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Sunday, May 18. 2008

Sunday evening links

Please, dear commenters, we ask that you refrain from comments which the average person would consider "rude, crude, or socially unacceptable." Mind your manners!

Obama blames FOX and email (?) for expected loss in KY.

He's baaack! Osama still wants the rest of Israel's land...and Spain...and Europe...and...Oh, here's the new report

Alfred E. Neuman's artist-creator died

Carnival of the Insanities today

UN Human Right's Council to monitor US elections. Good grief - the guy is from Somalia.

Repubs forgot who they are. VDH reminds them

Willisms says:

Not only would socializing the remainder of non-socialized health care be terrible policy, it would feed back into the politics. It would put serious constraints on the conservative movement, creating new Democrats vested in the system and binding our hands when it comes to major tax reform, Social Security reform, and other innovative ideas.

Who is Frank Buckles?

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"Please, dear commenters, we ask that you refrain from comments which the average person would consider "rude, crude, or socially unacceptable." Mind your manners!"

oh, you're no FUN anymore
#1 Mister Snitch (Link) on 2008-05-18 21:20 (Reply)
We love comments, but we want some standard of decorum.
#2 BD on 2008-05-18 21:37 (Reply)
You are what you eat

Australia Doctor Finds Dead Gecko in Chicken Egg

Saturday, May 17, 2008

A doctor in Australia this week was shocked to find a gecko inside an egg he had just cracked open as he was cooking his dinner, the Telegraph reported.

Peter Beaumont broke open the egg and found a tiny dead gecko. "I was cracking the eggs into a pan when I noticed one of them was all cloudy. I looked at the shell and saw a tiny gecko," he said in the story.

The lizard was embedded between the interior of the shell and the egg’s membrane, said Beaumont, who believes it climbed into the chicken, possibly to eat an embryo, and got trapped and died in the area where the eggs form inside the chicken.

Beaumont, 60, who is president of the Australian Medical Association in the Northern Territory, believes his discovery could be the first such instance in the world.
#3 Habu on 2008-05-18 22:10 (Reply)
after that, no more eggs for me for awhile. back to nice clean fried linoleum.
#3.1 buddy larsen on 2008-05-18 23:52 (Reply)
"Please, dear commenters, we ask that you refrain from comments which the average person would consider "rude, crude, or socially unacceptable." Mind your manners!"

Then, MFers are not 'average persons'? ohh. What are we, then?

Did you mean to leave out 'posters', as well, or just spank us writing guests/commenters?
#4 Meta on 2008-05-18 22:11 (Reply)
PC creeps in on little cats feet.
#5 Habu on 2008-05-18 22:14 (Reply)
Habu. You just gave me chills. I was lying in bed this morning and THAT poem looped into my mind. I loathe it. I loathed in the fifth grade when I first heard it. I had to turn the news on to stop the loop before it ate my cerebral cortex.

And less that 14 hours later, I see it. Are you channeling me? :)

'scuse me while I put on my head phones and some Grateful Dead..........
#5.1 Meta on 2008-05-18 22:20 (Reply)
cats creep in on little PC feet

meta, i don't remember dreams usually, but as soon as i woke up this morning the name "Jinx Falkenberg" was on my mind -- i even said it out loud, which is what finished waking me up. I googled the name, and there was a little-known actress from way back named that. But I never heard it before that i can remember. now i can't quit thinking about her -- what is her connection to me -- all i know is there is one somewhere. maybe she's a long lost great great aunt -- dunno. weird tho. Jinx Falkenberg. Jinx Falkenberg.
#5.2 buddy larsen on 2008-05-18 23:48 (Reply)
Buddy,

You didn't take Adderall, did you? Absinthe and Adderall? That could jinx you big time. Next time try Provigil and Absinthe. Marilyn Monroe will appear as a long-lost friend with fond visual memories.
#5.2.1 Meta on 2008-05-19 11:17 (Reply)
naw -- there's no wake up from them things because there's go to sleep in the first place. great tools for getting that sock drawer sorted tho. might even run out and shear a goat and weave a new pair out of nice fresh mohair
#5.2.1.1 buddy larsen on 2008-05-19 12:10 (Reply)
These average people?

http://www.grimmemennesker.dk/data/media/2/funny_girl.jpg


http://www.grimmemennesker.dk/data/media/2/beautiful_smile.jpg


http://www.grimmemennesker.dk/data/media/2/pic.jpg


The average IQ out there is only 95-100. Sure you want these folks?
#6 Habu on 2008-05-18 22:22 (Reply)
After the purification we won't have that question to worry about... only the fittest, the strongest and those of the purest blood will survive.
#6.1 Buck on 2008-05-18 22:37 (Reply)
It's just a glandular problem. I'm normal ! !

http://imgsrv.923krock.com/image/wfny3/UserFiles/Image/news_images/fatgirl.jpg
#7 Phil McCrackin on 2008-05-18 22:37 (Reply)
Hey you guys, I have this new kevlar T-back..they use that stuff on the Space Shuttle ...wanna see it?


Ah, we already can, but we thought it was a hoist to help you get off the ground.
#7.1 Phil McCrackin on 2008-05-19 06:54 (Reply)
This blog needs more cowbell.
#8 Mister Snitch (Link) on 2008-05-18 23:27 (Reply)
NJ rises above the riff raff and gets off...

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/3113/emmettio4.jpg
#9 Buck on 2008-05-19 00:13 (Reply)
Jinx--
A person or thing that is believed to bring bad luck.
A condition or period of bad luck that appears to have been caused by a specific person or thing.

An obvious warning.

Don't leave your compound for a month, Buddy.
#10 bob on 2008-05-19 02:28 (Reply)
She may be an unsettled lost soul wandering the astral plane, seeking temporary habitation. Stay away from drugs and alcohol, anything that can lower your inhibitions. Wear a cross around your neck. Keep a dog at your bedside. These precautions will allow you to avoid the hex, Tex.
#11 bob on 2008-05-19 02:38 (Reply)
Wear garlic around your neck.
#11.1 Habu on 2008-05-19 06:46 (Reply)
Buddy Falkenberg

meet

Jinx Larsen
#12 bob on 2008-05-19 02:44 (Reply)
is "jinx" an "agenbite"?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15094&R=13A832D43C
#12.1 buddy larsen on 2008-05-19 08:54 (Reply)
Hey you guys, I have this new kevlar T-back..they use that stuff on the Space Shuttle ...wanna see it?
#13 Phil McCrakin on 2008-05-19 06:50 (Reply)
The Haunting of Buddy Larsen

DESOLATE and lone
All night long on the lake
Where fog trails and mist creeps,
The whistle of a boat
Calls and cries unendingly,
Like some lost child
In tears and trouble
Hunting the harbor's breast
And the harbor's eyes.
#14 Jinx Sanderg on 2008-05-19 07:00 (Reply)
Buddy..you mystery..

FALKENBURG PRAISES
'WONDERFUL MEN'

Jinx Falkenburg, Pat O'Brien & Co. returned this week to Shangri-La from their triumphant USO tour of the China and India-Burma Theaters and, scarcely before they had gotten back their breaths, newshawks descended upon them.
In Hollywood, Jinx and dancer Betty Yeaton were profuse with praise for "those wonderful, wonderful men." Miss Falkenburg came home wearing a cartwheel coolie hat to conceal a weird bob which she told reporters she got from cutting out locks of her hair to give to G.I.'s wanting souvenirs.
Jinx said that, despite the Roundup's recent criticism of movie personalities, she found American soldiers in the Far East "full of enthusiastic praise for Hollywood's overseas entertainers and movies."
Earlier, the troupe was aghast in New York to discover that a fully-loaded Jap anti-personnel bomb Guitarist-Singer Jimmy Dodds brought back from his trip contained enough explosive to kill anyone within a 40-yard range. Customs officials discovered the bomb during a routine check. Smaller-type bombs, brought to the U.S. by the troupe, would blow off a hand or cut out an eye if touched off, according to John E. York, Third Naval District's Aviation Ordnance Chief. Fog met them at the pier.
#15 Habu on 2008-05-19 07:15 (Reply)
" Mind your manners" No more rude and crude behavior. Otay. I am anxiously awaiting the death of the Honerable Senator Ted Kennedy, that chicken stealing, egg sucking murdering, rat commie bastard. Hell is currently all filled up today He is still alive. Maybe tomorrow I"ll get my wish. I am currently taking odds on is eminent departure. 5 to 1 says he dosen't make it to the Belmont. Send all bets to me otay.
#16 jappy on 2008-05-19 07:33 (Reply)
A blog pool is in order.

All proceeds go to manure to be piled on his grave.

I want June 3...early morning.
#16.1 Habu on 2008-05-19 08:19 (Reply)
Duh --"jinx" --right bob -- obvious warning to be careful -- but whence cometh such baleful message? -- the bomb, great research habu, somewhere a bomb, if only a metaphrical one.

And, great poem, ms snadberg. harbors are fascinating enough on their own two feet, very edgy if you get my drift. people who a pier to littoraly float in and out with the tides, often up to something fishy. But harbors with eyes, very earie, but i sea what you mean, and i nose enuff to shut up now.
#17 buddy larsen on 2008-05-19 08:46 (Reply)
Hinx, minx, the old witch stinks
The fat is beginning to fry!
There's nobody home
But Buddy alone
Falkenberg jinx
And aye!
#18 bob on 2008-05-19 09:34 (Reply)
The Falkenberg jinx
Woke Buddy with a few blinks
From whence comes sultry minx
#19 Meta on 2008-05-19 11:02 (Reply)
i find when writing doggerel verse
the try i more the get i worse
#20 buddy larsen on 2008-05-19 12:04 (Reply)
That is a haiku, Buddy. Don't be calling my fine verse doggerel.

hahaha
#21 Meta on 2008-05-19 12:47 (Reply)
a haiku!

god bless you! need a hankie?
((groan))
#22 buddy larsen on 2008-05-19 13:11 (Reply)

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