LJ getting some serious coverage!
This song is stuck in my head…Steve Martin from ‘let’s get small’
Thank you. You know folks, when I was a kid, I was pretty close to my grandmother and she used to sing a song to me when I was about this high. It always meant something to me and I’d like to do it for you right now because it does have meaning in today’s world even . . . all these years, you know those, even during the “hip drug days” you know when everybody was supposed to be so cool and everything had double meanings and this little simple tune would keep coming back to me and I think it kinda guided me through those years and I’d like to do this song for you right now, I think it might have a little meaning for you, so here it goes.
Be courteous, kind and forgiving,
Be gentle and peaceful each day,
Be warm and human and grateful,
And have a good thing to say.
Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike,
Be witty and happy and wise,
Be honest and love all your neighbors,
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.
Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus,
Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent,
Criticize things you don’t know about,
Be oblong and have your knees removed.
Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
Put a live chicken in your underwear,
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.
O. K. everybody!
Be courteous, kind and forgiving,
Be gentle and peaceful each day,
Be warm and human and grateful,
And have a good thing to say.
Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike,
(O. K. everybody on this!)
Be witty and happy and wise,
Be honest and love all your neighbors,
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.
(Let ’em hear you outside!)
Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus,
(Everybody sing!)
Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent,
Criticize things you don’t know about,
Be oblong and have your knees removed.
(Ladies only)
Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
(Now the men)
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
(Everybody)
Put a live chicken in your underwear,
Go into a closet and suck eggs.
http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=162585
Lyudmila, wife of Russian President Vladmir Putin, thinks he is a vampire, and mourns the fact that the former KGB agent went back into espionage as head of Russia’s Federal Security Service in 1998 — and even then he would regularly go to Finland to get away from the omnipresent microphones.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42991-2001Feb22.html
The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to approve a Pennsylvania biotechnology company’s proposal to conduct an experiment that would leave hundreds of sick, premature infants in Latin America without proven lifesaving medications.
Hurricane Names this Year…
for 2001
Allison
Barry
Chantal
Dean
Erin
Felix
Gabrielle
Humberto
Iris
Jerry
Karen
Lorenzo
Michelle
Noel
Olga
Pablo
Rebekah
Sebastien
Tanya
Van
Wendy
I like the sound of Hurricane Wendy… downright friendly. Lorenzo sounds dangerous, though.
In the Skin of the Lion is my current read. Having a little trouble limping through it… some great writing, just not getting into it. I liked The English Patient a good deal more… the characters cross from both books… An interesting thing.
A quote from a description of a girl rolling over: – “Clara turned slowly like something on the floor of the ocean.” I like that. 🙂
Much preferring old classics…I’m sidebar rereading my collected Mark Twain, and it rocks. That may be what’s pulling me away from In the Skin of the Lion.
Definition of “truncate” from dictonary.com:
Appearing to terminate abruptly, as a leaf of a tulip tree or a coiled gastropod shell that lacks a spire.
or better,
Appearing to terminate abruptly,
as a leaf of a tulip tree
or a coiled gastropod shell
that lacks a spire.
How cool is that?
AP Photo by Chuck Kimmerle, Grand Forks Herald
I don’t know, I’m hitting all the coolest web today.
Hope nobody feels Scotto-spammed.
Callipygean–Having a well-shaped buttocks.
Thank you, oh thank you, dictionary.com
*snerk
*snort
Ok, I can’t help it. I know what would happen if a kid was named this in an American School.
Bozo Matic – No, it’s not a toy, or appliance, or a poorly thought out website, it’s a real given name – and yes, he’s a real person. It just so happens he’s Croatian, and is now the new chairman of Bosnia’s government.
Courtesy of metafilter.
Ok, you guys can stop now!!
it’s official.
Please, I beg the gods of the ‘Net to stop sending me ‘All Your Base Are Belong to Us.
I have officially hit the 50 e-mail mark. (many of which attached the whole movie file, not just a link to it. a faux pas x 2)
Gadzooks. Fill up my free e-mailbox, why don’t ya?
The second definition of “ineffable” is lovely: “Not to be spoken because of its sacredness, unutterable.”
Favorite Twists…
“…it’s a cookbook! it’s a cookbook!”
“It’s made of people! peeeeeople!”
Chiming organ – “Dun Dun DUNNNNNNN”
“Hitler’s brain in a jar, *STILL ALIVE*”
flashing back on more old TV. Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Monsters, Tales from the Darkside, Night Gallery.
Why do I like such drivel? I dunno. I can’t say as I was ever scared from an episode… but there was certainly some weirdness. Rod Serling is especially cool… I could see him and Jack Webb fighting oddities, transdimensional space nazis, whathaveyou, Men in Black Style.
no gore needed, just a case of the “WHA??!?” works fine.
Current shows, (and I bet I get smacked around for this) like Buffy, just doesn’t cut it, in my opinion. The New TZ was ok, and the New outer Limits was not too bad, either.
public boolean whore(String x) { if (x = “Your Mom”) { return true; } else { return false; }
Nerd programmer insults.