Pondering... would "autotonsillectomy" refer to tonsils spontaneously falling off, to removing one's own tonsils, or to yanking them out with a car?

Rule 404: For any subject, there is a website that is supposed to contain porn about it, but which is not working.

Imagining a couple of Game of Thrones characters looking from the edge of a forest across a charred, smoking landscape.  A few of the countless bodies among the wreckage move feebly.

"Well, shit.  I think this is the end of another season."

"Fuck me.  ... Didn't we pass a cave a little while back?"

"What, to hide in?  Don't you remember Willett?"

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The snake I was following yesterday turned out to be a gopher snake, not a rattlesnake, and anyway I did not try to pick it up.

We did see a rattlesnake today, though, and had to wait with our tour guide in the petrified wood forest until the snake could be collected for relocation.

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My Nicoll number is 1.  That is, I have conversed with James ( Read more... )

One of my pictures made it into today's CakeWrecks.  It's the last one on that page, the "beach vomit" cake.


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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION ( Read more... )

I can't help reading and processing signage that I pass.  That's part of why I hate street spam so much.  But occasionally I can salvage a moment of wit from it.

Crossfit (n): apoplexy
 

I tend to be nerdishly amused by literalism, especially when I'm tired.

I am amused that Yoplait's line of Greek yogurt appears to be called "gora".

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This sentence is false.[citation needed]
 

Every so often there's an announcement over the hospital PA system, of (possible) relevance to everyone.  Most are about some problem, the "code" announcements.  "Code Red" means that there's a fire, "Green" is for an evacuation, "Blue" for a cardiac arrest; there's "Yellow" for a missing patient and "Amber" for an infant abduction.  "White" is a ( Read more... )