"In those days, women had to be in bed by 8:30"

"Then the Whigs became the Republicans!"

"Women had to walk behind men and couldn't dress as fancy as men"

--a misogynistic tour guide on Berkeley Plantation, Charles City Co.

HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Kelly to a small girl: "No, Santa was born later. His daddy's name was Thomas Nast and his mommy's name was Inspiration!"

AMAZING.

"It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways." -Edith Wharton ( Read more... )

This is why nerds rule, why Sigma rules, and why Sci-Fi Friday + Best Week Ever with Hannah and Risser is going to ROCK MY PROVERBIAL SOCKS OFF.

Jaelnado: mine is an evil laugh
hummely098: we shall rule over this land
hummely098: and we will call it......
hummely098: this land
Jaelnado: i think we should call it your grave!
hummely098: AHHH curse ( Read more... )

Irving Berlin said it best:

The sun is shining
The grass is green
The orange and palm trees sway.
I've never seen such a day
In Beverly Hills LA.
But it's December the 24th
And I am longing to be up North.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know...I should mention it was 85° today. Hee hee! Excited about ( Read more... )

It's going to be an exciting night.

hummely098: what do truckers use cattle prods for?
hummely098: waking themselves up, or elaborate trucker pranks?
Dcschoeni: i think they mean livestock transports
hummely098: ahhhhh
Dcschoeni: though i'd like to think elaborate trucker pranks happen
hummely098: I thought it would be funny if they zapped each ( Read more... )

If I was a dinosaur, I would be an oviraptor.

The old-school kind, back when they thought they just ate eggs all the time.

So... it's been tricky for me to speak this past week, but it's getting better, but the result of this is:

hummely098: my dad said talking to me was like talking to helen keller
hummely098: so he started looking up helen keller jokes on the internet and reading them to me
hummely098: and is now laughing too hard he can't speak
neumie22: and that ( Read more... )

This is my life:

me: I kissed a vial of jesus' blood in belgium.
craig: whatever, I drink it every week.
josh: fuck transubstantiation, craig, that's wine!

So I finally read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, even though I distinctly remember reading perhaps the first 1/3 of it as a kid, I decided I should. So I read it in a few hours - ( Read more... )

SO I was talking - just for fun, since there was a big thunderstorm - with Kris about tornados, and not two seconds after she was talking about sirens, we HEARD ONE.

Yeah. Tornado.

( National Weather Service Bulletin )