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It's aliens, I tells ya!

Massive, hidden object at the edge of the solar system?

They're scientists and they can't come up with a better name than "Brown Dwarf"?

Scientist 1: "You guys should see the brown dwarf I just dropped in the directors bathroom!  What are you guys looking at?"

Scientist 2: "We just discovered a huge mass on the outskirts of our solar system."

Scientist 1: "Like the huge mass I just dropped?"

(Clearly, Scientist 1 in this scenario is a trust fund baby that only became a scientist because Daddy wanted him to.  Oh, the director is his dad.)

Because I work in Risk, there is a phrase "Large Loss Movement".  This is also frequently used as a euphemism.

Oh, how the winter afternoons fly past!

1. Despite having no belief in the supernatural, I am absolutely fucking fascinated by ghost stories and cryptozoology. atrejub can attest to this. She thinks it's silly, and she's right.
2. Alabama's only electric chair was built in the twenties by a prisoner (a Brit, believe it or not, who ended the month's furlough the warden gave him to work on the chair by escaping). It was named "Yellow Mama," because the paint donated to paint it was highway line paint. I only learned of this chair today. The last time it was used was 2002.  One of the people executed on Yellow Mama, Jeremiah Reeves, claims he was forced to sit on it when cops were trying to extract a confession from him for two rapes he very likely didn't commit.  The forced confession was in 1952.  The execution was in 1958.
    

I am fascinated by the idea that we all have little ghosties trapped inside us, waiting for us to die so that can get out and do their schtick. I'm convinced every time someone dies from an accident, it was their ghostie plotting against them.

Is it possible for your own soul to plot against you? That'd make a hell of a biblical apocalypse plot.

I'm not gonna give up the ghost.  No.  Not gonna give it up.

Your ghostie doesn't care about you. It's going to spend eternity in either heaven or hell based on your actions in the living world. You think ol' ghostie wants you living longer, giving you more time to fuck everything up for it? The faster you die, the better off it'll be for ol' ghostie.

You say "eternity," but what you mean is "∞ - (31 + x)."

The above should be as it relates to me, specifically.

KingVoyeur wrote:

Is it possible for your own soul to plot against you? That'd make a hell of a biblical apocalypse plot.

Jim Carrey already did this one.

Sometimes my mother will try to get away with cursing somewhere where cursing is unacceptable by cursing in her own unique version of German.  Her favorite sounds something like "shyza kroft."  She will also sometimes refer to a cabinet she bought in Germany as a "srunk."

Adam54 wrote:

 Yeah, I don't think he really flies in the circles you pay attention to. He hosts a podcast I love, and is a writer on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Plus I think he does some nfl.com stuff or something. 

Yesterday they released the first new Dameshek podcast in weeks.
While simultaneously announcing it was the last podcast they'd be doing.
Why does this keep happening to me across all media?!?!!?!?!?!!!

You should just accept that you are as the Black Death to all the things you love.

Love not, and spare.

How's that According to Jim project coming along?

 I watched a bit of "About Last Night..." the other day. It wasn't horrible, and he was in it. 

That's a start, right? 

 I had a random thought today when some crows were screeching at me, and it leads me to a question for Jake: 

When you hear them yelling "kah! kah! kah!" do you get angry at the birds for tormenting you with her name, or do you just get hornier than usual? 

Great, thanks Adam. Now I have a mental image of Jakester trying to molest a crow. Strangely enough, the crows I am imagining are the animated ones from Dumbo. Not sure what that says about me.

Adam54 wrote:

 I had a random thought today when some crows were screeching at me, and it leads me to a question for Jake: When you hear them yelling "kah! kah! kah!" do you get angry at the birds for tormenting you with her name, or do you just get hornier than usual? 

Perhaps Jake molesting a crow is where his infatuation with kah got started.

omicron wrote:

Great, thanks Adam. Now I have a mental image of Jakester trying to molest a crow. Strangely enough, the crows I am imagining are the animated ones from Dumbo. Not sure what that says about me.

I did quote Dumbo earlier in the day.

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wow. 

That is all.

It's fucking snowing again! That goddamn ground hog LIED!!!!!

It more or less missed us entirely this time.