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The Gods must be angry... Old Farmer's Almanac is showing some sort of bright orb in the sky for next Sunday...

Having a different New Year schedule? Did they even have the Y2K deal that we had? Or was it like Y2-dragon? 2006 is Year of the Dog so throw me a bone. I find it interesting that they have sort of a horoscope thing that goes with this... Folks born in a dog year tend to be "...selfish, terribly stubborn, and eccentric."; furthermore, "They can find fault with many things and are noted for their sharp tongues." Later I read that "Dog people make good leaders." hmph. I looked up Donald Trump, he was born in 1946, a dog year. Don't know if this tends to prove or disprove the Chinese horoscope thing, but Martha Stewart was *not* born in a dog year. She was born in 1941... Year of the snake...

As a person born and raised in and around Seattle, I have been somewhat sickened by the constant whining about... the rain. It's SEATTLE. It's *supposed* to rain there. In fact, used to be we were compelled to complain to visiting relatives about the unbearable bright hot sun, when the weather was nice; Lest they think that weather to be normal and want to move up here and drive up real estate prices, clog up the highway, and build software and grunge music empires. Which of course they did anyway. Emmett Watson must be rolling over in his grave. ~

AOL News - Americans More Tolerant of Fatness, Study Says : "Marilyn Wann, board member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, said fat people are the target of a witch hunt in a fitness-obsessed nation. 'Everyone thinks it's OK to make fun of fatties,' said Wann, who won't use the word 'overweight' because she says it's judgmental." Criminy, I would rather be called "overweight" than one of the "fatties" - or maybe call me "barrel-chested" or "husky"... heh, just don't call me late to the dinner table.

I just found myself writing "Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate" on an outgoing manila envelope... Got me thinking, who uses a spindle anyway? Doesn't seem like a good idea to have a sharpened spike sticking up from your desk, what if you trip over the floor mat and... Oh, I can't bear to imagine it...

At New York's Kennedy airport today, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, protractor, set square, slide rule, and calculator. At a morning press conference, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement. He is being charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction. Al-gebra is a fearsome cult," Ashcroft said. "They desire average solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in a search of absolute value. They use secret code names like 'x' and 'y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with co-ordinates in every country. As the Greek philosopher Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle'." When asked to comment on the arrest, President Bush said: "...

Little Christmas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : "Little Christmas From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search Little Christmas or Nollaig Bheag in the Irish language, is one of the traditional names in Ireland and Italy for January 6, more commonly known as the Epiphany. It is so called because it was, until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, the day on which Christmas Day was celebrated. It is the traditional end of the Christmas season and the last day of the Christmas holidays for both Primary and Secondary schools. It is also known as Nollaig na mBean (Women's Christmas) It is so called because of the tradition (still strong in Cork, though only just surviving in the rest of the country) of Irish men taking on all the household duties on that day and giving their spouses a day off." Whew! Glad Teresa didn't get wind of this!

The same people who were saying "Happy Holidays" a few weeks ago, are now wishing me a "Happy New Year". So which holidays were they talking about?? When I was a kid, I stood outside the Frederick and Nelson's at Aurora Village (In North Seattle, long gone) - selling Christmas Cards I got from one of those outfits that used to advertise on the back cover of comic books. So I've seen the whole gamut of attitudes towards Christmas and New Years, and pesky but enterprising kids trying to earn enough for a used Schwinn Stingray (which I did). Anyway, I'm not even Y2K compliant yet, don't get me started on New Years Eve, AKA amatuer drunk night. Speaking of comic books... I saw "Archie Digest" at the grocery checkstand the other day... Does anyone still buy those? The copy I looked at was all blurry, Betty had three boobs in one panel. I guess that's one reason the era of comics has passed.

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From The BBC's "100 things we didn't know this time last year" 1. The UK's first mobile phone call was made 20 years ago this year, when Ernie Wise rang the Vodafone head office, which was then above a curry shop in Newbury. If he said "Can you hear me now", I WILL scream. 5. Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies. "I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies," she says. She's just wierd. 6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets. Is there any problem WD-40 and/or duct tape can't solve? 7. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo. What do they talk about? 11. One in 10 Europeans i...