As an attention grabber, I have totally stolen something from Bunk Strutts. A certain amount of shame was involved, yes.
It is sad. But I’ve more or less come to terms with it and have moved on.
I like Pugs. I really didn’t steal this for any other reason than that I like Pugs.
Full disclosure: And he obtained it from here… http://www.amyoops.com/2012/08/from-my-inbox.html#.UDQrhqBA2tY
No, it’s not a sick kind of “I like Pugs” thing, I just think they’re ugly enough to be cute and I haven’t seen many mean ones.
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Semi-alert reader ID10T Killer has sent me a second image that he says was flashed on his screen in a sidebar advertisement at Tom’s Hardware during his first visit on a totally virgin machine on it’s maiden voyage. (The first image can be found here.)
Now, this means one of the following:
- He’s either a lyin’ perv (which I’m not saying is a bad thing) and they’ve totally got his number (odds of this are somewhere between 30% and 0.00001% but I ain’t telling because if I tell, he tells)
- Tom’s Hardware just figures 99% of their clientele consists of males who cannot find a real woman who will get (and stay) within 10 feet of him (ID10T Killer is married, with kids)
- Tom’s Hardware is tracking people in ways we can’t believe
- Random sh*t happens all the time and even blind squirrels find nuts once in a while
If #2 didn’t make much sense, Tom’s Hardware is Geek Central. Either accept that as gospel or go see for yourself.
Now, all that said, ID10T Killer and I have wondered…
“What in the hell is Wartun3, and are you going to be exposed to “t3nt@cl3 53x” or a major payload of nasty code just for being curious?”†
I doubt either of us is going to go check it out. And we probably wouldn’t tell you if we did.
As Cruel Wife can attest, I have a thing for short cute brunettes with sometimes violent tendencies, so the graphic was at least interesting.
† Apologies, because I am no fan of l33t-speak, but neither do I want web-crawling stuff sniffing me out for the term “t3nt@cl3 53x” so I threw in some pseudo-l33t. Don’t even think about flaming me about my improper ‘spelling’ because I don’t even claim to know it all that well.
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And, this just in from the Bizarro Universe…
Study: Marriage causes women to drink more than men
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And a hearty:
“THANK YOU, PAL!”
… to Aggie Sith and Cruel Wife.
Cruel Wife just visited Aggie’s site (Sithy Things) where she posted the recipe for a drink called “Witch’s Brew”. She laughed at the drink and the name and I said “What’s so funny?”
“Oh, it’s Aggie post today” chirped Cruel Wife.
I thought hard. “Wait, what was the post again? Oh, the drink…”
“… Witches Brew,” she finished for me.
Cruel Wife read the ingredients list and said “‘Black sugar’ is an ingredient? I’ve never heard of ‘black sugar’.”
Trying to be helpful because (a) I was pretty sure it wasn’t a common variant of heroin, and (b) I’m a food-lover and interested in all things food, I said “Hang on… I’ll look it up… okay… Bing-dot-com… b-l-a-c-k space s-u-g-a-r… waiting… waiting… oh, it’s some kind of Taiwanese variant of way darker brown sugar and…”
I stopped, stared, and then I finished with “… Goddammit, you better thank me for doing that search for you.”
Confused, Cruel Wife said “What, why should I tha… black sugar… oooooohhhh. (insert ‘bwah-hah-hah-hah here)”
One cannot un-ring the bell once it has been rung. Dammit, I’ve been on the web 20 years and should have known better. I’ve seen worse, I just don’t like being surprised by it.
Lemur King's Folly 
My sister wanted to find a Dick’s Sporting Goods about 10 years ago.
She just typed the first word without the apostrophe.
I think she’s still getting pop-ups,
And lest you think that was the excuse, this is the sister who suggested we go into the exotic juice bar to get some papaya juice.
I am a little embarrassed I explained that it wasn’t the juice that was “exotic”.
I almost lost my cruelty card that day. Luckily I was able to torture her daughters enough to keep it.
I got a very wicked chuckle. I may have lost my Man Card ™ a while back for some stupid reason that I cannot remember but dammit, I still have my Cruelty Card ™ . Good one.
My sister and brother-in-law once took me to a bar called “The Lariat” just to see my expression when I finally figured out what kind of place I was in. I clued in on it when I realized that a guy was hitting on me.
I said to my sister, “Get. Me. The. F***. Out. Of. Here.”
Yeah, fond memories. Yeah.
“Study: Marriage causes women to drink more than men”
Hmmm. The title line makes you think that women are swigging down the swill after they are married, whereas men become teetotalers, right?
“Women asked reported drinking nine alcoholic beverages per month while married, and 6.5 beverages when divorced. For men, they drank more when divorced than married, nearly 22 drinks compared to 19.”
Yeeeeaaaaah. In what universe is 9 drinks per month more than 19? More accurately, the drinking rate for married women drink when compared with divorced women is higher, whereas the drinking rate for married men drink when compared with divorced men is lower. My opinion? Men are, in general, happier to marinade their livers in alcohol, and a married woman is more likely to pop one open with their spouse than they are when alone. Nuttin’ more, Dahlink. 😉
Men generally switch over to beer after getting married so those brewskis don’t really count as drinking. If you went by “total amount of ethanol” consumed, men actually consume much more after marriage.
Generally.
Oops, methinks I made a copy/paste error above. Dammit, where is that gin and tonic?
Measle. I saw what you did there. 😉
Forgive me for being a lowly rat bastard.
But while you are doing that… thanks! Pug in a Bucket made the whole family smile.
Us lowly rat bastards need to stick together. Now get the hell away from me.
Vacating my premises now…
Black sugar, eh?
Kind of reminds me of the Penn & Teller book “Play with your Food.” There’s a bread(?) recipe–they recommend you give your friends–in there with the baking soda & vinegar volcano hidden in it.
Pure evil. Less friends and pure evil = less obligations…. Hmmmm.
My favorite is freezing Mentos into ice cubes when you’re serving diet Pepsi.
How do you get it frozen in ice w/o it dissolving?
The trick is to drop the Mentos in the Pepsi just before putting it in the freezer.
Oh, hey, that makes great sense. I’ll give that a shot.
Actually, CW froze a root beer in the freezer not too long ago.
CW: “Kids, this is why we don’t freeze bottles of pop in the freezer.”
Kids: “Whoooooaaaaaa.”
Me: “Impressive. I’m not cleaning that up.”
Actually, the way I read it was to freeze the mentos into water in ice cube trays and put them in the diet cola, when the ice cube melts you get your fountain.
LOL.
“Swedish Lemon Angels.”
1 egg
1/2 cup buttermilk (or 1/4 cup milk mixed with 1/4 cup vinegar)
5 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup lemon juice (fresh is best)
1-1/4 cups sugar
7/8 cups all-purpose flour
8 tbs. butter or margarine, melted.
Sigh….I should have explained that black sugar was only regular sugar with a few drops of freakin’ FOOD COLORING to make it black. Honestly, I have no idea what it means outside of that. I should be grateful for the ignorant bliss, right?
And way cute pug!
And CW is right about the drinking stuff.
And ID10T Killer needs help.
Oh. Food coloring. Huh. Yes. Be grateful.
All pugs are cute in my opinion but this was almost excessive.
Ah, what does CW know? (says LK while calmly sipping a virgin tonic water)
ID10T Killer needs no more help than I do…
So, he needs a lot. Got it.
Rats. Is it that obvious?
Patently…. Glaringly…. As if it were being shown through a magnifying glass the size of Betelgeuse, and just as magnitudinal in force.
It’s my opinion though 😀
And here I thought I was always on my best behavior around you.
ID10T Killer is actually much more normal than I.
He doesn’t blog, then??
*runs*
No, but he has “The Knack”, which should scare you even worse. And I think he’s a hell of an engineer at heart, which is praise I do not throw around lightly.
“The Knack”, eh? Do he and his wife resemble you and your wife? Because then doppelgangerism would be afoot.
No, they are different.
I think you and CW share more in common.
That’s a relief. For you, anyway 🙂
Oh. Yes. It’s very comforting.
((rolls eyes))
Especially knowing how much humility there is to be found only skin deep.
I think Wartune is just a clone of Evony, another online game famous for it’s extremely suggestive ads, but had no actual sexual content in it.
Hmmm. Tempted to look up Black Sugar now. Is it Blue Waffle level of disturbing?
My favorite dogs to watch are corgis. They crack me up.
Disclaimer: Do not search on “blue waffle”, “two girls, one cup” – you have been warned. You should have figured out by now that “black sugar” isn’t necessary, either.
Hello Mitchell!
Depending on what your favorite search engine decides to vomit up to you when you turn off “Safesearch” (which I cannot do just any old time with two young-uns floating around), yes, it can be as disturbing as “blue waffle”.
For those who do not know what “blue waffle” will bring forth, I suggest you never look. http://www.itusozluk.com/image/blue-waffle_244944.jpg Just like “two girls, one cup”, you cannot un-see it.
Never been around Corgis, but I did find this while looking them up: http://www.lolblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/corgi.jpg