I’ve always been intrigued by the ancient custom in China of binding women’s feet. I’ve never seen an actual picture of what they end up looking like but have heard them referred to as “lotus blossoms.” Do they end up looking like a claw or just little tiny feet? Was this an attempt to further control women by crippling them so they couldn’t get away? Jean, via AOL
Monthly Archives: June 2001
word of the day – genuflect
genuflect JEN-yuh-flekt, intransitive verb:
1. To bend the knee or touch one knee to the ground, as in worship.
2. To be servilely respectful or obedient; to grovel.
Genuflect is from Late Latin genuflectere, from Latin genu, “knee” + flectere, “to bend.”
Nosy Poll of the night, inspired by the Lizard King.
I walked 47 miles on a barbed-wire
Got a cobra-snake for a necktie
I built a house by the roadside
Made a rattlesnake hide
Got a brand new chimney up on top
Made out of human skulls
Come on baby, take a walk with me
And tell me who do you love
Who do you love?
Nosey poll of the day
Idea Swiped whole cloth from sanssouci, Enter more than one name for each, if you have a few you’re very fond of.
aww
evil news
Uplifting Story of A Disabled Man Overcoming His Disability
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A jury has recommended a 93-year prison term for a paraplegic who stabbed, robbed and sexually assaulted a woman he tricked into giving him a ride.
Bobby M. Patterson, 37, of Orange County got the 44-year-old woman to pick him up at the Wawa store in Central Park in Fredericksburg on Feb. 17 after telling her he was stranded there, according to court records.
He got the woman to take him to the Locust Grove area, where he pulled a gun and ordered her to pull to the side of the road.
Orange Commonwealth’s Attorney Tim Sanner said the handgun looked like a 9 mm,
but turned out to be a BB gun. He said that had the victim not fought back so fiercely, she might have been killed.
“She was just a good Samaritan who was trying to help somebody out,” Sanner said. “She then had the misfortunate of finding herself in this situation.”
Sheriff Had Man By The Balls
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Castrated Arkansas rapist Wayne DuMond has been linked to a Kansas City murder investigation, authorities say.
While awaiting trial, DuMond was castrated at his home, he said, by masked men.
No one was ever arrested in the attack, but DuMond won a $110,000 court judgment against then-Sheriff Coolidge Conlee of St. Francis County, who kept DuMond’s testicles in a jar on his office desk.
Space Man To Reach For The Stars
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He intends to become the first private astronaut to go into space with his own rocket. Within two years, he hopes to take two passengers into space with him.
Critics are already calling it the “bye, bye, Bennett mission”.
…other rocket experts are worried, not least because the Thunderbird capsule is actually a converted cement mixer, containing sheets of hardboard and a few computer joysticks…
John Bonsor, of Starr, a Scottish rocketry group is puzzled. “I don’t understand what is happening. He has been using cheap rockets, has a mixed bag of success and disaster and has achieved less than many others have working from their garage. It is ridiculous to claim that he leads the field, except in the number of crashes.”
“I’ve come from nothing to being the leading contender in the X-Prize,” counters Bennett.
“Only if he reinvents the laws of physics,” replies Bonsor. “He has absolutely no chance of the X-Prize. Please don’t launch.”
The Beer Defense Fails
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The defendant blamed his crime on his need for beer – but the judge didn’t buy it.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Wynne sentenced Steven G. Childress, 47, to one year in jail for breaking into the Seven Star Texaco store in Lynnwood in April.
Childress had claimed he broke into the convenience store only to slake his thirst for a beer.
Cloning Allergen-Free Cat
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Transgenic Pets, a tiny company in Syracuse, N.Y., says it is developing a genetically engineered cat that won’t cause allergies, a development that could allow millions of people who can’t now do so to keep the animals as pets.
The Ice Cream Man Is Dead!
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Two little boys watched in horror as their local ice cream man, the neighborhood children’s summertime friend, was shot in front of them.
“He was screaming, ‘Mom, the ice cream man is dead, the ice cream man is dead.”
Wacky Mario brothers thing… the music tossed me back a good distance. 🙂
http://w1.871.telia.com/~u87119813/mario.swf
fun shockwave.
Shiggity
shiggity
shwa
Good Morning!
Goodness… My sweetheart greeted me this morning with quite a hungry bit of amorous hello. What a great way to start the day! Thank you, darling. 🙂
Quite a pleasant surprise… I look forward to that happening again sometime soon.
Paula Poundstone update –
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/2000/20010627/lo/843838_1.html
Still no real info, but folks are rallying around her, disagreeing with the charges. I hope very much that the charges are unfounded.
word of the day – peremptory
peremptory puh-REMP-tuh-ree, adjective:
1. Precluding or putting an end to all debate or action.
2. Not allowing contradiction or refusal; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.
3. Expressive of urgency or command.
4. Offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; dictatorial; dogmatic.
Peremptory comes from Latin peremptorius, “destructive,” from peremptus, past participle of perimere, “to take thoroughly, to do away with, to destroy; hence, to thwart, to frustrate,” from per-, “thoroughly” + emere, “to take, to obtain.”
I like Croco.
I find these disturbing, yet faintly soothing at the same time. Flash cartoons. http://www.weirdemma.com/
Sort of a weird version of angela anaconda.
Happy Birthday
I hope that you and your family have a wonderful day together. 🙂
Bummer of the Day
another one of my heroes, a villain?
Paula Poundstone was arrested today on charges of child abuse and committing a lewd act with a minor under the age of 14.
I’m heartbroken. She’s a great comedian, and a clever wit.
What was I saying about heroes having human failings?
She was one of my favorite parts of Mother Jones Magazine
Well, I’m done with this computer thing for tonight.
*giggles
I hope
note to self –
if FROZEN_MAP
base_terrain SNOW_FOREST
elseif TROPICAL_MAP
base_terrain JUNGLE
else
base_terrain FOREST
endif
or the final map looks *REALLY DUMB*
Palm trees in snow. Neh.
Also, to randomise between two maps,
start_random
percent_chance 50
#define TROPICAL_MAP
percent_chance 50
#define SNOW_FOREST
end_random