Jeff Quinton is looking to map out bloggers who've served in the US Armed Forces. That's any of the big five plus reserves, guards, etc. Montana militias need not apply. See his post for details.

For myself, I was US Navy Reserve from 1987 to 1995. About a quarter of it was in activated status (Desert Shield/Storm) and I was an Operating Room Technician, Hospital Corpsman attached to a mobile Fleet Hospital unit (like M*A*S*H but with hotter nurses).

POINTS: Name the group that made the lyric above a pop hit for 2 points. Name the lead singer of the group for a bonus point. No searching, y'all!

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Get those supplies before they run out!

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Set 'em up, knock 'em down. That's what Lovely Wife and Trey did with a couple of posts yesterday.

Start with Lovely Wife's post about a conversation with an intolerant neighbor and then read Trey's contribution. Lovely Wife's post is funny and serious, Trey's bumps it up to seriously funny.

And Trey? It was a "Mrs." Nipple Clamps. The folks at our table were stunnable but they're of the "live and let live and/or enjoy manlove" variety.

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Ilyka looks at the newsies and finds them wanting.

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Lovely Wife has her own blog. Oh, yeah.

Go take a look at Flaptrap.

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It's even wrong on several distinctly different levels: The Wedding Album

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Ninjai, the little ninja.

Okay, so the name isn't all that clever. The flash anime movies are pretty neat though. The story is in a series of a dozen movies, the first 10 are completed.

(Hat tip to Dopple-G)

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1 yeah its been around for quite some time. Pretty good though.

Posted by: pylorns at August 09, 2004 11:03 AM (FTYER)

2 Ninjai's the best come over to the forums and meet us all.

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Talk about textbook. We've got a name that's really a cross-bred hybrid of two names, the requisite -lyn, the replacement of everything possible with a K or Y. Top it off with no obvious nickname to fall back on (Krys?) and no ethnicity to balance/account for the weirdness, and we may have engineered before you the ultimate bad baby name: simulateously strange, stupid, difficult and boring.

Bad baby names came up in conversation Saturday night at dinner with Trey and The Good Doctor so I was tickled to find Baby's Named a Bad Bad Thing at No.2 Pencil.

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Rachel Ann has uprooted the Willow Tree from Blog*Spottia and planted it in fertile Munuvian soil. Go say 'Hi' and help me welcome my new neighbor.

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That's right, y'all. In the Commissar's Blogville High School yearbook I was in the Car Club for three years. Hot cars, fast women. That's what it's all about.

Or is it the other way around?

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A note for those who think the USA really needs to take a page from France's book:

in just over two hundred years France has burned its way through two kingdoms, two empires, an occupation government, and four republics.

As Pixy notes, certain other countries have maintained the same stable and strong governments over that time period.

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Here's an interesting game that Dopple-G sent me. Catch the wad and toss it in the wicker, so to speak.

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Happy Belated Blogiversary to Ilyka!

Yeah, I'm a few days late. So what? She was late first!

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Lovely Wife has her own blog! Yay!

This entry has been moved to her place.

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My post quality and quantity suck in an inversely proportional relationship with the quality and quantity of the blogs I read. That is to say, it isn't my fault when my blog sucks. Blame these guys:

If little boys are made up puppy dog tails and snails and other gross stuff, and little girls are made of sugar and spice and other nice stuff, what is a centrist made of?

Whines and complaints
that the big parties ain't.
That's what centrists are made of.

Trey has a two parter on the ketchup queen. First he notes some things from her speech that sound alright. Then he fisks the things that blow chunks of socialist redistributionism garbage all over the place.

Random Penseur has a mini-bio on a philandering, embezzling, murderer. To top it off he was also an incompetent officer and a crooked politician! Check out the second edition of the Behind the Curtain series.

LeeAnn has issues with the dentist. That reminds me...I better set up an appointment whilst I still have insurance...

Simon hasn't caught up to me yet in the procreation contest but he has nailed what it's like for men to live with a pregnant woman.

Robert got published. Like in a real paper. Not just this bloggy stuff that we do. Woah.

Our own Pixy Misa has compiled a philosophy primer. It's just chock full of allegorical goodness.

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Lovely Wife has her own blog. Yay!

This entry has been moved to her place.

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1 I'll give you a login to Clancy's View... Wir konnen auch auf Deutsch redden wenn es dir besser wird! (OK, my conversation German is OK, my written German is horrid)

Posted by: Clancy at July 28, 2004 03:04 PM (EGVPL)

2 Oh too funny! I decided last week that there would be no more Heinz products purchased with MY hard earned money.

Posted by: Ronda at July 28, 2004 03:10 PM (caz42)

3 Kroger, huh? I personally just wait until the name-brand stuff hits the shelves at the dollar store

Posted by: Tiffany at July 29, 2004 01:59 PM (5Tm0V)

4 We have enough dollar stores here to choke a barrel of monkeys. And if that doesn't win me some sort of contest for mixed metaphors I don't know what could.

Posted by: Jim at July 29, 2004 02:41 PM (IOwam)

5 I heard that John Kerry actually changed his middle name so that his initials would be JFK. Is that true? Also, LW should get a blog.

Posted by: Trey Givens at July 29, 2004 09:29 PM (3RnFT)

6 "Now you may call me John Fucking Kerry!" I bet a bit digging on the internet will give us the truth about him.I am just not sure if I want to be sick for a while. Have I mentioned that I will apear in the NEWS PAPER on saturday???YES,for I gave an interview today.Supposively MY name will be in it. Ahuh...I'm that good!

Posted by: LW at July 29, 2004 10:48 PM (behRF)

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Tiffani is fishing for pics. Seeing as she's my blogdaughter and all I'm happy to oblige.

WARNING
Women should sit down before clicking this link. Snooze Button Dreams will not be held liable for swooning.

Who knew I cleaned up so well? Actually I had this picture up when Snooze Button Dreams was on Blog*Spot until the infamous cow picture fell into my clutches.

Special bonus picture for Helen: My furry arm

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1 You know I love my men furry. Bravo. LW must be in heaven. That said, it still doesn't proclude you from being cursed with wild monkey hair, you know. It'll be like...extra. Is it possible in your other pic that you look a bit like the cat who caught the canary? Like: "Who's your Snooze Daddy now, bebe?" type of look. Just wondering. Don't get all paranoid like I would.

Posted by: Helen at July 27, 2004 06:06 AM (pS7+B)

2 Er...I meant "preclude". Not "proclude". I hate when I have bad use of vocabulary.

Posted by: Helen at July 27, 2004 06:08 AM (pS7+B)

3 LOL! Helen, I had the same thought -- that's quite the self-satisfied grin. I'd tell you that I'm surprised that Jim's such a Hot Ticket, but one look at that mug a year ago and I knew Sexiest Male Blogger when I saw him. Good looks and brains and a wicked sense of humor, too? That's our Jim. )

Posted by: Emma at July 27, 2004 06:12 AM (NOZuy)

4 That's my standard grin. I have an entire flock of canaries that I consume on a regular basis. ;-)

Posted by: Jim at July 27, 2004 07:41 AM (IOwam)

5 Do you know how torturous it is to see page can not be displayed when I click on those links? Worse than finding out Matthew McConaughey is gay.

Posted by: Tiffani at July 27, 2004 10:13 AM (xpNFK)

6 WHAT?!!!! Matthew is GAY!!???

Posted by: Helen at July 27, 2004 10:35 AM (pS7+B)

7 That's odd...he never told me he was gay and we were together for years... *cough* I mean, those links seem to be working just fine. Must have been a temporary glitch.

Posted by: Jim at July 27, 2004 10:59 AM (IOwam)

8 No..but that was a torture thinking he was right? That's what I'm going through right now. If Matthew is gay. You might as well just shoot me dead now. I couldn't go on living. I saw "how to lose a guy in 10 days" for the 4th time just to see his beautiful face.

Posted by: Tiffani at July 27, 2004 11:01 AM (xpNFK)

9 I still have no takers on the quest for the identity of our fellow bloggers. Wimps. Yeah you heard me. Wimps. All of ya. Jim. I agree with Helen. Love the furry arms.

Posted by: Tiffani at July 27, 2004 01:28 PM (xpNFK)

10 In order to spur compliance by those lazy bloggers, I suggest you threaten to begin "assigning" them photos from the lovely selection at Cliff Yablonski Hates You. Not that I read that site. That would be mean.

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It might end up being cheaper than an Explorer. Then again you probably wouldn't get amusing anecdotes like BigWig's out of a Winnebago.

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"Winnebago"...it's synonymous with "passion", no?

(Snagged from Ryan)

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Who knew? LeeAnn, the Cheesemistress of the Apocalypse is also a spyhunter extraordinaire. I hope I didn't blow her cover...

POINTS: 2 points to the first person to name the tune that played throughout the Spyhunter game. No searching please.

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