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Yearly Archives: 2001
word of the day – cudgel
cudgel KUH-juhl, noun:
A short heavy stick used as a weapon; a club.
transitive verb:
To beat with or as if with a cudgel.
Cudgel derives from Old English cycgel.
The Grand Vizier Kuprili of Constantinople, for example,… closed the city’s coffeehouses. Anyone caught drinking coffee was soundly cudgeled.
–-Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
You know, I’d trade a good whomp for some 7-11 coffee right about now.
Evil News
Creep Creates Super Hero
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A man was sentenced to 120 years in prison Monday -the maximum -for a sex
attack that left a 9 -year-old child known as Girl X blind, mute and crippled.
“I do not believe that even this sentence is enough for the acts of this
defendant, but the law limits the sentence that I can impose,” Judge Joseph Urso told
Patrick Sykes, a 29 -year-old convicted sex offender.
Prosecutors said that in 1997, Sykes lured a girl into an apartment at the
crime-ridden Cabrini-Green housing project, sexually assaulted her, poured roach
spray down her throat, beat her and left her for dead in a dirty stairwell. The
girl became known in the Chicago media as Girl X.
Firework Explodes in Boy’s Mouth.
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A 12-year-old boy was injured Saturday night when a firework exploded in his
mouth.
Zeus Hates Man Playing Football
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A bolt of lightning came out of a blue sky Saturday, striking two beachgoers
who were tossing around a football. One of the young men was killed in what
meteorologists said was a rare but not unprecedented weather event.
Genuis Thief
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A Doylestown man claims a thief — wearing medical scrubs with a stethoscope in
his pocket — made off with his motorcycle valued at $13,000 yesterday morning
after posing as a doctor at Akron General Medical Center.
Seeling told the Beacon Journal he had gone to the hospital after a man
answered his newspaper advertisement, claimed he was a doctor and asked Seeling to
meet him yesterday morning in the hospital parking lot to look at the motorcycle.
“We made agreements, and he started the bike, and said he would take it around
the block and test drive it. Well, he didn’t come back,” Seeling said
yesterday afternoon.
before I tuck in…
*stamps foot like a little kid
Halfway there!
3 days left.
Hurry back… I love you.
reason #3667 to have the Internet….
Soundboard copies of concerts you went to are available online. 🙂
Paul Simon / Bob Dylan Concert… 9/8/1999
Songs (By Disc)
Disc One:
(Paul Simon)
1. Bridge Over Troubled Water (levels continue to be adjusted throughout this song – it starts off real quiet, but picks up by the end)
2. Can’t Run But
3. The Boy In The Bubble (glitch at 4:02 from master copy)
4. The Coast
5. Trailway Bus
6. Mrs. Robinson
7. Me And Julio
8. Further To Fly
9. Graceland
10. The Cool, Cool River
11. Slip Sliding Away
12. Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes >
13. Drum Solo
14. You Can Call Me Al
(encores)
15. Late In The Evening
Disc Two:
(Paul Simon’s encores)
1. Late In The Evening
2. Still Crazy After All These Years
(duets)
3. The Boxer
4. I Walk The Line
5. The Wanderer
6. …Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (beginning of song cut)
(Bob Dylan’s encores)
7. Like A Rolling Stone
8. Blowin’ In The Wind
9. Not Fade Away
(filler: Doc Watson & David Grisman Nashville, TN 4-15-99 DSBD)
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intros
where are you tonight *
big sandy *
salt creek *
*w/Del, Ronnie McCoury, Mike Bubb, Jesse McReynolds, Randy Howard
Disc Three:
(Bob Dylan)
1. I Am The Man, Thomas
2. Mr. Tambourine Man
3. It’s Alright, Ma
4. Baby Blue
5. Tangled Up In Blue
6. All Along The Watchtower
7. Just Like A Woman
8. Silvio
9. Not Dark Yet
10. Highway 61 Revisited
random factoid of the day –
Most towns beginning with “Santa” are named after saints. So who was Fe?
Santa Barbara I understand. Santa Clara, Santa Rosa, sure. But who was Fe?
I wondered about this when I was a sprout. Saint Fe? Patron saint of truck-stop waitresses? But eventually I got a clue. “Santa” can also mean holy, and “fe” means faith, so Santa Fe = holy faith. The full name of the New Mexico state capital is “Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis,” or “Royal Village of the Holy Faith of St. Francis of Assisi” (see http://www.ci.santa-fe.nm.us/sfweb ). One sees why they shortened it to Santa Fe.
Incidentally, there is a Saint Fe, more commonly known as Saint Faith. Read all about her at http://saints.catholic.org/saints/faith.html .
By the way, today, July 4 is The feast day of St. Elizabeth of Portugal.
more info about her – http://saints.catholic.org/saints/elizabethportugal.html
Happy Independence Day!
Happy Fourth to all my fellow USA gang here…
What’s more American than some Chinese fireworks, a frankfurter with kraut, french fries, and a slice of dutch apple pie? 🙂
Go Melting Pot! (You know, I wonder how the British feel about us going off like this every year?)
word of the day – penury
Another word of the day for something I don’t want to be –
penury PEN-yuh-ree, noun:
1. Extreme poverty; destitution.
2. Absence of resources; insufficiency.
Penury is from Latin penuria, “lack, want.”
Happy Birthday
I hope you have a fantastic day! 🙂
Joel, one of my cab driving pals sent me this….
Is this what Newt sees in the mirror?
You know, Newt doesn’t look in the mirror much.
Writing my sweetheart a love note. Goonight, moon.
Not nude pictures, just writing sans garb.
Mr. Dark, a villain through and through. – Scary ugly, evil thing. (for )
Excerpt from Something Wicked This Way Comes:
“Well, what have you there?” Mr. Dark squinted. “A Bible? How Very Charming, how childish and refreshingly old-fashioned.”
“Have you ever read it, Mr. Dark?”
“Read it! I’ve had every page, paragraph, and word read at me, sir!” Mr. Dark took time to light a cigarette and blow smoke toward the NO SMOKING sign, then at Will’s father. “Do you really imagine that books can harm me? Is Naiveté really your armor? Here!”
And before Charles Halloway could move, Mr. Dark ran lightly forward and took the Bible. He held it in his two hands.
“Aren’t you surprised? See, I touch, hold, even read from it.”
Mr. Dark blew smoke on the pages as he riffled them.
“Do you expect me to fall away into so many Dead Sea scrolls of flesh before you? Myths, unfortunately, are just that. Life, and by life I could mean so many fascinating things, goes on, makes shift for itself, survives wildly, and I not the least wild among many. Your King James and his literary version of some rather stuffy poetic materials is worth about this much of my time and sweat.”
Mr. Dark hurled the Bible into a wastepaper basket and did not look at it again.
Lost cities, richard_simmons, enraptured and beatnickside all went byebye…. anyone know why?
rememver, to delete someone – check your console, in case you don’t want them undeleting and reading your friends only posts. see kruss’s excellent mention of how to here/