Announcement: I have been earwormed with the Alanis version of My Humps all weekend long. Including breaking into song in front of my deeply confused in-laws.
Analysis: I hate being so aurally suggestible. Dick in a Box was better than this.
Very convincing. Makes me completely want to put myself under government control. Please take me to where you can make me unconscious and naked.
Riley ,'Help'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
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.
flea - Apr 09, 2007 2:46:45 am PDT #1371 of 10001
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Theodosia - Apr 09, 2007 3:00:54 am PDT #1372 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Usually, trying to sing the Ohrwurm out loud drives it away for me. I guess it's the mental equivalent of giving in and scratching an itch.
amych - Apr 09, 2007 3:59:51 am PDT #1373 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
But flea, just imagine what those lovely midwestern people would've thought if you had been singing Dick in a Box.
Zenkitty - Apr 09, 2007 4:26:58 am PDT #1374 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I guess I should go take that test. Thanks for posting it.
A friend of mine with enormous allergies bought a HEPA filter air-cleaner and said it changed his life. I've been considering getting one. I'll see if I can find the link; it was like $450.
Today, the antihistamine is making me spacey, but I'm still sniffling. This is the worst of both worlds.
§ ita § - Apr 09, 2007 4:49:15 am PDT #1375 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
SoCal kind of takes care of that for us
That's why I have a humidifier.
sarameg - Apr 09, 2007 4:49:29 am PDT #1376 of 10001
It says something about me in the morning that when I went to retrieve the paper, I was startled by all the postits I'd plastered to the door to remind me of stuff I needed to do as I left the house.
I mean, I put them up yesterday afternoon because I am notorious about forgetting something I need at work, taking the trash out or whatever in the morning. And their necessity was proven in that in the morning fog of waking up, I'd forgotten I'd put them up the afternoon before.
If I can't have a keeper, at least I have postits.
Jessica - Apr 09, 2007 4:51:50 am PDT #1377 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
TAR: Poor Uchenna and Joyce - has any other team ever been as screwed over by air travel as them this race? Though Phil's "Well, you have won this race before..." comment was spot-on.
I did wonder why none of the travel agents were able to find the route that Charla and Mirna took. All I can think is they were flying some of the legs on competing airlines, so the route wouldn't have been available to concierges working on commission?
And note to EVERYONE... NEVER DO THE SEARCHING CHALLENGES! Granted, nobody knew how easy or difficult the batik challenge would be until they got there, but it's pretty guaranteed that any detour beginning "search through X number of X's" is going to suck.
sumi - Apr 09, 2007 4:56:52 am PDT #1378 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
TAR: Although, on the one hand, it is cool to think that this year that there might be two all female teams in the top 3 but why does one of them have to be Charla & Mirna?
sumi - Apr 09, 2007 4:58:13 am PDT #1379 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
TAR: It's so true about the searching challenges. The clue said 600 boxes of cookies -- they really should have realized from that alone that it would be a bad choice.
Theodosia - Apr 09, 2007 5:03:41 am PDT #1380 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
TAR: I note with the recycling challenge that Dustin or Kandyce very carefully read the rules and repeated the important points. At least somebody has learned from their past mistakes.
I wonder what the percentage of Roadblock challenges sees the teams taking the first-offered challenge in the list? There's a lot of bad choices that seem to be made here, and I wonder how much adrenalin plays into that....