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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The 61st edition of the Carnival of the Vanities is waiting for you over at Peaktalk. It's big. Spooky big.

I wonder how large this thing is going to be by the time I'm hosting it...

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Then shame on you! We're just getting into the good stuff now. But still, there are other worthies out there that can complement our battle to the death.

Nick Queen over at Patriot Paradox is organizing a Blog Tournament. Currently the tourney needs both contestants and judges. This contest runs in a two week cycle so even if you don't get into the first edition it shouldn't be long before you're playing.

I wouldn't recommend playing in two contests at the same time, which is why I've volunteered to help with judging but won't be competing until after Dec 03. The rest of my island friends will have relatively shorter times to wait before being able to join the Patriot Paradox tournament without conflicts. Jeff, you can go ahead and sign up now.

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The Bonfire of the Vanities is hot and ready. Stop by and warm yourself with the flaming rejects of the blogosphere.

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I've just received word that Luuk, the Everyday Bear, has left the Peacock household and is on his way to his next Angry destination. Lovely Wife saw him off after giving him a quick Scotchguard treatment. (Hey, Don is his next stop. Safety first.)

We got a bunch more pictures of Luuk in the past couple days and I'll get those up as soon as I can.

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1 Can't wait to see the pics. I get Luuk after a while (after his visit with JimiLove), and I need to start planning and rule out any cool Atlanta places you may have covered.

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2 Shouldn't be too hard, Joey. After all, we've got more cool places than you can shake a stick at.

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The second challenge for Blog Survivor is to come up with a slogan that will appear on forthcoming Anger Management T-shirts. This is a delicious opportunity for a warped and evil person such as myself. Here's a couple I came up with off the top of my head:

• Sucking up to Frank J since January, 2003.


• Adventures with my objectionist mangina.


• Almost but not quite completely unlike a weblog.

Actually, that last one can go a lot of different ways. Sub out "a weblog" and insert "humor" or "entertainment". You see where I'm going here.

Oh, I feel like a kid in a candy store.

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What the hell is Buy Nothing Day? Apparently it's supposed to be some sort of statement against American consumerism. This is a participatory project (which strangely enough started in the Pacific Northwest, who woulda thunk it) for people who think that capitalism will be the doom of America.

Ummm...

Right. more...

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The Letter of the Day is was "H"

"H" is for Happy Medium. Not the "pleasant muse" type, we're talking the state you need to attain before you can successfully spend 3 hours in a car with somebody who has radically different musical taste.

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Wander over to Venomous Kate's Snarkfest for the best of all things snarkish.

Oh what savage delight grips these unworthy bones at perusal of such delicious vitriol.

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The Letter of the Day is "G".

"G" is for Gone. See ya, Pylorns!

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