I’m sorry, I’m just thinking about sloths again.
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from the moderated comments
I live in EHT and it was I who fell from the sky and I’m truely sorry for not comming clean sooner. I’ve just come to terms with the fact that I am a super human. I promiss I did not get hurt nore did I leave a mark on the planet, I have powers I got it like that. Be sure to watch my episode of stan lee’s superhumans. My whole story about the fall will be explained. To give you a special preview I explain how I do that once a week for fun and I have a video that will be on the show, I swear. I just hope you guys can accept my exsistence.
headline of the day, II
Paula Deen confirms that she has type 2 diabetes, unveils partnership with drug company
tweet of the day
Just imagining all the creepy shit being stored in old Pringles cans right now.
— Ted Travelstead (@trumpetcake) January 10, 2012
I was feeling all hurt
and helpless and hopeless, then I heard this on the radio, and my heart rose up in spite of me.
tweet of the day
Baby New Year is poking its head out.
— Aaron Winslow (@adwinslow) December 28, 2011
headline of the day
Chile daily must pay readers for exploding churros
12 Indicted On Hate Crimes Charges For Hair Cutting Assaults Led By Break-Off Amish Group
I think this is my favorite story of 2011.
Secret Santa
People are starting to receive their secret Santa gifts! Hooray!
Figured I’d start this thread if people want to post what they got (or share shopping/shipping stories).
As far as anonymity goes I’m fine with gifters outing themselves or giftees outing who their gifters are. Personally I went to a bit of effort to stay anonymous but it probably won’t be difficult to deduce.
Hope everyone gets their gifts before Christmas!
headline of the day
Errant ‘Mythbusters’ cannonball hits home in Dublin
Secret Santa!
Second call in case people missed the first post over the holiday weekend.
If you’re interested in participating in some Clusterflock Secret Santa, email me at christopherflocken at gmail dot com by tomorrow with your snail mail address so I can pass it along to your Santa (or I’ll put them all in a shared Google Doc, whichever winds up being more practical).
You should get an email Wednesday night/Thursday morning with who your assigned giftee is. Try to get your gift in the mail by December 14th so it gets to them before any holiday traveling.
Merry Flockmas!
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.
from the comments
I’m a dick grabber. Ask anyone.
headline of the day, II
Shape-Shifting Donkey Prostitute Strikes Again
whoa
I just had a miniature explosion – the good kind – inside my head. I don’t quite know how to tell the story, but I’ll try to do it linearly. That’s usually a good strategy.
1st: I become an English teacher and rely almost completely on a book by Jim Burke to figure out what I’m doing. I think it’s a great book. I read every word, including the eloquent epigraph from one of Burke’s students:
Without companions, the world is a sea of stories with no one to listen.
2nd: I join Clusterflock.
3rd: I find that a certain Clusterflocker – Kelsey Parker – was the author of that epigraph.
4th: I hum “It’s a small world” to myself incessantly.
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from the moderated comments
Well, Fuck me… your still as stupid as before.
headline of the day, II
French boy finds 30-year-old human fingers in jar
headline of the day
Man wins dumpling eating contest, then dies
this post is about football statistics
The first thing Romer did was analyze every fourth down during the first quarter of every NFL game between 1998 and 2000. (He had help from a computer program.) Then, he figured out the fluctuating value of a first down at each point on the football field. After all, a first down was more valuable for a team if it occurred on an opponents two yard line than on their own twenty yard line. The next thing Romer calculated was the statistical likelihood of going for it on fourth down under various circumstances and actually getting a first down. He also calculated the probability of kicking a successful field goal from various spots on the field.
From 102 to 67…
In 36 hours. Out on the patio, I’m shivering.
The Somerton Beach Mystery (or the enigma of the “Unknown Man”)
Let’s start by sketching out the little that is known for certain. At 7 o’clock on the warm evening of Tuesday, November 30, 1948, jeweler John Bain Lyons and his wife went for a stroll on Somerton Beach, a seaside resort a few miles south of Adelaide. As they walked toward Glenelg, they noticed a smartly dressed man lying on the sand, his head propped against a sea wall. He was lolling about 20 yards from them, legs outstretched, feet crossed. As the couple watched, the man extended his right arm upward, then let it fall back to the ground. Lyons thought he might be making a drunken attempt to smoke a cigarette.
Half an hour later, another couple noticed the same man lying in the same position. Looking on him from above, the woman could see that he was immaculately dressed in a suit, with smart new shoes polished to a mirror shine—odd clothing for the beach. He was motionless, his left arm splayed out on the sand. The couple decided that he was simply asleep, his face surrounded by mosquitoes. “He must be dead to the world not to notice them,” the boyfriend joked.
The journalistic equivalent of The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World.
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headline of the day
Niagara Falls plunge: searchers find man’s body while looking for woman
headline of the day
Calif. man accused of trying to break in to prison
pregnancy tourism for a master race
In the film, the lady tells us how she isn’t the first, and “definitely not the last” to travel this far to have an Aryan child, one who, she imagined, would grow up grateful for the gift of racially superior intelligence. She speaks of an organised system behind such pregnancy tourism, but refuses to elaborate. “It’s not wrong, what I’m doing,” she says, “I’m paying for what I want.”
The movie is called Achtung Baby: In Search of Purity, and is about German women travelling to Indian villages to get knocked up by men they believe are the last of the pure Aryans.
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