If this isn't proof of time travel, I don't know what is.

Christie's sold for almost $18,000 a Roman D-20 from circa 2nd century AD.

About 8 or 9 years ago I took my first-ever proper vacation from work (please, no smart-ass comments about that) and went to New York. I found myself wandering around Manhattan with a friend. While it wasn't my first time in NY, I still wanted to see the city some more, so we took a bus in the city. The bus was cruising down 5th av. and suddenly ( Read more... )

במסגרת "עבודות שאני לא אעבוד בהן בחיים" - מוכר בחנות תחפושות לילדים שבוע וחצי לפני פורים.

( מתוך שיחה שנשמעה במקום כזה... )

( Omne labor nullusque lusus Dubiem stolidum puerum faciebat )

So avgboojie composed a little lament for LJ drama.
I responded with a speculative version of what Walt Whitman might have had to say about that.

avgboojie was kind enough to ROFL.
She mentioned she once used this poem before to demonstrate how chainsaws have a place in poetry.

( Chainsaws in poetry, eh? )

הזהרתי? הזהרתי.
התרעתי? התרעתי.
אבל לא! "אין לך את התמונות האלה", הוא אומר, "לא עוד".

אומרים - אין חושפים ערוותו של אדם בציבור. אני אומר - למה לא?

( התמונות שלפניכם קשות, ואינן מיועדות לילדים קטנים או נשים בהריון (או לילדות קטנות בהריון). )

If you missed yesterday's edition of Channel 10's London & Kirshenbaum, let me fill you in ( Read more... )

Got this junk mail titled "Life in the 1500s"
No idea how true it is, but it sounds nice.

( And here it is )