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scottobearAh, lovely rainy morning... A pity I can't sleep in and cuddle up to the kitty. Well, it makes me appreciate the days I can do so that much more.
Jethro Tull's David Palmer has Sex Change... now "Dee Palmer". Sort of surreal, considering she's in her mid to late 60's.
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ldyHmm... it seemed so unlikely, I googled around, and it appears to be true.
BBS profile of the Queen Mary 2, in port just a block or three down the road. A cruise ship that's 23 stories tall.
Groovy XP speed tweaks.
dabadaba music. "You know that 60s music where everyone's singing "dabadabadaba dee, dabadabadaba, doo'? "
found via - lileks most groovy! I've already downloaded most of the mp3s. I have an almost unhealthy enjoyment of these.
Con's hoax backfires; 'dead' girl alive, well
"Hollywood police spent two days digging in a vacant field, running a backhoe, sifting through dirt by hand and leading a cadaver dog named Chico around on a leash -- all because an inmate at Florida State Prison felt homesick."
USF scientists solve Chilean “blob” mystery
"When a huge, unidentifiable, gelatinous blob weighing 13 tons and measuring 41 feet long and 19 feet wide washed up on a beach in Chile in July, 2003, many speculated that it was the remains of a giant sea monster."
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Date: 2004-01-28 04:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-28 04:48 am (UTC)forgot the word of the day - hebetude
Date: 2004-01-28 04:54 am (UTC)Mental dullness or sluggishness.
While too many Americans slouch toward a terminal funk of
hebetude and sloth, Bendians race ahead with toned muscles,
wide eyes and brains perpetually wired on adrenaline.
--"Wild rides in the heart of central Oregon: Bent out of
shape in Bend," [1]Washington Times, August 11, 2001
Earlier on, when we merely democratized fame, we defended
the right of any mouth-breather to rise from deserved
obscurity on the strength of his God-given hebetude.
--Florence King, "The misanthrope's corner," [2]National
Review, May 18, 1998
From that solitude, full of despair and terror, he was torn
out brutally, with kicks and blows, passive, sunk in
hebetude.
--Joseph Conrad, [3]Nostromo
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Hebetude derives ultimately from Latin hebes, "blunt, dull,
mentally dull, sluggish, stupid." The adjective form is
hebetudinous \heb-uh-TOOD-n-us; -TYOOD-\.
References
1. http://www.washingtontimes.com/
2. http://www.nationalreview.com/
3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014018371X/ref%3Dnosim/lexico
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=hebetude
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Date: 2004-01-28 05:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-28 06:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-28 06:58 am (UTC)Wait?! Dee *IS* my Grandmother, so y'all step off.
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Date: 2004-01-28 07:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-28 07:07 am (UTC)for what it's worth, I doubt I'd make a very appealing 66 year old woman, either. :)
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Date: 2004-01-28 07:17 am (UTC)Ewwwww....one should never read about 13 tons of rotten whale blubber before breakfast!!
Date: 2004-01-28 09:02 am (UTC)Oh, and just a bit o' semi-related trivia... I've been to Ian Anderson's estate on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. (He's the flute-y guy.) He wasn't home at the time, but his housekeeper and gardner were quite lovely and let us wander the grounds freely. We whistled the riff from Aqualung quite a bit that day....
Re: Ewwwww....one should never read about 13 tons of rotten whale blubber before breakfast!!
Date: 2004-01-28 09:16 am (UTC)How's your pop going to feel about the gender-bending? I remember dad thinking that Geddy Lee (of Rush) had a great voice, but was "The Ugliest Damn Woman" he'd ever seen. I didn't have the heart to tell him it was a guy.
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Date: 2004-01-28 09:31 am (UTC)My Dad's a pretty cool dude for a 55 year-old. The Jethro thing should be good for a giggle. He'll act all, "gross, what a freak!," but he won't really care.
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Date: 2004-01-28 09:54 am (UTC)Re: SOLVED
Date: 2004-01-28 10:39 am (UTC)