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Humph. I scored 25/25 but am supposed to be smarter than 99.69% I wonder how come we get different percentages for all correct answers?
I believe I've taken this test before, from someone else's Blog, that time I got the same score, too but scored a lower percentage. Perhaps it computes a time factor in?
Eh, maybe it's just that I have a cute ass.
Posted by: Peter at August 03, 2007 06:59 PM (AD5Bl)
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99.62%
Peter,
Yes, time is a factor. Knowing the answer without having to reason it through shows a better grasp of the concept.
I'd have had a MUCH higher score if I hadn't had to think through the stupid "how many months?" question.
Posted by: the Humble Devildog at August 03, 2007 08:02 PM (4sXe8)
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I beat out 83.36%... Not VERY impressive, but I rushed it.
Posted by: ChrisA at August 03, 2007 08:31 PM (7yYW2)
HARD TO NARROW THIS ONE DOWN, BUT...
Bloggreatgranddaughter Tink of Tink's Tribulations muses over the following question:
What advice would you give to your younger self?
"Do your homework."
If I'd followed that bit of wisdom, I could have easily graduated near the top of my high school class.
If I'd also handed myself a copy of "The Lively Art of Writing", (preferably somewhere in the 4th grade) I would've been AT the top. As it was, I didn't run across it until my Senior year. It was the book from which I first learned how to write essays, and it completely changed my life. Until then, I'd had now idea that there were actually learnable techniques to writing, and the bastards in charge of my public education never told me any different.
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What is up with the freaky font on your page? It's damn near unreadable.
Posted by: Phelps at August 01, 2007 04:04 PM (QSNKk)
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Font looks fine here...
I've touched on this subject on my blog. I wouldn't give any advice - I'm here, now, because of how I did things. Who's to say things would have worked out better?
I'd probably laugh hard at my younger self though. Cocksure, arrogant little ****** he was for sure!
Posted by: Alex at August 01, 2007 04:13 PM (OlBcx)
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Could be a browser issue on your end (or the code on my end) but it looks ok in FF 2.0.6 and IE 5.5
Posted by: Harvey at August 01, 2007 04:27 PM (MQ6B8)
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Font looks fine here too. Will have to take a look for that book. Would be interesting reading, I am sure. Since I was in school many years before you and writing was essential in those days, I probably had a better grasp of it by the time I graduated.
Posted by: Tink at August 01, 2007 05:52 PM (ZW8U5)
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What Alex said!
I wouldn't be doing what I am doing now, which I love, if I didn't do the stupid things I did back then.
Posted by: Quality Weenie at August 01, 2007 05:57 PM (BksWB)
Posted by: Graumagus at August 03, 2007 12:24 PM (wz7M1)
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Actually, I invested in Microsoft back in 1995.
What I'd tell myself is "sell when it hits 110", instead of riding out that ridiculous anti-trust settlement crap, which cut the value of the stock in half, and from which it never really recovered.
Posted by: Harvey at August 03, 2007 06:01 PM (L7a63)
WOULD YOU HAVE SURVIVED IN THE MIDDLE AGES?
Shamus of Twenty-Sided asks:
How long would you have lived in the middle ages? Ignore all the general risks - like typhoid or the plague or cholera - that everyone would have faced in general. LetÂ’s assume you were lucky and missed those. (Unless by some chance you actually DID face one of them in your life.) Also ignore the fact that your deadly injury might have been caused by modern technology, like an auto accident. Just pretend you were trampled by a horse or something. So, given the injuries and illness youÂ’ve faced in your life so far: Did you make it? Would you have survived to your current age?
Probably.
The only time I've been under the knife was for hernia surgery, and it wasn't a particularly bad one. Probably something I could've lived with, although I imagine eventually it would've strangulated and killed me.
Although I've benefitted from antibiotics, I'm pretty sure they've only shortened my suffering, not saved my life.
So I'm thinking I'd be alive, but looking like I was 70 instead of 40.
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"...I'd be alive, but looking like I was 70 instead of 40."
That's what I was thinking about myself until remembering why my appendix had to come out...
Posted by: Contagion at July 18, 2007 07:30 AM (Q5WxB)
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I'd likely have died by 8. I was stepped on by a horse in the face quite close to my eye. Took stitches.
I imagine the swelling - from lack of proper treatment - would have cost me the eye.
If that one didn't get me, getting kicked in the head and sent flying across the yard by a stallion getting shod at the time likely would have.
Posted by: fair_n_hite_451 at July 18, 2007 08:18 AM (y+ddN)
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I'd still be alive, just mostly blind and missing half my teeth.
Of course with medieval nutrition I probably wouldn't have my damn near unbreakable bone structure.
Posted by: Graumagus at July 18, 2007 09:12 AM (Ks8du)
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Dead. I'd just be dead.
With my grace, I can't IMAGINE the trouble I would have found.
Not to mention all the other "stuff".
Yeah. I'd be dead. Long time now.....
Posted by: Tammi at July 18, 2007 09:57 AM (PesK3)
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If childbirth didn't kill me (post partum infection was rampant back then), yes I might've made it. One never knows though. *grin*
Posted by: Teresa at July 18, 2007 11:16 AM (gsbs5)
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I'd be dead in childbirth...both my kids were C-Sections.
Posted by: Mrs. Who at July 18, 2007 07:20 PM (9FXen)
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I would have died at birth, premature by a month and a half. I was born in '56 when incubators were not common, in fact I was very lucky the hospital had one. Been lucky every since! The doctors told my parents I'd be retarded and most likely die by the time I reached my teens. Thankfully, they were wrong about that.
Posted by: kodiakken at July 18, 2007 09:34 PM (VU8G3)
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OOOOohh, I know the answear to this one DEAD at 35, no way they could have done anything for my type of cancer not with "stone knifes and bearskins" to quote Mr. Spock.
Posted by: Blogless Brother at July 19, 2007 02:09 AM (yl0p7)
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Oops. I wouldn't have survived birth. I was almost strangled by my umbilical cord, and was an emergency C-section. (It was so bad that the doctors asked my Dad if they had to choose, which to save, me or my Mom. I was a close second on the list...)
Then, assuming I made it into the world, I was born with Bronchitis, and managed to get Pneumonia and the Measls before my first birthday.
Posted by: GEBIV at July 19, 2007 11:48 PM (B2fmX)
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I take it if your brother was too chicken, that means he was Big Bird?
I got Bert, which result is too boring to go to the trouble of copy-and-paste to a post...
Posted by: Susie at July 03, 2007 08:53 AM (kHkA+)
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I got Cookie Monster! Must be because I'm hungry . . .
Misunderstood as a primal monster, you're a true hedonist with a huge sweet tooth.
You are usually feeling: Hungry. Cookies are preferred, but you'll eat anything if cookies aren't around.
You are famous for: Your slightly crazy eyes and usual way of speaking
How you life your life: In the moment. "Me want COOKIE!"
Posted by: oddybobo at July 03, 2007 09:49 AM (mZfwW)
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You? Oscar the Grouch? Sorry, just don't see it. Well, maybe the bad behavior but that's about it.
I got Big Bird. Great. I'm apparently a goody-two-shoes that yaps about imaginary mastadon friends & does cameos on Family Guy...
Posted by: Hapkido at July 03, 2007 12:38 PM (+cC9w)
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Little known fact:
Oscar the Grouch was originally orange.
Posted by: Roses at July 04, 2007 11:21 AM (6KPV+)
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Ernie.
Playful and childlike, you are everyone's favorite friend - even if your goofy antics get annoying at times.
You are usually feeling: Amused - you are very easily entertained
You are famous for: Always making people smile. From your silly songs to your wild pranks, you keep things fun.
How you live your life: With ease. Life is only difficult when your friends won't play with you!
Posted by: Maranda Rites at July 04, 2007 04:37 PM (I8WXB)
Posted by: vw bug at June 21, 2007 09:55 AM (FPOeI)
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YAY!!! Congrats Harvorama, and like GEBIV said, keep up the bad work. :-)
Posted by: Sarah at June 21, 2007 10:15 AM (BWVqd)
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Are you sure it's only been 4 years? It seems like I was reading you long before the summer of layoff 1.
Congrats!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Quality Weenie at June 21, 2007 10:25 AM (R6yie)
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If it's been 4 years, that means I've been reading this crap for 3 1/2 of them. Damn... seems like so much longer.
Congrats, and keep trying, Harvey. Someday your blog won't suck!
Posted by: That 1 Guy at June 21, 2007 11:19 AM (amJz2)
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If it's been 4 years, that means I've been reading this crap for 3 1/2 of them. Damn... seems like so much longer.
Congrats, and keep trying, Harvey. Someday your blog won't suck!
Posted by: That 1 Guy at June 21, 2007 11:24 AM (amJz2)
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Don't be so negative. My blog will ALWAYS suck :-P
Posted by: Harvey at June 21, 2007 12:04 PM (L7a63)
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Hooray! And congratulations!
And hey T1G - at least he posts. That's more than you can say lately... ;^P
Posted by: Richmond at June 21, 2007 01:25 PM (e8QFP)
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Happy anniversary! You the best! Or the worst. Anyway, you da man!
Posted by: Basil at June 21, 2007 02:01 PM (4Ek1C)
Posted by: Contagion at June 21, 2007 05:00 PM (etftL)
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Congrabulations... on getting away from that HORRID old blog you linked to!
Posted by: Mike the Marine at June 21, 2007 10:48 PM (V9bGU)
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Well damn......this work stuff is gettin' in the way of me rememberin' the IMPORTANT THINGS!! Sorry I missed it yesterday Papa, but Congrats!!!
Four Years? Whoda thunk you had THAT much to say?!?!?
Oh and Richmond? Yeah, good one.....
;-)
Posted by: Tammi at June 22, 2007 05:49 AM (pWX3U)
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I almost missed this! Geeze. That's what I get for hanging out with my son yesterday. *grin*
A belated Happy Blogoversary!
Posted by: Teresa at June 22, 2007 10:28 AM (gsbs5)
Posted by: Madfish Willie at June 23, 2007 05:04 PM (nsR37)
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Already got a toothpick, but thanks, Willie :-P
Posted by: Harvey at June 23, 2007 10:07 PM (L7a63)
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::Blog groupie screams uncontrollably::
Congrats, Harvey! May you have many more years of questionable morality. I'm still working on year one but having a great time thanks to your help. Happy Blogiversary!!!
Posted by: Hapkido at June 23, 2007 11:21 PM (ugegk)
RIGHTOSPHERE TEMPERATURE CHECK - LONG VERSION
John Hawkins of Right Wing News polled a bunch of right wing bloggers (including me) on various issues and has posted the not-too-surprising results. Here's the explanations for my choices:
1) Are you pleased that the Senate immigration bill did not pass?
Yes - The only immigration bill we need is a big-ass fence and a removal of perks for non-citizens.
2) Do you think Mel Martinez has been an effective RNC chairman?
No - Democrats don't wet themselves in fear at the mention of his name.
3) Do you believe that we should be willing to use the US military to stop the fighting in Sudan?
No - Not unless they have strategic resources like oil, or if it would be helpful to establish military bases there to prosecute the War on Terror.
4) Do you think that the Bush administration or CIA knew that 9/11 was coming and deliberately did nothing to stop it or alternately, helped execute the 9/11 attacks?
No - I've never seen any evidence to support either theory.
5) Do you believe that President Bush intends to merge the United States with Canada and Mexico in order to form a North American Union?
No - If anything, we're going in the opposite direction, since they're imposing passport requirements to visit those countries. Although personally, I wouldn't mind inviting Canada to become States 51-60. They're civilized and technologically advanced enough to fit in fairly well plus they speak English.
6) How would you rate the relationship of the Republican party with its conservative base right now?
Poor - Where's my tax cuts? Where's my cheap, stolen oil? Where's my piles of dead terrorists?
7) Which 2008 Republican presidential candidate do you think is most likely to win the Republican nomination. So, this is not your favorite candidate, it's the candidate you think will come out on top.
Rudy Giuliani - Not who I want to win, but pending any dirt or disgrace, he seems pretty solid. I currently have no reason to believe that Fred Thompson will overtake him, but then again, Fred hasn't officially announced, yet, so this may change.
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Harv, you might want to rethink the invitations to Canada. They're so socialist, they make Massachusetts look like a Red state.
It's always fun listening to them talk about how lousy their Health Care is but finish with the sentence, "But at least it's free." I always tell them, "No. You're just paying for it all the time. Not just when you use it."
Sadly, it never seems to get through.
Posted by: GEBIV at June 14, 2007 10:29 PM (zvLfz)
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Yeah, they're got problems, but it's only 33 million people.
Overall, I don't think it'd be any worse than what West Germany had to put up with during re-unification.
Posted by: Harvey at June 15, 2007 05:16 AM (L7a63)
FRICK! MEMED AGAIN!
1389 of 1389 Mobile Blog whacked me via e-mail with the following:
Players start with 8 random facts about themselves. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts. Players should tag eight other people and notify them that they have been tagged.
I'm feeling lazy, so you'll get 5 random facts and 3 taggees. Victims may either play by the original rules, my rules, or just make up their own damn rules.
Hey... it's a free internet.
1) I screen my calls. If I don't recognized your name/number on the Caller ID, you WILL talk to the answering machine. However, if I recognize your voice, I'll pick up.
Note to callers: "Hey, it's me" is not helpful. Please use your name.
2) I once traded a coffee pot for a Koosh Ball. I still have the Koosh ball. It's green & purple.
3) I once traded a high-mileage '85 Honda Accord hatchback (which sustained major front end damage in an accident, but ran fine) for a Braun coffee grinder. I still have the coffee grinder.
I also kept the car. As it turned out, the guy who gave me the coffee grinder never filed for a new title. The guy HE sold it to never filed for a new title either. THAT guy abandoned it in the parking lot of a Goodwill store. Since it was still in my name, I got a parking ticket and had to arrange for the car's removal. Sadly, the car was no longer running fine, and I let some salvage yard scavenger keep the wreck in exchange for towing it.
4) I don't like Maglites for two reasons; first, turning the lens counterclockwise to turn the light on feels WRONG. If you want a light to come on, you should turn it clockwise - like screwing a bulb into a socket.
Second, unlike thumb-switch lights, after you turn on a Maglite, your hand is not in a comfortable carrying position. You have to adjust your grip, which either requires using your other hand or involves an awkward finger-shuffling maneuver.
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#4 - Try the Surefire line of tactical flashlight. They have the button on the base of the light & most have a reinforced area around the lens so you can really whack someone if necessary...
Posted by: Hapkido at May 26, 2007 07:08 PM (ugegk)
Posted by: rihanna at July 21, 2007 03:03 PM (TOqvi)
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Thanks for posting this! I agree with you about Mag Lites. I don't think that the springs in them are strong enough.
BTW, I've moved my blog to http://1389blog.com (under WordPress) and have simplified the name to "1389 Blog". So if your readers have blogrolled this blog, faved it on Technorati, bookmarked it, etc., they'll need to reference the new blog name and URL.
WISH SOMEONE WOULD'VE TOLD ME ABOUT THIS
While idly checking my links on Technorati, I found out that I was nominated for the Blogger Halo Award for being a blogger:
"who has not only created a vital up-to-the minute blog with a sizable readership and dedication to excellence, but this blogger would have gone way beyond the call of duty by demonstrating a selfless commitment to help other bloggers solve their blogging problems."
THE FIFTEEN MINUTES I ALWAYS WANTED
NOTE: This post is purely self-congratualtory twaddle and is quite likely of interest to no one except the author. If you get bored, just click away. Don't feel obligated to comment just because you're here.
On the other hand, maybe you've been in a similar position. In which case, say whatever's on your mind.
When I first started blogging, I had a dream - more of a pre-conceived notion really - that one day hundreds of people would read my blog and go "OO! Look at this brilliantly-written post!".
As it turned out, those hundreds of people were actually dozens, they came one at a time, and none of them were actually all that blown away at what they read. But they at least found my writing amusing enough to want to come back for more. After a while, a lot of them didn't even come for the writing, they came because they liked me as a person. The writing was secondary.
I've been blogging for almost four years now, and at this point in my evolution, most of the folks who stop by do it because of who I am, and not what I write.
And it's good to be loved, and it's good to have a circle of friends who give a damn.
The downside to this, of course, is that when one of these friends links something I wrote, I have to wonder... how much of this is liking the writing, and how much is liking the writer? To which question there can never be an honest answer.
So it makes me question whether my writing is worth a crap on it's own, or if I'm strictly getting by on charm.
What I've always wanted was to write something that got picked up, passed around, "oo"-ed & "ah"-ed over, and generally admired WITHOUT my having to lift a finger to do any self-promotion.
That's never really happened. Sometimes I've written stuff that I thought was very good, but in order to get it noticed, I've had to e-mail links. Other times I've written something clever, then posted it at IMAO where it would get some attention (heck, even got a link from the Puppy Blender over there once), but then I have to wonder how much of that attention was due to the sweet cachet of the IMAO brand name, which owes it's value principally to Frank J.'s comedic talents.
Recently, however, something happened to validate me that can only be attributed to good writing, and it feels heavenly.
Last Saturday, I posted a entry at IMAO called "I Am Huff Po". When I'd first conceived of it a couple days prior, it occurred to me that - if I did it right - it might resonate with a lot of people and actually generate a lot of traffic. I waited all weekend for some reaction after posting it, but outside of a few (VERY few) comments, the piece seemed largely ignored.
*sigh*
So after 40 hours of gathering dust, I do what I do with a lot of my IMAO posts - I cross-posted it at Bad Example for the benefit of those readers (friends, actually) who can't stand the insanely-long load times at IMAO.
And that's when it happened.
Blake of Laughing Wolf - a friend and reader - posted a link to the version of "I Am Huff Po" that I'd posted at Bad Example. Not at his relatively low-traffic personal site, but at the highly-visible Blackfive.
Which was VERY cool, but I didn't take it to be necessarily a reflection on the quality of the piece, since I know Blake, and that could taint his objectivity.
And that's when it REALLY happened.
Michelle Malkin linked to Bad Example. Not only linked, but linked as an update at the TOP of the post (she usually updates at the bottom).
Little Green Footballs linked to Bad Example. Not only linked, but with the enthusiastic phrase "dead-on parody alert". I also noticed that it got 156 Diggs. Now, I'm not exactly sure what a Digg is, except that it can be used as a relative measure of the post's popularity. Considering that most LGF posts get under 100 of them, I take this as favorable feedback.
JihadWatch linked to Bad Example with the giddily ego-boosting description "a terrific parody of/addendum to Michelle Malkin's magnificent "I am John Doe" piece, skewering the Huffington Post's willfully clueless Leftist jihad enablers."
It's probably in some other places, too, but Sitemeter only gives me the last 100 refers, so that's all I know about.
The point is this. None of these people know me or like me or owe me anything or mistakenly think they're linking to something Frank J wrote. This praise isn't for me as a person, or for me as a member of IMAO, it's strictly for what I wrote.
I can't begin to express how good - how reassuring - this feels.
The funny thing is that people who read the posts that linked me are all going to wonder the same thing - "Who is this 'Bad Harvey' fella? I've never heard of him. Must be some overnight sensation."
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I still love you, even though you have hit the big time...
Posted by: Susie at April 03, 2007 09:32 AM (R7iws)
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We knew it was only a matter of time ... remember your family now that your BIG!
Congrats!!
Posted by: Quality Weenie at April 03, 2007 09:48 AM (BksWB)
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Yes,....most definitly self-congratualtory twaddle.
Honstly I've always thought you had away with the words and found your postings amusing,Interesting and yes sometimes even Informative....and I"m not saying this cause your my brother...you better then that If I thought your Blog sucked I'd tell you.
Posted by: Blogless Brother at April 03, 2007 09:54 AM (JfpfL)
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OOoooo and congratulations On your 15 minutes, may you use It more wisely then Kato Kalen did.
Posted by: Blogless Brother at April 03, 2007 09:57 AM (JfpfL)
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funny, that's pretty much how I feel when you comment at my little place. And the elation I felt when you blogrolled me!
Posted by: wRitErsbLock at April 03, 2007 10:17 AM (+MvHD)
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All I'm gonna say is it's about damned time.
Congratulations Pops. Well earned indeed....
Posted by: Tammi at April 03, 2007 10:35 AM (Bitcf)
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Gee, all this warm fuzzy love, and all I can think of is the Simpson's episode where Milhouse says "But my Mom says I'm cool..."
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F16.html
Seriously, though, thanks :-)
Posted by: Harvey at April 03, 2007 10:36 AM (L7a63)
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Congrats, Harvey! You earned it.
Now don't forget to come back & give us peasants a little good-natured repression now and again.
We're happy for you, ya old reprobate squid!
Posted by: Tennessee Budd at April 03, 2007 11:08 AM (Kk1xh)
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First I don't read you because I like you. Second I don't read you because I know you. We met after I started reading you.
I read you because you post some damn good material and I for one am glad you cross post here what you do over at IMAO... since I never, ever go there.
I for one am glad you've finally gotten the recognition you so richly deserve. Now just don't go getting a big head like Grau did.
Posted by: Contagion at April 03, 2007 12:36 PM (Q5WxB)
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I'd say you earned it... but I know you, so I guess that doesn't count. *grin*
Posted by: Teresa at April 03, 2007 12:36 PM (gsbs5)
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Contagion - I thought Grau was BORN with that basketball head :-)
Anyway, it can't be ALL about the quality posting. I had some pretty lean/lame months in the second half of '06.
Posted by: Harvey at April 03, 2007 01:27 PM (L7a63)
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Darn brilliant post, Harvey! Seriously, you got me into blogging & for all the help you've been that post captures perfectly how I wish I could communicate my thoughts.
Congratulations & I hope you continue to enjoy your success.
Hapkido
Posted by: Hapkido at April 03, 2007 02:08 PM (+cC9w)
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... rock on, Harvey... remember us little folks now that you're famous, brah.....
Posted by: Eric at April 03, 2007 04:21 PM (NlzwQ)
Posted by: Jim - PRS at April 03, 2007 04:59 PM (a6/Kb)
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Bad Example: Come for the Humor, Stay for the Love Notes!
Posted by: Temujin at April 03, 2007 06:48 PM (PgJpJ)
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Well... I don't know you, but have kept coming back to read you. I tend to read what strikes a chord, and well, I actually like what you write.
And another thing... Many of your blogfamily (blog spawn?) write well too. I have to think there is a common thread. And enjoy your newfound notoriety.
Oh... Loved the I am Huff Po piece!
Posted by: Madfish Willie at April 03, 2007 07:36 PM (W7KPb)
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Oh, Harv...we always knew you were great...but the recognition by the world-at-large is well-deserved!!!
Posted by: Mrs. Who at April 03, 2007 07:40 PM (9FXen)
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Congrats Harvey could not happen to a nicer guy and I mean that.
I can remember when my blog was about 3 weeks old and I got a link from Owen at B&S and I realized my sitemeter actually worked.
You were the first guy to offer me a comment saying Congrats.
Finally I get a chance to say thank you
Posted by: Chris SH2 at April 03, 2007 08:55 PM (4TPRk)
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Congrats on your 15 minutes... always intoxicating!
Posted by: Incognito at April 03, 2007 10:37 PM (0ydbg)
Posted by: Graumagus at April 04, 2007 03:20 AM (pjAgG)
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AAHHhhh!! Spam DORK alert...DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER.
Posted by: Blogless Brother at April 04, 2007 05:10 AM (oPbVt)
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Congrats. Wow that is wonderful. Please remember us little people. GRIN
Posted by: vw bug at April 04, 2007 06:36 AM (kwlb/)
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Blogless Brother - Spam DORK eradicated.
Oh my how I HATE it when they spam on recent posts.
At least it was only fake watches. The worst stuff is barnyard granny pr0n on my Love Notes.
Posted by: Harvey at April 04, 2007 08:27 AM (L7a63)
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Speaking for myself I knew your writing wayyyy before I ever knew you.
Having met you now just makes the writing more entertaining.
Congratulations either way amigo! You earned it!
Posted by: BloodSpite at April 04, 2007 08:58 AM (ZTGJT)
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Kudos well deserved, Harvey! And it *is* about time!
Brilliant piece of work. :-)
Posted by: Richmond at April 04, 2007 12:32 PM (e8QFP)
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...
Great. Now we get to deal with the "I'm famous, and you're not, little person" crap from Harvey.
What's the point of getting that much exposure if you're not going to milk it?
Good job, Harv. Keep being yourself, and you'll prolly get more.
Posted by: The Humble Devildog at April 04, 2007 09:24 PM (Njev1)
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Why do I have to be myself? Can't I be someone cool, instead? :-)
Posted by: Harvey at April 04, 2007 10:43 PM (L7a63)
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Long over-due and well-deserved, Harvey.
Congrats!!
Posted by: jimmyb at April 06, 2007 10:06 AM (v+UBf)
Posted by: Phelps at March 09, 2007 10:31 AM (Z1mgQ)
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Hey! Unshelved is great! I read it daily as well. I would recommend Freefall, http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff100/fv00001.htm
That link is to the first comic in the series. Also, I can't believe you have missed Get Fuzzy!
http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/
Happy day!
Posted by: Nick at March 09, 2007 01:14 PM (sBEqJ)
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But Freefall IS on the list.
You must've skimmed past it.
And I've tried Get Fuzzy before, but I stopped reading it some time ago. Maybe it was just going through a rough patch. I'll try again.
Posted by: Harvey at March 09, 2007 01:19 PM (L7a63)
Posted by: michele at March 09, 2007 10:39 PM (UgY20)
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Take a look at Plop also. Very short lived but was interesting in some ways:
http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/plop/
Posted by: Nick at March 10, 2007 12:19 AM (sBEqJ)
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Oh, this too
Academia Nuts
http://www.huwtopia.com/nuts/01.html
Posted by: Nick at March 10, 2007 12:20 AM (sBEqJ)
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You've got a lot of the good ones there - I also read Girl Genius, although this is a serial comic and not a "three frame gag" strip:
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/
Also Dork Tower:
http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/index.asp
And of course Sinfest:
http://www.sinfest.net/
Oh, and Nodwick:
http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php
Posted by: Shadoglare at March 10, 2007 08:01 PM (R0BM5)
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I dig Dr. McNinja with big shovels.
www.drmcninja.com
Posted by: Graumagus at March 11, 2007 12:07 AM (ZEzoY)
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I use to read Nodwick and Dork Tower. I enjoyed Dork Tower much more than Nodwick, but both were great. Maybe I need to take another look at both.
Another one that I found amusing was Pet Professional:
http://www.petprofessional.net/d/20050209.html
About a hit man that takes contracts on pets.
Posted by: Nick at March 11, 2007 01:49 AM (sBEqJ)
IS IT STILL MAGIC?
Blogless Brother is reminiscing about how much fun snow used to be when he was a kid (looks like he actually dragged out his spellchecker for this one, so it's a good read).
Since I grew up in the same house with him, I know what he's talking about.
Although he forgot the BEST part of any snowstorm - the 20 ft. tall mountains at the edge of the Sentry Food Store parking lots.
First the big challenge - can you make it to the top? Sometimes it seemed like the steps were built in, and ascension was a matter of seconds. Sometimes you got halfway up and then one leg plunged in up to your nuts. Have fun getting out of THAT hole.
On particularly fortuitous days, there'd be a smooth section where you could lie on your back and slide down. Of course, usually there'd be at least one bumpy spot where you'd dislocate your spine, but since you were just a kid, it'd snap right back into place and you'd be ready to try it again.
Then there was MY favorite hobby - wear smooth-soled shoes, get a running start, then slllliiiiiddddde... with good snow and a smooth undersurface, you might make it 20 feet or so. Of course, if you did it on a sidewalk, you'd likely catch a crack and go stumble-crashing into the ground. Didn't matter. It was just part of the challenge.
Of course, here in my old age, I make sure that my soles have lots of good grip, and anytime I have to walk over snow, it's done at a prudent velocity. Don't want to break a hip, ya know.
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I loved winter well into my twenties, but now that I'm...ahem, 23 I step gingerly onto each icy patch, shuffle through half an inch of snow, and mutter imprecations at the street department for every piece of concrete/asphalt that isn't dry as the Gobi.
Sigh. Where are the snow forts of yesteryear?
Posted by: Susie at February 08, 2007 10:36 AM (Qkgxj)
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What's this winter thing you speak of? It was 72 here today in Southeast Texas!
Posted by: Justin at February 09, 2007 04:32 AM (Bn1yT)
MEMEY CHRISTMAS
Looks like blogdaughter Teresa of Technicalities is trying to lose her "Daddy's Favorite" title, because she tagged me with a meme.
Nevertheless, since the obligations of parenthood don't end with birth, I must comply:
UPDATE: Looks like Richmond of One For The Road tagged me with this, too
*puts Richmond on Naughty List*
1.Wrapping paper or gift bags? Duct tape and grocery bags, i.e. "guy wrapping".
2.Real tree or artificial? Artificial - there's something comforting in the ritual of setting up the same tree every year.
3.When do you put up the tree? Sometime between Thanksgiving & early December.
4.When do you take the tree down? Early January.
5.Do you like eggnog? ANYTHING is good with enough booze in it.
6.Favorite gift you received as a child? A slot car racing set.
7.Do you have a nativity scene? No.
8.Hardest person to buy for? Beloved Wife. Someday I'll remember to take notes on those little hints she drops all year.
9.Easiest person to buy for? Brother Tom. Anything computer-related is good.
10.Mail or email Christmas cards? Possibly e-mail. Usually I don't even bother with that. Either I care about you enough to contact you more than once a year, or I don't care about you at all.
14.Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No. I just throw them away.
15.Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Marshmallow Fluff fudge. Dad only made it once a year. Wish he didn't always put walnuts in it.
16.Clear lights or colored on the tree? Colored. And blinking.
17.Favorite Christmas song? "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", sung low and slow by a female vocalist who keeps her vocals understated. Definitely NOT the James Taylor version with that crappy line about "muddling through".
18.Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay home.
19.Can you name all of SantaÂ’s Reindeers? Sure: Dasher, Dancer ... Prancer ... Nixon, Comet, Cupid ... Donna Dixon
20.Angel on the tree top or a star? Our angel always shedded feathers. I never liked her. So... star.
21.Open the presents on Christmas Eve or morning? Morning - and we had to wait until after everyone finished breakfast.
22.Most annoying thing about this time of year? Needing to shop for urgent, non-Christmas items at a big box store.
23.Do you have Jebus in your heart this Christmas? I'll see him at Hooters tomorrow. Does that count?
24.What would you like for Christmas? To wake up next to Beloved Wife in the morning, and fall asleep next to her that night.
Next victims:
Let's see... who hasn't posted anything in a while?...:
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I figured if I got tagged... others should have to play too. *grin*
Contagion - how were we supposed to know you changed it? I thought it started that way.
Oh yeah- #22 - exactly.
Posted by: Teresa at December 22, 2006 10:15 AM (gsbs5)
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I answered the stupid meme.
Happy now?
Merry Christmas, everyone.
And I counted Alaska, even though I only got close enough to see the Aleutian Islands from the fantail of the Enterprise.
Looking over the map, I can't help but notice that pretty much ALL of that green is courtesy of the US Navy, although sometimes indirectly - like taking a Greyhound from Wisconsin to San Diego to visit a friend of mine who enlisted in the Navy shortly before I did.
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Oh, and "China" was only chosen because "Hong Kong" isn't on the list (it was still under British lease when I visited), and I've also been to the US Virgin Islands, but that's not on the list at all.
Posted by: Harvey at December 09, 2006 10:33 AM (L7a63)
Posted by: Teresa at December 09, 2006 11:03 AM (o4pJS)
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I have also been to Guam but it wasnt on the list. Traveling was great fun!
Posted by: Gigi at December 09, 2006 11:11 AM (MGlM/)
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Except for Mexico I've done all my international traveling curtesy of my rich Uncle Samuel, too.
Oddly, though, except for Hawaii, he never sent me anywhere in the USA that I had not been before.
I would have liked to have seen Europe back then but it seems that LBJ and Nixon didn't need any Europeans killed. Damned shame if you asked me, which nobody did.
Posted by: Peter at December 09, 2006 11:17 AM (Eodj2)
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The only foreign country I've been to was Canada. But I've been to all 48 of the continuous states.
Posted by: Contagion at December 09, 2006 06:02 PM (MsT2U)
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I can thank Uncle Sam for Korea and Japan and Alaska (if we are including layovers). I only hit 3%, but I figured out I was only missing about 10 states. Unfortunately that includes Hawaii, not unfortunately that also inlcudes Idaho, not that I don't love potatoes, but really, its Idaho.
Posted by: Kevin Porter at December 09, 2006 06:31 PM (jqVOv)
I'M GOING TO HUG HIM AND SQUEEZE HIM AND CALL HIM GEORGE
So I'm hanging out in the garage Sunday night, relaxing with a cigar. The dogs are out in the back yard, sniffing each other's butts (or whatever they do to amuse themselves), and I hear a moderately audible "ka-chang" sound.
I peek out the back door of the garage to see both Jake and Bandit dashing madly to the right.
"Hmmm... must be a pedestrian walking by with a dog".
*ka-chang*
Dogs dash madly to the left.
"A confused jogger?"
*ka-chang*
Dogs to the right, and I see that they're chasing after a rabbit.
"Ah... well, he'll find a hole under the chain-link fence and be off to freedom."
*ka-chang*
Dogs to the left.
"Ah... apparently this rabbit is particularly stupid, and keeps bouncing off the chain-link fence... Still, as long as he doesn't run behind the shed so that the dogs get on either side of him..."
*ka-chang*
Dogs to the right... on either side of the shed... behind which the rabbit has run.
*Grrrr!*
*squeak!*
*sque-!*
"Ah... the hand of Darwin... or in this case, the paw..."
Jake wanders from behind the shed, rabbit in mouth. Bandit bounces around excitedly, knowing that SOMETHING fun just happened but not really sure what (she's a Border Collie - she just likes herding animals).
Jake plops down by the garage door, oblivious to the rain. He likes to catch & kill critters, but he's not much for eating them. As far as he's concerned, that rabbit is just another fuzzy chew toy - albeit with a broken squeaker.
And like a fuzzy chew toy, it's for just holding in your mouth... until someone offers you a tasty pig's ear in trade.
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One less rabbit in the world... good boy Jake! *grin*
Posted by: Teresa at November 27, 2006 09:15 AM (5UR9t)
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Harvey, I hope you ate the rabbit. Not as good as shooting them yourself, but hey, rabbit meat is rabbit meat...
Posted by: Tennessee Budd at November 27, 2006 10:40 AM (wXSVh)
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Back when I had my chow Shadow I used to occasionally find parts of stuff I thought might have been rabbits... or cats... not sure
Posted by: Graumagus at November 27, 2006 10:52 AM (8P21O)
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BTW, was the "Hug him..." reference from ELmyra of Animaniacs??
Posted by: Graumagus at November 27, 2006 11:13 AM (8P21O)
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LOL! Harv, you should send that one to saveToby.com as a visible reference for the PETA freaks. In the meantime, you know your dog has freaking kewl skillz to catch a wild bunny. Paw of Darwin or not, them buggers is fast. May El-ahrairah have mercy on his fuzzy soul.
Posted by: shimauma at November 27, 2006 12:30 PM (oH+XM)
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Wow. I'm glad Happy Dog is too slow to catch most anything.
Posted by: vw bug at November 27, 2006 12:34 PM (FXZgB)
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Grau - Actually, it was a reference to one (and possibly several) old Bugs Bunny cartoons.
The Abominable Snow Rabbit
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054593/
for sure, and possibly a few others.
The quote probably isn't exact, since I was doing it from memory, and Google mostly turns up other people quoting it from memory, rather than pointing to source material.
Shimauma - He's caught other stuff, too. Sometimes with help, sometimes solo. There was a woodchuck that Bandit helped him with, a couple stupid birds that forgot that flying helps avoid predators, and one baby rabbit that needed to be taken out of the gene pool because it was too dumb to get while the gettin' was good.
Bug - Jake is normally a lumbering lummox, but he's also pretty good about choosing his angles for cutting off prey during a chase. He's also excellent at delivering that killing neck-bite.
Good thing he likes the cats :-/
Posted by: Harvey at November 27, 2006 02:14 PM (L7a63)
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Holy cow! Way to go Jake!! My dogs could so use some of that vim and vigor...
Posted by: Richmond at November 27, 2006 02:45 PM (e8QFP)
Posted by: Elisson at November 27, 2006 02:46 PM (CJmNQ)
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Zoe would have loved to been in on that! Give Jake a hug for me. What a good dog.
I have eaten rabbit, and no, it doesn't really taste like chicken. Why does everyone tell you that? Frog legs don't taste like chicken, either. Or possum. Dang.
Posted by: pam at November 27, 2006 04:13 PM (l6NIn)
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My fat dog sticks to picking up dead, squished squirrels from the road and prancing home proudly with them.
Posted by: sticks at November 27, 2006 05:53 PM (Ak7WA)
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... Jake rocks... you need to bring him down here to Tennessee and teach him to catch squirrels...... and cats.....
Posted by: Eric at November 27, 2006 07:41 PM (NlzwQ)
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Harvey,
Bring Jake down to Indiana. We have a rabbit epidemic down here. Good Boy!!!
Posted by: Jerry at November 27, 2006 10:40 PM (ZWD2Z)
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Eric, I've got Tennessee's squirrels handled. I'm buying a new shotgun this evening.
Posted by: Tennessee Budd at November 28, 2006 11:28 AM (wXSVh)
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Cody only ate the baby ones. I guess he was just a finicky eater. :-) Yeah Jake!!!
Posted by: Tammi at November 28, 2006 01:20 PM (Bitcf)
For years, Beloved Wife TNT of Smiling Dynamite has mocked me mercilessly for doing the same thing, treating me as though I was the only person on the planet capable of such deranged behavior.
Looks like this particular fetish may have a larger following than anyone has ever suspected. Come on, you closet milk-icers... fess up.
By the way, =HC=, please consider getting your own blog. Writing talent like yours needs to be showcased, not hidden in comments sections. Read this & think it over.
UPDATE - 10:30 PM: I'm not actually a freak, because I've got an excuse. Four years on the Enterprise where the milk was usually served at room temperature. And keep in mind that - all too often - the temperature of the "room" was also about the temp of the part of the Indian Ocean we were floating around on. Say about 90 degrees.
Warm water, warm milk, warm pop, warm bug juice, warm beer (if we were out to sea long enough)... I developed an obsession with making sure that drinks that are supposed to be served cold are served at the temperature God intended, i.e. just above freezing.
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I ice my milk! (it's not cold enough otherwise)
[standing proud]
Hi- My name is Rave, and I have been a Milk-Icer for 20 years...this is my first meeting.
Posted by: Rave at November 08, 2006 08:10 AM (Fir0Z)
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Icing your milk has nothing to do with you being a freak, Harv.
Carving little ice sculptures out of the cubes, does.
Posted by: That 1 Guy at November 08, 2006 08:25 AM (Hn1Gg)
Posted by: Ogre at November 08, 2006 09:41 AM (oifEm)
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No ice, but I do like to put it in the freezer for 45 minutes to an hour before drinking. And I agree, HC needs to start his own blog. Maybe if we get a petition going?
Posted by: Tink at November 08, 2006 12:18 PM (11q5z)
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No, you're still a freak, Harv. Just because you have company in your freak-dom doesn't mean you're not a freak.
Ice in milk. ew.
Posted by: Contagion at November 08, 2006 06:24 PM (RfcPg)
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Ice in milk is perfectly acceptable if there is vodka and kahlua in it. Otherwise, you just have a problem.
Posted by: Sticks at November 08, 2006 08:31 PM (Ak7WA)
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Freaks! (Said as I eat a half pound of frosted mini-wheats out of the box without milk)
Posted by: Graumagus at November 09, 2006 08:25 AM (s+Y40)
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I actually like milk after it's been sitting out about 5 minutes. By then, it's lost just enough of it's chill to not freeze my brain when I chug the whole glass in one swallow.
Unless I have chocolate chip cookies, that is. Then it's one bite of cookie, one sip of milk. Repeat till all gone.
Posted by: GEBIV at November 09, 2006 06:13 PM (zc1eK)
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"Bloggrandson-in-law"??
Damn, I thought I had enough in-laws already!!
Actually, Harvey, since you're the one nagging me to blog, I'd figure that IF* I were to blog, I'd blame you for it, thereby becoming your blog son who just so happens to be married to your blog granddaughter... Of course since I post on HoZ, that would also make Mrs_Who (again: my wife and your blog granddaughter) my blog Mother, thereby making me the Oedipal Bastard-Spawn of an already twisted and incestuous blog union... And my own great nephew... I think.
So wouldn't I be a sick milk-icing freak worthy of the Bad Example family!
*as yet still quite undecided - especially since I fitfully threw-down the meme gauntlet in the comments on HoZ!!
Posted by: =HC= at November 10, 2006 09:21 AM (6zbwL)
I hope you've got a good excuse for getting into the "three post rut." -Simpsons, Currency, Love. Repeat.
Conveniently, I do.
As mentioned previously, Beloved Wife TNT of Smiling Dynamite is the Personal Representative for her late mother's estate, and I've been helping her get things in order.
"Things" meaning mostly cleaning up a house packed with 30 years of accumulated crap, and maintained with some iffy housekeeping & home repair skills. Probably not the WORST maintained home I've ever seen, but anyone who's ever moved after a long stay knows how neglected certain areas can get, and what an effort it can be to get them looking nice again.
The major issue being that we needed to get the house shined up & ready for sale before snow season.
The good news is, we finally finished last week. It's just a matter of getting the house sold now.
Of course, there's still the issue of finding space for all the crap we hauled back to our house - currently packed into boxes crowding all over the living room floor. That'll be eating up time at random intervals.
And we still have to get the leaves raked at the estate house.
Aside from that, though, I should be able to dedicate more time to blogging at Bad Example. I closed down Alliance HQ and Forward This Email, so I'm down to just posting here and at IMAO.
Of course, I'm still working on the Love Notes book, too. I've gotten all 365 notes written, but there's editing & polishing to do.
So, in theory, I should get caught up on my posting this week or next, and be able to post more than just "the rutting three" thereafter. Plus I'll be able to start reading through my blogroll again.
Meanwhile I figured that having three crummy posts a day was better than posting nothing at all.
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Harvey,
First off, I like the love notes...blog is always second to all. I hope you are relieved to get the estate settled. Not fun. I have had to help with this 4 times now....
It is a tedious process certainly. Please offer SD my thoughts and condolences on the loss of a parent.
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The estate's not exactly settled yet, but most of the heavy lifting is over. I'm sure there's still a few surprises hiding offstage somewhere...
Posted by: Harvey at November 01, 2006 09:09 AM (L7a63)
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Huh. Here I thought you were spending all your spare time eating pizza.
Posted by: Ogre at November 01, 2006 09:46 AM (oifEm)
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I can't believe you've been able to keep all of that going for so long! Even if you weren't the only one (kudos to Susie and the others for all their hard work). Sorry you and TNT have both been bogged down with what can only be sad work, glad the worst is behind you.
Me - I can barely keep up with my own blog... I certainly ain't criticizing you because you can't keep up with the miriads you are involved with *grin*.
Posted by: Teresa at November 01, 2006 03:00 PM (o4pJS)
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Umm... okay... I suppose that'll work.
Sorry man. I was expecting something more along the lines of "I'm just bein' a lazy rat," not like... ya know... reality.
Anyway, hope your life gets in order again soon and things get back to normal.
Posted by: Mike the Marine at November 01, 2006 07:35 PM (4J8pe)
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How in the world d id I miss that post on her mother passing?! I read every day! But I did. And I'm sorry. I hope it all gets squared away soon...
Posted by: Bou at November 01, 2006 08:32 PM (iHxT3)
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As you know, you can sit by me. I am glad that things are getting squared away.
Things will be looking up sooner than later!
Posted by: Richmond at November 01, 2006 09:14 PM (e8QFP)
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Take your time, Harv; we'll be waiting for you when you're ready.
Posted by: Frank J. at November 03, 2006 06:23 PM (ND1d/)
We listen to both kinds of real music - bluegrass / Celtic and speed metal
According to the rules, they still need two other Bad Example Family members to link their application post before they make the blogroll. Go check 'em out & see if they're worthy.
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