January 2009
December 2008
"Tired and emotional" →
butterflyeffects:
tristanjay7:
“Tired and emotional” is a chiefly British, Irish or Australian euphemism for “drunk”. It was popularised by the British satirical magazine Private Eye in 1967 after being used in a spoof diplomatic memo to describe the state of Labour Cabinet minister George Brown, but is now used as a stock phrase: British slander and libel law makes it unwise ever to directly...
WatchFreaky ‘Slurm’!
Krystol on way out at NYTimes?
From: Foreign Policy: The 10 Worst Predictions of 2008
“If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, she’s going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then. … Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.” —William Kristol, Fox News Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006
Weekly Standard editor and New York...
6 People Who Just Fucking Disappeared →
moorewr:
butterflyeffects:
Somebody posted this earlier (I’ve forgotten who.. sorry!) and I didn’t bother to keep the reblog link because I fully expected to see at least two entries that weren’t included:
Harold Holt, who was the Australian Prime Minster in 1966-67. He went swimming at the beach one day and was never seen again. He was our PRIME MINISTER. Like for instance, if Barack...
“Emperor. Palpatine. Christmas ornaments.
Wait, what?”
– I’m picturing an entire villain Christmas tree now, with Star Warts stuff, Star Treck, and others (giant ants?). I mean, why now celebrate evil in it’s many forms, as a way of moving beyond it, into a new administration age.
Ursuluv (via gilmoure)
I hate to say this, but we HAVE that...
Christmas Logistics with Meg
Has she seen any of The Santa Clause movies with Tim Allen or Elf? They both show the elves making standard China production stuff.
As for Miriam, she totally got into The Works, and from there, demanded Girl Genius comics. I’ve shown her some of the shorter ones and the Cinderella Story. She spent two hours last night drawing her own Girl Genius pics, getting ready to do her own comic.
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“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via parfois) via longwintervia presentvia suddenly (via bebelestrange)
True dat!
“Dropping by the mall today to pick up some extra large pants, suitable for...”
– Ursuluv
starline:
franksino:
kami:
franksino:
I hate the fact that they’re asking for ID when you buy rated M games now. This probably happened because these moms give their kids money to buy games because they dont wanna go to the store with them. Then they go buy 17+ games. And when the mother sees the rating/their kid playing the violent game and call the game stores saying “Why did you sell my...
DmMause on Monopoly
Monopoly
Monopoly is the most stupid, stupid, stupid game ever invented.
It should go curl up and die in a corner and rid the world of its presence. Parker Brothers/Hasbro have caused more harm to the world of family entertainment and fun than pretty much any other thing in the entire history of the world.
It’s a stupid, idiotic, brainless, un-fun, stupid, ridiculous, tedious, boring,...
Aaaaaaaugh!
A Blimp Building Adventure Turned Ugly
by Alfonzo Smith
While traveling, I stopped at a Zany Brainy store and saw that they had a blimp for sale. It’s called Airship Earth, and it’s a great big balloon with a map of the Earth on it, and two propellers hanging from the bottom. You blow up the balloon with helium, put batteries in it, and voila, you have a radio control indoor blimp....
