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All the Insults You'll Ever Need

Another gem from the Copy-Editing List (CE-L for short; collectively known as the CE-Lery):

Insults

Among my favorites:
- Attic's a little dusty.
- Smoke doesn't make it to the top of his chimney.
- Thinks "Moby Dick" is some kind of venereal disease.

Daffodils

Dangerous Punctuation

A column in today's _Daily Telegraph_ starts out, "As a precaution, it has become necessary to recall last week's column. In a few instances it has been found that it was assembled using faulty punctuation and, in certain circumstances, there is a possibility that one or more of the semicolons could explode. Although this would not be a large explosion, it could set off a chain reaction if it was close to other combustible materials. There is a danger, for example, that it could detonate a nearby family size packet of Rice Krispies."

For the whole thing, look here. And thank heaven for the British sense of humour.

Fafblog - recommended!

I just bumbled into the FafBlog tonight while I was looking at other subersive weblogs.  Fafnir is supposed to be a pat-the-bunny bunny with a pet cat named Giblets.  I think the real author is channeling a combination of Don Marquis and Walt Kelly.  I recommend starting with this post on treason.  These days, you can't be too careful about what you say.

Snow Pictures

The trick with snow is to enjoy it...at least when it's not too cold. 

Here are Katie with her snow horse (what else???) and Anna's martian namer "Mommy".  I don't want to speculate too much about the name Anna chose.

--Theresa

How does your garden grow?

Our garden still looks like this:

But there is some consolation:

How about you?

Cows with guns

I was perusing my music collection and came across Dana Lyons. Laura claims she has never heard "Cows with guns." After education, she decided you should all hear it too. It's not the sun song, but it's clever.

http://www.3dweb.no/galleri/stuestolbm/bilder/anim1.swf

Brilliant bumpersticker

So I'm on my way to St. Stephen's for Shrove Tuesday pancake supper and pyromania (burning of the palms) when I pull up behind a red pickup with a "Christians for Kerry and Edwards" window sticker and notice that on the bumper, this vehicle also sports the following:

It explains a lot, yes? (And I'm sure it offends the evangelicals no end!)

A little something I thought you might enjoy:

Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail, and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.

This made him a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

Canadians -- Who Knew?

A truly amazing story about mistletoe, from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada:

Dwarf Mistletoe

If we tried to do research like that at a U.S. national laboratory, Dr. Dobson would be all over us like white on rice. First sponges, now parasitic plants -- what is the world coming to?