Make A Random Statement About Something Nobody Should Care About

[LilCerberus]

If butterflys are free, does that mean cockroaches are trapped under your sink?

Yes, I often wonder what pigeons & rats & roaches did before there where houses & cities...

[ER]

At my house we think Halloween is too awesome to be contained in a single evening, so make all of October build toward it, with that last week transformed into a sort of Halloweenakkah, eight nights worth of the good stuff! Parties, costumes, making candles, night walks on a woods trails, scary movies, trick or treating, flesh sacrifices to the Master, its all there.

[Paquita]

At my house we think Halloween is too awesome to be contained in a single evening, so make all of October build toward it, with that last week transformed into a sort of Halloweenakkah, eight nights worth of the good stuff! Parties, costumes, making candles, night walks on a woods trails, scary movies, trick or treating, flesh sacrifices to the Master, its all there.

We celebrate Halloween all month too!  Though, we're probably not as organized about it as you seem to be.  I like to extend it into the first week of November.  It always makes me sad how there's so much build up then a day or two after Halloween, sometimes it's like it never happened.  I like it to stick around and cuddle for a few more days.

[indianasmith]

You guys make me wish I had a social life. 

[Flangepart]

You guys make me wish I had a social life. 

You do, mein Friend...well, ANTIsocial life, but hey...

[LilCerberus]

You guys make me wish I had a social life. 

This evening, I went to an AICP/VPA networking event meant to connect advertisers & agencies with film makers & studios...
Mixed like sheep & cattle, and of course, neither has any use for a part time board operator at an all volunteer low power radio station.
I haven't felt like this big of a freak since junior high school.

[indianasmith]

Over the years, I have done best to teach myself to be tolerant of people of all races, colors, and creeds.
But . . . I just don't think human beings are supposed to be ORANGE!    #donaldtrumpisaspacealien

[ER]

Doubtless we've all asked why it is ghosts are seen wearing clothes, when logically it'd seem ghosts would be naked, right? Old topic.

So to take that further, it might seem clothes have spirits and can enjoy an afterlife. Obviously, right? I mean they're always on ghosts. QED they survive death.

So to take it one step farther STILL, why do clothes need humans attached to them to be a ghost? Why can't clothes themselves haunt locations? Hmm? Think about it.

Remember that pair of jeans you threw away eleventh grade because they got bleach spilled on them? They might be floating around in the ethyr, watching, waiting, making random appearances and scaring onlookers. I bet it's only a matter of time till someone encounters a full "non-bodied apparition" of an old dead shirt or a single sock that met a tragic end. (And we won't even talk haunted condoms!!) It's only logical after all.

Anyone care to share stories of an encounter with a departed fabric item? I truly think this is the next great field of paranormal research just waiting to happen!

[ER]

Skipping Krav Maga tonight, and in a bit I'm going to talk about Kiva micro loans to someone I know. I have been involved with funding Kiva's micro-loan program for a decade, and it's not a scam and I think it does a lot of good on a person to person basis.

If anyone ever has some spare change and wants to use it for a good cause, you eventually get your investment back:


https://www.kiva.org/

[indianasmith]

ER is a veritable fountain of good ideas on this thread!!! 

[LilCerberus]

The school I went to failed under the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND act a couple of times, & the last four years, test scores haven't been up to standards, and a PTA member was recently indicted for embezzlement....

I wonder if I'd have a case for one of those frivolous lawsuits...

Reap what ya' sew...

[ER]

Sometimes my husband is as moody as a teenage girl. I suggested he take up drug addiction to give himself something to do with his spare time in the fortnight he has off while he waits for his crew to get back from vacation, but he says he'd rather watch his fingernails grow. (I pointed out that there are certain drugs that'd make that more interesting, still pushing the addiction route because I figured when he "overcame" the drug there was a book deal somewhere in there, but no he's Mr. Good Clean Living.) I rooted around the attic til I found this old box of tapes of Jack Benny radio shows my grandma used to have and gave them to him to listen to, and he said if I was making some point it was lost on him. I said there was no subtext, it is a good show, kill some time with it. He said didn't I get it, he wanted to be active not kill time. I said, "Oh, active, why didn't you say so?" And I wrote out this list of all this stuff that needs to be done around the house. And you know what? He glared at me. Moody, I tell you...

[ER]

Tornado warning tonight. Blah.

[Rev. Powell]

Tornado warning tonight. Blah.

The worst part about tornado warnings is how the local weathermen can barely hide their glee at getting to pre-empt "Judge Judy."

[ER]

Tornado warning tonight. Blah.

The worst part about tornado warnings is how the local weathermen can barely hide their glee at getting to pre-empt "Judge Judy."

YES!!!!

We had one guy here, almost legendary, really, who would sound aroused reporting tornadoes, and would go out afterward and report from in front of someone's wrecked house and say, "Wow, just LOOK at the raw power of nature! This was a beautiful example of what a tornado can do. I am speechless...can we get a closeup of those bedrooms...look at that car in the tree, toys scattered.....can we get those toys down there, scattered into the next street....family pictures tossed across the neighborhood....these houses, they're just ripped apart. I am....right now so awed. Seeing this is what you become a weather forecaster for. What you wait all year to see."

I used to just wait for someone to shoot him.