"'Aguilera completely dissed both the ramparts and the fact that they were gallantly streaming ( Read more... )

"If my daughter had dressed as Batman, no one would have thought twice about it. No one."
- Blogger Cop's Wife on her 5-year old son's decision to go as Daphne from Scooby-Doo for Halloween.

"I want to dress up my dollies and then use them to kill things, and maybe save the world or whatever."
- A forum-goer discusses video game character customization with disarming honesty.

"Saltwater crocodiles, once they get hold of you, are not renowned for letting you go."
- Malcolm Douglas, owner of some sort of crocodile park in Australia, commenting on the good luck of one very drunk man who decided to go for a crocodile ride.

"I'm constantly surprised, impressed, and disturbed by your skills at perceiving marginal butts from a great distance."
- Jennifer Lynn Jordan comments on co-blogger* Carl Pyrdum's superpower.

*Okay, it's Carl's 'Got Medieval?" blog and JLJ is guest blogging (but she has her own Bad Medieval Movies blog!) but that's a little long for an

"There is some delay in the replication of our data, so our operational data, our sequence of events ends at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the 20th."
- Steven Newman, president and CEO of Transocean Ltd, tries to explain the gap in his records to a Senate panel.
Is there any earthly reason for a seven-hour delay? There may be no Internet ( Read more... )

"For all its clunky satire, this is not a particularly original objection to the corrosive effects of ecclesiastical organization. (See: Reformation.)"
- Ron Charles at WaPo reviews Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.

"Leave the cat alone, for what has the cat done, that you should so afflict it with tape?"
- "A Mommy's Old Testament"

"BROKEN BY THE POWER OF MY BOOB."
- Marianne Kirby, aka The Rotund, on what she thinks when an underwire snaps.

I admit an unseemly fondness for the word "boob."

"Obama calls for tighter control of derivatives"
- The AP fails to mention the president's stand on integrals and infinite series.