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So I managed an evil thing I may yet survive to regret. I purchased $100 of Jelly Bellys for $10. I spent a small amount of time sorting out the banana, apple, and ice cream flavoured ones(fruity mixed bag was the only actual sorting)...which my son promptly named "Minions mix", and that is reserved for a future movie day.

I also have vanilla cappuchino mix, various drinks, and other oddities. For a family member, I got two pounds of the hard licorice bits.

It's so easy when you're evil!

New-style piñatas now on sale in Mexico:
 

I will have to see if anyone in my family can find one for me to beat while it is on fire.

In case Shadowinthelight hasn't seen this yet...

Jabberwonky wrote:In case Shadowinthelight hasn't seen this yet...

Is that if Monica goes beyond Jaguar Girl to full on cat?

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I'm hungry.

That dog does not look happy.

Also, only two weeks left (after today) of being a part-time cart jockey! I will be a full-time delivery/will call coordinator.

shadowinthelight wrote:I will have to see if anyone in my family can find one for me to beat while it is on fire.

I understand there's a big-box store over in Effigy that keeps them in stock... they've been a hot seller lately.

Alkarii wrote:That dog does not look happy.

It is usually unwise to offend a being who (1) lives in your house, and (2) is of just the right size that s/he can poop right into your best shoes if you happen to leave them sitting on the floor.

Also, only two weeks left (after today) of being a part-time cart jockey! I will be a full-time delivery/will call coordinator.

Hey, congratulations! What happened that finally broke the log-jam in the managment chain?

When I was supposed to go to lumber, the ASDS said to redo the application so it doesn't expire, and doing that caused an error in the system. When I stopped by her office to see if she was able to fix it, she told me about the other position, because someone had a habit of not coming to work enough.

I don't even



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And here is a little something for the Pun Jar to chew on. Sailor Mercury

Upon seeing the NOW pic, my brain quite literally had a lag spike as I tried to process and comprehend just what madness I was seeing.
Once my RAM caught back up, I immediately thought of a snake eating it's own tail.

GlytchMeister wrote:Upon seeing the NOW pic, my brain quite literally had a lag spike as I tried to process and comprehend just what madness I was seeing.
Once my RAM caught back up, I immediately thought of a snake eating it's own tail.

It's kind of a distillation process. First they gathered together all of the classics. Then they further boiled it down to the classics amongst those. Then they'll find the classics of the classic classics. Eventually they'll refine it all the way down to the one essential classic of all time, in a CD that can only be handled with tongs and listened to through a vat of oil because the concentrated classicness will explode otherwise.

Catawampus wrote:

GlytchMeister wrote:Upon seeing the NOW pic, my brain quite literally had a lag spike as I tried to process and comprehend just what madness I was seeing.
Once my RAM caught back up, I immediately thought of a snake eating it's own tail.

It's kind of a distillation process. First they gathered together all of the classics. Then they further boiled it down to the classics amongst those. Then they'll find the classics of the classic classics. Eventually they'll refine it all the way down to the one essential classic of all time, in a CD that can only be handled with tongs and listened to through a vat of oil because the concentrated classicness will explode otherwise.

And, once they get there, they can start the Second Generation. They'll have reviewers and bloggers singing the praises of this one CD of classics. They'll collect and aggregate these reviews and blogs, on a series of web pages which collect the best of the quotes and reviews. Finally, they'll have a single aggregation point, on a website equipped with HTML5 feeds of the bloggers themselves (think of the office of The Architect in The Matrix).

Actually viewing this website would, of course, crash your browser.

More travels in the wonderland of our neighbouring state - visiting Kate's mother for her birthday in Hartford LA ("Lower Alabama"), and another monument.
 
Salt Lake City has a seagull monument to commemorate a significant agricultural event.
 
Enterprise AL also has a monument.
 

 

 

 


Erected 11 December 1919.

I'm... Very confused.
Why would they erect a monument for a bug that devastated cotton?

Is it something to do with that term you used... "Seagull monument?" Were they hoping birds would poop all over it?
...doesn't seem to be working...

GlytchMeister wrote:I'm... Very confused.
Why would they erect a monument for a bug that devastated cotton?

Is it something to do with that term you used... "Seagull monument?" Were they hoping birds would poop all over it?
...doesn't seem to be working...

The Seagull Monument in Utah is in commemoration of the time when Jerusalem crickets had over-run the wheat fields and threatened the existance of of the Mormon community- a storm at sea drove seagulls far enough east that they converged on the hoard and devoured them.

Boll weavils are another matter- I have NO CLUE why anybody would celebrate the damn things...

GlytchMeister wrote:I'm... Very confused.
Why would they erect a monument for a bug that devastated cotton?

It's a bit sardonic... but not entirely.

At the time the boll weevil invaded, farmers in the area were raising cotton as a monoculture... which is risky both biologically (as the boll weevil demonstrated) and economically (the whole local economy is vulnerable to price swings, competition, etc.). (EDIT: as AFF points out further down, many monoculture crops such as tobacco and cotton deplete the soil pretty badly. Many areas in the southeast were farmed for tobacco until the soil was exhausted, and then abandoned.).

The boll-weevil invasion forced the farmers to diversify (many switched over to peanuts) and to explore innovations such as crop rotation and fallow years. It had the effect, in the end, of creating an agricultural economy that was more stable, and less vulnerable to "single event" disruptions.

Hence, the statue. "Thanks for the kick in the ass, guy. It hurt like hell, but it made us stronger."

Hmmm. I wonder if Bia ever incarnated as a swarm of insects?

I did provide links for both monuments.

There is another monument to an agricultural pest, apparently, in Australia.

Also, cotton depletes the soil significantly..

Maggie and Natalie went to a month-long summer school session at a local school - sort of a day camp/day care with educational activities and fun.

The last day (25 June) Maggie's class had awards and a class presentation. I took pics, and i made a page for other parents/teachers/etc to see.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

Next stop: Cranberry World?