PSoTD

For nuns?

And these two doofuses delivered. Possum?

I predict that sometime tomorrow, Lauren Holly will make the top 100 of Google Hot Trends.

In another daring prediction, I will say that it WON'T BE for her effort in "The Chumscrubber".

It can be quite surprising how many different items have the same model number. For example, FL1008.

Why, International Swingers Day is August 16th 2008.

When is International Fuddy Duddy Day? C'mon, we want to party...

What is your YouTube name.
Tell me.
Now.

What is the most fun beach in the Tuscany region?

I just have to wonder how well The Mothman Festival is going to do in an era of $4.00 plus gallons of gasoline. Plus, I hadn't even heard of this West Virginia story before, but stumbled across it when I was looking at other web sites for a local retired entomologist.

But I am glad to find out...

MOTHMAN DOES NOT KILL PEOPLE

Whew.

Eight year olds will be asking the question:

Grandma, what is this i-mod stuff? What did you use it for?

To keep the sun out of eyes and off head.
To hide a bad haircut.
To hide a lack of hair.
To promote something.
Something else?

The things you learn from Google Trends.

Jen Moss, Ashland's Naked Lady, needs to negotiate next time a bit more.

Jen Moss, a.k.a. Ashland's Naked Lady, has agreed to abide by the Chamber of Commerce's mandate that she wear clothes if she wants to participate in the Fourth of July parade.

"It's not that I like it, but I'm being realistic," she said. "I figured it would probably happen."

Moss, 33, said she moved to Ashland in May because of its liberal public nudity law. She said she will wear a bikini while Rollerblading and blowing a conch shell during the parade. She anticipates about 10 people walking and biking with her beating drums and holding signs of peace.

"It's unfortunate that on the day Americans are celebrating their civil liberties, mine are being taken away," she said.

Moss caused a stir when she announced in a Craigslist posting that she planned to lead a group of in-line skaters during the parade "wearing only a hemp G-string and blowing a conch shell."

However, parade chair Jim Kidd said he didn't think someone in the parade who is topless or nearly naked is appropriate for a family audience.

Perhaps there's a moneymaking opportunity here. Jen, here's an example...

Pennsylvania's Chambers of Commerce, in order to prevent my participating in the buff at the multitude of events that take place around the Commonwealth each year, you should pay a fee. Call it PSoTD Nudity Insurance. For $5, I will not appear at your event naked. It's surely worth $5 to avoid that, isn't it?

Fireflies, also called Lightning Bugs, light up a magical evening. Welcome! You've just discovered the amazing Firefly Magic® Firefly Lights that have been developed to accurately recreate the life-like flashing, flickering, and fading of Mother Nature's real fireflies in your yard, garden, or home... all year long. So special and realistic are these patented and award winning electronic firefly lights that they're used by Universities for conduct firefly research. In addition, Firefly Magic® Firefly Lights are used in theme parks, natural science museums, hotels, restaurants, shopping centers, on stage, and in movies to accurately replicate the real look and feel of Mother Nature's fireflies.

Kinda unique in the political career field: Building Maintenance/Support Supervisor. McCain's hiring!

Torson odriin mend hurgee! Just in case you need a translation.

Have one, and you'll be the envy of all at the ballpark.

There has to be a product in development for bigger parties called "The Prego" or something like that...

Why are so many of us naming our dog the same name?

George Carlin passed away yesterday.

If there's been a more important comedian in my lifetime, I'm not sure who it would be. Yes, there have been more visible and more revenue-generating comedians. But for groundbreaking, mind-opening, life-altering humor - who compares to George Carlin? Not many.

The best thing you can really sum up about a person's life is that they tried to make a difference with their life, and that they did so beyond their biggest expectations. I hope George Carlin felt that way about his, it rings true to me. RIP, Mr. Carlin. And thank you.

That's just ridiculous.

A 62-year-old woman reported Thursday morning the theft of a $5,000 hot tub from a rear deck.

Welcome to the $10,000 Pyramid. You have 60 seconds... now go!

The custom-order bra industry will be disappointed.

When will this magazine be coming out? I'm the target market.

But perhaps some day I'll stay at the Hotel Kessler.

Harvey Korman passed away today. I wasn't a big fan of the Carol Burnett show, but man, Korman was a funny guy.

That's my excuse, and I'm sticking with it.

I always thought that saying had some sort of hidden meaning, but apparently it's so obvious I really didn't need to look it up:

The slang term 'qt' is a shortened form of 'quiet'. There's no definitive source for the phrase 'on the q.t.', although it appears to be of 19th century British origin - not, as is often supposed, American. The longer phrase 'on the quiet' is also not especially old, but is first recorded somewhat before 'on the qt', in Otago: Goldfields & Resources, 1862:

"Unless men can work [the gold] on 'the quiet', they are not likely to make 'piles' so rapidly as Messrs. Hartley and Riley."

And the people have spoken. Either I don't have a good "moustache face" or I don't have a good "face moustache" or both. So I have rotated the whisker acres once more, and am clean shaven.

But to haunt your dreams, the floating stache!

I promise this will be my last post about Monty Python this week. (No I didn't!) If you'd like a giggle the scripts are online to read here. Here's a random bit from the second season:

Linkman (very excited): Hello and welcome to 'Election Night Special'. There's great excitement here as we should be getting the first results through any minute now. We don't know where it'll be from...it might be Leicester or from Luton. The polling's been quite heavy in both areas... oh, wait a moment...I'm just getting...I'm just getting a loud buzzing noise in my left ear. Excuse me a moment. (he bangs ear and knocks a large bee out) Uuggh! (cheering from crowd). Anyway, let's go straight over to James Gilbert at Leicester.

Shot of returning officer in front of a group consisting half of grey-suited, half of silly-dressed candidates and agents. The silly ones are in extraordinary hats, false noses etc.

Voice Over Well it's a straight fight here at Leicester...On the left of the Returning Officer (camera shoes grey-suited man) you can see Arthur Smith, the Sensible candidate and his agent, (camera pans to silly people) and on the other side is the silly candidate Jethro Walrustitty with his agent and his wife.

Officer Here is the result for Leicester. Arthur J. Smith...

Voice Over Sensible Party

Officer 30,612...Jethro Q. Walrustitty...

Voice Over Silly Party

Officer 32,108.

Cheering from the crowd. Cut back to studio.
Linkman (even more excited) Well, there's the first result and the Silly Party has held Leicester. What do you make of that, Norman?

Cut to Norman. He is very excited.

Norman Well, this is largely as I predicted, except that the Silly Party won. I think this is largely due to the number of votes cast. Gerald?

No cheating. I'll know if you look at the source.

A few weeks ago I snuck Monty Python and the Holy Grail into our NetFlix queue. This is one of the silliest movies of all time, and also one of my favorite comedies, and it had been quite a while since I had watched it, and I thought our oldest would enjoy it.

Of course, she was not happy that I had knocked some other movie she wanted to see back further in the queue, so she started with a chip on her shoulder. Plus, it was an old movie. 1975? Was it black and white? C'mon, Dad.

I shot back: C'mon, you like Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Time and they're from the same time frame. She was barely mollified, but she and I and her brother sat down with some popcorn to watch MP on Saturday night.

I'm not going to deny it. I laughed out loud several times. Still. I had to skip the final part about Sir Galahad and Castle Anthrax, but it took me until the spanking scene was about to begin to remember what was coming wasn't really appropriate for the kids. Our son laughed out loud several times, at predictable times. He loved the killer rabbit, and the Black Knight. Oh, and the French throwing the cow. And I heard him say "Knights that say Ni!" a couple of times.

Our daughter? Begrudging at best. She liked the Bridge of Death Scene. "Blue. No YeAAAAAAGH!" she laughed a couple of times. And she also wanted to watch the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog scene over, which we did. But at the end, she said she didn't really like it.

I'll be listening these next few weeks for her to repeat some of the movie's lines. That's how the Monty Python infection starts, and then it builds. We'll see.