Full Version: The surrealism of everyday life
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But she didn't HAVE any parents until last summer. That's what's so weird. She just merrily slotted right into the role of cynical disbeliever of parental wisdom.
well, i don't know about all this but i don't believe a word you say either.
QUOTE(GrantK @ Aug 8 2007, 07:35 PM) 
Now, you would think somebody would recognize that as something they'd lost...!
QUOTE(flyfish @ Aug 8 2007, 09:50 PM)
QUOTE(GrantK @ Aug 8 2007, 07:35 PM)
Now, you would think somebody would recognize that as something they'd lost...!
It sounds like something Banksy would do.
QUOTE(Blondie @ Aug 8 2007, 07:01 PM)
QUOTE(flyfish @ Aug 8 2007, 09:50 PM)
QUOTE(GrantK @ Aug 8 2007, 07:35 PM)
Now, you would think somebody would recognize that as something they'd lost...!
It sounds like something Banksy would do.
It sure does.
A shop in Laguna Beach... chuckling at the "Bark, Bath, & Beyond" but BAKERY???
Carolyn, you mean to tell me you don't have a Three Dog Bakery Cookbook in your possession??? I think they are franchising the actual bakeries these days.
The Original Three Dog
The Original Three Dog
"This is really, on the edge sort of stuff," explains Dr. Robert Fox Spars, who worked on developing the procedure. "We're turning plastic surgery from something that people use in service of vanity, to a real tool for improving workplace efficiency."
Surgery alters thumbs to better use iphones
Surgery alters thumbs to better use iphones
QUOTE(GrantK @ Aug 11 2007, 07:40 PM)
I could have sworn that was a joke story from the Onion...
QUOTE(flyfish @ Aug 12 2007, 08:22 PM)
QUOTE(GrantK @ Aug 11 2007, 07:40 PM)
I could have sworn that was a joke story from the Onion...
not the onion, but intended as satire
This poster went for $197! It's a beautiful image but it's all tattered.
Did you buy or sell?
QUOTE(mongo_jones @ Aug 12 2007, 09:55 PM)
Oh, thank goodness, either that or my cynicism levels are on overload.
QUOTE(GrantK @ Aug 13 2007, 12:20 AM)
Did you buy or sell?
No, but I did have a moment of insanity when I considered it. Happily it passed.
There's a hookah bar opening in Napa, California. Napa. My Napa. Little old ass backwards Napa is getting a hookah bar. It's going to be called "The Smoking Cat" and according to the sign will feature Espresso, Boba, Hookah and something else I didn't catch as I was too busy choking on my water.
I forgot to mention that the guide on the tour of Salvador that my conference took sounded exactly like Borat.
"Theez church, she eez very nize, I think. Theez angel, she 'as boobies. But theez angel, he 'as a man sack."
I am not making this up.
"Theez church, she eez very nize, I think. Theez angel, she 'as boobies. But theez angel, he 'as a man sack."
I am not making this up.
QUOTE(g.johnson @ Aug 14 2007, 10:39 AM)
I forgot to mention that the guide on the tour of Salvador that my conference took sounded exactly like Borat.
"Theez church, she eez very nize, I think. Theez angel, she 'as boobies. But theez angel, he 'as a man sack."
I am not making this up.
"Theez church, she eez very nize, I think. Theez angel, she 'as boobies. But theez angel, he 'as a man sack."
I am not making this up.
I have found that a reason to be cheerful.
QUOTE(g.johnson @ Aug 14 2007, 07:39 AM)
I forgot to mention that the guide on the tour of Salvador that my conference took sounded exactly like Borat.
"Theez church, she eez very nize, I think. Theez angel, she 'as boobies. But theez angel, he 'as a man sack."
I am not making this up.
"Theez church, she eez very nize, I think. Theez angel, she 'as boobies. But theez angel, he 'as a man sack."
I am not making this up.
El Salvador?
Salvador, Brazil.
Hearing a news reporter refer to "Cornholio".
QUOTE(Aaron T @ Aug 14 2007, 01:47 PM)
QUOTE(g.johnson @ Aug 14 2007, 07:39 AM)
I forgot to mention that the guide on the tour of Salvador that my conference took sounded exactly like Borat.
"Theez church, she eez very nize, I think. Theez angel, she 'as boobies. But theez angel, he 'as a man sack."
I am not making this up.
"Theez church, she eez very nize, I think. Theez angel, she 'as boobies. But theez angel, he 'as a man sack."
I am not making this up.
El Salvador?
Story in the NY Times about a woman being mistakenly flown to El Salvador instead of Salvador, Brazil. Happens regularly it appears.
QUOTE(Blondie @ Aug 14 2007, 09:35 PM)
Hearing a news reporter refer to "Cornholio".
did he ask for tp for his bunghole?
QUOTE(hollywood @ Aug 14 2007, 10:43 PM)
Story in the NY Times about a woman being mistakenly flown to El Salvador instead of Salvador, Brazil. Happens regularly it appears.
In the news here a few years back was the story of a British couple who thought they'd got a really great deal to fly to Sydney, Australia, and ended up in Sydney, Cape Breton instead.
OK why did the beautiful poster become a box that says "Image does not exist"? That's like really surreal.
QUOTE(rancho_gordo @ Aug 13 2007, 12:08 AM)
This poster went for $197! It's a beautiful image but it's all tattered.
This morning I observed kitty licking, with evident enjoyment, a bar of Pears soap.
The food board I frequent has three separate threads about restraining orders.
QUOTE(Cathy @ Aug 15 2007, 01:38 PM)
The food board I frequent has three separate threads about restraining orders.
Five, if you count the one for publishing them and the initial discussion...
QUOTE(Cathy @ Aug 15 2007, 10:38 AM)
The food board I frequent has three separate threads about restraining orders.
Is it too early in the day for jalapinas?
Does anyone else spend their spare time thinking up really silly fictitious names, and then cracking up over them?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
QUOTE(Wilfrid @ Aug 15 2007, 11:26 AM)
Does anyone else spend their spare time thinking up really silly fictitious names, and then cracking up over them?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
What was your name before you changed it?
QUOTE(Wilfrid @ Aug 15 2007, 11:26 AM)
Does anyone else spend their spare time thinking up really silly fictitious names, and then cracking up over them?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
Naw, just your DNA. You have an over-abundance of BRIT in you. Nobody on this planet has sillier words. Or enjoys them so.
QUOTE(Aaron T @ Aug 15 2007, 02:23 PM)
QUOTE(Cathy @ Aug 15 2007, 10:38 AM)
The food board I frequent has three separate threads about restraining orders.
Is it too early in the day for jalapinas?
Mostly juice, right? We drink juice for breakfast.
QUOTE(Wilfrid @ Aug 15 2007, 02:26 PM)
Does anyone else spend their spare time thinking up really silly fictitious names, and then cracking up over them?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
It's Eric Idle syndrome. No known cure.
QUOTE(Wilfrid @ Aug 15 2007, 01:26 PM)
Does anyone else spend their spare time thinking up really silly fictitious names, and then cracking up over them?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
i am ordained by the universal life church as the reverend armando smellypants. also, the reverend geoffrey hairybuns.
QUOTE(Wilfrid @ Aug 15 2007, 02:26 PM)
Does anyone else spend their spare time thinking up really silly fictitious names, and then cracking up over them?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
Should I ever need a stage name, I'm going with Johnny Cheezwhiz.
I'm also inordinately proud of the name Eula Mae Poobner for a character in a short story I wrote long, long ago.
Chad
QUOTE(Aaron T @ Aug 15 2007, 11:23 AM)
QUOTE(Cathy @ Aug 15 2007, 10:38 AM)
The food board I frequent has three separate threads about restraining orders.
Is it too early in the day for jalapinas?
Only because Centrico isn't open yet.
QUOTE(Chad Ward @ Aug 15 2007, 03:27 PM)
QUOTE(Wilfrid @ Aug 15 2007, 02:26 PM)
Does anyone else spend their spare time thinking up really silly fictitious names, and then cracking up over them?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
I just came up with Paltry McSkunkwaggle.
Should I check my meds?
Should I ever need a stage name, I'm going with Johnny Cheezwhiz.
I'm also inordinately proud of the name Eula Mae Poobner for a character in a short story I wrote long, long ago.
Chad
Wasn't Eula Mae Holly Golightly's name?
Toyah Flangecock. She's a singer.
Hootie Godiddle.
Clothilde Von Stoopladle.
See? Can't stop.
Hootie Godiddle.
Clothilde Von Stoopladle.
See? Can't stop.
I have a friend who routinely makes restaurant reservations under the name "Thundermuffin".
Charles Philip Arthur George Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
Oops, that really is someone's name.
Oops, that really is someone's name.
A friend of mine from the South with the last name Butt had an uncle named Red (yes, he was a redhead) and an aunt named Fanny. Red Butt and Fanny Butt.
all of this reminds me of when homer decided to change his name to max power:
homer: there's three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the max power way!
bart: uh, isn't that the same as the wrong way?
homer: yes, but faster!
as i recall, he failed to convince marge to change her name to hootie mcboobins.
homer: there's three ways to do things: the right way, the wrong way, and the max power way!
bart: uh, isn't that the same as the wrong way?
homer: yes, but faster!
as i recall, he failed to convince marge to change her name to hootie mcboobins.
At this point I feel obligated to reveal my porn names:
Lance Pronghorn and Dirk Manley
When that casting call comes, I'll be ready.
Chad
Lance Pronghorn and Dirk Manley
When that casting call comes, I'll be ready.
Chad
Shank Whaleborgle.
Teensy Nutts.
Larrigan O'Spume.
McWelty Flapcookie.
Gandolphin Smegg.
Teensy Nutts.
Larrigan O'Spume.
McWelty Flapcookie.
Gandolphin Smegg.
QUOTE(Wilfrid @ Aug 15 2007, 04:51 PM)
Shank Whaleborgle.
Teensy Nutts.
Larrigan O'Spume.
McWelty Flapcookie.
Gandolphin Smegg.
Teensy Nutts.
Larrigan O'Spume.
McWelty Flapcookie.
Gandolphin Smegg.
I fear you may have listened to too much Round the Horne at an impressionable age.
Perhaps too much Ernie Kovacs what with Percy Dovetonsils and Stan Dundermilk.
QUOTE(Daisy @ Aug 15 2007, 12:31 PM)
Wasn't Eula Mae Holly Golightly's name?
Oooooo. Great trivia question. What was her married last name in the BatT? I don't know . . .
QUOTE(Chad Ward @ Aug 15 2007, 03:27 PM)
Should I ever need a stage name, I'm going with Johnny Cheezwhiz.
My avatar boy has at times performed under the name Stoop Solo.
While wearing a gorilla chest.
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