At his urging, the Kleberg County commissioners on Monday unanimously designated "heaven-o" as the county's official greeting. The reason: "hello" contains the word "hell."

There was some kind of wacky religious group that ran this hotel in Philadelphia my parents stayed at once (ON SEPARATE FLOORS), where they said "Peace" instead of "hell! oh" when answering the phone, etc.

Random question - if you have really bad sinuses, and you're suddenly exposed to the vacuum of space, would your sinuses clear out?

Random question - if you have really bad sinuses, and you're suddenly exposed to the vacuum of space, would your sinuses clear out?

And if so, does anyone have a rocket I could borrow?

iTunes on shuffle while cleaning flat.

Minority - Green Day

Fade Together - Franz Ferdinand

Till Kingdom Come - Coldplay

Tether - Indigo Girls

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Seska, so far yours is the closest to a hypothetical mine. The only song I have is "Minority," but I have four of those artists!

Wacky religious hotel = Divine Tracy: [link] I forgot about the dress code! Good times.

I read this as 'cocksuckin' slurpy slope.'

Same dif. I will now be mentally substituting "slurpy slope" whenever anybody refers to the "slippery slope."

The cocksuckin' will be implicit.

Polter-Cow - and that's a very American-centric list for me. Leaving it on shuffle, I'm now getting more of my usual British-centric playlist: Keane, Magic Numbers, The Kooks, Athlete, Kirsty McColl (ah, Kirsty McColl) et al...

I have three of those as well! Kirsty McColl courtesy of Kristin.

Kirsty McColl courtesy of Kristin.

So. Cool. From 'Fairytale of New York' to 'In These Shoes?' - just fantastic.

I'm surprised Tori Amos hasn't turned up yet on my iTunes. I'm really miffed that she's doing two tour dates in the UK and I can't go 'cause I'll be in Spain at the time.

Keane, Magic Numbers, The Kooks, Athlete, Kirsty McColl (ah, Kirsty McColl) et al...

I love Keane and The Kooks. The Kooks remind me of Herman's Hermits.