Secret Santa?
Is there any interest in doing a Clusterflock Secret Santa gift exchange?
There are programs online that randomize the list so no one person will know all the assignments.
Suggestion if people are interested:
• Sign up by Wednesday November 30th.
• Buy your assigned person something worth $10-$15.
• Get it in the mail for the recipient by Wednesday December 14th.
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John Ash’s “Grammatical Institutes” (1763), for example, contains this marvelous explanation: “A Parenthesis (to be avoided as much as possible) is used to include some Sentence in another.”
“The reconstruction — Wilma, if you will — is very true to science. But she also seems so alive — a grim, determined young woman facing hard times with resilience and enormous strength.”
“She was competitive shopping,” he said.
The good folks at Wire & Twine and I are bringing back my Hel-Fucking-Vetica tee-shirts just in time for the holidays.
The way I feel holding this phone is probably the way I should feel holding a human infant.
after farting
Put that in your turducken.
This makes me very very happy
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Amy said
If they spent as much time educating men about vaginas as they do making Christmas movies, we’d all be in a better place.
Update: Every fuck begins with jewelry.®
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from the comments
The main trouble with Harm’s Way is that they only got the Motel Six there. Not even the Motel Eight. Your free breakfast don’t amount to diddley-squat. And there’s hardly any channels on the tee-vee.
So if you can, you do best to drive on another hour and stay somewheres out of Harm’s Way.
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In the middle of the night in the middle of your twenties when your best woman friend crawls naked into your bed, straddles you, and says, You should run away from me before I devour you, believe her.
You never really see this much bleeding on American Idol…
“In a little-known strike against freedom, yet again, we are being forced into consuming meat slaughtered by means of a torturous method: Islamic slaughter,” Geller writes.
For those who can’t watch videos from your work computers, Robertson asked his African-American co-host, “What is this ‘mac and cheese,’ is that a black thing?”
After tiptoeing through all their data and computations, the artists-and-sex researchers decided that “more successful male artists had more sexual partners than less successful artists, but this did not hold for female artists”.
Update:
It’s one of the ironies of American history that when the Pilgrims first arrived at Plymouth rock they promptly set about creating a communist society. Of course, they were soon starving to death.
from the moderated comment spam
The lips secretly utters something and he forgets his anguish.
Home for Thanksgiving
I’m spending time with Miss Nell, who is pushing 92. I tried out some locks/alarms for her last night and left a note by the coffee pot: “Don’t try to open the doors. I’ll disarm them when I get up.” But she wanted to read the newspaper and didn’t want to wait. At dawn, she climbed through a window out onto the porch, then back in again.
She’s taking a new exercise class, at church.
While I’m here, she wants to have a talk with the three of us, her children. “Because when I ‘go,’ I plan on going fast. So y’all need to know some things.”
The Transportation Building (Chicago, Illinois)
Like a keypunch card it was, in a way. Long. And slim. And punctured.
I lived in it for a couple of years. Strange to say (perhaps), I might have lived there happily for many another year.
But that is a very long story. And it moves both backwards and forwards.
Amy said
Well, I don’t know if I want to spatchcock a turkey.
from the comments
Uppity. Adj. Applied to those presumed inferior by those who presume themselves superior. Application of the adjective uppity implies a defensive judgment on the part of the speaker that the individual thus characterized exhibits presumption by virtue of some act or acts presumed to demonstrate the individual’s presumed sense of equality with or even superiority to the speaker. Traditionally applied by pig-ignorant Caucasian-American supremacists to African-Americans deemed insufficiently humble and deferential. (“That uppity Nigra don’t know his place.”) Appropriated self-consciously by American feminists in the 1970s (see slogan: “Uppity Women Unite!”) to uncertain effect.
Where I’m Calling From…
Stoneledge Farm, South Beloit, IL.
Dan’s sister’s new world-champion, three-year-old Morgan gelding, Peeps “Town Affair.” On board and training at Stoneledge Farm, Danny’s niece’s and nephew-in-law’s facility. Peeps is an athlete, IMHO.
Thanksgiving in Rockton, y’all. It don’t get much better. One thing I’m thankful for.
Test Your Morality
That autism quiz seemed to go over like gangbusters so here’s another quiz for a lazy pre-holiday afternoon.
This is a scientific test sponsored by the BBC to help scientists with their science. It’s all highly scientific and not at all a dumb personality test that you take to see how you stack up against friends.
(Takes about a half an hour. Sign up for a throwaway log-in [BBC iD] required.)
I scored pretty middle of the road except for my below average sense of wrongness & disgust and my above average sense of avoidance. AKA I don’t think what you did is wrong, but I don’t want to associate with you either.
The wording of the results is a bit odd…
[Your low sense of wrongness] suggests that you are not very sensitive to actions that break your moral code, and you are quite tolerant things you don’t agree with.
I agree with the latter but can’t I be sensitive to others’ actions while having a broader moral code? If I don’t consider those actions wrong then, almost by definition, they don’t break my moral code.
Different factors such as religious belief and personal wealth can influence our attitudes to the action and behaviour of others.
Yeesh. That’s a loaded statement.
So! Who’s the best Flocker? Scientifically speaking.
headline of the day
Magical Viking stone may be real
from the comments
Nude,drunkJesus Christdeposited asexcondomin mymonkey crotch.
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Elton Woody.
On a related note
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from someone else’s comments
Megyn Kelly on fire hoses: “It’s a sports beverage, essentially!”
Megyn Kelly on police dogs: “It’s a family pet, essentially!”
Megyn Kelly on tasers: “It’s static cling, essentially!”
Megyn Kelly on rubber bullets: “It’s a pencil eraser, essentially!”
Megyn Kelly on hand grenades: “It’s a Fourth of July firework, essentially! God bless America.”
Damn the Starlings
I know I keep going on about these damn birds, but I see them every evening & can’t get enough of them. Truly the most amazing display put on by any animal on this planet, and most Romans go about their evening commute home just annoyed that they shit all over their cars. Still going through my photos and videos, but these were the first two things I pulled from my camera unprocessed.
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Arugula is a type of lettuce that is offensive to some conservatives.
