Assuming that Elaine’s plan for the pod people do not work in enhancing our votes in the ABA competition, we have located cloaking technology to allow us to move freely from site to site.
I am ordering a tanker load of glycerin to cloak of us all. The only site that we will fear will be the Romulans.
I’m surprised at you Professor Turley – violating a treaty that the Federation signed in good faith! Picard wouldn’t stand for it and neither should you. If your pod farming doesn’t work out, I’ll take one of the Vorpal swords that Elaine has on order, but count me out of cloaking.
Today is a good day to die!
FFLEO,
I’ve been looking for a reason to post that for awhile now, and I figure, if I’m going to go non sequitar, I might as well go for the gusto.
Everyone else,
Look something large and distracting.
Neat video Gyges.
Nah, them ABA lawyers aint that smart to make a machine like that wooden wonder.
So in an effort to keep certain conversations to not be as readily accessible to the flood of guests this site is no doubt receiving right now (Subtle, ain’t I?):
Is this how they keep track of votes over at the ABA?
108-132
Some more in-country recon — this time from Satyricon: “We’re doing well, but the voting goes on til December 31, and the second place guy in our category is not too far behind us.”
“Second place guy,” indeed! How’s that for depersonalizing our host and by extension our little salon. Obviously they couldn’t read last years results. They would do well to remember that “Unless you’re the lead dog, the view never changes.”
“To arms,” I say!
A little poetic blawg parody of a hopeful and slightly violent nature:
The Randazzawocky
(With apologies to Lewis Carroll)
‘Twas brilling and the slimy toves
Did blawg and blimble in the wabe;
All mumsy were the habeases
And the corpuses outgrabe.
“Beware the Satyriconistas, my child!
The horns that gore, those pointy ears!
Beware their licentious revelry, do shun
Those rascally buccaneers!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the blawger foe he sought—
So rested he by the legal tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in sluffish thought he stood,
Randazza, he with eyes like fire,
Came woofling through the courthouse door
And gurbled as he came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal sword went slicker-slack!
He left him dead, and with his head
He went scalumping back.
“And hast thou slain Randazza? Yes?
Come to my arms, my gleamish child!
O frabjous day! Hip, hip, hearsay!”
He reveled and went wild.
‘Twas brilling and the slimy toves
Did blawg and blimble in the wabe;
All mumsy were the habeases
And the corpuses outgrabe.
BTW, I put a rush order on a hundred vorpal swords–just in case we need them.
Thanks to my household we’re now up to an even 100.
For further inspiration I give you…
The Drive.
97-123.
LK,
That is very good news!
As to the blog, I would suggest hiring someone who used to work at Diebold, pronto. If it’s good enough for GWB, it’s good enough for these nefarious times.
For all the Boy Scouts out there alarmed by JT’s remark that he’ll be “ordering a tanker load of glycerin to cloak of us all” but can’t recall the reason for your concern…
Do you remember one of the novel ways you can start a fire under damp conditions?
No? Well, here’s a reminder of what happens when you mix glycerin with Potassium permanganate …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEeSgyuCBl8
Thrifty brave and clean.
Jill,
But, but, mere corruption is downright life-affirming compared to threats to kill kittens! 🙂
My kitties are mostly fine. The sickly one has Diabetes as it turns out; I’m giving him insulin daily and he’s perked up, put on weight and is becoming a fine companion.
No, I’m still not ready to sacrifise any of them for the cause, though the Professor can threaten to give them a stern talking to about the injustice of being mis-categorized if we do not prevail in this poll.
LK,
This is a family blog!
P.S. Hope your kitties are all doing well!
LOL, with a tanker load of that slippery-slidey glycerin and a little imagination we could probably just corrupt the Satyriconistas into conceding 🙂
Great poem as always Elaine.
Elaine,
Much better name and easier for me to pronounce!
rafflaw–
Who cares if you mispronounce the “S” word?
Actually, I think they should be renamed because of their threat to kill a kindle of innocent nursing kittens should they lose the blawg competition. Such heartlessness! Such cruelty! Oh, the felinity! I say we rename them the Sadisticistas! Whaddya think???
Elaine,
Pretty good verse, but I don’t know if I can say it out loud without mispronouncing the S word! Beam me up Scotty!
I like the new idea of a cloak of invisibity for the Turleyites! We can use it with a cloak of deniability should someone accuse us of nefarious deeds.
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Another in my series of Turley Blawg Competition Verses:
The Satyriconistas are vicious, cruel.
Let’s challenge them to a blawgers’ duel.
With our rapier wits and Turleygalese
We’ll bring them, riposte-wise, to their knees.
Here at Turley Labs, we’ve expanded our exploration of cloaking technology from chemistry to engineered optical solutions. We will be the first blog to achieve the total stealth solution. Our competition won’t see us until it’s too late!
http://www.livescience.com/technology/080606-bts-milton-superlens.html
Vote Science! Vote Turley!
If you can’t win fair and square. There is always the Iceman’s way. A little Hydrochloric acid and some lime ends the game for some once and for all.