Corn Crake
Feb. 3rd, 2006 05:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonWho on earth would actually get a tattoo from a door to door tattoo salesman?!? I try to imagine the sales pitch and the thought process that leads to someone doing that on the spur of the moment, and I'm coming up at a complete loss. It wasn't just one person who bought one either - apparently he got three at the same apartment complex.
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So, it would seem that Congressman Boehner is now Majority Leader. Given that their choices were Blunt, Flake, or Boehner, you knew it was going to turn out undignified.
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I wonder sometimes what the BBC's American affairs analyst has been smoking. A couple weeks ago the fellow was on about how crazy Americans are for Laura Bush, and how people are seriously considering her for the next President. This week's column explains how Bush's plan to reduce dependence on Arab oil is really a Green initiative. He does admit in a footnote that one reader has suggested it might have something to do with oil prices instead :) You'd hope these were being presented as comedy columns, but I don't think they are.
As an odd bit of trivia that I've just learned, the President's great-grandfather, Samuel Prescott Bush, is from Columbus. He's apparently buried down in Greenlawn.
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My ISP's webmail server is down for maintenance. They badly broke the thing a few months back with an 'upgrade' that makes it slower and clunkier, mainly by adding lots of graphics to convince me what a high tech experience I'm having. I'm discovering again the satisfaction of connecting via telnet to the server, and reading my mail that way. For one thing, telnet view doesn't "help" me by hiding certain characters behind hyperlinks, etc. I used to read my mail from the command line for years and years. There's a certain spartan satisfaction to it, plus it's faster than hell and shows me all the headers.
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Anschluss of the Nazi Raccoons! I love the phrase "Nazi Raccoons".
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So, it would seem that Congressman Boehner is now Majority Leader. Given that their choices were Blunt, Flake, or Boehner, you knew it was going to turn out undignified.
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I wonder sometimes what the BBC's American affairs analyst has been smoking. A couple weeks ago the fellow was on about how crazy Americans are for Laura Bush, and how people are seriously considering her for the next President. This week's column explains how Bush's plan to reduce dependence on Arab oil is really a Green initiative. He does admit in a footnote that one reader has suggested it might have something to do with oil prices instead :) You'd hope these were being presented as comedy columns, but I don't think they are.
As an odd bit of trivia that I've just learned, the President's great-grandfather, Samuel Prescott Bush, is from Columbus. He's apparently buried down in Greenlawn.
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My ISP's webmail server is down for maintenance. They badly broke the thing a few months back with an 'upgrade' that makes it slower and clunkier, mainly by adding lots of graphics to convince me what a high tech experience I'm having. I'm discovering again the satisfaction of connecting via telnet to the server, and reading my mail that way. For one thing, telnet view doesn't "help" me by hiding certain characters behind hyperlinks, etc. I used to read my mail from the command line for years and years. There's a certain spartan satisfaction to it, plus it's faster than hell and shows me all the headers.
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Anschluss of the Nazi Raccoons! I love the phrase "Nazi Raccoons".
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Date: 2006-02-03 12:30 pm (UTC)I'm up there with Nazi Cockroaches.
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Date: 2006-02-03 02:01 pm (UTC)haha take away tattoo to go anyone?
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Date: 2006-02-03 03:28 pm (UTC)http://www.diewaschbaerenkommen.de is a very nice site about german raccoons (though it is in german). With wonderful pictures (http://www.diewaschbaerenkommen.de/html/galerie.html), and a map (http://www.diewaschbaerenkommen.de/html/verbreitung.html) of where the raccoons are in germany.
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Date: 2006-02-03 06:08 pm (UTC)I don't know, it's the sort of thing I can see doing on the spur of the moment, too. Especially if the salesman got me drunk or something.