January 2012
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Finishing up 2011 by watching Paul Blart: Mall Cop
It’s a pretty fitting end to the year.
I need an egg nog.
December 2011
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Sarah just disappeared for a bit.
She reappeared with her hair completely smeared with Vaseline.
Is this a new treatment the girls are doing now?
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Sarah is sing-songing the word "mortadella"
It’s out of the blue, and she keeps repeating it.
I have no idea.
But it’s catchy.
Morrrt-ah-delllla
Morrrt-ah-delllla
Morrrt-ah-delllla
Currently watching the second catheter...
I hate it when Kathy puts on Lifetime.
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Gutters
The company I hired to clean our gutters sent me an invoice for the work they said they did last week. Because our gutters still resemble planting beds, I called the company to politely point this out to them.
Turns out the crew went to the right address in the wrong town.
Merry Christmas Sister-House in Foxboro!
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Really. Check out the website. →
It just exudes hate.
Isn't it a little early for this?
The Hobbit isn’t coming to theaters for another year, but that isn’t stopping at least one group, Christians for a Moral America, from calling for a boycott.
Invading your local cinema next winter is a new work of evil The Hobbit. The Hobbit follows on from the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and seemingly has brought everyone back to “Middle Earth” from the dead. Peter...
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Dear Intarwebs:
coyotesqrl:
polar-bear:
The phrase you are looking for is “lo and behold” - it’s not “low”.
The lo is a shortening of the Middle English word “loke”, which means look. This allows the expression to actually make sense, as in “look and see”, not some kind of gibberish nonsense like “below the general level and observe”.
Just thought you might want to know.
KTHNXBAI
I think ‘low and behold’...
WatchLast night, Kathy put on a one-hour special on TLC called Extreme Cheapskates. I don’t really like these types of shows because most of the time the people are clearly overplaying for the cameras, and this show was certainly no exception. I’m bringing it up because I subsequently went and had a dream about it.
One of the threads in the show is about Jeff spending the day scrounging up...
“Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil...”
– Rick Perry
“Would it be strange if they had developed a technology to induce cancer and no...”
– Hugo Chavez on the possibility that the United States is somehow behind the spike in cancer cases amongst South American leaders.
I’m sure he’s on to something here. I mean, with cancer being so rare, what else could it be?
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It's Christmas Eve. Know what that means?
It’s time to do my Christmas shopping.
Catch ya later!
“To walk through an airport with Bruce Schneier is to see how much change a...”
– Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Vanity Fair
There’s nothing new here for people familiar with Bruce Schneier and his rantings against the TSA, but for those who aren’t, this article gives a nice overview of why that agency is such a complete waste.
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Extension Bloat
Today I had to call someone at a company that gives its employees seven-digit extension numbers.
Unless you’ve got a million employees, there’s no need for that.
The corporate culture that contributes to type of bloat needs to change before everyone ends up using their social security number as their extension.
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brevetcaptain replied to your post: All the nog
Rum or Whiskey? My Yankee relatives all use rum, down here, it’s the beautiful bourbon or GTFO. Thoughts?
Actually, most of the time I would drink it alcohol-free.
However, when spicing things up I would typically use either rum or Southern Comfort.
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All the nog
In my youth I would partake liberally of the frothy elixir. As a child, I was introduced to the drink’s charms by my mother, who started me out by thinning it with equal parts milk. At some point I tried it straight and wondered why the fuck my mother ever thought it was a good idea to weaken that shit. There was no going back. I started mainlining, drinking a half gallon (1.9 litres) in one...
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I'm just going to leave this here.
designated replied to your photo: I don’t know half of the people who sent us these…
Now you sound like some NBA players.
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I just signed up for an eight-hour safety training...
Priorities. I haz them.
WatchIt appears that this song is now catching on with the toddler crowd.
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There are only two kinds of parties.
Me: OK Honey, you take a nap, and when you wake up we're going to go to a party.
Brian: What kind of party?
Me: A Christmas party.
Brian: No! What KIND of party?
Me: ....
Me: A Christmas party.
Brian: No! Is it a cake party or no cake?
Current Status: Holiday Baking QA/QC
It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it.
Good thing too, because there’s at least one batch of cookies that clearly aren’t good enough to give away. We’ll just have to keep them.
WatchWatching House Hunters International.
Tonight’s episode takes place on the island of Dominica.
The real estate agent is very enthusiastic about one particular property. Let’s find out why…
“Later that day at 12:24 p.m. on Hitchen Drive, a caller reported finding what...”
– The police log: deer legs found in backyard
Is this some sort of suburban mob equivalent to finding a horse’s head?
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yeahhappy replied to your photo: The cruel and bloodthirsty savage who took her…
Where is this at?
The marker is in Greenfield, MA. It refers to the Deerfield Massacre.