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And now for something completely different: spider eats possum !Oh! You beat me to it!Oh hai
I haz nommed
the possum
that were in
the ski lodgeand which
you were probably
saving
for breakfastForgive me
it waz delicious
so juicy
and so warm
The original "poem" this is parodying fills me with inexplicable rage every time I see it.
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And now for something completely different: spider eats possum !Oh! You beat me to it!Oh hai
I haz nommed
the possum
that were in
the ski lodgeand which
you were probably
saving
for breakfastForgive me
it waz delicious
so juicy
and so warm
You. Get. ALL. the. Cookies.
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The original "poem" this is parodying fills me with inexplicable rage every time I see it.And now for something completely different: spider eats possum !Oh! You beat me to it!Oh hai
I haz nommed
the possum
that were in
the ski lodgeand which
you were probably
saving
for breakfastForgive me
it waz delicious
so juicy
and so warm
Yeah, the sentiment behind it (sorry not sorry, gloating) is asinine, but WCW is the best poet in the English language for helping kindergartners understand what poetry is because of the sensory-rich scenes he depicts.
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The Tang dynasty Chinese poets are also good for the same reason, but the translations vary. Kenneth Rexroth edited some in English.
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I don't know anything about Chinese poetry but I was always a fan of Allen Ginsberg and Jim Morrison.
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I love William Carlos Williams.
I still keep momentarily confusing* William Carlos Williams with Walter Jon Williams, which I was introduced to much earlier. I didn't find out about WCW until the time I first started getting exploratory on the Internet.
But I keep momentarily confusing car & apt keys and occasionally still mixing up left & right too, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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remind me to never adventure with you. I keep forgetting this is you....I too prefer my adventures whole-assed.Well, there's a place for spontaneity ("Hey, let's run off and get dinner," like they did last night) and a place where it's stupid ("Hey, I see a trailhead! Let's walk up it and see where it gets us even though we don't have so much as a water bottle among us!").
My general rule of thumb is that if Impus Major's friends spontaneously try to get him to do something that:
(1) Will eat *my* time to help them get organized
(2) Will cost Impus Major money
(3) May be dangerous
then it's a no-go.In this case I would have had to drop everything to print out the necessary docs for Impus Major while getting him out the door, then on the very real possibility that he wouldn't be given credit for the course I would have had to drive for 2 hours to pick him up. Too much risk for not enough reward.
And I think the thing that really ticks me off is that it was a good idea. Even if they'd told me about it last night I could have had him all prepped to go, money in hand, and she could have dropped him at BART if things hadn't worked out. But with no time for preparation nor contingency planning, it's a "throw caution to the wind" attitude that so many people find "admirable" or "fun". But I've had to clean up too many of those messes in my lifetime to consider them anything but selfish ***hats.
It sucks being the responsible one.
See, that looks like a good time.
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I love William Carlos Williams.
Does not compute.
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I have so many questions about this, actually. As I'm not able to think of an intelligible set of code words that would get me around the Paizo censors, ** spoiler omitted **
Also, happy birthday Nobody's Home. A shipping container full of failed candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party is on its way to you as we speak.
1) Yes, correct - different parties have different rules, too, and I *think* that either only Conservative Party Members of Parliament can vote, or the membership do get a say, but MPs have the final say.
2) He is a colossal arse, and is pretty much universally considered to be dishonest, untrustworthy and pathologically egotistical. He'll trample over anyone and anything to get what he wants, and he really, really wants to be Prime Minister. However, he has been the poster boy for a hard Brexit in the Tory Party (which is what a lot of them want), and he has a high profile in the media (higher than the other muppets in the running), so he was always going to ace it unless something went badly wrong.
3) As for the events of last night, to what are you referring - the police being called to his house after a disturbance, or something else? He's a vast prat, so is perfectly capable of sabotaging his own campaign without any external chicanery going on.
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I love William Carlos Williams.I still keep momentarily confusing* William Carlos Williams with Walter Jon Williams, which I was introduced to much earlier. I didn't find out about WCW until the time I first started getting exploratory on the Internet.
But I keep momentarily confusing car & apt keys and occasionally still mixing up left & right too, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
William Championship Wrestling.
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I love William Carlos Williams.Does not compute.
I'm with Scint. I can't stand anything he's done. His work is only "poetry" in the extreme edges of technicality.
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This was actually recently brought back to my memory due to a conversation between Scint and I where she was working on some school stuff and grumbling about WCW.
S: "You've heard of William Carlos Williams, right?"
O: "The name doesn't ring a bell."
S: *links the blueberries "poem"*
O: "OH THIS A&*#%$@."
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This was actually recently brought back to my memory due to a conversation between Scint and I where she was working on some school stuff and grumbling about WCW.
S: "You've heard of William Carlos Williams, right?"
O: "The name doesn't ring a bell."
S: *links the blueberries "poem"*
O: "OH THIS A@@~%%@."
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I love William Carlos Williams.Does not compute.
Who?
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See, that looks like a good time.remind me to never adventure with you. I keep forgetting this is you....I too prefer my adventures whole-assed.Well, there's a place for spontaneity ("Hey, let's run off and get dinner," like they did last night) and a place where it's stupid ("Hey, I see a trailhead! Let's walk up it and see where it gets us even though we don't have so much as a water bottle among us!").
My general rule of thumb is that if Impus Major's friends spontaneously try to get him to do something that:
(1) Will eat *my* time to help them get organized
(2) Will cost Impus Major money
(3) May be dangerous
then it's a no-go.In this case I would have had to drop everything to print out the necessary docs for Impus Major while getting him out the door, then on the very real possibility that he wouldn't be given credit for the course I would have had to drive for 2 hours to pick him up. Too much risk for not enough reward.
And I think the thing that really ticks me off is that it was a good idea. Even if they'd told me about it last night I could have had him all prepped to go, money in hand, and she could have dropped him at BART if things hadn't worked out. But with no time for preparation nor contingency planning, it's a "throw caution to the wind" attitude that so many people find "admirable" or "fun". But I've had to clean up too many of those messes in my lifetime to consider them anything but selfish ***hats.
It sucks being the responsible one.
Yeah I'm with Scint (again) and Nobody. Organized and well-prepared fun is the best fun.
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Who?I love William Carlos Williams.Does not compute.
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Plums, not blueberries, to correct my earlier post. -_-
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How can you not feel the raw emotion in that apology?
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Raw like the plums?
(GET IT; IT IS A PUN; IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT COOKED-)
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How can you not feel the raw emotion in that apology?
Admittedly the normal reaction I would have to that level of smug disdain should be annoyance, but surprisingly that's not what bugs me about WCW.
It's about the fact that his nonsense is considered poetry at all.
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Now I need to figure out how to change my Steam avatar to Scooty Puff Jr.
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Raw like the plums?
(GET IT; IT IS A PUN; IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT COOKED-)
Cooked (dried?) plums are prunes, TL, and prunes are not poetical.
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Yeah I'm with Scint (again) and Nobody. Organized and well-prepared fun is the best fun.See, that looks like a good time.remind me to never adventure with you. I keep forgetting this is you....I too prefer my adventures whole-assed.Well, there's a place for spontaneity ("Hey, let's run off and get dinner," like they did last night) and a place where it's stupid ("Hey, I see a trailhead! Let's walk up it and see where it gets us even though we don't have so much as a water bottle among us!").
My general rule of thumb is that if Impus Major's friends spontaneously try to get him to do something that:
(1) Will eat *my* time to help them get organized
(2) Will cost Impus Major money
(3) May be dangerous
then it's a no-go.In this case I would have had to drop everything to print out the necessary docs for Impus Major while getting him out the door, then on the very real possibility that he wouldn't be given credit for the course I would have had to drive for 2 hours to pick him up. Too much risk for not enough reward.
And I think the thing that really ticks me off is that it was a good idea. Even if they'd told me about it last night I could have had him all prepped to go, money in hand, and she could have dropped him at BART if things hadn't worked out. But with no time for preparation nor contingency planning, it's a "throw caution to the wind" attitude that so many people find "admirable" or "fun". But I've had to clean up too many of those messes in my lifetime to consider them anything but selfish ***hats.
It sucks being the responsible one.
what you describe seems inimical to fun.
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I found out this week is the summer camping trip my brothers plan on Facebook every year and don't tell me about until a week before.
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William Championship Wrestling.I love William Carlos Williams.I still keep momentarily confusing* William Carlos Williams with Walter Jon Williams, which I was introduced to much earlier. I didn't find out about WCW until the time I first started getting exploratory on the Internet.
But I keep momentarily confusing car & apt keys and occasionally still mixing up left & right too, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
now I want to see Orthos and Scint take this guy on in a steel cage handicap match.
20 bucks says scint clotheslines this guy from the top rope.
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Pet Semetary Muppet Sex!
This may or may not have been shouted towards the end of The Dark Crystal tonight.
Unrelated: I may or may not have had a bottle of pomegranate mead.
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Pet Semetary Muppet Sex!
This may or may not have been shouted towards the end of The Dark Crystal tonight.
Unrelated: I may or may not have had a bottle of pomegranate mead.
speaking of, some news.
I am going to be in your area 4th of July weekend for the con.
I will be in touch with you regarding portillo's.
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whatever
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whateverThis is basically just for Freehold.
For a second I thought the Skittles commercial I was watching was what you linked.
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Pet Semetary Muppet Sex!
This may or may not have been shouted towards the end of The Dark Crystal tonight.
Unrelated: I may or may not have had a bottle of pomegranate mead.
speaking of, some news.
I am going to be in your area 4th of July weekend for the con.
I will be in touch with you regarding portillo's.
I *might* be busy that Saturday, but it's not set in stone yet. Friday night is currently open.
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** spoiler omitted **I have so many questions about this, actually. As I'm not able to think of an intelligible set of code words that would get me around the Paizo censors, ** spoiler omitted **
Also, happy birthday Nobody's Home. A shipping container full of failed candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party is on its way to you as we speak.
2. So, nothing at all like our bawbag-in-chief.
3. Yeah, I know it's completely stupid. The part of my brain that insists on believing that all Brits who aren't either rock gods, crime novelists, or members of the RSC are, in fact, actually spies came up with this ridiculous notion of the neighbor being "encouraged" to call the police and talk to the press. Stupid, I know.
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Better to know you’ll have fun than roll the dice and possibly end up miserable for hours.
See this guy gets it.
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** spoiler omitted **** spoiler omitted **I have so many questions about this, actually. As I'm not able to think of an intelligible set of code words that would get me around the Paizo censors, ** spoiler omitted **
Also, happy birthday Nobody's Home. A shipping container full of failed candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party is on its way to you as we speak.
No, it's not stupid, it's absolutely the sort of thing Mycroft would have done. Of course, now some blowhard is going to come along and try to convince me that Mycroft is not only "not real" but a completely fictional character.
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*sigh* Expedia just popped up with two reservations for my already oversold hotel. I've been on hold with them for about half an hour so far.
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I've had it with the second shift employee. 2 guests are in rooms that are not check into on the computer. IDK how that even happens! I'm ready to bludgeon some people.
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Better to know you’ll have fun than roll the dice and possibly end up miserable for hours.See this guy gets it.
I like both.
Some trips get planned out, with some room for things going wrong or spontaneous decisions - "Oh look! We should stop and spend a couple hours checking this place out!"
Other trips are more of a "Let's go to...east...and do...something..."
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I've had it with the second shift employee. 2 guests are in rooms that are not check into on the computer. IDK how that even happens! I'm ready to bludgeon some people.I hate when that happens. Or when they move someone from one room to another, but don't change it in the computer. It's b@~#*@&$.
Oh yeah and that leaves us innocent night auditors getting yelled at because someone went into their room when everything was telling us the room was empty. Not to mention how dangerous that is for the guest. I don't know why my 2nd shift has just been giving keys out without checking people in. Heck the system is set up to make doing that very difficult. Plsu why!?! why do that?!?! So frustrated with them right now. I've been running all over the hotel tonight because of all the crap they've done wrong.
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I lucked out though all of the people that I didn't have rooms for were also no shows. Honestly if they show up now I can shift blame to them for not contacting us and showing up the next day (yes its underhanded but I got to do what I got to do!)
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Today's blogpost was stolen by Kleptogeist.
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Ugh. The forecasts for next week dont look good. It will get 90F
:'(
We had rains yesterday and day before and the temperature dropped to mid-20 (around 80F for you 'Muricans) this weekend, though it is supposed to slowly grow back to thirties (90F) in the incoming week, until the Friday when it drops again (and then is supposed to start rising again :( )
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When it dropped from upper 90s to upper 80s here yesterday, it felt almost cool. I made borscht.
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When it dropped from upper 90s to upper 80s here yesterday, it felt almost cool. I made borscht.
Beetroot one? Or white?
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When it dropped from upper 90s to upper 80s here yesterday, it felt almost cool. I made borscht.Beetroot one? Or white?
Beet. They looked so good at the market, I couldn't resist.
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I *might* be busy that Saturday, but it's not set in stone yet. Friday night is currently open.Pet Semetary Muppet Sex!
This may or may not have been shouted towards the end of The Dark Crystal tonight.
Unrelated: I may or may not have had a bottle of pomegranate mead.
speaking of, some news.
I am going to be in your area 4th of July weekend for the con.
I will be in touch with you regarding portillo's.
I'll let you know what my schedule looks like. Try to kidnap captain yesterday and bring him along. That, or leave a trail of pavers from his house to yours.