I think the snow has largely melted.
I'm sure any Mainers among us appreciate the sound advice.
man, fuck maine.
I knew I shouldn't have put this post off so long.
It's a delicate balance: difficult to grill in snow that still completely submerges your grill, but boring to grill when all the snow is gone.
Surely you could dig out a little area for the grill. As long as it's not falling at too fast a rate, what's the problem? A little extra work will only make the finished product taste better.
G.R.I.L.L.L., word up, that's the grill.
As long as it's not falling at too fast a rate
You're trying to start derivative shenanigans again, aren't you.
This post has turned out to be something of an albatross for poor neb.
But I hear grilled albatross is delicious.
1: I think the snow has largely melted.
My driveway before yesterday's 5 inches of fluffy.
(For extra credit find the deer browse line on the ivy on the wall)
BTW, Sifu, that wasn't your house that burned down a couple days ago in that part of town, was it?
Not as far as I know, no. If it was I imagine I would have been colder and wetter last night.
13: Made it to my garden plot on Monday; turned the whole thing over. Plenty of worms. I think the soil might be warm enough for me to direct sow peas. It is a little late in the year to be starting crops, but I think I can get the peas in and out before I put tomatoes in the same cages.
I am looking forward to having better soil in the new back yard. The current lot was filled and doesn't grow stuff particularly well.
Is the implication of the weird garden douchiness that people don't like the snow and should therefore be jealous that the central valley is 80+ and smoggy? 'Cuz I love snow.
16: I hate you Megan. It will be months before I can even think about turning the soil, much less caging tomatoes!
I like that 18 & 19 were basically simultaneous.
Gosh, I heard that this weekend might be nice enough to wear sandals. Better go pay my tiny mortgage just because it's fun.
I like to think of NPH growing coffee in his backyard garden.
We've got seedlings for a salad mix growing indoors!
Ben, what kind of pluck is a supply?
Or, if you are thinking that character traits can be a "supply" what kind of pluck isn't a supply?
21: How are those local school textbooks working out for ya?
28: We're thinking about going national!
21: Hey, heebie, I hate you too! My damned mortgage is like a lead weight chained to my ankle impeding my ability to run free.
29: And then someday everyone will be warm and have a tiny mortgage!
Ben, what kind of pluck is a supply?
Heart, liver and lungs, I think.
30: Ugh, I'm genuinely sorry. There is a danger that my kidding-gloating is actually-obnoxious.
22: Hmm, might be worth a try. New place has bananas already in and some citrus that I'm hoping turns out to be a lime, but there's room for more. I'm not too happy about giving up my tangerines, but I can plant more. Ditto the avocadoes, but most of them usually get stolen anyway. And I'm debating whether to transplant the little Valencia orange tree that my s-i-l gave me because she figured she wouldn't live to see it fruit. (Watching myself type that out answers the question already--it's coming with.)
33: Oh, don't be genuinely sorry. I don't genuinely hate you. Bitch about administrative crap at work some and all will be forgiven.
You should grow a miracle fruit. I've been trying for 3 years but they don't seem to like winter.
heebie, I read someplace that you have a baby bump? Congratulations!
Sunny here, supposed to get up to 60 degrees this afternoon. Better go get some seeds. And a grill, I guess.
Nope! Just warm, rich, and jiggly.
35: Don't do that! If everyone would just keep this up, and start pseudo-jokingly hating on people besides heebie, this has the potential to be a hilariously catty 1200-comment thread.
Boy, I sure with I could think of something slightly personal and bitchy to say about Blume right now. That would be clever and unexpected.
I bet that comment sounded better in the original German.
40: Fine, then. Why don't you chip in with some gloating about your blissfully happy newlywed life? I don't mind holding down the jealously bitter end of the catty 1200-comment thread myself.
Oh, I'm holding off on my gloating until I get that cushy tenure-track job at a prestigious university.
OT: anti-communitarianism gone completely mad
Various French officials freaking out that a fast food chain has decided to turn some of its franchises in heavily Muslim areas halal. The mayors are threatening to shut them down, and a senior government spokesman expresses his 'inquietude'. The Socialist mayor says that a burger joint that doesn't offer bacon burgers is discriminating against its non-Muslim customers. This isn't the first such 'affaire', back in 2002, an epicerie (bodega) in another town with a large Muslim population was shut down for eliminating pork and alcohol from its shelves.
This news clearly shows that Mark 'Europe unfortunately doesn't have the sort of national spirit that it had in the thirties that would allow it to defend itself against the Muslim threat' Stein, Sen. Lieberman, and Chris Caldwell are right, Europe is being turned into a new caliphate. In other news, the fact that when I lived near a major rabbinical school, even a local Arab run and themed cafe proudly proclaimed that everything was strictly kosher, and had prominently displayed glatt kosher certificates on the walls, shows that the US is run by the Elders of Zion.
45: If only you were a biologist.
I pity you folks who live in strange places that don't have a real winter. I do envy the fact that coastal Californians don't have to deal with 'hot and muggy'. But snow is good, snow is fun, snow is pretty.
48: I haven't checked if anyone's updated the previous thread, but apparently there are now reports that she:
Shot her brother
Was a suspect in a mail bombing
Punched someone at IHOP for taking the last booster seat
Intentionally knocked over the neighborhood basketball hoop with her truck when moving in
Anything missing?
Snow is lovely stuff. But endless gray sucks, particularly when you enter and leave the office in the dark and look out the window at gray all day. So for the moment, at least, I'm perfectly happy to go to the snow rather than having it come to me.
46 Or as translation party might put it, 'Glance yourself her Weddingman once at'.
Anything missing?
She taunted northerners about how early she could put her garden in each year.
52: Got the ice cream man to stop coming to their neighborhood.
52: when she punched the woman at IHOP she said (to paraphrase somewhat): "I'm Amy Bishop, bitch!". That's the best part.
Also she's related to John Irving. That's the worst one.
34: I'll have you know we grew an orange, right here in north east Ohio. The tree is still alive! It might grow another orange!
Snow is great. The weather around here has been perfect for snowshoeing.
Grilling in the snow sounds fun, but it would require shovelling (well, I guess forcing my kids to shovel) most of the patio and getting all the snow off the grill, making it un-fun for all concerned.
Besides, being the dutiful father I strive to be, I took my kids skiiing today. My 16 year old announced prior to departure that he did not want to ski but might go tubing. Now here, he does not want to do anything (so he is reading and doing homework). My 10 year old was very enthusiastic about going, but when we got here he said that he did not feel well and so he is sitting here with his brother (he apparently feels well enough to eat pizza from the cafe). My 14 year old is skiiing. We agreed that he would check in every two hours. He checked in after 20 minutes and then again 20 minutes later, when he decided he wanted to eat. He just left to ski more, but said on departure that he was not sure how much more he wanted to ski.
I'm sure glad I drove three hours for this
(Actually, I'm not upset. These things happen and I'm not going to force anyone to ski.)
Doing homework rather than hitting the slopes? Is the weather unusually sucky or do you have weird kids?
Idealist's kids are afraid of coming across as bourgeois.
62: Interesting. Consistent with some of the local blogger/newspaper comment stuff I found last Friday that the magic petri dish startup company was not happening as expected (it won stuff several years ago). And the neuron computer stuff was almost certainly marginal if not outright bogus.
re: 68. I love my kids, but yes, they are kind of weird. My fault, I am sure.
62: I'm kind of surprised at the gleeful coverage of this trainwreck of a woman. She killed her brother! She yelled at someone in IHOP! She might have sent a pipe bomb! And now she's a fraud and deserved to be denied tenure! (That last one, by the way, is really fucking gross. People sifting through her published work? Now? After she's already been denied tenure and apparently killed people over it? Yuck.)
Is it as simple as people wanting to feel like her mayhem-making originates from personal rather than structural problems? (I think that's right, by the way, the part about her lunacy having been a preexisting condition rather than her having been driven to violence by a cruel and depraved system. Which it is. A cruel and depraved system, I mean. But it didn't drive this particular person over the edge.) Or is something else going on?
71: Generally, not athletic, or don't like being cold or ???
73: Apparently, generally willing to not subscribe to Unfogged lockstep limited-imagination mindset on what a kid wants to do when at a ski lodge. I for one salute them.
re: 73. Not athletic. Socially awkward. The two elder ones are in special education classes (Aspergers and ADD). Notwithstanding, they're good kids and more fun to travel with than many kids their age.
75: Potential future members of the Unfoggetariat!
I hope that's not too horrible a thing to say to a parent.
57 -- Wasn't that 'Dr Amy Bishop, bitch'?
re: 76
I should only be so lucky (and it's a fine thing to say to a parent as far as I am concerned.)
Is it as simple as people wanting to feel like her mayhem-making originates from personal rather than structural problems?
I think it's a desire to see her as somebody who was readily identifiable as a threat. "If *I* could see she was a threat, then I don't have to worry about getting shot by a similar loon."
Pretty much every time some horror is visited on unsuspecting people out of the blue there is a round of what-ifs which have the underlying theme "this wouldn't happen to me."
There is a particular curiosity that comes naturally with cases like this. Nearly everybody goes through some scarily dark times, but very few people respond to them by going on killing sprees. So there's an urge to try to flesh out the picture not just to "prove" to yourself that you could have seen the signs in somebody else, but to "prove" to yourself that this person couldn't have been you.
80.2: Yes because the Harvard undergrad curriculum is so famously rigorous. You mean "Harvard undergrad-admitted".
She didn't go there undergrad, so it doesn't count, dammit (sorry, Blume).
Wait, whaa? I'm confused by this not because I so desperately want to claim the Harvard title, but because when you're talking about academics, your graduate school is the relevant educational experience.
79, 81: Also, train wrecks are interesting, provided you're not on the train.
I refer to myself as "Lake Harriet United Methodist Preschool-educated". That's what counts, dammit.
Further to 83:
That is to say, no one is bringing that up because How could a member of Crimson Key AND a prestigious finals club do such a thing? but rather as a shorthand for 'top-of-the-line education'.
Caught in humorlessness in the 3rd degree. You clever Harvard grads just have to rub it in don't you?
Harvard-educated codes as booksmart but otherwise clueless. It's exactly who you'd expect to fall apart at the sort of reversal real people experience all the time.
My junior high school pedigree is the one that best describes me, I think.
not just to "prove" to yourself that you could have seen the signs in somebody else
People didn't like it when I made that kind of decision about a woman in my Ultimate crowd. She was sociable, could hold a pleasant conversation and bring wine to parties, but from what I saw, she didn't think rules applied to her and she didn't care about anything but her. I figured that was a dangerous kind of person and I got pretty serious about minimizing contact with her. People thought I was odd for that. They scolded me for judging her and wasn't she pleasant enough? A couple years later, she moved away.
To date she has not shot up any faculty meetings, although there are odd news stories about her going a.w.o.l. from her job as a public defender (with her boss) and then quitting abruptly.
Maybe I haven't paid as much attention in the past when academics have gone bad. But it seems like the tenor of the coverage this time really is more gleeful than I've seen before. It's almost like she's a Muslim or something really scary like that. I mean, seriously, poking around in her publication record to justify her having been denied tenure? Stay classy, Orange Satan diarist!
(We're going to have to be really catty is we're going to make 1200).
89: Fuck you. I got into Blake Preschool but I just decided not to go. Really. And I got just as good of an education at LHUM.
95: Good spelling there, lawyerboy.
97 Reading all those 18th century documents keeps me messing up s and f.
Maybe I haven't paid as much attention in the past when academics have gone bad. But it seems like the tenor of the coverage this time really is more gleeful than I've seen before. It's almost like she's a Muslim or something really scary like that. I mean, seriously, poking around in her publication record to justify her having been denied tenure? Stay classy, Orange Satan diarist!
That's not exactly "poking around in her publication record". It's her most recent publication, and the list of authors alone shows clear signs of deluded thinking.
And when was the last time an academic went bad in a hail of gunfire? Gang Lu in 1991? What are you comparing this to?
Pretty much every time some horror is visited on unsuspecting people out of the blue there is a round of what-ifs which have the underlying theme "this wouldn't happen to me."
Sister Elizabeth Ann predicted in the 6th grade that I would be shot in a bar fight. That seemed reasonable to me at the time.
We didn't realize that with the invention of the Internet, I would be able to pursue my hobby - provoking rage - from a safe distance.
She was sociable, could hold a pleasant conversation and bring wine to parties, but from what I saw, she didn't think rules applied to her and she didn't care about anything but her.
You played ultimate with my ex?
I mean, seriously, poking around in her publication record to justify her having been denied tenure? Stay classy, Orange Satan diarist!
In what universe do people talk about conflicts without trying to figure out who was right? It's often futile, but off limits?
A little self-snark, just to move it along. I see that the most prestigious school that I successfully completed (as opposed to attended for a while and then moved on) is the place where I went to Kindergarten.
Only if your real name is Eddy. And you lived a couple blocks from me.
Harvard-educated codes as booksmart but otherwise clueless. It's exactly who you'd expect to fall apart at the sort of reversal real people experience all the time.
Don't worry about me. I'm fine.
It's almost like she's a woman Muslim or something really scary like that.
102: No, it's not off limits at all to try to determine right and wrong. But in this case, I think the jury's long since in: the dead colleagues have the moral high ground. Given that, trying to adjudicate her tenure case strikes me as pretty much beside the point and at least a bit gratuitous. After all, it's clear that she has a history of violence and rage having nothing to do with her failed career. So the Kos post felt, to me at least, like piling on. That said, I haven no interest in defending this woman.
That said, I haven no interest in defending this woman.
Good thing you put in that disclaimer. You're already a known terrorist sympathizer with all your human rights/due process claptrap. I was worried you'd gone soft on academic maniacs too.
For my part, I think all of this stuff is interesting. Did she intentionally kill her brother 20 years ago? Enquiring minds want to know!
Trainwrecks are exciting. Loud Noises! Bright sparks! Shiny things moving fast in unexpected directions! Not staring at that... don't make us be something we aren't, ari. Zardoz would have seen this.
I assume I missed an earlier link to this given the ongoing discussion, but it can't be linked too often.
And on Amy Bishop, I'm waiting for the xkcd cartoon before I judge.
After all, it's clear that she has a history of violence and rage having nothing to do with her failed career.
Perhaps overscrupulously, one notes that the files of an embarrassed Massachusetts police department are not perfect evidence of culpability.
108: Well, fine, if you must know know the truth, I think academics should be allowed to kill with impunity.
109: I really didn't mean to cast aspersions on anyone here. As I think about it, what's probably happening is that I don't usually pay any attention to these stories -- I'm too busy reading Rilke, donchaknow -- and so have no idea how this kind of news gets covered. Which is to say, if you want to keep sniffing her panties*, you go right ahead.
* Situational use of "panties" is authorized, so long as "moist" and "creamy" are nowhere nearby.
111: This is a good point. Still and all, I think death by pressing is the only fair and just punishment for her.
Well, fine, if you must know know the truth, I think academics should be allowed to kill with impunity.
You obviously mean *tenured* academics.
113: I think death by pressing is the only fair and just punishment for her.
Because she wasn't tenured and killed the tenured.
Seriously, JP, some things really don't need to be spelled out. It's not like the people here are untenured savages.
Well, fine, if you must know know the truth, I think academics should be allowed to kill with impunity.
Only if they do so with the sword (or, bowing to tradition, wooden facsimile thereof). No guns. Also, they have to commit suicide if their books are remaindered.
Trainwrecks are exciting. Loud Noises! Bright sparks! Shiny things moving fast in unexpected directions!
Fact.
84: I should think the people on the train would be the most interested of all.
Sister Elizabeth Ann predicted in the 6th grade that I would be shot in a bar fight.
Well my Grandmother told me she was going to kill me and tell God that I'd died.
86: Could all of the current and former Minnesotans please out themselves? It gets really confusing for me when I find out that there are secret Minnesotans around.
I think Minnesotans might outnumber Californians on Unfogged. Strange, that.
122: Your countrymen are doing themselves extremely proud right now, Nati.
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a Minnesotan.
124: Yeah, I really tuned out of the Olympics around 1928 or so. It's just too professional nowadays.
I did see a bit of the women's luge and snowboard cross last night. I am still not convinced that luge is any more of a sport than golf or bocce ball or noodling. But, by the same token, it's strange that there was much resistance to putting snowboarding in.
I have cousins native to Minnesota, my brother lives in Mpls, and I once dated a gal from St. Cloud. (She even made me apple pancakes when I stopped by to visit some years later). But no, not a Minnesotan.
126: Yes, but this is curling. The all MN team.
(I also dated a gal from White Bear Lake, but we didn't part on terms as friendly.)
In fact, I've never even been to Minnesota.
My MN heritage is a fairly open secret, I reckon.
I once attended a sort of honors program in Minnesota.
Yes, but this is curling. The all MN team
Come on baby put the rock in the house
Also not Minnesotan, but I can see it from my house. OK not quite, it would involve a 15 min walk.
133: Now you see why the curlers have these.
131: That was only a week ago! I'm not even up to 2008 in the fucking archives yet!
or, bowing to tradition, wooden facsimile thereof). No guns. Also, they have to commit suicide if their books are remaindered.
Tenured profs are vampires? Damn, that end to mandatory retirement ages is even more of a problem than I thought.
Not all bloodsuckers are vampires, tkm.
I've mentioned this before, but I will again, to further lay claim to my intellectual property.
When I was in graduate school, I came up with an idea for a horror movie called Chronic Fatigue Vampires. The premise was that the vampires never kill their victims, they just drain enough blood to leave them tired and easily manipulated. The vampires would all be tenured faculty, and the victims all graduate students. My shrink at the time said that the victims should willingly stay with the vampires, and, if freed, be drawn to other people who remind them of the vampires.
140 reminds me of William S. Burroughs's vampire monologue.
The premise was that the vampires never kill their victims, they just drain enough blood to leave them tired and easily manipulated.
That was the original idea for zombies, right? Hypnotized slaves.
141: I don't know that one, but it is perfectly likely Burroughs beat me to it.
142: Yeah, the pre-Romero zombies were like that. But you weren't supposed to imagine them as having an interior life. They were just shells--in that way they were like Romero zombies or even philosophy of mind zombies.
I really wanted a horror movie that captured the feeling that something is wrong in your life, but you just can't put together the energy to change it, or even articulate what is wrong.
I really wanted a horror movie
But instead you got a PhD! Talk about the short end of the stick.
I was going to barbecue, but my grill scared me.
My upper Midwestern roots must remain a mystery, I am afraid.
There were big lakes around. I say no more.
My shrink at the time said that the victims should willingly stay with the vampires
Was this a prescriptive judgement or an artistic one? If the former, congratulations on finding another shrink.
No, no. New twist on the "corporations = people" argument: the victims are all junior lawyers and paralegals and the vampire is the firm itself. Could
The vampires would all be tenured faculty, and the victims all graduate students.
In the Addiction, the protagonist is an NYU philosophy graduate student. Near the end, she passes her orals, invites her dissertation committee to a party, where they're devoured by her and other vampires. I'm not normally one for horror movies, but I liked that scene.
It's the last day of 3GSM or MWC as we're now meant to call it, and frankly, if the zombies rose, you wouldn't pick them out of the crowd. Mind you, I was out until 3am last night, so I'm probably the zombie's zombie myself.
PS, has anyone done a Zombies vs. Vampires movie? Bonus points if the heroine is a she-werewolf.
Double bonus points if somebody bestirs themselves to invent a new type of undead which hasn't been overdone to exhaustion. Or even digs out an obscure one from somebody's mythology.
Zombies: West African, colonial import via Haiti.
Vampires: Mediterranean/Balkans.
Werewolves: the North - Nordics and Germany.
What kind of undead do they have in China?
152: Hellboy is quite good at that, disinterring less well-known stuff like Wendigo and weird Malaysian and Japanese disembodied-head forest spirits.
Maybe it's time for Brownies? (Problem: little people who do your laundry are not actually very threatening.) Or changelings? Really dig into all that maternal anxiety.
I really wanted a horror movie that captured the feeling that something is wrong in your life, but you just can't put together the energy to change it, or even articulate what is wrong.
Rebel Without a Cause? Bertolucci's The Conformist? Any number of French movies the titles of which I can't recall?
little people who do your laundry are not actually very threatening welcome.
Fixed that.
Alternatively, could we base a movie on aliens trying to contact the British Home Secretary (presumably to appeal against their immigration applications being turned down)?
What kind of undead do they have in China?
151: That's the plot of those Underworld movies that don't look very good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampires_Vs._Zombies
The Underworld pictures are vampire v. werewolf, I think. I haven't seen any of them despite the obvious attraction (Ms Beckinsale). Vampire v. zombie might be quite good given that zombies are immune to vampires' mind tricks, glamour etc, and also presumably don't have any blood that isn't already coagulated.
156:
Idea. Rather than Contact the Elderly, Contact the Undead.
Obvious quote: "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about."
Also, Charlie Stross' "The Jennifer Morgue" which has, as a plot point, a Soviet device for communicating with the dead. Specifically, dead Politburo members - so that, even if the US managed a decapitation strike, the USSR's deceased leadership would be able to order a nuclear counterattack from the afterlife.
Rather than Help The Aged, Help The Deceased.
FROM THE HAUNTED LOINS OF THE FEVER-WITCH THE DEMON'S LARVAE SPRANG!
William S. Burroughs on vampires (among other things) including goofy backing music.
Chinese hopping vampires are great. You know, you're dead, why not hop?
153: There's a werewolf story in Petronius. It is insane.
148: This is sort of the premise of Wolfram & Hart, the evil law firm from the tv show Angel.
166. Unlike the rest of Petronius, which is totally the kind of stuff that happens to you all the time.
|| The internet security policy at my workplace blocks certain sites it deems inappropriate, among them BPhd, which it deems "adult/pornography" content. All well and good if they want to block shit, and I can follow a link asking them to unblock this what with it not actually being porn. The problem is that it is being blocked when I attempt to surf on my BB -- which the firm does *not* in any way pay for. Is there a setting on the BB I can change myself so it is not routing my BB browsing over the firm's servers? And should I assume this means my firm could, if it wished, be tracking my BB browsing activity? It's not a huge deal, but I'm irked to have limitations imposed on *my* fucking phone|>
should I assume this means my firm could, if it wished, be tracking my BB browsing activity?
If you're getting to the internet through their servers, then yes.
Are you using the firm's wifi with your blackberry? Can you switch to browsing over the cell network?
Try using Opera Mini for Blackberry instead of the built-in browser, which sucks. There's a chance it might not get routed through the blocker.
What kind of undead do they have in China?
Chinese vampires hop on one leg. This is because the Chinese tie corpses' feet together to prevent non-hopping undead.
What kind of undead do they have in China?
MOLES!
160: I've seen them all, and they are pretty good for the genre. For some reason I'm fascinated by how the transition from human to werewolf is handled in movies, and Underworld handles it well, far better than most.
If you like werewolf movies the gold standard is Dog Soldiers. Absolutely the best horror movie ever.
I remember someone postulating that you can't have a proper tradition of horror stories until the rise of science, because you need the audience to know deep down that these monsters are just made up. Along those lines, I wonder if Chinese folk religion still has too much of a grip on people to make horror movies out of the hopping zombie things.
171: I have no idea!
172: Opera works. I just get frustrated because there is no quick way to get to the bottom of long threads in Opera.
I just get frustrated because there is no quick way to get to the bottom of long threads in Opera.
Yep, you just have to wait till the fat lady sings.
I remember someone postulating that you can't have a proper tradition of horror stories until the rise of science
166 tends to argue against this.
179: Yeah, there are Greek and Roman ghost and horror stories -- in one of Pliny's letters the ghosts even rattle chains like Jacob Marley! Also in Petronius: a fairly horrid little golem-ish story.
Confidential to OFE:
Erat autem miles, fortis tamquam Orcus. Apoculamus nos circa gallicinia, luna lucebat tamquam meridie. Venimus inter monimenta: homo meus coepit ad stelas facere, secedo ego cantabundus et stelas numero. Deinde ut respexi ad comitem, ille exuit se et omnia vestimenta secundum viam posuit. Mihi anima in naso esse, stabam tamquam mortuus. At ille circumminxit vestimenta sua, et subito lupus factus est. Nolite me iocari putare; ut mentiar, nullius patrimonium tanti facio. Sed, quod coeperam dicere, postquam lupus factus est, ululare coepit et in silvas fugit.
177.last: No matter what browser it should work to click on "comments" for any of the recent comments listed on the front page sidebar and that takes you to that comment (at or near the bottom of the thread). Limited to active threads of course.
181. I love Mihi anima in naso esse. Have a link.
183: I love that! (I love the nose bit, too, as well as "facere" for "shit" and "circumminxit" is probably my favorite Latin word.)
Well, that exhausts my vocabulary in that language. Can we go back to the undead?
I also know "Jambo", but then I'm out as well.
The Greeks invented science. QED.
176: there are a shit ton of hopping vampire movies (along with all kinds of other supernatural shit: ghosts, superpowered eunuchs, giant tongue monsters) so I'd say no.
If you'd like to see a truly dementedly awesome Chinese supernatural monkey business kind of movie, check out Tsui Hark's A Chinese Ghose Story (and its many sequels). For a more serious but still loopy take on Chinese undead, check out The Bride With White Hair.
Opera works. I just get frustrated because there is no quick way to get to the bottom of long threads in Opera.
On my dumbphone, pressing "#3" jumps to the bottom of the page (or the top, if already at the bottom). Don't know if the BB version has the same feature.
192: Well look at that! Problem solved.
There's an animated A Chinese Ghost Story which is similarly wack and features extra giant tongue monster action.
Chinese vampires hop on one leg. This is because the Chinese tie corpses' feet together to prevent non-hopping undead.
This makes no sense. It is impossible to hop on one leg if your feet are tied together. Think about it.
Maybe if they're tied one on top of the other, like Jesus' nailed feet.
As for the more general problem of work snarfing your packets: There are two, maybe three browser profiles on the BB, at least on the one I played with. There's the "BlackBerry Browser", the "Internet Browser", the "Wireless Provider Branded Browser", and goodness knows what else. You may have better luck with one than with the others. If so, someone more BB-sapient than I should be able to tell you how to fix the offending profile(s).
197 - The hopping vampires lean at a 45 degree angle, so only the edge of one foot makes contact with the earth.
like Jesus' nailed feet
I was briefly taken with the notion of a hopping messiah emerging from the tomb, but apparently "hopping Jesus" has already entered and departed the lexicon.
I used to know someone who was firmly convinced that the character Festus on Gunsmoke was modelled after Hephaistos.
201: Wrong thread.
Or a pretty non-sequitur convergence.
Huh. Probably no hyphen in that word.
Almost 71,000 Google hits for "fuck you Einstein", though an awful lot of them are pointing to the same picture.
in one of Pliny's letters the ghosts even rattle chains like Jacob Marley!
My favorite is the ghost who keeps cutting Pliny's servants' hair. (I imagine it used ectoplasm for hair gel.)
191: Who was undead in Bride with White Hair? The Foley Twins?
207: for some reason I thought the bride was. Perhaps I misremembered.
