this has been bugging me for quite some time. it's a "minor" detail, but i figure it's something the writers should have thought about.

( in case some of you haven't watched season 5 yet )

In 1934 someone at Warner Brothers came up with a bright idea. Why don’t we combine a comedy caper movie with a fashion show and an outrageous Busby Berkeley production number, with lots of almost-naked young women? We’ll cast William Powell in the lead. And since the movie is going to be so lightweight it’s just pure froth, who better to be his co-star than Bette Davis? Thus was Fashions of 1934 born.

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Last night I finally had a dream that I remembered enough of to post here, AND it was weird enough to post here, AND it wasn't at all Super Mario World-related (I figured some of you guys might have gotten tired of hearing about my SMW dreams, since I posted so many of them).

The only part of my dream I could completely remember was that LiveJournal had a glitch where if you tried to comment anonymously on an entry, it would log you in as the owner of the journal you commented in and attribute your comment to that person without asking for their password or anything. I only used the glitch twice in the dream, both times by accident. One person replied to a comment I left her like that, saying, "Ha okay, I'm mad". That's kinda weird, because if someone 1 was mad about someone 2 using someone 1's account to comment in someone 1's journal, someone 1 normally wouldn't say "ha okay" first.

Also, the glitch really scared me in the dream. In fact, I was probably the most scared I've ever been in a dream, so I guess it's a good thing I never got to see what happens if you comment in a community anonymously with that glitch.

Any thoughts?

Sorry, chrisondra, for stepping on your toes, but since there is a Thursday game, we need to get the ball rolling on this...

Thursday
NY Jets vs. Buffalo (@ Toronto)

Sunday
St. Louis @ Chicago
New England @ Miami
Philadelphia @ Atlanta
New Orleans @ Washington
Tennessee @ Indianapolis
Oakland @ Pittsburgh
Denver @ Kansas City
Tampa Bay @ Carolina
Detroit @ Cincinnati
Houston @ Jacksonville
San Diego @ Cleveland
Dallas @ NY Giants
San Francisco @ Seattle
Minnesota @ Arizona

Monday
Baltimore @ Green Bay

I just got a very excited phone call from my mother saying "So I was flipping through People Magazine today at work, and guess whose ad I saw, right at the beginning?"

At first I had no idea what she was talking about, because she gave me absolutely no context. So I had to think for a moment about what I who I would possibly care about seeing in an ad in People. Then it clicked. Nicole.

Apparently they are running a full page covergirl ad with her in this weeks People. My mom said it's gorgeous. Have they done this before? I don't remember ever actually seeing any print ads for covergirl featuring any of the previous winners, especially in something as well known as People. Just the "My Life as a Covergirl" spots and back cover of Seventeen magazine.

I think I am going to go out to the grocery store and pick up this week's people, so I can scan in the ad.

I figured since I typed this out I might as well include some pictures. I feel like we might have seen some of these before, but I'm not sure. I assume if we have, they'll at least be new to some people.

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...in fact it very likely is...

...but has anyone ever wondered why they chose the color scheme for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that they did? I mean they all originally had red bands on their heads. I'm less concerned about why that was changed, probably to make it simpler for little kids, but why they chose which colors they did for each turtle.

Why do you think that Don got purple, Mike got orange, Leo got blue, and only Raph got to keep the original red?

So, there's a special episode next week! I'm terribly excited.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

( We're just going by the short synopsis, the rest is going to be pure speculation. Spoiler warning ahoy! )

ETA: What do you think the names of Lynette's twins will be?

( ETA:The Millionth - I found a video. Rofl. )

EDIT: added one candid of Rachel

( ...i think you lost what you loved in that mess of details... )

Favre has 488 TD passes as I write this. Five games to go. It's do-able.

Somehow, I think that December 20 Sunday nighter (Vikings at Carolina) stays where it is.

When: December 16th, 2009, 8:00 p.m. (doors are at 7:00 p.m.)

Where: Xscape Lounge, 814 W. Grace Street, Richmond, VA

What: Winter Wonderland!

Cost: $15

Carnal Carnival's very first, full-length production will not only feature the lovely dancing girls you've come to expect from us, but several new variety performers who will delight and astound.

Bring canned goods to be donated to the Central Virginia Food Bank and get $2 off your ticket price! Please visit their website for an up-to-date list of foods they urgently need.

WORT DES TAGES
(jemanden) anschießen (v.t.) - to shoot and wound (someone), to shoot at, to zero in [mil.]
Principal Parts: anschießen, schoss an, angeschossen

Der US-Vizepräsident schoss bei der Jagd in Texas versehentlich einen Mann an. - The U.S. vice-president accidentally shot and wounded a man while hunting in Texas.

Er hat in der letzten Minute ein Tor geschossen. - He scored a goal at the last minute.

Diese Frau hat letzten Freitag ihren Ehemann erschossen. - This woman shot her husband last Friday.

Related:
schießen - shoot [gun, goal, etc.]
erschießen - to shoot dead
beschießen - to fire at, aim at
der Schuß - shot
der Mord - murder
die Waffe - weapon
die Schußwaffe - gun

NOTE: For certain German verbs the inseparable prefix er- conveys the meaning of "to death" or "dead." Examples~

stechen = stab | erstechen = stab to death
trinken = drink | ertrinken = drown ("drink to death")

Strength-of-schedule comparisons:

Right hurr.

Easiest NFC schedule: Minnesota (followed CLOSELY by New Orleans)
Easiest AFC schedule: Cincinnati
Hardest NFC schedule: St. Louis
Hardest AFC schedule: Baltimore, Houston (tie)
Bad teams with easy schedules: Buffalo, Washington
Good teams with hard schedules: NY Giants, New England, Baltimore, Denver

The Knights Carbonic

Yes, the hacked climate emails are damaging. But here’s the one you’d need to see if you wanted to show that manmade global warming is a scam.

...
"Gentlemen, the culmination of our great plan approaches fast. What the Master called “the ordering of men’s affairs by a transcendent world state, ordained by God and answerable to no man”, which we now know as Communist World Government, advances towards its climax at Copenhagen. For 185 years since the Master, known to the laity as Joseph Fourier, launched his scheme for world domination, the entire physical science community has been working towards this moment.

The early phases of the plan worked magnificently. First the Master’s initial thesis - that the release of infrared radiation is delayed by the atmosphere - had to be accepted by the scientific establishment. I will not bother you with details of the gold paid, the threats made and the blood spilt to achieve this end. But the result was the elimination of the naysayers and the disgrace or incarceration of the Master’s rivals. Within 35 years the 3rd Warden of the Grand Temple of the Knights Carbonic (our revered prophet John Tyndall) was able to “demonstrate” the Master’s thesis. Our control of physical science was by then so tight that no major objections were sustained.

More resistence was encountered (and swiftly despatched) when we sought to install the 6th Warden (Svante Arrhenius) first as professor of physics at Stockholm University, then as rector. From this position he was able to project the Master’s second grand law - that the infrared radiation trapped in a planet’s atmosphere increases in line with the quantity of carbon dioxide the atmosphere contains. He and his followers (led by the Junior Warden Max Planck) were then able to adapt the entire canon of physical and chemical science to sustain the second law.

Then began the most hazardous task of all: our attempt to control the instrumental record. Securing the consent of the scientific establishment was a simple matter. But thermometers had by then become widely available, and amateur meteorologists were making their own readings. We needed to show a steady rise as industrialisation proceeded, but some of these unfortunates had other ideas. The global co-option of police and coroners required unprecedented resources, but so far we have been able to cover our tracks.

The over-enthusiasm of certain of the Knights Carbonic in 1998 was most regrettable. The high reading in that year has proved impossibly costly to sustain. Those of our enemies who have yet to be silenced maintain that the lower temperatures after that date provide evidence of global cooling, even though we have ensured that eight of the ten warmest years since 1850 have occurred since 2001(10). From now on we will engineer a smoother progression."

It smells like victory.

There is very little that can improve a terrible season more than thoroughly squishing the fish, and Sunday was no exception. Obviously T.O. doing Joey Porter's little gay dance after scoring a 51 yard TD was utterly classless, and I loved every second of it.

So, onwards and upwards. At least for the Browns, as the fact that they lost by 9 to the Bengals while St Louis lost by 10 to the Seahawks was enough to ease the Brownies off the bottom rung of the ladder. With that in mind, it's on to this week's totally scientific power rankings.

1. New Orleans
2. Indianapolis
3. Minnesota
4. New England
5. San Diego
6. Cincinnati
7. Dallas
8. Baltimore
9. Pittsburgh
10. Denver
11. Arizona
12. Green Bay
13. Philadelphia
14. Atlanta
15. New York G
16. Miami
17. New York J
18. Houston
19. San Francisco
20. Tennessee
21. Chicago
22. Seattle
23. Jacksonville
24. Carolina
25. Buffalo
26. Kansas City
27. Washington
28. Oakland
29. Detroit
30. Tampa Bay
31. Cleveland
32. St Louis

There are no (other) reasons. Just the facts.