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Monday, March 15, 2004
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TODAY'S LOVE NOTE
(Introduction)
Your love was worth waiting for, now I am complete.
posted by Harvey at 10:51:14 PM permalink HOME
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TODAY’S GRAFFITI
CURRENCY
[Herb - Keep this 4-EVER! myg]
myg - Screw U! I need a beer! - Herb
posted by Harvey at 10:49:40 PM permalink HOME
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BEER MADNESS!
Physics Geek has posted the official announcement of the start of Beer
Madness up at Alliance HQ, with instructions on how to submit your
March Madness picks in order to have a chance to win some of his
super-yummy home-brewed beer. Folks, I've had some of his ambrosial
libation, and this stuff is worth breaking your mother's kneecaps for
(sorry, mom, it needed to be said).
Click here to be told where else to click and what to do.
Best hurry, since the deadline is Thursday.
posted by Harvey at 9:53:38 PM permalink HOME
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BEST BEST OF ME EVER
Gary of The Owner's Manual hosts the Best of Me Symphony,
and has the most delightful Hollywood Squares theme going, including
some priceless quotes from the show between entries. I have NO idea
where he dug these up, but even if you don't read a single entry, you
have to go just to read goodies like:
The
question: Charley, you've just decided to grow
strawberries. Are you going to get any during your first year?
Charley Weaver: Of course not, Peter. I'm too busy growing
strawberries!
While I was there, I discovered that Let It Bleed posted a hilarious (if completely fictional) interview with Michael Moore. I can just imagine that bloated sack of crap sweating like a pregnant sow over pointed questions such as:
LIB: [...] you claim to speak for the
downtrodden and powerless against the powerful, while all the while
inveighing against wealth and privilege, yet you’re a multimillionaire
who lives in one of the most expensive neighbourhoods in America, you
are routinely chauffeured around in SUVs and send your daughter to an
elite private school. How do you reconcile those seeming discrepancies?
Just delicious. Go get the rest of it.
posted by Harvey at 9:46:22 PM permalink HOME
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A POEM
I first read The Hobbit when I was 10, and one of my favorite chapters
was "Riddles in the Dark". One of Gollum's riddles to Bilbo went thusly;
This thing all things devours
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers
Gnaws iron, bites steel,
Grinds hard stones to meal,
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountains down!
That one stumped me, and I would've been a hapless little meat snack at that point, but Bilbo lucked out.
Over at We Swear, _Jon has posted an excellent little poem
which reminds me of a Hobbity riddle. Go take a peek & see if you
can guess what he's poeming about before you get to the last line.
posted by Harvey at 9:35:13 PM permalink HOME
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SOAP CLOWNS BURNT = PRISON ART
Graumagus of Frizzen Sparks whips out the first installment of "I feel lucky",
wherein he puts 3 random words into Google, hits the "I'm feeling
lucky" button & lets you know what pops up. It's almost as
surprising as John Kerry's position on any given issue. Let's see what
he pulled out of the hat:
They can't all be winners. USDA web site? *YAWN*
Prison art? Hmmm... maybe Lynn should weigh in on this.
What's that other one? Chapel Furnace? Now here's something interesting. A blog of sorts, and it doesn't take long to find a winner here. The author links to an 1895 8th grade graduation test. Yeah, standards have fallen a bit. How many cubic feet in a bushel? How many square rods in an acre?
Crap. Looks like I'm getting held back...
Anyway, Graumagus could use some more word lists,
so if you'd like to help out, it's actually pretty easy. Just grab a
newspaper & start selecting words. Your list will fill up in no
time.
posted by Harvey at 9:20:24 PM permalink HOME
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THIS, TOO, SERVED IN VIETNAM
I spent 4 years attached to an aircraft carrier while I was in the
Navy, and I can say without exaggeration that these things are the most
amazing specimens of mechanical engineering ever to be created by the
hand of man. 1000 feet long, 200 feet high, and still able to top 35
mph, which is hard to believe as you stand pierside, gazing up at this
90,000 TON haze-grey steel behemoth.
The USS Midway, which, unlike John Kerry, served with HONOR in Vietnam
and expressed NO regrets afterwards, will soon be opening as a museum
in San Diego. They're trying to raise some money, and I'll just steal
the explanation from Mike the Marine:
The USS Midway (CVA-41) is now berthed at the Navy Pier
at the foot of Broadway in downtown San Diego and is in the process of
being converted into "The San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum" (SDACM).
The opening date is targeted for the first week of June, 2004 to
coincide with the anniversary of the Battle of Midway.
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Midway fighters accounted for both the FIRST and the LAST air combat victories of the Vietnam War!
Therefore,
the drive is underway to raise the required $40,000 necessary to
authentically paint and prepare for display aboard Midway, an F-4
Phantom II in the colors and markings of The Freelancers of Fighter
Squadron Twenty-One (VF-21) and The Chargers of Fighter Squadron One
Six One (VF-161). The names of the "first & last" aviators listed
above, will be placed on the canopy rails in the traditional manner.
The names of all Midway Mig killers will be placed on the intake ramp
of the aircraft.
Because this aircraft represents the Beginning
through the End of air-to-air combat in Vietnam, it symbolically
commemorates the combat operations conducted by all Navy Phantom
squadrons, and salutes the courage and dedication of all Navy Phantom
flyers and Phantom fixers of the Vietnam War.
I checked out the official website www.MidwayPhantom.com and they ask for donations and/or that word of this project be spread. So I'm doing both.
Please feel free to help out in either capacity as you see fit.
posted by Harvey at 9:01:26 PM permalink HOME
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