You know, I’d feel bad about us not getting a post together tonight, but I know for a fact that you just come here for the comments anyway, so it’s no big deal.
Anyway, you’ve got the whole weekend ahead of you and a wad of cash in your sweaty little fist (which is all covered in Cheeto dust), so maybe you could dump a little of it on one of our fine advertisers.
There’s Rogue Amoeba. They make good stuff. Although Kafasis tried to kill me that one time.
Well, there’s also Delicious Monster. The things they can do with an iSight camera. Tell you what. Although Shipley did call me a… well, let’s just say he said I like to do something to dogs that I don’t. Totally. I mean… really. I don’t even know how that would work.
Anyway, that brings us to our new advertisers: Shiny White Box and Many Tricks. They also make boss software and so far neither of their CEOs has tried to kill me or accused me of being into bestiality.
Of course, we’ve only just met so…
I should probably give them some time.
…
Do you think Gruber has this kind of relationship with his advertisers?
I thought Charlie Watts was the android metro-gnome. Keith Richards is still kicking, isn’t he? And of course I know Brian Jones never drowned: he’s still swimming the Channel lengthwise…can’t find the far shore…
Del,
We need you over at the main post to cross some iBrownies with Tonkatsu Curry to create a new sexbot line.
Can’t say I’m loving it yet…
The X11 being screwed up really bugs me… I do like how shiny it seems though 🙂
Leopard won’t run on my Pismo. 🙁
1825,… isn’t that the year that some guy invented this thing that did something,.. probably not,… nevermind..
Thanks Doc, must have been the brownies, not the faries, not the little girls, but the baked goods.
These nineteenth-century dates bring back memories… which is weird, because I’m pretty sure I wasn’t around then. Unless this is all a futuristic dream from which I will wake to find myself a black slave in the deep south before the Emancipation Proclamation has been proclaimed.
The time of the last train from Ponsonby Norton to Macclesfield Central, pre Beeching.
Isn’t this seal cub culling time?
Do we have any seal cubs in the tunnels?
Do we have any Wolf Cubs, or would that upset Bathing Towel?
I don’t know about anywhere else, but here we have snow.
The rest of you will get yours, eventually.
In 1831, a lot happened! (See http://www.brainyhistory.com/years/1831.html)
for example, appropos to Ace’s last comment:
Jan 1 – William Lloyd Garrison publishes 1st issue of abolitionist journal
If I am dreaming, I hope I never wake up! Sleep, baby, sleep….
Oh wait, I’m not dreaming at all…I’m just a character in The Saragossa Manuscript. That explains everything.
Had our first snow last week.
Am enjoying spaces on leopard 🙂
Not enjoying SMB locking my laptop up.
Amazing news this morning. Father Christmasses are being advised not to greet children with the traditional “Ho! Ho! Ho!” as it might be mistaken for the rapper’s word.
Otherwise no Snow, except Jon on Channel Four News.
I just heard a rumor that the tunnels are starting to fill up with turkeys trying to find a hiding place for next week. Can we unlimber the iFlames and roast them a little early?
Be careful of those at the UK end.
We’ve got bird flu.
Nxxx, just turn the iFlame up to incinerate, that’ll make em safe from consumtion.ı
wait now they have bird flu and consumption?
Yes Del, they are very sick birds, hell, they stand in their own feces.
And the Welsh have Gryphon Flu, which is even worse as your wings break out in festering pustules and you must walk everywhere.
Should anyone want to pop over with an iFlame, our Parliament is full of turkeys.
Should anyone want to pop over with an iFlame, our Parliament is full of turkeys.
And now we need to hunt twice as many of them?
Oh yeah? Well, our Congress is full of pork-pushers in the form of elephants and donkeys.
Perhaps we should change the name of the Palace of Westminster to The Ruling Menagerie?
What are you going to call your respected leaders’ pad?
Let’s see. “Land of pork and money” springs to mind. Of course, it isn’t as quite as poetic as “The Ruling Menagerie.”
Then again, “respected leaders” is a comparative term on both counts.
And on this year in history…
January 24 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California
No relation to Northern Rock and the sub prime mortgage market then?
No relation to Northern Rock and the sub prime mortgage market then?
Ahh, the smell of coffee in the morning…
Wait, that’s not coffee, it’s the putrescence of effete decadence, with the unmistakable taint of gross overindulgence!
No, actually it’s a lemony-fresh tunnel rat.
1852, the year that the Great Exhibition was moved from Hyde Park to Penge Common at the top of Dulwich Woods. This area later became known, following its enlargement, as Crystal Palace. There was an atmospheric railway and a ‘loop the loop’ ride in Victorian times. It burnt down in the late thirties as an exiled Scot wished to see Glasgow before he died.
Wasn’t that boring, now beat it.
More interesting than Northern Rock!
I’ve heard of Southern Rock, but what is this Northern Rock you type of?
In 1855 the strongest earthquake ever recorded in New Zealand, which reached Magnitude 8.1 on the Richter Scale.
It had nothing to do with early branches of the tunnels in those areas collapsing.
Here at the University of Tera-Post, we prepare you for a stellar career in Factoid Blather and Advanced Gobbledegook.
The color of the day is Burnt Hombre.
It’s okay for you guys, you’ve got Thanksgiving coming up, Streetrabbit has an election and all we’ve got is the Queen’s 60th wedding anniversary. That is Queen as in Brenda, nor Brian and Freddie’s mob.
KTD,
Northern Rock is the first British Bank to be saved from a run of withdrawals by a government loan in umpteen years.
It is not another name for the Manchester/Newcastle music scene or a reaction to the re-launch of the soft rock Hotel California gang.
Rats, I missed Minnesota statehood!
That’s okay, you nailed Oregon statehood, which is much more prestigious.
What about poor Kansas? Won’t anyone think of Kansas?
Poor bleeding Kansas, had a lot to do with the U.S Civil War starting in 1861, Del, (I wanted that number, oh I guess I can wait for the #%^*post), I’m sure 1862 had some great Confederate victories, cause they pretty much kicked butt the first two years.
Alright, I made it out again. Damn that lemony flushing was getting annoying, but at least I had a bath this year.
Remember that just because turkeys are foul creatures which stand in their own shit and are slaughtered en-mass this time of year, that doesn’t make them unwise. Heed their advice this week and GOBBLE GOBBLE!
HAPPY TURKEY DAY!! (Yeah I’m a little early, but I’ll be too busy trippin on Thursday to awake in here. Better early than late, right? No? Look, lay off me already. I’m still wet from the damn tunnels and I reek of lemons.)
All we know about Kansas over this side of the Pond is “Everything’s up to date in Kansas City” and Count Basie had seven.
Has that anything to do with Kansas Statehood?
BTW Our Civil War started in 1642 and it is still going on.
You Brits are so polite and considerate. We tried to maintain a civil war, but the troops started squabbling and name-calling, and it devolved into something less than genteel.
Enjoy your hols, guys, we’ve got to make do with fish and chips, well onion rings for me as a veggie. Not even Spam.
1867 was the year in which Seward bought Alaska from Russia. He was planning to buy the rest of the northern lands but lost his kitty in a poker game; thus the Dominion of Canada was formed. Good for us in the States, as that’s where we get all our comedians and folk singers.
Me being a veggie I had a wonderful veg stew for Thanksgiving. Nice yummy veggies cooked all day in a crockpot with fresh homemade biscuits.
YUM!
Sounds nice, Del. All done in a slow cooker, make one or two a week pour moi.
Must admit that sometimes I feel guilty about the poor plants that are now rootless or topless.
You could swear off vegetables as well as meat. That would leave you, um, salt and water. Also Astroturf.
I don’t know Ace,… dirt is rather filling, of course you’d have to filter it for organic materials, choch full of minerals it is, really nice stuff as long as the cats leave it alone.