Speaking of headlines that seem like jokes, a guy exposed himself to an employee at the school for the blind here. Apparently the employee was not blind, though... [link]
Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.
'Serenity'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Sep 28, 2010 8:21:05 am PDT #26525 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Theodosia - Sep 28, 2010 8:25:18 am PDT #26526 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm also surprised that MA was so low on the list, but I assume that's partially because the roads are too congested for bad drivers to get up to speed. Tho', if you look at the stats in each slide, they were also rating the states in terms of where it placed in drunk driving, speeding, and moving violations, and even then MA did pretty decently.
Just goes to show you that aggressive driving isn't the same thing as dangerous driving.
Trudy Booth - Sep 28, 2010 8:30:27 am PDT #26527 of 30001
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
They're both "tare" to me. I think. But my head voice is different from my mouth voice, I've discovered.
What about their plurals?
Burrell - Sep 28, 2010 8:44:23 am PDT #26528 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So I got 100% on that quiz, but frankly that last one was a bit of a guess since I'd never heard of the First Great Awakening before. I just assumed it had to predate Billy Graham.
What's the First Great Awakening?
tommyrot - Sep 28, 2010 8:45:45 am PDT #26529 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What's the First Great Awakening?
I think it was a resurgence (or just a surgence?) of Christian fundamentalism in the mid-1800s.
eta: Huh. It seems there's been four: Great Awakening
JZ - Sep 28, 2010 8:47:28 am PDT #26530 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
That one I knew (or, rather, guessed correctly) courtesy of Slacktivist, I'm pretty sure.
Jessica - Sep 28, 2010 8:49:37 am PDT #26531 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I can't remember which Great Awakening is which off the top of my head - I think the First had the origins of evangelical revival tent type preaching?
[edit - nope, Google says I'm mixing it up with the Third. First was mainly the transition from read sermons to improv.]
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 28, 2010 8:49:54 am PDT #26532 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Just goes to show you that aggressive driving isn't the same thing as dangerous driving.
Do the figures count the number of people who've died of heart attacks or strokes in reaction to other drivers? I think Massachusetts could work its way back up the list if those numbers are folded in.
ChiKat - Sep 28, 2010 8:54:47 am PDT #26533 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I guess the people I know are different from those you know. Most of the religious people I know would rock that survey.
I grew up in a fundy, fire-and-brimstone Southern Baptist church and family. We certainly studied the Bible (a LOT) and Baptist beliefs. We studied the history of the demonination and Protestantism in general. And, we had Sunday evening classes and one of the series was World Religions where we studied different Christian faiths as well as non-Christian faiths. Judaism was always part of our learning because...well, Christian history.
Jessica - Sep 28, 2010 8:58:06 am PDT #26534 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I guess the people I know are different from those you know.
The people who knows? Aren't Pew surveys done by cold-calling?