I think it's a perfectly charming sweater. At least he's not licking Mr. Lucky's privates.

As this photo from my mad, unrestrained youth shows, with a little more practice, they would have been calling me Mr Lucky.

Oh wait. They did!

Somone sent me a package from Omaha Steaks earlier this year. Omaha keeps sending me special offers as a result. For the first time I noticed that the company's offices are on John Galt Blvd. I keep looking through the package deals for the Objectivist special.

There's an Atlas Valley shopping center here. Streets in the area include Dagny Way and Galt Way; the landscaping features a fountain.

Did anyone else see this headline and think "Kids in the Hall?

yes, big time.

Fly

the best way to counter a head crusher is with a face pincher. not that it is finally effective.

Wonkette agrees.

[shrugs]

Just what we all need, something new to worry about at work.

Fly

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770

At last, the serious issues of the day are being grasped. But why aren't they speaking to the UK about it? He's not a yank.

A suspicious looking duffel bag was found in the complex of Federal buildings in downtown LA yesterday (9/11). Bomb squads were called. Three buildings were evacuated. No bomb, but the bag was filled with wires. Was it a test? Was it a bad joke? No one knows.

Fashion note at window of closed MTA kiosk: "I am in the station helping passengers. I can be identified by my Burgundy blazer/vest." With violet piping and silk lilac lining, burnt umber suede pants and violet felt slippers.

Mmm.

Is this the new look for fall?

From a friend's bulletin about her store in East LA somewhere (I think). Are guys really that desperate down there?

Hi all, Singles Night is this Friday. As of this writing, more men than women have RSVPd, which makes Frannie and I a little anxious cuz neither of us are single â¦

Singles Night
Friday, September 15, 6-9

Bring your friends and your craft projects. If you want to volunteer to teach nonknitting singles how to knit or crochet, email me. Weâll have light refreshments of course. PS, this isnât some speed dating thing, just singles getting together and crafting.

Edit: emphasis added

'Crafting' is a verb??

Yes, sort of like IMing.

Maybe it's just a bunch of guys trying to score hand knit sweaters? Or maybe they saw the needles and thought piercing was involved?

Sasha is doing most of his business in the USA.

Kazakhstan-that model country of democracy and fairness. (Admin please note!!!). Eat me.

Tonight is Men's Night. They're in Eagle Rock. Whatever makes people happy!

In property class I sit next to an extremely nice guy who had been in the Navy for 6 or 7 years before coming to law school. At some point during class today I glanced at his computer screen where I saw:

Yeah, like "gift," in the minds of the silly.

On which Friday do they have the circle jerk?

This could be a study. Is he just cyncial, or will he be your first class dropout?

Is this how law school is these days? All the students have computers?

The students, the professors, the attorneys, the judges.

My (nearly) six year old comes home from school with the phrase "See ya later, alligator!", which I seem to recall my mother and father telling me was a piece of jive talk thought out-dated in their. That's one tenacious piece of nonsense!

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After a while, crocodile.

I would say that 98% of students have computers in class. There's good and bad- I like the feedback of the typing. Meaning, I know when the majority of people think something is important and when they don't. When I hear the sound of 89 people start furiously typing away, I know the prof is saying something important that I should listen to. But sometimes it's really hard to hear timid students in a lecutre hall with 90 people typing.

Exactly. I am surprised I remember, but it was hearing that song in my youth which prompted me to ask my mum and dad what the hell it meant.

Much too soon, big baboon.

um, on tuesday, sting ray?

Mongo, you have just called the mother of my cousin "an unprofitable whore".

i have? well, she is. let's face it, she is just giving it away.

Never mind the mother, what about the cousin?

Ok, true, but when the family gets together and starts trying to shame her into adhering to fair market pricing, and listening to market research (at least that's what Uncle Brock calls it), she just gets all defensive and accuses us of not believing in her career.

Rage over myspace photo leads to arrest

A 22-year-old woman was arrested after authorities say she tried to hire someone to kill another woman whose photo appeared on her boyfriend's MySpace.com Web page.
Heather Michelle Kane was booked Tuesday for investigation of conspiracy to commit murder, Mesa Detective Jerry Gissel said.

She was arrested after she met an undercover Mesa police detective at a grocery store, gave the officer $400 and offered to pay an additional $100 once the woman had been killed, according to court records.

The records say Kane gave the undercover officer photographs taken from her boyfriend's social networking Web page of the woman she wanted killed. She also requested a photo of the woman's dead body.

It wasn't clear if the boyfriend and the targeted woman were romantically involved, Gissel said.


Okay, a jealous rage isn't that surreal, but how do these people keep soliciting undercover police officers? Is there an undercover fake hit man unit in most police departments?

What I think is surreal is that this woman seriously thinks someone should be willing to murder another person - take a life - and risk everything for $500 bucks.

Fly

OK, OK, $600.

Well it is US $, not Canadian.

Yeah....that only made a difference when the US dollar wasn't practically at par.

$500 to kill someone....I'd be asking for a few more zeroes on the end of that.

If you happen to run into a crocodile, ask with a knowing smile what a stingray would charge.

Not worth it for $558.80 either!

Fly

Well, whenever someone offers me $500 to off an enemy, I always say, "Make it Euros."

A coworker just said good night and mentioned she is off to see Jimmy Buffet later.

Was she wearing a Hawaiian print shirt?

From an email I got from angleterre-paris-hotel.com:

Derived alternative: Do unto others as you would have done to you, but do it first.

Never put off till (until) tomorrow what you can do today. Just do it! (Nike slogan.) If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. A picture is worth a thousand words. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols (1888)
I.e., One is often better off keeping his mouth shut. If words could only speak, they'd mean even less. Waste not, want not. He who last, lasts, laughs last. You are responsible for you. After a storm comes a calm.
The English are a nation of shopkeepers (attributed to Napoleon) I.e., One is often better off keeping his mouth shut. Half a loaf is better than none. You win a few, you lose a few. A lie has no legs. Behind every good man, is a woman. Little things please little minds It's never too late to mend. History never repeats itself, but it does rhyme. - Mark Twain
Attributed to Winston Churchill. It's easier to turn falsehood loose than correct it everywhere it runs to. All that glistens is not gold. If you practice wrong you will always do it wrong Half a loaf is better than none.
Not worth ! you wont get. Make yourself worthy. (Manu MR) God is a living God. History never repeats itself, but it does rhyme. - Mark Twain A good surgeon has an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. Starve a cold, feed a fever. Practice does not make perfect but a perfect practice makes perfect. Don't put the cart before the horse.
When the cat's away, the mice will play. Red sky at night: shepherd's delight. Red sky in the morning: shepherd's warning. Those who lost dreaming are lost. Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at night. Men age like wine; women age like milk. Who keeps company with the wolves, will learn to howl.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. A miss by an inch is a miss by a mile. Birds of a feather flock together. Birds of a feather flock together. To err is human; to forgive is divine. (Pope, Essay on Criticism) Don't cross a bridge until you come to it.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. April showers bring May flowers. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will break my spirit. Misery loves company. April showers bring May flowers. Never, Never... allow anyone to persuade you to suspend your common sense. What a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive.

Is it supposed to be some sort of chain letter?