And, man, is she hollerin'.

Just posted an update on the hare-brained SW Airlines Eenie-Meenie-Minie-Mo lawsuit story. Figured I should as it's ranked up there (Top 5) on all the major search engines, and getting boo-coo (well boo-coo for me) hits over the last week or so, since the jury ruled in the case.

And now - your Bonus Useless Factoid of the Day. Who's Yer Daddy? :-)

Did some more interesting reading about the origin of the rhyme. Seems that the thing about grabbing the toe was in reference to testing to see if someone was the Devil. If it hurt, you "let them go" as they weren't the Devil - he was (still is, I guess, in some idjits minds) allegded to have hooves, so pinching his foot would cause no pain.

(Pinches foot, feels pain, sighs, thinks, "And I try so hard.")

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After the idiots at MoveOn posted on their website commercials equating President Bush to Hitler (later feebling denying that they realized what the content of the ads were - gee, wonder if I could try that defense if someone had posted some kiddie porn on this site) I thought I'd never find greater idiocy short of diving into the abyss of the comments section of Indymedia, the Democratic Underground, or the Free Republic.

(No, I'm linking none of those aforementioned sites - even a man like me has to have some sorts of standards. You can google 'em easy enough iffn you wanna go dog-paddle in the shallow end of the net's gene pool)

Boy, was I wrong.

Every once in a while, you can run into a bit of clueless, idiotic, stupefyingly disjointed vitriol so collosally, miraculously, unhinged, that it transcends the genre, and is somehow transubstantiated from the ridiculous to the sublime. A work of ignorant art.

Through either an inborn ability, or a highly-honed effort, be he idiot savant, or classically educated in the art of being a moron type moron, this guy is the Albert Einstein, the Stephen Hawking, the Michelangelo, the acme, the alpha and omega, the ne plus ultra, the pinnacle, the... I could go on, but I can't really think of a term that adequately describes the abyssal depths of this guy's ignorance.

I'm dumbfounded that someone so stupid can actually read and write, much less stumble over a computer and find his way onto the internet.

This is beyond Three Stooges Stoopid, beyond give Arafat a Nobel Peace Prize Stoopid, beyond Above and Beyond the Call of Ignorance Stoopid.

This is Neutronium Stoopid, a Black Hole Stoopid so greedy and dense that it can swallow any fragment of Intelligence and Reason thrown its direction with nary a burp, and toss it into another dimension never to again be seen, lost after the event horizon of Attempted Enlightenment.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...

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Ogram N'otsgnik.

Read him and weep that we must include him in the roll call of the members of our species.

His truths are such a challenge to the patriarchal power structure and its Zionist puppetmasters that it requires definite bravery to articulate them. They shot Martin Luther King and John Lennon in America. How long can it be before this large precious object is martyred by the same interests that gave us the Big Mac, George W. Bush, and showers instead of relaxing baths.

I dunno what else to say, but it does make Michael Moore's popularity a bit more explicable, I suppose.

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Prediction: This will turn out to be untrue. I'll tell you why.

If the snake were as large as stated, it would be half again as long, and twice as heavy as any snake previously verified to have been. Not likely, based on everything I read as a kid working in a pet shop, and devouring all the literature I could find on the matter. There was for many years a big cash prize for the first person to bring in a snake over thirty feet.

Second, some of the other stuff in the story smells to high heaven. According to <link to="www.guardian.co.uk" text="this report" target="none" %>the keeper, the snake was over twelve feet longer when it was captured, but they had to cut out a section of the snake as it had a "rotten deer" in it.

Yeahright. Pythons only eat live food, and their digestive acids can melt bones. This keeper ain't gaining no credibility points with me. He probably has a good career ahead of him in politics, though.

And if they know some way to cut four meters of spine from a vertebrate, and stick it back together, I know some medical folks over here in the States that wanna talk to them real quick-like.

Finally, the pics shown do show one big honker of a python, but it doesn't look all that much bigger than the ones I've seen. It may be at the record, or slightly over it, but it ain't no fifty feet long.

I'll make book on that. :-)

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