clusterflock » branding http://www.clusterflock.org a site about everything Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Fat Man’s Misery http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/fat-mans-misery.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/fat-mans-misery.html#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:52:56 +0000 Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81537

“I’d like a Fat Man’s Misery, easy on the mayo, and a glass of buttermilk. The little lady here will have the Ruins of Karnak and a cup of Postum.”

From the menu of the Mammoth Cave Hotel. (NYPL Restaurant Menu Collection.)

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/fat-mans-misery.html/feed 20 Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/owlet-caterpillars-of-eastern-north-america.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/owlet-caterpillars-of-eastern-north-america.html#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:16:25 +0000 India http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81401 My same friend Susan who brought us the critically acclaimed Omega Institute in Your Pants, 2010 edition today supplied the following list, from the book Owlet Caterpillars of Eastern North America by David L. Wagner, Dale F. Schweitzer, J. Bolling Sullivan, and Richard C. Reardon:

Sordid Snout
The Herald
Feeble Grass Moth
Dead-wood Borer
The Betrothed
The Little Wife
Serene Underwing
The Consort
Dejected Underwing
Inconsolable Underwing
Tearful Underwing
Sad Underwing
The Penitent
Sappho Underwing
Youthful Underwing
Darling Underwing
The Sweetheart
Joined Underwing
Semirelict Underwing
Once-Married Underwing
Girlfriend Underwing
Connubial Underwing
Delilah Underwing
Steely Underwing
Wonderful Underwing
Sweet Underwing
Indomitable Melipotis
Merry Melipotis
False Heather Drasteria
Confused Zale
Once-charred Punkie
Blurry-patched Nola
Beautiful Looper
Sandstorm Tumbler
Tricolored Angel
The Laugher
Fingered Dagger
Fragile Dagger
Splendid Dagger
Afflicted Dagger
Hesitant Dagger
Night-Wandering Dagger
The Hebrew
Cadbury’s Mystique
Cherry Agate
Overlooked Paint
Asteroid Paint
Scribbled Sallow
Turbulent Phosphila
Boreal Sprawler
Shivering Pinion
Sloping Sallow
Roadside Sallow
Straw-eyed Tentmaker
Tawny Tentmaker
Smoky Tentmaker
Adorable Sallow
Subdued Quaker
Cunning Woodling
Stormy Arches
Explicit Groundcat
Disparaged Groundcat
Cynical Groundcat

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Chicken Dance Elmo. A little dirty, but works.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless smartphone

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/offer-elmo-toy.html/feed 7 dear clusterflock http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/dear-clusterflock-591.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/dear-clusterflock-591.html#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:58:22 +0000 Dave Vogt http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81234 I don’t mean to go around hawking my wares, but this seemed so relevant and useful to you personally that I thought it would be wrong not to share it. Please keep in mind that I am financially involved with this offer, but even so I think you’ll find I was right to share this marvelous opportunity with you today.

Well now here I’ve wasted a lot of your time with technicalities and jibber jabber, I’ll come to my point quickly. Let me ask you just one question:

Have you ever wanted to have a spleen named after you?

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/headline-of-the-day-276.html/feed 2 Uncomfortable Plot Summaries http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/uncomfortable-plot-summaries.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/uncomfortable-plot-summaries.html#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:43:33 +0000 Dave Vogt http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=80545

HARRY POTTER: Celebrity Jock thinks rules don’t apply to him, is right.

(via @johndiesattheen)

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Davis baking powder is a NY Metro area regional favorite. Hearth Club is currently being sold by Dollar Tree Corp both online and in brick-and-mortar Dollar Tree and their Deals stores for $1 for 8.1 ounces. Most of the store brand baking powder around here is also made by Clabber Girl Corp. If someone has access to a food chemistry lab, it should be fairly easy to assay the contents of the various brands. My guess is that they vary the portions of ingredients for each brand. But I have been wrong about these kinds before, i.e., except for Rumford, they could all be the same stuff.

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/from-the-moderated-comments-83.html/feed 1 An Introduction http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/an-introduction.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/an-introduction.html#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:36:25 +0000 Michael Grant Smith http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=79508 My car is a Kia.

I drive to IKEA.

I had Chick-fil-A for lunch.

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