So this image in my head of the Friar on a stool under a single spotlight, tuxedo tie undone, double shot in one hand and the mic in the other crooning "set 'em up Joe" pleases me probably more than it should.
And right at the end, he lights a cig, takes a long drag, and let's it out slow as the spotlight fades to black. Tell me you wouldn't pay to see it.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
He sings, "Mack the Knife" and all of a sudden Stephen Mack is in the next spotlight *sorry, I promoted myself to general director of your head images*
- Janet:#TeamMonique
oh uh, the Frair just tossed the tie and his tux jacket on the stage and started undoing shirt buttons. I think the bartender should have cut him off after that first double.
- Greg GuitarBuster
I'm gonna have interesting dreams tonight now ;-)
- Heleninstitches
He's now singing "Suspicious Minds" in the cabaret of my mind
- Pete #TeamMonique
In the smoky venue, LB, Helen and I are in strapless ball gowns singing back-up vocals and snapping our fingers to the beat.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Please don't bring up that whole licking nipples on the beach thing again. I'm sure someone will go and dredge it up out of the FF archives if we talk about it too much. :(
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
*can't stop imagining the Friar doing a short Soundgarden medley for an encore*
- Hieronymous Boosh
And now...special guest joining the stage with the Friar...Pat Boone!
- Bubba was a rollin stone
Wayne Newton in my scenario. Accompanied by Joe Silence.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Wayne doesn't have the theological chops to share the stage with Senor Friar.
- Bubba was a rollin stone
well neither does Pat. but in Vegas Cool Mode, Wayne is part of the pantheon.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Oh. Vegas Cool Mode is in alpha right now with a release date of 2015. Guess I'm not one of the cool kids to have that one yet.
- Bubba was a rollin stone
Waved 64 in the rear view mirror 3.5 years ago...
- Walt Crawford
Just hoping I make it to 64. Nobody will have to feed me till I'm 84, and I don't think I want to be around that long (though the men in my family tend to live into their mid-late 80's, pipe smokers or no.)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
the men in my family, if they don't die by 18 or 65, tend to plough along right into their mid-90s. then we lose all our marbles about 18 months before we kick the bucket.
- Hieronymous Boosh
"I wish I could tell you that Colette fought the good fight, and the Sisters let her be. I wish I could tell you that - but college is no fairy-tale world."
- SteVe C
Mother would call the alternative to showering the PTA sink bath. You can figure out the acronym.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
Janet, my mother says the same thing. that's too funny. also, once I was hanging out with friends for an all-day festival thing,we made a pit stop at my house which was closest so we could all use the bathroom. when I got back in the car my friend said "did you just put some perfume on to cover your stink?" I admitted I had. She says, "you are southern aren't you?" 0_O
- t-ra: not givin up
"This short video is at once quiet, profound, powerful, true, simple -- and so supremely human. It was produced by the Cleveland Clinic, as an example of their regard for empathy. It's a profound reminder: we ALL have our story. Others have theirs. We NEVER know. And to treat others with the benefit of the doubt, with courtesy, with compassion, with respect."
- Anne Bouey
from Bookmarklet
My husband sent me this video a few weeks ago. Very powerful! Currently our hospital is making us attend the "Heart, Head, Heart" webinars to outline much of what this video says with much less fanfare.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
"A man, 75, and a woman, 66, suspected of using cocaine and running a prostitution ring out of their apartments at the Vincente K. Tibbs Senior Citizen Building have been arrested after residents complained about vagrants, drunks and addicts invading their building, authorities said."
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
I saw him at Club Venus in 19..70? The room was very cold and the waitress said "You won't mind - it's a warm show." It sure was .
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Extra news: China pollution linked to rising cancer rates: About 3.5 million people are diagnosed with cancer yearly, China’s death rate from cancer is far higher — about 2.5 million people yearly http://www.todayonline.com/chinain...
- Halil
from Bookmarklet
Last month, more than 16,000 dead pigs were found floating in one of Shanghai’s main water sources. Only days after, more than 1,000 dead ducks were found dumped in a river in south-western Sichuan province. And earlier this week, a total of 410 pigs and 122 dogs were discovered in homes and at farms in a village that comes under Yanshi city’s jurisdiction in central Henan province. Agencies
- Halil
I remember days in Beijing that looked like that. Not all of them. But some.
- Jessie
It's getting scary, UK went through this with their yellow fog years in the 1950's, the death rates were swept under the carpet, which was easier back then, but this can't be ignored. I wonder what the migration rate is and if it's linked to the bad pollution? ~ London 1952 smog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...http://www.guardian.co.uk/environ... resulting in 13,000 early deaths each year in the UK and 4,300 in London
- Halil
"The fact that the 1 percent has so successfully shaped public perception testifies to the malleability of beliefs. When others engage in it, we call it “brainwashing” and “propaganda.” We look askance at these attempts to shape public views, because they are often seen as unbalanced and manipulative, without realizing that there is something akin going on in democracies, too."
- Eivind
from Bookmarklet
"Looking across countries, it appears that there is an inverse correlation between trends in inequality and perceptions of inequality and fairness. One suggested explanation is that when inequality is as large as it is in the United States, it becomes less noticeable—perhaps because people with different incomes and wealth don’t even mix."
- Eivind
"Markets can sometimes create their own reality. If there is widespread belief that markets are efficient and that government regulations only interfere with efficiency, then it is more likely that government will strip away regulations, and this will affect how markets actually behave. In the most recent crisis what followed from deregulation was far from efficient, but even here a...
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- Eivind
"Fairness, like beauty, is at least partly in the eyes of the beholder, and those at the top want to be sure that the inequality in the United States today is framed in ways that make it seem fair, or at least acceptable. If it is perceived to be unfair, not only may that hurt productivity in the workplace but it might lead to legislation that would attempt to temper it."
- Eivind
The Price of Inequality. A really great read!
- Eivind
from Android
Pop quiz: Which incident does this quote refer to? "Never in the history of the planet had so many given so much to so few, who were so rich, without getting anything in return. "
- Eivind
from Android
This is a couple of weeks old, but the baby bump is evident. I kinda woke up and was like, "OH HEY, IM PREGNANT" I wasn't thin to begin with, but there is a baby in there! Also, this is high fashion for me these days. #babynyce
I prefer to have a healthy child. :-) We will find out in a couple of weeks. We both think it's a girl. But whatever we get is fine by me, as long as he/she is healthy.
- Mary Carmen
I will toss the Asian old wives tale. Cravings of protein suggest male, cravings of sweets suggest female. If you are on a pizza kick I will vote for male child.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
I'm at that point where the pizza delivery guy and I are on a first name basis. Tonight he wished me congratulations on my pregnancy and said, "see you tomorrow." #cravings
I would say something about the occasional nature of copulation in my own life, but some might find that too unpastoral a thing to say. :^)
- Friar Ticket to Ride
I forgot to say that the book is The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond.
- Eivind
I think that 'distraction' may be the more relevant biological function, as in distraction from other of life's concerns (starvation, invasion, predation, etc.) And the sociological function of emotionally bonding with another of our species counts for something. (Though not much among adolescent males.)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Imagine if the Catholic Church would recognize that seemingly trivial point up there? That would be a huge thing for humanity.
- Eivind
Went to The Comic Shop & picked up some free titles. Also got Yu-Gi-Oh cards he has to earn, a Sonic the Hedgehog archives collection (kids comics & books were 10% off today!), and some 8-sided dice he said he HAS to have. Then we got pizza to bring home. In Jayden's world, today has been a 10+++.
the smile definitely shows the 10+++!
- imabonehead
They have a Sonic the Hedgehog Monopoly game! It's $40, I told Jayden I'll think about it for his birthday or Christmas.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
People over the age of 70 are to be offered routine shingles vaccinations in a move to prevent thousands of cases each year, officials said. The viral infection affects more than 30,000 pensioners in England every year, but experts hope that a new vaccination programme could cut out 40% of cases.
- Halil
from Bookmarklet
"Swamp Thing was awesome for two reasons, only one of which is Adrienne Barbeau. That's a boob joke for you older folks. The other reason was the fact that the movie was mildly popular, but not popular enough. Follow along here, this shit gets deep."
- Andrew C (✓)
from Bookmarklet
"DC Comics started up a new Swamp Thing comic to try to make some money off of the movie release, and it didn't work -- no one bought the thing. Eventually they pawned the title off on Alan Moore, deranged Englishman and creator of V for Vendetta, From Hell, and The Watchmen, to do with as he pleased. Swamp Thing became the first comic to ignore the Comic Code Authority and use...
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- Andrew C (✓)
I remember that Swamp Thing movie, oh yes.
- Spidra Webster
"It was not MERELY the lack of money. It was rather that, having no money, they still lived mentally in the money-world — the world in which money is virtue and poverty is crime. It was not poverty but the down-dragging of RESPECTABLE poverty that had done for them. They had accepted the money-code, and by that code they were failures."