A Yakov Smirnoff performance at Dangerfield's (late 70s-early 80s?)
That guy is SOOO cute!
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Woke up to many inches of snow this morning.
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This is for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) annaeppy, who was unaware that we in the United States are not required to carry health insurance ~
~ even though, ironically, those of us with vehicles are obligated to purchase auto insurance. Priorities screwed much?
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To say thanks for the support, under the cut is a link to one of my fave old Brian spams I posted on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) beatlepics in November of 2005:
( LJ cut to a large pic from Brian's own pre-Beatles scrapbook ~ which, when clicked, will take you to that post )
This has also been posted earlier, in more detail, in a friends-locked post.
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Alas, my shin/knee is all black & blue from the clumsy Tgiving night falldown. Almost couldn't get out of the car at Meijers today LOL~ feeling like a bad muscle pull. I think the cold weather has a LOT to do with it hurting worse *chugs tylenol* |
Happy Birthday Jon Stewart ~
~ the big silly. Always alluding to his age, looking all gray and shit.
Jon Stewart = 11 years younger than me! LOL
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Got 3 hours of sleep last night.
Had to get up and stay awake for the return of my car, which fortunately needed less work than was originally planned (the back brakes were fine). So I saved like $50.
He was concerned that the "Service Engine Soon" light comes on from time to time (that was determined years ago to be the fault of the light itself, LOL), also that the thermostat needle is broken so I never know if I'm overheating (oh well), but especially that the engine idle is set so high that you rarely have to push on the accelerator ~ and it kinda roars at you a bit when you're slowing down. This is hard on the brakes, of course, and uses a little more gas. But I drive so very little that I'm not going to worry about it.
As I recall, there's a reason the idle has to be so high. I think (five or so years ago) when the original engine died, the junkyard engine they replaced it with wouldn't stay running and just kept shutting off. Kicking the idle up permanently solved that problem.
Being a Saturn, the car still looks nice on the outside (it's not metal, so it doesn't rust). I really still like it.  If I HAD to replace it, and I had bunches of money, I would really really really love to have a Mini Cooper!
 MINI COOPER
I've never bought a USED car before ~ damn, why buy someone else's problems? If there were no problem, they wouldn't have gotten rid of it in the first place ~ but for a Mini I would buy "pre-owned"... Especially if it were a Radford Mini from Brydor Cars! http://www.askmen.com/top_10/cars/top-10-beatles-rides_1p.html
Okay, time to go back to bed. I'm just sooo absolutely out of it right now!
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One of the world's shortest questionnaires, as answered by Michael Wex, author of Born To Kvetch and
How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck)
What’s your favorite quotation?
“Are you coming out of that bathroom sometime today?” (My father)
What’s the best single piece of advice about writing that you’ve ever gotten?
Get a big wastebasket and don’t be afraid to use it (I read this in an interview with Isaac Bashevis Singer).
What would you say are the best and worst aspects of the job?
The best aspect is being able to spend all day writing; the worst, the fact that you have to spend all day writing—it’s rewarding, but it’s never easy.
What would you be doing if you weren’t a writer?
Teaching English literature or working in comedy clubs (both of which I used to do).
And this was, in its entirety, Michael Wex's author questionnaire that he completed for the Jewish Book Council
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This page by David Thorne is really funny.
It takes a bit of patience to get through it at the start, but it gets better and better.
And it's for real.
It's like Twitter. Except we charge people to use it.
First read about the guy named Simon Edhouse, the bit under the pic of the guy. Then go on to the numerous emails between David and Simon.
Nov. 27th, 2009 @ 09:19 pm
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| » Ha! It's true! I *DO* hurt more than you! ;P |
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 OMFG!
I have often wondered about this.
Always wondered whether something was seriously wrong with me mentally, because I get more freaked out by pain than everyone else ~ and in response, people (even doctors) copped the "all in your head" attitude with me. And now they do it with Stephy. I thought she was just unfortunately following my example, which I tried to hide.
Well, folks, I am vindicated. There is indeed a reason for my apparent wussiness: From The New York Times, August 8, 2009
By Tara Parker-Pope
Nobody likes going to the dentist, but redheads may have good reason ( A growing body of research shows... )
(Lots of good comments from readers following that article, too.)
Nov. 27th, 2009 @ 05:51 pm
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After we got home from T'giving at my sister's, I lost my balance trying to dash out of the garage, in the rain, carrying things from the T'giving dinner ~ fell and landed hard on my knees.
My left knee was extremely painful, so I laid there motionless on my purse, getting rained upon, merrily soaking in a cold puddle ~ all pissed-off, mad and angry (redundant much?) for what seemed like 5 minutes ~ while a worried poor Stephy carried our stuff across the parking lot and into the apartment, then came back to help me. I was really scared to get up for fear my knee was broken (sure felt like it). Eventually we made it inside. I took off my muddy clothes and spent a few hours with the puffed-up discolored knee packed in ice.
It's still tender and a bit swollen today, but not too bad! *sweat drop*
Heh. A medical bill is just what we would need on top of everything else.
Nov. 27th, 2009 @ 01:50 am
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| » Sunday Sermon ~ The God Gene |
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Convince a lot of people of something and you can get things done.
Convince a lot of gullible people that they should make more gullible people
and you’ve got a religious movement
The evolution of religion
( A look at the origins of religion )
For believers, it may seem threatening to think that the mind has been shaped to believe in gods,
since the actual existence of the divine may then seem less likely.
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Nov. 22nd, 2009 @ 09:39 pm
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Nov. 21st, 2009 @ 09:43 pm
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| » Late Shabbat Shmooze ~ BOOM! GEVALT! Yiddish! |
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The phrase "BOOM! GEVALT!" is copyright ©this Oct 2006 post:
Another Typical Morning With Stephy ~~ Breakfast Ninjas and the Dyslexic Jewish Robot
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Thanks to its frequent coupling with oy, gevalt (sometimes transliterated as gevald, which reflects Yiddish spelling rather than pronunciation) is among the most popular words in Yiddish. Oy gevalt can mean anything from “Heavens above” to “Oh, damn,” “Fantastic,” “Far freakin’ out,” or “I’m about to reach a climax,” and is probably second only to oy vey as the Yiddish phrase best-known to people who don’t speak the language. I still treasure the memory of a friend shaking his head in wonderment and yelling, “Gevalt, Jimi!” after a particularly blistering solo at a 1968 Hendrix concert.
Gevalt itself means “force” or “violence”; something done mit gevalt is done violently or with force. Gevalt comes to mean “a cry for help,” “a scream,” and also becomes the actual word for “cry for help.” Someone yelling “Gevalt” can be taken as hollering “Scream!” somewhat like a character in a highly self-conscious comic; to go one step further, though, and say gevalt geshrign, “gevalt has been screamed; a hue and cry is being raised” is to cross over to either the prissiness of “land sakes” or the slight vulgarity of “Jesus H. Christ.”
The adjective gevaldik means “vast, mighty, powerful”; it’s in frequent use in Orthodox English to mean “great, fantastic, excellent”: “she gave a gevaldik talk on the need for increased modesty.” “He’s a gevaldik cook.”
This article originally appeared in The Jewish Week.
Nov. 21st, 2009 @ 07:44 pm
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 ( A growing TV cover-up: Obnoxious pop-up promos )
...almost any viewer can cite annoying instances where a pop-up ad has upstaged a show's dramatic climax or obscured vital on-screen information.
Viewers hate the detective hero of "Monk" rising from the bottom left screen for eight or nine seconds of vamping, followed by a ghostly but distracting text line that looms for several long minutes to accommodate even the slowest readers: "Monk All New Tonight 9/8c."
The USA network's motto is "Characters Welcome." Well, that "Monk" message adds up to 21 characters, none of them welcome.( . )
( Here's that great Family Guy parody of TV popup ads )
Nov. 20th, 2009 @ 05:40 am
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“If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?” - Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue" (pg. 133)
I wonder if any vegans were persuaded by her thesis.
She is aware that humans are made of meat too, right?
Read the COMMENTS from the blog! :)
Nov. 19th, 2009 @ 09:45 pm
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Even though I think NO politicians are in it for purely altruistic reasons
(they'd never survive in the "business" that way)
this one makes me smile:
 Dear Christine,
Today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the Senate version of the health insurance reform bill. The bill was merged from the bills passed by the Senate Health Committee and the Senate Finance Committee.
I have posted the new bill, as well as several supporting documents, on my website: http://stabenow.senate.gov/healthcare.
I want to thank you for sharing your thoughts with me throughout this process. Over the next several weeks, we will be working to make improvements and finalize the bill. At the end of this process, I hope to support legislation that stops unfair practices by insurance companies, makes health care affordable for families and small businesses, and protects Medicare for years to come.
As always, please continue to keep me informed about issues of concern to you and your family.
Sincerely,
Debbie Stabenow
United States Senator
Nov. 19th, 2009 @ 05:54 pm
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Little British boy says:
Oh my goodness, dad, look! They have books on dating.
How to Date? is probably like, "Don't take her to McDonald's!"
--overheard in a Barnes & Noble
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Nov. 18th, 2009 @ 06:57 pm
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I love how Eppy's squinting at George ~
as if he's relaying telepathic messages ~
Under the cut is a YouTubed Beatle vid from 1966 ~ the year we saw 'em in person,
from a distance and in back of 'em. ( (We had a great view of Starkey butt ~ but I digress...) )
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Nov. 16th, 2009 @ 06:56 pm
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