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Jun 14, 2004
Every time someone takes a picture of like, Bigfoot, or the Lock Ness monster, or like, flying saucers, every picture that comes out is always blurry. How weird is that? Ever notice that little detail? There is no picture of Bigfoot in which he is not blurry.
And everyone complains 'Oh, it's fake cause it's blurry.' Well, go find a regular picture of Bigfoot. And they won't be able too, because the problem isn't the photographers fault. My theory is that Bigfoot is blurry. And that's extra scary to me.
Cause now, there's a large, out of focus monster roaming the country side. "Aw crap he's fuzzy! Run, get outa here!"
Same with the UFO's. Most of the time, they're clouds, or planes, or comets, or things like that. But maybe the aliens are actually blurry. You never know. On their world, everything is out of focus and blurry, which leads to comon identification errors: "Hey Bob!" "I'm Jim!" "Sorry, you look just like Bob!"
So don't underestimate those lunatics who see Bigfoot. Becuase maybe he is blurry. And you skeptics don't know that. And when blurry aliens show up and start befriending me, because they read this, and you don't, I will laugh at you. In fact, I'll save myself the trouble and do it now. Ha!
Posted at 06:48 pm by Shrike
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Jun 11, 2004
Okay, so there are a lot of things that sleep deprivation can cause, we've all been through that before. But there are a few things that a serious lack of sleep can cause that I, previsouly, was not aware were physically, or metaphorically even, possible.
For instance, on my morning bus trip, I figured I'd catch a few Z's, as they say, to make up for the time I had lost the previous night (or morning, if you're a technical freak). Well, this was fine, persay, because I did get a little bit of sleep, but, I also woke up with various gummy-like things in my hair, my nose, my left ear (further worsening my hearing problems in that particular ear), and a pre-chewed wad of something that immediately reminded me of that disgusting stuff that Starbucks puts on their tiny bite-sized free bagels. I like to call it Schmear Whiz.
So, there's this juicy wad of Schmear Whiz in my mouth. I would never, willingly that is, eat any of that stuff, because, for one thing, I really hate how it tastes (like the salmon flavored dentist toothpaste), but, even more importantly, is that it looks, at first sight, like those little tufts of frosting on Market Basket cupcakes, only with little bits of something, let's call it the Schmearfish, embedded in it. Not only is this what makes it taste like previously digested seafood, it also makes the Whiz look incredibly unpleasant. "Ick, what's that?" is a phrase that comes to mind; "That's food?" is another; "If you try to feed me that I will have to take an axe to your most sensitive cranial complexes," was one that came to be a few seconds later.
Anyways, my point, if anyone remembers, was that sleep deprivation causes wierd things to happen to people. I had bits of what for argument's sake I will call melted gummy bears in my hair, though I can imagine them being something much more disturbing.
That, to be blunt, was an extremely uncool scenario.
Another uncool experiance I had was around 4 hours later, when I fell asleep at my desk, and presumably had things thrown at me, but I did not awake until I had an unpleasant feeling in my left ear (again, what do you know), and to my surprise, awoke instantly and discovered a rather large, uncomfortable purple pencil lodged in my ear tube.
So, here's my piece of advice for today - the next time you are deprived of sleep, do not go anywhere, do anything that could relatively bring harm in your general direction. Stay at home, and sleep. Then make up excuses. It's far better than having Schmear Whiz in your mouth and having pencils stuck into your brain.
Trust me. I'm an expert.
Unfortunately.
Posted at 12:12 pm by Shrike
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Jun 7, 2004
Imagine. A city somewhere in the United States. This city, like most cities, is perfectly normal. Compare it to Chicago, though it is not Chicago. There is one little detail, however, that makes this city slightly different than other cities. This detail is the fact that there are a few too many shoe shops. While touring this city, people often sub-conciously register the fact that there are too many shoe shops.
Now, in order to produce more shoes, more shoe shops are required. However, with every shoe shop that is built, the quality of the shoes degrade a little bit. So, more and more shoe shops are built, and the quality of the shoes gets worse and worse, forcing more people to buy more pairs of shoes.
This entire situation finally climaxes in what is dubbed the Shoe Event Horizon, after which it is no longer economically possible to build anything but shoe shops. The result is crime, famine, disease, utter destruction of millions of people.
Don't let this happen to your city.
This is the sort of thing that extremely bored minds come up with. This rant was written with the help of approximately eighty chorus's of "Bananaphone!"
Don't be an extremely bored person.
Posted at 03:49 pm by Shrike
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Jun 5, 2004
Okay, so, let it be known: I have long hair. This is sort of okay, it's cool enough. I have it up in a pony tail. Fine. However, I was recently surrounded by a bunch of teenage girls who forced me down and gave me a pair of French Braids, some random pineapple-style dew, and probably a few more things that I wasn't aware of.
Okay, so, fine, I get embarrased a little (a lot actually), and they have some fun with my hair. Sounds harmless right? Wrong. They had to take pictures. And a certain girl is almost surely going to put them on the internet.
So, as of really soon, my social life is officially over.
This is not so cool.
So, guys, for those of you who have really long hair - cut it now, or if you don't want to do that, never let any girls near your hair. You will surely not leave such an experiance with a better repuation. You will, in fact, lose several self-respect points.
Heed my warnings.
I am most definately going to cut my hair now - solely from that experiance.
That was not cool at all.
Posted at 08:57 pm by Shrike
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Jun 2, 2004
Okay, so, they say that breaking up is hard to do. What they don't say however, is how intensely easy just breaking stuff in general is. For instance, breaking limbs is very easy. Breaking things like computers and electronic is surprisingly easy as well. And, as we know, the mentality of your instructors is very fragile too.
However, there are just a few things that people should really try to be careful not to break. One such item is the toilet. Obviously, for you toilet breakers, you have never had the experiance of using a broken toilet. It is not pleasant, and I don't really want to go into details here, but I doubt it's very hard to guess what I'm getting at.
Other things that fall under the same category are of course, bottles of Axe. Let's face it, the stuff smells horrible, even in just small quantities. When an entire bottle breaks however, and the stuff is let loose into a room, the smell doesn't just not go away - oh no, it stays there for weeks, and gets worse. Imagine the Axe smell, only on drugs. Yeah, that's what it smells like.
One of the most important items that should be made nigh-unbreakable is, of course, great big bottles of Super Paint. This is low quality industrial paint that they use to glue other painted items together. They don't actually, they use it to glue two painted things together for eternity. One of the downsides of the Super Paint bottles is their faily fragile state, and it is because of this that I still have Super Paint stuck to my shoes, my clothes, my hands and upper arms, and portions of my hair. This is after three days with approximately four showers per hour.
So please, everyone, be careful when handling certain items, because breakable objects can cause people pain, or in my case, incredibly permenant staining of the skin and probably poisoning of the mind. Why do you think I keep writing these things?
Posted at 04:01 pm by Shrike
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May 30, 2004
Italian law makers have recently passed a series of laws that force all Italian pizza makers to make pizza by certain standards, or lese they may have their pizza-making-liscense suspended. These laws include the following:
-No pizza made in the country of Italy may be larger than 35cm in diameter, and no more than .3 cm thick in the middle.
-All dough used for pizzas must be hand-kneeded.
-Any and all motzerella cheese used as pizza toppings must come from the Appenine Mountains.
There are also laws regarding which kind of tomatos must be used, where the meats for the toppings should come from, and what kind of ovens may be used to bake the pizzas.
Only Italians could possibly concieve having laws regarding their food. It is that important to them that they need to make their pizza's so regularly so that they stand out. As if Italians don't stand out already.
Oh god, just imagine in two years, when the French and the Germans have caught on, and they start passing laws regarding their soups and sauces, and what kind of meats can have that '-wurst' suffix attached to them, like "Brockwurst," or, "Petewurst," "Porkwurst," and "Guntershimzerhimnenwurst."
Let's just hope the food laws don't spread over here, because then we'll have to start having laws invovling hot dogs and hamburgers, and fries! Good god: "No French Fry can be more than 4 inches in length, and each has to weight between .03oz and .07oz.
Crazy Europeans. We should annex Italy just to remove those stupid laws. Food is not supposed to be restricted by the government. Sure, if it's laws like "No food containing poisonous ingrediants may be sold," then fine, it's cool, but not laws like this. Food is the one thing that isn't, oh, my bad, wasn't, influenced by politics. Guess that changed.
Posted at 07:05 am by Shrike
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May 26, 2004
Okay. Seriously now. Muffin's are getting way too big for anyone. They're gigantic! It could be served as an entrie course at the Texas Roadhouse. And don't even talk to me about the size of the blueberries in them. I think there's some mathimatical theorum that states: "The size of the blueberries and/or chocolate chips embedded in muffins must be directly proportional to the muffins themselves."
They are way too big for they're own good. Those blueberries are the size of....really really really big blueberries. And the chocolate chips seem as though they implant Hershey Kisses directly into the dough.
To offest this capacious propblem, they came up with the idea of Mini-Muffins, as opposed to the Mega-Muffins, which are now served as regularly as diner rolls.
Mini Muffins are tiny insignificant pieces of Muffin (we're talkin pea-sized here) that aren't nearly enough to provide you with adequate nutrution fufillment, but they are just enough to get you wanting more. So then you go take another mini-muffin, not knowing that you have just become hooked on these miniature muffin-like cupcakes, forcing you to keep eating all six of the muffins in the container, and then you're just hungry enough to eat one more muffin, but there aren't any left, so you're screwed, because a snack like Cheez-Its will taste weird after muffins. If you get the twelve-pack of muffins it's just the opposite. You eat maybe nine or ten of them, so you'll only have two left over for the next consumption, but then you're sick to your stomach because your stomach isn't used to muffins that are so unsubstantial.
So you're screwed.
Why don't they just make normal muffins?
Like they used to have, way back when muffins were sized like normal muffins. I'm going to get a congressperson to pass a bil declaring that muffins must be of reasonable muffin-sized sizes.
I'm sick of those prune-sized blueberries anyways.
Posted at 02:22 pm by Shrike
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May 24, 2004
Okay, time to admit it - everyone has indulged in the classically imature "-in bed" game. The one where you take a slogan or motto from somewhere - usually hardwear stores or pet food brands - and add the words 'in bed' after it, to create some sort of comical sexual inuendo.
And boy, there are some great ones. For instance, a few of my friends an I, wondering about a Stop&Shop one night, decided to partake in this activity, and I, personally, will never look at Ice Cream the same way. "Rich and Creamy" was one phrase we used, "A Delightful New Taste" was another, and lets not forget, "You'll Never Try Anything Else!"
Mind you, this was at around 11 at night - so we were drunk with tiredness to begin with.
So, point-gotten (at least I hope so), I'm going to open up to all four of you who read this little thing - send me the worst, or best, whichever way you want to look at it, slogan that can be followed up with '-in bed' and make everyone in the room giggle like mad, cccomparable to the times when your teacher would say 'penis' in your fourth grade health class.
Let's roll em in! I sincerely doubt that this page is popular enough to get more than say, three different ones (and those three will from people who I specifically ask to contribute), but what the hell, it's funny, right?
Yes, it is, godamn you, I'm funny. Go make up some sex-phrase.
Posted at 12:11 pm by Shrike
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May 23, 2004
Last week sort of, while pondering some dimensions in geometry, and while listening to "Poisoning the Pigeons in the Park" by Tom Lehrer, I came to the conclusion that I want to change my name to "And4re." The '4' would be silent.
Do you think that they'd allow that? I was just thinking - how cool would that be? When you write checks out - you'd have that 4 in there. Or when telemarketers tried to call me - they'd think it was just a typo in their listings, but nope. "And4re."
See, you can put hyphens and dots and apostrophes in names - why not numbers? And how about an exclamation point after your name? "And4re!" That would be awesome.
I am so going to do that.
And become famous.
Posted at 07:06 am by Shrike
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May 19, 2004
Apparently Werewolf Was Allergic To Peanuts
NEW ORLEANS—The werewolf who died while attacking a young woman Sunday must have been allergic to peanuts, experts said Tuesday. "The wolfman crashed through the intended victim's front window, but before the accursed beast could tear her apart in a savage fury, he stepped in a bowl of honey-roasted peanuts," said Dr. Alex Price, professor of lycanthropic studies at Tulane University. "Within seconds, the hellbeast's face began to swell, and he collapsed into an anaphylactic attack, unable to breathe." Price said that, had the werewolf not been more animal than man at the time of the attack, he likely would have used the epinephrine injection pen paramedics found in the breast pocket of his shirt.
That's right. Werewolves are not invincible!
It's time to fight back!
This proves that it's time for the National Peanut Act. Every person living in the United States should be required to carry a bag - no matter what size - of peanuts around at all times. This is not only a helpful public safety measure, but people will be encouraged to carry around more than one bag - just in case they get hungry.
Vote for the N.P.A. on June 21st. Let werewolves threaten us no longer!
Posted at 12:03 pm by Shrike
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