Oh I heard a news snippet yesterday that some guy in Florida (??) pulled a gun on another guy over the last new Elmo. All I could think was LORD it's only September!! How much worse will it be in December. Plus? The new Elmo is at least a thousand times more annoying than the last because you've got that creepy laugh and it rolls around..*shudder* When we saw it on GMA, my mom and I said at exactly the same moment "the batteries would be out of that in 10 minutes".

From the New Hampshire Fish and Game Departments:

Teddy Bear Kills Fish!

By Robert S. Fawcett, Hatchery Supervisor

On Wednesday, September 6, 2006, a TEDDY BEAR released by person or persons unknown stopped the flow of water to a circular pool at Milford Hatchery, killing 2,500 rainbow trout. WATER FLOW in hatcheries IS LIFE SUPPORT TO THE FISH! Stop that flow, which delivers the dissolved oxygen required for fish respiration, and the fish suffocate and die. RELEASE OF ANY TEDDY BEARS into fish hatchery water IS NOT PERMITTED. Please think before you act. If a teddy bear is dropped accidentally, find a fish culturist and tell them quickly, so they might save your teddy bear, and keep it from becoming a killer. Thank you.

In grad school I had a tickle me Elmo that I hung from a noose in my office. You could come in and punch him three times and he'd go into death throes.

the new TMX Elmo doll

I read that as TMX Emo doll, which kind of cracked me up. Not sure I really get all the nuance of what emo means, but enough that a doll of same would be highly amusing.

Way better than the Elmo? The Tumbling Tigger! Still a little annoying, but doesn't sing all the time, and it does flips!

The Sleep and Snore Ernie disturbed me. It looked more like The Morning Wood Ernie.

I love my Original Tickle Me Elmo! I got him years and years ago and he still makes me smile. Of course, most of that is picturing the big black guy in a studio recording the giggle, but, still. I love my Elmo. Though it's still the Stuffed Cthulhu I took to the hospital with me last year.

We've been having problems at work with our T-1, dammit. Wanted to thank Nilly for her e-card while I was here.

Let's see if this post works now...

eta YES! Woot!

My favorite stuffed toy (other than my childhood teddy bear) is my Christmas Opus (complete with reindeer horns strapped to his head).

So, b.org is 47% evil, 53% good. Although that's gonna vary depending on the show quote, thread names, etc. (I ran it a second time and b.org came out 60% evil, 40% good.)

The Gematriculator is a service that uses the infallible methods of Gematria developed by Mr. Ivan Panin to determine how good or evil a web site or a text passage is.

Basically, Gematria is searching for different patterns through the text, such as the amount of words beginning with a vowel. If the amount of these matches is divisible by a certain number, such as 7 (which is said to be God's number), there is an incontestable argument that the Spirit of God is ever present in the text. Another important aspect in gematria are the numerical values of letters: A=1, B=2 ... I=9, J=10, K=20 and so on. The Gematriculator uses Finnish alphabet, in which Y is a vowel.

Experts consider the mathematical patterns in the text of the Holy Bible as God's watermark of authenticity. Thus, the Gematriculator provides only results that are absolutely correct.

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