I like Matilda's expression in "Caketastrophe family tableau" -- like, "Mom, WTF?!? I've *seen* cake in my short life, and THIS is not cake!"
But, the thing is, that isn't even true. The only other cake she's seen is Emmett's cake, and it looked exactly the same. She cannot possibly know that cake doesn't actually look like this -- unless she has a shining Platonic vision deep in her soul of that shimmering Cake that is the perfect fruition of everything toward which mere earthly cakes are striving.
Which may in fact be the case.
Which may in fact be the case.
Heh. You need to take a graphics program and draw a little Matilda thought-bubble with a shimmering cake in it....
Curse my flickr-blocked existence!
It's OK to kill a coworker if they set their phone's ringtone to the Chicken Dance, right?
After you kill the phone.
It's OK to kill a coworker if they set their phone's ringtone to the Chicken Dance, right?
Only if you beat them to death with the phone.
O Texans of the board, a question.
I know whenever we do "funny city pronunciations for $1000, Alex!" we always do Natchitoches, LA, because it is indeed funny. So, um, the dictionary is telling me that Nacogdoches, TX is pronounced basically the same way, except they are not all French and actually say the last syllable.
1. Intel on the ground: how alike do those names actually sound?
2. Who was in charge of spelling in that region?? And can I have him/her beaten with a rhyming dictionary, please?
Huh. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee died.
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The article's a great read, if you've got a high tolerance for weird Louisiana politics.
Mr. Lee also put his deputies to work in some unconventional ways. One of the strangest started out as what many considered a joke.
The Parish Council was in the midst of a long-running and rancorous debate in 1995 over how to stem the rapidly growing nutria population, which threatened to undermine the parish's all-important drainage network, when Mr. Lee sauntered to the microphone at a council meeting and appeared to grab an idea out of thin air.
"I could do it for $50," he told the council. "I could buy a lot of .22 (bullets) for $50, and my SWAT team could shoot them."
