexico. Vanilla grown elsewhere must have each flower individually pollinated by human workers.
Originally posted by Officer Taylor:
I had a big-ass bumblebee sharing a ride with me to work! Glad it stayed on the back windshield!
Did it speak with the voice of Dan Gilvezan?
The word inane is derived from the latin "inanis", which looks enough like "in anus" to make me giggle.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I have a little guys night out with my brother, one of my best friends and my college roomates tonight.
I need one...it's been months! (That whole pregnancy thing )
I'm pretty sure, its going to be wild.OH MY GOD!!!
COBIES PREGNANT!!!!
When I fall asleep after donating blood at the Red Cross, my dreams are almost always nastily realistic. This afternoon, it was the earthquake dream.
I HATE THE EARTHQUAKE DREAM!!
Originally posted by Dev Em:
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
[b]I have a little guys night out with my brother, one of my best friends and my college roomates tonight.
I need one...it's been months! (That whole pregnancy thing
)
I'm pretty sure, its going to be wild.
COBIES PREGNANT!!!![/b]We only got one LWer with a sheepish name....
Ram Boy is the Father!!!!
That's a hell of a scandal to erupt after barely two weeks in office...
Hey thats longer than normal for a scandal
I was hoping we could start with something involving parking meters and work our way up.
what if it was a threeway with meter-maid?
Just make sure the "art" is behind a cut. It looks like I may have internet access at work, such as it is-- and you know where THAT leads.
Originally posted by dedman:
We only got one LWer with a sheepish name....
Ram Boy is the Father!!!![/QB]
Hey, the batter isn't THAT potent!
Besides, Cobie doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who'd be drinking this far along in his pregnancy.
Today being Easter, we had a lot of visitors in church this morning. A woman who did not know two of my fellow choristers saw them after the service in their vestments and asked "Are you two father and son?". She asked this of two gay men, less than ten years apart in age. One of them, who is one of the wittiest people I know replied "More like sisters!"
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Today being Easter, we had a lot of visitors in church this morning. A woman who did not know two of my fellow choristers saw them after the service in their vestments and asked "Are you two father and son?". She asked this of two gay men, less than ten years apart in age. One of them, who is one of the wittiest people I know replied "More like sisters!"
What was the woman's response?
Originally posted by Raging Bull:
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
[b]Today being Easter, we had a lot of visitors in church this morning. A woman who did not know two of my fellow choristers saw them after the service in their vestments and asked "Are you two father and son?". She asked this of two gay men, less than ten years apart in age. One of them, who is one of the wittiest people I know replied "More like sisters!"
Shock and awe.
I once got in trouble in high school for forging a teacher's signature on a hall pass (part of a pack I stole). I used to do things like that in high school a lot.
i believe Conner Kent the gay love child of Super man and lex luthor. and i have spent hours convincing other of this fact
and i convert people to my way of thinking
I'm already 95% convinced! I just need some more details!
I'm not convinced...convince me.
Can't BE convinced, unless...<holds out hand for bribe>
before i make my point here, i will be making it clear Con/Kon is more love childish for lex then Sup's
okay get ready people cause here it comes ..
point 1) KON-el/ Conner is not a clone
if you have two sets of dna you have genetic parents.
clone to me is the copy dna from another making up one new person or a person with several peoples Dna making up one new person minunamum of 3.
organisms create descendants that have a combination of genetic material contributed from two different members of the species or genetically similar species . Each of two parent organisms contributes half of the offspring's genetic makeup. which is what lex did. he could only make half of a working superman so the half they couldn't he used his dna.
while KON-el/ Conner may have come into this through a tube. he still has dna that comes from two people just like you.
point 2) Both lex and clark separately treat Connor/kon their child
during the early days of Kon and clark. Clark treats Kon like a unwanted love child he fathered in is early teens that he put up for adoption and is back. Clark has his life going the way he wants and bam his kid who is sort of his responsibility shows up and wants to be apart of his life and clark wants nothing to do with this person.. it takes a long time for him to see this kid who he has some connection with needs him.
lex has actually called Kon his son and in the titan of tomorrow and conner wants what a lot of kids who have bad parents want Connor wants to have see this man who makes up half of him who is is a monster have one redeeming Quality. and who can not relate to parents trying to brainwash you against your will
Point 3) lex is gay for superman
you know it, im not saying super man is gay back and im not saying lex is gay in general.i'm not saying Lex drugged superman and had his way with him or any thing.. *is now mad at myself for putting that thought in my own head*
Lex might have some issues regarding superman he can't deal with in a normal way such as making a kid between them
i have more but im too tired to go into them and i dont have my visual ads
Still waiting for my bribe...
Hands Lardy a couple Bakers dozen donut boxes.
The rest of the shipment will be rolling in soon.
Originally posted by Dev Em:
Hands Lardy a couple Bakers dozen donut boxes.
The rest of the shipment will be rolling in soon.
Nom nom nom
My cats like to Nom Nom on my toes
Originally posted by dedman:
My cats like to Nom Nom on my toes
Your toes must smell really good to them! Of course that probably means they smell really bad for humans!
Originally posted by Officer Taylor:
Still waiting for my bribe...
i dont need to bribe for this its a fact
Originally posted by kidflash2fan:
Originally posted by Officer Taylor:
[b]Still waiting for my bribe...
Well, just for fun, you could draw that request in the "Brainy/Kara Love" thread and we could
call it a bribe!
I once on a beautiful spring day, as a young lad...in the days that LP's were still readily available...got a sound effects album out of the library. I took an entire 8 hour day practicing. Over and over and over and over, until I got it 100% down to perfect timing of moving the needle to the proper tracks.
Once my father got home from work, and settled down into the television room (our third bedroom), I went and turned on the stereo, put the album on and proceeded to do the following...
A loud motorcycle roared by the house, a screeching sound of brakes filled the air followed by the sound of the poor rider crashing into a car down the street.
My father, God bless him, came running out of the third bedroom as fast as he could and ran to the front door flinging it open to look down the street.
Much to his amazement, the only thing that he saw and heard was the calm of our neighborhood street...until he heard me laughing hysterically behind him...quite literally rolling on the floor laughing my ass off.
As mad at me as he wanted to be, he had to admire that I had spent an wntire day to "get him" that good. To this day, I just have to mention it, and he starts laughing.
Originally posted by kidflash2fan:
i believe Conner Kent the gay love child of Superman and Lex Luthor. and i have spent hours convincing other of this fact
and i convert people to my way of thinking
How much convincing could that take? I never liked Mpreg stories, personally, but isn't Conner as close as canon gets to Mpreg anyway?
you's be surprised how many people hold on to the LeX isn't gay..
have you seen that episode of south park when Cartman is leaning over Kyle and breathing and talking it gets really creepy, really fast? thats how i see lex with Superman.
I don't know if Lex is gay, either. I have a love-hate relationship with the whole foe-yay thing (as defined by tv tropes), but that's a complex discussion that belongs elsewhere.
But the Cartman-Kyle parallel is hilarious, and somebody needs to dub a JLA/JLU snippet with some SP dialogue immediately!!-- if they haven't already.
it ridiculous how much of my day is dedicated to thoughts like that
My office has a postage meter and I use it on all my mail, including my bills.
Our fish passed away last night, and Jon has told us about 200 times in the 3 hours he has been awake.
Cool
youtube music video for Hall and Oates' "You Make My Dreams Come True" produced by high school students. Lip-synch is pretty bad, but the 'special effects' are nice.
i secretly wish i was a ninja turtle
sometimes i feel like i kill threads when i post on them
Originally posted by kidflash2fan:
sometimes i feel like i kill threads when i post on them
Try
this one!
Originally posted by kidflash2fan:
sometimes i feel like i kill threads when i post on them
There are a plethora of threads in Gym'lls I've started where I never even got one pity post reply!
(But seriously, I don't think you kill any threads at all!)
Originally posted by kidflash2fan:
sometimes i feel like i kill threads when i post on them
happens to us all at one point or another. I've unintentionally killed a few in my time, too.
What's worse is when you pour your heart and soul into a post and begin to look forward to the thought-provoking responses....that never come! ARGGHH!
Happens too many times....
^All I've got to say is "Thank Levitz that Lardy is here" because then I'd have like 12 threads no one was replying to
Got my prize from last season of 1 vs 100 on Xbox Live.
Originally posted by Officer Taylor:
What's worse is when you pour your heart and soul into a post and begin to look forward to the thought-provoking responses....that never come! ARGGHH!
Happens too many times....
Yeah Im the King of this...
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
Originally posted by kidflash2fan:
[b]sometimes i feel like i kill threads when i post on them
Felt this way on way too many occasion.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
^All I've got to say is "Thank Levitz that Lardy is here" because then I'd have like 12 threads no one was replying to More like 1200...
Sometimes I'll read a post of mine from like 6 years ago and realize I no longer agree with myself. I think next time I might actually start an arguement with myself.
Then I'll wait 6 more years and see what that Cobalt Kid has to say about the topic.
Call out the Dr's. Cobie is referring to himself in the third person.
For the record, including an Elvis song title in every post is harder than one might expect.
You'll have to start using Elvis movies! (I meant to tell you that last night
)
Traveling due south from Detroit Michigan and the first foreign country you would encounter is Canada.
I've done that numerous times.
It's odd, because of this fact, I've never really considered Canada a foriegn country. Odd, I know...but most of my life, Canada was closer than some shopping malls.
...and if you keep going due south (not just from Detroit, but also from almost any place in the eastern US), you'll eventually hit the Pacific Ocean, down around Chile.
(obviously you will from the western US, too. But like the Detroit/Canada bit, the eastern US does not intuitively seem north of the Pacific)
The Canadian Consulate in Detroit, in the Renaissance Center, has a view of Windsor, Ontario, enabling the Consul to see his own country from his office.
Tonight I'm going out for a second Friday in a row! That hasn't happened since pre-pregnancy.
It's one of my best friend's bachelor parties (we call them "stags" up here) and I'm in the wedding party, so I'm helping throw it. It should be a blast! The way we do it in the Northeast, as I believe I told LW when I had my own two summers ago, is we basically set it up as a fundraiser: everyone buys a ticket for like $30 and then its all you can eat, all you can drink, great music and any entertainment provided. There is also a raffle with usually the coolest prizes (my contributions: a bottle of 12 year McCallan Scotch, a pair of boxing gloves and a soccer ball), and raffle tickets are $10 for 10 tickets. There is usually a 50/50 raffle as well for $5 a ticket. The alcohol is usually a few kegs but when we did mine, we did an open bar for the older crowd. “Entertainment” can consist of several things, and almost always has some gambling and sometimes “adult entertainment”—tonight will actually not have the latter (which doesn’t really change how much fun its going to be).
Usually you make a killing and it all goes to the bride and groom for their honeymoon. Mine was rather exceptional so we had actually 160 people (100 people is a really good one). We did all kinds of things at mine that were really cool: I got a box of good cigars where everyone can just take one when they enter, we had a poker game going on at one table, the prizes included several excellent pairs of Yankee tickets I got through work, etc. I’m throwing my brother’s in July so I can’t wait for that either.
So this should be a blast.
Today I'm going to a memorial service. I got up early just so I could remove all the pet hair from my dark clothing when I got dressed. Still, the departed loved his pets, so maybe leaving the hair on would've been a better tribute.
I find it bizarre that there's like 8 billion movies about the Alamo, but I can't seem to find a single movie about the Boston Massacre.
Got called into work today. Bike sales galore.
As I write this, LW has exactly 16,000 topics.
I find the Office to be a hilarious show that grows on you over time (but you have to let it grow on you and can't dismiss it right away). And its on basically all the time through syndication.
The cat got himself locked in the wardrobe earlier today, but he went to sleep and didn't wake up for dinner. It took us about ten minutes of searching to find him.
John Cleese spent $5,100 to take a cab from Oslo to Brussels, because the volcano nixed his flight.
I'm too wishy-washy to vote in the cover face-offs.
I sometimes get the meanings of the abbreviations "IED" and "IUD" mixed up. Which is often hilarious...
"This bread I break was once the oat,
This wine upon a foreign tree
Plunged in its fruit;
Man in the day or wind at night
Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy."
-- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
White Chocolate is my weakness...
Valerie Bertinelli finished the Boston Marathon on Monday, four days before her 50th birthday. Along with her trainer Christopher Ross Lane, the actress ran to raise funds and awareness for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Just finishing the marathon was Bertinelli's goal since losing weight with Jenny Craig, for which she is a spokesperson.
She finished, running the whole way, in 5 hours and 14 minutes.
I had a close call at work the other night.
We were draining a vessel and suddenly all our H2S detectors started going crazy, so we all ran out of the danger zone.
When we got out our detectors were reading 75 parts per million. We are no allowed to work in anything over 10 and 100 or higher is considered imediately dangerous to life and health.
So the four of us got all packed up with canned air and went and finished the job.
The temperature "danger zone" for food serving is between 41 and 135 degress Fahrenheit.
Hard-rockers Rainbow and soft-rocker Kenny Loggins both recorded songs titled "Danger Zone."
I have that damn Fastball "Fire Escape" song stuck in my head. The spouse... will PAY!
The singer from Fastball had an overbite that made him look creepy.
The Outfield was another band with a sports name and a creepy singer.
"Out, damned spot!" is a famous line from Macbeth.
My Granny made chili-mac today and I loved it.
I have no idea where the MST3K people got "Chili Peppers burn my gut" from, but it always made me laugh.
"Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas" is a line from the Steve Miller Band's "Take the Money and Run."
The handclaps in "Take the Money and Run" always conjure up images of stoners with bad 70s clothes and hair clapping like trained seals.
And towards the end of the song, when Steve Miller tries to do those "bluesy" growls, he sounds like he's constipated.
My girlfriend in High School and I used to hook-up to Steve Miller's greatest hits CD in the background. (She was the only g/f I ever had for more than 2 months--I got around
)
I'm wearing a t-shirt that says "Don't Label Me!"
I did not get into my program at school. I am 101 people away from getting into another program.
Life continually seems to have it in for me at this point. Every time I try to go in any direction...I get waylaid by something...
Hang in there Dev! That sucks--but hopefully it will all work out!
Now I'm wait listed for the one class that I'd need to take to get into the program in the fall. wheeeeeee...
I get Jason Mraz songs stuck in my head.
I'm naked underneath my clothes
Originally posted by Dev Em:
Now I'm wait listed for the one class that I'd need to take to get into the program in the fall. wheeeeeee...
Got into this class. One hurdle down...few hundred more to go.
I played Zachary Zatara in a M&M game, and it was great fun to improvise the backwards-speak spells.
Zatara "Snug ot gniddup!"
Kid Devil "Guns to pudding, really?"
Zatara "I skipped lunch. Shut up."
Zatara "Serblam, uh, screw it! Htolc ot leets!"
<speedsters clothes turn hard like steel, he tumbles out of control>
Kid Devil "Was 'screw it' part of spell?"
Zatara "You try saying 'marbles everywhere' while being punched in the face!"
Zatara "Roodpart raeppa!"
<trapdoor appears, crooks falls into it>
Zatara "Roodpart hsinav!" <to teammate> "Heh, that's my favorite part."
<trapdoor vanishes, leaving a smooth floor>
Duela "Where does he go?"
Zatara "I dunno. Downstairs?"
Duela "We're on a submarine..."
<pause>
Zatara "Oh. Sucks to be him, I guess."
According to The Guinness Book of World Records, "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick." is the toughest tongue twister in the world.
Originally posted by Mattropolis:
I'm naked underneath my clothes
Why does that sound so much sexier when Matt says it?
"Psychokinesis" and "telekinesis" mean more or less the same thing, but "psychopath" and "telepath" are quite different.
I haven't been to the gym since Thursday and I actually feel pretty guilty about it. Tomorrow when I go I'll feel really good.
Scoring free stuff on craigslist makes me happy, especially when I don't have to go out to the boonies to get it.
If my great-grandmother (who died when I was about seven) were still alive, she would be the ninth-oldest person on Earth.
I went to a small office party w/mr_cleome yesterday. At one point, there were six of us Geminis clustered together in one corner of the room, throwing the balance of the universe entirely out of whack.
I am also a Gemini, but I wasn't there...
Originally posted by cleome:
I went to a small office party w/mr_cleome yesterday. At one point, there were six of us Geminis clustered together in one corner of the room, throwing the balance of the universe entirely out of whack.
So that explains global warming.
I think I'll look for five other Leos to see what havoc we can cause.
They sell something at work called a "Shoelace-Style" Headband. I suppose at some point there'll be "Headband-Style" Shoelace as well, right?
I'm kind of enjoying night shift
In a little over a month, my passport will have stamps from four different countries beginning with the letter, "I".
Today is Independence Day in Paraguay.
My legally blind neighbor likes to drive at night ...
NBC canceled Heroes finally. And honestly, the show has sucked since Season 2 began so I can't say I'm too upset about it.
It had basically become everything bad in the comic book industry. I have friends who don't read comics that were expressing their frustrations (for example, all the characters ever do is move around without doing anything), and I was like 'yeah, welcome to the world of a comic book reader'.
I watch so little TV nowadays I didn't even know Heroes was still on.
I watch so little TV, I've never even seen Heroes.
I watch them on DVD as a full season. The show is frustrating enough that I think I'd shoot myself if I had to watch it weekly.
I have used "Wessonality" as a noun in a game of Mad Libs.
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-O.
B-I-N-G-O!
B-I-N-G-O!
B-I-N-G-O!
And Bingo was his name-O!
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-O.
(Clap)-I-N-G-O!
(Clap)-I-N-G-O!
(Clap)-I-N-G-O!
And Bingo was his name-O!
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-O!
(Clap, Clap)-N-G-O!
(Clap, Clap)-N-G-O!
(Clap, Clap)-N-G-O!
And Bingo was his name-O!
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-O.
(Clap, Clap, Clap)-G-O!
(Clap, Clap, Clap)-G-O!
(Clap, Clap, Clap)-G-O!
And Bingo was his name-O!
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-O.
(Clap, Clap, Clap, clap)-O!
(Clap, Clap, Clap, clap)-O!
(Clap, Clap, Clap, clap)-O!
And Bingo was his name-O!
There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-O.
(Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap)
(Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap)
(Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap, Clap)
And Bingo was his name-O!
while i have a general hate for clones, especially how it was used in XXX hoilc( <--the one of two manga's i still keep up with,which stopped read for a while cause..i really. really hate clones,) last night i had a moment of let me see whats going on with the story now.
i was pleasantly surprised how much like where they went with the story while, i have come to know the creations of clamp to have a some big plot points that is pretty guessable. i was spot on with what did to the main hero of the story.
last night while reading the Manga i was reminded of something i have known for a while, that i am a sucker for a happy but still sad moments. i hate the black and white choices books, tv, movie have all seam to an over abundance of them. the world is doesn't work like that there is so much gray in the world. sometimes you can be happy and sad at the same time, one of the best example is from Casablanca Rick was saying goodbye to Ilsa, its both the happiest moment between them and also the saddest
i just wish there was more media like that
one bright day in the middle of the night
two dead boys began to fight
back to back they faced each other
drew their swords and shot each other
a deaf policeman heard the noise
and came and killed the two dead boys
if you don't believe this tale is true
just ask the blind man; he saw it too.
I really wish I could hear the name "Sestak" without picturing the "Sleestak".
heh. well, Washington is the land of the lost.
Originally posted by Kent:
one bright day in the middle of the night
two dead boys began to fight
back to back they faced each other
drew their word and shot each other
a deaf policeman heard the noise
and came and killed the two dead boys
if you don't believe this tale is true
just ask the blind man; he saw it too.
That sounds like a synopsis of next year's Blackest Night/Brightest Day follow-up.
Originally posted by Fanfic Lass:
Hard-rockers Rainbow and soft-rocker Kenny Loggins both recorded songs titled "Danger Zone."
'Danger Zone' is the name of my comic book shop!
Originally posted by Officer Taylor:
What's worse is when you pour your heart and soul into a post and begin to look forward to the thought-provoking responses....that never come! ARGGHH!
Happens too many times....
I feel that way sometimes on Bits . . ..
I pour my heart into creating or sharing different art stuff and almost nobody responds or joins in or anything.
sigh
It's were you have to be self motivated and do it for the art's/Legion's sake.
I'd even take criticing or suggestions or ANYTHING.
Originally posted by Raging Bull:
Originally posted by Kent:
[b]one bright day in the middle of the night
two dead boys began to fight
back to back they faced each other
drew their word and shot each other
a deaf policeman heard the noise
and came and killed the two dead boys
if you don't believe this tale is true
just ask the blind man; he saw it too.
oops! typo 'word' should be 'swords'
Originally posted by Candle:
Originally posted by Officer Taylor:
[b]What's worse is when you pour your heart and soul into a post and begin to look forward to the thought-provoking responses....that never come! ARGGHH!
Happens too many times....
I pour my heart into creating or sharing different art stuff and almost nobody responds or joins in or anything.
sigh
It's were you have to be self motivated and do it for the art's/Legion's sake.
I'd even take criticing or suggestions or ANYTHING.[/b]very true, in the early days of Legion of Camelot, I was spoiled with so many comments. Now very few.
I'm guilty myself. I appreciate efforts of others (like you), but often have very little to say.
Kent?
Are you Kent SHAKESPEARE?
What happened to my gorgeous crush guy?!!
My role play character followed you to keep you safe, for goodness sake!
hahahahahahah
Yeah, I'm kinda' in the "nothing interesting to say" category as well, Candle.
Don't take it personally. Sometimes I get hits for my fics when they're posted but no comments. It really does have to be something you do for yourself first, and everyone else second.
Back to randomness:
I'm wearing socks with cat paw prints on them right now.
Originally posted by Candle:
Kent?
Are you Kent SHAKESPEARE?
What happened to my gorgeous crush guy?!!
My role play character followed you to keep you safe, for goodness sake!
hahahahahahahIt's still me, just playing with avatars again. The big blond afro doesn't do it for you, then?
Some ideas, no matter how bad, can end in better ways then anyone expected if given the proper treatment. Like Tyroc.
And some ideas should never even be put down on paper in the first place. Like Rise of Arsenal.
It doesn't matter what we do, this is all a hallucination inside the mind of a schizophrenic nun in Argentina.
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
It doesn't matter what we do, this is all a hallucination inside the mind of a schizophrenic nun in Argentina.
Well, at least it's inside the mind of a servant of God, so it's cool.
I agree cleome, thanks.
Gads, Kent, I think it's more the dress with the hairy chest than the blonde afro!
I taught about the Fruit of the Holy Spirit at my church on Wednesday.
Originally posted by Candle:
Originally posted by Fanfic Lass:
[b]Hard-rockers Rainbow and soft-rocker Kenny Loggins both recorded songs titled "Danger Zone."
That's a way cool name for a comics shop!
as long as Cyndi Lauper doesn't mess with it.
Awwww, Cyndi's first album was good.
And "Change of Heart", from the second album, is a GREAT song with exquisite backup harmonies by the Bangles.
There's nothing I've wanted more (at least in recent memory) then to win a role on Glee.
Originally posted by Fanfic Lass:
Awwww, Cyndi's first album was good.
And "Change of Heart", from the second album, is a GREAT song with exquisite backup harmonies by the Bangles.not disputing; I love early Cyndi.
It sounds like you took my lyrics ref as a dis of her?
Originally posted by Kent:
Originally posted by Fanfic Lass:
[b]
Awwww, Cyndi's first album was good.
And "Change of Heart", from the second album, is a GREAT song with exquisite backup harmonies by the Bangles.
It sounds like you took my lyrics ref as a dis of her? [/b]I did. Thanks for clarifying.
What song where you referencing?
They say I better get a chaperone
Because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone
No, I won't worry, and I won't fret
Ain't no law against it yet
Oop! she bop, she bop.
and by making a masturbation reference, it fits the MMB character entirely!
I bop, you bop, and they bop.
She bop, be bop, baloo bop.
I.
Hope.
He will.
Understand.
Whoops.
I'm generally terrible at remembering lyrics.
ummmm
Over my head, I guess.
And you changed your avatar, Kent!
You really made me laugh with that.
Took me by surprise.
Silly man.
I got a bill for $446 today for lab work.
Sorry to hear that, Shady.
I did something I have never done before. I cooked a steak!
Cheer up. It could've been for four hundred and forty SEVEN dollars!
sorry to hear that, Shady. hope it contributes towards something positive.
I start every morning drinking a chocolate whey shake with flax seed mixed in.
Actor Dick Gautier is best known for playing robots: Hymie in "Get Smart" and the voice of Rodimus Prime/Hot Rod in "Transformers."
I got a free bag of frozen marionberries from the co-op a month or so back. I'm making them into compote later on today. Oh, and I'm also fixing pound cake, since there's nothing sadder and lonelier than compote sitting home alone on a Saturday night.
My brother ever touches my comics again I'm gonna slit his throat while he's in the shower.
Or, I dunno, put de-lousing powder in his underwear I'm cool with whatever.
ummmmm, Marionberry compote and pound cake
sigh
I'm waiting for a medical card.
Then, 'stuff' will be more reasonable, I hope.
I made oatmeal/raisin cookies the other day and my husband gobbled them up in 3 days!
(I got a few.)
Trying to type up an impressive rant for May 30.
Originally posted by Candle:
I made oatmeal/raisin cookies the other day and my husband gobbled them up in 3 days!
I generally loathe baked goods (to the consternation of my bread-fanatic mom), but oatmeal raisin cookies are my kryptonite!
Them and peanut butter cookies.
Note: two greats tastes that *do not* taste together. I tried mixing the recipes once, with the unrealistic notion that if I loved them both, then I'd love them both mixed together. Yuk.
Paul Dini, who I voted for in SK's poll, wrote one of the best Transformers Season 3 episodes, "The Dweller in the Depths."
The Yellow Mask = Pretty awesome Superman villain.
Not as cool as the Spider Lady, but awesome nonetheless.
M.A.S.K. was a so-so action adventure cartoon from the 80s, produced by DiC, who also did Inspector Gadget and The Real Ghostbusters, and whose business practices destroyed the syndicated animation market.
I remember really liking M.A.S.K. for awhile when I was a kid, but watching a few episodes recently on Youtube proved rather disappointing.
I've got a couple the toys somewhere, however.
The Dr. Fate sequence in the back-up story in DCU: Legacies #1 comes from a genuine Golden Age tale and was originally published in More Fun Comics #63.
Walt Simonson did not enjoy working on First Issue Special: Dr. Fate in the 70s, even though he produced one of the most imaginative visualizations of Dr. Fate ever!
Originally posted by Fanfic Lass:
Paul Dini, who I voted for in SK's poll, wrote one of the best Transformers Season 3 episodes, "The Dweller in the Depths."
This does not surprise me a bit darlin. The man is a great writer.
Damn straight.
God I need a hug after reading RoA. Or a shot in the head.
Originally posted by Dev Em:
Originally posted by Fanfic Lass:
[b]Paul Dini, who I voted for in SK's poll, wrote one of the best Transformers Season 3 episodes, "The Dweller in the Depths."
And he's a straight-talker. Not many of those in the biz.
There's a thunderstorm a'brewin' outside at the moment.
My roommate is blasting music and driving me crazy!
Is the music any good at least?
Well, it's not as morose and whiny as usual, but no music is very good when when you don't want to hear it! I have my door closed and the TV on, so all I'm getting is the thump thump thump.
You're sure that's music?
I'm afraid of the future.
That's a natural state for most of mankind, SK!
The sperm whale can dive to 10,000 feet.
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
God I need a hug after reading RoA. Or a shot in the head.
Thanx.
That "afraid of the future" comment was a joke, BTW.
My brother's a queen. The Queen of Hearts, actually.
In Australia, root beer is known as sarsaparilla.
I think in Australia, not getting eaten by a Great White Shark is called a 'good swim'.
I fell into a hole and tried to help up this old man I landed on top of. He was out cold. I dragged him out of the hole.
Then I realized "How did I wind up at the cemetery?"
Bud Colyer's natural speaking voice is closer to Superman than to Clark Kent.
The Hindu's say that when you go to have the required spiritual wash in the Ghanges River, that if you don't come out, you go straight to Nirvana, with no more reincarnations.
So, if a Bull Shark or a Sea Croc or naybe a stray Great White get you, it's considered a good 'bath'.
Spiders have 'book lungs' which a fairly inefficient, which is why they don't more a terrible amount most of the time, although they have that blinding speed when they need it.
Their lung capacity is why they can't grow, body wise, much bigger than a man's hand.
So, 'Ice Spiders' wouldn't really work, or any of the giant spider movies.
Sorry you guys. I hope I didn't go too far with that DC Roast thing. But I do hope the Titans roast thing was funny.
The dog breed known as the Labrador Retriever originated on the island of Newfoundland, not the island of Labrador.
I am not particularly looking forward to the upcoming John Carter of Mars film.
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
I am not particularly looking forward to the upcoming John Carter of Mars film.
Have you seen the previews for Jonah Hex? This looks like it could be the absolute worst comic book movie EVER. Including Catwoman and Batman & Robin.
I have not seen the Jonah Hex previews.
But I tend to avoid anything with Megan Fox in it as a matter of course.
I don't even know who Megan Fox is.
I only recently saw her pic, and read a blurb that she has been in at least one Transformer flick (which I have not seen).
She's really hot, make no mistake. But whether she can act is a different story.
She's totally milking her popularity among the 'geek' crowd. She's said she's a long time reader & fan of Gen13 and Witchblade. I don't know one way or another but you kinda want to call bullshit on that.
She dated Brian Austin-Green, which doesn't exactly speak well of her!
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
She dated Brian Austin-Green, which doesn't exactly speak well of her!
*tee-hee* His initials are BAG!
And I don't even know who HE is.
Jonah Hex also has John Malkovich as the villain. Now *there* is an actor that knows how to chew up the scenery. Ever see "Con Air"? He makes Nic Cage look like Lawrence Olivier.
BAG was the geeky kid from the original 90210.
In all fairness, however, he was actually pretty good in the recent Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles TV series.
When you see interviews with him though, you realize 'BAG' should be preceded by Douche.
Originally posted by Officer Taylor:
BAG was the geeky kid from the original 90210.
Bah! I'm still mad at him for cheating on Donna all those years ago!
The exclamation mark was introduced in the 15th century but wasn't included on typewriter keys until 1970!
The average person's body inhales and absorbs one and a half pounds of shed skin cells from other people a year.
Yummy!
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Megan Fox is totally milking her popularity among the 'geek' crowd. She's said she's a long time reader & fan of Gen13 and Witchblade. I don't know one way or another but you kinda want to call bullshit on that.
I tend to believe her.
Most actresses, even the "glamorous" ones (correction, especially the "glamorous" ones) tend to be geeks and misfits in RL.
Yeah, all accounts show she was a big misfit in High school and prior.
She seems likable enough in real life. She's certainly got a large portion of teenage geekdom eating out of the palm of her hand.
She's stunningly beautiful. I don't really have an opinion on her acting because I haven't really seen much with her in it.
I'm so out of touch with popular culture that every time I hear Megan Fox's name, I think of Samantha Fox.
Colombia produces most of the world's emeralds.
Wow, that's great Matt! Is the insomnia getting better now?
LOL apparently
Hopefully the pattern will continue
One of my pet names for Hyvvie is "Juice Box". I'm not sure why.
I just realized when Geoff Johns started the new Teen Titans book all he did was re-create, mostly, the Marv Wolfman/George Perez line-up, with the exception of Superboy.
Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Beast Boy, Raven, Starfire, Cyborg.
Now I understand why he barely used Tempest and Arsenal in that book.
I finally posted a picture of myself on here.
It's STILL raining!
Today's dental appointment went quite well.
I botched my diet several times in the past week, and missed 3-4 days of bicycling, but still managed to lose 2 pounds.
At work I don't usually leave people voicemails. I find that most people do not respond to voicemails in a timely manner.
Rather, I just keep calling their office every few hours until I'm put through.
I did not like the movie "Little Shop of Horrors".
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
I did not like the movie "Little Shop of Horrors".
The original or the musical?
The musical. I don't think I've seen the original.
It's available on
Youtube. Kind of cool, if only for the *very* young Jack Nicholson appearance.
Originally posted by cleome:
It's STILL raining!
There are only five murders definitely linked to Jack the Ripper. There are another four that are thought to be possible Ripper victims. Jack the Ripper was never caught.
At least two films (a made-for-TV movie that aired in 1988 and From Hell) point the finger at Sir William Gull, the queen's royal physician as being Jack. Personally, I find the Royal Conspiracy Theory the most Hollywood-like and therefore least credible theory.
Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
At least two films (a made-for-TV movie that aired in 1988 and From Hell) point the finger at Sir William Gull, the queen's royal physician as being Jack. Personally, I find the Royal Conspiracy Theory the most Hollywood-like and therefore least credible theory.
Just throw in H.G. Wells and a time machine, then. Oh, and a deerstalker.
[getting back on track]
Pac Man cupcakes!
![[Linked Image]](http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b25/tkonradi/hamsterscorren.gif)
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Duplicate Damsel</span>
Hampyverse wise.
I have never been outside the continental U.S.
Originally posted by cleome:
I have never been outside the continental U.S. better than being stuck in the incontinental U.S.!
Turkey sandwiches go exceptionally well with V-8.
I listened to an hour-long talk on the Higgs Boson particle and didn't understand a thing. But Holger Bech Nielsen seemed to be saying that the very fact of looking for the particle precludes finding it. I didn't understand how that works either, but like the idea.
Stolen from Lashkins!
![[Linked Image]](http://www.legionworld.net/upload/00000235/BP%20Aquaman.jpg)
IIRC, I stole it from Kent!
Double-steal! I'm like Robin Hood!
I don't like shots.
On the occasions that I drink, I like to taste and savor what I'm drinking.
The weather right now is gorgeous, and I'd be out enjoying it if I weren't borderline comatose.
I'm throwing my brother's bachelor party at a Volunteer Firehouse in my hometown. I wrote them a check in April for it and they
still haven't deposited it. At this point, I'm ready to burn the damn building to the ground because its so frustrating getting one of these guys to call me back.
That's what happens when you deal with a business that doesn't run things like a business.
Local
Mango hot sauce rocks my world!
<span style="font-size: 11px;">Sadly, not a paid endorsement</span>
The anchors on sportscener are super-annoying.
Guys, do you think if I had the chance I'd be a good writer over at DC?
Certainly! I think you keep your level of enthusiasm for the characters going and continued writing over time (continually growing and evolving) you certainly would be!
Over the past couple of months I started taking piano lessons, and I've found that the fourth finger of my left hand is really the finger over which I have the least individual control.
The irony of that being the finger on which I wear my wedding ring has not escaped me.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Certainly! I think you keep your level of enthusiasm for the characters going and continued writing over time (continually growing and evolving) you certainly would be!
Well I keep feeling like I should be doing something about what they're doing over there.
Originally posted by Exnihil:
Over the past couple of months I started taking piano lessons, and I've found that the fourth finger of my left hand is really the finger over which I have the least individual control.
The irony of that being the finger on which I wear my wedding ring has not escaped me. The FIL offered me his late wife's engagement ring when I got married to mr_cleome. I declined, because I'm always losing stuff and I didn't like the thought of a valued family heirloom disappearing down a drainpipe somewhere.
Tonight's dinner is grilled trout and steamed green beans.
Somehow this will magically cancel out all my culinary/dietary sins from the rest of this week. I just know it will!
As much of a Titans fan I am, I've never read Terror of Trigon or the whole Terra thing.
I'm currently wearing mismatched socks.
I finally bought that "My Neighbor Totoro" tee-shirt I've been eyeballin' for the last six months!
dug dirt
wablobla ayurplenz
eats a
duck turd
mahtsalvo messtray
OUR REE RAH HATS TREE
I have no shirt on right now.
Grape juice is better when it's diluted with water.
It's because of Yk's joke in the Pictures thread that the T-shirt I'm wearing right now will always be known as the "Cthulhu shirt."
Now I'm tempted to start referring to the "Chthulhu shirt" as the "InHumanoids shirt."
FL, the irony is that the shirt doesn't actually depict Cthulhu, but the guy who designed it and sent it to me is definitely a Cthulhu voter, because:
Why Vote For the LESSER evil?
LOL Gotcha.
Back on topic -- it's not even officially summer and already the weather couldn't be more unpleasantly hot.
it's been up and down here. generally mild lately, but fluctuating between rainy/cool and sunny/humid.
Perfect here!
We're right at the point where the torrential rains have mostly stopped, but it's not yet so dry that I have to drag my rear out of bed at 5 AM to water the plants!
Cool weather is the coolest.
Speaking of cool, I'm totally loving this solo guitar version of Chicago's
Make Me Smile .
Artist is Jake Reichbart.
Air conditioners are the coolest of coolicity in the cool history of cool.
DC's killed 307 characters and counting in the last seven years.
The idea for my post in the Sodam Yat thread about his cousin "Where Yat" from New Orleans came to me in a dream.
I'm disturbed that Osmosis Jones is working as something of a freaky parallel of DC Comics right now.
I feel guilty but I will get over it.
The author of the words to the hymn "My Faith Looks Up to Thee" was named Ray Palmer. To the best of my knowledge he had no shrinking powers.
Of course, he wrote those words after he shrank.
I went to a buddy's bachelor party last night and spent the night at my brother's. It was the first night away from the baby for me. I had a great night but I missed him at the end of the night.
This week I'm traveling all week, and then again next week. It's going to be tough! I'm going to miss him!
The food was poor at our local ESPN Zone and I really won't miss it when it goes, though I feel bad for the staff.
Two days recovery time... ok, I promise to be a good boy from now on...
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
The food was poor at our local ESPN Zone and I really won't miss it when it goes, though I feel bad for the staff.
I end up feeling that way about a lot of places around here when they close.
I feel bad whenever a place closes. This pizza place that was across the street from what used to be a Blockbuster keeps getting closed and re-opened.
One of the world's best living vocalists sings one of the world's best songs.
Irma Thomas - "I Think It\'s Going To Rain Today" (Randy Newman) I think I just died and went to Heaven.
Since 2003, 542 characters have died in DC Comics.
I believe in Legion World.
I feel cranky. I'm going to bed.
I'm sending Chris Carmack to Lash to cheer him up.
I've discovered this past week that I can type quite a bit with just my right hand! And I'm a lefty! Must be because I'm double jointed.
That's, um, ambidextrous, you meant to say.
My sister had an ultrasound today which was broadcast on the web so I (and other family members away from home) got to watch.
It was pretty cool seeing the baby moving and kicking and yawning and stuff!
I have some truly epic bruises right now, thanks to the avalanche of inventory at work. Those cardboard box corners are way sharper than they look. [grumble]
[cough] And speaking of killing threads...
Every time I see Quislet's new title of "thread killer," all I can think of is Duke Ellington's "(I've Got To Be A) Rug Cutter."
"...I was so un-trucky
But now I'm super-ducky
Y'know you got back your figure
S'okay, I dig ya'..." (Obligatory YouTube link)
Madonna's father owns a winery ...
Helen Keller helped found the ACLU.
Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues claims to have introduced the Beatles to the Mellotron, though some doubt that he was the one to do so.
From 1952 to 1956 Brigitte Bardot appeared in seventeen films. Though she was a relatively unknown fashion model in early 1952 by 1956 she was one of the most famous international celebrities in the world.
I've got three fanfic readers from Gibraltar.
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
I've got three fanfic readers from Gibraltar.
That rocks!
I didn't even know it counted as a separate country on ff.net.
I've also had a couple of readers from the United Arab Emirates, and from somewhere called "Satellite".
I've also got a couple of readers from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
I will not read the Legion #2 thread until I can actually purchase the comic...
I will not read the Legion #2 thread until I can actually purchase the comic...
<span style="font-size: 11px;">[repeat 4,000 times or until those temp agency losers pay me;whichever comes first]</span>
:rolleyes:
God I haven't realized how jaded I've become.
I have never in my life known a small child who regularly used "me" in the nominative case as children in Silver Age DC Comics did.
I have, however, heard of a rapper who did same ("Me So Horny").
The stereotypical speech patterns of Asians and Native Americans in comics/movies actually have roots in grammatical differences between Asiatic/European languages. For example, Chinese lacks tense, and therefore it was difficult for Chinese immigrants to master the use of tense, thus contributing to the stereotype.
EDE wrote:
The stereotypical speech patterns of Asians and Native Americans in comics/movies actually have roots in grammatical differences between Asiatic/European languages. For example, Chinese lacks tense, and therefore it was difficult for Chinese immigrants to master the use of tense, thus contributing to the stereotype.
That almost makes sense to me!
Cookie Monster was the original illegal immigrant; after all, they only paid him in Chips Ahoy.
At least they didn't call him [shudder!] "Cookie Puss."
They tried to, but the Muppet Anti-Defamation League put a stop to it. (Even illegal muppets have some rights.)
[snerk]
Okay, back to randomness:
I just got back from picking up a few things at the supermarket. Total cost as appearing on the receipt:
$6.66.
I was at the supermarket a few weeks ago, and the bill came to the exact year of my birth.
(Okay, so I'm semi-random. Sue me.)
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo is coming out on DVD.
There is a new Scooby Doo cartoon coming out in July on Cartoon Network...
The cat is chasing a fly.
My summary of Cheshire and Deathstroke:
Ooh, I have poison claws and blew up a small country. I mothered a child with a superhero. I HATE HIM! I love him. HATE HIM! Love him. HATE HIM! Did I mention I have poison claws?
I'm the world's greatest dad and my children don't appreciate me. Join my team and I'll give you what you want but I won't tell you how because I know everything and it's a secret. AAH I've been fighting children my entire life!
My hangover today is tiredness and a headache. Headache may just be from tiredness though.
I'm not 21 years old anymore.
The director of Jeepers Creepers and Powder is a convicted child molester.
I'm not getting cheesecake.
Helen Mirren is still incredibly attractive.
Putting together an Arsenal Revenge Squad.
Steve Ditko is really interesting despite the fact we know nothing about him.
Tonight's shopping list:
Cheddar Cheese
Soy sauce
Flat iron steak
Limes
Seltzer
Hot in Cleveland is my new favorite show!
I just realized, how the heck did Oliver Queen keep his secret identity with that freakin facial hair?
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
I just realized, how the heck did Oliver Queen keep his secret identity with that freakin facial hair?
I always thought the goatee should be fake, and part of his disguise.
I love the small tidbit of DC lore that Green Arrow had a red cap by mistake on and off for several years in the 50's and wish someone would retcon in a groovy explanation.
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
[b]I just realized, how the heck did Oliver Queen keep his secret identity with that freakin facial hair?
I prefer to imagine that all the stories took place on an alternate Earth where all the dudes were wearing that same style of facial hair all the time.
It's just as well that I never made it in the comics biz, I guess.
Hey! I have a goatee and no one suspects I'm...never mind!
Who was that goateed librarian?
my local library has a room called "Teen Territory" that scares me a little bit
I have the dream about the never-returned overdue library book at least as often as I have the dream about the pending school exam for the class I never attended.
I got stuck in a traffic jam today, just waiting to get out of the shopping centre car park.
“Oh we’ll just pop in there for a little bit, we’ll be in and out in no time” she said...
Rassin frassin traffic mumble mumble grump grump.
Celebratory concussive pyrotechnics do not sit well with Cairn terriers.
My wife and I had my brother and fiance (soon to be wife at the end of the month) for a mini-dinner party last night. We got to use the endless amount of nice plates, bowls and other things we've had since her wedding shower which we only use twice a year.
If it were up to me, I'd eat standing up over the sink so I didn't have to clean anything up.
Tonight, a Random Thing that's been bothering me ever since I was old enough to work the dial of a radio:
Ever hear that Bob Seeger song? "That Old-Time Rock 'N Roll"? Yeah, of course you have.
Every "classic" rock station plays it. Over and over and over again. Ever notice that none of these stations ever play any old "Blues or funky old soul," as referenced in the song? There's no "old-time rock 'n roll" as referenced by Seeger to be found at all. No Buddy Holly. No Johnny Ace. Et al.
Because I've sure noticed, and after all these years, it still irritates the living [bleep] out of me. Like "classic" rock stations aren't already irritating enough. I'll give anyone willing 20 to 1 odds that most of the fans AND most of the DJ's and programmers and ad hucksters don't even have a clue as to what "old-time rock 'n roll" actually is.
Bleah.
My wife kind of likes Bob Seger. To be honest, I find his most popular stuff rather lame. "Turn the Page" is particularly lame.
Yeah, Bob Seeger is almost Eagles-level annoying in my book.
I had a dream last night that I had to apologize to one of my college professors
Across the street is an open plot of land where a new building was originally going to go up before the recession (no longer the case). Now, there is a circus tent going up--apparently the "Big Apple Circus" is coming to Stamford later this week and going on right across the street!
I wonder if any of the young trapeze artists might one day be superheroes?
No doubt Cobie will be visiting the circus on the look out for potential orphans to make his ward!
My kids and my wife are addicted to this stupid game called "Plants Vs. Zombies". Don't see the appeal, personally.
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
No doubt Cobie will be visiting the circus on the look out for potential orphans to make his ward!
If I don't find any, I'll know immediately that this must be one of those other circuses where all the performers are really gangsters hoping to hypnotize and then rob the audience!
Red Arrow made her 100th post today!
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
Across the street is an open plot of land where a new building was originally going to go up before the recession (no longer the case). Now, there is a circus tent going up--apparently the "Big Apple Circus" is coming to Stamford later this week and going on right across the street!
I wonder if any of the young trapeze artists might one day be superheroes?
one of the regulars at the CBS I used to work at had been a trapeze artist with Big Apple Circus.
she's now an artist, and even did a children's book about her time @ BAC.
I just got the news that I'm going to be in Portland OR for the next three weeks, starting Monday 7/12.
Now I just need an excuse to swing down to S.D.
Any Legion Worlders in the Portland area?
I feel sick to my stomach and wonder if excessive computer use can be the cause. I use a computer alot during work, and I come home and use it more.
I hope my friend's surgery is going/went alright.
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
I just got the news that I'm going to be in Portland OR for the next three weeks, starting Monday 7/12.
Now I just need an excuse to swing down to S.D.
Any Legion Worlders in the Portland area?
[raises hand]
If you can stand to be seen with a filthy hippie and her long-suffering spouse, that is.
Candle and Uranus Lad are the other locals hereabouts, yes?
Pop me a PM, if you feel so inclined.
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
Now I just need an excuse to swing down to S.D.
I hear there's some kinda sci-fi shindig in a couple of weeks ... good chance there'll be punch and pie ...
Originally posted by SharkLad:
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
[b]Now I just need an excuse to swing down to S.D.
I heard somethin about that. Maybe a road trip is in order.
I'm watching SWAT KATS.
Oh, um, Mr. Tabor, how are things?
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
Originally posted by SharkLad:
[b]
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
[b]Now I just need an excuse to swing down to S.D.
I hear there's some kinda sci-fi shindig in a couple of weeks ... good chance there'll be punch and pie ... [/b]
Power Boy got tickets pretty last minute ... in light of all this Earth Man/GL stuff, I think Legion World's resident ring-bearer needs to be there to keep the rest of us in check ...
I posted on the LMBP Yahoogroup tonight. Mine was only the 5th post of 2010. 2009 had only 4 for the whole year.
I'll always remember its golden years....
Do you have a link to that? I think the last time I tried I couldn't get in ...
Oh, and in terms of random ... Carvel's Cookie Puss had an Irish cousin who was only available around St. Patrick's Day ... Cookie O'Puss
Try
this . There are links to many related sites on the home page of these message boards.
I went on the Yahoogroup in the first place to discover a certain past poster's last name, btw.
hmmm ... I can't get in ... I have no idea what my Yahoo ID is and I can't get Yahoo to email me it ...
Originally posted by Chief Taylor:
I went on the Yahoogroup in the first place to discover a certain past poster's last name, btw.
Not SMASHFACE, I hope ...
Am I listed as a member of the Yahoo group?
Originally posted by SharkLad:
hmmm ... I can't get in ... I have no idea what my Yahoo ID is and I can't get Yahoo to email me it ...
If it helps, you're registered there as both "sharklad" and "psychoticbeaver". Add the "@yahoo.com" to either and try some of the passwords you've reused over the years. Hope that helps. (Took me lots of tries, too!)
no luck ... I keep getting shot down one way or another ...
Random: In Spain, the Smurfs are called los Pitufos
Hm.
Originally posted by SharkLad:
no luck ... I keep getting shot down one way or another ...
I wonder if Cru has any special powers that could help you as owner of the group?
that would be excellent ... I guess I could always register a new ID and ask to join ...
Originally posted by SharkLad:
that would be excellent ... I guess I could always register a new ID and ask to join ...
Ha! I see you over there, Sharky!
Yep ... I now have three IDs there, with no way of accessing "SharkLad" or "TheSharkLad" ... and forget about "psychoticbeaver" ... I couldn't remember that password if my life depended on it ...
Now in its fifth season, Psych has never had its star, James Roday, in a shirtless scene. I consider this a tragedy of epic proportions.
My allergies are back!
A few years ago, Eryk said that Captain Marvel could be the Harry Potter of comics.
Now in an interview,
Geoff Johns says the same thing. I think he stole the idea from Eryk
Well, I'll take a fleeting break from grousing and sulking to say that we've got a brand-new fridge. (The old one was on the verge of death.) It's roomy and quiet and soooo much nicer than the old one.
Of course, putting all the magnets and junk from the old fridge back on it will probably use up most of the weekend...
It's been a trying month, and I'm exhausted.
Can't wait until I can eat solid food again...
I got a picture of Captian Marvel on Thursday, Captian Marvel, jr on Friday, and Mary Marvelon Saturday
Just discovered Firefox's Personas, their add-on which let you customize your browser, and I'm having a blast looking through all the cool art. Found a really cool animated abstract.
Okay, the animation is starting to annoy me.
I've settled on a less-animated animated one, but, after seeing one based on the Justice League, I'm now looking for a "persona" based on the Legion.
I just saw a triple rainbow!
Originally posted by Ram Boy:
I've settled on a less-animated animated one, but, after seeing one based on the Justice League, I'm now looking for a "persona" based on the Legion.
I tried on several. My current one has the Firefox mascot devouring the Internet Exploder "e".
I have surgery to remove the thing in my chest in two weeks. And they're not removing my heart...
I want to see the pics Abin *must* have taken of beautiful booth babes with some Legion Worlders.
There's some rack-like contraption for sale at the supermarket now that holds your s'mores over the BBQ/grill in little wire "cages" so they look all TV-perfect upon completion or something.
It's that kind of thing that makes me realize that I STILL live in the greatest nation on Earth, by damn!
When I saw the first sentence of the above post from the active topics screen, for some reason I read "contraption" as "contraceptive", which was pretty bizarre.
This should lead to another Bad Pick-Up Line, somehow. But I'm too tired to work out the details.
^Next thing ya know, Edie, you'll be mistaking "cleome" for "condom"!
(Sorry, clee...that was directed at Edie, not you!
)
A likely story.
Originally posted by Kent:
I just saw a triple rainbow!
Oh, so
THAT was
you!
Returning to the refined sugar theme:
I bought some donuts today from a local shop that has "What Foods These Morsels Be" printed on their take-out boxes.
My family's pretty unimaginitave, I suppose, so the last two cats we adopted, we kept the names the agencies had given them.
My brother's wedding is on Saturday. Months ago, I decided I needed to get into shape for the weddings I have this summer (I have 6 and am in 3) and was making great progress. Then the baby was born--and oh boy, my schedule was all out of whack. Compiled on that were three big bachelor party / stags (one more to go) and a week vacation. Now finally, I'm trying to get back into shape again. I worked out yesterday like there was no tomorrow, trying to overcompensate for WEEKS away.
I'm dying today. Literally dying. Everything hurts.
The animal rescue people here rescued a boa constrictor, who, after medical treatment, will be put up for adoption.
Instead of "passengers", many airlines now say they have "customers". Instead of "customers", many stores now say they have "guests". I wonder if a hotel chain will now claim to have "passengers".
Tonight's dinner is a bag of carrots and a glass of soymilk.
I'm only gonna break, break, your, break, break, your heart
It rained hard today, but did nothing for the heat.
This one's for Chief Taylor:
Poo-powered car .
Sleep looks to be unlikely tonight.
Fibonacci did not actually invent the Fibonacci sequence. He merely brought it to Europe from the Arab world.
1. I neither know nor care what a Fibonacci sequence is.
2. Another 3 week trip to Oregon starts monday.
3. Sometimes I just like to make lists.
1. I wanted to steal the list idea from Abin.
2. It was a pajama day for me and the kids.
3. I am almost severely depressed today...thank God for my kids.
I now have a reader from another country I've never heard of. Anyone heard of Maldives?
yes! nation of islands, just south of India.
Just checking to see if anyone else knows.
I wonder if they even get comics to these places.
Hey, anyone remember Full Moon Entertainment?
Yeah, why? They did bad horror movies...and the Puppetmaster series IIRC.
Yeah, my brother loved the Puppet Master series. Even collected the toys. I was just watching one of their movies for a couple of minutes, Castle Freak.
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
Just checking to see if anyone else knows.
I wonder if they even get comics to these places.
You mean English-language comics? Even w/o a local CBS, there are ways. I used to be in one of those high school "writing clubs" where we got assigned pen pals. Mine was from Ethiopia, and she was a big American comics fan. Relatives used to bring her stuff from abroad when they could get it, so I boxed up a bunch of stuff that I'd already read a billion times and sent it to her. She was pretty pleased.
On a more random note:
Somebody next door is getting lucky, either live or on TV. I'm unsure which, but I've got the stereo turned up, because--- uh, otherwise TMI.
If I wasn't so damn tired out from my day, I'd probably be jealous.
Ida Random was a production designer for movies.
I must restart my computer for the security updates to take effect.
brb
I need to buy yogurt and fruit for tomorrow morning's breakfast.
When I review a comic I don't like, I sometimes feel I'm not getting across my negativity enough and can't help but come up with ridiculous ways to criticize it, such as
my latest review of the recent Iron Man annual.
I wonder why Cobalt Kid was inexplicably "Cobaltus" again for a few days.
The answer to that would shake the very foundations of Legion World!
*cue music*
The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers that build off of each other by adding them together. Starting with 0 and 1, the sequence continues 1 (0+1),2 (1+1), 3 (2+1), 5 (3+2), 8, 13, 21, 44, 65, etc.
Fibonacci did not invent the sequence, but learned it from Arab scholars and introduced/popularized it in Europe.
Donald Duck's costumed hero alter ego, Paperinik, was created in Italy in the late 1960s by editor Elisa Penna, writer Guido Martina, and artist Giovan Battista Carpi. It was partly a parody of Italy's iconic costumed anti-hero, Diabolik.
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Attempting to devise a real life use for the Fibonacci sequence has thus far completely stymied me.
I shall however redouble my efforts. This puzzle must be solved!
members of the Barbie Liberation Front would but talking Barbies (one of their sayings was, "Math is hard!") and talking GI Joes, open them up and swap voice chips, so GI Joe would have Barbie's voices/sayings and vice versa.
They would then bring them back to the stores and mix them in with the regular stock, so that unsuspecting customers would (re)buy them.
Bought a nice pair of sandals at a yard sale yesterday. Also picked up three pairs of shoes from the repair shop. Later I have to polish my workboots, because they're looking a little beat.
I still think that the spouse actually owns more pairs of shoes than I do.
I really need to take my car in to get repair done, but have not found the time so far.
Fresh Cucumber "Pickle" Salad
<span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Ingredients:
5-6 small pickling cucumbers, or 1 large regular Cucumber, peeled if the skin is waxed. Ends trimmed off and sliced thin or thick as you prefer. Halve or quarter the slices if you prefer a more "relish-y" texture to your salad.
1 T. White Sugar
1 t. Salt
Scant 1/4 C. of Red or White Onion, chopped medium-fine
1/4 C. White Vinegar
1/8 C. Olive or other Vegetable Oil
1 T. Cold Water
Generous 2 T. Fresh Dill, chopped
1/4 t. ground Black Pepper
Generous Pinch of ground Cumin seed
1/2 t. Caraway Seeds
Generous Pinch of Celery Salt (optional)
Dash of Angostura Bitters (optional)
Directions:
1) Place the sliced cucumber in a large bowl and sprinkle the slices with the sugar and salt. Stir gently to coat them as evenly as possible with the sugar and salt. Cover and let sit at room temperature for 10-15 minutes.
2) Add the chopped onion, plus all liquid ingredients (except the Angostura), stir gently again.
3) Add all remaining ingredients, stir gently again. Refrigerate, covered, for 1/2 hour.
4) Taste and correct seasonings as you like. (Some people find the brine a bit strong and like to dilute it with a bit more water. Some people like more salt, some more sugar. Pepper fans like to add more black pepper, or a bit of cayenne or even a shake of hot red pepper flakes. Experiment !
)
Chill again and serve. Makes about four servings. Keeps 4-6 days in the fridge.</span></span>
THE BEACH WATER HURTS MY ANKLES WHEN IT'S COLD!
(a lot)
Choir humor can be summed up simply:
Tenor makes smartass remark.
Bass laughs.
Soprano complains that they're being childish.
Alto ignores everyone.
I prefer the look of Suse to Ubuntu but Suse seems to be a resource hog which is odd. However the real problem is the RPM which takes forever to resolve dependencies during patches. Synaptic and its Debian packages wins.
There's an ice cream shortage in New Brunswick.
^You should try the SC variety sometime if you think it's bad where you are!
*choke*
I'll gladly check out the SC humidity in February! I imagine it's all great weather and bikini clad babes around that time!
Er, not exactly.
Trying to keep them all for yourself, I bet!
Originally posted by Fat Cramer:
There's an ice cream shortage in New Brunswick.
It MUST be Irving's fault!
I went to the foot doc today and got prescribed anti-inflammatory meds and a mini-brace.
On the plus side, he agreed with me that the nurse practitioner the HMO insisted I go to first was... er, not the sharpest tool in the shed. (She diagnosed a problem I clearly didn't have, then wrote me a prescription for some stuff my previous GP had told me to not take, based on my medical history. Pphht. I don't think all nurses are idiots, BTW. Just this one.)
On the minus side, I'm so spaced out from the meds right now that I can barely sit upright in my chair. Oy.
A turd in the hand is worth two in the tush.
There actually is a person who goes by the nickname
Pupi .
For a while I consulted over in England, and I loved picking up English idioms. One of my favorite is the phrase "I can't be arsed" basically meaning, "I can't be bothered". Though I'd love to incorporate that into my vernacular, I don't have enough panache to actually use the pronunciation "arse" so the few times I've tried to Americanize it and say, "I can't be assed," people always misunderstand and say, "You can't be asked to do what?"
Wizard has just proudly announced that Rod Blagojevich will be a guest at the Chicago Comic Con.
I had to look up Rod Blagojevich. How soon we forget!
I never fix my watch for daylight savings. I just know in the summer I'm off by am hour.
(I only wear it when I'm in a suit).
The weather was darn near perfect all weekend. Tomorrow the heat's supposed to roar back big-time, though.
I've never really gotten the phrase "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
I mean, granted. But who the hell wants to just have cake without eating it? What's the point?
Seems like a pretty easy choice to me.
I used to post on the SciFi Channel boards as "AACR2", which stands for Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition, a standard reference for library catalogers.
I used to post on the scifi channel board as well as pyre58
Cheech and Chong would have a field day.
Life (in the form of a co-worker) has handed me a huge bag of plums, so I'm gonna' fix a plum cake... right after breakfast.
Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
Cheech and Chong would have a field day. [/b]
All that's growin' now is greed.
We're hangin' ourselves for lack of plant.
We're hangin' ourselves for lack of weed..."-- Eighty Mile Beach (1998), "
Hempen Homespun "
Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
Cheech and Chong would have a field day. [/b]Tommy Chong was born in Alberta.
Opals can contain up to 20% water.
Originally posted by Tamper Lad:
Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
[b]
Cheech and Chong would have a field day. [/b]
Wow, man!
Can you drive it at night?
Can it ever have an auto-pilot?
If yes to both, then...
Our Kestrel maneuvers in the dark.
Vivian Vance. That's it. I just wanted to write her name.
Originally posted by Kent:
Can you drive it at night?
Can it ever have an auto-pilot?
If yes to both, then...
Our Kestrel maneuvers in the dark. [/b]Arrgh! And to think I just composted all the rotten produce, instead of saving it
to throw at someone!
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Vivian Vance. That's it. I just wanted to write her name.
MST3K reference in four...three...two...one...
MIKE NELSON IMPERSONATING JACK PERKINS, WHO IS ABOUT TO BE TORTURED BY DR. FORRESTER: "Ah, Vivian Vance...AAAAAAAAAARRRRGH!!!!"
awesome magenta is a very underloved color
Our neighborhood's block party is today, and it looks like the weather will be perfect.
If I manage to not eat and drink myself into a stupor by 6 PM, I'll consider the day to have been a huge success.
I found Cherry Ginger Brew at the bulk food store. Tasty.
Now I'm wondering what the Spiced Apple Ginger Brew is like.
I bought the entire DVD set of Monty Pythons Flying Circus for $10.
That's some bargain.
I know right...we stopped by a garage sale and I asked the guy how much it was. 14 disk box set. He says $10. I looked at my wife and sshe nods her head and I bought it before he came to his senses.
I enjoyed reading Hawkeye & Mockingbird #1 tonight.
Time seems to have slowed down, for some reason.
I had no jobs last Friday. I have two jobs now.
Oy!
No self-respecting pub should ever serve Newcastle Brown in a plastic cup.
No self-respecting pub should ever serve any decent brew in a plastic cup... except on holiday weekends, where they reluctantly deserve a free pass.
Looks like I may be spending the weekend with Earl.
Today is Independence Day in
The Principality of Sealand!
Originally posted by Kent:
No self-respecting pub should ever serve any decent brew in a plastic cup... except on holiday weekends, where they reluctantly deserve a free pass.
I'd like to add the Bourbon Street Clause where it's acceptable all year round if you're getting one on the go.
Otherwise, you are quite right sir.
Originally posted by Set:
I had no jobs last Friday. I have two jobs now.
Oy!
Greedy!
Congrats though.
I can't remember how many ozzes are in a lib.
The Sid is sacked out in the towel closet, resting between bouts of violence and destruction. Callie the Calico used to love napping up there, too.
Suiting his personality, he's curled up directly on top of an old beach towel that has Beavis and Butthead on it.
I totally forgot about that.
Has anyone heard from Candle?
She posted in a couple threads earlier today. In the Main Legion Forum.
Damn. I can't believe I missed her.
I came to a horrible realization the other day. James Robinson is the Joel Schumacher of the JLA.
I'd love to go to Graceland. I'd love to take my mom along too.
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
I came to a horrible realization the other day. James Robinson is the Joel Schumacher of the JLA.
<span style="font-size: 10px;">Sorry.</span>
Speaking of cinema, here's Calexico's tribute to Spaghetti Westerns: "
The Ballad Of Cable Hogue ."
I am finishing my final KellerBier.
am stuffed on homemade pizza.
A homeless person on the subway asked me if I was muslim! I replied, "Me no speakie Engleesh!"
In keeping with some of SK's posts (and thus only about 50% random, if that) somebody from a place called Revar of Moldova glanced at my fic earlier today. Since I have ancestors from that part of the world, maybe I'm being watched by some super-ultra-distant cousin without either of us knowing it!
<span style="font-size: 11px;">I suppose one of these days I really should update the damn thing...</span>
I can't stand brussel sprouts.
What happened to comicvine.com? I keep trying to log in but it goes to some junk about whiskey media?
Originally posted by Sarcasm Kid:
What happened to comicvine.com? I keep trying to log in but it goes to some junk about whiskey media?
If you want to see it again, leave the suitcase full of unmarked bills behind the water pipe in the Dropsey Ave parking garage...
but seriously, it looked fine a minute ago.
I love me some fresh roasted beets.
Mmmm... beets.
Anyway...
Yesterday, we got a gift basket as a "Thank You" from one of mr_c's clients. The timing was perfect, since this has been a week where coming up with grocery money was... uh, not exactly easy.
We broke it open last night while watching The Marx Brothers. Again.
I'm having very little luck quitting sodas.
Surely not THE Ann Hebistand?!?!?
Originally posted by Kent:
Surely not THE Ann Hebistand?!?!?
Often imitated, never equalled!
Hey, Rambo! Rambo italiano!
Hey, Rambo! Rambo italiano!
Go, go, go you Judge-Dredd Gardenzio
You old Rocky -a do the Rambo real schlocky
with a
Hey Rambo, don't wanna box Balbo'
Hey Rambo, no more Cash n' Tango
Hey, Rambo! Rambo italiano!
I need to cut my fingernails.
Strawberry Finches in a coconut-shell "house."
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The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched brass instrument.
This morning, mr_cleome was rushing out of the house to watch football with his buddy down the street. I asked who was playing and he said, "Steelers Vs. Titans."
I told him to be sure to stand up and sing the "Titans, Go!" theme when Tennessee took the field.
The look on his face was priceless.
I had rice for brunch. I'm hungry again.
They closed that other thread before I could add one last
shirtless dude pic for Quis.
So here it is.
(
main link )
You guys ever laugh so hard the back of your head hurts?
I laughed till i cried last night
The first time I saw the word "pwn", I thought it was a Welsh word, like "cwm".
I love when I'm listening to iTunes and it plays three or four fantastic players of one instrument together in a row. Because then, even my amateur's ears can pick up readily why they're all so different from one another.
(In this case, it's
Satoko Fujii ,
Geri Allen , and
Toshiko Akiyoshi .)
It's gonna' suck tomorrow, going back to eight hours a day of repetitive butt-rock radio narrated by brain-damaged would-be comedians and interspersed with tons of sorry-a$$ ads. I've got to make the most of this before the return to purgatory.
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
Heineken is overrated.
But at least it's not Pabst.
Any beer that sounds like a comic book sound effect should be avoided.
I feel empty inside and hopeful all at the same time.
Idina Menzel and Adam Pascal from the original cast of "RENT" went to the same high school... with my friend Andie
It's always weird when you watch movies that you remember having been filled with sex and nudity when you watched them as an adolescent, and it turns out they really don't have that much sex and nudity after all.
The art show I'm in has been extended through October, which is nice since it saves me the trouble of having to go across town today and haul everything home. Still, it'd be nice if something actually sold, too.
Also, this is post <blink>
<font face="courier"><span style="font-size: 25px;">11111</span></blink></font f>.
I just changed a lightbulb in the bedroom and it may be the most constructive thing I do all day.
Walking out of work a few nights ago, I passed a posted notice about the death of a co-worker, which ended with 'leaving behind his husband of fifteen years.'
I had to stop and re-read it. Yup. A dude. And the spouse was also a dude. In friggin' New Hampshire, the state that wouldn't primary McCain or Bush because they weren't conservative enough.
The world changed again, when I wasn't looking.
It's like I woke up in the future.
Now, where's my darned flying car?
My watch stopped / battery died months ago and I've been too distracted & lazy to change it. I still wear my watch to every business function I attend, even though it hasn't worked.
My watch is exactly fifty-five minutes ahead, and has been for years. I automatically adjust for that in my head. If I corrected it now, I'd never get the time right.
Actor Lad's "Today I..." post reminded me of my friend Richard's wedding.
It was a small wedding and the only guys there for the garter toss were myself, Richard's two brothers, and the bride's brother. I did not try for the garter as you can imagine. The Bride's brother caught the garter. What made that creepy was that the bride's sister caught the bouquet. And they still went ahead with the brother putting the garter on his sister's leg.
My right calf feels like it's gonna explode...
My full middle name, which I greatly dislike, appears only on five documents: My birth certificate, my Social Security card, my voter's registration card and my bachelor's and master's diplomas. Even my driver's license only shows my middle initial.
Inuit do not eat seals in heat; they apparently smell like gasoline to them. They feed those seals to their dogs instead.
Glenn Close was only four years older than Robin Williams when she played his mother in a movie
"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song?
Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price
Of all a man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy,
And in the wither’d field where the farmer plows for bread in vain.
It is an easy thing to triumph in the summer’s sun
And in the vintage and to sing on the wagon loaded with corn.
It is an easy thing to talk of prudence to the afflicted,
To speak the laws of prudence to the houseless wanderer,
To listen to the hungry raven’s cry in wintry season
When the red blood is fill’d with wine and with the marrow of lambs.
It is an easy thing to laugh at wrathful elements,
To hear the dog howl at the wintry door, the ox in the slaughterhouse moan;
To see a god on every wind and a blessing on every blast;
To hear sounds of love in the thunder-storm and destroys our enemies’ house;
To rejoice in the blight that covers his field, and the sickness that cuts off his children,
While our olive and vine sing and laugh round our door, and our children bring fruits and flowers.
Then the groan and the dolour are quite forgotten, and the slave grinding at the mill,
And the captive in chains, and the poor in the prison, and the soldier in the field
When the shatter’d bone hath laid him groaning among the happier dead.
It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity:
Thus could I sing and thus rejoice: but it is not so with me."
-- William Blake, The Price of Experience (1797)
During the height of the Batman TV series, Burt Ward recorded several songs under the production guidance of Frank Zappa. Two were released as a single.
There's never any action in my building's laundry room.
Non Sequitor himself would be proud of such randomness!
Rhino hasn't gotten the memo about the 4:45 laundry room orgy.
The coyotes are howling up a storm tonight.
I'm very naïve about some things. Until recently, I honestly had no idea that a goodly number of my friends in college regularly partook of a certain illicit substance that is generally smoked.
I care so little about cars that I couldn't tell you what anyone other than my wife drives. I can't even remember what my Mom or Dad's cars are.
Can you guess who this is?
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Outdoor Miner has it. That is Helen Reddy at age 66. Apparently she is now living in her native Australia.
Can we still hear her roar?
Oh how her picture makes me miss the classic Carol Burnett Show.
I hate talking on the phone. But I like texting.
Originally posted by future king:
Oh how her picture makes me miss the classic Carol Burnett Show.
Harvey Korman and Tim Conways sketches were always a riot.
It took me
two freakin' years, but today I sent off my last payment and permanently retired one of my two remaining credit cards.
Yup.
Dead, expired. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisibule. <span style="font-size: 17px;">IT'S AN EX-CREDIT CARD!!!</span>
Are you sure that isn't just pining for the fjords?
Not since I took it to <strike>Bolton</strike> Notlob for a hot date with a pair of kitchen scissors.
That's just a flesh wound.
So my drive from Washington to Baltimore took the route of going down Massachusetts Ave, which became Vernon Place then New York Avenue. The road was full of cars, bumper to bumper, and every 300-500 yards there was a traffice light. I wasn't too bothered by the slow pace as I had 4 & 1/2 hours to get to the airport and figured the traffic would clear out when I got on the beltway. It did take me 50 minutes to travel 5.5 miles.
But when I reached the beltway, it was 2 lanes of bumper to bumper traffic. The traffic was stop and go. And the go part was at speeds of 5 miles per hours (with an occassional burst of 20 mph for a few seconds) It took me another hour to go about 8 miles. I wa starting to freak out thinking that I'll miss my flight. I did yell out "F***" several times. But after mile 9, the traffic just opened up. There didn't seem to be a reason why it opened up. Anyway, I then made good time and arrived with 2 hours til my flight.
I also arrived in time to actually get a seat on the flight. There were only 5 available seats left when I checked in. They also made an announcement about the flight being overbooked and wantinig to know if anyone would give up their seat in exchange for 2 round trip tickets to anywhere AirTran flies, being put up in a hotel, and getting a flight out in the morning. I was tempted to do it, but I really wanted to get home.
Once, when I was a boy, I was attacked by ducks.
Originally posted by Outdoor Miner:
Once, when I was a boy, I was attacked by ducks.
It is tempting to ask what attacked you once when you were a girl...
My wife watches '18 and Pregnant' on MTV. I find it awfully sad and can't stand it.
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
My wife watches '18 and Pregnant' on MTV. I find it awfully sad and can't stand it.
Galron says "It is a good day to die!"
I say, "It is a good day to live!"
Originally posted by Hrista Spjóti:
Galron says "It is a good day to die!"
I say, "It is a good day to live!"
Gowron?
I cut the hell out of my finger with the box-cutter today. First time it's ever happened.
Today is the first time I have logged on in several years.
Welcome back, rokk steady!
Wikipedia has been showing pictures of its founder, Jimmy Wales, on every page as part of an appeal to raise money. I had only seen an occasional pic of him till recently. I think I'm in love!
I need to make some life changes.
Don't try to deep-fry a frozen turkey--it needs to be thawed out first!
My love of tomatoes is the stuff of legend.
Quis wants tomatoes eradicated.
The cat is presently being all sweet and lovable with me because he's freaked out by the vacuum cleaner being used in the next room.
My kids are REALLY into their new Wii game.
Amazon is Fraking Amazing for early xmas shopping
Originally posted by Lucifer07:
Amazon is Fraking Amazing for early xmas shopping
Which Amazon are you referring to? Princess Diana of Themyscera?
I didn't know they celebrated Christmas on Paradise Island. Huh!
Kent's current posting i.d. makes me think of "chipotle" for some reason.
My roommate got a coupon for a free turkey ($20 value) from the local (international corporation) supermarket. If the turkey you got was less than the $20, you could use the difference to buy other groceries. When he first went to the register he thought the turkey he got costed over the $20, but it was on sale and only was $12. The cashier told him that he could get other stuff. So he goes back and it trying to think of what goes with turkey. He ended up buying 2 bags of cranberries. When I asked him why he bought the bags of cranberries, he said that that was all he could think of at the time to go with the turkey.
SPOT spelled backwards is TOPS. Who knew?
When I was little I had sheets and pillowcases with the Peanuts characters on them. There was a picture of Sally Brown lying in bed saying "I hate going to bed at night and I hate getting up in the morning." I understood that so well and appreciated, even at a very young age, the ironic humor.
Cast iron pots and pans should never be used to cook tomato-based recipes. The acid from the tomatoes will wear away the surface coating, and the pot will have to be reseasoned afterward to keep subsequent foods cooked therein from tasting like rust.
Originally posted by cleome:
Cast iron pots and pans should never be used to cook tomato-based recipes. The acid from the tomatoes will wear away the surface coating, and the pot will have to be reseasoned afterward to keep subsequent foods cooked therein from tasting like rust.
Yet more evil propagated on the world by the vile tomato. Will the horrors never cease?
These examples above were the building blocks for the classic horror movie "Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes".
Not totally FK you never read the DC Digest where Santa had to battle his way across the Island to deliver Donna Troy her "My Little Pony?" A 1982 Classic
Enrique Segoviano was the unsung behind-the-scenes hero for both "El Chavo del ocho" and "El Chapulin Colorado."
Irvin Kershner, director of The Empire Strikes Back among other films, died last week.
Originally posted by Chief Lardy:
Irvin Kershner, director of The Empire Strikes Back among other films, died last week.
Awww...
If you're trying to do some serious writing, Weird Al videos playing while you work are not the way to go.
Just a friendly tip, from one who's learned.
I shouldn't have served that sweet old lady from Coral Springs sitting on table 8 a third margarita!
probably not exactly random, but I'm drunk and posting here and on facebook.
Tommorrow should be fun!
.. just watched the china syndrome. not bad.
going to dim sum tomorrow.
Dog's breath is real bad smelling.
Originally posted by future king:
Dog's breath is real bad smelling.
That depends on the dog.
Originally posted by dedman:
probably not exactly random, but I'm drunk and posting here and on facebook.
Tommorrow should be fun!
Originally posted by Power Boy:
.. just watched the china syndrome. not bad.
Cause and effect?
I just realized, after three and a half months of working on a dock, that I'm a dockworker!
Or a stevedore, more accurately, which sounds even cooler.
Yes, I move big heavy things into and out of dark places all night long. And no, that's not any sort of entendre.
Something else else called the Chinook Winds (not to be confused with the casino by the same name
) blew into our area of the world last night. Within ten minutes, the evening temperatures shot from about 44 F to 54 F, which is where they still are, mostly.
It's also still rainy, of course.
ours are called the Santa Ana winds. (it was about 60 last week)
it will be 85 degrees fahrenheit tomorrow.
swimsuit time.
however at my mother's home where we celebrate christmas, the high on the 25th will be about 52 degrees F. cold.
Walking home from the store, little flakes of snow were fluttering down. Just a couple here and there. Now 3 hours later, the streets and sidewalks are still snow-free.
.... can not write a research proposal to save his life.
Of my mother, father, younger brother, younger sister, and myself... I'm the only one who has not had back surgery.
I will stop drinking coffee when Tim Hortons closes it final store. (never happen)
My ex-HM has me on her LJ Friends page. Nearly everything she writes makes me want to reach through my computer and shake her, which makes me feel guilty because she's not a bad person. Just... really really damn irritating.
I never comment on her stuff, because the temptation to say exactly what I think in print for all her other Friends to see is just too strong.
....... drove to mall for christmas shopping, could not find parking, waited for an hour (in car queing) to escape the parking lot. never stepped foot in a store or outside of car.
it's now an amazon.com christmas.
Watching "Super Hero Squad" with your Niece and Nephew can really brighten up your day, and give you hope for the future.
The 666th reply to this thread was made by Lucifer07. Coincidence?!?!
Last night, I was so tired that I forgot to log out of LW before I shut down my computer.
"All Good Things" was a pretty lousy movie... "All Average Things" at best...
"The War On Christmas" is about as real as Santa working with Coco Cola.
My gym had a members appreciation day last week. They had a drawing. I won a 2 week trial membership for a friend.
Ewww! What IS that underneath my kitchen sink??
Why do I keep seeing episodes I've already seen of "Criminal Minds" over and over on Ion when I've probably seen less than 10% of the series run altogether?!?!
Many of my favorite artists in the fields of film, music, and literature (including comics) did some of their best work in middle age and beyond.
Once in college, I was part of a huge snowball fight where everyone was in their undergarments. I was in boxers, socks and boots.
The FIL sent us a holiday check yesterday. Most of it will go to catch up on bills, with a little skimmed off the top for a few 12/25 treats.
I also had a nasty attack of sleep-deprived stupid yesterday and would have overdrawn my account if mr_cleome hadn't gone to the C.U. when it opened and done an emergency cash infusion.
So the operative phrase this joyous season...?
[points toward sub-heading just under avatar]
With a tacked-on, You gotta' have friends...
:whew:
I find myself secretly wishing that the anti-obsesity movement would successfully change depictions of Santa Claus so that he is no longer overweight, if only because I think the countermovement to "Put the Mass back in Chrismas" would be amusing.
^Berkeley Breathed was way ahead of Eryk. There was a Bloom County strip where a slender, yuppified Santa says, "Had to lose some weight to fit into my new Saab."
Shaved my beard down to a goatee today. Might not last long, not looking forward to having to learn how to use razors and shaving cream.
I think Santa should have a built like Superman but with a nice beer belly. Instead of 'fat and jolly', more like a 'conquering hero who enjoyed the spoils of war too much'.
Which, incidently, is how I want to look.
And, of course, nothing captures the true spirit of Christmas like overindulging on the spoils of war after vanquishing your enemies!
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
I find myself secretly wishing that the anti-obsesity movement would successfully change depictions of Santa Claus so that he is no longer overweight, if only because I think the countermovement to "Put the Mass back in Christmas" would be amusing.
Anti-ob<span style="font-size: 16px;">se</span>sity, Cobie?
Where would this board be without its own personal Legion of Obses(s)ives?
Now be quiet and eat this Festivus cake. I baked it special just for you! Also, you have to have some of the ice cream or everyone will think you're one of those no-good Atheists!
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I think Santa should have a built like Superman but with a nice beer belly. Instead of 'fat and jolly', more like a 'conquering hero who enjoyed the spoils of war too much'.
Which, incidently, is how I want to look.
So Santa would look like a Chris Ware superhero?
[hides under the bed for the rest of '10]
Last night (or tonight, depending how you look at it), between Christmas Eve services, two of my brother tenors misheard me when I said that after the Christmas morning service, I was going home to mash rutabagas. They both thought I said--something else. I think this is the birth of a new euphemism!
<span style="font-size: 10px;">Oh, my.</span>
It really IS the quiet ones that you've always gotta' watch.
Once, in grade 3 these nine guys were beating me up pretty good ....
then suddenly, there he was ...
Captain Chaos!
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I think Santa should have a built like Superman but with a nice beer belly. Instead of 'fat and jolly', more like a 'conquering hero who enjoyed the spoils of war too much'.
Which, incidently, is how I want to look.
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
And, of course, nothing captures the true spirit of Christmas like overindulging on the spoils of war after vanquishing your enemies!
I always wondered how he got all those elf slaves...
I almost never start "Happy Birthday" at parties because I invariably pitch it too high for most people.
I'm getting my piano tuned tomorrow (also not a euphemism).
Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I think Santa should have a built like Superman but with a nice beer belly. Instead of 'fat and jolly', more like a 'conquering hero who enjoyed the spoils of war too much'.
Which, incidently, is how I want to look.
So, basically, the over the hill biker look, without the tats and pistol, lol.
I don't like chocolate, unless its mixed with JIF peanut butter or reese's. I can tolerate a snickers and baby ruth, but thats about it.
I hate it when girls take their shoes to dance at formal functions such as a wedding reception.
Except for a few licensed kiddie-books when I was very young, I don't believe I have ever in my life actually bought a Marvel comic.
Betty Grable died the day before I was born.
Crofters Morello Cherry jam is awesome when mixed with plain yogurt.
Yay, Canada!
I've had Buffy playing in the background these last three days on netflix. Trying to see what others saw in the show. So far, still just eeeeh.
Tuna salad sandwich + Tab = A little piece of heaven
100 years before the day I was born, Billy the kid died.
Or did he?
200 years before I was born, give or take a few days, the United States was born.
30 years before I was born, give or take a few days, the late film producer Julia Phillips was born. In addition to producing The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, she also ripped away Hollywood's civilized facade and revealed the corruption, sleaze, and betrayal underneath, in her book, "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again." For saving many a sensitive soul, including myself, from making a mistake and going to Hollywood, her memory deserves respect.
I became an uncle when I was 7 years old.
Neil Armstrong walked on the moon forty days before I was born.
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
30 years before I was born, give or take a few days, the late film producer Julia Phillips was born. In addition to producing The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, she also ripped away Hollywood's civilized facade and revealed the corruption, sleaze, and betrayal underneath, in her book, "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again." For saving many a sensitive soul, including myself, from making a mistake and going to Hollywood, her memory deserves respect.
When did she pass? It must have been within the last couple of years...
Malawi declared its independence from the United Kingdom exactly one day before I was born. Go Malawi!!!
I was born a little less than a month after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech before a crowd of 200,000 at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Happy MLK Day, everyone!
Robin Williams and Don Knotts share my birthday. But they had it first.
This is my 12,900th post. I'd put that in the w00t thread, but I'll save that for my 13,000th.
One of the reasons I love Legion World is it's a safe place to practice gender-free flirty behavior.
I also really like Quorn products.
she's got bette davis eyes
All my shoes are either black or brown.
When I was a kid I hated the word "wholesome". Maybe I just heard it used to described Hostess Twinkies and Cup Cakes in commercials one too many times. The mother would chastise her kids for some small infractions and then say how "fresh, wholesome Hostess" met her "tough standards" for her children's snacks. Her "tough standards" were "not overtly poisonous", it would seem.
Feel better, Lash!
An hour and a half is the time it takes to brush out and untangle the fur of an overbred, overpriced, health-challenged miniature collie-thing (and clean the excess fur off of one's clothing afterwards).
Ugh. Next dog? Chihuahua. Self-cleaning and easy to bury in the backyard if it gets annoying...
I only have one winter coat and one spring jacket.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
When I was a kid I hated the word "wholesome". Maybe I just heard it used to described Hostess Twinkies and Cup Cakes in commercials one too many times. The mother would chastise her kids for some small infractions and then say how "fresh, wholesome Hostess" met her "tough standards" for her children's snacks. Her "tough standards" were "not overtly poisonous", it would seem.
Oh, heck yes. "Wholesome snack cake" is right up there with phrases like "Military intelligence" and "Jumbo shrimp."
I will add another oxymoron to the 3 mentioned on the previous page ... Honest Politician.
future king, He Who Lashes says that the politicians in his town are a-okay.
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Moving right along...
At the doctor's office yesterday, I discovered that my weight has dropped below the 180 lb. mark for the first time in about 300 years.
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Originally posted by cleome:
future king, He Who Lashes says that the politicians in his town are a-okay.
Well, not quite. I once said that a CERTAIN politician had earned my trust and convinced me not to judge people prematurely, even by what they do for a living.
And I don't live in Brigadoon, though I did visit there the last time it appeared in our reality. Quaint Scottish village. They still think it's 1787 there and were completely perplexed by my cell phone and laptop.
Due to an accident when I was 20 that crushed my leg left me with two toes that are now basically webbed, the skin grown together to the last knuckle.
Can't run for $#!+ now, but I can swim like a scalded dog.
I recently heard the dumbest question ever. A grown woman asked if a 7 year old would be able to tell the difference between an adult and a child.
I was this close to becoming a paleontologist in university, but instead I pursued a career in retail management. It's a mistake one can only regret in their later years, not while it's taking place in their youth.
The single person responsible for the greatest number of unsourced quotes in the "Quotes Without Context" thread is probably Charles Schulz.
Saratoga's Chowder Fest 2011 had over 70 types of chowder to sample, including bacon cheeseburger chowder, corn beef chowder, and ice cream chowder...
Originally posted by Chief Lardy:
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How the H E double hockey sticks did you manage to take a picture of me on my last vacation???
So much for growing a go-tee to stay hidden!
They're predicting that we'll finally get the Winter pounding here that most of the rest of America has already experienced... sometime in the next week or so.
I really, really hope they're wrong.
Yesterday, I saw an assortment of robins and Western Bluejays hanging out in the yard.
The cat was pretty excited about this, which amused me.
... I received a valentine from a student today that said, "I love you! -- God"
Originally posted by SharkLad:
... I received a valentine from a student today that said, "I love you! -- God"
And God doesn't say that to just anybody.
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I'm so overly organized for my taxes. I've been this way since I was a teenager. I don't want the Gov to beat me for a cent.
I work with a number of women who are surprisingly comfortable dropping the "c word" all day long...
I was at an awesome concert in Edmonton last night...Cradle of Filth totally rocked!
I had forgotten just how much I like Gatorade.
Originally posted by dadman:
I was at an awesome concert in Edmonton last night...Cradle of Filth totally rocked!
I didn't realise you were in Edmonton bud, cool. I've been there once and Calgary as well. Both VERY nice cities!!!
The wind is so bad right now, the flashing is peeling off my roof. But... ain't no way I'm getting up on a ladder right now, so all I can do is listen to it bang!
Originally posted by future king:
Originally posted by dadman:
[b] I was at an awesome concert in Edmonton last night...Cradle of Filth totally rocked!
I'm actually in Fort McMurray, we went to Edmonton for the concert on Tue. and a hockey game on Thu.
Its been a long time since I've been to Calgary, but from I remember it was nice.
Oops, DUH .... just saw that your profile says "Fort McMurray" on it (and I even knew that already). Shows you what old age does to a person, eh? LOL
P.S. You must enjoy doing a lot of driving then?
The couple next to me at Starbucks is on a first date... I foresee disaster...
Meeting at a Starbucks for a date was their first mistake!
Orange is a mighty fine color.
There is a helium balloon shaped like a chicken on my ceiling
Every single muscle in my body aches today from my 2 and half hour workout yesterday.
Today is the 326th anniversary of the birth of George Frideric Handel.
The name "Old Dutch the Super-Cow" is a play on "Comet the Super-Horse". Old Dutch Cleanser is a now-obscure, but once common brand of cleaning powder.
The King James Bible is celebrating its 400th birthday.
My bologna has a first name.
My hands are always so cold!
My hair smells like smoke. Yesterday, I was visiting with a buddy and his roommate lit a fire in the fireplace, which was obviously faulty because the house got damn smokey in the space of half an hour.
Now I'll have to wash my hair again, even though I just did it yesterday evening before I went out...
My first job as a teenager was bagging groceries in a supermarket. I had a regular customer, an older lady, who would always tell me "Have a beautiful day in the Lord" as she was leaving. I thought that was kind of inappropriate, but I knew she meant no harm by it, so I always just smiled and thanked her.
About ten years later, when I was in grad school, I was relating this to a rather cynical classmate who asked "As opposed to what? A beautiful day in the bar?"
Budding pear trees smell funky.
As a kid, I thought muenster cheese was called monster cheese...
My daughter thinks Swiss cheese tastes kinda like popcorn.
I got a notice from the Boston Public Library that the book I requested was now in. I requested the book back in September. When I requested it I was number 121 in the queue.
When I was a kid I thought 'Jay walking' was people walking around naked in public. I wrongly made a connection between the phrase 'naked as a jay bird' and the phrase 'jay walking'.
When I was a kid, I would often see the phrase "hors d'oeuvres" written, but didn't know how to pronounce it, so even though I knew what hors d'oeuvres were when people would talk about them, I didn't make the connection between the spoken phrase and the written phrase for a long time.
I'm amazed that Americans still use the term "hors d'oeuvres" because it's so darn hard to spell correctly. "Canapes" isn't much better. In the South, when we're not being fancy, we just call it "finger food."
Looks like snow on the ground at my folks place with all the pear tree blossom petals on the ground.
I like switching all the clocks over. There's something about the symbolic turn of the seasons that always peps me up.
Plus, my clocks are all pretty cool-looking.
...I am tired lately...but cannot sleep.
... pillows. Bed. Hot milk. Accounting books. Tom cruise. Any Eric Bana movie.
...got 6 hours of sleep...the most in the last week.
... too bad. I'm back to posting.
no former kryptonian juvenile delinquent is gonna outdo me.... less I geta chance at tha boom boom with tha missus. Then, all bets r off.
I used to think Buhalis was pronounced "BOO-HAL-ESS"
Originally posted by rickshaw1:
no former kryptonian juvenile delinquent is gonna outdo me.... less I geta chance at tha boom boom with tha missus. Then, all bets r off.
heh...we all have to take a break from here sometimes.
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
I used to think Buhalis was pronounced "BOO-HAL-ESS"
We swapped art cards at a local shop once.
Originally posted by cleome:
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
[b] I used to think Buhalis was pronounced "BOO-HAL-ESS"
Cool!
Years ago, I asked Amanda Conner to autograph one of her issues of "Barbie" for my little cousin. She was very nice.
Yeah. I hear a lot of good things about Conner. I'm always struck by how much her work reminds me of Evan Dorkin's stuff. Which is good, since I love Evan Dorkin's art most of the time.
She should draw the Teen Titans.
Of course, first they need a good writer. One step at a time...
Yeah. I know what you mean.
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
She should draw the Teen Titans.
Of course, first they need a good writer. One step at a time...
I think Krul is getting better, but Titans have suffered from a couple of problems the last few years. One, no Robin as leader. Drake needs to return. 2, bad cast. 3, changing characters around to fit rather than writing them as they are and working it out. 4, pretty much abandoning a very storied Rogue's gallery for way too many crossovers and forgettable villains.
I once conceived a toilet-humor parody of "Seinfeld" where instead of saying "Yada, yada, yada" they said "Caca, caca, caca."
It featured a grumpy pharmacist who refused to sell people laxatives. They called him the Poop Nazi, and his catchphrase was, "No poop for you!"
I've been watching the Rotten Tomatoes show on Hulu, and entirely too many people cite Forest Gump as one of their favorite movies. Un-ironically. My faith in humanity is taking one hell of a beating because of it.
Originally posted by cleome:
I've been watching the Rotten Tomatoes show on Hulu, and entirely too many people cite Forest Gump as one of their favorite movies. Un-ironically. My faith in humanity is taking one hell of a beating because of it.
I lost my faith in humanity entirely back in early 1992 when Silence of the Lambs made a sweep at the Oscars.
It's distressing to spend a good part of the day doing research on human trafficking.
I slept till well into the afternoon today
After the killer snow dumpage yesterday it was nice to go for a walk on this sunny day today.
...doctor changed my diabeties medicine from metformin to something else. I have a .... bad reaction... to metformin.
On the whole, I'd rather be in Switzerland.
I had chicken, biscuits, rice and gravy, and an apple for supper.
That kitty two posts up looks EXACTLY like my kitten Jewely!
Officer and a Gentleman sucks @$$.
I wasted a perfectly fine Friday night designing a logo.
For what it's worth I still prefer Farrah Fawcett over Cheryl Ladd on classic Charlie's Angels.
Don't get me wrong, Cheryl's a fine girl and did a GREAT job after The Farrah left the show ... I'm just an ol' fashioned original traditionalist kind of old fart. (I'm 46)
Chai tea is awesome! Made at home, at least. The away kind usually has far too much sweetener.
Asia Argento is the daughter of Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi. Her parents never married. She has a half-sister, Fiore, from Argento's marriage to Marilu Tolo.
I have no idea who is who in popular culture, or who is Asia Argento. Sounds like a porn star name.
I just worked out for 2 and 1/2 hours and I'm not even that tired!
Practice DOES make perfect!
Ok, maybe not "perfect" but I'm a work in progress, so there!
"Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts."
Originally posted by rickshaw1:
"Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts."
Yes ok, that's true but ....
... do chickens really have lips?
Nope, just nice breaticles.
Originally posted by rickshaw1:
Nope, just nice breaticles.
You crazy basteech!
I refuse to comb my underarm hair. And you can't make me.
cleome's Very Unique & Groovy Cats Entertainment Kit™:
contains:
1 paper grocery bag
1 empty carboard beer crate
1 plastic juice bottle ring or milk bottle ring
1 plastic straw
directions for use:
Place straw through plastic ring. Balance on corner of the box, or pitch combo into paper bag. For added value, toss one item in the box and the other item in the bag. Watch cat-related hijinks ensue. Repeat as necessary.
Soon to be on sale for the unheard-of low, LOW price of 29.99 (U.S.)!! Patent Pending.
The more I eat fast food lately (honestly the last few years) the less I like it.
Home cookin' all the way, amigo.
I feel the same way, Dev. I've taken to frying my own burgers.
I love my mom's Jeanburgers as I call them. She makes the perfect burger. Love my wife's cookin', but every once in a while, I gotta have a Jeanburger.
The theme song for the underrated (yet seemingly accursed) TV show "Misfits of Science" ended with the cryptic phrase, "Good night, bunnies."
I always liked Joyce DeWitt over the other ladies of the show. True, she had some bad hairdo's, but she had vastly underated legs.
As well as way too much eyeliner,
But, whatever.....................
Today is the 119th anniversary of the first documented Ice Cream Sundae.
The actors I enjoy the most are usually the character actors that usually get overlooked.
During World War I, among the civilian loyalty groups were the Boy Spies of America, the Sedition Slammers, and the Terrible Threateners.
When I hear the name the Terrible Threateners, I think of someone saying "You better be loyal to the United States or I'll give you this flower" or "If you don't buy a war bond, I'll beat myself up."
It went from cool and wet snow conditions to super mild and raining like crazy in, I'm not kidding you, less than 4 hours!
Crazy country.
... job hunting again. Timber has gone to pot in SC.
Friggin hate job huntin'. After the last few jobs doing a crash and burn due to the economy... this is really tiresome.
After 2 weeks of buying my Skechers "Shape Ups", my overnight charley-horses have ceased!!
The damned things are hard to walk on, but they really stretch the calves & hamstrings!!
Originally posted by future king:
As well as way too much eyeliner,
But, whatever..................... Whaddaya doin' lookin' at her eyes?
Hey good buddy!
Joyce DehalfWitt's actually in my hometown of Hamilton this coming weekend doing her one-woman show.
I'm sure she'll sell out the shows! *cough, cough*
Eyes are the windows to the soul.
So what most of us Greeks have big noses? .... when it rains our shoes never get wet!
Ahhhh Joyce, da hottie wit da boddy...
I always loved Joyce's combination nightgown/football jersey. Still haven't found one at a thriftstore, though.
I had to read Trees by Joyce Kilmer in front of class when I was a kid.
Mike Joyce of the Smiths was Julian Cope's drummer for a while.
"I think that I shall never see..."
...so many torn up and thrown down trees as I did in my neighborhood this morning. We had a high-wind occurrence (maybe even a tornado?) here last night. I now know what is meant by the statement, "It sounded like a freight train went through the house."
Originally posted by Legion Tracker:
"I think that I shall never see..."
...so many torn up and thrown down trees as I did in my neighborhood this morning. We had a high-wind occurrence (maybe even a tornado?) here last night. I now know what is meant by the statement, "It sounded like a freight train went through the house."
What will the poor doggies pee on?
Not to worry, Fanfie. There are still some trees left.
What a...relief.
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
What a...relief. Bwa..ha...
Nobody involved with JLI can remember who came up with "Bwah Ha Ha."
Looking forward to the DC Flashback of that!
I have the hardest time remembering the band name, "The Cult".
I have no idea why, but it keeps dropping out of my memory. At least 2 or 3 times a year I'll hear "She Sells Sanctuary" and be like... "The Cramps? No... what is it? It's something like the Clash, but not quite. Dammit... why can I never remember this?"
For years and years I stuggled with how to pronounce the word "ambulance".
True story.
Tomorrow is the last day of Long Island restaurant week
Whiskers on kittens truly are one of my favorite things.
Nothing beats a Tim Horton's coffee in the morning when you're trying to wake up!
The two smallest states, Delaware and Rhode Island, both have a chicken for their state bird.
Some scenes in the Coraline movie are really, really scary!!
Worked my butt off yesterday with the gym and yardwork, 'tain't doin' nuthin tahday.
I find it odd that, generally speaking, someone who answers the question "What kind of music do you like?" with "All kinds" usually doesn't really like "all kinds" of music. In fact, that's usually an indication that they don't listen to much music at all.
I still have 2 of my wisdom teeth.
Does that make me a half wit?
yes, you would, however, have not been considered so if you had said "I only have two remaining..." instead of "I still have..."
Originally posted by rickshaw1:
yes, you would, however, have not been considered so if you had said "I only have two remaining..." instead of "I still have..."
SOMETHING PITHY BUDDY!!!
The constant disappearance and reappearance of the sun today is making the cats go ballistic.
After my fourth attempt at doing my yoga stretches without interruption, I gave up for the day.
:rolleyes:
I always thought it would be hilarious if a butter commercial made the claim that their product tasted just like margarine.
During Prohibition there were exceptions for sacramental wine and home made wine. Regulations allowed a household to produce 200 gallons of fermented fruit juice per year. This worked out to 3 bottles a day. Prior to Prohibition, California grapes sold for $9.50 per ton. In 1921, the price had risen to $82.00, than $105.00 per ton. The peak price of $375.00 per ton occurred in 1924. And at the same time as the price was rising, production also increased. Grape imports from Argentina and Chile went from 18,000 pounds in 1921 to almost a half a million in the first four months of 1922.
Prohibition started on January 20, 1920 and lasted until December 5, 1933 with Utah (Mormon majority Utah) becoming the 36th state to ratify the repeal amendment.
Info taken from "Last Call: the Rise nd Fall of Prhibition" by Daniel Okrent.
Brown ale is glorious stuff!
Scrambled egg whites taste disgusting to me. And also hollow somehow.
I have to work at 6AM tom'w!!
The front lawn's grass went from brown and sludgy looking to bright green and healthy practically overnight.
I might have to cut it soon. *groan*
Here we go again!
Invert sugar, which shows up in so many seasonal candies, is the result of using an acid (lemon juice or cream of tartar) to break simple sugar syrup into two components: fructose and sucrose.
(link)
It's only partly funny when the sprinkler system turns on right before an outdoor Easter sunrise service.
I ate so many hard boiled eggs yesterday that nobody better stand too close to me for the next couple of days!
Elizabeth, New Jersey was not named after the Queen of England.
Originally posted by lil'rhino:
Elizabeth, New Jersey was not named after the Queen of England.
Of course not, silly. Her last name isn't Jersey.
I wonder if the fact that I am both an Anglophile and a Francophile is not in some ways unlike the fact that I am very fond of both the Justice Society and the Legion.
Bubba, are you saying' the Legion is Frainch? I'm pretty sure they're all red-blooded Americans.
Jacques Foccart?
The boy can't spell. He's Jack Focker.
I thought EDE's song lyric reference in the Shout Box today was for "Dizzy Miss Lizzy". I Googled the lyrics and found that it wasn't. Then, I looked up the old Lizzie Borden rhyme and saw it didn't come from there. Then I tried Googling the lyrics themselves and got nuthin'!
So I Wikipediaed "Lizzie Borden" and read up on her because my curiosity was piqued.
Still don't know what those lyrics were to but am too embarassed to ask.
Lardy, you can find it in The Legion of Super-Heroes section, in the "Tenzil-Poco Teamup" thread.
In the hotel room I'm in at the moment, there is a sign on the door detailing the "Emergency Escape Plan". There is a fairly elaborate set of instructions, in English, about what to do in case of fire. There is one little bit of Spanish on the sign. Under "You are here" on the floorplan, it says "Usted esta aqui."
So, let's suppose you are a Spanish speaker who doesn't speak English. In case of fire, you'll be given absolutely no guidance on what to do to save yourself, but at least you'll know exactly where you are when you die.
I bought some old Pyrex and Corningware today at an estate sale. Red, yellow, and blue. I love me some primary colors in my kitchen!
I watched "The Voice" and I liked it.
I can never remember my shoe size
My allergies are finally dying down somewhat today.
Whew!
The Emerald Ash Borer is one beautiful bug!!
My "trick" ankle's bothering me again. Grrr...
My wife got hit by a car Friday while walking into work. She is sore and achy, but seems pretty good for what she went through. No broken bones or anything.
Dev and Mrs. Dev,
Originally posted by Dev Em:
My wife got hit by a car Friday while walking into work. She is sore and achy, but seems pretty good for what she went through. No broken bones or anything.
Wow--just saw this! Hope your wife is doing okay, Dev! That's incredibly scary to hear!
I'm really glad she doesn't have any broken bones and hopefully a day or so later, she's still feeling okay.
Big time
for your family!
Dev, what Cobie said. (And I'm sorry for somehow missing this before.)
Hoping all is still well for Mrs. Dev...and Dev too.
Geez Dev... thats waaaay to much like YK. Tell me you guys are good...
We're good, and it looks like everything will becovered by somone or another besides us. She's on restrictions at work, but can still go in and do her job. Thanks for all the kind words.
I'm very sorry to hear that it happened, but I'm also very glad to hear things are gonna be okay. Damn man, that scared the hell outta me.
Originally posted by Dev Em:
We're good, and it looks like everything will becovered by somone or another besides us. She's on restrictions at work, but can still go in and do her job. Thanks for all the kind words.
THANK GOD she's ok bud!!!!
Poor old Butterscotch the Evil (aka mr_cleome's cat). Her coat is all scraggly/scabby from allergies, plus she's dropping weight like crazy. Probably it's her thyroid. She's about at the age for that.
I'm glad I've come into a little cash, because we need to get her to the vet, and soon.
You can hit someone with your car, send them flying about ten feet through the air. Leaving them sore and in need of physical therapy and with the worry of nerve damage in her arm...and not even get a ticket. Nothing...nada...zip...no consequences at all legally.
Things you learn dealing with this stuff...
I live on the third floor of a 3 story house. My back porch is enclosed. Between the back porch and the pantry there is a small window, It measures 15 and a half inches across and is about 2 feet high. My roommate worries that someone might break into the apartment through this window. He will check to make sure that it is locked if when he goes out of the apartment.
Being all excited about the new Terrence Malick film coming out, I decided to look for a Malick-centric forum to join. My search brought up a new forum only formed two days ago. "Well, this looks promising," I thought, "I can get in on the ground floor."
Before signing up, though, I peeked at the board to see what sort of traffic it had gotten. There were only a handful of users, but one of the first people registered was someone called... "Exnihilo".
What are the chances? It's not like that phrase is at all linked to Malick himself. That is just super bizarre.
[snip]
...There were only a handful of users, but one of the first people registered was someone called... "Exnihilo"...
What's really funny is: we donated some stuff last Fall to a charity she runs, but I made mr_cleome sign all the papers and receipts, because why confuse things even further?
Smokey Robinson is a very handsome man!
I like reading the Arts section of the New York Times on Friday afternoons at Starbucks.
I am planning a vacation to beautiful St. John's in gorgeous Newfoundland.
As an adult, i've never had a proper vacation that involved actually doing anything more than working around the house. Most I've had is a 3 day weekend to get certified in scuba.
I think our honeymoon almost 14 years ago was the last time my wife and I went anywhere on vacation alone.
Fruit Boy designs a building exterior. Awesome!
![[Linked Image]](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5066/5678945831_5e30329006.jpg)
Originally posted by Fanfic Lass:
I have no idea where the MST3K people got "Chili Peppers burn my gut" from, but it always made me laugh.
It's a quote from the dippy hero of that creepy-as-hell "Sidehackers" movie that they skewered early in the series.
I plan to write a story with Squirrel Girl, Deadpool, Bat-Girl, and The Punisher.
I bought the newspaper today.
I was just driven home by a one-armed cab driver!
Heard Love Shack on the radio!
No joke: THIS was a club at my mom's high school, I just saw it in her yearbook. (i've excluded the photo of the members ... cause i dont know them) here is the description.
![[Linked Image]](http://img852.imageshack.us/img852/6931/21891318756702587551451.th.jpg)
Bilbo Baggins is listed as a member, but no frodo, legolas, etc.
what a bunch of hippies! why couldn't my high school have a club like this??
Bloody hippies!
Just kidding.
Neil Pye from The Young Ones was named after hippie record label Pye Records.
Did he work for an evil pharmaceutical company?
He was a hippie, he didn't have a job.
I have a job interview tomorrow, which means that I desperately need a haircut today. Am planning to go get one after lunch.
My glasses are in terrible shape and look dirty even when they're clean. Too bad there's nothing that I can do about that. [grumble]
Thanks, rhino. I don't expect that I'll find anything out one way or the other until tomorrow, or maybe even Monday.
OTOH, my hair looks better than it has in a coupla' years...
Last night I went to a high school production of Snow White. Two of my great nephews were in it. The younger one played one of the dwarves (they were not the same names as the Disney version) The older one had a main role as the comedic Sir Pompous. He did quite well, taking prat falls, talking in a funy voice, and even singing. The students who played the evil queen, her sister the wicked witch, and the magic mirror also did a very good job.
I am currently listening to
Brave New World on CD when in the car. I now understand Kid Charlemagne's birthday greetings.
I often donate clothing to the lupus foundation
Sometimes I'm tempted to make up a list of all the times in movies, comic books, and so on that the evil remorseless killer was somehow left all alone and unsupervised in prison long enough to get free and commit all kinds of mayhem. Though the people who were keeping him/her jailed supposedly had a lot in the way of brains.
Then I realized that I'd never be able to leave the computer once I got started.
I am fascinated when I see racism and misogyny in old cartoons, comic books, and TV shows.
I am watching some of the old Fleischer Superman cartoons and just saw Japoteurs and Jungle Drums.
I was a chubby lady hiding in da bushes!
That's a quote from somewhere?
I hope.
A missionary talking at my church tonight spent most of the time graphicly describing how the lower half of his arm got ground up in a butcher shop meat grinder when he was 16.
geez
Tall, uncut grass due-to-it's-been-raining-steady is really not much fun to cut even if the sun is finally shining!
Finally sunny in nyc too!!
My mom and wife have tried to kill me with yard and garden work this last month.
My wife will kill me if I
don't do some yard and garden work this month!
He Who, future king, and I keep trying to cohabit the same post.
Is that even legal?
It's probably going to cause a multiverse.
Sorry if I'm standing in someone else's shadow!
If He Who, FK and Tracker are all there, then it must be a pretty swell place!
I should be in bed, but I'm too tired to shut off the computer and stand up.
cleome, dear, are you still there?
Originally posted by Legion Tracker:
cleome, dear, are you still there?
In what sense, O Airborne One?
I forgot to soap up during my shower yesterday.
So, I took a bubble bath today, just to be safe.
gads
I saw the motorcycle gang of the future today, five people on those motorized power-chairs, bee-bopping down main street.
The town's being overrun by these silver-haired hooligans, with their gangs, and their drugs, and their flagrant disrespect for traffic laws!
Originally posted by Set:
I saw the motorcycle gang of the future today,
Stop using your time machine to spy on my world! How many times do I have to tell you??
Wait I have another comeback ...
Originally posted by future king:
Originally posted by Set:
[b] I saw the motorcycle gang of the future today, five people on those motorized power-chairs, bee-bopping down main street.
I was called a dickhead by a student yesterday. It made me smile.
Originally posted by cleome:
Originally posted by Legion Tracker:
[b] cleome, dear, are you still there?
Are you still at the computer, too tired to turn it off and stand up?
Everybody is like 'Peak Oil! Switch to solar!' but don't they realize we are going to hit Peak Solar in only five billion years?
I mean, why bother?
Cheryl Cole got kicked off the "X-Factor"
Originally posted by Legion Tracker:
Originally posted by cleome:
[b]
Originally posted by Legion Tracker:
[b] cleome, dear, are you still there?
In what sense, O Airborne One?[/b]
I'm not sure. Several days must have elapsed since we began this discussion, and yet I have no clear memory of the events that have occurred in the meantime.
Maybe I should stop drinking. Or else have another drink. I can't decide which would restore my memory more effectively...
When I was little, I heard about a hurricane that struck the Gulf Coast and thought that one of its victims was a woman named Mrs. Sippy.
If telekinesis is the same thing as psychokinesis, then why isn't a telepath the same thing as a psychopath?
Black walnut trees are first to shed leaves in the Fall and last to leaf out in the Spring. It's just one of many things that makes them such an utter pain in the [bleep]. If we didn't need ours there for shade and windbreak purposes, I'd cut it down in a second.
I have IPad training at work on Monday
I have a friend who passed away suddenly in 2009. His mom took over his Facebook account, keeping it in his name (she already had her own), which is a little creepy, but if it helps her, no harm done. She now uses it to play Farmville and post that she needs help raising her barn or some such (I never was a Farmville person).
The Sid, our gray tabby, had to go to the vet earlier this week. He had a UTI and needed meds and re-hydration. Today he's feeling a bit better. But I won't really consider him to be back to his old self until he tries to bite and claw me when I pet him.
What in heavens name are there travel agencies still doing taking up space in shopping malls??? I honestly thought I was doing the world a service by trying to go into one in order to get a human being to help me book a vacation I want to take in July.
After explaining that I was looking for assistance to book an all-inclusive trip the woman working in there looked at me like I had three heads.
"Why don't you just go online and book it yourself? It'll be cheaper" ... really, thanks Sherlock, didn't know that!!! That's what I was thinking to myself.
What I should have came back with was "Really, then why are you here??"
So much for kicking it old school, or trying to anyways! I wanted to contact the mall management and suggest that they put a poster up with online vacation information in place of that "travel agancy" taking up valuble retail space.
I like bowties but I never wear them except with a tux.
Today I celebrate 16 years of marriage to my best friend!
Originally posted by future king:
Today I celebrate 16 years of marriage to my best friend!
Junipers! How've you kept this from your wife for so long?
Congrats!
Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
Originally posted by future king:
[b]Today I celebrate 16 years of marriage to my best friend!
Congrats! [/b]Thanks bud!
Ironically, yesterday was my brother's 16th wedding anniversary--and he posted a similar comment ("best friend") on Facebook.
Happy anniversary, fk and Mrs. King.
Jonathan thinks that Iron Man is "the best movie ever!"
Originally posted by future king:
Today I celebrate 16 years of marriage to my best friend!
Congratulations to both of you, my friend!
Originally posted by He Who LSHes:
Ironically, yesterday was my brother's 16th wedding anniversary--and he posted a similar comment ("best friend") on Facebook.
Happy anniversary, fk and Mrs. King. Thank you very much! It is appreciated. We had a GREAT day together!!
Originally posted by Legion Tracker:
Originally posted by future king:
[b]Today I celebrate 16 years of marriage to my best friend!
Thanks bud, you're the greatest!!!
Originally posted by Dev Em:
Jonathan thinks that Iron Man is "the best movie ever!"
Don't worry. As he gets older his tastes will improve.
Originally posted by future king:
Originally posted by He Who LSHes:
[b] Ironically, yesterday was my brother's 16th wedding anniversary--and he posted a similar comment ("best friend") on Facebook.
Happy anniversary, fk and Mrs. King.
Of course you realize that we're going to have to call you "Scarecrow" now.
Congratulations, FK and many, many more happy years!
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Originally posted by future king:
[b]
Originally posted by He Who LSHes:
[b] Ironically, yesterday was my brother's 16th wedding anniversary--and he posted a similar comment ("best friend") on Facebook.
Happy anniversary, fk and Mrs. King.
Thank you very much! It is appreciated. We had a GREAT day together!![/b]
Congratulations, FK and many, many more happy years![/b]
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Originally posted by Dev Em:
[b] Jonathan thinks that Iron Man is "the best movie ever!"
I can live with him thinking Iron Man is the best movie ever at three.
I am looking forward to seeing Pirates of the Caribbean 4 tomorrow.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Originally posted by future king:
[b]
Originally posted by He Who LSHes:
[b] Ironically, yesterday was my brother's 16th wedding anniversary--and he posted a similar comment ("best friend") on Facebook.
Happy anniversary, fk and Mrs. King.
Thank you very much! It is appreciated. We had a GREAT day together!![/b]
Congratulations, FK and many, many more happy years! [/b]Thanks Rocky!
Hey, today I was "friended" by none other than the great Mr. Paul Levitz on Facebook!
I know lots of you on here are also friends of his on there (as I saw y'all! lol), and this is all old news to you, but since I'm new to Facebook it is quite a special honour for me. And that is an understatement!
What a great weekend this has turned out to be!!!
I'm fixing another lemon cake later today. Yeah, I'm in a rut, but it's a good rut. Lemon cake rules!
Sometimes I crave key lime pie
Spent about 19 dollars to fix the minivan. Two relays were blown...easy fix, that took too long because of money issues.
People who go on and on about "community" often turn out to mean "clique." This can leave a person with a crate's worth of egg on her face when she realizes that all along she mistook the latter for the former.
mr_cleome submits that this kind of self-important b.s. is very much a Portland thing. My theory is that it's everywhere.
I'm on a lucky roll it seems.
I also requested to be added to Yildiray Cinar's friend list on Facebook and HE accepted also!
Thanks YC! The art you posted on your page looks GREAT!!!!!
I've been listening to audiobooks in the car a lot lately. Currently, I'm listening to The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Originally posted by cleome45:
People who go on and on about "community" often turn out to mean "clique." This can leave a person with a crate's worth of egg on her face when she realizes that all along she mistook the latter for the former.
mr_cleome submits that this kind of self-important b.s. is very much a Portland thing. My theory is that it's everywhere.
Sometimes cliques are really Heathers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnftwkvpMyE
Originally posted by Jerry:
Originally posted by cleome45:
[b] People who go on and on about "community" often turn out to mean "clique." This can leave a person with a crate's worth of egg on her face when she realizes that all along she mistook the latter for the former.
mr_cleome submits that this kind of self-important b.s. is very much a Portland thing. My theory is that it's everywhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnftwkvpMyE [/b]But I do like the pink hat. I picked up a hat yesterday, for free. A nice one, but alas-- it didn't have the je ne sais quoi of that one.
Lately the nail on my left thumb gets dirt under the nail. Just the left thumb nail. None of the other nails on my left hand get dirt under the nails. The nails on my right hand don't get dirt under them. I can't think if anything I am doing to get dirt under my thumbnail.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Lately the nail on my left thumb gets dirt under the nail. Just the left thumb nail. None of the other nails on my left hand get dirt under the nails. The nails on my right hand don't get dirt under them. I can't think if anything I am doing to get dirt under my thumbnail.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
Lately the nail on my left thumb gets dirt under the nail. Just the left thumb nail. None of the other nails on my left hand get dirt under the nails. The nails on my right hand don't get dirt under them. I can't think if anything I am doing to get dirt under my thumbnail.
[gasp!]
Quis, how long have you had two left thumbnails?!
rasm frasm double posts. But what is this? Suddenly one is gone. It's like a moderator of the forum deleted one. I wonder which of the forum moderators did that?
Now that's how you remove a post.
Quis:
In other news, mr_cleome got stuck at work with some late-breaking disaster, and then he had an errand to run. So I ordered us pizza, but the pie got here before he did.
As a testament to the institution of marriage, I set the oven on low and put the pie in there to await his return. (And I have the radio cranked up super-loud so I can't hear it calling to me.)
Believe it or not I am actually one of the few that don't find anything charming whatsoever about the Kardashian family.
The first documented invention of the door handle appears in U.S. Patent entries for the year 1878 when a patent for improvements on a door-closing device was issued to a man named Osbourn Dorsey.
One of the few words that rhymes with "toilet" is the Irish surname "Moylett", which happens to be the birth surname of former Boomtown Rats keyboardist Johnnie Fingers.
When I read restaurant reviews of local places online, I often wonder if people who complain about service know what they're talking about. I've been to some of the places they complain about service-wise and don't remember having problems.
Maybe the issue is that so many chain restaurants get wayyyy too carried away with the attentive style of service, and then customers expect it no matter where they go... ?
I don't like being ignored or feeling frozen out by hipper-than-thou servers. But I also don't like it when the servers obviously feel compelled to check in with me every 3.5 minutes to make sure everything's okay. Some level of service about halfway between those two extremes is generally what makes me happy.
Well cleome, ever since I worked at the bank, I am more patient and less patient with customer service people (which would include wait-staff). If it is busy and I see that the customer service person is working hard, I have all the patience in the world. However, if I see the customer service person slacking off (such as by talking to a co-worker about what TV show they saw last night) and I have to wait even 3 seconds, I get mad.
Thank You He Who LSHes for the inspirational new name.
I love it! AND IT SUITS ME TO A TEE!!!
^Your new name sounds like a cat clearing its throat.
Originally posted by rot-flam-mow:
Thank You He Who LSHes for the inspirational new name.
I love it! AND IT SUITS ME TO A TEE!!! I think it's FUBAR.
Originally posted by Legion Tracker:
Originally posted by rot-flam-mow:
[b]Thank You He Who LSHes for the inspirational new name.
I love it! AND IT SUITS ME TO A TEE!!!
Thanks bud, I think
you're fubar too!
*really*
Originally posted by rot-flam-mow:
Thank You He Who LSHes for the inspirational new name.
I love it! AND IT SUITS ME TO A TEE!!! You're welcome, rottie! Glad you like it.
I started school in a worn, torn dress that somebody threw out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wHiVVXjt3M
I'd never really listened to those lyrics before. Quite advanced for '60s pop.
I adore the way ItsJustSomeRandomGuy dealt with Green Lantern!
The "The Lady and the Tiger and the Lawyer" episode of the Dick Van Dyke show (broadcasted 1/15/64) had a new neighbor move in next door. ROb sets him up with Sally, Laura sets him up with her cousin. The neighbor has a good time with both women, but won't go on a second date with either. He explains to Rob & Laura that he is a recovering wife beater and doesn't want to get involved with any woman at this time.
I thought that was a very advanced subject for a 60s sitcom.
I never pay attention or take to heart anything that critics have to say about anything.
It's like turning to a perfect stranger, getting their advice on a movie (let's say) and then either going to see it ot not ... based entirely on what they said!
Never going to happen.
My old real estate agent just invited me to come to an Open House on the Oregon Coast. The house being showcased is valued at slightly under a million dollars.
Real Estate agents are such adorably optimistic people. Can somebody here lend me $50 for gas and rent me a summery formal suit? Something else else in a nice white or pale blue linen would be good...
I'm convinced that there must exist somewhere on the internet clips of Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress with the subtitles replaced by dialogue from Star Wars. It just seems like such an obvious thing to do that, despite my inability to find such clips, I just can't believe that no one has done it.
The climate affects the density of how travertine tiles are formed
I am now Facebook friends with the world's hottest geography nerd, Brian Unger, host of the History Channel's How the States Got Their Shapes.
My cat Belinda is coping with the fireworks very well. The smaller firecrackers don't seem to bother her. The louder ones have made her move from her spot near the window. She is currently laying down beside my feet.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
My cat Belinda is coping with the fireworks very well. The smaller firecrackers don't seem to bother her. The louder ones have made her move from her spot near the window. She is currently laying down beside my feet.
Quis, your cat sounds as cute and lovable (not to mention a scaredy cat) as mine.
She just went through her second Canada Day fireworks ordeal! Poor thing.
Jon cannot stop talking about Iron Man and Batman...but when asked who he wants to be for Halloween, he says Capt. AMerica.
Turkey tacos, and daiquiris, in... [consults clock] 15 minutes, more or less.
Who's hungry/thirsty?
The blender's busted, Jerry. Hope you don't mind your daiquiri on the rocks.
No problem. Do you ever make pineapple?
Never tried a pineapple daiquiri, but I'm intrigued. Do you puree' some fruit, or just use the juice?
Either one works -- pureed fresh is the best!
Will have to try that next time. Pineapple + pink grapefruit + vodka = big hit around here in the summertime already.
It's raining in southern Arizona. The first time in months. It's a downpour. The monsoon season is here!!!
If Steve Gerber hadn't been treated so badly by Marvel Comics in the 70s, then TV cartoons in the 80s would have been a lot less fun.
The new employee at my local CBS gave the contents of my box to someone else. So, since they're sold out I know have to wait to read Adventure Comics #528.
That customer who accepted my books has excellent taste!
Chocolate is spelled the same in both English and Spanish, but pronounced differently in each language.
I wonder if there is a collecting gene because of all the Pokemon I have been playing.
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing is the version of Gundam best known to Western viewers.
"Just wild beat...communication..."
I ran out to pick up some groceries at nine last night. As the checker was ringing us up, there was a cop and a security guard leading what appeared to be an eight-year-old kid out of the store... in handcuffs. The kid was understandably in tears.
Seriously, what the--? What kind of threat could an eight-year-old possibly pose that would merit handcuffs?!
Just a guess, but he was probably shoplifting. The handcuffs might have been intended to scare or shame him.
Whether or not that's an effective strategy for dealing with a young shoplifter I can't say.
Oh, yes. Likely it was for attempting to steal something, (Though it couldn't have been anything super-valuable, such as a camera-phone. The store keeps all that stuff locked up.) Or vandalism, or picking a fight with someone, maybe.
But handcuffs on a little kid seems... really excessive.
I found these posters up across the street today, I'm not sure if they're street art or adevertisement ... the wall is used for advertisements but, i did not see the guy who usually does the work rolling these ones up. If they are advertisements, are they some guerilla marketing for Babs return as Batgirl ??
I thought they were cool, whatever their purpose.
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Many hours later, I wonder if these are advertisements for the Dark Knight Rises Batman movie ? and If Bat Girl will be in it. And that the return of Barbara Gordon as Bat Girl in the comics is more advertising for the movie.
However, It dosn't look like anyone's been cast as Babs from the IMDB cast list. (but IMDB is often out of date) Or these posters could be of Cat Woman? (looks like Bat Girl to me though)
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Anne Hathoway has been cast as Selina Kyle / Catwoman in the Dark Knight Rises.
That Batgirl picture reminds me of a nightmare I had when I was very little where a woman wearing a similar cowl (or maybe a helmet) appeared and shouted "These are murders!" At the time (I must have been about three--it's one of the first dreams I remember), I had no idea what "murder" meant, but I knew it was bad.
You can have interesting conversations in art galleries when no one is there but you and the owner/attendant.
My 3-yr. old niece loudly told me to "quit being a jackass" in a grocery aisle at Wal*Mart yesterday, thus proving that:
a)She's my niece
b)I can still be made to blush
and
c)somebody needs to take her copy of
Pinnocchio away.
As an added plus, she did it right in front of this lady, a bit younger than me... her wide-eyed stifle of shock/laughter made me *snrk!*
(And for the record, yeah, I probably WAS being a jackass...
)
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Mostly because my snobby ex-housemate would drive by, see them, and be irritated for hours afterward.
^^Cleome post=
FACEBOOK LIKE
[bows]
Thank You. I'll be here all week.
The current featured article on Wikipedia is about an earthquake among whose survivors were my two uncles and my grandmother, who at the time was pregnant with my father!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Ambato_earthquake
On October 29, 2009, in the "Quotes Without Context" thread, two consecutive posters, neither of whom were Fanfie or me, posted "Peanuts"-related quotes.
I broke my toe last week, and since then I've had to clip that toenail at least every two days, because it's growing like kudzu!
I wonder how often Wolverine has to cut his hair? Does it grow a couple of feet overnight?
Why do clones never have wicked long hair or beards when they come out of the tank at full-growth? Is there something in cloning tanks that prohibits unwanted hair growth or skeevy yellowed gnarled yard-long fingernail growth (and stimulates the exercise-free development of six-packs)?
Gosh, I wish I was grown in a tank!
I haven't been able to work out for a couple weeks now, and my arms feel totally soft. Luckily, I got a set of weights last Sunday and will hit them tonight (I promise!)
My Tree of Wisdom is 1,000 feet tall!
No, that's not some obscure new euphemism, it just means I spend a lot of time playing
Plants vs. Zombies.
Brraaaiiinnsss... 
Originally posted by Bicycle Repair Man:
My Tree of Wisdom is 1,000 feet tall!
No, that's not some obscure new euphemism, it just means I spend a lot of time playing [b]Plants vs. Zombies.
Brraaaiiinnsss... [/b]
I love the song they play over the end credits. Charmingly silly and cute!
When I eat a bowl of cherries (like I am now) I think of Pres. Zachary Taylor. On July 4, 1850 he was at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Washington Monument. It was a very hot day and to cool off he consumed a pitcher of milk and a bowl of cherries. He then got sick and 5 days later he was dead. The second president to die in office.
That's kind of a morbid thing to think about while you're enjoying a snack, Quis.
Back then it was probably considered unmanly to spit out the pits. Poor Zachary.
Well, I know that I am probably safe because I am not consuming a pitcher of milk (that probably was left out on the hot day) and I am not watching them lay the cornerstone to the Washington Monument.
Milk, it does a body...not so good.
Plus, I'm pretty sure you're not a Whig, Quis.
By the way, both Whigs elected to the Presidency died in office.
That's why I won't wear one.
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
Milk, it does a body...not so good.
[snort] I'm glad I rarely if ever drink the stuff. Their "quirky, bold" new ad campaign that coos with pity for the poor dudes who have to be around PMS-ing women is stupid and gross.
Well, I am now not consuming a pitcher of milk rather than not omsuming a pitcher of milk
I assume that you presume to move to Hulme.
"Omsuming" is like cosplay where everyone dresses up like Outdoor Miner and the most convincing impersonator wins a prize.
"Congratulations, we consider you the most convincing curmudgeon."
"Thank you, SDCC. Today you've made it just a little bit easier for curmudgeons everywhere to be out and proud." [wipes tear]
Contrary to popular belief, eating too much fresh Atlantic seafood
won't kill you!
Originally posted by cleome45:
"Omsuming" is like cosplay where everyone dresses up like Outdoor Miner and the most convincing impersonator wins a prize.
But only to the one who can successful
sum (aka add) a large string of numbers without the use of a calculator.
The top of the Empire State building at midnight on Wed mid-summer is crowded.
"Empire State of Mind" sucks.
Today's must-visit web page is
here .
Pack a lunch. And your Ray-Bans.
I plan to get extremely drunk tonight.
Fresh, sweet canteloupe and blueberries are pretty good together.
In the original Transformers cartoon, the main villains' respective lieutenants from both the pre-movie and post-movie episodes were both voiced by actors who were infamous for their real-life wild antics and died in early middle age of drug-related causes: Chris Latta (Starscream,) and Roger C. Carmel (Cyclonus.) The latter actually died before recording all of his scheduled episodes, and was replaced by Jack Angel.
I kind of envy that poor guy in Weird Al's "Skipper Dan" song, because at least he's working.
'The Hungry Caterpillar' is now my most read book ever.
The vet wants $900 to clean my dog's teeth.
"The antecedents of random are somewhat murky. It originally meant ‘impetuosity, sudden speed, violence’, and only in the mid 17th century emerged as an adjective meaning ‘haphazard’. It was borrowed from Old French randon, which was probably a derivative of the verb randir ‘run impetuously’. This in turn was based on Frankish *rant ‘running’, which was apparently descended from prehistoric Germanic *randa. This originally meant ‘edge’ (it is the source of English rand (OE), now obsolete as a term for ‘edge’, but reintroduced in the 20th century via Afrikaans as the name of the basic South African currency unit), but it was also widely used for ‘shield’, and it is thought that the link with ‘running impetuously’ may be the notion of soldiers running along with their shields."
http://www.word-origins.com/definition/random.html
Took a day trip to Mt. Hood yesterday. Very pretty, but also very scary to see how much less snow there is on the mountain now, compared to twenty years ago.
Next April will mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic...
Originally posted by SharkLad:
Next April will mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic...
And that iceberg is still at large.
Black Spruce trees outnumber White Spruce (and all other kinds of) trees in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The boubou is a passerine bird found in Africa
The harder you look for 4 plums without a single bruise on them, the farther and farther away that dream becomes.
Pres. John Tyler (1841-1845) who died in 1862 has 2 grandsons who are still living. His youngest daughter died in 1947.
The evolution of feathers has traditionally focused on insulation, flight and display. Discoveries of non-flying Late Cretaceous feathered dinosaurs in China however suggest that flight could not have been the original primary function.
Guimaras Island is known for its succulent mangoes.
Anthocyanins make apples red.
Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates holds the record as the current tallest man made structure in the world.
In my career, I have managed approximately one quarter of the libraries in the system for which I work.
Elvis Presley died on Madonna's nineteenth birthday.
Google Maps says that to drive from Glasgow, Scotland to Stavenger, Norway via Halmstad and Oslo would take 1 day 9 hours to cover the journey of 1852 miles.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Elvia Presley died on Madonna's nineteenth birthday.
Who's Elvia Presley ... Elvis's sister??
Originally posted by future king:
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
[b] Elvia Presley died on Madonna's nineteenth birthday.
[/b]Oops! Typo!
Things are so tough these days, there are people dying who've never died before.
It is 8:50 pm and the odor of burning charcoal is wafting through my window. This is not the first time I have smelt burning charcoal this late at night.
Originally posted by Legion Tracker:
Things are so tough these days, there are people dying who've never died before.
Things are so tough, there are people dying who ain't even been born.
What is now called Asian Istanbul was probably inhabited by people as early as 3000 BC. Eventually, in the 7th century, Greek colonists led by King Byzas established the colony of Byzantium, the Greek name for a city on the Bosphorus.
The initial digits of pi can be grouped as follows: 3. 14 15 9 26 5. Using the substitution 1 = A, 2 = B, and so on, you get C.NOIZE. In other words, you SEE NOISE when you look at the apparently random decimal digits of pi.
Although I never post on it, or even visit it often, I'm registered on a soap opera fandom board as The Edge of Light, which combines the titles of my two all-time favorite soaps.
You wish you could have a bowl of the chili I am currently making.
In a mixed analogue/digital signal system, a reconstruction filter is used to create a smooth analogue signal from a digital input.
The bulk of ground sloth evolution took place during the mid to late Tertiary of South America while the continent was isolated. At their earliest appearance in the fossil record, the giant ground sloths are already distinct at the family level.
A retroreflector (sometimes called a retroflector or cataphote) is a device or surface that reflects light directly back to its source with a minimum scattering of light.
Between now and mid-september I will be working approximity 160 hours of overtime, as well as my regular hours.
Nine hundred three members preceded me on Legion World. To date 674 have followed me.
The nearest DVD to me right now is the Errol Flynn Adventures of Robin Hood.
I really like this song by the British folk/progressive rock band,
the Strawbs .
Blonde hair and blue eyes are believed to have come from India and Iran, respectively, places where one is very unlikely to find blonde or blue-eyed people, today.
Cream containing 30% or more butterfat can be mixed with air, and the resulting colloid is roughly double the volume of the original cream as air bubbles are captured into a network of fat droplets.
If, however, the whipping is continued, the fat droplets will stick together destroying the colloid and forming butter; the remaining liquid is buttermilk.
"Io così non ci sto" (I don't like it this way), was the Swiss entry in Eurovision Song Contest 1983 performed in Italian by Mariella Farré. At the Eurovision Song Contest 1983 in Munich in the former West Germany the song finished 15th and has received 28 points. It was performed 8th on the night, after the Spain's song "¿Quién maneja mi barca?" by Remedios Amaya, and before Finland's entry "Fantasiaa" by Ami Aspelund
The original Ferris Wheel, sometimes also referred to as the Chicago Wheel, opened to the public on June 21, 1893, at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Intended to rival the 324-metre (1,060 ft) Eiffel Tower, the centerpiece of the 1889 Paris Exposition, it was the Columbian Exposition's largest attraction, with a height of 80.4 metres (264 ft).
I found this weird. A guy at my gym was getting dressed and he tied his tie before putting on his shirt.
NASCAR is one of the most viewed professional sports in terms of television ratings in the United States.
In fact, professional football is the only sport in the United States to hold more viewers than NASCAR.
There's a cat on my scanner. But this is not producing a CAT scan.
For Futurama's "The Prisoner of Benda", the writers created
an actual mathematical proof to underpin the finale.
Gull eggs are considered a delicacy in England as well as in some Scandinavian countries, particularly in Norway. In some African countries, guineafowl eggs are commonly seen in marketplaces, especially in the spring of each year.
i was walking my dog earlier on this evening and found a dime bag of weed just laying there on the ground.
Charles II of England spent part of his time in exile during the period of the Commonwealth of England in the Netherlands and became keen on sailing.
He returned to England in 1660 aboard a Dutch yacht. During his reign Charles commissioned 24 Royal Yachts on top of the two presented to him by Dutch states on his restoration.
The square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the length of the other two sides.
Contrary to legend and popular belief, Dom Perignon did not invent sparkling wine.
The oldest recorded sparkling wine is Blanquette de Limoux, which was apparently invented by Benedictine Monks in the Abbey of Saint Hilaire near Carcassonne in 1531.
Our new little dog is really fast.
My alarm clock uses red LEDs to display the time.
Originally posted by l.e.g.i.o.n.JOHN:
i was walking my dog earlier on this evening and found a dime bag of weed just laying there on the ground.
Lots of "if that happened to me..." thoughts in my head!
I think Aquaman is the best character ever on Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
I seriously need to dump my hotmail account, because it's a pain in the, uh, part that I sit on.
Mice are a staple in the diet of many small carnivores.
Humans have eaten mice since prehistoric times and still eat them as a delicacy throughout eastern Zambia and northern Malawi,
where they are a seasonal source of protein.
My Ultraverse blog has had hits from:
United States
Canada
Philippines
France
United Kingdom
Germany
Denmark
Latvia
Russia
Sweden
...and for whatever reason, the Latvia one keeps throwing me...
Spacecraft must be engineered to withstand transit through the Earth's atmosphere and the space environment.
They must operate in a vacuum with temperatures potentially ranging across hundreds of degrees Celsius as well as (if subject to reentry) in the presence of plasmas.
The most widely distributed single issue of a magazine is illegal to own in most places. The magazine in question is a 1984 issue of Penthouse magazine that was wildly popular because it contained a scandalous, yet beautiful, photo spread of then Miss America, Vanessa Williams. The issue also contained nude photos of porn actress Traci Lords. It was later revealed that Lords was not yet eighteen while performing some of her early porn work (including the Penthouse photos). Most buyers did not intend to purchase child pornography, but are guilty of possession, none the less, if they still own the issue
The first permanent structure designed for screening of movies in the state of California was Tally's Electric Theater, completed in 1902 in Los Angeles.
Tally's theater was a storefront within a larger building, but apparently purpose-built as a movie theater.
Today is my wedding anniversary. Three years today!!
Originally posted by dedman:
Today is my wedding anniversary. Three years today!!
You kids are so young! Enjoy yourselves because it just gets better and better!!
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!
Originally posted by dedman:
Today is my wedding anniversary. Three years today!!
Congrats.
Too funny to not share...
I swear to God that Jonathan said "I Iron Man" in his sleep tonight/
A fully-grown Smilodon (sabre-toothed cat) weighed approximately 55 to 470 kg (120 to 1,000 lb), depending on species.
It had a short tail, powerful legs, muscular neck and long canines. Smilodon was more robustly built than any modern cat, comparable to a bear.
So I finally got around to downloading some pictures from my camera to my computer. Among them were ones I took at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear from 2010.
Among the signs there was this one
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Yup that it the Sinestro Fear Lantern symbol.
This has been the most stressful week I can recall having in quite some time. Also, it's finally gotten Summer-level hot here in the past three weeks. I could seriously have done without that.
Small wonder I'm not in bed asleep even though I should be.
The Ostrich is farmed around the world, particularly for its feathers, which are decorative and are also used as feather dusters.
Its skin is used for leather products and its meat marketed commercially.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
So I finally got around to downloading some pictures from my camera to my computer. Among them were ones I took at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear from 2010.
Among the signs there was this one
Yup that it the Sinestro Fear Lantern symbol. That is too funny.
In many traditional accounts, ghosts were often thought to be deceased people looking for vengeance, or imprisoned on earth for bad things they did during life.
So, my brother in New Hampshire was having a cook-out this past week-end. I don't have a car, but my cousin does (and due to a foot cast, can't drive) So, I was going to take the train to my coousin's and we would both go up to my brother's. The cook-out was to start around 12-1, but my brother said that we could come at anytime.
Thursday, my cousin called & said "What train are you taking on Sunday?" I replied "I'll be on the 9:30 train, but the cook-out is on Saturday." (you can see where this is headed) On Saturday, I took the train to my cousin's and we then drove up to my brother's. We are headed up the walk to the door when my brother comes out with a startled look on his face. "What are you doing here?" he asked. To which I said "You said we could come early!" Yup the cook-out was for Sunday.
So we sat around tlking for a bit when my brother's SO came back from an errand. He had a confused look on his face seeing us there. He ended up treating us to lunch at a local restaurant.
Then my cousin & I headed back to her house. She offered to let me spend the night, but I hadn't brought a change of clothes, my toothbrush, or my razor. So I headed back to Boston (it is a hour train ride) Then Sunday, we did the whole thing over again, but with a cook-out actually occuring.
Funny story, Quis.
I just had a similar experience.
This afternoon, I realized I had a message on my voicemail from my brother. The time signature said it was left at 9:36 a.m. Tuesday (today). He was coming to town tomorrow to have lunch with a friend and wanted to invite me along. Since my birthday is in a few days, he offered to pay for my dinner.
I returned the call and left a message on his machine, accepting the invitation. Well, several hours later, I got another message from him. Turns out he'd left the message yesterday and he and his friend actually met today.
Damn cell phones.
This story wins the award for most heart-warming animal story of the year:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/rabbit-nursing-orphaned-kittens-182112459.html
Lego pieces of all varieties comprise a universal system.
Despite variation in the design and purpose of individual pieces over the years, each remains compatible in some way with existing pieces. Lego bricks from 1958 still interlock with those made in the current time, and Lego sets for young children are compatible with those made for teenagers.
Right now, I can hear boogie-woogie piano in one ear, and the football game in the other.
I really should be sleeping in, seeing as I've been waking up early for work for the past 6 days in a row.
I can't help it though ... posting on here is so much fun!
I wish I could get one (or several) of these:
NSFW . And extras for gifts. Yeah, I need professional help.
I just returned from a trip to The US, and on the flight over we went through turbulence and I bit down on my already problematic wisdom tooth.
My face puffed up like the elephant man, and on our first day in the country I decided to get it taken care of.
I had my wisdom tooth removed at a random ghetto dentist, where they played Snoop Dogg in the surgery and the dude that operated on me had a gnarly diamond incisor.
Some sketchy guy tried to sell my boyfriend watches out of his coat outside.
True Story.
It was totally awesome.
It seems like a while since Sketch Lad has visited. I hope he's doing okay.
^^He posted new Starsearchers pages on Facebook this weekend!
Oh, another Facebook migrant. Well, so long as he's alive and kicking, it's all good.
In fact he just posted that he had a great day!
Wish he'd head over here to make our days brighter!
My date and I just exchanged "I Love You"s last night. Wicked awesome! I'm still glowing
Congrats IB, so if all goes well I should expect an invitation to the wedding!
Thank you, FK
Probably won't be for years yet, but we'll see.
Stock up on your sunblock
It gets awful sunny here!
Oh don't worry about that my friend. I'm Greek, with skin that tans like a god!
Will you be wearing your fig leafs on the island, then?
Oh, does it get that cold on the island??
I unfriended a very annoying colleague on Facebook the day he quit my organization. Does that make me a bad person?
Originally posted by future king:
Oh, does it get that cold on the island?? It's quite warm, actually. If you'll be going in your birthday suit, would you mind if I painted you in gold? You could pretend to be a statue and freak out the guests
I'll point you towards the ones I don't actually want to be there.
Oh, now I'm officially offended! (NOT)
Well, you'd make a good statue!
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
I unfriended a very annoying colleague on Facebook the day he quit my organization. Does that make me a bad person?
Think of it as you teaching him a good lesson in friendship.
Today I proved to myself that I still cannot function with only four hours sleep!
It's been a long time since I did that.
One cannot get drunk on Diet Coke and Atomic Fire Balls.
The weather is gloomy but no rain, thus far. To take a bike ride, or not...? I can't decide.
I've been trying to get on my bike for a couple of weeks now. But I work shitty long hours and it always rains on the weekends...
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
I've been trying to get on my bike for a couple of weeks now. But I work shitty long hours and it always rains on the weekends...
*GASP*!!!
You said the "S" word .... in public!!!!!
Yesterday, we walked our neighbors' Pit Bull mix, and then drove him to a "pet motel" for them while they were out of town unexpectedly. A really sweet dog, and the trip went of without a hitch. But the cats were sniffing mr_cleome and myself
very suspiciously when we got home from our errand.
There is a stained glass window in my church that depicts the Adoration of the Magi. From just the right angle, one of the Magi (Balthazar, I think) bears a passing resemblance to a Dominator.
Originally posted by future king:
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
[b] I've been trying to get on my bike for a couple of weeks now. But I work shitty long hours and it always rains on the weekends...
You said the "S" word .... in public!!!!!
[/b]It's not the same word since I added a suffix!
I had the following exchange with a library patron today:
She: "Why is my book due on a Saturday? Today is Friday."
I: "We're closed two weeks from today, so it's due the following day."
She: "Why are you closed?"
I: "November 11th is Veteran's Day."
She: "What does that mean in English?"
I: "It's the day we remember those who have served in the military."
She: "I remember people who have served in the military every day!"
Sessions Red Lager is good stuff, and (relatively) inexpensive.
My nephew, who's 11 years old, came up to me the other day and told me that his clip-on ties "suck" and that he wanted me to show him how to make a real tie!
Who says all kids care about these days is video games and smartphones?
The Sesame Street segment "J Friends" is a tribute to four of the people who were behind the show: Joe (Raposo), Jane (Henson), Jim (Henson) and Joan (Ganz Cooney).
I have three apples and four pears on my desk right now.
The cucumber is originally from India, but is now grown on most continents.
Many different varieties are traded on the global market.
If Lou Reed had fronted The Climax Blues Band, it would've sounded a little like this .
Adult newts have lizard-like bodies and may be either fully aquatic, living permanently in the water, or semi-aquatic, living terrestrially but returning to the water each year to breed.
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Lambert Gardens was a local tourist attraction, torn down to make way for apartment complexes in the late 1960s.
Most natural diamonds are formed at high-pressure high-temperature conditions existing at depths of 140 to 190 kilometers (87 to 120 mi) in the Earth mantle.
Carbon-containing minerals provide the carbon source, and the growth occurs over periods from 1 billion to 3.3 billion years (25% to 75% of the age of the Earth).
The ancient city of Akkad can be in a number of places but the most likely location is buried underneath the city of Baghdad.
Samson was granted supernatural strength by God in order to combat his enemies and perform heroic feats such as wrestling a lion, slaying an entire army with only the jawbone of an ass, and destroying a pagan temple.
Tomorrow morning I'm going to a sit-in. Foul weather be damned. I'll bundle up.
(After reading Frank Miller's moronic blather about Occupy, I'm tempted to carry a sign that specifically thanks him.)
Originally, the term gingerbread (from Latin zingiber via Old French gingebras) referred to preserved ginger.
It then referred to a confection made with honey and spices. Gingerbread is often used to translate the French term pain d'épices (literally "spice bread") or the German term Lebkuchen.
Since the jazz station is celebrating the day after Thanksgiving by playing music by Native American artists, here's the most famous of them all: Jim Pepper (1941-1992), saxophonist and vocalist, playing his most famous number. It was adapted from a peyote chant.
Witchi Tai To .
Pepper was born in Salem, and lived and played in this region for years. By the time I was starting to seriously discover his work, he had passed on. I got to attend a huge jam session/wake for him at a club downtown, though. I still have several half-assed sketches of the attending musicians stashed in my garage somewhere.
"...All the spirits feeling springing 'round my head
Makes me feel glad that I'm not dead..."
Warner Brothers animator Robert McKimson claimed that his artwork improved after he suffered a severe blow to the head.
^True story.
There are four female posters logged into Legion World right now.
During the early years of Marvel's animation studio, Christy Marx was the only female staff writer.
Posts always look better against a blue background than the gray one.
Just my opinion.
I watched the Lady Gaga Thanksgiving special on Thursday and did an interpretive dance to Judas on Friday.
My wrists are in great shape.
My sinuses, OTOH...
I'm just gonna' plaster a
Condemned By The Board of Health banner across my nose bridge and be done with it.
Bah.
It's "four colly birds" not "four calling birds".
Originally posted by Jerry:
It's "four colly birds" not "four calling birds".
I now love Jerry just a little bit more.
The house coffee this week is something called Trinity Blend.
The workplace coffee is something that I will not repeat on a family message board. Or even this one.
Four colicky birds? No thanks.
In the New York area, I'm good for giving people four cacophonous birds during my travels to the city! (birds = "The Bird")
I'm going to a Holiday Art Fair tomorrow after work. Any proceeds I make will go towards our Annual Christmas Day Chinese Food/Movie Matinee Fund.
One of mr_cleome's pals who has zero use for "family togetherness" will likely be joining us this year.
"Myles Standish proud" rhymes with "flatulence is loud."
I handed back the last batch of essays today and collected the take-home finals. Marking has to be done by Friday. The end of the term is in sight!
Random but completely awesome ... I found this while on the internet looking for images for the Titan Du Jour thread:
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My 16,000th post on Legion World was the 1100th post on the "w00t!" thread.
<font face="chalkboard"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I can't wear plaid.</font f></span>
Our puppy just loves lasagna. Like a canine Garfield.
Portland's
Quadraphonnes! (I just saw them live on Sunday night! Woo!)
(Even non-jazz fans of a certain age might recognize the riff around 2:52 or so, because it's from Grover Washington, Jr.'s "Just the Two of Us," a big crossover hit in the 1980s.)
My wife's latest obsession is learning to belly dance. It made Christmas shopping a bit... hmmm... interesting... this year.
Time is perceived to go more quickly when you're cold, and more slowly when you're hot, according to some study.
Kumquats finally showed up in my local grocery store.
Josh Duhamel is 39 years old
"Santa Drives a Chevrolet" is a story I posted on
my blog .
So, I had a dream involving the Legion last night. It has gotten a little fuzzy, but I was part of the group (although not necessarily a Legionnaire myself) and Element Lad was acting like a tyrant, saying that things we were doing would be punished.
I just finished my first ever batch of Bourbon balls.
Cute. It reminds me of Little Lulu story that I have stuck in my mind from childhood. The comic book is long gone. Halloween got it's name because a historical version of Tubby went around giving people hotdogs on October 31. He greeted everyone by saying, "Hello, Weenie?" -- which eventually got translated as Halloween.
Aw, Little Lulu. She starred in a few Golden Books when I was a kid, and I have some old Kleenex Tissue ads from the 1950s that feature her as well. But no actual comics.
In the past few days' efforts to eat more fruit and vegetables, I've discovered for the first time the tastes of jicama, kumquats, tomatillos, and Sugar Belles.
There are Little Lulu collections available as trade paperbacks
every few months, I take a boxcutter blade and shave a huge callous off the bottom of my foot. It's created by pressure and missing meat from an accident. First time my wife saw me do it, she screamed.
The gift for the fourth day of Christmas is not four "calling birds", as is usually sung, but four colly birds (i.e., blackbirds).
I don't like Marvel Comics.
Originally posted by Dave Hackett:
I don't like Marvel Comics.
I knew there was something I liked about you, Dave!
When you register a new Tassimo coffee maker, you get two free packages of T discs...
On Legion World, I'm generally called "Rocky", but on another site where I use the name "Rockhopper", I'm called "Rock".
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
On Legion World, I'm generally called "Rocky", but on another site where I use the name "Rockhopper", I'm called "Rock".
I think we need to start calling you "Rockstar"
Stu and Semi call me "Hoppy".
For the authors among us (and I know there are a couple besides me), here's my advice on
finding an agent .
I told my boss he was fat!
He gave me the stink-eye!
Inspired by Xben's recent question on "Know Your Legion Worlders," my
latest blogpost comments on Adventure # 267 and links to Xben's own review of the LSH Archives.
This guy -
![[Linked Image]](http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l56/Goldenbow/BEFORE.png)
Grew up into this guy -
![[Linked Image]](http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l56/Goldenbow/AFTER.png)
And Mr. "Leave Britney Alone" has other pictures that look hotter.
Plus he says he will be doing a porn movie
Well, picture #2 does seem to indicate that he has a pretty big pole.
But, does he know how to use it?
Snarked a fat-bashing article over on the website for one of our local weak-tea hipster rags a couple of days ago. Not something I normally have the energy for, but what pushed me over the edge was this bozo's assertion that Pop Chips™ are some kind of food innovation. For those not in the know, trust me: I tried those damn things once and they're neither.
I went to kindergarten with Mitt Romney's eldest son. I haven't seen or heard from him since we were five.
Glee star Lea Michelle wore an antique embroidered illusion dress from Marchesa to the Golden Globes. She finished off her look with Jimmy Choo shoes and Lorraine Schwartz jewels.
The last person to have my cell phone number (which I've had since 2006) was also named John. I still get calls for him now and then.
I'm sitting here watching the snow fall as I make my reservations for ComicCon. The dichotomy(SP) of a San Diego summer and a CT/RI winter is striking.
One of the funniest Pink Panther cartoons, "In the Pink of the Night" (the one with the cuckoo clock), was directed by the great Art Davis.
A few years ago I had a dream that I was riding in the back of a limo with a friend and we kissed. I've always sort of been attracted to this guy, but it's always been clear that nothing would ever happen between us. Still, I was very unsettled by it and felt awkward around him for some time after.
I had surgary for a ventral hernia last tuesday. Today, I'm sitting indoors while a lady friend shovels the driveway. I'm all for equal rights but this just feels wrong.
My clumsy little puppy bumped his head on the couch, the dining table, and the front door the other day. He also fell off the bed.
Don't call PETA on me please!
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
I had surgary for a ventral hernia last tuesday.
Yikes. Wishing you a speedy recovery, Abin.
Originally posted by Abin Quank:
I had surgary for a ventral hernia last tuesday. Today, I'm sitting indoors while a lady friend shovels the driveway. I'm all for equal rights but this just feels wrong.
Well making her shovel your driveway in the nude is wrong.
Hope you are feeling better soon.
Yikes, where are my manners?
Hope you feel better soon, Abin.
I'm sure your lady friend will understand. You can always make it up to her with chores later on!
I'm launching my first-ever writing contest on my blog (artists are invited, too)):
Describe my character !
While the show was called "Gilligan's Island" the lyrics to the theme song called it "Gilligan's Isle"
Drummers have a heightened sense of timing, measured in milliseconds: perfect timing, like perfect pitch. Some of them find it annoying, because the rest of us are always off beat. From a study by Dr. Eagleman of Baylor U.
Go to
www.billboard.com, click on "Hot 100," and then click on "View Chart Archives," and you can find the Top Ten songs of the week you were born.
(But only if you were born during the week of August 9, 1958, or later, because that's when the Hot 100 began.)
3 Comic Book Stories that "Work" . . . including one which Legion fans may or may not agree with.
Great post, He Who.
In case you're wondering who the Red Sersi who commented is, that's me.
Thanks, both for the compliment and the comment, Fanfie.
While doing research for that blog post, I chanced upon
Steve Englehart\'s site , which contains cover reproductions of every comic book he wrote as well his recollections and notes.
You're very welcome, He Who.
I've visited Englehart's site on many an occassion. Wonderful place.
I also had the pleasure and privilege of hosting a web chat with him back in 2005. Among other things, he revealed that if he had stayed on Avengers, the next arc would have focused on Wonder Man, delving deeply into his psychology.
The recent Watchmen rumors lead me to think about Yugioh. I was thinking of writing a crossover, but then I remembered that LittleKuriboh already made one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na0vKEz-IYE&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL At least I can incorporate some Egyptian elements into whatever I write next.
On Feb. 14, 1884 Theordore Roosevelt's mother, Mittie Roosevelt, died of typhoid. On the same day his wife Alice died of Bright's disease (an inflamation of the kidney now known as acute or chronic nephritis). Just the day before Alice gave birth to their daughter.
Occasionally, I'll start reading an old thread and start laughing out loud at something I posted along time ago that I'd totally forgotten.
^Good to know I'm not the only one who does that.
Sometimes when an old thread gets bumped, I think of something to add to it. But then looking back, I find I made the same comment originally.
^ That too!
If the Easter Bunny visits on Easter, does the Dust Bunny visit on Ash Wednesday?
And does Fat Cramer visit on Fat Tuesday?
Judging from its original meaning, I think a visit from Lard Lad would be more appropriate.
I've always felt this was one of my most clever toilet-humor jokes:
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
I once conceived a toilet-humor parody of "Seinfeld" where instead of saying "Yada, yada, yada" they said "Caca, caca, caca."
It featured a grumpy pharmacist who refused to sell people laxatives. They called him the Poop Nazi, and his catchphrase was, "No poop for you!"
One of Peter David's daughters went to drama camp with Natalie Portman. They did not get along.
One film critic called John Hughes' writing "a bad combination of National Lampoon and Norman Rockwell."
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
One film critic called John Hughes' writing "a bad combination of National Lampoon and Norman Rockwell."
That critic was being too kind.
Last Leap Day, I was in Newfoundland for most of the day, but flew to the French island of St.-Pierre later in the day.
Leap Day birthdays include character actors Dennis Farina, Alex Rocco, and Joss Ackland.
A new type of horsefly has been named after Beyonce, since it has a glistening golden underbody.
Punctuation prevents cannibalism! Plastic-lettered lightbox sign on a local restaurant: "LIFE IS BEST WHEN WE EAT PAVAROTTI" Oh, what a difference a dash, or even a period, would have made.
I never knew, until I did a search just now, that there really is such a thing as turkey jerky.
It rained here today and I went through four shirts in about two hours time. But, I saved money by not switching back to Geico.
I bought a cart for work. Will throw my portable tool box on it with the tools I need for testing. Plus a surge protector strip and some bins to use to hold random things I need. Will also have my portable 120 VAC/ 24 VDC power supply on there.
I do a lot of testing of panels and control boxes before they are sent to the customer. I spend 56 hours a week doing this and needed something to halp me move my stuff around the shop...besides the old and not rolling friendly toolbox I have there. Carrying everything was getting really old.
The gym I go to closes at 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. Yet, I have seen people coming in at 4:30pm.
I wear green to bars, even when it ain't St. Paddy's Day!
Looking forward to having new eyeglasses ready in the next week or so. The current pair is so damn shot that I've barely been able to see out of them for the last six months, at least.
I had to do this while I'm still employed, and I expect that to last for maybe another two weeks, tops.
For my next trick, I've decided to buy myself a haircut next weekend! Since my bangs grew completely out back in late October, this should take care of any lingering eyesight issues not fixed by the new eyeglasses.
I'm nearing the end of my first night of training "on the board" at work.
Over the next few months I will be moving from being an outside worker, fixing things when they go wrong to an inside worker, watching screens to find problems and adjust processes BEFORE they become an issue.
The French song "Alouette" is someone who wants the pluck feathers off a bird.
"Alouette" is sung by the two rival French chefs in the excellent Bugs Bunny cartoon short, "French Rarebit", written by the always-underrated Tedd Pierce.
I spent half the day running an Allis-Chalmers bulldozer that was older than me, and then moving furniture into storage. As well, I replaced a few old receptacle's... and no one cut the power off for me. My hair's purdy raht nah!
A pair of birds are having what sounds like a blazing row in birdese outside my window.
I think I've lost my marbles.
My brain marbles that is.
I'm glad Karie posted here...even if it was that she lost her marbles.
My sister and my Mom are still incommunicado because of religion issues.
:rolleyes:
I avoid discussing it with them whenever possible, but it isn't always possible.
My father had more of an issue with my becoming Episcopalian than he did with my being gay.
Rocky, I have a feeling that my mother would much rather my sister be a lesbian than a convert.
Since I don't believe at all, I really just want to stay out of it. :rolleyes:
I don't blame you one bit. I don't really talk to my dad, but religion and sexual orientation have little to do with it.
K.D. Lang is famous for saying she lost more fans for coming out as a vegetarian than as a lesbian.
"What k.d. lang does in the bedroom is her own damn business, but don't mess with my meat!!"
Oh my, it's nearly 4pm!
Time to crawl outta bed & fix myself a dwinkie!!
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Not quite FEMbrain !!!!!! Basil Discordia wants to party!!!
On my way to the liquor store, I took a shortcut through the park & noticed that the cherry trees are budding.
Simply wonderful!
I saw a sea lion in the river the other day.
It's foggy tonight and the sky over our house is white from the reflected light of our town, while the horizons are black. Usually it's the other way around. It's opposite night!
I came home tonight to hear the frogs reborn in the lake behind my house.
We took our daughter swimming today. There were many squeals of delight to be heard!
Time to buy the cats more flea medicine. Butterscotch, the little princess, needs it year-round because of her extreme allergy to fleas. Naturally, she's also allergic to topical flea treatments like Frontline. So the vet prescribed a smaller portion of a chewable tablet normally given to dogs.
The Sid will just munch on his share like it's a treat, but Butterscotch needs to have hers ground up in some canned catfood before she'll eat it.
Ungrateful little brats. :rolleyes:
I made it inside just in time to avoid the deluge !
*Turn left at "Know Your Legion Worlders".
It is almost $200 cheaper to take Amtrak from Vancouver to Toronto than to take VIA Rail Canada.
"...The day Jesus rose from the dead what should we do?"
"How 'bout eggs?"
"Well, what does that have to do with Jesus?"
"All right. We'll hide 'em!"
"I don't follow your logic."
"Don't worry! There's a bunny!"
-- Jim Gaffigan, discussing Easter traditions link
[sing]Hot Poc-kets![/sing]
If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
Cop-Tur on GoBots was voiced by Bob Holt, the same guy who voiced Grape Ape, using essentially the same voice, but with a slightly wider vocabulary.
I find
this song by Portland's own Quasi sums up the last 3.75 years of my life very nicely.
When I was little, I thought Cruikshank was spelled C-R-U-S-I-K-R-A-K.
It sleeted like hail today.
Houston has as many mayors in the 13 1/2 years I have lived here (three) as Boston has had in my entire lifetime.
I always feel so lazy on Sundays.
The neighborhood in which I live doubles as filming locations for Seattle, San Francisco, and New York City in three different TV shows.
This week, I have to attend yet another Unemployment "orientation." I also have to get a bad tooth pulled.
I think I'm dreading the orientation more. I mean, sure the removal will be awkward, painful, and mega-expensive, but at least at the end they'll throw in some good painkillers.
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
The neighborhood in which I live doubles as filming locations for Seattle, San Francisco, and New York City in three different TV shows.
All I remember is that Portland starred as Boston for
Leverage, which I've never seen. And as backdrop for Madonna and some male sex symbol whose name I can't even remember now, despite everyone carrying on about it when it happened.
I much prefer
Portlandia, in which the city finally gets to portray itself for a change. And where they don't make a big deal about the celebrity appearances. (Though seeing that
30 Rock intern dude as a bewildered shopper who was scolded for not bringing a reusable shopping bag to Zuppan's Grocery Store was pretty damn hilarious.)
I'm very fond of the Which Wich sandwich chain. In fact, i'm having lunch in one as I write this.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
I'm very fond of the Which Wich sandwich chain. In fact, i'm having lunch in one as I write this.
never heard of it.
It started here in Texas. I'm not where else they are.
Helicopters flying overhead remind me of home.
Now accompanied by police sirens ... REALLY remind some of home ... but now starting to worry.
<yawn> Nam'Lor awakes now that the sun has gone down!
Inspired by a post by Kent in the shoutbox...
John Sebastian's famous theme song to "Welcome Back, Kotter" was actually the second attempt to come up with a theme song for the show. The rejected first song was written and performed by Dion DiMucci. A little bit of it was heard on the "E! True Hollywood Story" episode about "Kotter."
Shows on this side of the pond that were hugely popular at the time apparently never made it to the UK. Not only Kotter, but Taxi and others.
The only character on Taxi that I liked was Louie, supposedly the most "unlikeable" character.
Drinking coffee at 5:30 PM should be perfectly okay so long as there's alcohol in it.
[hic!]
I wear a striped shirt to work every Monday, a green shirt every Tuesday, a blue shirt every Wednesday, a red shirt every Thursday and a lavender shirt on the Fridays I work. I don't have a pattern for the Saturdays I work.
I was reading about Supreme Court Justice James Reynolds. Apparently he was a v ery disagreeable person in addition to being a racist and anti-semite. He didn't talk to Justice Brandeis for 3 years and not at all to Justice Cardozo. During Justice Cardozo's swearing in, he purposefully read a newspaper. He would turn his chair around so his back was to any black lawyer arguing before the court. He would leave if a female lawyer was presenting a case.
He didn't employ anyone who was Jewish or black, except for his personal messenger who was black. Justice Reynolds remained in DC when he retired and died 5 years later. None of the Supreme Court justices went to his funeral. His personal messenger died about 7 years after that and the Chief Justice and some of the other justices went to his funeral.
Arthur Burghardt played the Great Ahmed Kahn in the movie "Network" and Dr. Jack Scott on the soap opera "One Life to Live." He also did the voices of Destro from the original "G.I. Joe" cartoon and Devastator from the original "Transformers" cartoon.
I've gone past this local landmark on numerous occasions.
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^Whoever came up with the idea for that was a real loaf-er.
<font face="futura"><span style="font-size: 18px;">TRIUMPH OF THE BREAD!</span></font f>
If I see footage of early 70s rock concerts with the volume turned down, I can't tell the difference between John Fogerty, Steve Miller, and David Gates of Bread.
I saw
Crazy, Stupid, Love on DVD over the weekend. Normally I dislike romcoms, but this one was kind of sweet. And it had lots of shirtless Ryan "Photoshopped" Gosling.
My all-time favorite comic character of any kind is Charlie Brown. Coincidentally, three of my favorite Legionnaires also have the initials "CB".
I love jobsearch sites that demand hours of your time to set up a detailed profile about what you can and can't do... only to flood your email box daily with a metric ton of jobs that your profile explicitly states you are not qualified to do!!
Gah.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
My all-time favorite comic character of any kind is Charlie Brown. Coincidentally, three of my favorite Legionnaires also have the initials "CB". And you know Computo would get on the intercom system and prank them all the time, calling for "CB to report to Payroll at once," but never specifying which one it meant.
I just realized that Ozzy Osbourne's 1991 song "Hellraiser" borrows its melody from one of Heart's 80s power ballads, but since all 80s Heart power ballads sound alike to me, I can't remember what it's called.
I've started adjusting my bedtime to account for the half hour nap I take on the commuter bus in the morning nowadays.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Coincidentally, three of my favorite Legionnaires also have the initials "CB".
There was a cute scene in the Legion cartoon where Cosmic Boy and Colossal Boy greeted each other as 'CB1' and 'CB2.'
There was a Flintstones episode in which Wilma was having a nightmare that Fred was having an affair with a French woman. In her dream, he was telling the woman "Je t'aime! Je t'adore! Où est la plume de ma tante?". Translation: "I love you! I adore you! Where is my aunt's pen?".
It is thought that the name "weasel" comes from the Anglo-Saxon root "weatsop" meaning "a vicious bloodthirsty animal".
And they're cute.
If you go into the grocery store and move in a counterclockwise direction through the store, you're more likely to buy more stuff - and most stores are designed to direct you that way. (from Brandwashed)
My "short nap" today lasted two hours. I might just as well have poured those three cups of coffee into the tub and used them to soak my corns.
Sometimes, to be funny, I'll hit a bottle of champagne and say "Oh, you brut!"
Two dive sites in the Philippines made CNN's list of Top 100 dive sites. Sadly, I have been to neither of them.
Cleome45's picture above really hurts my eyes.
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
Two dive sites in the Philippines made CNN's list of Top 100 dive sites. Sadly, I have been to neither of them.
I've been to lots of dives.
Oh. A 'dive' isn't the same as a 'dive site.' My bad.
Originally posted by Catonyx:
Cleome45's picture above really hurts my eyes.
But you posted that terrifying song by "Sylvia" in another thread, so now we're even.
Maybe this one'll be a little easier on your eyes:
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It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
When I was 5, my brother (12) and his friends would watch the show "Dark Shadows". I would watch with them, but every so often, I would get a sudden urge and have to immediately go into the kitchen to make sure my mother didn't need me for something.
I recently read that Jonathan Frid, who played the vampire Barnabas Collins on the show, passed away. I am currently watching some of those Dark Shadows episodes. Hopefully I won't get any sudden urges to go to the kitchen.
Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts.
I'm supposed to get up early tomorrow, but it's almost nine o'clock, and I'm still not tired!
I petted at least a dozen cats while in Seattle over the weekend.
Not all on the same day, though.
When I was little, I looked at a list of Dr. Seuss books, and noticed one of them was titled "I Can Lick Thirty Tigers Today." Not being up to speed on the slang of the good doctor's generation, I took the title literally and thought it seemed gross.
Lalla Ward (Romana 2 from Dr. Who) is married to Richard Dawkins. They meet at a party given by Douglas Adams. Apparently they were the only two guests to show up on time.
I accidentally bought Cherry Garcia ... Frozen Yogurt!
... instead of Ice Cream, it's still good but ... not what I was expecting.
Frozen Yogurt dosn't quite have the recuperative effects of Ice Cream.
My weekend didn't quite work out as planned, and I didn't get a chance to make granola from Cleome's recipe.
But I'll do it one night this week for sure.
Got a hair cut today. I now look older and meaner.
Eh.
Got a hair cut yesterday. I look... pretty much the same.
Ahmed Hassan isn't hosting Yard Crashers anymore...
I've seen "playpen" used as a substitute by hollywood for "playboy" more than once, and wonder if there ever actually was a "playpen", and if so...playpen... that's a bit young...don'tchaknow.
I am a Morrissey/Smiths fan who eats meat.
Ex-Smiths bassist Andy Rourke still eats meat.
The backing tracks on certain uptempo Latin pop songs from the late 70s/early 80s sound like the theme music to any random Hanna-Barbera/Ruby-Spears cartoon from the same era.
Tonight's dinner is chili verde pork. mr_cleome started it in the slow cooker this morning. I still have to put up the beans/rice and make dessert, though.
"Challenge of the GoBots" had a different theme song in France, which became a hit single there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kxZKbFryKo I like it.
The CD player on my computer is conked out again.
My town isn't picking up lawn clippings anymore...
Broadside of the Transformers is one of three Autobot (good robot) Triple Changers. His vehicle modes are an aircraft carrier and a space shuttle. Unfortunately, Broadside fared the worst by far of the Autobot Triple Changers in the cartoon series. Whereas Springer was one of the lead characters that season, and Sandstorm was showcased in a very good episode ("Fight or Flee"), Broadside was showcased in a very poor episode ("Carnage in C-Minor"), and when he made a non-speaking cameo in a good episode ("The Burden Hardest to Bear"), he had a compeltely different design, so a lot of viewers didn't even recognize him!
I tried
this method for cooking brown rice. It worked like a charm! w00t!
The capitals of the two US States in which I have lived the longest rhyme.
Death to all online scammers! <span style="font-size: 15px;">Death, I say!</span>
[bangs head on desk]
$40 for nosebleed seats to see Roger Waters. Perform The Wall tomorrow night. Should I go?
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
$40 for nosebleed seats to see Roger Waters. Perform The Wall tomorrow night. Should I go?
How can you even question this? (the answer is yes!!)
I am about an hour from starting my vacation. 18 days with no work will be a joy, especially after pulling 32 out of 36 days.
The Filipino term "Bayanihan" originated from the practice of neighbors helping each other move by physically carrying entire houses (not that hard to do since they're made of straw, but still!)
http://e2012filhatidgruponikyle.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/13176285712.jpg The term has now come to mean a unified communal spirit in meeting a particular objective.
When I hear the word "phenomenon", I subconsciously say "
Pa-Pee-Da-Pee-Pee ". I never cared much for those cowy things that went "Da-Doo-Dee-Oo-Doo".
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
I can't remember how many ozzes are in a lib.
Almost two years later, I remind Fanfie that there are 16 ozzes in a lib.
My neighbor's beagle has been barking all morning.
I fell asleep while doing crunches. Gosh, I'm lazy today.
My iPod ran out of juice halfway through my workout
I only have one cup of yogurt left at home.
I'm going out for coal-fired pizza tonight...
My best friend just adopted a baby
I was going to have ribs for dinner, but the pub was offering a soft-shelled crab special. Wasn't as good as he last time I had soft-shelled crab, which was a lunch I had with Lad Boy about 4 years ago.
I just bought a ticket for New York Comic Con
I find
this video hilarious.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
I find this video hilarious.Rocky just made my day! Look there...FROOTLOOP!
My favorite band are coming to Edmonton in July and I have tickets
After he died, Napoleon's penis was cut off during his autopsy. Apparently it is currently in New Jersey.
Bought train tix to go to Portland for a weekend getaway.
Only negative: have to be up around 4 a.m. To make it to the station on time.
but it's still better than going by bus.
All my weekend getaways seem to start with getting up around 4 AM at the beginning of the getaway and not getting to bed until around 2 AM at the end of the getaway.
Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare:
Bought train tix to go to Portland for a weekend getaway.
Only negative: have to be up around 4 a.m. To make it to the station on time. but it's still better than going by bus. Amtrak?
When I took Amtrak to Seattle, part of the trip we hugged Puget Sound. Right on the shore. Very scenic.
Kent's train trip makes me want to take another long distance train trip
I haven't gone this route by train before, but i know it follows the shore at a number of points even north of your route, Quis. I presume you came across from Chicago to Everett, where the train turns south for Seattle. My route from Van will overlap from everett to seattle plus have other coastal stretches as well.
I'm taking a break from teaching myself Adobe Illustrator and reading an investment statement from my bank... One should not have to think so much on a Sunday afternoon.
Lost: One ego. Last seen in the vicinity of the modern-day job market.
If found, please use the PM link above.
Yesterday, I became a great uncle for the eighth time. This is the first child for my nephew and his wife. I look forward to calling my brother "Grandpa".
Congratulations, Quis. (Maybe we ought to call you Uncle Quis.)
I've been an uncle since I was 7 years old. 3 nephews, 4 nieces, 4 great nieces, & 4 great nephews.
I'd really like a dollar for every jaggoff "professional" I left a message with this week who said they'd call/email me back with important info but never did. Seriously, what the hell ever happened to manners?
[bangs head on keyboard]
Gosh, cleome, don't you know it's tough being a professional? Blame it on their secretaries. ;-)
I shed a solitary tear for their plight, LT. Oh, wait. That's my allergies.
<strike>Me, too! A great big green salad with crumbled blue cheese and homemade dressing is also gross, which is why I will not be preparing any for dinner tonight.</strike>
Sorry. Thought this was the "lies" thread.
Desdemonia and I are making lasagna, caesar salad and chocolate explosion for supper...all from scratch of course
For the last 20 years or so, HarperCollins has been publishing The Chronicles of Narnia in the United States with the books enumerated in the order of internal chronology of the books, rather than in the traditional order, which is that in which the books were published. Their basis for this is a letter C.S. Lewis wrote to a ten-year-old telling him that he could read them in this order if he wanted to. The publisher claims this means that Lewis preferred this. This puts The Magician's Nephew, not one of the best books in the series, first, displacing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Now, a whole generation of children has grown up reading the books in what many of us feel is the wrong order.
After seeing a Facebook video link by a buddy of mine, I was reminded about a strange glitch in my memory:
I have no idea, among the bands Pavement, Fuel, and Filter, who sings what.
My brain just combines them into a "Bands with vaguely car-related names" which then promptly causes me to stop thinking about them.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
For the last 20 years or so, HarperCollins has been publishing The Chronicles of Narnia in the United States with the books enumerated in the order of internal chronology of the books, rather than in the traditional order, which is that in which the books were published. Their basis for this is a letter C.S. Lewis wrote to a ten-year-old telling him that he could read them in this order if he wanted to. The publisher claims this means that Lewis preferred this. This puts The Magician's Nephew, not one of the best books in the series, first, displacing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Now, a whole generation of children has grown up reading the books in what many of us feel is the wrong order.
And by that logic, you should read A Horse and His Boy before finishing The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
My job du jour has a stray/feral cat which I've never seen. According to the warehouse workers, he's been hanging around there for a year and they've never been able to trap him. Late at night after everyone's gone home, he strolls around the warehouse, tears small holes in the bags of cat food, eats a few bites of the "spillage" and then disappears again.
Yes, my job is in a facility that stores pet and animal feed.
It's been a good birthday. The weather was pleasant, had a picnic with friends at the lake. Oh, and I got a new car.
:-)
Just found the three flight rings that came with the founders figures from DCD. After years of looking for them, I finally came across them. Hannah squealed when I gave her hers. She is so happy.
Jon is pretty geeked too, but Hannah has read through all the Archives and loves the Legion.
My kids rock!!!
This morning my doorbell rings. I had been up for a couple of hours so no big deal. I go downstairs and there is an old man and old woman standing on the porch. I open the door and say "Can I help you?" The old man starts talking. He has an Italian accent. He says 'Are you from the third floor? Sorry signore. She wants the second floor." I go "Who are you looking for?" The old woman, who has a cane, start to try to come in. The old man says "There is no name on the second floor. We 'll just knock on the door." I go 'I can't just let you in. Who are you looking for?" He says "Her daughter lives on the second floor." I did not think this woman was my neighbor's mother. "What's her daughter's name?" "Lena" "There is no one named Lena living here." At which point they look around and the old man realizes that they are at the wrong address and points to the house next door.
I think the old woman didn't speak English.
I have a blister on my pinky toe...
I was afraid my computer needed work because it was so s-l-o-w the past couple of days. Then this evening it updated itself with Internet Explorer 9, and voila!...I have a zippy computer.
I tried out this new ointment that works great on canker sores. My untreated sores usually last a week, but with this I was completely healed in 3 days.
I was thinking about the friends I had as a kid. My best friend from 4th grade to 8th grade was Sean Doyle. (we went to different high schools, hence the drifting apart) I remember one time while on the bus headed back from a field trip thinking that wen we got older we could live together in an apartment. (1st clue for my sexual orientation)
Anyway, I looked him up on Facebook. Lo and behold, he is gay too. His status is in a civil union with another guy.
I'm thinking of sending a message to him, but am not sure what to say.
Going to a bbq in a couple of hours. I'd thought of baking something, but once the daytime temp went over 85 F, common sense won out. Instead, I scooped out some melon balls (first time I've ever tried Santa Claus melon. It's a little like honeydew but paler and much less sweet) and mixed them with rum sauce and some fresh berries. Then I made some fancy scallops on half the hollowed-out melon rind, which I can use as a "bowl" and set some bamboo picks next to.
Sometimes being a caterer's kid really pays off.
Sadly, there's no time to make an ice sculpture.
[snip]
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
I'm thinking of sending a message to him, but am not sure what to say.
Well, you could start with "Hi, and congrats on your civil union."
Then move on to asking if he needs an attorney.
I've always thought the word "wharf" is funny.
Wharf! Wharf! Wharf!
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
I've always thought the word "wharf" is funny.
Wharf! Wharf! Wharf! A Klingon warrior is *not* a funny word.
I was writing in a document for work ... and meaning to italicize something I wrote the square bracketed i and /i in front and after the word ... and then I was completely frustrated as to why it was not italicized in Microsoft Word ... and then I realized I was a big dork who spends too much time on Legion World.
fiberboard backing for tile will itch you just as bad as fiberglass insulation. Damnit!
I saw Juice Newton perform tonight. She is still as amazing as she was 30 years ago.
I met Blaze's ex-boyfriend. He seems to think I'm a good dude for Blaze (thank goodness).
5 more hours to go and I'm done 3 nights (36 hours) of Overtime
Two students came up to me after first day of class, felt they ought to tell me they used to be married. I thought they were warning me there might be fireworks but they just wanted to ask if it was alright to work on homework together.
What a strange relationship.
Mike Birbiglia's new movie, "Sleepwalk with Me," is in theaters now...
Years ago the Boston Globe reported that I had a child. What had happened was the local kindergarten opened up some new slots and some people waited in line over night. My brother Mike waited in line to enroll me, but the Boston Globe said he was waiting in line for "his brother Robbie, whose child will start kindergarten in the fall."
My ex-girlfriend started following me on Twitter, and I'm not sure how to react. I've only spoken to her once - via Facebook - after the breakup.
Heading for the border, my third trip ack to the US this year (oddly, since i am usually within ight of it a few times per week).
1st trip was just to WA state. 2nd was to Oregon. This time to California. At this rate, my next trip should be Mexico?
Tomorrow, I plan to go kayaking on the Charles River. I tried to interest somoe people in going with me, but no such luck.
I am drinking Pepsi right now!
I saw what I'm reasonably comfortable stating were about 10 Amish gentlemen walking through downtown Atlanta today. It was incongruous to say the least.
Comic book creator Tim Truman (Hawkworld, GrimJack, Conan) lives in Lancaster, PA, near Amish country.
I don't like Amish furniture, but I do like some Amish cheeses.
Havarti is my favorite "snacking" cheese
Ricotta is the one I prefer for cooking
I worked 24 hours this week. So far.
I can't get my computer to load Bleeding Cool. All the other sites I frequent load just fine, so there must be some problem with the site itself.
I can't get into BC, either, Fickles. It's def a BC issue.
Thanks for the heads up, Lardy.
Hopefully they'll get it fixed soon.
It's back up, Fickles!
Male Australian jewel beetles like to have sex with stubby beer bottles.
Originally posted by Lard Lad:
It's back up, Fickles! Yay! Thanks, Lardy.
I have far too much knowledge of cartoon network due to my six year old.
Originally posted by Fat Cramer:
Male Australian jewel beetles like to have sex with stubby beer bottles.
well they are male Australians...
right now I crave tater chips... or popcorn...some food with a lot of salt, lol.
Thirty-one years ago today, my parents and I moved from Massachusetts to Florida. I lived there nine years and then returned to Boston and subsequently moved to Michigan and then to Texas. My mom lived in Florida until three years ago when she moved to Houston to be near me. My dad still lives in Florida.
The family members I feel closest to are not actually blood relations...
It's been about three years since I basically wrote off the person who I considered my best friend for a over two decades, because it was more than obvious that she'd lost interest and I was sick of always chasing after her. Our material/class status diverged pretty dramatically at some point, which didn't help.
I'd say it's only in the last four or five months that I've really gotten used to this, and have mostly stopped being bitter and angry about it.
Cleome,
I would not have met the person who became my best friend if her mother hadn't been a friend of my immediate family. In an unpleasant irony, her mother shut out my family after the family member she was closest to died, which I felt was very rude. I still consider my friend to be my best friend, but I'm still angry at her mother and hope I never see her again. Obviously, the subject of her mother never comes up in our conversations.
I am five miles above cleome's house. Okay, above her burgh, not neccessarily her house.
I'm drinking coffee from a Starbucks Las Vegas mug... I also own a Starbucks Niagara Falls mug...
I'm really, really hoping to get to Borobudur and Prambanan temples later this year, and Ayutthaya in Thailand next year. What can I say, I'm a sucker for ancient ruins and magnificent temples.
My niece was going through some old photos and found a letter I wrote when I was at summer camp when I was nine years old. Note: Kenny is my older brother. Richard was my best friend.
The letter, mistakes and all, reads:
Dear Dad, Mom, & Kenny
Hi! How are you? I am fine. It nice here. It rained Monday. I did some fishing. I saw 3 movies one was the crawling hand. I am having a good time. Last night was boxing. Ma, I <strike>could</strike> couldn't find the pen, so I borrowed one. Your probly wondering why I am writing so early is because I am home sick. I even miss Kenny. Has Richard called yet? The address is: St. Mary's of the Pines Box 330 Pelham N.H. 03076. At the end of rest peirod I have to stop. And any ways I am near the end. Some kids are mean. And know the man at where the bus stop he live near Uncle Dan's deli. Well by now
Love
Robert
XOXOX SOS
Aw Quis, that's adorable!!
My aunts and uncles keep trying to set me up with girls from "respectable" families. Alas, even if I found these particular girls smokingly attractive, and even if I weren't with Blaze,I'd be afraid to get involved with them because of the inevitable extended family business politics I'd be dunking myself in.
I don't remember anything from that camp except for that movie.
The C rawling Hand Wow! It has the Skipper in it.
Currently eating a peanut butter and nutella sandwich on a toasted sub roll. Oooooooooooh good.
Our very spoiled dog has ousted me from my bed.
And he's shedding all over my pillows.
I dropped off a houseguest at the airport today after 2 weeks...
The Philippines has four churches collectively inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as the Baroque Churches of the Philippines.
The Church of the Immaculate Conception of San Agustín, Intramuros, Manila
The Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion in Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur
The Church of Santo Tomas de Villanueva, Miag-ao, Iloilo
Titan is the name of a brand of Mars bar copies.
Last weekend I tried a new recipe: Tuna-Fennel Pasta Salad. Yum!
This weekend, I'm debating trying Maple-Nut Grits. Or Strawberry-Arugula Salad with Sweet Lime Vinaigrette.
My son Sam is allll boy. He ran into the room the other night, ripped on, then shouted proudly
"I POOTED!" Other than the gagging that then took place, Carol and I cracked up.
To celebrate my cat's 13th birthday yesterday, I gave her an extra treat and didn't boot her out of my TV-watching seat.
So sweet
My dog likes snuggling up beside my pillows and getting his tummy tickled when he's sleepy.
I will never be responsible for bringing a child with a trendy name into the world.
One day, Hyvvie will be a trendy name.
When I get home later I'm going to turn on the Playstation. Got bit by the nostalgia bug!
I'm posting slightly buzzed. But, no worries. Carol isn't, the boy is with his Granny, and I'm at home restin and recoopin, lol.
I had a Guinness last night, best damn beer I've ever tasted.
I have a migraine... again...
I have some medicine for you Sharky, but I have no idea how to get it to you. Get well soon!
Jell-o pudding cups use to come in a 6 pack. Now they come in a 4 pack. I used to buy the store brand (also in a six pack), but they have not had any out since Jell-o went to the 4 pack. I can't remember exactly what the price used to be for the 6 pack, but I am pretty sure that the price per pudding cup is higher now.
My favorite yogurt flavor is the one with melon bits. I like mango bits, and mixed berry too.
It gets cloudy and dark, so I turn on my desk light. Then it gets sunny and bright. So I shut off my desk light. Then it gets cloudy and dark again.
So it's not the rotation of the earth that determines day/night and weather. It's Quis's desk light.
All sovereign states in Southeast Asia are members of ASEAN... except for Timor-Leste. Snobby Singapore doesn't want it in, although some of the other members support its inclusion.
"Snobby Singapore" sounds like a character who went to prep school OF SPACE! with
Moving right along...
I got more free produce goodies this weekend: Almost two pounds of ripe Italian plums.
I've decided to preserve them in brandy and/or vodka. Since it's an alcohol-sugar mixture, I don't need a canner or pressure cooker to do it. Just clean peanut butter jars (of which I have, oh, about a million), a cool, dark cupboard to hide them in... and lots of patience. They'll be ready around late November/early December if I put them up today.
I think cleome's comment has just given me an idea for a new character to bring into LMB lore!
For some inexplicable reason, the first floor men's room in my building smells like maple syrup. It's really quite delightful.
It's midnight and I'm having coffee!
The Illinois version of chili is typically spelled with an extra "l". In 1993, the state legislature proclaimed Springfield the "Chilli Capital of the Civilized World."
The Jell-o Temptations Strawberry Cheesecake and Lemon Meringue are sooooo good.
My stereo system sounds awful, and I can't afford to have anyone come look at it. But eff it. I gotta' have my vinyl sometimes, so I'm playing it anyway.
Sara Rue was hotter with a little more weight on her.
Having strawberry yogurt right now. I prefer melon bits, though.
I want potato chips! A whole bag to eat right now.
One of my absolute most favorite things to eat in the world is ...
Ruffles chips ...(full fat) ... with ranch dip (laurel scudders brand mix)
As they say in the the-ate-er, I've been held over for (maybe) another week at my job with ConHugeCo Corp. (Or at least they said to report to work on Monday before I left today.)
It's back to my former half-time schedule, though.
The music for Goldfinger won a Grammy for John Barry & Shirley Bassey.
I haven't worked out in a week!
Danger Club #4 smells really good!
The specific gravity of water at standard temperature and pressure is 1 by definition, as water is the general reference for liquids.
They say that blood is thicker than water. It is. Six times thicker, in fact.
Sebastian Vettel often changes his helmet design, and has done so again for this weekend's Japanese GP.
My dog was once depicted on a
religious Web site very near the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
I've started a 3-6 month temp assignment at teh Committee for Public Counsel Service (aka the Public Defenders). And it is thanks to
this woman. It is not as a lawyer though, but that's Ok with me.
Wow. So, is the PCS defending Dookhan? Will you be working with her personally?
Oh no. Right now I am fielding the calls from the hundreds of prisoners and those who had been imprisoned wanting to know if Dookhan was involved in the testing of drugs in their case. I don't have the list. I just take down their particulars then it is passed on for assignment either to their old public defender or a new one.
Originally posted by Quislet, Esq:
I've started a 3-6 month temp assignment at teh Committee for Public Counsel Service (aka the Public Defenders). And it is thanks to this woman.
It is not as a lawyer though, but that's Ok with me.crazy. I'd say she more than "screwed up". what a psycho!
So, at my job I am looking over some intake sheets that have been mailed in. On one, instead of writing "Suffolk" for the county, this person spelt it phonetically as you would hear it pronounced around these parts. He wrote <span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Sufuck</span></span>
Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are the only two doubly-landlocked countries in the world.
Paris Hilton's grandfather, Barron Hilton, was obsessed with the idea of putting a hotel on the moon.
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I found these in the candy aisle at the store. What the...
Due to the horrible road conditions I called into work and cancelled my overtime last night.
We'll see if I can make it in tonight.
Bananas are high in potassium, which promotes healing of muscles.
Yesterday I discovered that Wordpress has a multi-site install function.
For the past year I've been trying to set up my sites the hard way it seems
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
Bananas are high in potassium, which promotes healing of muscles.
As Charlie Brown discovered when Lucy gave him one before pulling the football away.
Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad:
Originally posted by Fanfic Lady:
[b]Bananas are high in potassium, which promotes healing of muscles.
Indeed.
Then there was the time that Lucy defied the "ten-billion-to-one odds" of her having an involuntary muscle spasm at the very moment Charlie Brown would have kicked the football.
I've decided to pretty much retire Abin until all my other ID's catch up to his post count.
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I GOT THIS IN THE MAIL TODAY. Do I like Justin Bieber? No. Will I use this UTTERLY AMAZING piece of dental paraphernalia until the batteries run dry? HELL YES.
Wow! A pic of Conjure Lass, cool!
The city of Vigan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Philippines, was
recently awarded for its cultural conservation practices. I'm proud to say that I've been able to visit it already, and it really is worth a trip.
Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
Wow! A pic of Conjure Lass, cool!
The city of Vigan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Philippines, was recently awarded for its cultural conservation practices. I'm proud to say that I've been able to visit it already, and it really is worth a trip. I'm a vain, vain camera hog. You should see my Instagram.
Endives are related to daisies! Who knew?!
I bought some organic butter two days ago because I liked the packaging and it was the cheapest. It is so amazingly good, you can eat it with a spoon. I wouldn't recommend it though.
Our dog just had a stroke, kibbying on the floor and convulsing. Thirty minutes later, he's all fine, walking around and barking and being his usual doggie self, and wonders why we're acting so weird, staring at him and following him around and unpredictably hugging him.
Dogs. So much drama.
Our dog has replaced me as the favorite child in the family
I have noticed that I tend to turn my feet sideway as I walk down stairs so as to have my whole foot on the step.
So on Sunday I returned to work. I was expecting an easy day, as I was slotted to run the gas compression plant or if we had coverage, begin training in the control room.
I got on the bus and went to sleep. I woke up as we were pulling into the plant site from the highway and all I could see were 3 giant flames (at least 75 to 100ft high) coming from our flare stacks. I knew at that moment I was NOT going to have an easy day.
A critical vessel in the enviromental unit had failed. I am not only qualified to run that unit, but was the senior field operator on site.
End result, in the past 68 hours I have been at work or enroute to work or home for 52 of them...but everything is fixed and working correctly now.
Five sovereign states have capitals with the words "city" in them:
Mexico - Mexico City
Guatemala - Guatemala City
Kuwait - Kuwait City
Vatican City - Vatican City
Panama - Panama City
There is a graveyard on the Boston Common. I was walking through it today. Most of the gravestones were dated from the late 1700s and ealy 1800s, but there was one marker that was dated 1957. One gravestone was for a young man of 24 who died by drowning. A lot had "Mrs. Sarah Doe wife of John Doe", but one read "Mrs. Mary Smith consort of Mr. John Smith"
Nam'Lor try to do work this night but Nam'Lor no good at working so Nam'Lor go to bed early.
The Gates of Hell (La Porte de l'Enfer) is a monumental sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from "The Inferno", the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It contains 180 figures, some of which (including The Thinker, The Kiss, and The Three Shades were enlarged and became independent works of art.
There was a fire across the road last night.
No one hurt but the house was a total loss.
The Puerto Princesa Underground River, one of the Philippines' UNESCO World Heritage sites, is also one of the New7Wonders of Nature. Besides containing an "underground" river with plenty of stalactites, the park is also known for its high biodiversity.
Althought the parking lot at the grocery store was full at 4:30 PM on Thanksgiving Eve, and I spent $51, it was still, surprisingly, one of the quickest grocery stops I've ever had.
I spilled oatmeal all over the floor beside my desk.
Well, don't just post, man! Clean it up!
My mama and papa arrived here from Newfieland last night for a visit
Legion Lost #14 became the 2,000th comic in my current collection.
I have a sore throat.
Originally posted by He Who Wanders:
Well, don't just post, man! Clean it up! and I did exactly what HWW said!
I had two different temp jobs this week, both of which involved being around/standing in for people who'd picked up the first "super-flu" of the season.
So far, I haven't brought it home with me.
Despite popular belief, the Great Wall of China cannot be seen from space. Although things like airport runways can be seen from a low altitude orbit (180 miles up), the Great Wall blends in with the surrounding earth and cannot be seen.
Pasteurizing milk does not remove its nutrients.
Stephan Pastis, creator of the comic strip "Pearls Before Swine", has
really nice arms.
Charmian Carr, who played Liesel in The Sound of Music is the younger sister of Shannon Farnon, who voiced Wonder Woman in Super Friends.
Triceps apparently make up the larger portion of your arm's muscle.
A drop of honey stuck to one's eyeglasses takes considerable effort to remove.
(I wish I could say that I discovered this doing something illicit and/or immoral. But no such luck. I was just fixing myself a bowl of fruit while I was having an all-thumbs morning.
I should have just gone to the local drive-thru for a grease bomb on a bun, like normal people do on Sunday mornings. But noooo...)
My celphone is busted, and I badly need a new one but doubt I'll be able to head to the mall before Saturday...
If my great-grandmother were still living, she would have become the world's oldest person this week at age 115. She passed away in 1976 at age 79.
I sometimes still have nightmares about not studying well enough for an exam.
Today is Randy Rhoads' birthday. RIP.
Balsamic vinegar contains sodium bisulfate to protect it's color...
There is now a direct flight from Manila to Bali, whohoo!
The engineering ticket in front of me in the display case expires on July 11th, 2013 (its not mine)
The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras are, according to UNESCO, the only monuments in the Philippines that show no evidence of having been influenced by colonial cultures.
I had stuffed peppers for supper this evening
Said Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras were, through successful conservation management, removed from the list of World Heritage Sites in Danger in 2012. They were first placed on the Danger list in 2001.
I entered my very first photoplasty contest on Cracked.com tonight.
The category was "Worst Possible Taglines/Ads for Upcoming Movies".
This is my entry:
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I love cracked.com! Your entry so cracks me up.
Mucinex is really good at relieving chest congestion, but when they say "take with a glass of water, they MEAN "take with a glass of water". I forgot to this morning and I am just now not feeling nauseous.
I just watched the preview of a forthcoming zombie flick called "Warm Bodies" over at dailymotion.com.
Really not a connoisseur of the genre, but this one might be the exception that proves the rule. (It's told from the POV of the undead themselves.)
The Obando Fertility Rites are held in the Philippine town of Obando, Bulacan every May. Men and women wear traditional costumes and dance in the streets to pray for a husband, wife or child.
Since the Friday before this most recent, I've worked in a bottling plant and at a logistics company (sorting and inspecting exports destined for Singapore).
Tomorrow, I go back to the feed warehouse where I worked several times last year. I'll be spending a week there.
I wish I hadn't had that third bottle of beer last night.
Never milk a lightning beast after breakfast.
Time is a wheel with seven spokes, each spoke representing an age.. or so the Wheel of Time says.
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEE! EARLY BIRTHDAY PRESENT. I LOVED THIS SERIES AS A TEENAGER. WAAAAAAH!
*flails*
We have had so much snow here this year a few enterprising underemployed folk have started a business of shoveling snow from roofs.
Looking in the mirror this morning, I was taken aback by how much I am beginning to resemble the Goblin King from Peter Jackson's
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
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And it was not that long ago that I imagined I somewhat resembled the Goblin King from Labyrinth.
This is a funny site It has screen shots of people's Facebook posts where they think that an article in the Onion is true. The really funny ones, IMHO, are the ones where someone tells them that it is the Onion and therefore nor real, but the person still thinks it is real.
I have an inordinate affection for the writing of bylaws and policies. I hate them because they're a necessary evil, but I enjoy figuring out what needs to be said and how to say it.
"Hi, my name is Legion, and I'm a bylaw addict."
From wikipedia: Mount Pulag (or sometimes Mount Pulog) is the third highest mountain in the Philippines. It is Luzon’s highest peak at 2,922 meters above sea level. The mountain hosts 528 documented plant species. Among its native wildlife are 33 bird species and several threatened mammals such as the Philippine Deer, Giant Bushy-Tailed Cloud Rat (“bowet”) and the Long-Haired Fruit Bat. Mount Pulag is the only place that hosts the 4 Cloud Rat species.
Tourists love climbing it for the sea of clouds at the summit.
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I climbed Mt. Mayon! Have a certificate and everything.
I've probably already mentioned that.
random.....
Toledo has four teams ranked in the top ten in Ohio basketball and we're not that big. Well actually we are big. We supposedly have the most restaurants per capita in the known world or close to it. Many chain restaurants use us as a testing ground for new menu items.
"We" have HUGE butts. I don't. But generally everyone else does.
<------ I don't really look like that.
It is a heavy wet snow falling now in the Blizzard of 2013. This is the type of snow you have to be careful shoveling or you could hurt your back or give yourself a heart attack.
I just shoveled some now and will shovel some more before bed. Shoveling a few inches at a time is better than trying to shovel a foot or more all at once.
The Japanese place in the food court where I usually have lunch when I have a meeting Downtown closed. It's been there at least as long as I've lived here.
Two of my dear friends, one 100 and the other 101 years old, died this past week.
Sorry for your loss, LT.
I had to cancel class today for only the third time in the eight years I've been teaching. All three times were due to car problems.
The safe at work was stuck shut this morning, so we had to call a locksmith. Turns out, the cause of the jam was...ONE MEASLY PENNY! Truth!
The living and dining areas of chez_cleome are just one big room.
As of today, there are four pieces of furniture in the room that are on wheels.
What can I say? Wheeled furniture is a lifesaver when you've got two clutter fiends in residence and not a lot of space.
Two of my dear friends, one 100 and the other 101 years old, died this past week.
Awww...
This is a funny site It has screen shots of people's Facebook posts where they think that an article in the Onion is true. The really funny ones, IMHO, are the ones where someone tells them that it is the Onion and therefore nor real, but the person still thinks it is real.
I am much more distressed at how many real stories
should just be a figment of an
Onion-ista's imagination-- but aren't.
For example, the story from a couple of Halloweens ago: A law firm that specialized in helping banks do "streamlined" foreclosures thought it would be hilarious to throw a party in which everyone in the office dressed up as homeless people.
Then they claimed to not understand why this was gross and tasteless.
There is a New York Times feature now like the Onion ... Except it is scarily close to reality, the stories are almost believable. its satire i suppose.
The Borowitz Report:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blo...ra-defends-right-to-own-politicians.html
I kind of think the
NYT would want to avoid reminding us of all the times they've already made stuff up without disclosing it until much later.
Crayola has several shades of green: Green, Sea Green, Pine Green, Forest Green, Olive Green, Aquamarine, Caribbean Green, Tropical Rainforst, Mountain Meadoew, Fern, Shamrock, Asparagus, Inchworm, Screamin Green, Electric Lime, Yellow Green, Blue Green, Green Blue, Jungle Green are the ones I remember.
I like crabapples and have never gotten a bellyache from them.
Daylight savings time was started by the Illuminati to control harvest and food supply lines throughout the wor....wait, this isn't the ridicules conspiracy theory board? Dammit!
I think I ate too much today.
I counted 41 shades of green the last time I went to Ireland.
Emmy Rossum in "Beautiful Creatures" as... Dark Power Girl?
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It's recommended to wear an undershirt with sleeves as an inner layer, so that armpit sweat won't show on your outer shirts.
I just saw an ad on Kijiji selling a galaxy nexus 7 for $50 more than they retail new.
If they were hard to find I could understand the price, but they are pretty common.....
The Scarabwing Idol was the first thing I ever excavated using my powers!
Roads are really icy today, from town to site I drove at 30km
These peanut butter girl scout cookies are quite possibly the most delicious thing i've ever put in my face. MMMMM.
Although I have a Wonder Woman costume in my closet, I've never actually worn it.
I have DJ Lance Rock; Green Lantern and Popeye costumes in my closet (as well a a black and red cape). I wear them all on a semi-regular basis
Some neighbourhood cat left muddy footprints all over my daughter's bonnet and windscreen this morning.
I'm toasting Conjure Lass with the four basic food groups, some thin mints, samoans, TGIF cheddar bacon potato skins and a large milk.
The supermarket where I shop decorates cakes for birthdays and other special occassions. WHenever someone orders a decorated cake and then doesn't pick it up, the store slices it up and sells the individual slices.
I'm toasting Conjure Lass with the four basic food groups, some thin mints, samoans, TGIF cheddar bacon potato skins and a large milk.
Cheers, my friend!
Damn. I'd kill some fools for some Samoas right now.
and some thin mints.
Kookaburra sleeps on the old gum tree...
When I am on the subway (and sitting) and someone comes into the car that really needs the seat (and there are no other ones available) I'll offer my seat. Sometimes they try to wave me off, but you can tell that they really should have the seat. So I'll say "Do you want to get my mother mad at me?" At that point they will chuckle and take the seat.
Patti Smith's mother was a Jehovah's Witness.
Ooh Ooh, that brought a memory.
Backpacking Europe post graduation, pre-job. In the Netherlands headed to a brew tour, me and two girls. I'm American, they not. Get on bus. Old lady stands and tries to give me her seat. I figure, being nice to tourist. I say thanks, I'm fine. She insists. Kid on bus says, "war." I sit.
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
Louis 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
I lived in the same college dorm as a kid that went to Louis Cass High School. Louis Cass went to Phillips Exeter. I go to Phillips Exeter every summer for teacher school.
I had planned to head up to Detroit early tomorrow morning before school to get some bakery treats at the Mexicantown bakery. I have a lot of Hispanic students and locally there's nothing fresh. Thought it would be a nice week before Easter Break treat.
Which brings me back to Louis Cass.
He died in Detroit.
If I die, hope it's AFTER I get to the bakery. :-)
Cass Elliot and John Phillips were two members of The Mamas & The Papas.
They had nothing to do with Detroit, though.
The capital of the Central African Republic was just overrun by rebels.
In my neighborhood in the last ten days, there have been over 200 arrests for burglary, drugs and ho-ing plus a middle school kid suspended for bringing his gun to school.
More traditions under attack.
Blockade Boy should move.
I just found out my grandmother's home village is now in Romania, not the Czech Republic as I had been told.
Perhaps Blockade Boy could move there; looks like it's a pretty quiet place. No Mexican bakery, though.
Blockade Boy is home (for now). Besides, he is afraid of Vampires.
Pepperidge Farm remembers
My sister-in-law is pregnant. I'm gonna' be an aunt late this summer. How 'bout that...?
Congrats, Aunt Cleome!
I became an uncle at 15 and a granduncle at 33.
I have an uncle who is less than a year older than me
I have an Uncle who is six years younger than me
My cat has several aliases. Baby, Babydoll, Babygirl, Honey, Honey Bunny, Sweetheart, Bubbles, Bubblehead, and Butterball.
Oh and I have been an uncle since I was 7 and I currently have 8 greatnieces and greatnephews.
Our one-eyed, snaggled toothed outdoor kitty won't be clearing out the mice anymore. Neighbor had me take her to the vet a couple summers ago because she'd lost a lot of weight. The vet wanted to put her down. She (the kitty) didn't seem in pain. We started feeding her the good stuff. She got better.
No one is going to tell me animals can't communicate. A few days ago, I pulled in to the drive and she tried to get into the car before I could get out. She NEVER did that. She usually ran to the food bowl or for a scratch or even on occasion would try to sneak into the house but never the car. She was persistent but I didn't "listen." There really wasn't much left of her but it never occurred to me.... I guess she remembered that car ride a couple summers ago. The neighbor found her dead the next day.
sigh
^ Interesting. Sad, but interesting. At least she got a few more years thanks to you.
She seemed to enjoy them.
We had a little "den" for her in the Winter and her tracks were easy to follow. She pretty much hit up four or five houses for food and scratches.
She'd sleep at night in front of the garage, guarding it I guess but I don't know from what. Probably from rabbits and woodchucks that have made such a mess of the yard and driveway with their tunnels. The boxer next door sees a rabbit and runs whimpering for the house...
Well, maybe someone will dump another kitty in the park across the street. That's how one-eye got here I think.
Well so far we've spent $185 dollars to have the septic tank pumped at work, and now we find out why it wouldn't flush. Seven ( 7) female hygene products that had it completely blocked up. That ... sentient... doesn't need to return to our business.
This is day one of 2 (maybe 3) days off that I am taking before starting a stretch of 19 (with a switch to night-shifts halfway through)
I spilled coffee on my shirt a while ago.
Minsk is the capital of Belarus.
Life is but a dream, sweetheart.
Laos is the only country in Southeast Asia which is landlocked.
... while in South America, these are Bolivia and Paraguay.
Monaco and Liechtenstein are the only European countries without any UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
In two days I'm going to Egypt.
^^^^
Cool!
Bolivia is land locked because they lost every war they've ever been in and lost their connection to the ocean.
My doctor tells me I am developing arthritis in my Ulnar Styloid.
Which sounds like a 30th-century proper name: Lester Spiffany, Flynt Brojj, Ulnar Styloid...
Our music is mentally hip-hop, smoothed out on the R&B tip, with a pop appeal to it.
In two days I'm going to Egypt.
ENVIOUS!!
Belize is the only Central American nation where English is an official language.
I finally sat down today at 8:45 pm. Vitamin b12....take me away.
I thought you were going to say Calgon. Don't you want to smell like roses?!
Second last nightshift before three full nights off....I am so tired....
The Sultanate of Brunei currently holds the ASEAN chair.
I cannot get the search function here to work. Every time I look something up, it merely lists that last threads posted to. As well, my arms are shrinking to the point of uselessness as I turn into a dinosaur right before my own eyes.
Went to a small nursery today that I hadn't been to in about four years. it no longer existed. Was very disappointed as it was the only place Carol and I had ever found with a certain type of azalea.
The province of Palawan boasts two of the Philippines' UNESCO World Heritage sites - the Puerto Prinsesa Subterranean River, and the Tubbataha Reefs.
I just ordered crisis on multiple earths 6, Larry Correia's warbound, another book I've been looking for from amazon. good day for me. I lurve reading.
Mongolia has the lowest population density on Earth - 2 people per square kilometer.
We never saw any relatives of Violet during the Postboot era.
DC's offerings for Free Comic Book Day (today) are pathetic. I cannot think that they would entice anyone, child, teen, or adult, to develop any interest at all in DC comics.
Of course, what do I know. My favorite free comic this year (that I saw) wss Ugly Doll.
I have had laryngitis for two weeks. The doctor has put me on medication and vocal rest. No singing till sometime next week at the earliest.
How about miming? Get well soon Rocky!
Extreme Pita at work for lunch tonight
Sri Lanka has an incredible density of UNESCO World Heritage sites. Despite being only the 122nd largest country in the world, it has an amazing 8 sites - tied with Hungary and Argentina, and one more than Finland, Norway and Egypt.
Kinetix and Violet went boxing together in LSH 109.
The official language of the Maldives is Divehi.
Mythbusters celebrates their 10th anniversary this year......my, how time flies when you're having fun blowing stuff up.
Iron Sulpides spontaniously ignite on contact with oxygen.
"Mythbusters celebrates their 10th anniversary this year......my, how time flies when you're having fun blowing stuff up." and having a cute redhead do it makes it even better.
Philippine elections were held today.
When people say "It is what it is" they just said NOTHING!
There are four countries with the word "Guinea" in their name:
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Equatorial Guinea (which isn't actually on the equator at all!)
Papua New Guinea (the only one not located in Africa)
The World Heritage Site of Machu Picchu in Peru is 1000 ft above the Urubamba river.
My hardhat has a Batman: Arkham Asylum sticker on it
San Marino and the Vatican City are sovereign states entirely surrounded by Italy. Lesotho is also a sovereign state entirely surrounded by South Africa.
There a ring around Uranus
By choice or because you haven't done laundry in a while?
I was measured for a bra today! Sixty pounds later I have gone from a 38D to a 36C. MY BOOBS ARE GOING AWAY!
By choice or because you haven't done laundry in a while?
A little bit of both.
I was measured for a bra today! Sixty pounds later I have gone from a 38D to a 36C. MY BOOBS ARE GOING AWAY!
Thats totally the worst news I've heard all day
I slept through two alarms this evening and was an hour late for work
sixty pounds? damn, those were some bodacious ta-tas!
Congratulations on the weight loss - it is appropriate to say congratulations?
Fans of Glee refer to the potential pairing of Ryder with Unique (one of TV's first transgender characters) as "Rynique".
Warwick Davis was 11 years old when he played Wicket in Return of the Jedi
My "Moon of Nippon" peonies bloomed like gangbusters this year and looked glorious for almost two days.
Then the rain and hail arrived.
It must be Springtime in Portland.
Again.
True fact: Elizabeth Taylor was a mutant. She had a double row of eyelashes.
Been pulling overtime for three weeks straight!
Been pulling overtime for three weeks straight!
Since early March for me and I think Dev has been putting in crazy hours too
I had a week's break before my three weeks, but before that had about 2 months' straight as well. How much longer do you think yours will last?
I'm actually working my last few night shifts now...besides tonight I have three more to go.
As of 0800 Sunday I have 18 days off.
Some people consider Cambodia's Angkor, Indonesia's Borobudur and Myanmar's Bagan to be the "big three" architectural wonders of Southeast Asia.
1 Bridge Collapse and 1 Mudslide here so far this season. Well, the bridge collapse was in WA, but it impacted my current job-- since that involves many, many trucks going back and forth between WA and OR.
Could spring get any better? [grumble]
Stay tuned.
Chile is the southernmost nation in the world (not counting lands claimed in Antarctica).
I'm am probably going to have a screaming match with the manager here tomorrow morning (if he dares to show his face at our worksite again)
Armenia was the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as a state religion.
Kid Quantum II rocked her purple-and=pink bikini on Summer World!
Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the only sovereign states in the Caribbean that share an island.
Salt River Canyon in Arizona is bee-yoo-tee-full!
Just, yanno, don't try and drive that road in a trailer. Lot's of switchbacks and tight corners!
Belize is the only nation in Central America where English is an official language.
Salt River Canyon in Arizona is bee-yoo-tee-full!
Just, yanno, don't try and drive that road in a trailer. Lot's of switchbacks and tight corners!
Mighty fine canyon... I don't suppose it has a salty river?
The 15th anniversary of comedian Phil Hartman's tragic murder was 5 days ago.
Equatorial Guinea doesn't actually straddle the equator.
Jenni and I really liked Tenzil's black hole layer cake.
Today I am transfering my plants into my greenhouse
Besides Jerusalem (Israel and Palestine), Nicosia in Cyprus is also a divided capital. It is divided between southern Cyprus (the recognized member of the UN and EU) and Northern Cyprus (recognized only by Turkey).
"Seven Miles An Hour"... too damn long since I've heard this ditty.
Marshall, my unholy level of love for you will never die. [hugs cd]
Mano was the only member of the Fatal Five not to be freed by the Emerald Eye.
I will overtake Lightning Lad as Legion World's ninth most prolific poster in another 27 posts.
Alas, I am far, far behind that.
Bhutan has a measure called Gross National Happiness, which includes the measurement of sustainable development and cultural preservation.
Alas, I am far, far behind that.
Not for too terribly long, I suspect.
For longer than I would want, though
Long things can be good, no?
Florida driver's licenses have very long I.D. numbers.
I read that as "very Long I.B."
I bought a keurig the other day...now hooked
Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste have both petitioned to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which currenlty includes the Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
I read that as "very Long I.B."
Figures. Kids these days and their impure thoughts!
Today was the Pride Parade in Boston. I haven't been to Pride in at least 10 years.
I read that as "very Long I.B."
Figures. Kids these days and their impure thoughts!
But... but... every time we do it, Blaze says it's the purest form of love ever!
Today was the Pride Parade in Boston. I haven't been to Pride in at least 10 years.
Blaze and I are looking forward to the day we finally attend one. it must be great being so free... the closest thing we've had here are hanging out with a bunch of like-minded gays at beach parties. Not quite the same thing.
The Empress once mistook Andromeda for an Alephian.
I'd feel bad about it, except the Empress got a faceful of concrete for that remark.
Papua New Guinea's land area is larger than New Zealand's.
Today was the Pride Parade in Boston. I haven't been to Pride in at least 10 years.
Blaze and I are looking forward to the day we finally attend one. it must be great being so free... the closest thing we've had here are hanging out with a bunch of like-minded gays at beach parties. Not quite the same thing.
Well, schedule your next trip to the US for June. That's Pride month. But Pride dates vary from city to city. For example, Boston traditionally has their Pride the week before New York. This is because there are a number of people who do both.
I think I shattered my elbow tonight! Damn inertron door frame!
Some writers claim that the big three architectural wonders of Southeast Asia are Cambodia's Angkor, Indonesia's Borobudur, and Myanmar's Shwedagon Pagoda.
Today was the Pride Parade in Boston. I haven't been to Pride in at least 10 years.
Blaze and I are looking forward to the day we finally attend one. it must be great being so free... the closest thing we've had here are hanging out with a bunch of like-minded gays at beach parties. Not quite the same thing.
Well, schedule your next trip to the US for June. That's Pride month. But Pride dates vary from city to city. For example, Boston traditionally has their Pride the week before New York. This is because there are a number of people who do both.
Thanks, Quis! Maybe we can stay long enough to celebrate Independence Day too. *starts saving up*
Fiji, Qatar, Lesotho and Guinea-Bissau are going to try to get on the UNESCO World Heritage list this year. Prospects are good for Fiji and Qatar...
Apple Jacks are neither apple-flavored nor shaped like jacks.
I think Edward Snowden looks real cute.
I have no clue who Edward Snowden is.
Princess Margaret was also the Countess of Snowdon (with an "O").
The Philippines and Timor-Leste are the only predominantly Catholic nations in Asia.
My first professional job was with NSA but I'm not ratting out nothing. You're all my puppets.
Although English is an official language in most of Central and Southern Africa, Oceania, and the Caribbean, it is only official in two in Europe (Ireland and Malta), two in mainland North America (Canada and Belize), one in South America (Guyana), and five in Asia (Philippines, Singapore, India, Pakistan and the state of Palestine).
It is not official in the USA (no official languages at federal level) or in Australia, and is only the de facto official language of the United Kingdom (due to being spoken by a majority of the populatron, and being an official language of the European Union).
A 591 mL bottle of Pepsi contains 260 Calories
^ What, you got no graemlins for that?
The ancient silk road passed through many Central Asian countries. Some of the best known ones are in Uzbekistan: Samarkand, Bukhara, Kokand and Tashkent.
I have lived in four U.S. states. I know (or know of) Legion Worlders in all four, but never met any of them before LW.
The Namib Sand Sea (in Namibia of course) is the only coastal desert in the world to have fog.
Dos Equis Amber is pretty damn nasty, imo. It took me over three hours to down a six-pack because I wasn't eager to take that next sip. Disappointing, plus the buzz was rather tame.
Fiji, Qatar and Lesotho got their first sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List this year. Last year it was Congo, Palau, Chad and Palestine. Other recent entrants are the Marshall Islands and Kiribati.
My choir director refers to someone being slightly off pitch as an "approximata".
^
Or is it "approximatura"? No matter. She usually says it to the basses.
When I joined a choir made of friends, I was classified as a bass despite my voice not being consistently low-pitched. Sometimes I still forget myself and speak in a higher pitch as well.
^ Ibby, that makes you bi-sectional.
Always good to be flexible, LT!
^ Ibby, that makes you bi-sectional.
Ah, choir humor!
I love it!
Whenever I see a "Re-Reading The Legion Archive" post in the "Active Topics" screen that quotes one of Cobalt Kid's reviews, the lack of formatting blends the "Originally Posted By: Cobalt Kid" and "Adventure Comics #" into one line and makes me think - for a fraction of a second - that it's a post talking about "Cobalt Kid Adventure Comics".
I'm just saying... I would read the hell out of that book.
Salar de Uyuni, the famous salt flats of Bolivia, make the ground look like heaven. Literally.
Equatorial Guineans may be polyglots: official languages of the country are Spanish, French and Portuguese.
This year my Canada Day photomanipulation is Sasquatch (Alpha Flight)
I once had to watch my mother explain to her aunt what a "queef" is.
Many Southeast Asian nations' capitals are arguably NOT their most popular travel destinations. Cambodia's Sieam Reap is top because of its proximity to Angkor; Laos' Luang Prabang is arguably more visited than Vientiane; Myanmar's Bagan/Yangon/Mandalay triangle has more ancient sights than the newly-built Naypyidaw; Indonesia is visited more for Bali and Yogyakarta (which is near Borobudur and Prambana) than for Jakarta; and the Philippines is known more for the beaches of Boracay and Palawan, and for the Ifugao Rice Terraces, than it is for Manila.
I once had to watch my mother explain to her aunt what a "queef" is.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my mother-in-law.
I gave my wife a pair of pearl earrings. When she showed them to her mom, this is what was said -
M-i-L : "They are gorgeous! You should give her a pearl necklace next"
(wife starts snickering)
Me: "you want me to give your daughter a pearl necklace?"
M-i-L : "Yes, think how nice it'll be!"
(wife is now laughing, I'm starting to crack up)
M-i-L : "what's so funny?"
I left that for the wife to explain!!
I had to look up what the things Lardy and Virdie were talking about on Urban Dictionary.
My face is now scarlet.
I had to look up what the things Lardy and Virdie were talking about on Urban Dictionary.
My face is now scarlet.
Yeah,
Archer does that to me all the time.
What's a 'quadroon?' What's Pam mean by 'pushing rope?'
Probably not the best sort of way to be expanding my vocabulary...
Lana Kane's voice actress, Aisha Tyler, has been on the TV series
XIII on Netflix, which wasn't a great show, but it's fun to close my eyes and hear Lana's voice.
I had to look up what the things Lardy and Virdie were talking about on Urban Dictionary.
My face is now scarlet.
Sorry Rocky
I had to look up what the things Lardy and Virdie were talking about on Urban Dictionary.
My face is now scarlet.
Sorry Rocky
No worries, old friend. I had to find out somewhere. Better on Legion World than on the street.
Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei and Timor-Leste are the only countries in Southeast Asia to not have a UNESCO World Heritage site. UNESCO has been encouraging Myanmar to submit applications though, considering they have several cities with sites worthy of inclusion (Bagan, Mandalay and Yangon).
The closest group of friends I ever had now live respectively in LA, Cairo, and Hong Kong. With me in Philly... that means the sun never sets on our friendship.
On the one hand, that's an amazingly lovely sentiment... on the other... I miss them so much.
I had to look up what the things Lardy and Virdie were talking about on Urban Dictionary.
My face is now scarlet.
Sorry Rocky
No worries, old friend. I had to find out somewhere. Better on Legion World than on the street.
I, however, make NO apologies!
I put my car up for sale today
Spain has two enclave cities inside Morocco's territory.
So, I have been working doing intakes from people who think they were affected by the drug lab scandals. Most of the calls come from prisoners and usually we get just the one call. Some call back if they haven't heard from their attorney. One of the call backs was a guy named Jamal. When I found out his next court date for him, he got a little excited and said "When I get out, I'm going to have to take you to dinner." I said "That's OK. I'm just doing my job." He called back a couple of times and among his "legitimate" questions, he'd ask how my lunch was, how my day was going. Then I didn't hear from him for a couple of months. Until just two weeks ago, he called needing to get in touch with his attorney about getting some paperwork sent to him. When I did and relayed the response back to him, he again said "I'm going to have to take you to lunch on Newbury St." I again declined. I then told him that I was leaving the job (the calls have fallen off and they can't justify keeping me. What do you expect, it is a temp assignment). When Jamal heard that he was like "How will I keep in touch with you? Can I Facebook you?" I was like "Er That's not something I can do." He did call back the next day to wish me luck and I would not be surprised if he calls again tomorrow (my last day)
Maybe he's just really grateful, Quis? Erring on the side of caution sounds like a wise policy though
Sounds like this guy's getting a little too friendly. You might say something like, "I appreciate the offer, but it's against company policy for employees to interact socially with clients." If he brings up the fact that you're no longer going to be an employee, tell him you might get a callback.
Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea are current applicants for membership in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The full ASEAN membership now is Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.
Papua New Guinea's membership has been stalled partly due to concerns about the country's lack of development (although the "official" reason is its status as being partly in Asia and partly in Oceania; while for Timor-Leste it is the country's lack of development (although it's mainly Singapore which is snubbing the country; other member nations including former colonizer Indonesia have expressed support).
Well, Jamal called again today. He wished my luck and said he'd try to call back before I leave. He did, but the call went to my co-worker instead.
Quis's story makes me think his stalker is Theo Huxtable.
Well, Jamal called again today. He wished my luck and said he'd try to call back before I leave. He did, but the call went to my co-worker instead.
At least he was being a lot less intrusive than he was before, Quis. That's a very good sign.
Bolivia was named after freedom fighter Simon Bolivar. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela were also liberated by Simon.
Grandchild: I am four today!
Self: I only see one of you. Where are the other three?
Grandchild: I... don't... know...
. . . . . . . . .
Grandchild: (excitedly exhibiting his new Star Wars Figurine Collection) Do you know who this is?
Self: That's R2D2.
Grandchild: Correct. Do you know who this is?
Self: That's C3PO.
Grandchild: Correct. Do you know who this is?
Self: That's Anakin Skywalker.
Grandchild: Correct. Do you know who this is?
Self: That's Obi-wan Kenobi. He's our only hope.
Grandchild: (Expression of utter confusion.)
Ethiopia is the only present-day African country to never have been colonized. They also still use their own Ethiopian calendar, which puts them about 7 years behind the Gregorian one.
Flash Fact: Some lightning bolts are so energetic they actually transmute electrons into positrons-- which then immediately annihilate, emitting gamma rays at the characteristic frequency.
Satellites have detected these gamma rays in some particularly ferocious thunderstorms.
Anti-matter is all around us!
San Marino claims to be the oldest independent country (that has existed unchanged in its current form).
Apparently,
the Internet is for porn. (don't worry, very much safe for work!)
Just keep the volume down!
It would be really cool if in this new Flash TV series, John Wesley Shipp could guest star as Jay Garrick.
It would be nice if XS or Jesse Quick showed up, just so we'd have a female speedster too.
A couple days ago .... while looking at data for work ... the number 616 came up!!!!!
ha!
A lot of people have trouble believing that my hair is a natural dark brown. It only really shows under bright light.
Shaved my porn 'stache but I still got the goaty!
black raspberries and banana slices.
I had a really busy August.
cleome's Burger Recipe:
1 lb. beef (85% lean is best. I like Deck Farms. Expensive, but worth it.)
2 generous T finely-chopped onion (white or red)
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp Angoustura (aromatic) bitters
1/2 tsp powdered mustard
1/4 tsp ground pepper (black, white, or Cayenne)
Mix everything gently but thoroughly in a bowl. Shape into your desired size/dimension patty. (I like 'em thin.) Grill to your desired doneness (medium-rare for me). Add cheese, bun, and condiments and dig in!
Sadly, I don't have a recipe for a chocolate Frosty™. I'll just have to have fresh fruit for dessert instead.
September will mark 15 years in Houston and with my current employer and one year with The Boyfriend.
September will likewise mark two years with Blaze.
We should double-celebrate!
The Bizarrotron is a device utilized by Spaceman Spiff to measure how weird an alien is.
All aliens are scored on a Weirdness Level.
As any reading above zero indicates alien life, the Bizarrotron is also basically an alien detector.
There are 8 birthdays in my immediate family this month -
My mother and grandmother
My wife's mother and both her grandmothers
My wife
My daughter
Me
I am NOT a little teapot, short and stout.
I am more like a long neck beer bottle.
The first Bundt™ pan was made in 1949.
Just as I was posting in the Lash Bait thread about how much Miley annoys me these days, her new music video came on the TV.
Eerie.
The first line spoken by the character Frieda in "Peanuts" was "How do you do, Charlie Brown? I have naturally curly hair."
Yesterday, one of the "sister" mills of the one I work at had to shut down because an employee was badly hurt in an accident.
I think people actually like how violent the DC comics are now.
(I don't think that's true for most of us on the Boards though!)
I overheard someone today say Angela is a whore's name... pretty random...
We can be so judgmental as a species. Sometimes I think some people just get so tired of thinking that they use all sorts of unreliable mental shortcuts.
I is be drunk right now because I fell off a ladder yesterday and my knee is giving me hell. But tequila means you don't feel any pain, but must type about four times the normal amount just to get it right. Yeeeeeeee ha.
The recent earthquake that hit the provinces of Cebu, Bohol and Siquijor damaged a lot of national heritage churches (none of them have UNESCO status YET).
Well, that sucks mightily, IB. I hope there is money for rebuilding/ reclamation.
Thanks, rick. I think there is money (if we can stop gov't crooks from stealing it!)
How have you been doing? Watcha drinking right now?
The current LW FB banter reminds me that I'm probably the only fan ever who ships Gim/Yera/Cham.
Fandom really can be "a cold and lonely corner of hell" if you're a born contrarian. [grumble]
Also, I totally broke my thumbnail today! Double proof that life SUCKS!!11
On an actual serious note: Sorry to hear about rickshaw1's knee and the earthquake in IB's country. (I just saw some photos of the aftermath yesterday. So sad.)
The current LW FB banter reminds me that I'm probably the only fan ever who ships Gim/Yera/Cham.
Fandom really can be "a cold and lonely corner of hell" if you're a born contrarian. [grumble]
For what it's worth, Cleome, I can relate to some extent, because I've only ever met one other fan who feels the same way I do about Sarya's death (in a nutshell, we dislike it thoroughly) and she hasn't posted in years. Her name was stephbarton.
[snip]
...I've only ever met one other fan who feels the same way I do about Sarya's death (in a nutshell, we dislike it thoroughly) and she hasn't posted in years. Her name was stephbarton.
I remember her! (Steph, that is.) I wish she was still around.
Sarya is an all-time favorite of mine, so I hear you both on that one.
Hooray!! Someone agrees with steph and me!
In the words of Mott the Hoople's Ian Hunter, "You are not alone...you are not alone."
[bows]
I am (slightly) less ashamed of my penchant for non-canon human-alien threesomes than I am of my ongoing de-randomization of this thread.
I think the actual way they wrote Sarya's death was good, and it made sense storywise. But fabulous villains are always in such short supply in the Legion-verse. I hate to see even one removed for good. (Well, "for good" is a relative term in comics, but you know what I mean...)
I really liked Sarya as a villain. Actually, all of the fatal five made very interesting first appearances. She developed into a favourite. I was sorry to see her go, but as cleome47 said, it was a very good story, with good Giffen art too.
While Legionnaires come back through the revolving door of death, the Emerald Empress has had a succession of lesser replacements. Although I like the Mad Harriot look of the most recent one.
Random form the web: Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
I don't think I've ever talked about it, but the Empress' death was exactly a high point for me either.
To me she was the perfect villain.
Thheeenn they went and not only tried to give her a shred of humanity, her unrelenting evil was blamed on her eye AND they essentially had her suicide.
A poor end for one of the most magnificent villains to have graced the pages of Legion.
I could have done without the death. It made sense and was done well but led to the big mistake (IMO), trying to create a new "Emerald Empress."
There were any number of options that could have involved the eye without trying to recreate the magic that was THE Emerald Empress.
The Vatican City is pretty much the only sovereign nation which is recognized by all others AS sovereign,to not be a member of the UN. (Others like Taiwan and Kosovo are de facto sovereign but are not fully recognized by the international community)
There were any number of options that could have involved the eye without trying to recreate the magic that was THE Emerald Empress.
Like an espionage series Eye Spy with a little tuxedo over the eye.
Random: A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The Philippines has 5 inscriptions on the UNESCO World Heritage list, although one inscription actually contains 4 churches. A second inscription, the Rice Terraces of Ifugao, contains 5 clusters of rice terraces as well.
October marks the fifteen-year anniversary of when I first met the dude I ended up marrying.
(I couldn't tell you the exact day of the month, however. But definitely before Halloween.)
Sweet! Happy 15 years' cleome and mr.cleome!
Blaze and I will be going on our first trip together abroad later this year. I can't wait
Congratulations, Cleome. In your honor, I'll post a random MST3K fact:
When Kevin Murphy took over as Tom Servo's puppeteer in Season Two, one viewer responded by printing out a banner reading "I HATE TOM SERVO'S NEW VOICE" and sending it to Best Brains.
Murphy found it amusing.
Although I know this marks your 15th year of knowing each other, and not your 15th wedding anniv, just wanted to share that the 15th wedding anniv is traditionally called the Crystal Anniversary
October marks the fifteen-year anniversary of when I first met the dude I ended up marrying.
How long before you found out his name?
Congrats, cleome!
Of the 9 countries that have Portuguese as an official language, 6 are in Africa (Angola, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome & Principe). The others are Brazil, Timor-Leste, and of course Portugal, plus the special administrative region of Macau in China.
October marks the fifteen-year anniversary of when I first met the dude I ended up marrying.
How long before you found out his name?
Congrats, cleome!
OMG!!11 Legion Tracker is-- DAN SAVAGE!!11
Seriously, though. Thanks, Everyone.
It hasn't been that big a deal to go outside and work in the yard every day while the weather's been nice.
The real acid test began around Saturday or so, when the rain and mud arrived. I've got my whole walkway cleaned up and replanted now. (It took over a week.) That was the most onerous task on my outdoor to-do list, so I'm glad it's out of the way. I still have a bunch of other things to get to, however, and doing them while crouching and sitting in cold mud isn't really much fun.
I only relax my Facebook privacy settings once a year - on my birthday. That is the only time people get to post directly to my wall. I only do that because it takes a lot of time to reply to messages one by one.
Look! A brick has been thrown out of my monitor from the inside! It has a note round it. "Don't forget it's Ibby's Birthday!" it says.
Hmmm a subtle hint, if ever I saw one...
Wow! Somebody out there really wants to celebrate my birthday! I wonder whom it could be?
It'll be someone easy to recognise as they'll have a brick imprint on their head
Unless he or she covers his or her head with a stylish hat!
And nothing says style more than Calamity King's hat!
Not sure the hat would help as the brick hit my dose.
Would be a good time to get that nose job you've always wanted!
Er, if you've always wanted one that is.
Hey! stop insulting my trunk nose, I meant nose! ...drats...busted...
Elephants never forget! But I forgot who said that.
Me! I said it. Before Atlantis sank, when I had at least twelve toes. Oh, those were the days. I feel all sniffly just thinking about them. Pass me a tissue. Actually, better make that two tissues because of the nose...not the trunk...the nose...
Of all the island nations in the Caribbean, only two border another nation - Haiti and the Dominican Republic. That's because they share the island of Hispaniola.
Almost every spring as coverage allows, I have to hit the Nephrology clinic. This has been true since the glorious spring/summer about thirteen years back when I was first diagnosed with PKD.
Last week, I found out that my levels of various and sundry things have fluctuated a bit, but not risen overall. Yep. I've dodged the bullet for one more year. w00t!
Sex for sundries is fun.
(Glad you're okay, Cleome.)
Aaaahhh!! I just watched that episode 2-3 days ago!
Thanks, FL.
I'm relieved, too. (More boring medical stuff below if anyone cares.)
My blood pressure had been fluctuating a bit over the last six months, with one jump a few months ago that alarmed one of the NPs I'd talked to. Sometimes that's a sign that the kidneys are going downhill fast. Turns out I was taking two different meds (for unrelated issues) that are known to raise blood pressure. Once I changed to other stuff, it evened out again.
Glad it all worked out, Cleome!
The Federated States of Micronesia have the lowest net migration rate among sovereign countries in Oceania.
I always used to think I was an introvert, until I started seeing all these things posted on the internet along the lines of "here's what it's like to be an introvert", and then I started realizing that that's not what it's like to be me at all.
The island nation of Palau inaugurated the first shark sanctuary in 2009, while fellow Oceanic island nation Kiribati's Phoenix Islands Protected Area was the largest marine protected area in the world at the time of its creation.
Today might be a good day to fix the wheelbarrow.
Julian Cope's "20 Mothers" album had a photo of 20 mothers on the cover, including Cope's wife and Cope's mother.
Tiny San Marino claims to be the oldest sovereign state in the world; its official foundation date is September 3, 301 AD.
Changing from my "businessman" clothes into my "helicopter pilot" clothes at work always makes me feel a bit like a superhero.
Now, admittedly, my "helicopter pilot" clothes consist of a pair of jeans and a hoodie, but... still.
Changing from my "businessman" clothes into my "helicopter pilot" clothes at work always makes me feel a bit like a superhero.
Now, admittedly, my "helicopter pilot" clothes consist of a pair of jeans and a hoodie, but... still.
Too bad that phone booths are in short supply these days!
Tiny San Marino claims to be the oldest sovereign state in the world; its official foundation date is September 3, 301 AD.
Which also marks over 1700 years of them having a rubbish football team.
Mommy! That man is stripping in that phone booth!
Now Jonathan. Don't bother your father when he's protecting his secret identity.
Armenia is the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as a state religion. They did this in the 4th century AD.
Last night I saw Before Midnight on DVD. I'd forgotten how much Ethan Hawke looked like a college friend of mine on whom I had a huge crush my senior year. Interestingly, 20-some years later, Ethan Hawke still looks pretty much the same, but my friend (with whom I reconnected on Facebook) does not.
Alas, not everyone can maintain their looks over the decades.
To date, the USA has designated 15 countries as major non-NATO allies: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea and Thailand.
In Massachusetts it is a crime to be knowingly being present where heroin is kept.
Kolmanskop is an abandoned ghost town in Namibia.
I've been swimming in the pond more this summer (twice so far) than I have the last three years.
I'd love to swim in the deliciously toasty
Blue Lagoon in Iceland!
Melancholy (mel-an-chol-y):
noun
1. A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
adjective
1. Having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive.
to Fanfie.
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has just inscribed
the ancient Andean Road System of Qhapaq Ñan on the UNESCO World Heritage list!
It spans 6 countries - Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
I think Linda Perry looks like a giant piece of beef jerky with hair and tattoos.
My dad beat me to the bathroom. Oh no!
I don't like modern television shows.
The
Hanging Coffins of Sagada are suspended on cliff walls. The people of Sagada believe that the higher up the coffins are, the closer the souls of the deceased are to heaven.
Warning : the last picture on the page depicts actual human remains. All others are only of the coffins.
What a unique burial system!
During wakes they sometimes let the dead sit in a chair. Sometimes that chair is also hung up beside the coffins
Do you remember, years ago, there was that horror anthology movie, "Creepshow," with one of the segments featuring Stephen King playing this guy who accidentally touched this alien substance which then promptly caused him to get a strange outbreak on his fingertips which, every time he touched something else, would then cause the outbreak to spread to whatever it was he touched and how, little by little, the sensation started to drive him batty, and how the only respite he thought he could find was by taking a bath and how, even though that temporarily worked, in the long run, it actually made it much, much worse?
Do you remember that?
Yeeeeeah... so... on a not entirely unrelated note... I have poison ivy.
But if you have Poison Ivy, how is she going to be the villain in this month's Batman comic?
Creepshiow is one of my favourite horror movies from childhood.
Dark Brown, Yellow and Green M&M's are the colors that have been used since they were first introduced up to the present day.
Also, I miss the Tan ones.
Dark Brown, Yellow and Green M&M's are the colors that have been used since they were first introduced up to the present day.
Also, I miss the Tan ones.
Me too. The new-ish red ones are alright, but the blue ones creep me out for some reason...
Blue just doesn't seem like a natural color for chocolatew candy...
Spent the day changing out my fuel pump on my truck.
My favorite comic strip,
Pugad Baboy (literally Nest of Pigs) is an incisive commentary on Filipino life. Majority of the characters are obese, though pigs could also refer to the corrupt and bumbling politician and cop characters.
Sadly, the jokes wouldn't be nearly as funny if they were in English.
It's already 26 years old.
Oh my gosh. It's as old as I am!
Kirsten Bell is so talented, you would think that someday she would be cast in a movie or TV series that did not stink.
Kirsten Bell is so talented, you would think that someday she would be cast in a movie or TV series that did not stink.
It's
Kristen Bell, KK! And haven't you heard of "Veronica Mars", the beyond-excellent TV series of which Kristen was the star?
If you have and you thought said series stunk, then you and I will have to part ways, my friend!
Why Paladin, I never knew we had ways.
Oh, I know about Veronica Mars. I enjoyed Season One, but after she stopped being the bully’s bully and started being the poro, outcast victim, I lost interest. It is as if Batman was suddenly transformed into Jon Arbuckle.
Gossip Girl, Astro Boy, Frozen, and especially Miyazaki’s The Cat Returns are praiseworthy, although that was just voicework. And I understand some people liked Heroes.
But you must admit, the vast majority of the body of her work is stuff that you would pay to NOT see.
Why Paladin, I never knew we had ways.
Oh, I know about Veronica Mars. I enjoyed Season One, but after she stopped being the bully’s bully and started being the poro, outcast victim, I lost interest. It is as if Batman was suddenly transformed into Jon Arbuckle.
The "parting ways" thing was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. I've only recently started watching VMars, and I'm absolutely loving the show. Though I haven't yet finished the series (I'm 3 episodes into the final season), I'm not seeing where she ever became a "victim". But she was an "outcast" of sorts right from the beginning, so I'm not sure where that was new. I'm curious to here more from you on this.
Now, I haven't seen much of her non-VMars work (though I saw her on Heroes and agree that was a step down), but i can't say I've seen or heard anything to the contrary to refute that her talents have been poorly utilized since then. Her roles in Heroes and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" were steps down, imo.
Well, it was nice to imagine for awhile we might have ways.
I can't really speak intelligently about V.Mars, as I watched it when it was originally broadcast-- what? a decade ago? (Gee, remember when we all had television sets?) I remember being somewhat disappointed in the direction of the show probably about half-way through the second season. Or maybe I just got busy.
But "poorly utilized" is the right phrase.
Share something else completely random... I just checked IMDB and Kristen Bell is thirty-four years old.
She's currently a lead in a show on Showtime called "House of Lies", but I've never seen it.
House of Lies is about a firm of consultants, right?
Working for a consulting firm myself, all I can say is... it's interesting
Kristen Bell did really well in the episodes I watched.
I'm craving pizza.
(Hey, you said random, not shocking, didn't you?)
How about peaches? Is that shocking?
I'm shocked that people LIKE peaches!
They're actually my favorite fruit. I wish they were easier to get over here.
I'm about to move to the land of peaches in less than a month.
Wow! Always wanted to visit there
It's okay. Georgia's nice, but the weather can get pretty humid in the summer.
I hate humidity, but I've gotten used to it. Manila's so crowded (and polluted!) that the almost year-round humidity is a lot worse than in most of the rest of the country.
I have a paper napkin scribbled on by a Nobel Prize winner who sat with me for a few minutes at a dinner in college. It's sits in an envelop somewhere in a closet. I just thought about it. Wish I'd had him sign it but at least I was aware enough to keep it.
Blaze and I still keep the first notes we've ever written to each other.
One of those, "if I could tell my younger self," things: keep stuff and take photos. Helps the memory re-new.
I'd also add, "put down your celphone and focus on your surroundings." Who knows when you'll be passing that way again?
Oh, and, "sleep early and keep a regular bedtime". I spent too many days dashing around in a sleepy stupor.
I'm about to move to the land of peaches in less than a month.
We'll be looking for ya! Want me to save you some peaches?
If he doesn't want 'em, I'll take 'em!
I honestly don't know how we, on a supposedly all-ages board, get away with having a forum called "Bits o' Legionnaire Business"! SCANDALOUS!
I never thought of it that way until you brought it up!
It's like with Pictures of Members. And now I can never say the word "member" without feeling all weird.
I'm about to move to the land of peaches in less than a month.
We'll be looking for ya! Want me to save you some peaches?
Heh, that would be nice. Will I be seeing any of you at Dragoncon?
Will I be seeing any of you at Dragoncon?
Not me.
The Street Fair was fun today. Even mr_cleome enjoyed it, and he never enjoys street fairs.
I wish we had street fairs more often here. We do have a lot of food fairs. They love holding them late into the evening.
I don't think we have street fairs down here. I've always wanted to go to one.
I really enjoyed the street fair in Chiang Mai during the Lantern Festival last year.
Today marks the start of the
Ghost Month. We had our own little Ghost Festival by offering food to the spirits, lighting incense and burning paper offerings to the spirits.
When I left for work earlier today, the cat was napping in mr_cleome's wardrobe, behind the shoes. He does this quite a lot, so I have to check the wardrobe before departure to make sure I haven't locked him in there.
My hair is becoming quite difficult to manage. Maybe I should use conditioner more often.
Speaking of hair, mine keeps forming into a Superman spit curl. It's getting rather annoying.
^^Makes it difficult to protect the secret identity!
Aha! I knew Cosmic Boy was really a descendant of Superman's!
Occasionally at work, I open the mail. Every now and then I get an envelope that has been taped at all four corners making it impossible to use a letter opener to open the envelope. One such envelope had no room to even use scissors on it.
I have a client who keeps asking the same questions over and over. I'm beginning to think I should tape record my responses so she can listen to them over and over too.
I found a cool Beatles poster at Target today.
Balut (boiled duck embryo) is probably most famous, but we have other "weird" Filipino dishes too. One is
Soup No. 5, which is made from bull genitalia.
I made waffles for breakfast, but realized after I made them that I ran out of syrup.
The sole of my shoe now has a big hole in it.
Thanks thothy! That'll make for a nice "plays-in-my-head" tune.
It's been six days since I finally had my last wisdom tooth pulled.
I stopped taking the coedine pills, because all they were doing was making me sleepy. Plus I'd rather have beer than coedine and I can't have both.
I made waffles for breakfast, but realized after I made them that I ran out of syrup.
Jam or honey, Sir. Or perhaps both. That's the answer.
I made waffles for breakfast, but realized after I made them that I ran out of syrup.
Jam or honey, Sir. Or perhaps both. That's the answer.
Peanut butter and jelly waffles!!! Haven't had em in ages. Think I'll go get some frozen waffles.
Blaze and I used to make pancakes and slather them with peanut butter, honey, plain yogurt, bananas and chocolate. Blueberries would have been good too, Blaze loves blueberries.
^ What, no bacon, fried egg, strawberry jam, and granola on top???
I tried waffles with grape jelly once and it didn't do anything for me. I just ate them plain today and drank a ton of water after.
I don't like jam or jelly much. a bit too sweet for me.
I recently discovered mustard (kind of rare here) and I love it.
I should be watering the plants. I've been assured by several weather forecasts that I shouldn't be fooled by all those clouds up there. No rain is forthcoming today.
[grumble]
I like gravy thick and salty.
Mmm that gravy post has me hungry for a country fried steak now.
There is speculation that ice cream for breakfast means that day doesn't count towards your total.
Morning is supposedly the
best time for fatty foods.
So I had grape sorbet for a snack today. It was delicious.
I need to take some supplies down to a local "re-use" facility today. Whether I will actually get up off my duff and do so? Still anybody's guess at this point. C'mon, coffee! Work your magic!
I just spent an hour lying in bed, reading comic books. I'm supposed to head out of the house but I'm just too tired.
This week, I went to Dunkin Donuts twice (two different stores) for the first time in probably 5+ years.
Blagh! barey edible donuts. I will never complain about Tim Horton's donuts ever again (although, yes there are plenty better than Timmy's).
Mount Pulag, 3rd highest mountain in the Philippines, is braved by trekkers for the beautiful sunrise over the
sea of clouds. I was lucky enough to see it the first time I went; I know someone who's been up there ten times but only seen the sea of clouds twice. Weather conditions have to be just right.
Community bathrooms are an awkward experience for everybody.
Bathrooms here are kind of private, I can't think of any with communal showers. The first time I encountered a communal shower was in... in... okay, I can't remember. POSSIBLY in that gay hotel in Bangkok.
Bob's Youth Hostel and Palace
I'm hungry and I want to eat my lunch now.
It's 12 AM, I'm still signing up for classes, and I'm starving.
The
Sedlec Ossuary, which is now firmly on my bucket list, is a church whose interior is decorated with over 40,000 human skeletons.
I replaced all the shitty thresholds that code enforcement required me to have in the house with the originals which look a thousand times better today.
I took a long ass walk to the nearest convenience store to buy some Coke. So much for "convenience."....
I have 650 posts to go before I hit Double Time Trapper.
Voodoo is said to have originated in Benin or Togo. Both countries still have
voodoo fetish markets to this day.
Pop vocalist "Monday" Michiru and hip-hopper Jean Grae have something surprising in common.
They're both the offspring of accomplished jazz musicians. Michiru (real name: Michiru Mariano) is the daughter of jazz pianist/composer Toshiko Akiyoshi and bass player Charlie Mariano.
Jean Grae (real name: Tsidi Ibrahim) is the daughter of jazz pianist/composer Abdullah Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand) and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin.
"Time Warner Internet services went down across the country early this morning, reports indicate. The problem seems to have started around 3 a.m. ET, Business Insider says; service has mostly been restored. The company says "routine network maintenance" that began at 4:30 a.m. ET was responsible for the problem, though that would of course not explain why outages were reported before that time."
USAToday
The Bahamas has finally ratified the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, completing the Latin American & Caribbean Region.
If I recall correctly, the only UN members left who haven't ratified are Liechtenstein, Nauru, Somalia, South Sudan, Timor-Leste and Tuvalu.
From the "It's a Small World" Department:
The poster Viridis Lament's wife is - in real life - named after a character from a novel written by my great-aunt.
The Bing home page features different amazing pictures each day. I prefer the landscape picture
The houses on Male, the island capital of the Maldives, don't all have addresses. Instead, the houses have names. Some of those I've seen include Blue Jay, Gazelle, Liver Pool, N. Shady Palm, Ma. Green Garden, Echo and New Happiness.
When I was a kid
I wanted to get educated
And to college go
To learn how to know.
Now old I've found
Train going by
Will take me along
But I still don't know why.
Not just for money
Not for love
Not for anything thought
For nothing I've done--
It's got to be luck
Keeps the world going round
Myself moving on
On that train going by.
--Robert Creeley
I have only had a Blue Moon beer twice. Once in Long Beach, California; the other in Makati City, Philippines with Blaze.
Plants are so weird. Here we have these
alien creatures living all around us, and nobody really notices.
I dropped my phone
"Every contact leaves a trace" -- Dr. Edmond Locard (December 13th 1877 – May 4th 1966)
My grandson skyped me last night from Wisconsin. He was rocking out to Maroon 5's
"I Get to Move My Jacket". Mondegreen.
Have not listened to that one yet. Maroon 5 songs I find catchy, but besides Payphone I don't feel they have the staying power that my all-time faves do.
Maroon 5 hasn't been that good in over a decade. Their newer songs just aren't the same for me.
They do seem to be degenerating into canned, repetitive pop.
I've never liked them. I think Adam Levine sounds like a parrot.
Friends of mine who watched them live say they are not all they're hyped up to be.
But having watched a few episodes of The Voice, I guess he's really good at packaging himself.
Another talentless self-packaging pop star to blame Madonna for.
Next time I hear someone sob about his marriage again, I will scream.
"Scream" was a terrible series of "ironic" horror movies from the 90s and early 00s.
Scary Movie is a series of spoof comedy-horror films in the 2000s.
The 2000's saw the rise of crunk music.
The 2000's saw the rise of crunk music.
"YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The
Justice Friends segment on Dexter's Lab had a character called the The Infraggable Krunk, a pastiche on the Hulk.
Kermit the Frog's two most famous songs are "It's Not Easy Being Green" and "The Rainbow Connection".
In backpacker circles, Laos is widely thought to be the most laid-back of the Southeast Asian conutries. Lao People's Democratic Republic, or PDR, is cheekily called "Laos - Please Don't Rush".
According to Mirror UK, Dr. Jari Louhelainen, an expert in the analysis of genetic evidence from historical crime scenes, claims to have shown that one of the key suspects in the Whitechapel killings was indeed Jack the Ripper.
The DNA of one of the suspects in the case was said to be a perfect match – a Polish immigrant named Aaron Kosminski who moved to London from Russia in the early 1800′s.
Kosminski was a 23-year-old hairdresser in London when the killings took place, and he resided a few hundred yards away from one of the victims’ residence. Reports say that Kosminski was most likely a paranoid schizophrenic. At the time of the murders, the police had no evidence to convict Kosminski, but he was kept under surveillance and stayed in mental asylums until his death.
The DNA evidence came from the blood-soaked shawl of Ripper victim Catherine Eddowes.
Although there were hundreds of suspects thought to be the real Jack the Ripper, no one was ever convicted for the murders.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jack-ripper-murder-mystery-solved-4177665
A website I read once said that Southeast Asia's Big Three temples are Cambodia's Angkor Wat, Indonesia's Borobudur, and Myanmar's Shwedagon Paya
The current (14th) Dalai Lama has said he thinks he may be the last one.
Mongolia is the 18th largest independent country in the world, but it also has the lowest population density.
Mongolians play a version of jacks using goat bones.
t’s very easy, just rehearse these phrases… and try use them with confidence in every conversation.
Use “canonical” when you mean “usual” or “standard.” As in, “the canonical example of talking like a physicist is to use the word ‘canonical’.”
Use “orthogonal” to refer to things that are mutually-exclusive or can’t coincide. “We keep playing phone tag — I think our schedules must be orthogonal”.
“About” becomes “to a first-order approximation”.
Things are not difficult, they are “non-trivial”.
Large discrepancies are “orders of magnitude apart”.
You’re not being lazy, you are in your “ground state”.
A tiny amount is “vanishingly small” or “negligible”. Really small is “infinitesimal”.
it’s not a wire, it’s a “conductor”.
You aren’t overweight, you are “thermodynamically efficient”.
http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/archives/114
You aren't short, you are vertically challenged.
Of the world's
25 most populous countries, 5 are in Southeast Asia:
Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar.
My daughter turned 13 last month. It's a cliche but I have no idea where the time went.
Belated happy birthday to your daughter, matlock!
... and another 7 are wholly in Asia: China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Iran, South Korea.
2 more (Russia and Turkey) are partly in Asia.
Okay Asia, you really have to find something better to do with your spare time.
The great comic book writer Alan Grant claims he was blacklisted by DC for saying something brutally honest to a DC executive. He won't name the executive, though.
The quiz site Sporcle has 15 Game categories.
In the first Bewitched episode featuring Dick Sargent as Darrin, Tabitha runs away into a storybook because she claims that both her parents like boys better than girls.
The Firestorm villainess Hyena became a villainess because her father wished she had been a boy.
Same with the villainess in Dario Argento's film Four Flies on Grey Velvet.
Time is a wheel with seven spokes. At least, according to the Wheel of Time.
This is the 1999th post in this thread. Time to close it.
I have created a new thread for random sharing but I am not able to close this one.
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