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I rarely watch TV anymore, but this past week I sat down and watched ‘Wife Swap’ with the offspring.

I could have sworn that the dad of the gaia worshiping, tree hugging, fairy believing, composting in the house, sports are the devil, family with 3 sons, was Churchill. Same long hair, same bad teeth, same pissy mannerisms. Perhaps he is putting out feelers for another occupation.
And if it wasn’t him, it was his brother.

Wardo is disgusting on so many levels. I am so looking forward to his sacking. And I’m not even interested in how he’ll respond. I bet there are folks over at PB that could write his response right now and get it 99% correct and damned-near verbatim-apriori-hegemoniacal, with some ad hominem edgery for taste and texture.

One always looks neat in a hat made from meat.

Beefy.

I liked the cold-cuts (salami?) hat.

The obligatory meat link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE

Note that if you’re made out of meat, then you can be your own accessory. Which sounds vaguely vulgar.

Hey, I read the short story that YouTube was based on! Oddly, the author doesn’t appear to be in the credits (I forget who it was. It sticks in my head that he was a lesser known scifi writer with a bit of leftist cred, but that covers a whole lot of territory).

This is putting me in mind of the Stinky Meat Project.

To the person from New Zealand who just asked Google “what does Four Fours mean according to the american slang” — I really have no idea. Never heard the expression.

Oooo. The haikus at Stinky Meat Project are delightful.

Holy cow! How could I miss the haiku!

Because I haven’t been back to Stinky Meat since I first found it, when it was a relatively new site, I guess…

I can’t relate to hats of meat….(my beef is that I think they make me look like a ham who wants to get porked but is too chicken to fish around for someone to make bacon with)

However they do put me in mind of my favorite teacup

Oh! I loved that thing when I was a young and aspiring artist. Then somebody explained to me that the surrealists weren’t joking; they took themselves Very Seriously Indeed. That kind of harshed my mellow.

Still, it came in handy during my art school years. The best compromise I found between the post-modern shit my teachers wanted me to put out and the realistic stuff I wanted to do was to make things that I thought were funny and call them surrealist.

I remember one series of sculpture/paintings I did involving the adventures of a disembodied plasticine nose.

I was also fond of Kafka when I was a kid. Duh.

Man, I hate it when the internet does spooky shit like this. I swear, I was just randomly clicking around Canuckian blogs, when I found this: behold Mr Meaty.

Those meat haiku are admirable! Good eye, Beanporker.

Mr. Meaty link disappeared or sumpin. Perhaps it was stoat/weasel’ed by the throng.

Ooops! Fixed. I’d left off a “

Four Fours or fo fos

They are rims.
or
Slang for a .44 caliber

Talk about spooky shit–the author of the first few haikus over at stinkymeat is “Tom Elliott”, the name I used to write under.

…and “Stairway to Heaven was still playin’ on the stereo, man!”

I googled the new zealander question
what does Four Fours mean according to the american slang

this is how google truncated the result…
S. Weasel
I go home at night, get down on all fours, pucker up and blow on my cat’s …. No site will use sexual slang, situations or depictions, or exploit the human …

Well, when you put it that way…..Makes me wonder why “he” clicked through.

Hey, “…pucker up and blow on my cat’s…” is a proven traffic driver.

It does point out some flaws in current search algorithms, though. I shouldn’t have placed so highly in that search. The words “fours” and “slang” weren’t in close enough proximity. Everyone gets preposterous hits because two words in the search appear somewhere in the very great deal of text on the front page of a blog. Plus, apparently, Google threw out the first “four” in “four fours” (probably as repetitious), otherwise it would turn up a bunch of hits on a mathematical puzzle called “four fours.”

There are a lot of simple tweaks I would make to the algorithms if I could. Like, if a search term appears in the actual URL, the site should float higher.

Weasel, actually they did credit the guy who wrote “They’re Made Out of Meat” – Terry Bisson.

That was it! Did it say “author” next to the credits? Because that’s what I was looking for…

It says “Based on a short story by Terry Bisson”. That seems like an appropriate credit.

Well, shoot…I scrubbed over the credits a few times looking.