scottobear | 8563 - What *is* the melting point of a gorilla's head?

Yarrr! It be Talk like a pirate day and Adam West's 78th B'day!

First Columbo movie was fun...the M.O. of letting the bad guy be lulled into a false sense of security by a bumbler is a solid one. The writing has held up, and the acting is a lot better than other shows of the period. Nice use of Double Indemnity on TV as a story within a story.

Wow... the

menstrualhut has over 2250 members now. When I first started it, I had no idea it'd still be growing and active five years later, pretty much on its own. I'm going to have to swing by the Museum of Menstruation when I'm in Maryland. His site is a goodly part of why the hut got rolling in the first place.

Washington D.C. (AHN) - A heap of debris taken from quarry trash in Mexico has yielded a stone block inscribed with what researchers believe is the oldest writing ever found in the New World. Researchers say the serpentine block dates back almost 3,000 years and was created by people from Olmec civilization.

The stone, named the Cascajal block, measures 14 inches in length, 8 inches in width, and 5 inches in thickness, and weighs about 26 pounds, researchers report in Journal Science.

The scratched-on test on the block consists of 62 glyphs including symbols of corn, pineapples and insects. The researchers report that some of the symbols are repeated up to four times.

"This is extremely important because we never recognized this writing system, until this discovery," anthropologist Karl Taube of the University of California Riverside said in a statement.

"This is a whole new ball game when looking at the Olmec. We've known they have very elaborate art, and iconography, but this is the first strong indication that they had visually recorded speech."

Workers building a road found the stone near Veracruz, the former capital of the Olmec civilization, known for its carved stone heads up to eight feet tall.

Carmen Rodriguez and Ponciano Ortiz of the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico looked at it and registered it with government historical authorities. They called in experts on ancient civilizations to estimate the age of the block.

Broken pieces of pottery and of ground stone made the experts believe the block and its text date to the San Lorenzo phase, which ended about 900 B.C., 400 years earlier than any previous writing in the Western hemisphere.

But because the block was not found in place, this is uncertain. Archeologists say they will look for more unexplored evidences now.

Stephen Houston of Brown University in Rhode Island, who also worked on the study, said the text if decoded will decipher "earliest voices of Mesoamerican civilization."

The Olmecs appeared on Mexico's east Coast around 1,200 B.C. and disappeared around 400 B.C.

This is what all laws should be like!

"A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal."

Story:

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal.

The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders.

They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi.

"We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said.

Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat.

"When I asked him: 'What are you doing there?', he fell off the back of the goat, so I captured and tied him up".

Mr Alifi then called elders to decide how to deal with the case.

"They said I should not take him to the police, but rather let him pay a dowry for my goat because he used it as his wife," Mr Alifi told the newspaper.

Thingie I stole from somewhere on a random lj

YOU ... C A N ... O N L Y ... T Y P E ... O N E ... W O R D !

N O ... E X P L A N A T I O N S !

1. Yourself: Fortunate

2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend (husband/wife): Amazing

3. Your hair: everywhere

4. Your mother: Living

5. Your Father: Dead

6. Your Favorite Item: Life

7. Your dream last night: Reefs

8. Your Favorite Drink: Punch

9. Your Dream Home: Happy

10. The Room You Are In: Living

11. Your Ex: Lost

12. Your fear: Hurting

13. Where you Want to be in Ten Years: Happy

14. Who you hung out with last night: Newt

15. What You're Not: Finished

16. Your Best Friend: Allison

17. One of Your Wish List Items: Robot

19. The Last Thing You Did: keyed

20. What You Are Wearing: Cotton

21. Your Favorite Weather: Autumn

22. Favorite Color: Rust

23. The Last Thing You Ate: cereal

24. Your Life: changing

25. Your Mood: great!

26. What are you thinking about right now: fangs

This morning, the world smells of talc, steam, fresh linen and a faint hint of soap. It feels clean.

The Shire has many flavors of eighteenth century English architecture and landscaping chosen because the style of the period was enchanting, evoking good feelings of a simpler lifestyle than the present.

If they were in true hobbit style, I could really see Danny going to live there.

from weird al's latest video- "White and Nerdy"

Moment of Lyric -

They see me mowin'
My front lawn
I know they're all thinking I'm so white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Can't you see I'm white and nerdy?
Look at me, I'm white and nerdy
I wanna roll with
The gangstas
But so far they all think I'm too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
I'm just too white and nerdy.
Really really white and nerdy.

First in my class here at MIT
Got skills, I'm a champion at D&D
MC Escher - that's my favorite MC
Keep your 40, I'll just have an Earl Grey tea
My rims never spin, to the contrary
You'll find that they're quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Steven Hawking's in my library
My MySpace page is all totally pimped out
Got people beggin' for my top eight spaces
Yo, I know pi to a thousand places
Ain't got no grills but I still wear braces
I order all of my sandwiches with mayonnaise
I'm a whiz at Minesweeper - I could play for days
Once you see my sweet moves you're gonna stay amazed
My fingers' movin' so fast I'll set the place ablaze
There's no killer app I haven't run
At Pascal, well I'm number one
Do vector calculus just for fun
I ain't got a gat but I got a soldering gun
Happy Days is my favorite theme song
I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong
I'll ace any trivia quiz you bring on
I'm fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon

They see me roll on
My Segway
I know in my heart they think I'm white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Can't you see I'm white and nerdy
Look at me, I'm white and nerdy
I'd like to roll with
The gangstas
Although it's apparent I'm too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
I'm just too white and nerdy
How'd I get so white and nerdy

I've been browsin', inspectin'
X-Men comics, you know I collect 'em
The pens in my pocket, I must protect 'em
My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored
Shopping online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
I got a business doing websites
When my friends need some code, who do they call?
I do HTML for 'em all
Even made a homepage for my dog
Yo, I got myself a fanny pack
They were havin' a sale down at The Gap
Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
Pop, pop, hope no one sees me
Gettin' freaky
I'm nerdy in the extreme
And whiter than sour cream
I was in AV Club and Glee Club and even the Chess Team
Only question I
Ever thought was hard
Was do I like Kirk
Or do I like Picard
Spend every weekend at the Renaissance Fair
Got my name on my underwear

They see me strollin'
They laughin'
And rollin' their eyes 'cause I'm so white and nerdy
Just because I'm white and nerdy
Just because I'm white and nerdy
All because I'm white and nerdy
Holy cow, I'm white and nerdy
I wanna bowl with
The gangstas
But, oh well, it's obvious I'm white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
I'm just too white and nerdy
Look at me, I'm white and nerdy

Via Lore -

I just learned something totally amusing and insane! The "Mahna Mahna" song made famous by the Muppets started out in the soundtrack to Svezia, inferno e paradiso (1968),a softcore pornography film! It was apparently used as the backing music for a scene involving lesbian BDSM! I completely need to see this movie! And yet, it doesn't seem to be on sale anywhere. I've said this before, but something has clearly gone wrong with capitalism.

Sean has alerted Lore to the existence of the trailer on YouTube. Warning: contains boobs and butts. Also warning: Does not contain the Mahna-Mahna song.

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greenelvish

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