I am going to let you all in on a bevy of marvelous secrets. This is about a community that is fairly well-known; let's just say it has a gimmick that involves the number of words you are allowed to write in a given post.

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In short: individual callouts would be far, far too time consuming for each individual person who deserves it in this fairly well-known community. Just stop it. Stop being bad. Is that so much to ask?

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Five more British soldiers have died in Afghanistan, taking the UK death toll higher than in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence says.

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Hundreds of people are evacuated from a British Airways jet in Phoenix in the US after the cabin fills with fumes.

The Year in "I'm Not Here to Make Friends!"      

A year ago today, I posted my supercut of people saying various iterations of "I'm not here to make friends" over and over and over again on reality TV. So much has changed since then -- Obama became president, the sinking economy went belly up, Sarah Palin became queen of her own ass, then sank, then went belly up, etc. And yet, as the video above (containing examples of my most favorite of televised cliches that have been uttered in the time since the first video) proves, they've also stayed much the same.

Original video is below, in case you don't know what I'm talking about.


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Well, it's Saturday where I'm sittin', so the winner of last week's (and the last) TAL giveaway is aislingeach, who guessed 51 (the correct number was 52). aislingeach, send your mailing address to peroshenka [at] gmail [dot] com and I'll pop that in the mail for you. :)

As a wrap-up, thank you to everyone who participated in the contest - I hope you all had as much fun as I did! I know the "weekly" bit got rather sporadic there but I did my best to stay on schedule. :) Winners, enjoy the spoils of chance; non-winners - well, let's face it, I'm not sure I can get through the 14 bottles of BPAL that I own, since it takes me 3 months to go through just 1 bottle. Maybe down the road I'll have another contest. ;)

Again, thanks so much to everybody for playing! I hope y'all enjoyed it and that those who didn't win can pick up something special from one of these lovely fairies that have popped up all over the place. :D Happy sniffing, everyone! ♥

Staples decided to put an Acer laptop in the sales ad, along with a note that each store was guaranteed to have a minimum of 10, for 299. Well, this is a suck for another community, but...we had -0-. Only three stores in our district have any.

We managed to find some, by crawling through the AS/400, from a store that had enough to order from. From Michigan. We ordered 4 from Michigan, with forms printed out. People could buy and just get called to come get it when we received them. One sold monday, one sold tuesday, and one sold wednesday. We got them on...thursday. When the last one sold.

That's enough story.

Dear Ma'am who called Tuesday,

Why yes, we -do- have them in our system, as our other store was more than happy to tell you and have you call us yourself instead of calling us themselves (again, another comm...). Yes, we're selling them. However...I will not hold one for you until friday. Yes, I know this means that you'd have to make two trips to get one. However, I don't give a damn. If you want it, you'll make the drive or ask your nearest store to find you one from outside of our district. Wanna know why I'm not holding it for you, and this I told you on the phone? Because you -might- come in on Friday, yet it's a guarantee that we -will- have at least four people come in to buy it prior. Which happened. Keeping me on the phone for 30 minutes arguing, whining, and pleading? Not going to work. Either come to pay now, and then come again when they arrive, or leave me alone.

Now, for the rest of this post? Just re-read that paragraph, as she called back, and again kept me on the line for 30 minutes trying to get us to do something we already said we wouldn't, instead of asking her local store to find her one (which she said on second call that she didn't feel she needed to).

Hilary and Mike were spotted by the shutterbugs strolling around Hilary’s neighborhood, on friday. The couple took a walk after having their breakfast.
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Paris Hilton repeatedly fussed with her hair and makeup in a federal courtroom Friday, sported six-inch stiletto heels and a black dress and amused the judge with a little wave on the way to the witness stand. Once on the stand, though, Hilton was businesslike when it came to defending herself against an $8 million lawsuit's claim that she didn't do her part to promote the 2006 box-office bomb "Pledge This!" She acknowledged in court the movie didn't turn out very well but insisted she plugged it for everything she was worth.

The trial is being heard by Chief U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno, who reacted with surprise when Hilton gave him a little wave before testifying. "I've never had a witness wave at me before," the judge cracked.

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lolololol "you're my best judge forever"

*sigh* Almost had a paper and a chicken egg tonight. If I had just reacted a a bit quicker... ah well. Two cave eggs, two bred.

( Four eggs )

Veronika is the first ballerina to ever appear on the Late Show!  




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( 1 hatchling and 4 eggs! )

Thanks for the clickehs! :D

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that the United States was now seeking “amnesty” for two American journalists imprisoned in North Korea, a remark that suggests that the Obama administration was admitting the women’s culpability in a bid to secure their freedom.
 
“The two journalists and their families have expressed great remorse for this incident, and I think everyone is very sorry that it happened,” Mrs. Clinton said Friday morning during a wide-ranging question-and-answer session with State Department employees. “What we hope for now is that these two young women would be granted amnesty through the North Korean system and be allowed to return home to their families as soon as possible.”

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From what I understand, people submit their own photos to (NSFW!!!)GuysWithiPhones.com, on the 4th of July, there were 3 men posing in the same bathroom (3 shirtless, one bum) within 45 minutes of each other around 10am.



( It's just a dude bent over, no peen, but still NSFW )

Individual potentially NSFW source pages: Stipe, Rentboy, Dozol, Ass-shot


Would you publicize that you had a 3-way if you were famous? What about admitting that you cruise a sleazy website like GuysWithiPhones? Oh, and that awful waste of space Jonathan Jaxson posted a few clothed pictures of himself (here is one) -- nothing quite as bad as that horrible masturbation video he did to try and seduce He Who Shall Not Be Named

HUGE suck / wtf :

I went up to a suite this morning to drop off and arrange a "welcome package" (little kits I put together for people who move into our apartments) on the kitchen counter as the man I rented it to was coming in in the afternoon to do his move in inspection, etc. Anyway, I also walk through and make sure everything is in tip top shape before they move in.
So I was opening the patio door to make sure the doors weren't sticking, and guess what I saw on the patio?

Not one, but two big piles of shit. And here's the kicker - it was human.

Who the FUCK takes a shit on someone's patio?

So. Gross.
And I had to clean it up, as well.

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The president of The Valley Swim Club on Friday strongly denied charges of racism after his club canceled the swimming privileges of a nearby day care center whose children are predominantly African-American.

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( a perfect rainbow never seemed so dull... )

Okay so first, Georges Laraque is a Canadian hockey player. He currently plays for the the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League. This beautiful man is of Haitian descent and is frequently involved in volunteering in his community.

Georges was a long-time vegetarian and recently announced that he has gone vegan ! Last month, he took to his blog and wrote ::

......I am pleased to announce that as of today I am officially a vegan. I am grateful for the hundreds of emails I received from vegetarians and vegans showing their support and sharing tips. As this is a all new for me, I invite you to continue sharing your experiences with me. A special thanks to the Montreal Vegetarian Association for their support.

Finally, I decided to invest time in supporting animal rights. I have already joined various animal rights organizations. I feel it is important to help the living creatures that don’t have a voice to defend themselves. I believe that we should all, especially public figures, raise awareness for this cause......

So, to celebrate his new life of being a vegan, he took a trip to his local Burger King KFC (Ooops. I had BK on the mind because I ate that for dinner) and ordered a chicken sandwich.......a vegan chicken sandwich ! (Although I really hope the chefs use separate grills and equipment. That would defeat the purpose of a vegan sandwich.)

Georges is pictured at the top of this post with the delicious Burger King KFC sandwich. He looks so hot !

And pictured below is the sandwich in question. It looks yummy ! I want to move back to Canada so I can try this.



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ONTD POLL ::
( What are your favorite fast food type restaurants to eat at ?? )

This one is almost a year old at this point, but it's so long and crazy that I've been putting off writing it forevarr.

I'm a waitress at in a (5!!) college town at a sweetass little all-night diner.

Last summer a worked ever Sunday overnight. These shifts were slow and mostly uneventful, but I do still have this sweet gem.

For a month or so, we had this guy who was a bit of a regular. He'd come in and sit at the counter and ask us to charge his phone which we would (grudgingly) let him do because it was so slow. He talked to us a lot, even when we were trying to get stuff done for other tables, but it was a small and harmless annoyance. He was always super nice and one time when I accidentally gave him the wrong meat on his sandwich (it was some kind of strange reuben hybrid with turkey and roast beef...or maybe corned beef and roast beef? who knows) he was happy or impressed or something that I took responsibility for my mistake and didn't blame it on the cook. In all of our random chatting, he found out that I had moved out of my parents house when I was 15 and found a new family of my own, basically. He thought that was pretty cool and radical and brave and whatnot, because the next time he came in, he came with some other woman that he wanted me to talk to about it? (???!!)

( Cut to script for regulars gone batshit crazy. )

Idea taken from t-shirt purchased for my best friend at the New Orleans Zoo.*


*Only it had a 'gator on it.

I have one hatchling and one egg in need of clicks. Thanks in advance, and I'm off to do some clicking of my own...

( Hatchling & Egg! )

( Clickity please! )

*off to ninja click*

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I came upon a recipe for a banana strawberry cream pie that was healthier than the usual heavy custard. It has milk instead of cream which lightened it up considerably. It was absolutely delicious.

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Hey, Pornies.

This may be the opposite of food porn, but I thought y'all would know best.

What if I *just* got home from the grocery store, cut into my delicious cucumber, and noticed that around the seeds, there was a strong orangish hue? It smells fine, looks fresh and ripe. But orange. Orangish.

Am I probably not going to die? I really hate returning produce, and even more hate not eating the delicious cucumber and tomato sandwich I'm about to enjoy (or die from).

Thanks!