I just watched a movie. Twice. Yeah, I'd vote for Pedro.

... consisted of dropping of the two larger kids (7+ and 6) at a pirates and princesses party at the local Presbytarian Church, then watching 'Monster's Inc.' while eating sugary treats and drinking chocolate milk with the smaller two (2 and 4), grandma and muerk. While the movie ran, I had to slink off to copy 'Monster Mash' from LP to a cassette so ( Read more... )

Via jewtemplar, who posted in got_physics, I found this :
Weird "kids'" music video featuring PI (QuickTime/Windows Media)
I think I'll have nightmares about that one.

Also, Slate has an article, "Twenty-five years of 'Weird Al'", which links to
'Weird Al' interviewing Eminem (YouTube). Brilliant ... "Wow! Another triple negative!", "You know what I'm sayin'?". Oh ( Read more... )

You may find it helpful to compare with the second scene here - warning:naughty words abound!

Julius: Pray my good colleague and travelled gentleman, tell me of the hash taverns ( Read more... )

Dear Internet people,
Today I fixed the EFTPOS terminal at the library. I just wanted to pay for a replacement card for child 2 of 4, secondary adjunct to unimatrix muerk and shoei-mike. The librarian said that it doesn't work sometimes, and then fiddled with the cables. On the third attempt, I asked what kind of error it was giving. It was a pinpad error. I ( Read more... )

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So, there's all this muckslinging involving acusations of adultery in one instance and homosexuality in another - this in a country which has passed legislation allowing civil unions between homosexuals, and legislation allowing married persons access to prostitution. Even homosexual adultery is allowed ( Read more... )

I'm sure some of you will really like the Femtroopers. Break down that imperial recruitment misogynism, girlfriend! This obviously created much needed new work for the empire's uniform design department.

Just realised I should x-post to kaosians. Doing now - sorry about the duplicates.

Benedict ecks vee aye, he's our guy!

Speaking at Castel Gandolfo (the Holy Father's summer residence) on the feast day of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153),
Benedict XVI said: "It is necessary to pay attention to the dangers of excessive activity, regardless of one's condition and occupation, observes the saint, because -- as he said to the ( Read more... )

In the comments on a Slashdot book review, one user, Ed Avis had written, "I like that review... it starts off reasonable, and gets increasingly Time Cube [timecube.com] as it goes on." Wondering what getting 'Time Cube' could mean...
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