Those books make me dizzy. I don't know the undertones of the skin, nor my body type. I just grin and click and keep moving.

Or stop buying clothes. Yes. Totally that. Two more white wifebeaters and maybe lace fingerless gloves for halloween. And that's totally it.

Yeah. Uhuh.

I have a history question: most of my...okay, all of my formal exposure to WWII (which is minimal) came when I lived in the UK. So when I see the ads for Ken Burn's War it doesn't sound like they're talking about the same thing.

Or perhaps it sounds too much like they're talking about the same thing, except Britain was under siege and fighting much longer. I wish I had the text of the voiceover to hand. I found it very confusing, and now I'm tangling myself trying to articulate it.

Which merely serves to remind me I was stuck watching Spanglish and Bringin' Down The House this weekend. Hospital sucks.

Okay, not all, but most. I just fixated on the imaginary that was Not Curvy.

Added to the cast were the Fonz’s talking canine sidekick, Mr. Cool and Cupcake, and a 25th-century space babe with magical powers. It was like shoehorning both The Simpsons’ Poochie and The Flintstones’ Great Gazoo into a single show.

Why does it not surprise me that an adaptation of the show that invented Jumping the Shark came up with this golden combo?

I just fixated on the imaginary that was Not Curvy.

IIRC, you're certainly right that the Not Curvy models are all relatively small. I just remember being all excited to see these "normal" looking models for the body types, and then getting to mine and seeing Stacy.

Slightly on topic from before:

How to raise the national alcoholism rate of:

Canada: Bacon-flavoured beer

Cuba: Black-bean Mojitos

United States: Fast food-flavoured light beer

Australia: Vegemite-flavoured beer

England: Curry-flavored Pims

Ireland: No need to raise it any further

Sweden: Lutefisk vodka

Nigeria: Yam shots

Mexico: Pepper-flavoured tequila. Oh wait. They have that.

Dude. Cool. That's at least two topics from earlier today, with bonus lutefisk mention.

I have a history question: most of my...okay, all of my formal exposure to WWII (which is minimal) came when I lived in the UK.

What's the question?

ION, I totally forgot, but tonight there's this dating for single nerds thingie: [link]

Which starts in 15 minutes. I'm so not in the mood to go. There's board games and trivia, neither of which I'm in the mood for. Oh well. Maybe the next one only the hardcore undateable nerds will be left, and I'll fit in better....

Well, I bought new glasses. I will have to take pictures when they come in, because they're all crazy modern and BLUE.

What's the question?

I forgot that too, didn't I? Well, the voiceover for War made it sound like the US had been in there from the very start defending the world's liberty against a heinous attempt at oppression.

Which is me overstating. But what it didn't sound like is the US coming in all "Okay, now it's personal" and blowing the shit out of Germany et al. From the perspective I got in the UK, that was how it was--Nazism wasn't a big problem until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and then it had to go.

How is the delay in the US entering WWII presented in the US?

How is the delay in the US entering WWII presented in the US?

I'd say it is presented as "What delay?"

Okay, megan, you made me laugh when I probably shouldn't have.

I just noticed this article on Bush misspeaking in a Jamaican newspaper.

"I heard somebody say, Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas," Bush, who has a reputation for verbal faux pas, said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.

Which prompted this magic:

"It's out there. All we can do is reassure people, especially South Africans, that President Mandela is alive," Achmat Dangor, chief executive officer of the Nelson Mandela Foundation said as Bush's comments received worldwide coverage.