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Had a false Damien sighting in the neighborhood last night. There’s another little guy that does look a bit like him, but his stripes are loops and whorls rather than stripes.

I’m tempted to think they’re all false sightings, but the lady in the house behind me volunteered the detail that he has a floppy belly — which is an odd characteristic that’s striking about Damien when you see him walk. He’s a skinny cat but he looks like he was once a fat cat who lost a bunch of weight. She saw that animal yesterday morning.

So I’m going to Wal*Mart in a bit to buy a lawn chair…

Happy cat hunting!

/My wee ‘un has now learned that the cat flap is open not long after I get up in the morning…and has disappeared into the jungle someplace out back. I have a permanently affixed cat watching chair back there overlooking my neighborhood’s version of the Gatun Cut to keep an eye out.

Feh.

Oh, and I so totally did not need to hear about the lack of loincloth news… 😛

As soon as I read this I thought of that scene in “History of the World Part 1” where Moses comes off of the mountain and says…

“The Lord has giveen me these 15, 15 command…”

-CRASH!-

“…10, 10 commandments!!!”

That movie is pure comedy gold.

No loincloth for you!

Seriously, what is it about wenches and loin covers? I caught my wife sniffing a pair of her own panties she’d picked up off the floor this morning.

At first I was too scared to say anything, then I was too turned on.

<stares at Randy and blinks, twice>

Of all the Heston memorabilia I’d like, I think one of the rifles from Planet of the Apes (modified M1 Carbines) would top the list. Second would be the coat he wore as General Gordon in Khartoum. The loincloth… uh, not on the list, sorry.

Randy, your wife was probably testing the classic male sniff test. You know, clean enough to wear again/dirty enough to wash/neutral enough to put back on the floor for retest tomorrow? I have no idea what she thought she’d learn from it, since women are incapable of putting on an article of clothing once it’s been removed and dropped.

It’s a guy thing, Weaz.

Damien is playing coy with you, Stoaty.

Lawn chair. Cooler and fluids. Munchies. Reading material. Rain or sun umbrella – weather dictating. Cell phone.

Wait.

…And I loved History of the World. Seen it dozens of times.

Good points, all, S-S. I had forgotten about those modified M1’s in Planet of the Apes. They were cool-looking, and the mods were somehow “right” for an ape hand. Style was good, too.

But I would love to have Moses staff, or one of the spears Moses threw with his ‘buddy’ when they got re-acquainted as adults.

Yer mixing up yer Heston flicks, McGoo. That was Judah Ben-Hur. (Which is, by the way, an execrably bad book. It was the biggest best seller of all time for a while, but dude can’t write for shit).

By god you’re right, Weaz! But at least it WAS a heston flick. Anyway – I still would like one of those Ben Hur spears.

I’d read somewhere that some folks believe the story is true.

It’s not that bad a book, compared to some of the others written back then (BulwerLytton, anyone?) and most of the so called historical novels written nowadays. Beats the pants off the DaVinci Code.

Historical trivia: Lew Wallace wrote BenHur while he was governor of New Mexico. Give you an idea of how less important government was back then. Can you imagine Bill Richardson churning out a bad novel nowadays?

kishnevi:

Can you imagine Bill Richardson churning out a bad novel nowadays?

Well, yeah.

But I suspect that’s not your point.

Actually those were javelins. Strictly for throwing. The metal front section was soft so it would bend if it stuck in a shield. This prevented someone throwing it back.

Thanks, Machinist!

Weasels: A continuous source of interesting, obscure, and sometimes downright weird information.

“obscure, and sometimes downright weird”

I’ve been called that before.

Me too, with good reason.

I figure that if people around me aren’t puzzled – or at least thinking hard and carefully, then I’m not doing my job.

…And WordPress is really slow today. Weasels “s30-dot-sitemeter-dot-wordpress-dot-com” thingy (whatever it is) is really slowing things down.

Oh! And there is no sitemeter over there to the left. Hmmm…..could this be a clue?

Anybody into shortwave? If you haven’t read bmac’s post on ‘Numbers Stations’, do.

Not javelins – pila. Singular pilum.

Anybody into shortwave?

I had forgotten that you had a Sangean.

SWL just isn’t the same without a Cold War …

/Although if anybody happens to run across a Drake RL-4, I’d appreciate a tip.

Steve, Thank you, Sir. I bow.

Good link to bmac, Stoaty.

This one has puzzled me for years and I’m astounded no one has been able to properly explain what’s going on, yet.

Thanks Weasel, fun stuff isn’t it?

A fascinating little glimpse into the strange world of international espianage, and one of those mysterious things that go on in the world everyday that we really don’t know about.

I can totally understand how searching these out on a shortwave could get old fast though, with all the general cacophony of random stuff.

Straying away from the topic, the more ya think about this, the more it seems to make sense…

“This Clinton switch gives McCain the women’s vote (except for the 300 surviving members of NOW and an inconsequential million of so Democrat women and drag queens whose panties dampen at the mere mention of “O” be it Obama, Oprah, or “The Story of….” ).

Mr. Vanderleun’s suggestion for the current VP race. I’m all for it if they’d shut up until at least November.

Anyways, read the whole thing.

(and why doesn’t Firefox think “women’s” is spelled correctly?)

SW, I found a magazine cover you might like.
http://judgeabook.blogspot.com/2008/05/mea-culpa.html

The Phoenix Mars Lander showtime is about to start.

Here:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

be there or be … somewhere else.

Shit. I’m in the Filter.

The Phoenix Lander show over at NASA is on now. See my website for the link, since the Filter is hungry tonight.

CNN and Fox News also has coverage.

It landed – intact and functional, apparently!

That was exciting as hell McGoo! Let’s hope everything functions as well.

Yes! From what they were saying, this mission has been dead-nuts perfect from launch.

Photos in about an hour or a bit more.

Science.

Gotta love it.

I was swing dancing and totally missed it…dammit!! And I didn’t even have a good time dancing – we were learning a new move with lots of spinning, and my tummy was empty, so all the spinning was making me nauseated*, and I kept checking my watch hoping the lesson would be over soon.

*Word Pedant Fact of the Day: “Nauseous” and “nauseating” are synonymous. So if you say you’re nauseous, that means you make people throw up. This is another of those fine distinctions that are being lost as dictionary usage panels throw up their collective hands in frustration. (Also see: comprise.)

Yep – you missed a good one, Mrs. P. The bird behaved flawlessly.

So are you’re saying nauseous and nauseating have exchanged meanings?

Look up vender and vendor some time.

No, I’m saying people say they’re “nauseous” when they should say that they’re “nauseated.” Usage panels differ, though. I need an OED.

Well, better go walk the dog before it gets much hotter.

Hmm. I’ve used both (Nauseous incorrectly, apparently) to mean “I am feeling like I’m gonna blow lunch”.

Damned screwed up language!