Madame Defarge

Then you know the answer to the question 'What's the smelliest thing in the world?' An anchovies bum. *dialing phone* Hello? Hello? Yes, I placed an order for a pizza five minutes ago. Yes, that's right I'm the pizza with anchovies. Umm..I want to change that order please. That'll be a plain pizza. No..no toppings at all. Thanks. Bye. *click*

Right now I could easily afford a personalized plate, just not a car to attach to it. I'll admit to admiring a banged up old hooptie I saw the other day, with the plate CRASH. It was bumper to bumper traffic at rush hour except for the hooptie. He had at least a car length of empty space behind him.

California waters are being invaded by Humboldt squid again. Also,one of the the local tabloids has a story today which explains that they have more interest in gobbling up anchovies than bothering with humans. I completely understand. Anchovies are the only reason I ever order pizza.

I agree. My example : Art Buchwald was famous before he contracted a fatal disease and then chose not to treat it. Personally I feel queasy about selecting a teenager as a candidate, except someone like this individual who needs to be tortured for a few days and then shot.

A very late thank you maninblack. I have, alas, not been free to respond before now. Thankfully, I am now at liberty to respond. Have you been in jail? A slight misunderstanding led to a temporary removal of some life choices. All sorted now ............. Ha, I was right! Come on, spill the beans! A tall tree, Brinsworth House, binoculars ......and thou?

Is this a guy thing? I mean it's gotta be. Somehow I can't imagine myself being the filling in a metrosexual sandwich and liking it. Oh well.

Yes, I was in rare form this morning, double posting and forgetting to log in. Could some kindly mod please assist and remove one of these unsightly messes? Thank you. Post removed as requested - LG .

I am Calamity.

I voted for Oral Roberts, but it was a coin-toss between him and Billy Graham. Here's hoping that they both soon follow Tammy Faye's example, for a Deathlist Trifecta.

I know I'm putting my neck on the chopping block since you all seem to hate it (not my neck, Harry Potter). I think J.K. Rowling is a wonderful story-teller. IMO the best is the first one, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with its title changed for American readers 'cause we're too thick to comprehend anything with the word Philosopher in it I guess. So if you're ready to secretly buck the anti-Harry trend, Harry M, try it. Savoring a large piece of dark chocolate as you read will do you just fine endorphin-wise.

Windsor I didn't mean that it was okay for your pal Eddie to belittle you, but I think his argument was already in the dumper when he replied to your question by stating that he was a Scottish Patriot, implying that you are not. When he couldn't come up with anything better, he started baiting you with the 'just the boy barely old enough for the a dram' stuff. I agree that a patriot is someone who cares about the present and future of his country and not someone interested in dredging up all sorts of ancient battles. My country is so divided right now that it sometimes seems like the Civil War is still raging! BTW, you've said yourself that there are very few Monarchists in your age group, so from time to time the subject of your age is bound to come up in the conversation. Eddie however will probably be 13, not 31, for the rest of his life.

He's going to be on my team. I'm going to keep some of my current candidates, but the team definitely needs some old, tired blood.

It's not so much the belittlement issue as the fact that some people will use patriotism as a substitute for a logical argument in such debates. I've been listening to the Bushies do it for years!

The adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle continue.

The only music I really dislike is new style R&B. It's not that I don't get it, it's just that there's no 'it' there to get. It's like you listen and wait for something to happen and it just keeps blathering on, something like this post. BTW, I think it's high time Edith Piaf got her moment in the title of this thread, just a suggestion.

NOBODY is immortal, which is - kind of - the point of this site. Granted, he might live to see his 100th birthday cards. But, he's gonna die! Turritopsis nutricula is a hydrozoan (jellyfish) with a life cycle in which it reverts back to the polyp stage after becoming sexually mature. It is the first case in which a metazoan (animal) is capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary stage. It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation. This cycle then repeats, rendering it effectively immortal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula I feel a jellyfish thread coming on... I feel a retraction coming on, in other words there's a creature out there that - mebbe - could've stung Moses! Like, awesome. An immortal creature that could have stung Moses, you say?... I think this might be the beginning of something bigger than a jellyfish thread . It could be the basis of a new religion. Hello there, I'm a Turritopsis Fundamentalist, what are you ?

I've given up on the whole voting thing since my country's last "election" but I agree...about two weeks, maybe less because you have to factor in the 20 pounds or so of mascara which would bring her actual body weight down to something like 40 pounds.

I have never seen Jeremy Kyle up until this moment, but already I don't like him. He invades Bou's signature only to insult me for no reason and then leaves off the final 'e' of my name. What a slug.

I choose someone who seems to have been given nine lives. Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Umm. Excuse me, does anyone have an extra silver bullet?

Breezy, spacious fixer-upper with gorgeous Carpathian view. Don't let this one get away.

Then scoop the plastic and metal bits into a truck, haul it to our friendly neighborhood car maker, and have him bake the ingredients. Should be enough stuff to make a Skoda Yeti for each of us.

Yes they will. They may also get hit by a Bus, eaten by a Shark or live a full life before dying, lonely in their own wee. Sanctimonious tosser. Or strangled--by me. Nothing like sitting there smoking at a reasonable distance from any other humans and minding your own business only to be reprimanded by a stranger , 'smoking is bad' and then the person drives off in their fume-belching Ford Explorasaurus.

Just don't catch more than you can eat.

I don't know about lobsters either. The other day a man was buying a dozen live lobsters in the fish section and the last one was a big brawny one, probably the alpha male of his group. He put up a mighty struggle. I was standing on line to buy flounder but when I got it home and was frying it up all I could think about was that poor lobster. I know, it doesn't make sense.

I had a relaxed disposition before hearing this bbbbutt now I ssseem to have ddevelopped a fffffffffsome t-t-tics. Oh well, over to Baker Street I go to calm down a bit.