December 05, 2003
"P" is for "Pork"
The
Letter of the Day is was
"P".
"P" is for Pork, as in "Pork Barrel Spending".
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Off the point....the picture on the right of your blog is fantastic!
abs x
Posted by: abs at December 05, 2003 06:49 AM (lnpfn)
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Thanks Abs. Though it's proven to be a source of much ribbing it serves well as a snapshot of my personality. Heh.
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December 04, 2003
Very sad news
Kevin at
Wizbang has just found out that he's out of a job. 3 weeks before Christmas.
If you've got some spare some change, please consider dropping it in his tip jar.
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Oh, my God. They did that to a man I worked with at the last programming job I had . . . I'm an unrepentant capitalist, but sometimes I hate, hate, hate business, and it's things like this that do it. Poor Kevin.
Posted by: ilyka at December 05, 2003 04:21 AM (1+elX)
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I'm with ilyka. MY post almost caused a CAT-Tastrophe between me and my brother.
But he pissed me off! Damnit!
So, let it be known, I will defend visitors to my site -- even in my comment section.
[Best Homer Simpson voice}: Awww! I'm pathetic, too!
Posted by: margi at December 06, 2003 04:26 AM (4jrV0)
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I'm with ilyka. MY post almost caused a CAT-Tastrophe between me and my brother.
But he pissed me off! Damnit!
So, let it be known, I will defend visitors to my site -- even in my comment section.
[Best Homer Simpson voice}: Awww! I'm pathetic, too!
Posted by: margi at December 06, 2003 04:26 AM (4jrV0)
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I'm with ilyka. MY post almost caused a CAT-Tastrophe between me and my brother.
But he pissed me off! Damnit!
So, let it be known, I will defend visitors to my site -- even in my comment section.
[Best Homer Simpson voice}: Awww! I'm pathetic, too!
Posted by: margi at December 06, 2003 04:27 AM (4jrV0)
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WTF? How tha hell did THAT happen?
That's my cue -- goodnight Gracie.
Sorry.
Sheepishly,
M
Posted by: margi at December 06, 2003 04:28 AM (4jrV0)
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That's okay, Margi. The only thing better than waking up to a Margi message is waking up to
four of them. ;-)
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Three Little Words
I just read a very touching story about
Don's first love.
Were you in love the first time you said "I love you"? I don't mean to your Mom, now. I'm talking about a parternship type relationship. Unless that was with your Mom, of course. In that case i do mean your Mom. Sicko.
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Vote well. Vote often.
It's time to vote for the 3rd (and final, since Helen has retired)
Survivor Immunity. This is the big one. The immunity winner will decide which of the other two stays on the island with him.
I know that y'all want to vote for me but I'm not allowed to tell you which entry is mine. Just vote for the best one and I'll do fine. ;-)
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Welcome aboard, Kevin! Your Munu passport is in the mail.
The much touted (and quite cool)
Map of the Blogosphere has a detail map of
Munuvia. Snuz is over there in the East, as is proper.
But what's that in the Southeast corner of Munuvia? Why, it's the province of Visbangius. Wizbang is but the first blog to fall to the plans of Munuvian blogosphere domination. Next we will annex Anti-Com.
Look out, y'all! The Munus are coming!
(Credit to LeeAnn for the Munuvia detail.)
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Bush Converts to Islam, Declares Fatwa on Iraq
(From ScrappleFace)
U.S. President George Bush today converted from Christianity to Islam, declared himself to be a Grand Ayatollah and issued a fatwa, a religious edict, against those who have slowed the transition to democracy in Iraq.
The move comes as the Bush administration faced increasing criticism that it was trying to impose its brand of American democracy upon Iraq. The Washington Post reported today that Coalition transition efforts had faltered because an influential cleric had declared a fatwa against allowing foreigners to write the new Iraqi constitution.
"It's good to see that the Bush administration finally understands how to get things done in Iraq," said one unnamed member of the provisional Iraqi Governing Council. "All of this 'cultivating stakeholder buy-in' may work at IBM, but we Shiites wait until an influential ayatollah tells us what to do."
In Mr. Bush's first official statement after the Rose Garden fatwa-signing ceremony, Islam's newest Grand Ayatollah said, "Death to the infidel Baathists with their shoulder-fired rockets. Their blood will turn the sand red, God be willing. May God show them His wrath and give them what they deserve."
(Hat tip to Dopple-G)
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December 03, 2003
Survivor Lived?
Yes it did! Don bowed out as hostmaster but Pylorns has taken up the reigns. Immunity Challenge III is forming up again and there's a
bonus challenge as well: post what I'd plan to do with or to Luuk, the Everyday Bear. Since I'm one of those geeks that always went for the extra credit and since this one is a gimme, here goes nuthin':
I had him in my clutches once but due to a family plague I didn't get to do anywhere near as much with Luuk as I wanted.
If I got him back again we would definitely take a trip to the Mayfield Dairy in Braselton so he could have a taste of my favorite cow udder. We'd hit the Calloway Gardens and then see Helen for some serious drinking with bikers and faux Germans. That's the city in Georgia, not Luuk's Mom.
I'd like to take him to Bear and Bacon's preschool too. Both of them got a serious kick out of Luuk and they'd love to show him off for their friends. Hey, part of my Dad duties are to get the boys "cool points" anytime I can.
We'd have to go back to Stone Mountain Park again too. He loved the Pow-Wow there but we didn't get a chance to climb the mountain itself. That would be an adventure.
We'd probably stop by the Children's Museum of Atlanta too. They've got Sue there now. She's "a life-size replica of the worldÂ’s largest, and most complete T. rex in the world". You know, let him get a look at a real carnivore.
After that we'd probaby just spend the rest of our time together watching action movies, drinking beer and eating popcorn.
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Burn, Baby, Burn!
The
Bonfire has been lit. Head on over to get toasty warm at the expense of the turkeys of the blogosphere.
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December 02, 2003
Happy Freakin' Holidays
In the spirit of X-Mas,
Michele of A Small Victory Santa once again offers a hearty
Ho Ho Holy Shit!.
Along with a score of bloggers, I'm contributing to that festive site. Can you guess which persona is me? 5 points to the first person who figures it out. 2 more points to the first person to say where I got it from.
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Gotta be Francis Xavier Cross - which would make you Dr. Peter Venkman's evil alter-ego from Scrooged.
Posted by: Mike the Marine at December 02, 2003 12:08 PM (Zw7Hl)
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Hot damn! Mike is in the hizzouse! 7 points for the Marine. Hoo-ah!
Posted by: Jim at December 02, 2003 12:51 PM (IOwam)
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Yes, yes...thank you. But what is this 'hoo-ah' of which you speak? I know of no 'hoo-ah'. It sounds foriegn to this Marine's ears.... maybe you are speaking some Army language that Blackfive understands. Us salty green amphibious warriors say "OOH-RAH!!"
Maybe someday I'll have a blog of my own, but until then you can report to Gunny Ermey's Mail Call website for your remedial Marine Corps language lessons. Semper me....
http://rleeermey.net/mailcallforum/
Posted by: Mike the Marine at December 02, 2003 01:53 PM (Zw7Hl)
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Sorry about that. I was just a corpsman - never could get that out right.
Posted by: Jim at December 02, 2003 02:29 PM (IOwam)
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M is for "Matter-of-fact"
The
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"M".
"M" is for Matter-of-fact, as in realistic. Libertarians who vote Republican are just being matter-of-fact about their choice.
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November 27, 2003
Have some cheese with that turkey
This Thanksgiving I am thankful for my Lovely Wife, my three evil (to various degrees) children, friends, family and
The Cheddar X!
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Happy Thanksgiving, Jim.
Posted by: Jennifer at November 27, 2003 01:43 PM (nHjxO)
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Thanks, Jennifer. And a Happy Thanksgiving to you. :-)
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November 26, 2003
And Leon's getting larger!
By "Leon" I of course mean the
Carnival of the Vanities, which is hosted this week by
Setting the World to Rights. Enjoy!
Two points to the first person to tell me what movie this post's title is quoted from.
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Airplane! duh!
What do you make of this? Well, I can make a brooch, or a terydactyl....
More coffee Johnny!
No, thanks!
Posted by: Susie at November 26, 2003 05:19 PM (0+cMc)
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Check the radar range!
Two minutes!
Let's get some pictures, boys!
I've had a drinking problem ever since Drambui
(or maybe it was Daquari? It's been a few years since I last saw it...)
That's right--I had the lasagna.
Posted by: Susie at November 26, 2003 05:23 PM (0+cMc)
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Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Two points for Susie!
Posted by: Jim at November 26, 2003 05:58 PM (fkewd)
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There's a sale at Penney's!
Posted by: Susie at November 27, 2003 01:30 AM (0+cMc)
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"Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello.
Posted by: Tuning Spork at November 28, 2003 12:07 AM (s4kNb)
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Ooops! Sorry, I misread the question!
Posted by: Tuning Spork at November 28, 2003 12:09 AM (s4kNb)
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Nekkid Bloggers
Beth thinks I might be a
nekkid blogger. On the advice of my lawyer I will neither confirm nor deny this. At least until the
Bloggin' Nekkid club gets into swing.
Beth is collecting logos for the new club and there'll be a vote to see which one is used as the official one. My proposed logos are in the extended entry. One for the ladies and one for the gents. See if you can figure out which is which.
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Those are priceless! ROFLMAO. And everyone in the cubicle farm is staring at me.
Posted by: Beth at November 26, 2003 10:58 AM (Lx88s)
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Alrightythen! That will change the nature of hits to our respective sites. For parity's sake, we need to add 'headlights' to the gurl. Might as well let her flags wave, too!
Posted by: John of Argghhh! at November 26, 2003 03:56 PM (k1MDN)
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I'm naked under my clothes...does that count?
Posted by: Susie at November 26, 2003 05:20 PM (0+cMc)
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DANG!!....there goes MY logo!!
Posted by: Eric at November 26, 2003 05:28 PM (fZKKx)
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Only if your clothes are transparent, Susie.
Posted by: Jim at November 26, 2003 06:00 PM (fkewd)
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"L" is for Lingerie
The
Letter of the Day is was
"L".
"L" is for Lingerie. Victoria's Secret lingerie commercials are getting hotter and hotter and Meryl found some guy who has a problem with that.
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Is it hot in here or is it just you?
The Bonfire of the Vanities is up and ready for your viewing pleasure, all chock full of stuff that's so bad it's good.
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November 25, 2003
Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
A troll has climbed from under Kate's bridge. This particular beastie has been quiet since she laid
the smack down. But quiet is not the same as dead so it's time for a
troll hunt! The hunting party is already forming up with the
huntress,
master of hounds and other worthies joining the party.
Cry Havoc, and Let Slip the Dogs of War!
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November 24, 2003
The Monday Memory
LeeAnn is starting up a new meme called
Monday Memory. She'll posit a question for people to answer. Sort of like the
Coffee Talk lady did when she was getting viklempt(sp?). The first question is
What Thanksgiving dinner is your family still talking about?"
Well, I don't have too many specific memories of Thanksgivings with one exception. I was spending Thanksgiving in New York with my Dad (parents divorced, Mom in Ocean City, Dad in Buffalo). Thanksgiving was at Uncle Jim's farm in Springville. That's rural country with long, long roads and many miles between anything you'd bother to look at. People drive fast. Very fast. (By the way, that's one of the two uncles I'm named after.)
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At least we see where you get your sense of humor.
Kinda. We still don't get the cow.
Posted by: LeeAnn at November 24, 2003 10:11 AM (HxCeX)
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Verklempt.
I can't spell "going," but I can spell verklempt (sometimes rendered as "farklempt").
Posted by: ilyka at November 24, 2003 07:03 PM (0C0Wg)
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Now I can only hope that you actually know what "verklemmt" means.....
And hopefully noone here actually IS verklemmt...WHich btw is spelled with two M's.:-)
Verklemmt.
Unless of course,there is some english version for it.You just never know here in the old USOFA.
Posted by: LW at November 25, 2003 08:23 AM (fkewd)
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Babelfish says "blocked". Is that like constipated?
Posted by: Jim at November 25, 2003 08:38 AM (IOwam)
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Actually its more like this...wait...oh yeah:
Babylon German-English
verklemmt
adj. inhibited, repressed, restrained; crossed, placed one over another (legs)
mostly when we use that word it reffers to someone who doesn't dare to go up to the other sexe.hehe
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November 23, 2003
Link Love
Madfish Willie's is starting a "send me your posts"
LinkLoveFest!
Tales From The Champagne Room!
[Remember: There is no sex in The Champagne Room!]
Read through the previous posts of The Champagne Room to get an idea of what he's looking for.
To be linked in The Champagne Room post just e-mail the link(s) to your post(s) by Saturday 12:00 noon and you'll be included in the weekly LinkLoveFest on Sunday.
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Thanks for pimping my thingy, Jim. It doesn't look like the trackback pings are working right now. I have 42 links in this weeks Champagne Room that aren't pinging. That sucks! Plus your trackbacks aren't showing up on my site today. I'll keep saving the post as I have several from you.
Posted by: The Bartender at November 23, 2003 11:10 PM (7IFne)
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Try a manual ping. Edit the post, line up the ping URLs in "URLs to ping box" and resave it. A trackback ping from this post should show up now on your site. There weren't any specific posts linked, that's why one didn't show when I posted originally.
Posted by: Jim at November 24, 2003 04:17 AM (fkewd)
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Damn jim, that took 20 friggin minutes... 42 pings to enter manually. That really sucks, but at least everyone got em now.
Posted by: The Bartender at November 24, 2003 05:12 AM (9bPNF)
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November 21, 2003
Nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!
Everybody wave goodbye to
Jeff as he doggy paddles away from
Survivor Blogosphere Island. Jeff was the second elimination in our little blog game and once again the vote was unanimous (excepting Jeff's vote as he voted to kick me off -the jerk).
Though he's off of the island he should have some consolation that he's at least done his part in helping me to my ultimate victory.
And to my island ladies: Please note that 100% of the people who have voted to kick me off of the island are no longer with us. Remember this when contemplating future votes.
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Hehheh... you can just be our love slave. We'll just take you out of the dungeon from time to time strictly for breeding purposes.
Posted by: emily at November 21, 2003 02:44 PM (6RZ2o)
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Oddly enough that sounds like a fair offer to me.
Posted by: Jim at November 21, 2003 02:50 PM (IOwam)
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remeber what i told ya though Jim...
Posted by: pylorns at November 21, 2003 07:21 PM (fD1hc)
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Hmmm, so are 100% of those who tried to vote me off. Does this mean mine is as big as yours?
Posted by: LeeAnn at November 21, 2003 07:36 PM (HxCeX)
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Don't worry, Pylorns. LeeAnn has supplied the last piece of the puzzle. Whoever votes to kick either of us off the island gets tossed. It'll obviously come down to the two of us at the end. Now all I have to do is suck up to the other 4.
By the way, Pylorns, have I mentioned lately how fantastic your blog is?
Posted by: Jim at November 21, 2003 08:17 PM (fkewd)
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Never mind how fantastic his blog is. Have *I* mentioned, Pylorns, how fantastic YOU are?
*nudge nudge wink wink*
Gimme a break, I'm new at this stuff.
Posted by: LeeAnn at November 22, 2003 09:51 PM (HxCeX)
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