YSaC, Vol. 713: Getting there is half the fun, come share it with me.

2010 June 30

looking for fright


I drive a cargo van to upper Mi. and find myself driving back emty to milwaukee if you have fright call me mike xxx xxx xxxx

I have plenty of fright that I can share with our friend Mike here. Hmmm, let’s see, what am I afraid of? The heat death of the universe! Satellite debris crashing to earth! Ocelots!*

But seriously, I’m all about helping.** Let’s see if we can find Mike something to drive between WI and MI.

Driver for celebrity


Celebrity woman is looking for a temporary driver. Retires OK car not required but helpful. Meet other celebrities drive to big time events. Driver would be needed to transport celebrity to high profile functions, this particular celebrity is not rich so the pay is very minimul, however she is a bone-e-fide celebrity. e-mail here [email address] Txs
Valid Driving License Needed.
background check required

I doubt celebrity woman will be going places much more exotic than Milwaukee and upper Michigan, so maybe celebrity woman can ride in the back of Mike’s cargo van!

*Okay, ocelots aren’t really frightening. Especially the ocelittles.

**This may not actually be true.

Thanks, j and Roberta!

236 Responses leave one →
  1. 2010 June 30
    Julia permalink

    Bone-e = Bony
    Fide = Federation Internationale des Echecs

    So she’s a famous anorexic chess player?

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    • 2010 June 30
      LurkRealClose permalink

      Wow! That’s brilliant. I’ve, um….got nothing. 🙁

      *goes to slice the coffee*

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      • 2010 June 30
        TacoMagic permalink

        Something disgusting that I’m toying with trying at the next gaming session where I get to slice the coffee:

        Coffee + Unflavoured Gelatin + Cream.

        Enjoy.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Grampdaddy permalink

          OH BOY! – Jello shots! Only different. Really, really different.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Bridgete permalink

          Taco, you’re bringing that to the next YS@C potluck, right?*

          *Because I’ve decided there’s already been one, so of course there’s a “next” one.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Moira permalink

          You have, of course, as a coffee aficionado and geek, seen Agatha Heterodyne’s reaction to coffee, right?
          http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070523

          Also, there’s this:
          http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/flashback_the_florence_siphon_arabi.html

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        • 2010 June 30
          Jen permalink

          Wah I’m so confused! “Moira” is a very pretty girl’s name (both a name which is pretty and a name of pretty girls), but that’s an _ever_ so massive link. I think I’ll just be impressed, and leave it at that. 🙂

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        • 2010 June 30
          Moira permalink

          I borrowed the link from my hubby.

          It’s coffee *and* science on the other end. I’m told it’s even very very *good* coffee (I would not know seeing as I cannot stand the taste of coffee in any form except maybe a touch of Bailey’s in a vanilla shake).

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        • 2010 June 30
          Windrose permalink

          Yeah! We need more Girl Genius fans here! 8) Welcome, Moira, the girl with the massive link. Er.

          *trying to distract everyone* Look! I made it to the box! I get to punch myself tonight!

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        • 2010 June 30

          I just tried coffee jelly (コーヒージェリ)for the first time when a Japanese client brought it in. What an amazing concept. It is just like eating coffee in solid form. Plus the water is already hot when you make the jello so it’s probably even easier.

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      • 2010 June 30
        TacoMagic permalink

        Taking it to the next level:

        Let the Coffee-Jello set in a clean, lightly greased coffee can. Once set, get the coffee out of the can in one intact cylinder. Turn on its side and slice off disks and place on a tea plate. Top disks with whipped cream and coco powder.

        Actually, that wouldn’t be bad if I infused an English style pudding with coffee. *Ponders*

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        • 2010 June 30
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Actually Taco, I think you’re onto something there.

          An intervention might help…

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        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          I can stop drinking coffee any time I want.

          On the 13th day of coffee my true love said to me:
          HHHHOOOOLLLLYYYCCCRRRRRAAAAAPPPPIIII
          CCCAAAAANNNSSSEEETTTHHHEEE
          MMMYYYSSSTTTEEERRRIIIEEESSSOOOFFF
          TTTHHHEEECCCOOOSSSMMMOOOSSS!

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          To spare you further “research”;

          http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/Coffee-Jello-81870

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        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          Spoilin’ all my fun, eh SJ? Now I can’t actually experiment in my kitchen if I have a recipe.

          Maybe I can try to make a coffee flavored ballistics gel.

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          You don’t have to use it, it just gives you a starting point as to a good coffee:gelatin ratio.

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        • 2010 June 30

          I’m confused, Taco.

          Are you planning to powder Conan O’Brien, or Coco Chanel?

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        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          Conan,totally going to powder that Irish Ginger.

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  2. 2010 June 30
    Kara permalink

    Great, now I’m not going to be able to get the Beatles’ “Drive My Car” out of my head.

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    • 2010 June 30
      Windrose permalink

      Really? I’m working with Movin’ Right Along from the first Muppets Movie. Paul Williams can sure write catchy tunes.

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      • 2010 June 30
        Moira permalink

        Kermit and Fozzie will be dancing through my head all day now. Incidentally, why did they change a bunch of the interjected lines for the soundtrack? If anyone would be able to find out, it’s this crew.

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        • 2010 June 30
          MandaB permalink

          They did??? Hmmm….I have the original soundtrack on vinyl (well, I should say my parents may still have it around) but I don’t remember any of it being different from the movie. I’ll have to see what I can find. (oh Grampdaddy – do you still have this hanging around????) Movin’ right along, footloose and fancy free….

          Our wedding party dance at our wedding reception was to “Rainbow Connection”. That song is a LOT longer than you think. LOL!

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        • 2010 June 30
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Why yes, yes I do. I may have already moved it from vinyl to digital storage – will need to look…

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        • 2010 June 30
          MandaB permalink

          Wait – you did. I have the aforementioned digital storage version. I had forgotten about that. Grampdaddy rocks! Movin’ right along!

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        • 2010 June 30
          Moira permalink

          I don’t have the vinyl, just the CD. If the vinyl is correct, I may have to go looking for those versions. The altered ones grate a little.

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        • 2010 June 30
          MandaB permalink

          I wonder if they re-released some sort of anniversary edition and they changed some lines/lyrics(made more PC perhaps, although I don’t recall anything that wasn’t PC but who knows…) Now I want to find these altered versions. Off to Grooveshark I go!

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        • 2010 July 1
          Moira permalink

          Actually, the altered audio was all still lifted straight from the original film. They didn’t re-record anything. They just… moved lines around. So, f’instance, after the finale song, they stuck in the Swedish Chef saying “The flim is okee dokee.” And the dialog with Big Bird in “Movin’ Right Along” got replaced with something else. And they moved some of Rolf’s lines around in “Hope that Something Better Comes Along”.

          I’m just OCD enough that every time I listen, my brain reminds me that it’s NOT the way it went in the movie.

          (Of course, I also like owning theater releases AND directors’ cuts of my favorite movies so I can compare the differences.)

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        • 2010 July 1
          MandaB permalink

          Ahhhh…I see. Weird. Very weird. The rearranging of lines etc., not you Moira! 😀

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    • 2010 June 30
      TacoMagic permalink

      I apologize to everyone, everywhere for this:

      Celebrity girl ridin’ in my van
      Tries to free herself, but never can,
      She was famous, B-list on TV,
      But now with a blindfold she can’t see!

      Baby you’re trapped in my van,
      Escape if you think you can,
      Baby you’re trapped in my van,
      And maybe I’ll scare you!

      I told her she belongs to me,
      She’ll realize she’s my property,
      I reinforced my knots with tape,
      Which is why she can’t escape!

      Baby you’re trapped in my van,
      Escape if you think you can,
      Baby you’re trapped in my van,
      And maybe I’ll scare you!

      Heh Heh’m Heh Heh yeah!

      My condolences to the Beatles for that. I’d credit them, but I think they’d object.

      Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a boiling bleach shower waiting for me.

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      • 2010 June 30
        Windrose permalink

        You are a contender for the YSaC Grammies, Taco!

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      • 2010 June 30

        Darnit, Taco. I was about to post a similar parody of Drive My Car.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          Do it anyway!

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Go ahead!

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        • 2010 June 30

          His is funnier, though.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          Comparisons are odious, as whoever it was said.
          Post away and have fun.

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Pretty please with a sugar cake on top?

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        • 2010 June 30
          Innana permalink

          Let us judge that!

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        • 2010 June 30

          Alright, but it was only of the first verse and the chorus.

          Re: driver for celebrity

          Stalked a girl, called the cops on me,
          she said, “Baby, can’t you see?”
          “You wanna stalk someone famous, that’s not me,
          Find her on Cl, that’s where she’ll be!”

          So, Baby I can drive your car!
          ‘Cause you’re a bone-e-fidé star!
          Baby, I can drive your car,
          and maybe I’ll stalk you!

          Adores: 13
        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          Oh, definitely worth A Door! Likey.

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  3. 2010 June 30
    Grampdaddy permalink

    If Mike is looking for fright, he posted in the right place. Most of CL is very frightening.

    Time for coffee…

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    • 2010 June 30

      Maybe he could fill his truck van with bees. That would add to the fright!

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  4. 2010 June 30
    Windrose permalink

    I’m Very Excited This Morning! Going to a bird place where I have never been before. Sure could use Fright Man Sparky to deliver the bags of bird seed for me, but somehow we’ll manage.

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  5. 2010 June 30
    sarajean80 permalink

    A random guy with a van, from Wisconsin, Land of Serial Killers, willing to carry your fright.

    This seems legit.

    (And now I want a baby ocelot.)

    Adores: 14
    • 2010 June 30
      TacoMagic permalink

      As a resident of Milwaukee I have to say: Well played llama-nun, well played indeed.

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      • 2010 June 30
        Grampdaddy permalink

        OMG!! I have family in Milwaukee!

        *Types email quickly: ‘Be on the lookout for coffee-addicted, possibly bacon-carrying man. Last seen wearing a red shirt, red high-tops, and a blue cap. May be muttering about ‘stuffing an enchilada’. Should be considered snarky and humorous. Do not buy a free red table or get into a truck with bees with this man.’*

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        • 2010 July 1
          Ruffin13 permalink

          And don’t buy any t-shits from him.

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    • 2010 June 30

      Now I want to go to the NC Zoo. I’m pretty sure they have ocelots somewhere. They’re a pretty big zoo.

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      • 2010 June 30
        Innana permalink

        Astro, from other comments, it seems you live near my family in N.C. I like to think, if I had stayed teaching in Brunswick County, you might have been a pupil of mine. It would have been brilliant.

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        • 2010 June 30

          Sorry, I’m in Wake County.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Artsy Computer Geek permalink

          Yes — he goes to that “OTHER” school.

          Innana — be careful what you wish for.

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      • 2010 June 30
        sarajean80 permalink

        And they are possibly poorly guarded.
        I’ll fetch my bolt cutters.

        EDIT: Sweet, they do. In the Sonora Desert exibit.

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        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          I guess that depends on how good an opponent you figure a mother ocelot is.

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          According to the All-Knowing Wizard Wikipedia, they weigh about 18-22 pounds. That’s about the size of Fearless, I could just take her along as bait a distraction.

          Oh, it also says they can take down a small deer. I think I need a Plan B.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Psssst – Taco – now’s your chance – SJ mis-typed ‘exhibit’ and you can score points with Isaac by making the correction.

          Keep it our secret that I told you, OK?

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        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          She did?

          I mean of course she did.

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Stupid edit feature timed me out. I fixed it with about 4 seconds to go but it didn’t recognize it and I got the Dreaded Red Bar – “You are not authorized to edit this comment” or something like that.

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        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          I get that bar all the time. It likes me.

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    • 2010 June 30
      CapnMac permalink

      [cat corey]Rescue joint I volunteered for long ago had collected an ocelot.
      Very unique experience to have a “house cat” as tall as a small collie.
      This cat had clearly been hand raised, and inside a house.
      So, you had to keep your head on a swivel, that “I’m bored, let’s DO! Something!” head-butt to the back of your knee would knock a body down. Which was CLEARLY a sign you wanted to WRASSLE! Play! Play! Listen to the happy noises the the two-legs makes!

      Good thing for the shelter though, the raiding Raccoons could be seen clearly thinking “Excrement, Kharma really is a [big female dog]!”
      [/corey]

      Adores: 8
      • 2010 June 30
        TacoMagic permalink

        Sounds like this big striped Tom that used to visit my parent’s clinic. Not sure what he was crossed with, but he was about the size of a small Cocker Spaniel.

        Nicest cat in the world, but LOVED to play and wasn’t declawed. Having an 18 pound cat spring out of the top row of kennels onto your head is a unique experience, especially when you’re on a rickety step ladder with a bucket of kennel cleaner in your hand.

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Luckily my big girl Fearless (16 pounds and climbing) is more of the “furry lump on the couch” kind of cat. The more svelte Firefly still likes to play Climb-the-Human on occasion, though.

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        • 2010 June 30
          CapnMac permalink

          Well, I’m well-versed in co-habitating with a large cat–the portrait photo of all 20# of him are on the Not.A.Lion f/b page.

          Yet, Oscar the ocelot was a much more different experience, since he was most of knee-high with long, long legs.

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      • 2010 June 30
        Windrose permalink

        Mike (not the poster Mike!) and I went to Magnolia Bird Farms today, absolutely love that place! I had never been before, but needed to make the journey. In two of their outside aviaries, full of finches, they had huge, big, giant, huge lizards! One may have been a monitor, the other we think was a green tree iguana, especially after he climbed up the side of the aviary. Couldn’t think of a better rodent control. And apparently the finches, unless ill or injured, were fast enough to get out of the lizards’ way. Has me speculating. Maybe our bearded dragon will be sharing space with the cockatiels some day!

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        • 2010 July 1
          Moira permalink

          I think I would have to feel sorry for your bearded dragon, then. Cockatiels usually have them some attitude and I’d think they’d torment a lizard.

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  6. 2010 June 30
    Mindfield permalink

    If the “bon-E-fide” celebrity in the second is Jocelyn Wildenstein, then we’d definitely fulfill the requirements of the driver in the first’s desire to transport fright. Unfortunately, I get the feeling the celebrity in question here is a certain rodent whose chain of arcade pizza parlors has gone downhill.

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    • 2010 June 30
      Laurelhach permalink

      This could be my chance–does anyone have a carbomb?

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      • 2010 June 30
        kelli permalink

        I have lipbomb*, will that do?

        *not a typo, but a literary** reference

        **using literary very loosely

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Sounds very … Xanthy.

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        • 2010 June 30
          kelli permalink

          That is exactly what it is.

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        • 2010 June 30

          I think most lipbomb is made with xanthan gum, right?

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  7. 2010 June 30
    Innana permalink

    Who do we think the celebrity is? Suzanne Somers?

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    • 2010 June 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      Well, the ad says she is not rich so…

      Tonya Harding?

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      • 2010 June 30
        TacoMagic permalink

        Joe Estevez in drag.

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      • 2010 June 30
        MandaB permalink

        I suspect Celebrity Woman is Luxury Woman’s twin sister. NO TOUCHING!!!!

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    • 2010 June 30

      I think it’s a woman whose last name is “Celebrity”

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      • 2010 June 30
        Artsy Computer Geek permalink

        I think we are looking in the wrong places. Try Googling Not.a.Celebrity (you know it has all thing truthful in the universe) at http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=not+a+Celebrity&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS259US259&ie=UTF-8.

        There may be too many to fit in one truck. Does anyone else have a truck available?

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        • 2010 June 30
          LurkRealClose permalink

          The first result is something about a Badger. Now I’m sure that the celebrity is Bucky Badger.

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      • 2010 June 30
        sarajean80 permalink

        Sounds like a bad superhero; “Celebrity Woman, Now with Action Chihuahua Accessory Pack!”.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Laurelhach permalink

          With real peeing action!

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          And Realistic Trembling!

          The ad must be for recruiting her new sidekick, The Chauffeur.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          Celebrity Woman Action figure!

          Now with Chihuahua Accessory Pack! Real Peeing Action! “Yeah, I’m peeing here, what of it? I do what I want!”

          That cop is making you take a sobriety test, what do you do?! Celebrity Woman drops the cop with real flashing and judo chop action!

          Too many paparazzi around your house? Make the front page with her drunken binge screaming! “%*#@ you Darrel, you put the #*@&ing evil in me!”

          Need a fix? With the drug lab accessory pack you can always find that right dose of Maxwell’s Silver Hammer! Get as high as the stars with Celebrity Woman!

          And now Celebrity Woman comes with the random baby pack! Adopt, or get knocked up by a random one night stand! Each baby comes with adoption papers or a failed paternity test! Divorce papers not included. Nanny and Therapy packs sold separately.

          Celebrity Woman to the Rescue! By Mettal.
          Warning: This toy not suitable for children or other living things.

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          :tears open Random Baby Pack:

          “Yay, it’s Ethiopian! Now I only need fourteen more and I’ll have the whole Third World Set!”

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        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          I knew there was a reason I stalk stalk you SJ.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 June 30

          So that’s where all the Angelina Jolie models went…

          Now all that’s left are the Lisa Edelstein figures…

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    • 2010 June 30
      Lola permalink

      Pamela Anderson, or similar – someone known for little more than having their picture taken, probably with as few clothes as possible … which has me thinking, that if Lohan needs a driver, Mr. I-need-fright will have all of the fright he can handle. Maybe it’s her.

      *Note* Previous sentences constructed without assistance of caffeine; please forgive any tendencies to incoherency …

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      • 2010 June 30
        Artsy Computer Geek permalink

        Maybe you need a DD coffee … I think I stole Captn’s line.

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        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          *Pours coffee into a bra and hands it to Artsy*

          Ok, whatever floats your boat I guess.

          *Fills his coffee hat and takes a sip*

          People these days.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          Despite the fact that my bra could in fact hold either definition of DD, I think I’ll pass on the offer. I’m at work, so keeping my clothes on while I drink my coffee seems like a good idea.

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        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          Lola, you’re gonna get Grampdaddy all excited with talk like that.

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          I’m picturing Taco wearing one of those beverage hats, but with two cups of coffee instead of beers.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          Keeping my clothes on gets him excited? What, is he Amish or something?

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          Asto is gonna be pissed that you thought of that after he finished the group portrait, SJ.

          Lola, I was more thinking about the surreptitious comment on your bra size.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          Darn. I was suddenly imagining Grampdaddy in Plain dress or whatever they call it, surreptitiously (hey, how is it that you can spell surreptitious correctly, but confuse who’s/whose? anyway) admiring his Major Award lamp and going on the internet before going out to milk cows and take the wagon into town.

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        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          My spelling is actually better than my grammar (part of the time) and for me I seem to have the dichotomous ability to screw up small words but spell big ones correctly (My patented ‘verry’ for instance). *Shrugs* ‘Tis the ongoing mystery that is Taco’s brain.

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        • 2010 June 30

          **has always wanted one of those beverage hats**

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        • 2010 June 30
          LurkRealClose permalink

          **thinks we should all pitch in and get Astro one of those hats, since his fambly portrait was so great**

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        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          With a pair of coat hangers, some tubing, a t joint, some foam, and a cheapo hard hat; they’re rather easy to make.

          Not that I’d know anything about that.

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        • 2010 June 30

          I suspect that if I really wanted one, I could purchase it for not that expensive a sum.

          And LRC, if you really want to do something for me because of the portrait, you can buy a print of it, and help support my art. All proceeds from prints bought will go straight into art supplies and into buying books on art.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Sorry Taco and Lola, I abide by the old adage “anything over a cupful gets cold before you finish it.” Unless you have those thermal jugs, of course.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          Don’t they make a muff for that?

          I’ll get back in my kennel now. Gramps is a bad influence.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 June 30
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Lola, I do like my Plain Dress – simple A-line skirt, a proper, modest bodice, and, being black, it accessorizes so well with pearls and a medium height open-toed slingback.* Ooooh, I feel pretty!

          *May not (probably not) (certainly not) be true.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 June 30
          Bridgete permalink

          Ooh, I didn’t know we could buy prints of it! I’ll do that eventually…when I’m working and therefore no longer poor…

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        • 2010 June 30
          Grampdaddy permalink

          TM – “Don’t they make a muff for that?”

          Taco, you store your coffee wherever you want – I’m keeping out of this. And how is it that I’m a bad influence?? You and Lola started the discussion.

          *goes off to sulk, changes mind and refills coffee jug*

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 June 30

          @Bridgete:

          Yes. For the YSaC Fambly Photo, it’s available as:
          Wall Art, a Coaster, a Greeting Card, a Magnet, a Mouse Pad, a Mug, and a Postcard.

          A couple of my other pieces were big enough that they’re available as puzzles.

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          I do like my Plain Dress – simple A-line skirt, a proper, modest bodice, and, being black, it accessorizes so well with pearls and a medium height open-toed slingback.* Ooooh, I feel pretty!

          And now we’re going to have to take up a collection for Manda’s therapy bills.

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        • 2010 June 30
          Bridgete permalink

          Oh! I’m so getting a mug. Luckily my mug cupboard is only half-full (or maybe it’s half-empty) so I have plenty of room to expand.

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        • 2010 June 30
          MandaB permalink

          SJ – therapy not necessary, but maybe you could buy me some new shoes. I don’t think he’s ever going to give them back to me now!

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        • 2010 June 30
          kelli permalink

          Coffee bras, grandfathers in drag, and how to build beverage hats; these are the reasons that I read the comments. So very informational.

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        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          The only thing better would be a photo of a grandfather in drag, wearing a coffee bra, building a beverage hat.

          Wait a sec…

          :Google break:

          Huh. It wants to know if I meant “grandfather in drag wearing a coffee bar building a beverage hat”. Somehow that is even odder.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 June 30
          CapnMac permalink

          Hmm, a “water bra” filled with coffee might be just the thing for those winter mornings north of 40ºN . . .

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        • 2010 June 30
          Really.Not Grampdaddy permalink

          You ought to see me as Tinkerbelle……

          *Thinks to self – ‘this really has taken a wrong turn, somehow’*

          By the way Taco – when reading your directions for making the beverage hat, I was SURE it said “…..some tubing, a joint,…..” – felt like I had to go right out and get a snack.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Really.Not Grampdaddy permalink

          I truly believe Kae is psychic. The RuPaul comment was in place before this whole coffee/bra/muff discussion began, and it still fits perfectly in the commentary.

          Elebenty+11 adores for Kae’s pre-posting relevance.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 June 30
          MandaB permalink

          1) Grandfathers in Drag would be a cool name for what I’m sure would be a very weird band.

          2) Pictures of Grampdaddy in drag…ummmm….I might know where those are, but I prefer to remain alive so no more will be said.

          Ahem. I mean there are no such pictures. I’m also certain there are no pictures of him dressed as a nun.*

          *this may not be true.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 June 30
          Jen permalink

          Manda, if I didn’t know you were Grampdaddy’s daughter, I’d wonder if he was my Dad! After Christmas, on our family blog (extended whanau are all in the UK, so the blog makes it easier to provide updates), he proudly featured a picture of himself wearing an apron sent by his brother, and nothing else. With a mirror behind him, to prove it.
          *shakes head*

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 June 30
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Jen – If Manda comes up with any pictures, I may be interviewing for a replacement (prospective new) daughter. I’ll let you know if you need to send a resume` and/or audition.

          Adores: 0
    • 2010 June 30
      Kae permalink

      I haven’t heard anything out of RuPaul lately.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 June 30
        Jen permalink

        Hehe, my cursor randomly jumped down to the middle of the page (technology hates me) and this comment was the first one I saw. Totally made my morning. 🙂

        Adores: 0
  8. 2010 June 30
    Artsy Computer Geek permalink

    Milwaukee can’t be that far from Taco — it’s in the same serial killer breeding state. Maybe he could drive by Taco’s and pick up some of his friendly (not) zomb……

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 June 30
      TacoMagic permalink

      Milwaukee is technically across the street from me. So there *nya*.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 June 30
        Artsy Computer Geek permalink

        You know how it is Taco — to us southerners it’s just one of those flat, snowy, northern states (they all kind of run together).

        *** I think I should have put a ya’ll in there and typed it in a southern accent. I’m not nearly as good as Astro and Captn at accents.

        Adores: 0
      • 2010 June 30
        Laurelhach permalink

        It might just be me, but *nya* sounds a lot more like you’re actually licking someone than just taunting them.

        And knowing my friends here, this cargo van can go downhill fast.

        Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          Who says I was trying to taunt Artsy?

          What?

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          Oh and *nya*.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Artsy Computer Geek permalink

          What, I thought that was one of the kids?

          Looks around …. (in my best you are in so much trouble MOM voice) “TACO was that you????”

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          “Are you boys making an Interocitor down there?”

          “No!”

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          Suddenly, I suspect I’ve babysat Taco … or that he came around to play with the B____ kids while I was babysitting.

          “What are you doing down there?”
          *screech* *scronk* *rattle* *clank* *running footsteps* *basement door suddenly unlocked* *boys feigning casualness, badly*
          “Nothing!”

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 June 30
          Windrose permalink

          TM, MST3K reference for the WIN! At least in my book.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30

          “We’re making a sampo!”

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 June 30
          CapnMac permalink

          MST3000 reference for the win²

          Adores: 0
  9. 2010 June 30
    sarajean80 permalink

    “Driver for celebrity” translation –
    “I’ve been on Cops several times for drunken brawls and that incident with my husband’s truck, the cow pond, and my twelve gauge, so I’m somewhat famous to certain people. The judge took my license away again, so I need someone to drive me down to the liquor store and back but the cab company won’t take food stamps anymore. For the honor of being seen with me I will let you drive me where I want to go and maybe hold my hair when I vomit in the alley behind the Dew Drop Inn. You can also meet other people who are famous, the cops who arrested me, that drive-thru clown head who sassed me, and others I have a problem with.”

    Adores: 15
    • 2010 June 30
      Artsy Computer Geek permalink

      I think I saw him on Miami Cops — can you get me his autograph? No, not on that — thats gross.

      Adores: 5
    • 2010 June 30
      Lola permalink

      That rather fits with my other line of thinking – it’s a person who is sort of locally infamous (“infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me”) and who, for whatever reason (delusions of grandeur, for a possible start) believes she requires chauffeuring. Reasons for this may be due to frequent public intoxication (any substance) or similar.
      I also suspect that she’s using this as a ploy to find a boyfriend.

      *scurries off for another slice of coffee*

      Adores: 0
      • 2010 June 30
        Innana permalink

        Lola, my friend! You watch “Carry On” movies! I have a big friend crush on you.

        Adores: 0
      • 2010 June 30
        Lola permalink

        *blink*
        I … don’t, actually! I know what they are, but have never seen them. However, I’m still happy to be friends.
        *passes flask*
        Especially with a deity-type. Hey, do you have a chauffeur?

        Adores: 0
      • 2010 June 30
        CapnMac permalink

        Three Amigos line: “Infamous, that’s like being more-than famous, right?”

        “No beer, just tequila”
        “What’s tequila like?”
        “Oh, it’s like beer.”

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 June 30
          MandaB permalink

          “Would you say I have a plethora of presents?”

          Oh how I love that movie….

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 July 1
          CapnMac permalink

          Why would you say ‘plethora’ if you have no idea what ‘plethora’ is ?

          Sorry el Guapo.

          (Male plane)

          Adores: 0
  10. 2010 June 30
    sarajean80 permalink

    OT, but one of my submissions to Not Always Right made it to the front page!

    http://notalwaysright.com/dont-bank-on-it/5978

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 June 30
      TacoMagic permalink

      Yay, I love that website!

      Also http://clientsfromhell.net/

      EDIT: I KNEW that story sounded familiar.

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 June 30
        Artsy Computer Geek permalink

        OMG .. Many of those sound like my own clients when I was in the software consulting business.

        Adores: 0
      • 2010 June 30
        sarajean80 permalink

        I think I posted it over in the forums shortly after it happened, in the work stories thread.

        Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Limelolly permalink

          Kudos…. I love that website.

          Adores: 0
    • 2010 June 30
      Bridgete permalink

      Oh, haha, that was you? I loved that one!

      Adores: 0
      • 2010 June 30
        sarajean80 permalink

        Thanks, Bridgete. In hindsight I found it hilarous, but at the time I wanted to reach through the phone and strangle the girl.

        Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Bridgete permalink

          Of course you did. I would have too.

          Adores: 0
    • 2010 June 30
      PenguinConfetti permalink

      Yay! I thumbs-upped you!

      When did you submit your story? I sent one in a while ago, one that was so TOTALLY funny enough to make it, but I don’t know the general wait time before I know whether it was -really- funny enough.

      Adores: 0
      • 2010 June 30
        sarajean80 permalink

        I think it was the first part of June, so about a month?

        Adores: 0
  11. 2010 June 30

    There’s not much snark in this comment, because I still haven’t had my coffee. I’m just amused by the improbability of Sparky #1. And I’m not talking about “does anyone have some stuff in the Upper Peninsula that really needs to get to Milwaukee”…

    What kind of person can’t spell empty or conjugate the verb drive into the past tense, but uses the idiom “to find oneself” to describe his present situation?

    “Oh, my goodness. I trip over a board in the yard and now I find myself with an emty coffee mug.”

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 June 30
      TacoMagic permalink

      Drive
      to Drived
      Droved
      He/She Draven.

      Adores: 7
      • 2010 June 30
        Artsy Computer Geek permalink

        Taco are you in my head this morning — that’s probably why everything is fuzzy and I’m craving caffeine.

        Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          If you see dancing twinkies, it’s time to have a poptart.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Artsy Computer Geek permalink

          My son already ate all of them.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Laurelhach permalink

          I know the feeling–my sisters always the first one to eat those dancing twinkies. Never leaves any for the rest of the family.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          CapnMac permalink

          Been searching, but have not found the recipe for turning twinkies into tiramasu, which remains one of my favorite desserts for someone else to make.

          Adores: 0
      • 2010 June 30
        MandaB permalink

        Psst…Taco…you left off “drong”!

        Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          We drong
          They dronged

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30

          Taco, that sounds vaguely dirty, but I’m sure it’s just because it’s coming out of your mouth it’s being transmitted from your computer.

          Adores: 8
        • 2010 June 30
          kelli permalink

          Vaguely dirty taco. Now (and always) available at Del Taco.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 June 30
          CapnMac permalink

          Ah, the “counter” experience at del Taco; if it only applied to the help’s social bent, rather than speculations of active microbiology in immediate contact areas . . .

          (Or maybe my last time at a DT where the counterhelp were having an ugly domestic scene which included far too much personal hygiene information, which has since colored my impression.)

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Now I’m kinda glad there are no Del Tacos in my neck of the woods.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          MandaB permalink

          Vaguely Dirty Taco for band name of the day? Or just bad porn movie name of the day?

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          I don’t know if we should start a “bad porn movie of the day” thread. That has the potential to get very ugly very fast.

          That said, definitely porn movie title.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          CapnMac permalink

          “Dirty Domestic Disturbance”
          works for either use, I’m thinking.

          Eekuk! Or for bad band porn FTM.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30

          I believe that Del Taco translates to Taco Bell in my part of the country, correct?

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Two different places and different companies. I think you can get hamburgers at Del Taco, if I remember right. Been a while.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          CapnMac permalink

          “Del” in this case seeming to be a contraction of “Delaney” or “Delbert” and only accidentally similar to a Spanish form of “the” in this case.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Jen permalink

          Mmm, Dell Taco. Flaming hot tacos!!

          Adores: 0
  12. 2010 June 30
    ProLurker permalink

    Sparky #1 should look up “Large Marge”, she’s always good for a fright. “It was the worst accident I ever seen.”

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 June 30
      MandaB permalink

      PeeWee’s Big Adventure reference FTW!!!!

      Adores: 3
  13. 2010 June 30
    nonsensicalcat permalink

    Truck drivers + fright = oooh, I know this one. It involves Paul Walker, Steve Zahn, Leelee Sobieski, and pink champagne.

    Adores: 2
  14. 2010 June 30

    I heard the story once of a small mexican woman on a TV show that ran away, and got into a truck. She finally got out after several weeks, when the trucker fell asleep and she beat him over the head with her thermos. 47 times. There’s some lettuce that never made it to Bakersfield.

    If you get what TV show I got that off of, you get a homemade sugar cake. (It’s like a sugar cookie, but cakey. And more delicious.)

    Adores: 2
    • 2010 June 30
      TacoMagic permalink

      “Beyond Belief” perchance?

      Adores: 0
      • 2010 June 30
        Innana permalink

        The Dating Game?

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 June 30
          abwh permalink

          Dennis Weaver in “Duel”?

          Adores: 0
    • 2010 June 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      I will say The George Lopez Show and be very stunned if I’m right.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 June 30

        And the Sugar Cake goes to Sarajean!

        Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          I can’t believe I got that right. I must have been paying more attention than I thought when my nephew was watching the show.

          Who wants cake?

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          Om nom nom.
          Er, me.
          Sorry about that, I’ve been on a diet. If my binge is only virtual, it doesn’t count. 8)

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          abwh permalink

          Lola, this may help sate your cravings (calorie-free and good for your teeth!):
          http://www.accoutrements.com/shop/products/Breakfast-Floss.html

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30

          **A Sugar Cake is not actually cake sized. This is more or less the kind of thing I’m referring to. Except with red and green sprinkles. They’re just really puffy, delicious sugar cookies.**

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Grampdaddy permalink

          Darn, and I was gonna guess “Truth or Arizona”….

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          Ab, that’s great. Hm, what if I want maple bacon? Now I can combine two flavors!

          This site is like Archie McPhee, but slightly different. Love. <3

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          abwh permalink

          They do have a wide variety of “off” items (maple toothpicks?).

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          [shopping corey]I think Accoutrements is the wholesale side of Archie McPhee, so they have similar items. I’ve gotten both catalogs in the mail and they are very similar.[/shopping corey]

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Bridgete permalink

          I wonder how I knew what a sugar cake is. I’ve never heard the term before now, but when Astro said “sugar cake,” that’s what I pictured.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          I work with West Indians who have something else (though similar looking) that they call sugar cake. I may need to investigate and compare these varieties …

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          CapnMac permalink

          Ah, sweet (as in dessert) version of “johnny cake” if memory serves.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          West Indian sugar cake is sugar and coconut. I’m so there. Actually I want one of those and one of Astro’s.
          And a new pancreas.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 June 30
          Windrose permalink

          Hang in there, Lola! I know someone who is actively working with a company here in San Diego to develop an artificial pancreas. I want to be in line to test drive it when it’s ready. If it won’t let me eat chocolate without ill effects, it’s not worth the plastic it will probably be made out of.

          Adores: 0
  15. 2010 June 30
    abwh permalink

    They had me at “inflatable meatloaf” and the “Avenging Unicorn Play Set”.

    Adores: 0
    • 2010 June 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      I’ve got my eye on the Crazy Cat Lady board game.

      Adores: 0
    • 2010 June 30
      kelli permalink

      I actually have the backwards watch. I love it when people ask me for the time.

      Adores: 0
  16. 2010 June 30
    Bridgete permalink

    Okay, Sparky #1 wants some fright? Okay, he can have my arachnophobia, as I’d really like to go rock climbing but I can’t bear the thought of putting my hand into a rock crevice. He can also have my demophobia (crowds), as I’d really like to be able to go to a concert and stand close to the stage without having a panic attack. And he can have my vacuum-phobia, as I’d really like to clean…wait, never mind, I’ll keep the vacuum-phobia.

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 June 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      I’ve got some anserinaphobia and some coulrophobia if he’d like that, although my fear of geese and my fear of clowns doesn’t really affect my day to day life.

      Until the Geese Circus comes to town, that is.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 June 30
        Steph permalink

        “I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese – goslings! They were juggled.”

        (Dear Joss Whedon: You suck for killing my favorite character. That is all. Love, me.)

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Me too. I still get a little teary-eyed when I watch it now, even though I know what’s going to happen.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          nonsensicalcat permalink

          As soon as that scene starts, I have to look away from the screen. Every time. It’s too heartbreaking.
          Overall, Joss is really good at killing characters quickly in the middle of war. I care less about Ballard, but I will always miss Wash and Anya.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Jen permalink

          What about Tara?? And the heartless way they dealt with Book? “Remember that guy you all really liked and wanted to learn more about? Yeah…”

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 July 1
          nonsensicalcat permalink

          Ah, Tara. That one is awful, but I knew it was coming, thanks to a friend of mine who read spoilers and couldn’t contain himself. The thing about Book is that although, yes, I wanted to know more about him, I didn’t feel close to him. But I agree his death seemed heartless.
          Now, Fred’s death is one of the most painful things that exists. I didn’t list it before because it’s not super sudden, but that almost makes it worse, because it’s inevitable. She and Wes belong together, and they hardly got a chance.
          And Topher. Oh, how sad it is to see Topher take that one step toward the memory wall and then explode.
          Joss Whedon: the best at breaking my heart.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 July 1
          Moira permalink

          I hate that the characters die but I kinda love that he kills them. It tells us something about the story, the other characters, ourselves. And with books and graphic novels, he can always go back and fill in the bits of the stories we didn’t get to see. (I *really* want to know what the hell Book was up to before he became a shepherd.)

          Adores: 0
    • 2010 June 30

      He can have my fear of spiders and stinging insects, which, while not severe enough to be a phobia, I could still do without. I can also get him a second-hand Anatidaephobia for the right price.

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 June 30
        sarajean80 permalink

        You have any fresh Luposlipaphobia?

        Adores: 0
    • 2010 June 30
      PenguinConfetti permalink

      I’d like to donate my automatonophobia! He can have it for free and only pay me a firm $25 (or best offer).

      Adores: 0
    • 2010 June 30
      Jen permalink

      I have arachibutyrophobia, (one of the many reasons I can never live in the US, where PB&J seems to be a national dish) but I’d like to keep it. The less spreads I’m tempted to eat out of the jar *coughNutellacough* the better, methinks.

      Adores: 1
      • 2010 June 30
        Camille permalink

        I live in the U.S. and do not eat PB&J. I couldn’t stand it even as a kid. And I don’t think it’s actually a “national dish” for anyone over 12!

        Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Jen permalink

          Oh yay! All my information comes from cartoons and The Daily Show, so I acknowledge it may not be entirely accurate. You all _do_ have alligators in the sewers, though, right? And bears with constitutionally-endowed guns? And some kind of Government mandate that every group of acquaintances must have at least one hilarious and stereotypical ethnic person? Otherwise I’m not even gonna visit.

          Adores: 7
  17. 2010 June 30
    Innana permalink

    A gentle driver riding on the road,
    Abound for Milwaukee, from Yooper land,
    Wherein the driver eftwhiles would unload
    His wares and goods from out the cargo van,
    To find himself all emty, and to hand
    A space wherein to fill with fear and fright.
    A Ladie, then, tall, blonde and fakely tanned,
    Not riche, besought a ride into the night
    T’events of profile high, her name was Vanna White.

    (Sorry, Spenser.)

    Adores: 2
    • 2010 June 30

      Eek. Vanna White brings back bad memories of the skits the counselors did every morning at summer camp, which I attended several years ago. During Gameshow Week, they did a Wheel of Fortune skit. It was a male counselor who played Vanna. Freaked me out, it did. The same counselor also played Tinkerbell during Peter Pan Week.

      Adores: 0
      • 2010 June 30
        Innana permalink

        Errmm, and this camp was named “Scared Straight”?

        Adores: 1
        • 2010 June 30

          No. It was named “Rising Sun”. It was a YMCA Camp.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Artsy Computer Geek permalink

          Astro — I’ve been told this story before… hmmmmmm …….. Did you listed to Cotton Eye Joe” every morning also?

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          I had a summer camp put on by the Church that sounds to have been planned by that YMCA group. Good wholesome fun that was. Like a miniature 8 hour mass every day… with softball and rock-salt ice cream.

          Oh, and the flaming counselor who pretended he was there to flirt with the girl counselors. Always a good time.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Been there, done that, cut-and-pasted-a-tacky-religious-wallhanging-with-creepy-eyes-that-followed-me-everywhere-until-I-buried-it-in-a-shallow-grave-in-the-backyard.

          And I got poison ivy EVERYWHERE.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          TacoMagic permalink

          Man, I must be really. Whacked out of my brain today. Not only was there. A random period. But, I also capitalized the next. Letter.

          Taco needs another. Cup of coffee.

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          I think you’ve had enough, you’re starting to sound like Shatner.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 June 30
          CapnMac permalink

          SJ if you got poison ivy “everywhere” you were doing it wrong.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 June 30

          Artsy – Yes, and I was just about the only one who couldn’t do the dance that went with it.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Cap’n – That was partially an exaggeration, it didn’t get everywhere. Felt like it, though.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          CapnMac permalink

          Well, you did leave a large area of speculation open.

          After all, the oils are easily transferred to other objects. So, cabins, boats, communal areas of all sorts could have been rubbed down. A horticulturally-inclined person can induce growth rather easily, and such perfidy easily missed to all sorts of nefarious ends. Why there are even circumstances where the naïve can spread the oils about by skin-to-skin contact, or skin-to-laundry contact.

          The mind can boggle.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          sarajean80 permalink

          Mine just did.

          I feel very itchy now.

          Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          CapnMac permalink

          I’d offer to rub a suitable salve in, but it would sound wholly inappropriate at several levels.

          Adores: 1
      • 2010 June 30
        Grampdaddy permalink

        Contrary to any posts prior to this section, I want it to be completely clear that I have never, repeat never, been a counselor at a summer camp – anywhere.

        (Yikes, this is getting way too ‘Twilight Zone’!)

        Adores: 0
        • 2010 June 30
          Lola permalink

          I wasn’t a counselor, but instead worked in the kitchen. Muahahah. 8)

          Adores: 0
  18. 2010 June 30

    My fright would be in handing my valuables over to Mike. Possession of a cargo van does not a trustworthy person make.

    Adores: 0
    • 2010 June 30
      Windrose permalink

      But, Kathleen, he posted on Craigslist! He must be legit! He would probably even promise to take you home again. 8)

      Adores: 1
  19. 2010 June 30
    Limelolly permalink

    I wonder if Fright Mike will take anxiety and stress on the return journey. Or a least give them a free ride or OBO to someplace else? Maybe to a high-profile event for bone-e-fide celebrities?

    I’d drive them myself, but I just had surgery and still sleeping off the effects of anesthesia.

    Adores: 1
  20. 2010 June 30
    Linnee permalink

    If I don’t have a fright, can I call him Al?

    Adores: 0
    • 2010 June 30
      sarajean80 permalink

      But then he would have to call you Betty.

      Adores: 3
  21. 2010 June 30
    Grampdaddy permalink

    Windrose is in the box! We’ll need everybody to line up over here at 11:00 EDT so that she can collect her punches!

    *skips off singing “We get to pu-unch Wind-rose, we get to pu-unch Wind-rose.”*

    Adores: 2
    • 2010 June 30
      MandaB permalink

      Be careful skipping in those heels, Grampdaddy! You may twist an ankle!

      I have a very early morning tomorrow, so I will be sending an early punch to Windrose. Hopefully someone can deliver it for me at 11. Windrose, here you go – punchity punch punch! (Ooh, I can see why you love doing that! Fun!!!)

      Adores: 1
    • 2010 June 30
      Jen permalink

      Ah! I’m late! Sorry Windrose – here’s a punch from the Antipodes (sorry, ’tis a bit upside down)!!!

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 July 1
        Windrose permalink

        Thanks, Grampdaddy. No, really. Thanks. And MandaB, if I ever go on a vacation where I can’t get to punch people, you can be my back-up after Lola and Camille.

        Jen, looks okay to me. Maybe we are the ones upside down! 8)

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  22. 2010 July 1
    Windrose permalink

    Wow. No July birthdays except drmk! And I totally missed Camille’s on the 25th! Dang, got to get better at this, and got to have the stats ready for the second quarter Don’t Suck Off! Suddenly I am so worn out. 8)

    G’Night, Milwaukee!

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    • 2010 July 1
      Bridgete permalink

      I was going to tell you mine (I started commenting after it for 2010) but then I realized that you can find it, being my FB friend and all.

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      • 2010 July 1
        Windrose permalink

        True, but I try to only publish them here if you have told me to in the forums. For you, Bridgete, I will make an exception. 8)

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  23. 2010 July 5
    minetruly permalink

    Translation to the first post:

    looking for fright
    I drive a cargo van to upper Mi. and find myself driving back emty to milwaukee if you have fright call me mike xxx xxx xxxx

    Looking for freight
    I drive a cargo van to upper Mi. and find myself driving back empty to Milwaukee. If you have freight, call me. –Mike

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