Archive for October, 2007

Today’s Sideshow URL

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

And you think that you have problems? Get a little behind in your rent payments and you might lose, perhaps not an arm and a leg, but maybe a leg.

The Diva of Din, for <lj user=”trawnapanda”> but offered to all

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Florence Foster Jenkins is famous, even infamous, for her singing, or perhaps in spite of it. Here is an article from Coronet Magazine in 1957 which will tell you almost everything you wanted, or feared, to know about the Diva of Din.

Today’s SPAM[tm] Subject Line

Monday, October 1st, 2007

is:

pompeii spike methodist

It sounds like a particularly vicious Italian Protestant.

Today’s Romantic URL

Monday, October 1st, 2007

May-December marriages are not too uncommon nowadays; HWMBO is 13 years my junior.

This May-December marriage is different: it’s May 1925 and December 1983.

Update: Dates changed to keep a certain ailuropod from dwelling in Squickia for too long.

Today’s Leprechaun? URL

Monday, October 1st, 2007

…comes to us from the Southwest, where a bishop in Gallup, New Mexico is a bit confused, perhaps.

One of the great mysteries of life has now been solved…

Monday, October 1st, 2007

…as, thanks to Glasgow City Council, we now know where that ducky tycoon hailed from.

Happy birthday, <lj user=”rustnroses”>!

Monday, October 1st, 2007

…and many happy returns of the day!