name the car quiz

AND PASSED WITH AN ABOVE AVERAGE SCORE. B+

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“we eliminated the pool and the ballroom”

Or why I love the onion…

Obama Axes Pentagon Plan To Build Billion Dollar Tank In Shape Of Dragon

secret to a good marriage

this one is for gord

 You have been found out…

…the tomato invades the kitchen…

 Ode to the Tomato – Pablo Neruta

(translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)

The street filled with tomatoes
midday,
summer,
light is halved like a tomato,
its juice runs through the streets.
In December, unabated, the tomato invades the kitchen,
it enters at lunchtime,
takes its ease on counter tops,
among glasses, butter dishes, blue saltcellars.
It sheds its own light,
benign majesty.

Unfortunately, we must murder it:
the knife sinks into living flesh,
red viscera,
a cool sun, profound, inexhaustible,
populates the salads of Chile,
happily, it is wed to the clear onion,
and to celebrate the union we pour oil,
essential child of the olive,
onto its halved hemispheres,
pepper adds its fragrance,
salt, its magnetism;
it is the wedding of the day,
parsley hoists its flag,
potatoes bubble vigorously,
the aroma of the roast knocks at the door,
it’s time!
come on!
and, on the table, at the midpoint of summer,
the tomato, star of earth,
recurrent and fertile star,
displays its convolutions,
its canals,
its remarkable amplitude and abundance,
no pit,
no husk,
no leaves or thorns,
the tomato offers its gift of fiery color
and cool completeness.

signs of the apocalypse

We are doomed……

is there nothing obama can’t do?

…of course 5FF has it….

…whilst junior shamelessly rips off SDA headlines….

news you can use

The last thirty seconds or so with the ‘deputy press secretary’ are priceless….

Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America After Visiting Denny’s

http://www.theonion.com

ruv, true ruv….

….mixing a little princess bride with North Korea, how bad can it be?

signs of the apocalypse

Via Marginal Revolution:  your helpful government (US) offering tax tips for nearly every eventuality….

Tax information for Parents of Kidnapped Children

Topic 357 – Tax Information for Parents of Kidnapped Children

You may claim a kidnapped child as your dependent if the following requirements are met:

1. The child must be presumed by law enforcement to have been kidnapped by someone who is not a member of your family or a member of the child’s family, and
2. The child had, for the taxable year in which the kidnapping occurred, the same principal place of abode as the taxpayer for more than one-half of the portion of such year before the date of kidnapping.

If both of these requirements are met, the child may meet the requirements for purposes of determining:

• The dependency exemption
• The child tax credit, and
• Head of household or qualifying widow(er) with dependent child filing status.

This tax treatment will cease to apply as of your first tax year beginning after the calendar year in which either there is a determination that the child is dead or the child would have reached age 18, whichever occurs first. 

For more information, refer to Publication 501, Exemptions, Standard Deduction, and Filing Information

junior goes (virtually) sailing

if junior sailed in meatspace he might look like this?

Being by nature a landlubber –  perhaps reinforced by being employed as ballast whist the parental unit’s enjoyed their sailing excursions back in the day –  I hadn’t considered sailing as an entertaining on-line game until Edward the Corgi sorted me out in this department.

It’s fun, it’s mildly addicting (and goodness knows junior needs no excuse) and you can go get your boat and join the round the world race here…..

if the kingston sheep dog trials met Samsung TV…

… you would get shepherding for the netgeneration.

 

viral funkiness

Doing my part to add to the viral thingy….

Tel Aviv musician Kutiman, who styles himself as a “psychedelic funk architect” has designed and constructed a doozy of a musical mashup. His Internet album Thru You, consisting of remixed youtube music videos completely made out of remixed YouTube footage

the periodic table – updated

People have told me I was full of it before, but I never imagined…..

Research has led to discovery of the heaviest element yet known to
science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction (that normally takes less than a second) to take as long as 4 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2-6 years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neurons and deputy neurons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization causes more morons to become neurons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.

When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, which has half as many peons but twice the number of morons.

its timely – and its fun (go get your own)

clicky, clicky…..