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Went to the podiatrist/surgeon on Monday, and he’s leaving in the stitches for longer – I’m a slow healer, and there’s a couple of small gaps in the thing. He’s switched over to a much smaller bandage thing, essentially enough to cover the incision, and has to be redone every day with special silver gel [...]
“My opponent is a known thesbian and practices nepotism with a maiden aunt.” -James Michael Curley, 1929 “I’m blacker than Barack Obama.” -Rob Blagojevich, January 2010 “Next on the Jerry Springer show; Men who sleep with their mother in law’s daughters.”
Re the UK election: Excellent brief explanation on what a hung parliament means Probably the funniest political video of the UK 2010 season (Labour candidate)
BBC: “The Labour candidate for Bootle on Merseyside has had the tip of his finger bitten off by a dog while out campaigning. Joe Benton, 77, was taken to hospital after the animal bit him as he pushed an election leaflet through a letter box. Mr Benton has been unable to vote for himself as [...]
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/05/sdp-liberal-alliance-broadcast
YouTube: Mr Bean running on the Bean Party ticket does ‘I wanna Be Elected’ as a video. Especially for all those in the UK getting ready for next week’s election. And yes, I did take the Torygraph’s poll, and it suggested I’d vote for the UK Liberal Democrat party, for what that’s worth.
University of Dayton basketball playing for the NIT championship, 7 pm. Be there. Aloha!
Couple makes ‘wedding trailer’ as an announcement of their upcoming wedding for family and friends: it’s VERY funny. Helps if you’re some kind of film buff….watch for 2012, Matrix, Bruce Lee and other references in the video. Look for the Vietnamese subtitles…
The local Sioux Falls paper notes that the voting percentage in the most recent school board election was 3.55% in an editorial asking for voting to be made easier by eliminating precinct voting in favor of at-large polling places scattered around the city. Personally, I think that’s more likely to confuse the heck out of [...]
Above is a weird line from another Chinese article on the twins that appeared in the Hong Kong news for Yahoo; from the “(Ming Daily) on December 22, 2009 on Tuesday 05:10″ The article (English translation via Babelfish translation) follows after the cut. It seems to be a boil-down of the Newsweek article.
A new book on the 2008 presidential season with lots of behind the scenes goodies has a lengthy excerpt bit on the New York magazine size, where John and Elizabeth Edwards get seriously toasted: entitled “Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster” if that gives you a heads-up. It’s pretty brutal. The line that kept coming [...]
Epidemic of something killing off a bunch of Portuguese octopi. “Twelve hundred pounds is a lot of dead cephalopod, especially when no one seems to know for sure what killed them.”
The Bruce Schneier Action Figure! At $100, it’s a steal! Be the first on your block! Now, i’m just waiting for the RJ Johnson and Bill Roper Auctioneer Action figures…
…because the first one overloaded the account with all the hits from people wanting to read it: http://rorr.im/digg.com/movies/two_gentlemen_of_lebowski/ Marmotaged drollery, to be sure. Prithee.
“Two Gentlemen of Lebowski” – a Shakespearian version of THE BIG LEBOWSKI, just as odd. It talks about Johnsons and marmots, so it can’t be all bad. [Alarums. Enter OLIVER and the two NIHILISTS, bearing a marmot] Forsooth! This be a place Of residence, and much a private place.— O excellent marmot! WALTER Nihilists! I [...]