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Unlike most charities this one will be using 100% of your donation to actually purchase equipment. Take a quick look at the projects that are being supported and you'll notice a common trend. They are started by American servicemen in an effort to help that goes above and beyond the call of duty.

[Edit - Ignore this striked out part. It's from the original premature posting of this missive, way back in my addled days of yore.] You'll probably also notice that the Victory Coalition is on top of this donation thing, whereas The Liberal Alliance is staring at the sun out in left field and the Flappy Sillybeers are more interested in rod measuring contests.

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UPDATE: Results and changing the rules. Yay! See the extended entry.

Want to know what it's about? See the Shamming/Sharing intro post.

Is this anecdote a sham or a share?

This is a shorty. Sorry again but I'm hella busy at the moment. Let's see if brevity helps or harms.

My bottom left incisor has been injured three times; once in a car accident, once in a fall and once in a food related mishap. Each time, a sliver of the tooth was cracked off of the business end. The tooth is a bit shorter than the one on the right side and has a somewhat faceted appearance, like a gemstone that has had a couple of cuts taken on it.

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Our customized plates have turned out to be more popular than expected. The wenches dedicated supporters are absolutely frenzied over them! Ever one to want to please, I have created a few more plates along the lines of suggestions already made. First come, first served!

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*Choice of some plates may require additional levels of support.

If anybody wants to play around and make their own plates just head on over to the ACME License Maker.

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There are two gray doves that spend their springs and summers at our place. They are calm and peaceful, hardly even walking away when you approach them. They don't even fly off when you're mowing the lawn, they just hop out of your path. We hadn't seen them this year at all until yesterday when Lovely Wife found one. It had been attacked by a cat. Its right wing was snapped at the pinion and it had wounds to its neck and belly. We wrapped it up to immobilize the broken wing and we put it in protective custody overnight.

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Lovely Wife called all over creation to find a place that would help it instead of euthanizing it. She brought it to the doc this morning. It's bad enough that these feral cats abuse my car. It's bad enough that they are a menace to my dogs. Now they are (literally) killing off the ambiance of our woodland home. No more mister nice guy. Lovely Wife checked and it's legal to trap and/or destroy feral cats here.

It's time to get biblical on those cats. I'm talking Old Testament.

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Which Princess Bride Character are You?

(Snagged from The Cheese)

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It's all about the soundbites, baby. With that in mind it's critical that our political party have a recognizeable and biteable motto. Thanks to Clancy and Helen I think I've figured it out. Check it:

If the lesser of two evils is common sense then the least of three evils should be a no brainer!

Vote Flying Pig. The least of three evils.

The regular literature would be "Flying Pig, the least of three evils". Does that just sing or what? Damn, I should have been in marketing.

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Jen wants to know where you'd put it if you had a third one. I want mine on my forehead.

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This one transcends stupid, blows right past inane and lodges firmly inside rectal oddity. (That means it's a piece of crap.)

Life is like riding a bicycle. You only fall off if you stop peddling.

Where to begin? First, everybody knows by now that any simile of life will be compared to "life is like a box of chocolates" and if it can't stand up against that Gumpism then it should not be used.

Second, there are shitloads of ways to fall off of a bike even if you keep pedaling. You could get pushed. You might hit a stop sign or a utility pole. You might get creamed by a semi. You might just run into a bit of tightly strung piano wire across your path. Hey, it happens. Thusly the simile fails right at that point but we'll not stop there as it also fails on the other side of the equation.

Thirdly, any moron can stop peddling without falling off of their bike. It's called putting your foot down. It's the normal and accepted manner of stopping a bike. It's instinctive. Or how about coasting? If you are at speed, going downhill or maybe trying to not go faster (anybody ever hear of braking?) you most definitely are not pedaling and yet, surprise of surprises, you are generally not falling off of the bike.

Fourthly, what the fuck is falling off of your life? Yeah, simile isn't supposed to be a literal transitive but I can't even figure out a metaphorical one for this winner.

We've got guests in this week. I am so freaking embarrassed for my company.

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Lovely Wife and I need help finding an accurate description for the two men in this article. The only thing that we can get out is "Sick fucks. Unbelievably sick fucks." Please see if you can expand on this.

Two men who traveled to Atlanta for alleged sexual encounters with children under the age of six are in FBI custody.

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Ledbetter drove from Newport last Friday, believing he'd arranged a sexual encounter with a 6-year-old girl in Atlanta,

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Scott traveled to Atlanta last Saturday, intending to have a sexual encounter with a 4-year-old girl, a 6-year-old boy and the children's parents

Sick, sick, fucking fucks. Fuck!

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The 20th Bestofme Symphony is up at Sneakeasy's Joint. Kiril's done up the weekly offering in high style so stop by and enjoy the performance.

Hosting: Would you like to host the Symphony? Send me a note and I'll get you on the schedule.

Submit to the Symphony: Want to be a part of next week's edition? Check out this post for submission help. Entries should always be sent to bestofme@jpeacock.net regardless of who the Symphony host is.

Spread the word: Webloggers, how about some linky love? Kiril would appreciate it and just think of the grand service it would be to your readers.

Email Reminders: If you'd like to be sent a reminder about the Symphony, join the mailing list. There's one email sent on Thursday or Friday to remind you to submit for the next Symphony and one on Monday with the location of the newly posted Symphony.

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Seems the kids attending Duke get cranky when they have classes too early in the morning. 8 AM is just too early for the little sleepy heads. So few people signed up for those early classes that lots of departments stopped offering them. But now the little dears are complaining because there aren't enough classes available.

The solution? 8:30 classes, of course. Kimberly doesn't think this is going to help too much and offers a different solution:

Now, there are classes at 8:30, but if they're hour-long classes, the next available time slot is 10 am, not 9. The whole day is essentially shifted back one hour, so students who were going to bed at 1 am before will be going to bed at 2 am now. Methinks that forcing bars to close a half-hour earlier would do more to get students into snoozeland than scheduling classes a half-hour later.

Of course you have to tie that in with RA's that actually enforce the dorm rules but otherwise it's definitely a better solution than a half-hour offset for the first class of the day.

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Hey, a fan base is almost as critical in politics as it is in rock & roll. Helping to keep our peeps happy, the Flying Pig party is happy to present this custom plate to our loudest beggar most vocal supporter.

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1 Even though I haven't commented on this before (as far as the Givens/Peacock election is concerned). I am your biggest fan. I declare it! I love you and Trey equally. I may not be able to be the loudest fan but, I am the most dedicated & whiniest. Also, I'm a great kiss ass. (can you tell?) Oh and I don't thinking beggin is beyond me either!

Posted by: Tiffani at April 19, 2004 01:28 PM (xpNFK)

2 Puhlease. I have publicly declared my esteem for both you and Trey several times. Certainly more than this Tiffani-come-lately person.

Posted by: Jennifer at April 19, 2004 04:14 PM (DdBLw)

3 Ouch...I need a bandaid that stung.....

Posted by: Tiffani at April 19, 2004 09:10 PM (0GNJF)

4 Ladies, please! There's no need to fight. Between Trey and myself there is more than enough love to go around. I'm just having difficulty thinking up more plates. "PIG GAL" just doesn't seem very flattering and "PIG LUVR" doesn't fit.

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2004 09:22 PM (saeHM)

5 Hah! The cheerleader is rewarded. She who whines loudest wins! Go Peacock/Givens in 2004! Thanks Jim

Posted by: Helen at April 20, 2004 03:50 AM (xHInj)

6 LVTREY JIMLVR Use your imagination. I've always wanted a vanity plate with BRMHLDA on it.

Posted by: Jennifer at April 20, 2004 11:06 AM (DdBLw)

7 how about P0RKIN?

Posted by: Rob at April 20, 2004 11:40 AM (kXZI6)

8 Good one Rob!

Posted by: Tiffani at April 20, 2004 01:46 PM (xpNFK)

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Michelle has turned over control of the Victory Coalition to Kevin of Wizbang. Kevin has taken a sacred vow to keep the Coalition focused on it's ultimate goal - pulverizing "Howard" Dean Esmay and Johnny RAAAAARG!! helping the Spirit of America project put a voice of reason and truth on the airwaves in Iraq.

Head on over to WizBang and show your support for the Victory Coalition and stay tuned for instructions on how to help Spirit of America while simultaneoulsy smacking the enemy alliances about the head and neck.

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Curbs add texture to driving.

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Then sink your teeth into The Snark Hunt, a delightful repast served up by Kate over at Electric Venom.

While you're there, tell Kate how nice her new layout is.

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The Cul-de-Sac has returned! For all y'all what don't know what the Cul-de-Sac is, allow me to 'splain. Every once in a while Kelley would gather up links to the best posts on the blogs she was reading. Sort of a one woman Carnival of the Vanities. Kelley's reading a whole heap of blogs now and this Cul-de-Sac is a monster.

This is a great place to go if you are looking for new blogs to read. Kelley's already done the filtering for ya so you can find what's a good read right quick.

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Got my vanity plates all lined up. That was the last thing on my checklist for things I had to do before being elected Vice President.

I got some for Trey, too.

(As seen at WizBang)

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Open a book and go to page 23. What does the fifth sentence say?

That computers must facilitate the selling function for a distributor today and certainly in the 1990s!

From Distribution Inventory Management by Gordon Graham. Hey, I'm at work y'all. The alternative was TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt. Oh, wait a second! I've got a Chick-fil-A kid's meal book somewhere...ah, here it is...Coral Reef, no author...oh, yeah, this is much better:

These special fat tentacles smell food.

That's good enough for use as a tag line.

(Seen o'er at Tiffany's)

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Good news for the home team but this can only be seen as a blow for upstart challengers.

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Courtesy of George Says. Snagged from a temporary dramaqueen.

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