This Thanksgiving I am thankful for my Lovely Wife, my three evil (to various degrees) children, friends, family and The Cheddar X! more...

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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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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. more...

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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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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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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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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.) more...

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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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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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What? You need more of a description than that? Okay, how about "Dancing purple sumo hippo? Just watch it. You won't be disappointed. Unless you've got sumodansohippophobia or something.

(Hat tip to Dopple-G)

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I almost spewed when I read that misheard Beatles lyric this morning.

So what is "colitas" anyway? As in "Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air" from Hotel California? Like Dopple-G, I had always thought it was a desert flower of some kind. The Straight Dope gives us the answer in hillarious fashion. To cut to the chase, it's herb (the fun to smoke variety) and the Hotel California is a metaphor for cocaine addiction. But definitely read the Straight Dope - it's a side splitter.

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Munuviana is well represented in the first competition for the coveted title of King of the Blogs. Madfish Willie is on the judging panel and Anger Management is one of the first crop of contestants. Don made it just under the wire as contestant blogs need to be smaller than a Large Mammal in the TTLB Ecosystem.

Good luck Don!

The first entries are already up. Check em out here.

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More importantly, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? Or how about a question that can actually be answered: How much is inside a bottle of magic shell? The world may never know the answer to the Tootsie Pop question but the folks at Cockeyed do a good job of takling the Magic Shell one.

Simply put, magic shell is awesome. It is ACTION FOOD! It forms a hard shell when put on top of ice cream, which protects it from burrowing insects and mites. It is the perfect way to make ice cream more fun & your classmates jealous.

(Link credit to Curt)

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The Letter of the Day is was "K".

"K" is for klutz. Our favorite klutz has been out of commission for a week. Everybody go pester her until she comes back.

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...Helen. She's won immunity in the second round of Survivor: Blogosphere Edition. Now the five of us will vote off one of our number (excepting Helen, of course) bringing us ever closer to my eventual triumph.

Anybody want to buy my vote? I come cheap!

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Mr. Rhodes is on the road today but he left a present: The Long Distance Lesbian. What an amazing little story. Join Ryan as he embarks on a long distance relationship that gets peeled like an onion layer by layer until the rotted heart is revealed. Very touching and very well written.

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The Letter of the Day is was "J".

"J" is for Jewsylvania. In a response to letter from an Egyptian reader, Meryl ponders if a different name might have helped to get the concept of a culturally Jewish state accepted.

Judaism is a religion, yes. But Jews are also a people, a culture. It's the most difficult part of trying to get others to understand what being Jewish entails. I can be an atheist and still be Jewish. Some people say I can convert to Christianity and still be Jewish. (At the very least, I was still born a Jew.) Perhaps if we never called ourselves Jews to begin with, if we had called ourselves Israeli for the past several thousand years, or perhaps if we called Israel "Jewland" or "Jewsylvania" or something like that, people would get that you can be a Jew and not be religious. Egyptians are mostly Muslim, but many are Christian, too. And while we're on that topic: How many practicing Jews do you know of in Egypt? Did you know that it is illegal to practice anything but Islam in Saudi Arabia? When was the last new church built in Egypt? Did you know the laws there forbid a church to be built within a certain distance of a mosque, or if the locals object to it, or if the government decides that there aren't enough Christians to support the building of a new church? Go ahead, try to get a new church built in Cairo.

It's a well written letter and a very well written and elucidating response. Go read and enjoy.

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Time to vote for the second immunity challenge in Blogosphere Survivor. Can you guess which one is mine this time?

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The Letter of the Day is was "I".

"I" is for Idea. The best ones are often the simplest.

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Ilyka has a fantastic post that uncovers the grubs and worms crawling behind the protests of the international trade talks in Miami. Fithian? She's a worm. The New York Times? Definitely a grub.

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