This page might have the craziest e-cards I've ever seen. [link] Rejecting a marriage proposal, giving an ultimatum -- VIA E-CARD.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Jan 02, 2006 6:30:06 pm PST #6868 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Kat - Jan 02, 2006 6:43:19 pm PST #6869 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Bahahahah! that's fantastic Jesse! I hope it's a joke.
Nicole - Jan 02, 2006 6:44:25 pm PST #6870 of 10002
I'm getting the pig!
The Don't Care Bear break-up card is hilarious! Great find, Jesse.
le nubian - Jan 02, 2006 6:58:31 pm PST #6871 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
This is the poem from the marriage proposal rejection:
I really want to give this
Relationship a go
Right now I'm not ready
So I'll have to say no
P.M. Marc - Jan 02, 2006 7:12:59 pm PST #6872 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm not as happy with our fruitcake this year as I am most years. Mother and I should have had coffee before we were allowed in the kitchen. It tastes decent enough, but it doesn't have any structural integrity.
However, we managed marzipan for the first time in ever, so there's that at least.
(Fay, I had a wedding cake, but it's sadly not the norm here. Well, you have wedding cake, but that's not at all the same thing, though I had one of them, too, out of respect for all the weirdo fruitcake haters on the US side of the invited guests.)
Lee - Jan 02, 2006 7:17:44 pm PST #6873 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Consuela, any chance you're around?
tommyrot - Jan 02, 2006 7:37:02 pm PST #6874 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Fake Narnia News Dupes Sites
Several legitimate news sites picked up a hoax press release saying that representatives of the fictional land of Narnia had walked out of the recent World Trade Organization's talks in Hong Kong, Australia's The Age newspaper reported.
The news release from "the independent state of Narnia" was picked up by the financial news agency AFX and found its way onto top business news Web sites, including Forbes.com.
The news release said that Narnia had walked out of the World Trade Organization talks in Hong Kong because it was fed up with being bullied by the United States and Europe. Narnia, of course, is the fictional realm from C.S. Lewis' fantasy book series The Chronicles of Narnia, which was recently adapted into the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
The news release quoted Narnia spokeswoman Susan Aslan; Aslan is the name of the Christ-like lion featured in the books.
The agencies who picked up the phony news have since removed the reports, The Age reported.
Reminds me of '92, when Spy magazine asked a number of newly-elected congresspeople, "What's your position on the situation in Freedonia?" (Most gave answer along the lines of, "We're studying the situation carefully.)
DavidS - Jan 02, 2006 8:04:31 pm PST #6875 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The science of cute
It's the opposite of the Uncanny Valley.
I've had Anne's fruitcake and it is very delicious. Rumcake is my favorite though. Or bread pudding with whiskey sauce (or bourbon sauce or rum sauce). If we're sticking to the carbs soaked in alcohol food category.
tommyrot - Jan 02, 2006 8:16:06 pm PST #6876 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The science of cute
It's the opposite of the Uncanny Valley.
I dunno - I think it's theoretically possible for some CGI creature to posess high levels of both cuteness and Uncanny Valley-ness. Who knows - perhaps such things are created from time to time, only to be immediatly lost again as their creator's brains explode, resulting in an electromagnetic pulse that erases the vile creature from its hard drive home.
DavidS - Jan 02, 2006 8:17:50 pm PST #6877 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think it's theoretically possible for some CGI creature to posess high levels of both cuteness and Uncanny Valley-ness.
I don't think so. Anything that's Sorta Cute But Off is going to trigger the Uncanny Valley response.