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Clancy Brown (I)
Mr. Eugene H. Krabs
Bill Fagerbakke
Patrick Star
Mary Jo Catlett
Mrs. Puff/Mrs. SquarePants
Lori Alan
Pearl Krabs
Carolyn Lawrence
Sandy Cheeks
Jill Talley
Bill Fagerbakke
Recurring Role
Rodger Bumpass
Squidward Tentacles
Recurring Role
Mr. Lawrence
Plankton/Larry the Lobster/Other Voices
Recurring Role
At the beginning of "Clams", Squidward tells the customer that he hates everything on the menu. However, it was revealed in "Just One Bite", an earlier episode, that he loves Krabby Patties, which are on the menu.
In "New Student Starfish," isn't it dangerous to remove a lightbulb without turning it off?
How could Mrs. Puff take off the good star? Glue is so hard to be taken off. And the little shovel wouldn't even take it off.
In "New Student Starfish", when SpongeBob asks Patrick if he can handle the second chair, Patrick yells out, "I'm learning!", but the closed captions translate it as "I'm waiting!"
How did Patrick go to school without signing up? SpongeBob signed him up, due to writing his name on the good noodle board.
Response to the comments about where Mr. Krabs got the tombstone, dress, the giant thumb & how his eyes turned into faucets: a lot of children's cartoons do that for comedic effect.
SpongeBob said that he had 75 stars, but only 25 of his stars were seen.
When Mrs. Puff asks for Patrick's name, he gets nervous, and shouts out "24!" Could this mean that his age is 24, instead of saying his name, he said his age? Also, according to the novel, based on the episode, Patrick was referring to the calendar's date number, which apparently wasn't seen in the episode.
When Spongebob gets scared of the writing on the last desk, his arms are on his chest. They are back on his sides.
The order of the names on the good noodle star list changes a WHOLE LOT! "Horis" was once the 4th on the list, then last.
In New Student Starfish, Patrick's watch disappeared when he entered the Classroom.
Where did Mr. Krabs get the tombstone, and that dress from.
Where did Mr. Krabs get the Giant thumb???
Patrick acts like he doesn't know that life involves working and education in "New Student Starfish." But in "I'm With Stupid," Patrick understands that. Perhaps even more than SpongeBob. Even worse, the line "Wanna go jellyfishing?" is used in both. Did the writers make a goof on purpose?
Responce to the Squids shirt and nose: TV shows tend to do that on purpose. It gets tedious for them to do it like that, plus they have to make them come back some how.
In "Clams", after SpongeBob hooks Squidward's nose and casts it off, a couple scenes later, it's back.
Chickens can't live underwater!!! People may think that it is possible because the egg is in the tank, but the tank has no roof... (From New Student Starfish)
How did Spongebob's class have a science project if this was boating school?
The stars change their position many times throughout the episode
When SpongeBob and Patrick are running with Roger and the lightbulb the chalkboard has several new names ex:Philly Phil,Baby Face.(Since this only appears for a second I only had time to see 2 names)
In several scenes Horace has 3 stars but he actually only had 1.
When Spongebob first puts Patrick's name on the board, it's in caps, But when Patrick is struggling with his name, in the background it's in lowercase.
When Mr. Krabs lands next to Squidward after the alarm goes off, you hear him laughing but his mouth isn't moving!
Several times in the episode, Mr. Krabs rubs a dollar bill on his body, but stretches much more than any dollar is supposed to, dollar bills.
response to coral bits: Mr. Krabs kicked him and all the customers out, so he could have private time with his millionth dollar.
Since the lightbulb is above the cage (which is covered, BTW), how could it generate substantial heat to keep Rodger (Roger?) alive anyway?
The fish that gave Mr. Krabs his millionth dollar never got his coral bits.
In Clams (or SpongeJaws or any of the million names they call this episode), at the very beginning of the episode the anchor on Squidward's hat is red. But later on it is dark blue.
In New Student Starfish, When SpongeBob is waiting for Patrick to bring back a lightbulb, the chalkboard in the background says, "Lesson 22: Docking", but in the beginning of the episode Mrs. Puff said, "Today's lesson will be about turning."
In "New Student Starfish", SpongeBob says he has 74 stars but there are only 21 stars.
When Spongebob is putting things in his locker, (right before Spongebob and Patrick fight) you can see that there are six lockers right next to each other. However, when Mrs. Puff picks Spongebob and Patrick up to stop their fighting, there are about 8 lockers right next to each other!
Crowd: Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Patrick: I don't see anyone fighting.
SpongeBob: They're talking about us! We're fighting!
Patrick: Well, don't mind if I do!
Crowd: Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight...fight...fight? (shows SpongeBob and Patrick swinging wildly without making any contact)
Mr. Krabs: Have you boys met me millionth dollar? (laughs)
SpongeBob: Wow! How'd you get it back?
Mr. Krabs: It wasn't easy. Old Blue Lips is quite the fighter! So eventually we settled on a trade.
SpongeBob: What'd you give him?
(Mr. Krabs hops up on the mast, missing his body from the neck down)
Mr. Krabs: Nothing important.
Squidward: If we're really quiet, we can sneak up to the life boats.
SpongeBob: OK. (SpongeBob and Squidward freak out to the lifeboats)
Patrick: Mrs. Puff, is it nap time?
Baby Chick: Hey! What I miss?
SpongeBob: I'm a good noodle, I'm a good noodle!!
Ms. Puff: You'll get this star back when you earn it.
SpongeBob: She made it.
Mr. Krabs: (laughs happily) Oh, and for a second or two, I thought she was a goner.
Mr. Krabs: Quick, SpongeBob, reel it in! Can't you hear the music?! That's a 4/4 string ostinato in D minor! Every sailor knows it means death!
SpongeBob: Oh, poor Mr. Krabs, gone forever from our lives. WHY COULDN'T IT HAVE BEEN ME?!
Squidward: Yeah, why couldn't it have been you?!
SpongeBob: Why did he have to go like this?! WHY?!
Squidward: Why did he have to go like this and leave me tied to this idiot?!
Squidward: Mr. Krabs, listen! I work with SpongeBob all day long. So I know what I'm talking about when I say YOU ARE COMPLETELY OUT OF YOUR MIND!!!
SpongeBob: And I've gotta get home to feed Gary.
(shot of Gary eating the couch, half of it already gone)
Patrick: Boating school? I thought this was Spanish class! See ya, SpongeBob. See ya, Big Fat Meanie!
SpongeBob: In one day, I have gone from good noodle to bad egg. It's all stupid Patrick's fault. (turns around and looks at Patrick meanly) I hate you, Patrick!
Patrick: I hate you more!
SpongeBob: I'd hate you no matter what!
Patrick: I'd hate you even if I didn't hate you!
SpongeBob: (pauses) I'd hate you even if that made sense!
Patrick: I'd hate you even if you were me! That's how much I hate you.
SpongeBob: I'd hate you even if... I'd hate you even if the light-bulb keeping Roger alive burned out!
(Roger's light goes out)
SpongeBob: Poor Mr. Krabs. Gone out of our lives forever..
Squidward: SpongeBob, have you noticed that Mr. Krabs has gone COMPLETELY INSANE?!
Squidward: We're gonna die out here just because a giant clam ate Mr. Krabs' STUPID dollar!
(a single ceiling light shines over a mound huge of light bulbs)
Patrick: The light bulb. (seeing the mound) But why does it have to be so far away?
Spongebob: And now for the room with the most class--the classroom!
Mrs. Puff: May Neptune have mercy on your souls!
SpongeBob: (after seeing a sketchy doodle of Mrs. Puff that Patrick drew) Big fat meanie. Pat! You can't do that, she's the teacher!
Mrs. Puff: (grabbing the drawing) What about the teacher? (looks at the drawing and somehow turns into exactly how Patrick drew her) As if I really looked like this!
Spongebob: The lightbulb, without it Roger will die!
Patrick: Roger, Without him the lightbulb will have nothing to warm!
SpongeBob: I've never seen Mr. Krabs so broken up.
(Mr. Krabs lays on ground with body parts scattered about)
Squidward: Hey, Mr. Krabs! I found your millionth dollar!
Mr. Krabs: Yeah! Whoo-hoo! I...wait a minute! This isn't me millionth dollar. This is an ordinary dollar that's been crumpled up, torn slightly, soaked in the lagoon, and kissed with Coral Blue Number 2 Semigloss lipstick.
SpongeBob: (putting lipstick on) Actually, it's Coral Blue Number--
(Squidward hits Spongebob on the head with a fishing pole)
Mr. Krabs: Congratulations, sir, you have just given me my one millionth dollar!
Scooter: Great, what do I win?
Mr. Krabs: Nothing, now get out!
Scooter: (gets disappointed) What?
Mr. Krabs: Get out, everybody, get out, you're spoiling me precious moment!
SpongeBob: What's wrong with Mr. Krabs?
Mr. Krabs: Nothin, lad. Do you know what this is?
Squidward: A very dirty dollar?
Customer: Uh... What do you like better, the Coral Bits or the Nacho Oyster Skins?
Squidward: I like neither. May I take your order?
Customer: How about the Barnacle Rings, are they any good?
Squidward: No.
Customer: What's your vote on the Kelp-
Squidward: Sir, let's get this out of the way, I hate everything on the menu! Now what do you want!?!?
SpongeBob: Psst... try the Coral Bits.
Customer: I'll have the Coral Bits.
Squidward: That will be one dollar.
SpongeBob: (giving Patrick a tour of the boating school) This is the hallway of learning. These are the classrooms of learning.
Patrick: And these are the stairs of learning, right?
SpongeBob: No, those are just the stairs. (walks over to a different staircase) These are the stairs of learning.
Patrick: Oohh.
Patrick: Who cares about a stupid star?
SpongeBob: Gee, Patrick. It seems like you would care alot about stupid stars considering YOU ARE ONE!
Patrick: I'll deal with you after class!
SpongeBob: It is after class!
Students: Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Spongebob: I'm sorry I called you a stupid star!
Patrick: I'm sorry I made you lose one of your good noodle stars, got you move to the back of the room, shooted spitballs in your face, and threw stuff at you!!
Spongebob: I'm sorry your apology is so long!
Patrick: Me too! Let's go save Roger!!
SpongeBob: (snickers) Hey Patrick, I thought of something funnier than 24!
Patrick: (snickers) What?
SpongeBob: (starts to laugh) 25.
SpongeBob: And this is our class project. The egg represents our life, and all that surrounds us. And this lightbulb represents life, this is the only thing keeping the egg alive...
Patrick: (flips the switch repeatedly) Life, death, life, death, life, death, life, death, life, death!
(confetti falls and music plays in the Krusty Krab)
Fish: What's going on?
Squidward: Something stupid, most likely.
(Mr. Krabs comes out and starts hopping around with his millionth dollar)
Squidward: See, I told you...
(Spongebob had to be moved to the back of the classroom, so Patrick is trying to get his attention-)
Patrick: Psst... Psst! SpongeBob! SpongeBob! Psst! Hey!
Spongebob: (Thinking to himself) I have to try and ignore him.
Patrick: SpongeBob... I'm trying to get your attention! Psst!
Spongebob: What?!
(Patrick smiles in a meek why and raises his hand)
Patrick: Hi...
Spongebob: (Spongebob snaps) HI?!
Patrick: Who's the fat kid talking to?
SpongeBob: You, Patrick, she's the teacher!
We learn that Mr. Krabs' main objective is having a million dollars.
Patrick doesn't appear in "Clams."
We learn that Mr. Krabs gave his body to the Clam so he could have his millionth dollar back.
Mrs. Puff doesn't appear in "Clams".
Squidward and Mr. Krabs do not appear in "New Student Starfish".
Gary makes a cameo appearance in this episode.
Plankton and Sandy do not appear in this episode.
"Clams" was ranked #98 on the "Best Day Ever Countdown."
Coral Bits cost $1.00.
The name of the boat Mr. Krabs, Spongebob and Squidward were on is called "The S.S. Cheapskate."
In the episode Clams when Spongebob and Squidward are crying it almosts sounds like they're laughing.
The tombstone Mr. Krabs sets up reads, "RIP: Me Millionth Dollar".
Roger, The Baby chick is named after the voice of Squidward.
The music, storyline, and scenes in "Clams" are VERY much like in the movie "Jaws".
In "Clams", when Spongebob was casting his line out and hooking items on the boat, he tore off Squidward's shirt and nose. A couple of scenes later, both the shirt and nose reappear.
The giant clam that ate Mr. Krabs's millionth dollar is named "Ol'Bluelip".
Mr. Krabs cries in the following ways: In pieces, sucking on his feet, running tears into his mouth, spraying tears through his eyelids, spraying tears through his eye sockets, with his eyes shaped like a facuet, and sucking on a giant thumb.
We learn Patrick does not go to school, but in "The Bully" he mentioned that he goes to community college.
We learn that Krabs fish for clams like people fish for fish.
Clams was originaly "Bluelips".
The fish who gave Mr. Krabs his one millionth dollar never got his coral bits.
We learn that all Krabs' dream is to make one millionth dollar.
We learn that boating school has a class pet. It's a chicken egg.
We learn that boating school has a chart of good deeds and SpongeBob had 74.
The title screen for "Clams" is a spin-off on Jaws (Clams instead of Jaws, a dollar instead of a diver, and a clam instead of a shark).
When Gary helps SpongeBob get ready for school, it sort of parodies Wallace and Gromit when Gromit sometimes helps Wallace in the mornings.
In "Clams," it sometimes mocks the movie they are parodying (Jaws) by breaking the fourth wall by having the shark (or in this case, the clam) show up every time the Jaws theme plays (even in one scene, Mr. Krabs begs the band who is playing the theme to stop).
When SpongeBob loses a gold star, his head makes complete rotations, a la "The Exorcist."
When Mr. Krabs nailed the last sandwich to the mast it's a reference to when Captain Ahab nailed a Spanish gold coin to the mast in the famous book "Moby Dick".
It is possible that the misspelling of "skool" on SpongeBob's desk ("Skool Is 4 Chumps") is a reference to "Invader ZIM".
Title: Clams
The background for the title of Clams was modeled after the original Jaws poster.
Jaws: Mr. Krabs went through desperate measures to get that clam to return his dollar
To do this he uses Spongebob and Squidward as bait and conducts an orchestra to play dramatic music, the music has a strong set of Cello's and Violins playing in a very desperate, scary, on the edge way (very noticeable in the 'Jaws is coming theme')
And indeed when that music played Jaws did come, as did the Clam for this episode.
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St. Peters Board Rejects 370 Speedway ProposalResidents living near proposed site complained about potential for loud noise.
Police Say Suspect Left Phone Number at Crime SceneA suburban St. Louis man is in custody after allegedly groping a woman and running off, only to leave his phone number behind.
St. Peters House Fire Leaves Woman, 2 Children DeadSt. Peters police spokeswoman Melissa Doss says they won't know if the victims died in the fire until autopsies are complete.
Mother, Two Children Killed in St. Peters House FireThe Major Case Squad has been activated in St. Peters after a mother and her two children were killed in a house fire.
St Peters Bank Robber ArrestedAustin Reed turned himself in Friday night.
Couple Killed in Easter Sunday Motorcycle CrashCatawissa man, St. Peters woman thrown from bike when it missed a curve early Sunday morning.
These Are the St. Louis Area Sports Authority Locations ClosingThe retailer says it plans to close or sell about 140 stores and two distribution centers.
Shots Fired Into St. Peters HomePolice say victim in stable condition, incident likely drug-related.
Man Charged with Hidden Camera Scheme at Mid Rivers Mall20 or more women could be victims of a hidden camera scheme at Mid Rivers Mall
Man, 21, Accused in Connection with Ferguson-Related LootingInvestigators allege Donovan Doan stole beers on Nov. 25th of last year during looting of the Dellwood Market.
St. Peters Fire Victims Could Use DonationsCentral County fire house #2 is the drop-off point

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All I know about Centralia is that they have a restaurant just off the freeway called "The Country Cousin"... where they use goldfish as croutons!
I can also see where the homophobia comes from; I went there with a pack of loud queens, and I thought we'd get rolled in the parking lot for sure.
I've only blown through Centralia during the STP, but it's a nice place to have a massacre I think.
Lewis county is basically a little patch of Idaho in western WA, complete with methlabs and white supremacists.
a peculiar little berg called Centralia. I know. Ive never heard of it either.
Yeah, it's only the site of one of the most important events in the history of the state. Why on earth would you have heard of it?
As a kid, I got beat up in Lewis County just cause I liked the Pet Shop Boys and not Country music. Glad I got out of that place.
If you go to support them in the parade, clap extra loud for the rainy city roller girls too. It's not easy being in a small town.
Oh and go drink at McMenamins there, it's actually pretty awesome.
The I-5 corridor between Centralia at the north end, and roughly Battleground to the south, is chock-full of unabashed racists; even my own maternal grandmother, an otherwise sweet and innoffensive woman, has been known to drop the "n word" in casual conversation.
Centralia, is also infamous for being the site of the 1919 "Centralia Massacre", in which four members of the local American outpost were killed by members of the IWW after allegedly attempting to raid their union hall during the Armistice Day celebration.
Even though the event occured nearly 90 years ago, there are still families in Centralia who refuse to have dealings with each other because of which side their ancestors supported.
@2 & 3: Wow. I think my grandma and her parents were living in Chehalis then. But I've never heard of any of this; thanks for linking it. I guess it's not something they want to teach in middle school when we all get state history-fied. (Though I'm going to mention it to my friend who is teaching that very class this year...)
I've been to Centralia quite a few times. It has the northernmost Burgerville on Earth.
And some outlet stores -- including a huge Christian Family Stores outlet with a big VeggieTales billboard abutting the offramp. Hmm, gee.
History tells us that Centralia does not like lefty commies et al, so teh gayes may have good reason to worry.
Centralia has quite a history of bloody marches.
Centralia really, really doesn't like to talk about the Wobblies murders, even today. But it's a nice little town. My grandparents lived there (he taught at Centralia College), and I spent many happy hours there. Even though the highlight was always a trip down to Chehalis to go to Yard Birds.
The Olympic (the McMenamins place mentioned by jkjk above) is an awesome pretty much untouched pool hall, bar, and restaurant. The food's pretty crappy, but it's a gorgeous set of rooms. The men's room is one of the Wonders of Washington. And the outdoor patio is a pretty nice place to drink a beer on a hot day with trains rolling by.
But I can definitely see how it would be much less attractive a town if you were gay there. Shame.
@ 4, it would have been useful to actually impart some knowledge rather than demean Adrian for not knowing Centralia's history. For those of us who are not from the NW, we appreciate the education.
I think it would be folly for them not to march. People have gone against far greater danger for many causes, and for these kids to not walk because of "fear of a beating" is a disgrace to the multitude of gay people before them (not to mention any minority or cause).
Hell, them walking and standing proud against the haters will be a testament to the other young people there, perhaps too afriad to come out. It also puts a face to the bigotry, rather than staying in silence.
While I am not gay and can't fathom how hard it is, I do know it will be worth it for those people to stand up for themselves and their rights.
There was a link to the Centralia Massacre in the comment prior to mine.
The Centralia Massacre, like the Everett Massacre 3 years earlier and the Fort Lawton riot during WWII are seminal events in the history of the region, prior to the tech boom of the 1990s. None of it really matters now because so many new people have moved here that the cultural antecedents of the 20th Century have been rendered more or less moot. I think it would be fair to say that the Chicago fire is probably more historically relevant to the current population of Seattle than the Seattle fire was.
But those of us who grew up here, and who considered the Centralia Massacre to be important in our cultural and regional history, are bound to be a little irritated when someone like Adrian makes it obvious just how thoroughly the living history of the region -- my history, Comte's history and and the history of other regional natives -- has been obliterated by immigration from other parts of the country.
I'm not offended by Adrian's ignorance, so much as I'm offended by his accidental display of it; it's rather on the scale of moving to New York City and referring to Hell's Kitchen as "Clinton" in a casual conversation with a New York native, or moving to Seattle and calling Downtown "the West Edge" because that's what you saw on the signs when you were walking around down there.
Most of Thruston, Lewis and Cowlitz counties are as "red state" as it gets. I sometimes wonder if the Chehalis river tosses out biblical type floods every ten years or so because that's the God they believe in down there in the hollar.
Although I do miss Yardbirds. Walmart is such a pale shadow of that place.
@ 14 - are you going down to Centralia?
Thruston County! Innocent typo @16, but it made my day-- thanks.
Centralia is also home to the best mexican food I have ever had in this state (and yes, I've been to eastern WA), La Tarasca
Being on the opposite coast, the only Centralia *I* have heard of is the one in Pennsylvania - which is abandoned because of a fire in the coal mines beneath the town. So thanks for the history lesson - it was intresting.
But I feel sorry for the kids in the gay-straight alliance, it must be Hell living amounst Neaderthals.
@17 and 18:
I would, but I don't go to that school. I'd be some asshat from Seattle. People in that community need to speak out. Like I said, I know its hard...not saying it's easy!!!! But the benefits are so huge.
BTW, I have marched in gay pride parades, been part of the gay-straight alliance, fought anti-gay people openly at: school (high school and college), on the street (ripping apart bibles, spitting on religious nut-bags, etc), on the internet, in my family (extended family that is mormon), at church (when I was forced to go to mormon church I brought my openly bi friend- he went in a skirt), etc.
I also have done the same for womens rights, when the religious bigots protested my high school 3 times a year with pictures of dead babies (you kmow, cause that is what abortion looks like...). Several times being physically removed by school officials before the cops came.
So yeah, if that was my school I'd walk alone if I had to.
Centralia is worth a drive through for two things, their more authentic than usual McMennamins and THIS GUY:
He will take you for a tour if'n you happen to catch him at home.
That sucks that the bigots are winning. I hope they get rained on.
Please excuse Adrian Ryan's vague bitterness toward everything.
Being so alone and make a girl that way.
original monique? will you kick non's ass for me please?
According to friends who work in the area, Centralia is actually the most liberal of the local burgs thanks to its Wobbly heritage. Chehalis (a couple miles south) is reportedly even more batshit nuts backwards.
"One big union, that's our plan ... "
@Non, don't be an asshat. And yeah, if you if honestly think "Being so alone and (I assume you mean can) make a girl that way"
Then I will bet me, Poe, and ECB can easily find reason to "kick some ass" for:
1) being offensive and annoying to adrian
2) being offensive and annoying to women
3) being offensive and annoying to slog
All in 1 post! You are shooting for a record.
thank you o.m. thank you.
Well aren't you just a martyr for the cause.
But the point you're clearly too self-righteous to grasp is that no amount of zeal on your part gives you the right to armchair quarterback someone else's activism when the threat of immanent physical harm is involved.
Ignore the threats! Really! Be brave and have as many cameras with you as you can. I have marched since the days when they jailed us for dancing together. I didn't care if they did beat me. I found there is an amount of safety in numbers. Carry cameras and photograph the threats.
(copy + paste)
Honestly though your bitterness is going to ruin what is left of you.
If you check into anything you have ever written and look at it through the eyes of a casual reader, you might find yourself wondering: "who exactly is this guy mad at?" "where does this hate come from that he is projecting on even the most innocent of subjects (i.e. Jean Ennerson)?"
It's painfully obvious that you have a bone to pick with somebody...or yourself.
Or maybe it is just your schtik.
Either way, it's pathetic.
One of my favorite little getaways is to jump on the Amtrak to Centralia, spend a few hours shopping on the somewhat depressing (but full of antique shops) main street, topped off my a nice lunch at the Olympic, then back home on the train.
One of the antique stores has the most fabulous staircase that tells me that there must have been some homos there at one time or another. Staircases like that just don't happen.
I'd be on the train to Centralia for the parade to show my solidarity in a hot second, but I have to go to Omaha, which is worse.
ok, Non, fuck off! you're starting to irritate the hell out of me. I AM one of the people in the GSA who wrote to Adrian about this...I know Adrian, even though he's never been there , he is aware of the attitudes from Lewis County.
The reason we aren't marching in the 4th of July parade is simple, hate crime...
All the things Sarah Block was reading off is here. www.lewiscountybuzz.com and www.myspace.com/centraliacollegegsa. After you get there type centralia college pride in the search bar and read the comments.
Don't piss me off Non. I will be the one to show you what a bitch from Lewis County can really do!
@Judah: gay rights is a human rights issue, and has nothing to do with zeal. it has to do with conviction. If you are fine with bigots in your area, fine. If not, then do something.
people in the 60s and 70s dealt with more than we could imgaine, so good for them and shame on us..."oh no! I might get beat up by some jocks!" instead of "oh i might get killed by cops!"
@non: you're a moron, and it's painful to imagine you, being so ignorant. Just sayin.
@Original Monique
Yes, well, I was there for the marches in the '70s and, honestly, the WTO thing here in Seattle was a lot more violent and involved a much heavier-handed use of police force than pretty much anything I'd seen before.
Look, basically the problem here is that you've mythologized public protest into some kind of epic battle of good against evil -- which, for the most part, it isn't and rarely has been. It is sometimes necessary to risk getting into a physical confrontation with an angry mob but there are usually faster and more radical ways to create change with a computer and a little elbow grease.
You're right that gay rights is a human rights issue, and has nothing to do with zeal. So it's not entirely clear to me why you think you're in a position to judge someone else's activities based purely on what you perceive to be a lack of zeal. A person's enthusiasm for being severely beaten or killed isn't actually an accurate measure of their commitment to the cause of justice. If it demonstrates anything, most of the time it simply demonstrates a profound lack of imagination.
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- Tesoro Logistics (NYSE:TLLP) agrees to acquire storage and pipeline assets in Los Angeles owned by subsidiaries of refiner Tesoro (NYSE:TSO) for $500M.
- The assets include 97 crude oil, feedstock and refined product storage tanks with combined capacity of 6.6M barrels, and a 50% interest in Line 88, a 16-mile pipeline that transports jet fuel from TSO's Los Angeles refinery to the Los Angeles International Airport with average throughput of 25K bbl/day.
- TLLP says the $500M price includes $250M in cash and the issuance of $250M in common and general partner units to TSO, and expects the deal to be immediately accretive to unitholder distributions.
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- Tesoro Logistics (NYSE:TLLP) agrees to acquire the 44% of QEP Midstream Partners (NYSE:QEPM) it does not already own, in a unit-for-unit exchange that values QEPM at $17.09/unit, an 8.6% premium to today's QEPM closing price of $15.74.
- TLLP already owned a 55.8% interest in QEPM, consisting of ~3.7M common units and ~26.7M subordinated units, and 100% of the limited liability company interests of QEPM GP, which itself holds a 2% general partner interest and 100% of the incentive distribution rights in QEPM.
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This is the final day you will be hounded by those political phone calls, or annoyed by all the political ads on TV.
As we head into the final stretch of the midterm elections three congressional races in Central New York are among the dozens of races 'in play' in this election cycle. Analysis by the New York Times and Congressional Quarterly say the 23rd and 24th Congressional Districts are a tossup. Both organizations list the 25th Congressional District as "Leaning Democratic".As you can tell by watching TV, the national political parties and a variety of Political Action Committees have poured millions of dollars into the local races. In an effort to hold their seats in CNY, Democrats have brought in their big gun, former President Bill Clinton. Clinton campaigned in Watertown today for Bill Owens, was in Utica Friday for Michael Arcuri, and a few weeks ago in Syracuse for Dan Maffei. Analysts expect Republicans to take control of the House of Representatives and possibly the Senate. If that happens, Central New York would be returning to its political roots.For years all three districts were represented by Republicans. In Syracuse's 25th Congresional District, Jim Walsh retired after 20 years in the House following a narrow victory over Democrat Dan Maffei in 2006. In the time since Walsh was first elected the district's voter registration has shifted to give Democrats an edge. After Walsh's retirement, Maffei easily beat Republican Dale Sweetland in 2008.
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Given how close these races are, the phone calls and commercials will stop, but they will likely be in the news as absentee ballots come into play.


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German headphone maker Ultrasone's HFI-580s block out noise without plugging up your ear canals or using active cancellation circuitry. The S-Logic "natural surround" technology and radiation shielding may seem gimmicky, but these great-sounding cans give our trusty Sennheiser HD280 Pro's a serious run for their money. To our ears, they're best suited for applications where sonic accuracy is key; though we'd have virtually no qualms about recommending them for casual as well as critical listening.
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The HFI-580s are full-size headphones that go all the way around your ears. The earcups are fairly large and have foam leatherette earpads that are a little on the firm side. Unlike some other Ultrasone models, these are pretty hip-looking, with a matte black finish and silver accents on the 170-degree-swiveling earcups.
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The HFI-580s block slightly less noise than the Sennheiser HD280 Pro, partly because the pads are harder and don't create as good a seal around your ears. Ultrasone claims they reduce noise by about 10dB, which seems in line with our tests. They took the edge off of loud trucks and planes, and with music playing at a comfortable volume nearby voices disappeared. The padding under the headband is also a bit stiff, and we felt like the entire half-pound-plus weight of the headphones was resting on the crown of our head.
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According to Ultrasone, these headphones are ideally suited for bass players and drummers; we find them better suited to horn players, guitarists and vocalists, given their exceptional mids and highs. When we put on our drummer/bassist hat, we find the bass extension slightly lacking compared with that of the Sennheiser HD280 Pros, which lessens the impact of extremely low sounds like large drums, organ bass pedals, and deep electronic tones.
Music on the HFI580s is very tight and punchy but not harsh. The soundstage is wider than the Sennheisers' but far less spacious sound than with open-backed reference headphones like the AKG K 701. The S-Logic "natural" surround technology — Ultrasone's name for the way they position the drivers in relation to the average human ear — subtly changes the tonal balance to give the impression of a livelier sound. It's not drastic, but it definitely helps combat the boxed-in feeling of closed cans.
Reggae and dub tracks by Bob Marley and King Tubby sound beefy on the HFI580s, though this is one genre — along with electronica like Aphex Twin — where we missed the Sennheisers' deeper bass. Acoustic jazz from the likes of Miles Davis and Billie Holiday sound stellar, with lively cymbals, up-front horns and vocals, and very tight acoustic bass. Rock with layered guitars (Zeppelin, R.E.M., the Stones, and the Killers) had plenty of detail and sounded very clean, even when the musicians weren't.
While most of our test files were in Apple Lossless format, we gave some 192Kbps MP3s a shot, too: Ron Banks and the Dramatics' classic soul album Dramatically Yours sounded The headphones' ability to reveal compression didn't detract too much from the listening experience, as sometimes happens with 'phones that emphasize treble. And these 32-ohm cans are even easier for portables to drive than the HD280 Pros.
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Ultrasone's MU metal bufferboard shields your brain from the drivers' electromagnetic radiation (which is minimal but still measurable). Here in New York City, we're far more concerned with all of the other poisons that fill the air, but health nuts may get some peace of mind. The company also claims the driver positioning results in a 3-4dB decrease in sound pressure level inside the earcup without actually changing the loudness, making for safer listening.
The Ultrasone HFI-580's are impressively accurate-sounding for closed-backed headphones. We like the streamlined design compared with the bulkier Sennheiser HD280 Pros, though the latter are more comfortable. We can't help but wish for a little more low bass power and a coiled telephone-style cord, but we highly recommend the HFI580s if you need very fine detailed mids, upper bass, and highs.
• Very lively, wide sound
• Attractive and health-conscious design
• Well-suited to critical listening and monitoring
• Earcups fold up into headband
• Extreme deep bass could use some extra power
• Headband padding is too hard
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Wouldn't you rather~
Wouldn't you rather be dead?
Maybe shoot yourself in the head?
Over my dead heart, I'd never want to be a zombie like you.
The sight of your limbs are rotten all the time.
All synonyms say of you looks like a 3 legged swine.
Go ahead and do us all a favor,
hide and stash yourself away from all your neighbor.
I think I'd rather have my eyes stuck with glue
So I won't have to look at you
When it comes to family friends, you ain't got none.
You're always gonna be called the lonely retarded one.
Who could ever love a face like yours.
not even your mother see's pass your gores
No need for privacy when you pee
Go ahead and take a leak and drown yourself in the sea.
Don't think for one second you are irresistible
Love making with a zombie is impossible.
Wouldn't you rather be dead?
maybe shoot yourself in the head
The time to kill yourself is at hand.
Slicing your wrist is what we recommend.
Cut your tongue off, don't want to hear you squeal.
Blood all over, your face is no big deal
A sword or machete will only pick up the pace
I wanna see your guts pop out your mid-waist
Contaminated objects is a must
Anything to remove your face of disgust.
The easy part is the best
Once you are gone we will all feel blessed,
The flaw of your existence
Is what keeps us all in distance
Wouldn't you rather be dead?
maybe shoot yourself in the head
Close your eyes and die
No one wants to hear you cry
You said you wanted to be loved
believe me~ you're better off unloved
I say do yourself off
Anyways you've always had it rough...
Go ahead and scream
This is not a dream
Now see how you make me feel
All I want is for you to end your ugly ordeal.
I will praise this day of course
Knowing soon you'll be a rotting corpse.
happy valentine ~ TO: All My DEADBEAT X-es from Texas.
Copyright © SKAT A | Year Posted 2012
Introducing: Nate & Linda
The smile on my lips
is forced and coerced
I pretend to pay attention
give the best possible advice
everyone praises me
I'm so kind, polite and nice
It's all just automation
I rarely actually listen
certainly don't care
all I'm doing
is playing human
blending in
fitting in
I'm so perfectly hidden
you'll never even
see a curtain,
from where I stand
Majoring in social events
Put on a pedestal
for computing with you
I'm so perfectly hidden
smiling from time to time
Labeling those
with all sincerity
open soldiery
Passing along an appeal
continuing to fit in
blend in
force program
Is it just me or
am I the perfect human?
~A Poet Destroyer Collaboration~
Copyright © Poet Destroyer A | Year Posted 2015
One look at you – that's all it took
Those long long legs that seem to go on forever
Those eyes staring at me
All I feel for you is revulsion
Hate – it's a horrible word but I simply detest you
There is no place for you in my life
So I flushed the spider down the plughole
26th March 2015
Copyright © JAN ALLISON | Year Posted 2015
No one wants to be left on the shelf for years
Guess you could say I've popped my cork
Now I'm fully mature with a rich full body
I could be described as a little fruity with a hint of spice
Please don't keep me bottled up
Just give me time to breathe
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Turkey so dry that I can't speak
Brussel sprouts boiled for a week
Roast potatoes burnt to a crisp
Lumpy gravy
I feel
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26th October
Inspired by Andrea's contest but not written for it!
Copyright © JAN ALLISON | Year Posted 2014
Just one look at you
Tempting me, teasing me, tormenting me
I hate the feelings you evoke
Just want to hold you, devour you
I don't want to see you go
But I can never resist the last chocolate in the box!
9th March 2015
Contest – Love or Hate – Pick a subject - Shadow Hamilton
I chose Love as my theme
~awarded 1st place~
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm up for a quickie
Do you fancy one too?
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The day started badly as I had a bat flattery on my vodge diper
It was roaring with pain when I arrived at the par cark at the mall
Went to put my bopping in the shoot and I turned into a bowel feast
I'd had a blushing crow… there was a rent in the dear
It had been hit by a bunken drum - I was mopping had!
He tried to apologise but was whiring his slords
I got out my phobile moan and a policeman cook my tall
He arrived at the mall in his canda par at the lead of spite
After my lad buck I went home to tell dumb and mad
Dad teased my ears, said I could use the buttle shush until it was mended
Contest: Spoonerisms Sponsored by Roy Jerden
Copyright © JAN ALLISON | Year Posted 2016
I once dated a pilot …
We both had our head in the clouds
Our relationship lead to a lot of turbulence -
I guess it never really got off the ground!
I once dated a glazier…
He thought I would be putty in his hands
But I could see right through him…
He was constantly smashed
I once dated a policeman
Oh he was an arresting sight
He wanted to take down my particulars…
But I threw the book at him
I once dated an undertaker…
He knew he had stiff competition
I couldn't cope as he was always 'coffin' and picked me up in his hearse
He had no sense of humour in fact he was dead boring
I once dated an angler
The thought he was a real catch…
But the scales soon fell from my eyes
As he was obsessed with his flies
I once dated a footballer
He thought he could score with me
Told me he had great tackle…
But it was just a load of balls
I once dated a fishmonger…
He thought he was cod's gift to women
He invited me back to his plaice…
Where I found out he was really a cold fish
Jan Allison
15th April 2016
Early in the mourning she rose
She wood fined her boat
Wear she rose across the see two the sure
Their she mustard all her mite
And toad the boat on the beech
Butt if the thyme was write she tide it two a boy
She could hardly weight
Four she nose she will sea her suite sun
They wood sit on a bolder, brake sum bred
Then they eight a hole pair
Her sun called her a deer
He tolled her when he urns enough doe
Ore got sum tacks witch was dew
He wood by her a flour at the bizarre
Witch could be tide in her hare
The cent of the rows wood bee sew sheikh
One knight he said she wood prophet
If she past buy a different root
He new the currant could get ruff
The whether was no longer fare and getting two chilli
She road away into the missed
Aisle meat ewe next weak he balled until he was horse
He trussed he wood see her next weak
Only Homo's 'Aloud' – Jerry T Curtis
23rd March 2015
~awarded 1st place
I met this cool dude called Jaffa
At the beginning he was so sweet to me
Sadly after a while he gave me the pip
In the end he ran out of juice and I had to squash him
Then I pulverised his flesh to a pulp
Contest: United Colours Orange Sponsored by Silent One
Yesterday my daughter e-mailed me again
asking why I didn't do something useful
with my time
Like sitting around the pool
drinking wine or something?
Talking about my "doing-something-useful"
seems to be her favorite topic
she suggested I go down to the Senior Center
and hang out with the gals
I did this but when I got home last night
I decided to play a prank on her
I e-mailed her and told her
that I had joined a Parachute Club
She replied, "Are you nuts?
You are 78 years old
and now you're going to start jumping out of planes?"
I told her that I even got a Membership Card
and e-mailed her a copy
She immediately telephoned me and yelled
"Good grief, Mom, where are your glasses?"
This is a Membership to a Prostitute Club
not a Parachute Club."
"Oh man, I'm in trouble again," I said,
"I really don't know what to do
I signed up for five jumps a week!!"
Contest Name: I really shoulda' read the fine print.
April 12, 2016
Copyright © Mystic Rose | Year Posted 2016
There you go again little Sly fox P.D.
Another game of tag and jeopardy.
Clever, clever, little fox so bloodthirsty.
Chaos roams through your veins of liberty.
You walk the ground, prancing around your hostility.
Marching down with the dignity of mis-guided anarchy.
I'm gonna hunt you smell end it well.
Hang you up from your trophy tail.
Kiss your night one last farewell.
By morning dawn your foxy tail,
Won't live another tale to tell.
I'm gonna find ya' ~ pull your hideout from where you hide.
Smack you around in your everyday rebellious ways.
Thinking you can defeat my crowd with your lawlessness..
I don't need no hounds to track your unlivable Holy-mess.
You created a selfish character of kindness for the blindness.
You prey on the sheep's and linger on their wall of hopelessness.
Your sinfulness grew from the boldness, and bitterness,
Of growing up parent-less.
My dear Sly Fox are you on alert with your ears of nobleness.
Did you not hear me creeping while you were sleeping.
Sly fox the destroyer!
You are right, you are a mischievous game of hunt!
My trap is set and waiting for you by the river front.
Go ahead, take a drink, pull one last obnoxious stunt.
Run and run, as fast as you can!
You can't out run this one game of Skitty Skat fox hunt.....
Copyright © SKAT A | Year Posted 2011
3 polished oak fans,
Swirling in robotic unison
High maintenance socialites,
Sipping on Merlot fallacies
Lemon yellow coated walls,
Like their smiles
Comparisons of dangling Porsche & Bentley keys
A glorified day care center,
Pacifiers included
The muted virtuosos speak softly in hymn dialects.
Courtesy laughter in snob's octave
Their heads twitching side to side,
Left to right to left
An equilibrium facing assault charges against self
They slow dance to cello dreams
And E minor dividends
Two-step monotone, sway
Against platinum lacquer foundations
But, it was then.
These same socialites,
Made of recycled candle wax
And rubberized, hedge-fund confidence,
Began to stare longingly at the party host's 70 inch plasma TV
Proudly imported from China
"Attention uptight snobs of Mecca!
The city zoo has imploded!
The monkeys revolted!
The zebras were tired of being racially profiled!
Run for your LIV…!"
And before the reporter's frightened inner child could finish's his clause,
An elephant crashes into the decadent room
Filled with Crisp linen scents of Febreze & judgmental fear
It stares at the socialites,
Laughing heartedly as it playfully stomps away into constellation's onyx night
As tears waterfall from the snobs' sobbing eye sockets
As if they just listened to another Celine Dion song
The real newsflash
Metaphors played hooky today
©Drake J. Eszes
Copyright © Drake Eszes | Year Posted 2013
They call her big Gina
You'd know if you seen her
She is a toilet cleaner
She wears a white smock
Armed with bucket and a mop
She likes to keep things clean
And is a real scrubber
If you know what I mean
She whistles as she goes
With disinfectant wafting under her nose
She replaces toilet rolls
And cleans the toilet bowls
She really loves her job
She has a cat called Doris
And a husband called Bob
Her job is dirty and often smelly
She has a tattoo of a toilet on her belly
At the end of the day
She puts her mop and bucket away
Goes home and has a shower
Then cleans the house within half an hour
Her husband makes her mad
Leaving the toilet seat up
She puts toilet water in his cup
Of tea to sup
She has a daughter called Pru
She dreams of being a toilet cleaner too
She doesn't care about the smell of poo
Just her dream comes true
We should all appreciate toilet cleaners
Just like big Gina.
''Warning! Toilet water in tea. please do not try at home.
could be dangerous and doesn't taste nice''.
Peter Dome.copyright.2014. Aug.
Copyright © Peter Dome | Year Posted 2014
Good morning World.
Damn you!
and your warm
sunray fingers
prying open my eyes.
Robbing me of my
nocturnal fantasies,
my semiconscious bliss.
Leaving the remnants
of my peace
and tranquillity
laying scattered across
my face and through
my hair.
Your rising light
shrinking the shadows
of my freedom.
I will not be seduced
by your clear blue promises.
For your pressing realities
already taste foul
in my mouth.
Leave me Morning
to my diminishing serenity.
I have performed this piece and it shows on you tube (I hope this works, if not try copying to your address bar):
Copyright © scott thirtyseven | Year Posted 2013
Anytime I feel hungry instead of eating a full meal I eat Honey.
The best part is that Honey doesn't mind, she's a sweetheart.
Maurice Yvonne
The Refrain
I bought a box of Animal Crackers.
On the box it said
"Do not eat if seal is broken"
So I opened the box.
I looked inside and sure enough...
The Encore
If a parsley farmer doesn't pay his bills
can they garnish his wages?
Closing Remarks
There is a new virus. It has no symptoms and no consequences.
I am terrified. It turns out I have been diagnosed with it.
I am not a hypochondriac. I really do have it. If you
don't believe me ask my Gynecologist!
Maurice Yvonne
Copyright © Maurice Yvonne | Year Posted 2014
Some folks call me a sausage dog
I think they couldn't be meaner
It's not my fault I'm long and short
And look like a misshapen wiener
I've got four stumpy little legs
So my tummy is near to the ground
My owner's take me for a drag not a walk
Guess that's why they named me Cigarette!
Contest: Dachshunds – Rob Carmack
~awarded 9th place~
A true story....
Well I lived in Sioux City for a little while
Another job site, hubby and I have covered some miles
While there, my mother in law came to visit
She drove Elvira, the biggest Buick ever made
No doubt about it!
I drove mom around to see the highlights
If you've been there, you know there's nothing but corn in sight
Suddenly the cars in front of us started to slow
Wondering which way around this pillow they needed to go
Well some went left and some went right
Some straddled over it and seemed alright
Mom said baby, it will be OK
Just drive right over it
Elvira won't notice anything in her way
I lined up perfectly and over we went
Thought I'd made it until visions were sent
Into the rear view mirror of down floating everywhere
And it wasn't pleasant!
I could see people on the sidewalks laughing, I pretended not to care
As millions of feathers floated through the air
Really embarrassed I drove on about one hundred feet
Then Elvira stopped dead right there in the street
Somehow the drive train had caught the cotton cover
Ripping it to shreds, wrapping it round and round so tight
Until it killed the engine dead
Now I know God works in mysterious ways
But He proved it for sure this very day
In a parking lot next to where Elvira had died
Was a complete race car driver's pit crew - no lie!
An 18 wheeler with trailer in tow
Guys dressed in uniforms, patches aglow
With traffic backing up behind us
They came over to see what was all the fuss
I said spitting feathers out of my mouth
I really don't know, I'm from down south
They opened their trailer and out came the jacks
Air hoses and tools, they got down on their backs
From under the car I heard laughter and jokes
They'd seen cars stopped by everything but a pillow!
Well I thanked them and shook each and every hand
They wouldn't accept money, said the entertainment was grand
I often wonder who they were and if they remember Elvira and the pillow in Iowa land....
©Donna Jones
Copyright © Donna Jones | Year Posted 2013
The fire brigade are on standby
With their hoses in their hand
For today it is my birthday
My birthday cake is on a stand
There are so many candles
It is a health and safety risk
So be ready with the hoses guys
And make sure you get here quick!
25th January 2015
Oh why oh why don't you clean your room
I wish I had heeded my mother's words
For I'm sure many a mother has said this to their child
But fate intervened and the dust still hasn't settled -
In fact I've not spoken to my mother for over a week
Last weekend I met the man of my dreams – James
Tall, dark and oh so handsome, like a young George Clooney
His number was etched in the thick layer of dust on the dresser
My mother took matters into her own hands
She decided to dust and tidy my room
His number is erased forever -
I have no way of contacting him
Guess I have learned a VERY valuable lesson
NEXT time I meet someone …
I will write his number in my diary!
25th February 2015
Fictional write for the Gathering Dust' Contest - John Lawless
Here's a short story of a cowboy I knew
Whose name was Beg Your Pardon.
He wasn't a gun slinger in the usual way,
Though his hands were fast
And his foots were faster.
But when Beg started shootin'
There was nuthin' but disaster.
No worries for Beg, he had none you see,
Since he wasn't a slinger in the usual way.
But his pappy got ugly
And yelled in his son's face,
"Until you can shoot
As the son of mine should,
I want you the h*** out of my place."
Beg had some tricks up his very long sleeves,
Coz he wasn't a slinger in the usual way.
He'd show his pappy his skill
There's no doubt about that.
Yet time was a-wasten
So Beg he did hasten,
But first he took off his hat.
He then wound up his body like a Kansas twister
And slung a cow pie in his usual way.
And broke every record
Did our cow pie ringer.
Since there was no one better,
Pappy exclaimed to his son,
"Beg Your Pardon, I beg your pardon
Heck, you're some kinda' slinger!"
For Wild Wild West Contest
Copyright © David Fisher | Year Posted 2013
"Baby, this view is fantastic,
Who knew what you could buy with plastic!
With these credit cards, unlimited funds,
Any regrets, heck no, baby I got none.
Riding on an interest rate of twenty percent,
Who cares, this is money well spent!"
Says the thief who stole my purse from the rest stop location,
One of the many tales of my no good, horrible road trip vacation.
Riding down I-seventy five, heading to Mackinaw Island for a getaway,
Me and my best boy beside me, taking an adventure, oh what a day.
Construction just north of Detroit, that scary van is stopped to our right.
Keeping my legs crossed, I might wet myself, will that be alright.
He gives me a smile with a crooked left tooth and a wave with two fingers
Push the gas pedal quick, the filthy dirty looks he is giving on me lingers.
Put the pedal to the metal and off we go, not slowing down for no one
Riding high in my seventy-three coupe de vile, the fun has just begun
Didn't see that State Trooper hiding behind that sign, just past Auburn Hills
Tried to out gun him with my 405, but he caught us just past the old mills
"Son you are in a heap of a mess, speeding like Ricky Bobby in Talladega
Two choices, let me have a spin with your gal or I'll haveta read you your
After twenty minutes, we sped off not even looking in the rear view mirror
Our vacation destination of Mackinaw Island was getting closer and clearer.
It was smooth sailing, so we thought, as the night was getting dark.
Find a hotel bed soon baby, we all are angst we missed our mark.
The sign said two miles to Holiday Inn, But it's already been nine.
Comin' up on us now is a big yellow Dead End road sign.
Down this dirt road we skimming across freshly grated dirt.
Could stop fast enough, deer crossing, don't worry none got hurt.
Baby this ride is exciting
That's what I'm supposed to be sayin'
But with my crosses on my neck,
All these issues, dang I'm just prayin'
Ridin' seventy five, with the wind in our hair.
I don't care how we do it, baby just get us there.
Finally arrived in Mackinaw City, getting ready to board Shepler's Ferry
The line was long, the lake waves were high, we were saying Hail Mary's
The winds picked up, the skies drew dark. a storm had come without warning
The ferry turned around, couldn't go there now, not until the next morning.
We stayed in a run down, worn out cabin on the edge of the great lakes
Wondering why these vacations always turn out to bring mistakes.
But then I look in your eyes and you look deeply into my mine.
And i know no matter where we go or what we do, everything turns out just
Vacation Humor Contest
Copyright © CT Duet | Year Posted 2014
I was older she was so young I was stupid
But I was helpless she flirted threw me a smile
Oh, poor me I melted that look
That long, black hair that perfume
Those eyes that perfect bod I was so lonely
No one understood me oh, poor me
Didn't like my job job paid so well though
Wife left me I started drinking
Smoked like a chimney watched porn
Had such fantasies why did she say yes?
Expensive dinner wasn't that good
And that necklace money getting short
She called me sugar daddy oh, poor me
She was such a flirt she loved all men
Age didn't matter she has a new car
I paid for it then I really was broke
Had to move sold everything she said, get lost
Lost my job flop house was bad
Cardboard box is worse oh, poor, poor me
Old women shun me dogs and cats shun me
Do I deserve this? Oh well
That roach wasn't bad no bones
Dave Austin
Copyright © daver austin | Year Posted 2014
He was lying there naked
Tempting me –
I wanted him oh so much
Finally I could take no more
I grabbed him mercilessly
Popped him in my mouth
I've never been able to resist eating Jelly Babies!
16th March 2015
Call me cynical
Has anyone else noticed …….
All of a sudden
The price of flowers and chocolates
Rockets skywards high towards heaven
Oh silly me its nearly Valentines Day!
12th February 2015
Weeding the
moonscape of my back
Truly, it's a big
Weeding the
moonscape of my back
My nerves shredding:
The concrete weeds,
I steal
myself for this task
I've delayed, I
admit, for cosmic
Bravely, finally, I
resolved and booked
one week's annual
leave -
To prepare, to
From this task that
may take up to two
I'm impelled to
Must I find the
to take on the
abysmal brat of
Fetch me a flask of
sports energy drink,
Complex sugar, I
think, my devotional
You see,
I write poetry, so
must I also do
Must I really stand
alone on that flat
dune of grey,
Pockmarked with such
monstrous green
The weeds, they are
almost thirty
centimetres, and
grimly rising!
I stare at them from
the window, I'm not
really crying.
Wouldn't you rather
I just wrote this
How many fresh dead
poets does the world
I'd like to be a
living tragic poet,
not one that weeds!
(That's too tragic,
even for me).
And, look over
there! See!
I might get bitten
by that bumblebee!
And I sneeze like a
banshee when near
Sometimes three
sneezed sneezes I
issue near weeds.
Yes, banshees do
Weeds are angry
wannabe baby trees,
I'm feeling quite
I'll already,
So ill, I've just
spelt it I'll.
Now that's I'll,
Sorry, ill.
Where's my quill?
I need to scroll the
Order some pills -
Those ones,
Exported from the
moon, made in
Those especial
potions you don't
require an ignoring
doctor to see,
I must have illegal
I'm a poet, it's my
job, silly!
And -
I. Don't. Do.
Wrestling. Weeds.
Yet, here I stand on
the precipice,
There they sway
taunting me,
The emerald streaked
posse of thorny
triffid pisse.
Well, here goes -
One small step for
man, maybe,
But one giant leap
for a poet such as
for more of my
humorous poetry just
google Suki Spangles
Copyright © Suki Spangles | Year Posted 2014
It never seems to amaze me
How stupid some people are
Whenever I am out
And take along my guitar.
''Is it a guitar'' people say
''No an ironing board''
I reply with dismay.
''Can you play it?''
''No I just carry it about for fun''
Even though it's a heavy one.
''Are they your dogs''
When out in town
''No'' I reply
''their someone else's
And I'm taking them back to get the ransomed money honey.''
After a while i's an annoyance and not that funny.
Peter Dome.copyright.2015. Oct.
Copyright © Peter Dome | Year Posted 2015
Gay Aliens
We are gay aliens
We come in peace
We traveled inconspicuously
to your world through intergalactic
pods or wombs
Our host who nurtured us
had the wisdom to know
that we were not like
other humans
Our hosts protected us
in our infancy
and from the men
who thought
they fathered us
These same men were
the first of many
to hate and hurt us
They called us names
like faggot and sissy
We the gay aliens
Who come in peace
Were confused
and hurt by their
but we still love them
We were falsely
accused of beguiling
drinking the blood
and mutilating animals and children
to propagate our race
But that is not our mission
We come in peace
Some of us did
not complete our
mission because
we prematurely
killed ourselves
Some of us did
not complete our
mission because
we internalize
the hate of the
world for us
We were drunken
from firewater
ingested too many small white pellets
screwed with no avail
We forgot
Who we were
And why we are here
We are the gay aliens
We are legions
Hidden among you
We are a gift to humanity
And we come in peace
Copyright © Mel Brake | Year Posted 2014
My room at the Hyatt
Smelled like my ex-wife
She didn't have oodles of class
Or wasn't overly fancy
So, it must be that aroma of
Almost masking what had
Taken place the night before
We greeted each other with
A welcoming suspicion
The bathroom lighting flawless
Standing in the mirror with
Perfect tan and bright white A
Khaki slacks pulled high and
Wise guy hair cut
I wonder if Capone ever went to see
The Cubbies play
Beautiful sunny day, not too warm
Plenty of room on the mezzanine
At Wrigley
A pleasantly safe distance from the
Big middle aged guys with
Some other man's name on their back ' s
Exhaling brat breath
And beer farts
the Windy City loves their team
Copyright © Brian Martin | Year Posted 2015


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Silvermist Leafsdawn, reporting!
Ding - 70! Anyee and I's project to get one character to 70 finally paid off. 900g later I'm flying around Tempest Keep to look at it. It's frickin huge. Flying controls are pretty self explanitory - jump key is now the ascend flight key, and if I want to land I just steer towards the ground. Unsummoning a flying mount while flying is possible... but the results are generally undesirable. (Squish!)
Flying 1
Flying 2
So - gear. I haven't found direct upgrades from my T2 on 6/8 slots. For hunters there's AP, Agi, int, spirit, chance to hit, chance to crit, and raw mana regen - all those stats are important. Almost all the drops and quest rewards fail to stand up to the stat power on my T2 gear. I replaced my ranged weapon (Rhok'delar/Lamina => Hemet's Elekk Gun/Smugglers), my boots, and my belt. So if you have full T2 gear, you are set through 70.
Along those lines, I was curious about the sets I could find of T4 and T5. I cannot see other class sets other than my hunter, but here's the hunter sets.
Hunter Tier 4: Helm, Shoulder, Chest, Gloves, Legs
Hunter Tier 5: Helm, Shoulder, Chest, Gloves, Legs
Hunter PVP set: Helm, Shoulder, Chest, Gloves, Legs
Endgame raiding you basically get an epic token off a boss and take it back to Shattrath for your reward. Each token is shared by like 3 classes. There was some talk of making it so that everyone gets the token, not just 1 person - but I'm not sure if they did that. Beta has basically died off - there's almost no one on, so finding a raid isn't as easy as using LFG anymore.
I levelled first in Hellfire and then Zangarmarsh - did every single quest there - got to like lvl 65/66 on that alone. Then skipped Terokkar (cause it didn't have many quests) and went to Nagrand. Nagrand had a ton of quests, and lasted me through like 67/68. Then I went and skipped Blade's Edge (not many quests, again) and went to Netherstorm where there were a ton of quests. I dinged 70 out questing in Netherstorm.
Here's a survey of the zones. Mind you I don't have access to my horde character so I can't check the horde posts, and there are just some places I still haven't explored, like Shadowmoon Valley and Blade's Edge.
Hellfire Peninsula (58-63)
* Note: This is where you arrive, through the Dark Portal. Magtheridon resides in his Lair in Hellfire Citadel.
Alliance: Honor Hold (FP), Temple of Tel'hamut (FP)
Horde: Thrallmar (FP), Falcon Watch (FP)
Dungeon: Hellfire Citadel (HC)
Hellfire Ramparts (Level 60, 5 man)
The Blood Furnace (Level 61, 5 man)
The Shattered Halls (Level 70, 5 man)
Magtheridon's Lair (Level 70, 25 man RAID)
Factions: Honor Hold (alliance), ?
Zangarmarsh (60-64)
* NOTE: Lady Vashj resides in the Serpentshrine Cavern of Coilfang.
Alliance: Telredor (FP), Orebor Harborage (no fp)
Horde: Swamprat Post ???, Zabra'jin???
Neutral: Cenarion Refuge (no fp), Sporeggar (no fp)
Dungeon: Coilfang Reservoir (CR)
The Slave Pens (Level 62, 5 man)
The Underbog (Level 63, 5 man)
The Steamvault (Level 70, 5 man)
Serpentshrine Cavern (Level 70, 25 man RAID)
Factions: Cenarian Expedition, Kurenei (alliance), Sporeggar, ?
Terokkar Forest (62-65)
* Note: Shattrath is the 'capitol city' of Outland. Set your hearthstone here.
Alliance: Allerian Stronghold (FP)
Horde: Stonebreaker Hold ???
Neutral: Shattrath City (FP)
Dungeon: Auchindoun (AUCH)
Mana-Tombs (Level 64, 5 man)
Auchenai Crypts (Level 65, 5 man)
Sethekk Halls (Level 66, 5 man)
Shadow Labyrinth (Level 70, 25 man RAID)
Factions: Scryers, Aldor, Sha'tar, Lower City, Consortium
Nagrand (64-67)
Alliance: Telaar (FP)
Horde: Garadar (FP)
Neutral: Aeris (no FP), Halaa (no FP)
Dungeon: None
Factions: Kurenei (alliance), ?
Blade's Edge Mountains (65-68)
Alliance: Sylvanaar (FP), Tashley's Station (FP)
Horde: Thunderlord Stronghold ???
Neutral: Gronn'bor Shrine ????
Dungeon: Gruul's Lair (GL) (Level 70, 25 man RAID)
Factions: Unknown
Shadowmoon Valley (67-70)
* Note: Illidan resides in the Black Temple. This is also the zone where you find flying mount trainers and vendors.
Alliance: Wildhammer Stronghold (FP), Shrine of the Sha'tar? (FP)
Horde: Shadowmoon Village (FP), ??? (FP)
Neutral: Ancient Dranei Base ???
Dungeon: Black Temple (BT) (Level 70, 25 man RAID)
Factions: Wildhammer, Scryer, Aldor, ?
Netherstorm (67-70)
* Note: Prince Kael'thas lies in The Eye of Tempest Keep.
Neutral: The Stormspire (FP), Area 52 (FP), Cosmowrench (FP)
Dungeon: Tempest Keep
The Mechanar (Level 69, 5 man)
The Botanica (Level 70, 5 man)
The Arcatraz (Level 70, 5 man)
The Eye (Level 70, 25 man RAID)
Factions: Sha'tar, Scryer, Aldor
Eversong Forest (1-10) (HORDE)
Horde: Silvermoon City (FP)
Dungeon: Unknown trollish dungeon - not complete.
Factions: Silvermoon City
Ghostlands (11-20) (HORDE)
Horde: Tranquilen (FP)
Dungeon: Zul'Aman - not complete. 10 or 25 man raid???
Factions: Tranquilen
Azuremyst Isle (1-10) (ALLIANCE)
Alliance: Exodar (FP)
Dungeon: None.
Factions: Exodar
Bloodmyst Isle (11-20) (ALLIANCE)
Alliance: Blood Watch (FP)
Dungeon: None.
Factions: Exodar
Other new instances
Caverns of Time (CoT)
Zone: Tanaris
Escape from Durnholde (Level 66, 5 man)
Opening the Dark Portal (Level 70, 5 man)
Battle of Mount Hyjal (Level 70, 25 man RAID)
* Note: Must be completed in order.
Factions: Scale of the Sands, Keepers of Time
Kharazan (KHA)
Zone: Deadwind Pass
Level 70, 10 man RAID
Factions: Unknown
With holidays and expansion arrival date fast approaching I'm not sure I'll write another Beta report. I have a bunch of stuff to do for work and other RL concerns. Amazon.com expects to deliver my reserved copies of the Collector's Edition of Burning Crusade on or the day after release, which is fine by me. I have no idea if I'll be able to level to 70 in 3 months on live, cause Ysera server sucks for groups. But it took me 3 months origonally to level from 1-60, so I suppose the rule is true that it takes you as long to go from 1-60 as 60-70.
I also went from like 100/200 gold to 1900 gold before I bought flying mount training, which knocked me back down to like 1100g. You really do make a lot of gold in the expansion, and good thing too. There are references to books and movies all over Outland, keep an eye out for them. There's a number of scripted 'events' and hidden nooks and crannies you can only reach by flying mount - Kil'jaeden isn't actually sitting on his throne, but all his guards are there, LVL71-73 elite demons. There are PVP objectives in many zones (haven't found any in the later-game zones, but the early zones all have them).
That's all I can think of to write for now.
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That all sounds super cool.
Along with Sylvaanar and Toshley's Station in Blade's Edge, there's Everglade which is a neutral Cenarion Expedition quest hub. It's located in Ruuan Weald.
I just hit 68 with my druid, flight form is really fun.
Beta really has died down, I barely see anyone LFG anymore.
I just hit 68 with my druid, flight form is really fun.
Beta really has died down, I barely see anyone LFG anymore.
I need to go explore Blade's Edge more! Wow, thanks! Is there an FP @ Everglade? I assume it's over there near Dragon's End - I see it on the FP to Netherstorm.
Yeah Beta is pretty dead. People came, saw, and left... and I'm still here reportin' bugs left and right.
Yeah Beta is pretty dead. People came, saw, and left... and I'm still here reportin' bugs left and right.
Yep, it has an FP. I'm currently questing there, I'll probably head to Netherstorm next.
Hopefully, the new invites Blizz sent out will give the beta a bit more life.
Hopefully, the new invites Blizz sent out will give the beta a bit more life.
I'd love to get one on my main account so I can run my hordeling around, but alas Blizz hates me.
I think Blizz hates my sister. She's been playing longer than I have, but I somehow received an invite, and she hasn't. I think it's hilarious, she doesn't.
So if you are on a non pvp server can you be in the contested areas without being flagged? (Is it like being on a pvp server or like being in the epl/sith?)
if your server is pve it's probably like being in epl / silithus. I doubt they'd force pvp conditions on pve servers.
I'm hoping so. I love to PVP but there are some times I just want to sit and fish. Really that's all I'm looking to do. Leave me be and let me fish and listen to music in peace.
The Beta server is PVE. I'm not flagged anywhere unless I flag myself up.


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Would You Believe?
Would You Believe?
McClelland & Stewart, Paperback, 9780771039492, 240pp.
Publication Date: September 1, 2000
A hundred years ago, most people accepted without question what their priest or rabbi or imam taught them about God, but many people today, educated to think for themselves, find that the concepts of God taught by the world's major religions either insult or contradict their intelligence. At the same time they find that having no faith has left a yawning spiritual void in their lives. In Would You Believe?, Tom Harpur deals with the tough questions raised today by real people, such as how to reconcile the presence of evil, pain and suffering with belief in a loving God.
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