Something on the order of seven in the morning.
That shit sucks when you have a massive hangover...
Gah, I thought it was bad enough when roommates left their alarms set while out of town. At least you can find a housemate's alarm clock without breaking and entering.
otoh, Cala, I can't imagine a jury convicting you for b&e. totally justified.
I once listened to a car alarm until the car's battery died (around 2 days. The police could do nothing.
I once found a car alarm that repeated, "I've been tampered with! I've been tampered with!" Clearly that's just asking to be abused.
My roommate once left his alarm clock set for 6:30 on a morning when I had a massive hangover. I eventually got out of bed and turned it off. Imagine my disappointment when it went off again only nine minutes later -- I had pushed snooze.
You could get one of those devices that senses incoming sound waves by means enabling it to emit such waves itself as to create completely destrutive interference attached to your apartment.
I couldn't remember the title of "Black Snake Moan" and the search "chain + movie + black" pulled it right up. Choosing Google search words is like psychoanalysis. What lurks in the American unconscious?
13: I don't know, but it took me a while to find "Zardoz" without knowing the name, until I tried searching for "connery + giant + head + penis".
I once heard a car alarm that imitated a woman's distress call. I think the precise words were "please help me." The tone was actively distraught. I thought it was pretty fucked.
Someone ought to set an alarm for this. Or did I just sleep through it this year?
Nope, we all missed it. Or at least I did. Happy birthday, Ogged!
Happy belated. Given the timing, I hope you got free water ice. (Do they have water ice in Ogged-land?)
Thing to do is cut the power to the whole building for about 15 seconds. That will reset the alarm 'cause no one ever installs the battery backups in those gadgets.
"water ice" as opposed to frozen oil, or something?
Methane ice, like on the moons of Jupiter.
23: I dunno, Frowner got quite the smackdown for her definition of pizza the other day. I didn't want to go out on a limb and assume that the delicacy known on the East Coast as water ice/watter ice/wooder ice was actually the same deal elsewhere in the country.
I asked the question in 23 because I have no idea what you're talking about.
I believe he was talking about the establishment known as Rita's Italian Ice, which gives out free cups of what it calls "Italian ice" on March 21. Even though this promotion is specific only to this business, which, like most people, uses the term "Italian ice" to refer to its product, it seems that some people prefer to call it "water ice" instead.
You know, I would have much more sympathy with the "other people's loud unattended alarms are evil" thing if all of you hadn't been such unsympathetic assholes when I talked about how my husband, with whom I live, does this to me every goddamn morning.
But 8 made me laugh out loud for at least a minute, and 16 is so evil and disgusting that I would be seriously tempted to key the person's car.
The Rita's gelati (Italian ice and frozen custard) is pretty outstanding.
28: We just assumed that he was doing it on purpose, and for good reason.
31: Probably. But that doesn't make it any less annoying to me. If anything, it makes it worse.
The first morning after I moved into an apartment a few years ago I was awakened about 7:30 in the morning by pounding on the door. It was the neighbour, who then rather crossly asked me to turn off my alarm (which woke her, but not me, evidently).
Future unfogged commenters?
http://www.schmutzie.com/2007/03/crazy-frog-bros.html
27 is right. Also, Wikipedia backs me up. Water ice, indeed. What's Italian about it, I ask you?
And Ben & Jerry's has Free Scoop Day, so it's not unique to Rita's as a promotional gimmick for frozen treats. Although theirs is in April.
Worse than an indecent alarm clock is when one's new neighbour, an energetic young man, decides to do the nasty with a screamer from 1am to 4am. There were intervals, of course, during which she talked loudly. And giggled. As his bedroom backs ours, eavesdropping was unavoidable. Had the kinky sex toy shop down the street not been closed, I would have been happy to purchase them a nice ball gag.
34: That kid in the red shirt is so great.
In college, my dorm-mate (a tiny single-room dorm) was massively hung over one morning and slept through his very loud alarm for like ten minutes. I finally got up and tried to figure out how to turn it off. The next morning, it didn't go off, and he woke up like an hour after his first class started, and asked me "Why didn't my alarm go off?". I must have disabled it instead of just turning it off. So I told him "Dunno". Served him right.
We weren't very close.
This seems like the most appropriate place to note the killing of the Tarheels. My condolences.
Oh wow. My ex got his kids hooked on Two Chinese Boys videos and they worked up a couple of numbers they were going to put on Youtube of them lipsynching to TMBG songs. Unfortunately, fear of the divorced spouse freaking out kept it from going up, but they are not only a thousand times cuter than the CF kids, but also much more hilarious dancers. Sigh. I miss those dudes.
40: Worst. Choke. Ever. In all my years of watching basketball, I don't think I've seen a team go colder.
I was driving back from the beach, so was listening to it on the radio. I got home just in time to watch the last two minutes of regulation and overtime. What a shitty way to end a season.
Late to the party but not too late to say: Happy Birthday, Mr. Ogged. Would you like an alarm clock with 30 something candles on it?
Happy birthday, Ogged!
(Whew, almost missed it.)
You missed it by days, but I thank you just the same.
When you're as old as you are, ogged, what's a few days?
what's a few days?
All I've got left, young Ben, all I've got left.
You're still younger than me though, aren't you, Ogged?
It's just a race to see who dies first from here on out, I guess. Which is the better preservative: exercise or chemicals?
Well, tissues floating in water rot and stink, whereas tissues floating in 95% ethanol don't.
It all depends on whether my cancer comes back before your first coronary. I should have some kids so we can wager and have someone to pay off the debt.
Formaldehyde is better, John. Pros like me start by soaking something in a saline solution and then gradually increasing the concentration of formaldehyde.
Ogged already stinks; he's Persian.
I should have some kids
You've got some preliminaries to take care of first, methinks.
I stink of the finest overpriced cologne.
Ned, the formaldehyde buzz doesn't appeal to me.
I should have some kids so we can wager
I'm not taking your kids after you drown.
So much for that brilliant plan. We'll have to be satisfied with outliving the other bastard.