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Saturday, October 30, 2004
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | New Florida vote scandal feared - and I thought this kind of heavy-handed intimidation went out in the 60s (or at least was confined to the Mafia). Looks like the Republicans are still out to get the best election money can buy.
Welcome to Police State Amerika.
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Friday, October 29, 2004
A variation on the stick figure death sites, http://www.trafficlightwars.co.uk/ offers a hilarious insight in the secret lives of the Walk/Don't Walk men on traffic lights.
They're little psychos, I tell you!
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Thursday, October 28, 2004
Missed this morning's eclipse? Try Shadow & Substance for another chance to see...
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Monday, October 25, 2004
Naturopathic Medicine- Wet Sock Treatment - OK I know this sounds like a variation of Chinese Water Torture but they say it works.
And I have a cold.
Tonight I go to bed with wet socks...
I'll report back tomorrow.
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Saturday, October 23, 2004
A Mixed Message - a frightening array of U-turns and obfustication. Oddly enough none of it appears to be from any Democrats.
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Friday, October 22, 2004
Hamsters for Kerry
(it's true, even rodents won't support Bush)
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Because it's Thursday; because I have a friend who has a 'thing' for bunnies; but most of all because I feel like it - it's a BUNNY-FEST!!!!
Poke the Bunny - do you really need any more instruction???
Welcome to Bunny Bytes: Outfitters of the Urban Rabbit - for the bunny who has everything (except maybe a condom)
Big Bunny - he's big and he's a bunny. He also features in several animated cartoons on this site.
And he's Pink
And rather scary.
b3ta newsletter presents: cursor love bunny - if you know anything about b3ta you'll know what to expect, if not I don't want to spoil it for you
Naughty Bunny - a bunny with a 'dark past' but so not what you think it might be
Alien in 30 seconds with bunnies - also available - Exorcist, Jaws and Titanic (with a bunny Leonardo Di Caprio and a bunny Kate Winslet at it like...like...bunnies)
B.S.T - Bunny Survival Tests - many marshmallow bunnies nobly gave their lives so that you can have a cheap snigger at them with the authors of this page.
...but beware the 'traitor' bunny.
bunnylove - feel the love - proof, if proof were needed, that rabbits really do have one-track minds.
" Everyone has had more sex than me" - featuring a surprisingly pathetic, yet sexually frustrated bunny.
Honda's Grrrrrr game - see the bunny... be the bunny
OK, I'm OD'ing on bunnies here. Could somebody please stage an intervention - quickly? Labels: bunnies
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Cat Experiment My brother has 5 cats. Somewhere in the darker recesses of my rodent brain, a small part of me wants to take a roll of packing tape with me next time I go to visit him.
These little Beasts of Satan get everywhere.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Mr. Sun!: Make your own George W. Bush stump speech! - this will save you having to listen to the real thing.
As an added bonus, it also makes more sense.
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Monday, October 18, 2004
And just when you thought that the Baby Jesus Butt plug could not be surpassed for tastelessness...
I’m Fetus in the Womb. Which member of the Feto Universe are you? by FeTO
Yup - it's a cuddly foetus which, for a small extra charge, can be supplied as a fridge magnet (well that would stop the midnight munchies anyway)
Nevertheless, the Baby Jesus BP may yet retake the lead - apparently it now glows in the dark
What a great way to start the week.
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Sunday, October 17, 2004
Man treated after attempting to nail himself to cross:
HARTLAND — A Hartland man was treated at a Pittsfield hospital after he nailed himself to a cross. The 23-year-old man apparently was trying to commit suicide Thursday evening in his living room, the Bangor Daily News reported.
Somerset County Sheriff Barry DeLong said Monday that no charges will be filed. 'There is no crime here,' he said.
Police said the man appeared delusional and told them he had been 'seeing pictures of God on the computer.' He told them he had not seen the hit movie 'The Passion of the Christ,' which depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus.
Lt. Pierre Boucher said the man took two pieces of wood, nailed them together in the form of a cross and placed them on the floor. He attached a suicide sign to the wood and then proceeded to nail one of his hands to the makeshift cross using a 14-penny nail and a hammer.
'When he realized that he was unable to nail his other hand to the board, he called 911,' Boucher said.
It was unclear whether the man was seeking assistance for his injury or help in nailing down his other hand.
Hartland Fire Department members responded, said Boucher, and cut off the wood while it was still attached to the man's hand. The wood and the victim were taken to Sebasticook Valley Hospital, where the nail was removed.
Boucher said he did not know whether the man received further treatment."
If this carries on, we'll have to stop telling jokes about the stupidity of the Irish and start telling them about Americans...
...although admittedly I'm doing that already.
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Saturday, October 16, 2004
OK, so maybe I've been posting a few too many anti-Bush comments recently.
So, to even the score and in the spirit of fair and balanced commentary, today I'm posting a pro-Bush site. It's not just any old Bush site either. In fact it's the very best I could find.
http://w4prez.com/
Enjoy
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Friday, October 15, 2004
Obsidian Wings: Torture Outsourcing Update - not content with sending its electorate's jobs abroad, the US Govt. is also outsourcing torture.
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Thursday, October 14, 2004
HotAIR - How Do Porcupines Make Love? According to those nice people at the Annals of Improbable Research, the answer is not "very carefully".
Persevere to the end of the article (like you need any encouragement!) - the footnotes are the best part.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Parking Spots - don't try to tell me you never tried this as a kid. However, it worries me a bit that adults are also playing with the simple optical trick of positioning toy cars so that they look like real ones through a viewfinder.
Having said that, number 307 is rather good...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004
(this is from Rory at the next desk....)
Things that are difficult to say when you're drunk.
a) Innovative
b) Preliminary
c) Proliferation
d) Cinnamon
Things that are VERY difficult to say when you're drunk . .
a) Specificity
b) British Constitution
c) Passive-aggressive disorder
d) Transubstantiate
Things that are DOWNRIGHT IMPOSSIBLE to say when you're drunk...
a) Thanks, but I don't want to sleep with you.
b) Nope, no more drinks for me, I've reached my limit.
c) Sorry, but you're not really my type.
d) Please take the shots back, we'll have water.
e) I'm not interested in fighting you.
f) Oh, I just couldn't - no one wants to hear me sing.
g) Thank you, but I won't attempt to dance, I have zero coordination.
h) Where is the nearest toilet? I refuse to vomit in the street.
i) I must be going home now as I have work in the morning.
j) Look, it would be great to f**k but I hardly know you and we will only feel really embarrassed and awkward in the morning.
k) That guy is staring at my girlfriend but I am sure its just because he knows her or something.
l) I must get to my bed as I could never have a really good sleep in that hedge.
(...remind me to go drinking with Rory one day)
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Monday, October 11, 2004
I'm starting to get really fed up with the band-wagon jumping 'conspiracy theorists' who think it's fashionable to question the moon landings. When the subject comes up, their routine is always the same: "Oh so you believe in it then?" they ask with a slightly pitying look in their eyes. Then with all the evangelical zeal of the recently converted, they proceed to hold forth about all the incontrovertible "evidence" they have seen to the contrary.
Normally this 'proof' centres on some dubious nitpicking originating from a Fox TV program that was aired about three years ago. You will note that this is the same Fox which won a court case last year effectively allowing them to lie in their broadcasts and whose news network had to apologise to John Kerry last week after their editors couldn't tell the difference between a joke report and the real thing.
So thank goodness for Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy which systematically rips apart a lot of the Fox program - and questions their notion of 'fair and balanced' reporting.
Sadly however, most people prefer to believe what it suits them to believe no matter how much evidence they see to the contrary. They choose to be cynics and believe it's all a big scam, I choose to remember being a wide-eyed 5 year old watching the landings while my teacher told me "Remember this, it's history".
It's like religion, the two sides can hammer away with proof and counter-proof and frankly we're never going to know one way or the other. Then again, what in life is 100% certain and provable beyond death and taxes?
So, the next time you want to patronise me with your latest conspiracy theory why not go tell Elvis instead? I've seen proof he's currently working with Princess Di in the Burger King off Piccadilly Circus, I'm sure you'll all get along famously.
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Sunday, October 10, 2004
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Google nejwI' 'Itlh - this is not a drill, it's for real. Google provides an interface in Klingon. And I thought Klingons for Christ was bad
Just shoot me now.... Labels: geek
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Friday, October 08, 2004
In preparation for tonight's Presidential 'debate', here's a quick trip down memory lane with some reaction to last week's Republican humilation.
The Hammer - VERBATIM: PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
The Talent Show: EXCLUSIVE : Bush's Debate Notes - obviously this is a forgery - it's funny and the artwork is too good.
I gather that there's another debate left after this one - guess the Shrub is still hoping for the best of three... Labels: fuckwittery
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Thursday, October 07, 2004
I know there are some sites which make people say they feel sick. However there aren't too many which can actually induce projectile vomiting.
Swirl may be an exception
In a similar vein - Sunbelt EYE - and you thought that being watched by Big Brother would have been bad...
Hmm, nausea AND paranoia - the perfect combination.
'Scuse me....don't...feel...too...well....
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004
The London Pillow Fight Club - The First Rule of Pillow fight Club - tell everyone.
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004
For once, I'm kinda up-to-date - weird eh? Always willing to call a spade a spade, the US Govt's Federal Park Service has long had a 'Volcanocam' pointed at Mount St Helens - I imagine it's getting a lot of hits right now. According to Wil Wheaton the images are amazing.
OK, maybe not right now. It's the middle of the night over there.
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Sunday, October 03, 2004
I missed this particular Freudian slip back in August:
President Signs Defense Bill: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. "
-- George W. Bush (August 5, 2004) Labels: fuckwittery
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Saturday, October 02, 2004
I'm using Firefox more and more these days - largely because XP SP2 has stuffed my ability to "BlogThis!" in IE 6 (that's my excuse for the drop in updates here and I'm sticking to it).
Sadly neither of my beloved toolbars (Yahoo, Google etc) came with me but right now Firefox is more stable and frankly more useful than IE so that's a small price to pay. Labels: geek
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Friday, October 01, 2004
Laurie's meme machine - I'm not a big blog roller but just recently I've been spending much more time reading other blogs (instead of just Pot of George).
My friend Laurie has just started out as a blogger and since she's an outstandingly entertaining writer I hope she'll keep it up (rather than suffer the fate of Michael Moore) as I know I'll enjoy reading her posts. Maybe this link might even help encourage her. Labels: meme
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