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Cock fighting is popular in parts of Mexico.
This is my very favourite article that has ever been written, ever.
Peacocks, prostitutes, found in Mexican prison during surprise search
ACAPULCO, MEXICO-Authorities say a surprise search at an Acapulco
prison has netted two peacocks, 100 fighting cocks, 19 prostitutes and
two sacks filled with marijuana.
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"I was considering going platinum blonde." "Well, you're already halfway there."
I cut my hair short, so short that the last remnants of dye are gone and now my natural hair colour is exposed. I already knew I had a few grey hairs, but now that every layer of hair has been exposed I can really see the full extent of it: my natural colour is no longer dark brown, but salt and pepper. It is sort of awesome! I had considered ( Read more... ) -
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Normally I can't stomach Rosie DiManno, but I think she is bang on in in this recent article.I can't even discuss the Williams case because it makes me sick, it makes me terrified. There is so fucking much wrong with it beyond the individual criminal. His case has illuminated so many of the problems women, especially women as victims of violence, ( Read more... ) -
THE QUEEN WAS ALL UP IN MY FACE.
GUYS I MET THE QUEEN
I AM NOT EVEN JOKING
Sophie and I met up at Queen's Park just before ten in the morning to line up along her walkabout route in the sweltering heat (I am not kidding, 35 celsius, feeling like 45 with the humidex.) I had water, ice, more water, and a camera.
For most of the morning nothing exciting happened except random army ( Read more... ) -
Early morning dorkery.
"Do you like the doily I put on the table?"
"I do! I like your great-grandmother's doilies. You should doil more. Maybe get a job at a doilery." -
On the streetcar yesterday
he turns to me:
"Ha, sweetie, look: that store is called TOUCHE, like DOUCHE."
"Uh, no, it's Touché. There's an accent aigu on the E. Just like in your last name, dumbass."
"Oh, douché!" -
Conversations with my Significant Other: The Reckoning
"That's the girl who played Penny in Inspector Gadget!"
"Wow, she must have been a lot younger twenty years ago."
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All the farts that the Beguines make cannot be weighed in scales.
-- Medieval Dutch Proverb.
From Nancy Caciola, Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages. -
I believe in strawberry-rhubarb pie.
It's reading week, and it's also the first week of the Winter Olympics, so I've been lying on the couch since Friday night watching CTV's horribly self-congratulatory coverage and knitting a lace shawl. It has been mostly relaxing so far. I'm sick to death of the fucking theme song, but I'm utterly charmed by the Norwegian curling team's pants ( Read more... )