Tired today, someone was cooking last night. The smell, woke me up I kept drinking cola, which I don't like doing. I like the taste just fine but I have been trying to avoid it, on behalf of my teeth, and gullet. I am looking forward to tomorrow, I start a long weekend, and I get paid
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Perks of the job
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Playboy 1953 edition. The microfilm starts with a picture of lovely Ms Monroe. The pictures are very tame. The early editions don’t even have a girl on every cover. The college edition is of a drawing of a typical bobby soxer, off to the soda fountain. Beyond that the magazine works hard to promote its brand. Yes the request was anoymous
Alice Mills Barbados
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``In 1693 the council of Barbados, paid one Alice Mills, ten Guineas for castrating 42 rebellious African slaves . The ghoulish rationality of this exercise in pre-decimal currency, was 2 shillings, sixpence per testicle'' Shilling about 5 pennies was a days wages. From ``if the Irish ran the world'' http://www.amazon.co.uk/Irish-Ran-World-Montserrat-1630-1730/dp/0853239622
Truly Disgusting
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I work in a library, and I am supposed to be impartial. We have a copy of Mien Kampf, and I don’t question the people, who order it. I have to hand out pornography. We have copies of Playboy. I have to keep a straight face, if a reader orders ``the history of shit’’ or ``C*nt’’ Its not my place to judge Than someone orders this. There were children in the building. I was disgusted. Hideous
Whip it
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(NB. this was written before Page transitioned) I went out with a girl, because of Ellen Page, I think I moped over her for a year. Ellen is the Girl I wish I’d have met when I was 16 Oh God, she is pretty! Its a curious mesh of a story. Ellen, plays a girl pressured by her mother to enter beauty contests, chooses to play Roller Derby in Austin.( Austin, is a college town, btw, its probably the most liberal metropolis in all of the fair state of Texas The strictness of alcohol laws in Texas, is shown. The secondary lead is busted for an open container. The Fire marshal one of the figures of distant menace from my College days shuts down the roller derby One of the girls, looks like a much older version of my very pretty friend Kata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Wiig Hello Eve! I remember you from Glee. Her and Drew Barrymore, and Julliette Lewis, all have fun in their roles. Lewis playing Iron Maiven. Barrymore as Smashly Simpson. The film loves its puns There is a g...
Song for the day
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26bX0 I haven’t heard this in ages. It was a favourite of my younger brother. He claimed if he made it in wrestling it would be his entry song Listening to it, again. I am amused that the boy in question is called Dexter… ``Da na na na da na…’’ For Chris, check out the 1.40-155 seconds into the video
Discarded wisdom
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I found this, written on a piece of scrap paper. It was on an empty shelf, next to a set of books published in the early 1990s. It was written in Green felt tip! ( A professional no no. They should not have been let into the reading areas with that ) ``Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free’’ Freud It made me stop and think
Hearts of Iron
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vW3NTvC3gk I am not really one for playing computer games. I guess I missed out. I was the last kid in my class to get a computer, or video game system. I play them sporadically. I am a burst gamer perhaps. I have a DS. Which has been a lot of places, I mean to play it on the plane and never do Aside from Microsoft chess, which I am hooked on. I don’t play computer games. I had heard good reviews of this game, on my history list Its a strategy game. You pick a country, and you fight world war two. Your in charge of production, intelligence and diplomacy, and research. Its a strategy game. It takes a looooongggg time, for things to get moving. The game is historical but allows some freedom. For example you can research nuclear weapons. You research computers up till 2007 levels. The game also uses politico’s randomly. Kevin O’Higgins survives the civil war, and the Liberals are the biggest party in Leinster house!
No there Artistic !
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As the day closed at work. I was putting away the items we had for used for despatch. As its no secret that I am single, you can imagine why my eye was drawn to the magazine! Actually its a periodical. A Spanish periodical and its full of well written and learned articles about Modern Art, and such. I wonder though if it would find a wider niche. People who want to look ribald, whilst really enjoying a discourse about the influence of post colonialism on the Argentine Advant Garde. If you were stuck on a very dull stag party perhaps. A more obvious example springs to mind involving a metaphor for household furniture Typing this here, I remember that in my early teens, I once ventured to the library. It was closed on Monday, and I spent the day at a large newsagents, and wondering around the shop. I discovered that they were selling French and German magazines. These must have been the European versions of the Sun, or the Sport. I read them from cover to cover, well I looked at...
Pictish
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/pictish-symbols-represent-ancient-written-scottish-language-1938321.html Pictish symbols represent ancient written Scottish language By Owen Jarus Wednesday, 7 April 2010 SHARE PRINT EMAIL TEXT SIZE NORMAL LARGE EXTRA LARGE REBECCA THOMPSON Engraved Pictish stone on display at the National Museum of Scotland ENLARGE New research has shown that the symbols used by the ancient Picts, who lived in Scotland from AD 300-843, were an actual written language, rather than just symbology. What historians know of the Picts has so far been gleaned from the artefacts they left behind and via the writings of the people whom they had contact with, such as the Romans. But if the meaning of inscribed patterns and symbols on Pictish stones and slabs can be deciphered, the potential to learn more about ancient Scotland could be immense. There are only a few hundred surviving Pictish stones and slabs. S...