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Sep. 19th, 2002
Man Slices Off Four Body Parts
Okay, see, this is why the Dr. Atwood Gaines World-Famous Legs-Crossing Lecture came to mind this morning. Someone in Australia was on amphetamines and got mad. And someone being interviewed by Reuters is too clever by half in his use of the language. Five paragraphs down, please.
That is all.
Oh, yeah, today's pulp survival tip: 40. See a competent psychoanalyst or alienist and have yourself cured of all irrational phobias and hatreds beforehand. Do not, however, submit yourself to hypnosis in order to accomplish this.
Okay, see, this is why the Dr. Atwood Gaines World-Famous Legs-Crossing Lecture came to mind this morning. Someone in Australia was on amphetamines and got mad. And someone being interviewed by Reuters is too clever by half in his use of the language. Five paragraphs down, please.
That is all.
Oh, yeah, today's pulp survival tip: 40. See a competent psychoanalyst or alienist and have yourself cured of all irrational phobias and hatreds beforehand. Do not, however, submit yourself to hypnosis in order to accomplish this.
'Tis Talk Like A Pirate Day, so 'tis, and shiver me timbers if I won't live up to the bloodthirsty tradition of the scalawags and privateers that sailed the seven seas. . .
although blow down the mast an' call me Scurvy Pete if it's not bloody hard t' think properly piratical thoughts when the day's finest plunder comes from Oxford University Press. That's no pile of doubloons, matey, only a fine slender volume on the treasures of the mysterious East* by the good Roy Bates, all on that legendary beast, the Chinese dragon. 'Tis a treasure I've awaited a long, perishing time now, so 'tis. I'll be celebrating in port this night, you may be sure of that!
*Sweet God Almighty I can't believe I just typed that. Please excuse me. It is Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arrr.
although blow down the mast an' call me Scurvy Pete if it's not bloody hard t' think properly piratical thoughts when the day's finest plunder comes from Oxford University Press. That's no pile of doubloons, matey, only a fine slender volume on the treasures of the mysterious East* by the good Roy Bates, all on that legendary beast, the Chinese dragon. 'Tis a treasure I've awaited a long, perishing time now, so 'tis. I'll be celebrating in port this night, you may be sure of that!
*Sweet God Almighty I can't believe I just typed that. Please excuse me. It is Talk Like A Pirate Day. Arrr.
Yet another way you know you're me:
Sep. 19th, 2002 04:18 pmyou catch yourself singing merrily along, out loud with 'King of Pain' as you page through the warnings at THIS site:
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/us/hurricane.html
You wanna find Isidore's current location? Pop up to that link above. The National Oceanographic and Aeronautic Administration (I think that's what NOAA is for) puts out warnings every few hours when there's big-ass storms kicking around the ocean, and right now we've got two. Isidore is aiming for Cuba and points north; Josephine is six hundred miles from Newfoundland and is probably going to be taken off the tropical storm list very soon, as she's merged with a cold front. Still throwing around 60 MPH winds, though, so I wouldn't go out for swordfish any time soon.
Emergency services in the southeastern US are being put on alert as Isidore looks like he might make hurricane tonight and head over to tap-dance through the Florida Keys. Either way, we're all kinda holding our breaths at this chapter. He could get ugly very quickly.
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/us/hurricane.html
You wanna find Isidore's current location? Pop up to that link above. The National Oceanographic and Aeronautic Administration (I think that's what NOAA is for) puts out warnings every few hours when there's big-ass storms kicking around the ocean, and right now we've got two. Isidore is aiming for Cuba and points north; Josephine is six hundred miles from Newfoundland and is probably going to be taken off the tropical storm list very soon, as she's merged with a cold front. Still throwing around 60 MPH winds, though, so I wouldn't go out for swordfish any time soon.
Emergency services in the southeastern US are being put on alert as Isidore looks like he might make hurricane tonight and head over to tap-dance through the Florida Keys. Either way, we're all kinda holding our breaths at this chapter. He could get ugly very quickly.