Amy, that's a link into gmail.

Crap. Someone sent it to me, and I don't know how to make it not. It's Craig Ferguson cracking up, too! Damn.

The current state of the Web:

The Tumblr beast thing is awesome.

Well, now I know what happens if you forget to put a filter in the Aeropress. I hope that's it for today's lessons.

List of slang terms for police officers

Blue Meanies
This is a 1960s hippie slang term for the police, it was used in the Beatles film the Yellow Submarine, although many viewers may not have realized its significance. First used during the Free Speech Movement about the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

Huh.

Cop or Copper
While commonly believed to be an acronym for Constable On Patrol, the term refers to "one who captures or snatches". This word first appeared in the early 18th century, and can be matched with the word "cap", which has the same meaning and whose etymology can be traced to the Latin word 'capere'. (The word retains this meaning in other contexts: teenagers "cop a feel" on a date, and they have also been known to "cop an attitude".) Variation: Copper. It is also believed that the term Copper was the original, unshortened word, popularly believed to represent the copper badges American officers used to wear at the time of origin, but in fact probably used in Britain to mean "someone who cops" long before this. It is also believed to come from the Latin word 'Corpore' meaning body, i.e. a body of men.

Huh. I had only heard that cop and copper derived from copper badges....

Tit-Heads or Tits
Rarely used derogative British term for uniformed police officers originating in the shape of traditional UK police custodian helmet worn by patrolling (male) officers which are or were a similar shape to a large female breast - as in the phrase (to a policeman) "take the tit off your head" meaning "relax" or "imagine you are not on duty".

At least the second time around I know this phase will eventually end.

That is the saving grace.

Also why humans are not extinct.

Are there any Buffistas in South Korea?

I ask because it seems I have a regular blog reader there and most of my regular readers that I don't know make a lot more sense than a random person in South Korea.

I spent the evening with the Reasons and our (the StuntWife's and mine) friend the Seamstress of Doom, and another friend who is a professional dietician. First we had amazing food (and I had absinthe), then back to the Reasons' house to play Little Big Planet 2, where I became helpless with laughter, tears running down my face, while using the grappling hook to drag Pete's sackboy to his death OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

I swear - SWEAR - it was an accident. I was trying to jump a long distance and was trying to use the grappling hook to cross the distance, and it kept grabbing HIM, then I'd FALL, and we'd both hit the electrical plate and DIE.

He's shrieking profanity at me, I'm unable to see through the tears, and the ladies in the house are guffawing at the Pete and Alex show that unexpectedly erupted in the living room. The cats were nonplussed.

It was glorious.

(For the record - Pete got into the habit of slapping my sackboy flat onto his face - spinning in the air, kathud on the ground - after every level. That was my punishment. I became adept at making my sackboy look sad; that's all I accomplished.)

I do not know of Little Big Planet 2, but playing it with Pete sounds like an ideal way to spend an evening. ESPECIALLY if you get to repeatedly grapple-hook him to death.