Steph, if it makes you feel any better, I did the same thing.
(home sick from work today, so I get to check in here during daylight hours. Woo!)
Overwhelming? How much more than whelming would that be exactly?
Anya ,'Touched'
Natter 61*
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.
Anne W. - Oct 17, 2008 7:36:20 am PDT #5095 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
sumi - Oct 17, 2008 7:37:55 am PDT #5096 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
(Teppy's post makes me wonder if she reads the last page in a mystery first.)
ION, in the NYT's editorial about ACORN I read this:
According to a study by Project Vote, a voting-rights group, in 2006, 71 percent of eligible whites were registered, compared with 61 percent of blacks, 54 percent of Latinos and 49 percent of Asian-Americans.
49 percent??!! Is that why we are the "model minority"? Because we don't make waves?
amych - Oct 17, 2008 7:38:26 am PDT #5097 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I was only 99% sure before I skipped to the end, because while bt would totally tell us about tapeworm egg-laying rates anyway, he's generally good about not putting it in Beep Me without a reason.
Jessica - Oct 17, 2008 7:39:48 am PDT #5098 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The only reason I didn't skip to the end is because I read Natter first and was already spoiled.
tommyrot - Oct 17, 2008 7:43:06 am PDT #5099 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Nnnoooooooooo!
Home of Ralph the Swimming Pig to be bulldozed
San Marcos, Texas' Aquarena Center, formerly a hilarious tourist trap called Aquarena Springs, will be bulldozed, with the land being restored to turn-of-the-previous-century condition.
Aquarena was the home of the infamous Ralph the Swimming Pig, and his keeper Glurpo, a one-time "nightmarish aquatic clown" (http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/20/nightmarish-aquatic-.html) turned "underwater witch doctor." There were also "aquamaids" who picnicked & performed ballet underwater, diving ducks, and a sadistic swan named Rufus.
Oh fuck - why haven't I heard of this until too late?
tommyrot - Oct 17, 2008 7:48:35 am PDT #5100 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Trudy Booth - Oct 17, 2008 7:50:38 am PDT #5101 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Joey the Baby. Joeytea. Lots of goodness there.
I have a friend who didn't know his actual name until he started kindergarten. The teacher called attendance and he started looking around for his Dad. (He was a junior with a pervasive nickname)
I think this is the standard we should try and set with Joeytea.
Barb - Oct 17, 2008 7:51:10 am PDT #5102 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
Nearly canceled my hair appointment this morning because I was still sore and grumpy after yesterday's near-miss car accident. Now I'm glad I didn't. I have A Plan for my hair (mostly growing it out over the winter). But in the meantime, ends have been leveled, new bangs have been cut, color has been refreshed, and I feel vaguely human again.
Hayden - Oct 17, 2008 7:52:07 am PDT #5103 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Oh fuck - why haven't I heard of this until too late?
Heck, I'm only 30 minutes from San Marcos, and I've never heard of it.
I'm sure someone posted this already, but it's sort of amazing to me how easily the candidates (esp. McCain) can treat the campaign rhetoric as fodder for cheap jokes. On one hand, good for them for being adults, but on the other, man, the contempt they (and esp. McCain) have to feel for the general American public to buy that crap.
Steph L. - Oct 17, 2008 7:55:15 am PDT #5104 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
(Teppy's post makes me wonder if she reads the last page in a mystery first.)
Nah. It's just that, like amych said, I doubted that billytea would spam Beep Me with random Animal Planet info, and my excitement got the better of me.
(I still have no idea what the rest of the post said between the first and last sentences.)