YSaC, Vol. 875: Ha! Bribe twit.

2010 December 9

Time for another installment of Fun With Anagrams:

The this Prix it for with each (Formula)


last record try final surviving man we such us three same a imposed businesses hot to are the Charlotte us a Japan marketers set Sauber with Technical denied be a other

Translation:

Sixth, white-hot, chirpier foul arm fat


Frowningly destructive arrivals. I am the mushroom-shaped acuteness. Obturate hastiest lecherousness. Hesitant amateurs sap jawbreaker. Death-bed, incoherent lice.

Mushroom-shaped Acuteness is my Jefferson Airplane cover band.

Thanks, Erin!

164 Responses leave one →
  1. 2010 December 9

    Spambot, spambot, lookity loo,
    I have a migraine headache for you.

    Adores: 11
  2. 2010 December 9

    And a Grand Prix it is.

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 December 9

      (I was so confused when I started reading the comments–I thought that threading had been turned off! The world would have ended! I’m sticking this here, because I just got confused again…)

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 December 9
        Addicted Reader permalink

        I thought that too!

        Adores: 2
      • 2010 December 9

        I think a bunch of us were commenting at once. When I read the post there were three comments, and by the time I posted there were eleven.

        Adores: 2
    • 2010 December 9

      Hehe, you girls are a Ham sammich.

      Adores: 2
  3. 2010 December 9
    CoffDrop permalink

    incoherent lice pretty much nails this sparky – as does Smedley……..

    Adores: 7
  4. 2010 December 9
    Gemenon permalink

    Spam-bot Haiku is always so creative!

    Adores: 5
  5. 2010 December 9

    If you read it backwards it says “Paul is dead…”

    Adores: 15
  6. 2010 December 9
    Addicted Reader permalink

    Obturate hastiest lecherousness.

    Sounds like what goes on here.

    Adores: 12
  7. 2010 December 9

    We such us three same a imposed,
    wrote some stuff while thoroughly hosed.
    Spambots singing,
    My ears are bleeding,
    I need coffee or my head will asplode.

    Adores: 14
  8. 2010 December 9

    I really hate it when people post their NanoWrimo projects on Craigslist.

    Adores: 13
    • 2010 December 9
      Windrose permalink

      Especially when they got hammered and didn’t finish it.

      Adores: 7
  9. 2010 December 9
    LurtkRealClose permalink

    hot to are the Charlotte us

    Why, yes, Charlotte Gainsbourg is pretty hot to us.

    Adores: 5
    • 2010 December 9
      CoffDrop permalink

      LRC – Just wondering, when did you add the “t” ?

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 December 9

        When she incorporated potato latke into the poncho-lice mix. Lice gotta eat!

        Adores: 7
        • 2010 December 9
          LurkRealClose permalink

          Exactly! It’s for Hanukkah. 🙂

          Or, the poncho-lice moose now lives in a yurt!

          No, it’s a typo!magic. 🙁

          Adores: 5
  10. 2010 December 9
    sarajean80 permalink

    Will someone please explain to me the point behind spam-bot postings on CraigsList?

    If the reason you’re putting an ad up is so that people respond and you can steal their email address and sell it to other unscrupulous types, then shouldn’t the ad make some sort of sense? Or at least feature photos of scantily-clad, attractive people and/or luxury cars?

    Adores: 10
    • 2010 December 9

      She’s a buisness woman who’s never had time for a relationship, he’s an incoherant spambot who’s never been in a relationship. This fall “Spambot a-go-go” will melt your heart, and your mind.

      Adores: 11
    • 2010 December 9
      Lola permalink

      I’d wondered the same, SJ, but eventually concluded that if Sparkies of this brilliance are posting, there are probably Sparkies of equal brilliance reading – and responding.

      Ooooh! Or, maybe it’s some kind of Sparky code? The shortwave radio numbers station has been replaced on the internet by the random word CL list, and the Cold War continues apace.
      Or not.

      Adores: 8
      • 2010 December 9
        CoffDrop permalink

        You may be on to something here, Lola. Check the doorway down the street for a trench-coated, fedora-topped silhouette……..

        Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9
          Lola permalink

          I don’t have any windows in my office, Coffy …

          Adores: 3
    • 2010 December 9
      Mindfield permalink

      Near as I can figure it seems to be some kind of spambot “test run” presumably to test automatic form filling and captcha recognition or other such supposedly anti-bot security measures. You probably see a lot of them because not only are there likely plenty of bots being designed and updated, but they have to test against a lot of different captchas to make sure the bots are recognizing them and filling in the forms correctly.

      That’s about the only thing I can think of that makes the slightest bit of sense. If not that, then I’m going with the Internet equivalent of number stations.

      Adores: 8
      • 2010 December 9
        sarajean80 permalink

        Thanks for the corey, Smiley Puppy! I was leaning towards a rising epidemic of people who suffer from both hypergraphia and Tourette’s, but yours make more sense.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          mudslicker permalink

          I dunno. Shit like this just makes my head explode.

          May the Captcha be with you!

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 December 9
          LurtkRealClose permalink

          And also with you, Mudsy.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          Mindfield permalink

          I’m just guessing here so I could be incorrect and this is the ‘bot equivalent of hypergraphia. Or maybe it’s just how bots woo each other, coming up with the most interesting (to them) combinations of human words, a bit like the ‘bot equivalent of the Lyra bird’s mating mimicry. Somewhere, another bot is reading that and thinking, “Oh baby, your verbiage gets my classes instantiating.”

          Adores: 11
        • 2010 December 9
          mudslicker permalink

          The this Prix is rising….

          On the first day of This Prix
          My true love bot gave to me..
          A Sauber with Technical denied….

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 December 9
          LurtkRealClose permalink

          On the second day of This Prix
          My true love bot gave to me…
          We such us three,
          And a Sauber with Technical denied.

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 December 9
          mudslicker permalink

          On the third day of This Prix
          My true love bot gave to me…
          Three Japan musketeers marketers
          Two we such us threes,
          And a Sauber with Technical denied…

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 December 9
          sarajean80@mail.com permalink

          On the third day of This Prix
          My true love bot gave to me…
          Fore cumpets vulcanized;
          Three Japan musketeers marketers
          Two we such us threes,
          And a Sauber with Technical denied…

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9
          LurkRealClose permalink

          On the fifth day of This Prix
          My true love bot gave to me…

          Surviving man;
          Fore cumpets vulcanized;
          Three Japan musketeers marketers;
          Two we such us threes;
          And a Sauber with Technical denied…

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          Addicted Reader permalink

          On the sixth day of This Prix
          My true love bot gave to me…

          Six last record;
          Surviving man;
          Fore cumpets vulcanized;
          Three Japan musketeers marketers;
          Two we such us threes;
          And a Sauber with Technical denied…

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          sarajean80 permalink

          On the seventh day of This Prix
          My true love bot gave to me…

          Seven anacharis torched triumphantness!
          Six last record;
          Surviving man;
          Fore cumpets vulcanized;
          Three Japan musketeers marketers;
          Two we such us threes;
          And a Sauber with Technical denied…

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 December 9
          AndieJD permalink

          On the eighth day of This Prix
          My true love bot gave to me…

          Eight Imposed Businesses

          … and the rest of that stuff those other guys said.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9
          sarajean80 permalink

          On the ninth day of This Prix
          My true love bot gave to me…

          [ERROR: LIST NOT FOUND]

          Adores: 13
        • 2010 December 9

          How long is This Prix anyway?

          Adores: 4
    • 2010 December 9
      CapnMac permalink

      Well, the spambots attempt to populate any venue that does not prevent them from so doing.
      Thus, the proliferation oc “capsha” about. (Sadly, capsha technology has had to update to preserve its “one more layer” of protection.)

      The “why” of it is simple and complicated. Gaining access to an accessible, proven, IP node is a gain in and of itself. Next best then is a verified IP address (verified email even more betta).

      Which is where it gets complicated. Sometimes, all that is wanted is a list of “confirmed” addresses to sell to marketers. Sometimes what is wanted is a list of addresses to sell to malware types. Sometimes, it’s just malware, flat out and out.

      These things are prolific, too. There are operations where a ramshackle building will have two or three hundred equally ramshackle computers, each spawning bots about one per second (need time for the Ping to come back) for each of the 86400 seconds in a day.
      The spam-marketeers can send marketing messages at about ten per second per computer. Which costs in the neighborhood of 0.0014¢ each, so any “hit” on that spam, evena s low as 1 in 10,000 will pay for the entire day’s run. Now, multiply that by a couple hundred computers.

      Now, if you have a batch of “known live” IP addresses, you can double and redouble the “calls” to those. Even better, you can redirect your “dialing” through some of those, to thwart block-by-known-bad-IP adressing.

      So, in th eend, it’s simple. Just like Direct Mail Marketing–which only needs about 1 in 1000 to respond to break even; mass marketing will work. Plenty of Sparkies out there to “fall” for the too-good-to-be-true or get-something-for-nothing offers.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 December 9
        CapnMac permalink

        Gee, typical for my today–day late and elbenty paragraphs too long . . .

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 December 9
          Addicted Reader permalink

          Better too long than too short!

          ::sending positive thoughts your way::

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          CapnMac permalink

          *positive thoughts*
          Are probably the only thing that kept me from being hit (seven times) while driving about this afternoon.

          Little things like the people who had to not just rubber neck where the B&W was rear-ended into the white compact sedan–no, they had to text about it while swerving around the slow traffic.

          The bojo who almost plowed into an Excursion while we were all waiting on the left turn arrow was also typical. Did not surprise me that this bastion of driving skill had his DumDum navigation suction-cupped at the 12 o’clock position over the steering wheel. Or that he had to roll his window down to use the cold are to combat drowsieness.

          The dude in the compact car who decided “Right Lane Closed” did not apply to him if his car was narrow enough was fun, too. Especially for the Suburban that swerved out (unneedfully) as a result.

          Made the cretáin in the HEB parking lot, who just missed backing square into me near a ‘normal’ hazard <sigh>

          Does not rain but it pours; and leaves a drought anyway.

          Adores: 5
  11. 2010 December 9
    LurtkRealClose permalink

    Sixth, white-hot, chirpier foul arm fat = A production of Henry VI, part one, done in Hell, by aggressively happy overweight women who love chickens (great aunt Martha and her friends).

    Fowningly destructive arrivals. = People who have spent the last 3 hours in a plane circling the Philadelphia airport.

    I am the mushroom-shaped acuteness. = Alice in Wonderland hears voices from the caterpillar’s seat.

    Obturate hastiest lecherousness. = HamCan and Grampdaddy

    Hesitant amateurs sap jawbreaker. = Summer stock production of the TV show Prison Break, but everyone gets a happy ending with candy. (Or Candy).

    Death-bed, = The series finale of Six Feet Under.

    incoherent lice. = IF’s Modest Mouse tribute band.

    So, if I might translate:

    A number of people are on their way to Philadelphia to go to the theatre. Some have tickets to Henry VI, and some have tickets to a new, avant-garde play. The movie on the plane was a strange new version of Alice in Wonderland, although they had a choice to watch the last season of Six Feet Under, instead. Because of the delay in landing in PHL, HamCan and Grampdaddy gave everyone free tickets to see a local band that they are promoting for IF.

    I really don’t get avant-garde theatre.

    Adores: 11
    • 2010 December 9
      Windrose permalink

      Not a bad translation of the translation, LRC! 8)

      Adores: 3
    • 2010 December 9
      Lola permalink

      LRC, while I admire your effort, I’m thinking that your translation just makes too much sense, and therefore can’t be right. 8)

      Adores: 6
      • 2010 December 9
        LurtkRealClose permalink

        You are possibly correct, Lola, but I could not get the imagine of a number of older, overweight ladies in hell doing Shakespeare out of my head, so I wanted to share. Poncho Moose is all about the sharing. 😉

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          Lola permalink

          Thanks! Share anything you like, as long as it isn’t the lousy poncho!
          And yes, I can understand the irresistability of the mental image. 🙂

          Adores: 2
    • 2010 December 9

      Obturate hastiest lecherousness. = HamCan and Grampdaddy

      All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy. All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy. All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy. All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy. All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy. All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy. All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy. All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy. All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy. All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy. All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy. All obturate haste and no lechery makes Ham a dull boy.

      Adores: 4
  12. 2010 December 9
    Mindfield permalink

    Huh. If I pass it through my Spambotulism Recombinator 3500 (the latest model!) I get:

    [begin 665 recomb48.txt]
    Triumph his cafeteria lox forthwith

    Roving vinyl-mascaraed flirt runts sump our semisweet headaches. Shoot hirsute absentees! Jape ousts charlatan, breaks twit’s heart, resumé. Heed the neon bactericidal!
    [end recomb48.txt]

    I’m far too janked up with a nasty cold right now to make sense of it, but I’m sure the Spambotulism Recombinator 3500 managed to find some hidden meaning here.

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 December 9
      Addicted Reader permalink

      Heed the neon bactericidal!

      That’s my favorite part.

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 December 9
        CapnMac permalink

        Neon emits UV, UV is antibaterial–kind of cool, except the sign maker is supposed to coat the glass to limit the sleet of UV emitted.

        Adores: 3
  13. 2010 December 9
    MandaB permalink

    So kind of you to serve up a big, warm mug of WTF to go with my coffee slice this morning. This nonsense tastes delicious, with just a subtle hint of gibberish and overtones of hastiest lecherousness!

    Adores: 8
    • 2010 December 9

      One utterly incomprehensible statement, or two?

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 December 9
        LurtkRealClose permalink

        Oh, I’ll take two, please. I’m at work, so I need to have my own to combant management.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9

          Strumpet autoclave was bromiliad cupcake am crunchy bar linguist.

          Unction putter sauce stick are pouch lifting wanting seeth four such us wind.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          LurtkRealClose permalink

          A crunchy cupcake bar sounds good, but I’m not sure I need any putter sauce.

          Adores: 4
    • 2010 December 9
      MandaB permalink

      Two please!

      Oh, I almost forgot. Can I get an extra large side of “HUH?” to go, please? Thanks much!

      Adores: 4
  14. 2010 December 9
    Camille permalink

    In my experience, people who are mushroom-shaped are rarely a cuteness.

    Adores: 7
    • 2010 December 9
      Camille permalink

      … although I did not mean to be shapist. I like to think that one can manage to be a cuteness while not being entirely svelte, and I’m sure that mushroom-shaped people are as lovable as anyone else.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 December 9

        [matt]
        Camille, I’m not talking to you today. Showing such shapism, I just… no.

        Until you can learn the people of all shapes, be it banana shaped, question mark shaped, or even an eight sided hexagon, deserve the same basic rights and respect we enjoy.

        I’m very disappointed, I thought you were better than this.
        [/matt]

        Adores: 7
        • 2010 December 9
          mudslicker permalink

          We got fungus among us!!!

          It’s a trap!!!

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          Windrose permalink

          Taco, take it easy on Camille, her Tibetan heritage is stronger than she likes, sometimes.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          sarajean80 permalink

          So … are the Fungi-Americans obtuse instead of acute?

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 December 9
          mudslicker permalink

          They’re so acute you just wanna pinch their little cheeks.

          *very kawaii*

          Adores: 7
    • 2010 December 9
      Mindfield permalink

      The mushroom-shaped people of the Amazon rainforest frown upon your judgment.

      EDIT: The mushroom-shaped people of the Amazon rainforest did not see your followup post before frowning, and therefore withdraw their frown and replace it with a haughty sniff.

      Adores: 9
      • 2010 December 9

        I’ll see your haughty sniff and raise you one fahhhhhhhht in your direction! pffffffft

        Adores: 7
        • 2010 December 9
          Mindfield permalink

          In my specific direction, or just in general?

          Adores: 3
      • 2010 December 9

        Mmmmm, hot spiced lub-lub served in heavy grease.*

        *An extra pecil for anyone that knows the movie reference.

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          mudslicker permalink

          Citizen Kane?

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9

          No, but you can have a pecil anyway.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          Mindfield permalink

          Aw, how come he gets a pecil? If I guess “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” do I get a pecil?

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9

          Wrong movie!
          No pecil for you, Lectroid: John Smallberries.

          *Goes back to my job at Yoyodyne*

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          mudslicker permalink

          Mindfield….this mudsy is a girl….

          😉

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9
          Mindfield permalink

          Uh, yes… yes, I actually knew that, honest I did. My cold meds have temporarily discomblortulated my neurons so I am experiencing periodic bouts of aphasia resulting in the persnickety use of the wrong cardigans. Please accept my sincerest tenderloins.

          Adores: 8
        • 2010 December 9
          mudslicker permalink

          Oh..right-right… hehe…

          I always blame Nyquil when I can.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 December 9

          persnickety use of the wrong cardigans

          Cardigans are never wrong, sometimes they pee on the carpet though and can be persnickety if they don’t get thier kibble on time…

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          Mindfield permalink

          Mmmm. Nyquil. I mean yuck, Nyquil, but mmm, antihistamines.

          ‘Bout time for another shot too.

          Cardigans are never wrong, sometimes they pee on the carpet though and can be persnickety if they don’t get thier kibble on time…

          Plus they’re all clingy and needy, constantly pleading “Love me, love me (say that you love me), feed me, feed me (just go on and feed me).” And then Mr. Rogers busts in and screams, “What’s going on here? Put that down!”

          Oo, that Nyquil kicked in fast.

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 December 9
          Addicted Reader permalink

          Mmm…earworm.

          Adores: 3
    • 2010 December 9
      Addicted Reader permalink

      I think that being a cuteness is more about attitude than shape.

      That said, I don’t think I want the mushroom-shaped inhabitants of my apartment to have any kind of attitude at all.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 December 9
        Mindfield permalink

        You should have an exterminator over to take care of that little infestation. I had an infestation years ago. They were constantly jabbering on. “What’s that you’re making? Liverwurst? On rye? Why can’t you make us some proper food? That’s like spreading cat food on corkboard*, that is. And you haven’t changed your carpet, yet, I see. This burbur crap annoys our feet. And that couch has got go do or get reupholstered or thrown out or something, it looks like Salvador Dali decomposed on it. And while you’re at it, change the channel, would you? We hate House. Why can’t you watch something funny like Jersey Shore or Glenn Beck? Don’t — don’t you look you look at us like that! We’ll stack ourselves up and kick you in the jubblies. Now hurry up with that ham & cheese!”

        I couldn’t take it anymore. Had an exterminator come over, tent the house and play Tom Cruise’s Scientology interview on repeat until they all left.

        Adores: 5
  15. 2010 December 9
    Bavec permalink

    I think there’s something vaguely suggestive, vaguely racist, and vaguely drug-induced about this ad, but I can’t be entirely sure.

    Adores: 7
  16. 2010 December 9
    AndieJD permalink

    I fear that this is not, in fact, the mating call of the randy spambot, but something far more dangerous. This is how the alien visitors are communicating with one another now. Crop circles are so last week.

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 December 9
      Mindfield permalink

      So these would be called, what … language squiggles then?

      Adores: 4
    • 2010 December 9
      Lola permalink

      Tonight at the 40 Watt: Language Squiggles, promoting their new album “Mating Call of the Randy Spambot.”

      Adores: 6
      • 2010 December 9
        LurkRealClose permalink

        Language Squiggles is the name of IF’s Modern English tribute band.

        Adores: 4
      • 2010 December 9

        Randy the laundry fairy? Oops, wrong blog.

        …Can I have some of Mindfield’s cold meds?

        Adores: 2
    • 2010 December 9
      sarajean80 permalink

      Randy Spambot is the name my Ziggy Stardust tribute album.

      Adores: 7
  17. 2010 December 9
    Irregular Fractal permalink

    Now Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson Airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson Starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons Project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft.

    Adores: 7
    • 2010 December 9
      mudslicker permalink

      I thought the Alan Parsons Project was a cover band for Judas Priest.

      Adores: 4
  18. 2010 December 9
    kelli permalink

    Please don’t let this be on the final.

    Adores: 9
    • 2010 December 9
      mudslicker permalink

      It’ll be an open book take home exam.

      Will that help? No? Just fill in the scantron bubble “C” for all the questions.

      Adores: 3
    • 2010 December 9
      sarajean80 permalink

      EVERYTHING IS ON THE FINAL!!!

      :evil laugh:

      Hope you were paying attention to what order the American Idol contestants were voted off in.

      Adores: 5
      • 2010 December 9

        1, 2, 3, 4 , 5 ?

        Adores: 7
      • 2010 December 9
        Irregular Fractal permalink

        Dammit, and here I am with all the Top Chef contestant names written on my arm.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          mudslicker permalink

          Lucky for you—they’re one and the same!

          Adores: 2
      • 2010 December 9
        Mindfield permalink

        Great. And here I am, once again, the geek with all of the Chinese dynasties written on his palms.

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          mudslicker permalink

          I’ve got all the Roman emperors and Egyptian pharoahs on each pinky finger.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9

          Um, Mindfield? That’s a list of lunch specials from The Golden Lotus Chinese Cafe.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9
          LurkRealClose permalink

          Drat. And me with my Plantagenet kings of England list sewn into the color of my turtleneck.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          Lola permalink

          *covers up upper leg tatts of Tudor and Lancastrian names*

          *hides manicure with tiny airbrushed list of table of elements*

          I don’t know what you people are talking about.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          Windrose permalink

          Super, and here I am with my elements table t-shit. Taco gave it to me.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          Addicted Reader permalink

          You gotta get it tattooed onto the inside of your eyelids. That way no one can see it but you.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9
          AndieJD permalink

          Don’t do it, Lola! That’s what I did and I haven’t had a good night’s sleep since. All I ever dream about are the 12 cranial nerves, in order.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9

          Having dreams about the (correct) cranial nerves would have helped me a lot in college…

          Adores: 1
  19. 2010 December 9
    CapnMac permalink

    Uggghh.

    Peachy like a warehouse of artichokes my day is.

    AVG is being ugly. My internet connection is being clobbered by the number of students cribbing stuff off the internet for Finals (or winging on how they have nothing to do until Graduation this weekend). Which is not assisted by some very slow nodes around Alexandria, VA. So, things will race to a sudden stop with little warning. Making it a rosy day in the way that a field of milkweed is rosy.

    Nothing like having one’s e-life wander from locked-up to glacial slowness to negate perfectly-good coffee. Then, our snark today is gibberish–the gibberish I get to deal with one day a week as is. Almost too much to abear and abide, lest I froth over in held-bak-by-a-thread gibberish of my own . . .

    Much afear-ed that it’s bad and not getting any better <sigh>

    Adores: 1
    • 2010 December 9
      Addicted Reader permalink

      Peachy like a warehouse of artichokes my day is. … Making it a rosy day in the way that a field of milkweed is rosy.

      You have an amusing way with words, Cap’n. Here’s hoping for some tasty peaches and pretty roses to come your way.

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 December 9
        Camille permalink

        Warehouse of Artichokes – wasn’t that a Warren Zevon song?

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9

          I thought it was Bowie:
          My brain was a peachy warehouse,
          with artichokes to spare.
          It was really difficult,
          to keep it rosey in there.

          Adores: 3
  20. 2010 December 9
    AndieJD permalink

    Hey, S.H.I.T., everybody!

    Adores: 4
    • 2010 December 9
      sarajean80 permalink

      Hope everyone’s having a happy S.H.I.T. 🙂

      Adores: 4
    • 2010 December 9
      Addicted Reader permalink

      Except that for me, Thursday means sitting in a dark room watching the microscope take pictures and adjusting the focus every 10 minutes.

      I’ve gotten some random error messages, but so far they’ve all resolved. Here’s hoping this gives me pretty data.

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 December 9
        AndieJD permalink

        AR, are you messing with the naked yeast again? One of these days, you’re going to find out the hard way that one of those yeasties is an undercover FBI agent.

        Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          sarajean80 permalink

          I keep picturing a tiny unicellular Chris Hansen confronting AR over a microscope table.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9
          AndieJD permalink

          Exactly!

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          Addicted Reader permalink

          Yes, and no…

          Can organisms who don’t have brains, much less the concept of clothes, truly be said to be naked?

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          AndieJD permalink

          Well, sure, that’ll be your lawyer’s argument, but you better hope there are no unicellular organisms on the jury, because that’s kind of insulting. You’re essentially calling them a lower life form.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9

          unicellular organisms

          Someone with only one iPhone?*

          *I almost said the opposite of multiple orgasms*

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9
          Addicted Reader permalink

          Either one works. ; )

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          Mindfield permalink

          Can organisms who don’t have brains, much less the concept of clothes, truly be said to be naked?

          Well, that depends. On the one hand, ignorance is not a defense. On the other hand, the organism doesn’t understand the implications of its actions. On the gripping hand, I don’t think there’s precedent in the lawbooks involving indecent exposure with yeast.

          Either way you run the risk of giving offense if you put it on the stand when the judge asks the defendant to rise.

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9

          *Opens up a Playboy magazine*

          They look naked to me…

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          Mindfield permalink

          Wrong magazine.

          *hands Hammy a copy of Sporehouse*

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9

          *Opens the Sporehouse*

          Ewww, every page is pictures of Hugh Hefner holding cheese.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9

          Um, Hammy…that’s …not…cheese…

          Adores: 2
    • 2010 December 9
      Addicted Reader permalink

      Also, yesterday one of the YSaCer (pronounced wise-acres) complained on FB about it being only Wed. I thought about replying “But tomorrow’s S.H.I.T.!” but wasn’t sure how it would be received by the non-YSaC crowd.

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 December 9
        sarajean80 permalink

        I wished my Mom a merry S.H.I.T. today, but I have already explained to her what that meant.

        Since it’s easy to find photos of nekkid people on FB, I don’t think anyone would find offense in a little four letter word.

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          Addicted Reader permalink

          Not offense so much as confusion.

          Also, some people are careful to keep their own FB environment relatively clean.

          Adores: 4
    • 2010 December 9
      Mindfield permalink

      Apparently, I am not up on my S.H.I.T. Would someone care to shed some light on S.H.I.T. so that I may know it from Shinola?

      Adores: 3
      • 2010 December 9
        Addicted Reader permalink

        Sure Happy It’s Thursday!

        Windrose brought it in a few weeks ago.

        Adores: 2
        • 2010 December 9
          Mindfield permalink

          Ah, thank you, now this S.H.I.T. makes sense. Somehow I must have missed it.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          Windrose permalink

          Sniff. Nobody listens to me anymore. Where’s my plate o’ worms?

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 December 9
          Camille permalink

          It’s right over there next to the jar o’ feathers.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 10
          Addicted Reader permalink

          It’s just Mindfield who doesn’t listen, and he doesn’t count anyway. I listened! ::is a kissup::

          Adores: 1
    • 2010 December 9
      Limelolly permalink

      Yeah, and thank all the godly beings that this S.H.I.T. is almost over. Gabba yakka doodle, what a day!

      Adores: 4
  21. 2010 December 9
    Addicted Reader permalink

    What a well-deserved trip to the box for Camille!

    Also, please entertain me. I’m bored, and I can’t leave, and this is really the best thing on the internet.

    Adores: 3
    • 2010 December 9
      Mindfield permalink

      *puts on boater hat*

      *grabs cane with both hands*

      *starts tapdancing*

      Hello, my baby
      Hello, my honey
      Hello, my ragtime gal

      Send me a kiss by wire
      Baby, my heart’s on fire

      If you refuse me
      Honey, you’ll lose me
      Then you’ll be left alone

      Oh baby, telephone
      And tell me I’m your own

      *gets yanked off stage by thirty-foot cane*

      Adores: 6
      • 2010 December 9
        Addicted Reader permalink

        Yay, dancing Smiley Dog! : D

        Who’s next?

        Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          sarajean80 permalink

          Behold, the incredible vanishing block!

          :places ice cube on table:

          Ta-da!

          :waits:

          TA-DA!

          :waits some more:

          I said, “TA-DA!

          :waits even more:

          Just give it a second … TA-DA!

          :checks watch:

          Dammit.

          :gets hair dryer:

          :click:

          :wrrrrrrrrr:

          Ta-da!

          Adores: 9
        • 2010 December 9
          Addicted Reader permalink

          That got a real laugh out loud, sj.

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9
          AndieJD permalink

          Wait – me now!

          For your entertainment, AR, I am now going to do my amazing Tonya Harding impression! Smiley Dog, would you be my lovely assistant? OK, now hang on while I get out my retractable billy club… Good. Now stand still…

          THWACK!!!

          Adores: 6
        • 2010 December 9
          Lola permalink

          AR, for my next magic trick, I will make this piece of chocolate disappear.

          Now you see it …
          *tinfoil crinkle, speaking with food in mouth*
          Now you don’t!

          Would you like one? I’m sure you can do that kind of magic too. 8)

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9

          And for my next impression…Mindfield!

          “Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit qui in ea voluptate velit esse quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum qui dolorem eum fugiat quo voluptas nulla pariatur?”

          “At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio cumque nihil impedit quo minus id quod maxime placeat facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, omnis dolor repellendus. Temporibus autem quibusdam et aut officiis debitis aut rerum necessitatibus saepe eveniet ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae non recusandae. Itaque earum rerum hic tenetur a sapiente delectus, ut aut reiciendis voluptatibus maiores alias consequatur aut perferendis doloribus asperiores repellat.”

          Thank you! *Bows*

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          Mindfield permalink

          Mooooom, Hammy just called me a dummy text!

          Adores: 4
        • 2010 December 9

          Takes one to know one…what…wait…

          Adores: 5
        • 2010 December 9
          CapnMac permalink

          Wait,

          Αλλά ποιος έχει οποιοδήποτε δικαίωμα να επικρίνεται που βρίσκονται στην επιθυμούν να απολαύσουν μια ευχαρίστηση που δεν έχει ενοχλητική συνέπειες, ή αυτός που αποφεύγει έναν πόνο που δεν παράγει συνισταμένη ευχαρίστηση;

          …That’s Pericleese the Hippolyte!

          Adores: 1
        • 2010 December 9
          Mindfield permalink

          Pericleese: The state of being enveloped in John Cleese.

          Adores: 7
        • 2010 December 9
          NotMyName permalink

          Is that Latin up there?

          I have finals this week, don’t expect much out of me.

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9
          Mindfield permalink

          Latin above, Greek below. There’s a very un-PC joke in there somewhere.

          Adores: 2
        • 2010 December 9

          Try Greek!

          Adores: 3
        • 2010 December 9

          Well it’s all Greek to me

          Adores: 3
    • 2010 December 9
      Camille permalink

      Thanks for the compliment, AR! It’s an honor just to be nominated.

      Adores: 4
      • 2010 December 9
        Limelolly permalink

        You forgot your helmet again, didn’t you?

        Adores: 2
    • 2010 December 9

      Sorry, AR…. I would be amusing, but I think I’m coughing up my snark today.

      Adores: 2
      • 2010 December 9
        Addicted Reader permalink

        Is that better or worse than coughing up a lung?

        Feel better!

        Adores: 2
    • 2010 December 9
      Addicted Reader permalink

      You guys are all awesome. That’s all I can say. : D

      Adores: 2
  22. 2010 December 9

    How can you tell if your lice are incoherent or coherent?

    Do they align themselves in geometric formations, like crop circles, as they nibble on your scalp?

    Do they carry little chalkboards with them upon which they calculate the square root of various microscopic objects lodget in your hair?

    So many questions.

    However, I do think that Incoherent Lice would make a great name for a new political party. Then they could infect the Teabaggers at their next convention.

    (Question is: would anybody notice?)

    Adores: 7
  23. 2010 December 9
    Limelolly permalink

    Ya know, if you substitute 4 jiggers of apple vodka for Prix, it’ll make the formula work right.

    Adores: 4
  24. 2010 December 9

    Silly formula, Prix are for Japan marketers!

    Adores: 6
    • 2010 December 9
      LimeLolly permalink

      Amazing how annoying a little prix can be.

      Adores: 5
    • 2010 December 9

      I thought Prix were for making kids.

      Adores: 5
  25. 2010 December 9
    Windrose permalink

    Camille, I hope you will be ready in a couple hours for what’s coming to you. Did anyone find the helmet for you? It really reduces the chance of permanent drain bramage.

    Adores: 2
  26. 2010 December 10
    Windrose permalink

    Everyone must have gone to bed early tonight. Camille, Punchity Punch Punch!

    G’Night, Charlotte!

    Adores: 1

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