Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
Happy Anniversary Burrell and DH!
Nilly, I hope you're having a Happy Hanukkah!
Also - today it is 30 degrees this morning and it feels warm.
And the radio announcer kept on saying that when the snow was done we'd have 2 inches on the ground and I kept wanting to say - you mean that's 2 MORE inches on the ground!
Spite Houses, built to piss off the neighbors
Ape Lad sez, "I somehow ended up reading about spite houses (homes built specifically to piss off a neighbor) this evening, which I had never heard of before. Flickr has several when you search the tags, including the sad story behind this house in Connecticut."
Now this is an ugly house: [link]
And: Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penises
Male bedbugs will schtup anything, and when they do, their stabby little penises can do great damage to one another. Female bedbugs have some "down there" armor that absorbs the punishing blows of the bedbug's love-spear, but males lack this protection. A pheromone discovered by a Swedish researcher can cause male bedbugs to kill each other with their penises through uncontrolled shagging....
Heh.
Happy Anniversary, Burrell!!
And continued Happy Hannukah to all!
I am counting down the hours until my boss's vacation -- except that never keeps her off email, so I don't know what I'm thinking will change.
Happy Anniversary, Burrell!!
And continued Happy Hannukah to all!
What Jesse said.
I actually kind of like some of the nativity sets-- the lego one is pretty cute!
I saw the best (where values of best=funny and oh so wrong) nativity scene last weekend. A friend and I love to go driving around looking at Christmas lights, so we did. But, she had seen an article in the local paper about a special light display.
Seems this man really puts a lot of effort and artistic thought into his work. He does a prototype of the display in his backyard during the summer and he likes to have a message with his lights.
This year, he did a nativity scene. With Joseph, the 3 wise men, no Mary, no Jesus. But, he did have 2 passed out hobos with about 15 empty bottles and cans of malt liquor laying around. Joseph and the wise men were the typical illuminated plastic statues. The hobos were more like dressed up scarecrows.
His message? Don't forget about the homeless during the holidays and remember that overindulging in alcohol can be bad.
My take? Now, I'm not an artist, so maybe I just missed the message. But, all I could think was "Why are those 2 dead guys laying in the manger and I'm so glad Mary took off with her baby and didn't stick around for that scene."
I made my friend turn around and pass by again. And again. I had to see it 3 times. It made me donkey laugh and dance in my seat by its utter wrongness.
A family who lives down the block from my parents always puts up a plastic light-up nativity scene that's fairly traditional (if tacky), except that there are only two wise men, and Santa is in the spot where the third usually is.
Chi-kat, that is too funny. I think I just snorted while laughing!
I need more internets. I am trying to write something for our website, and I need distraction.
And speaking of the nativity: Chuck Norris claims that, if "Obamacare" had been around 2000 years ago, Mary would have aborted Jesus. [link]
Next week, he writes about how the country is destroying its "Judeo-Christian" heritage by getting rid of public nativity scenes.
