In Honor of the New Semeseter....

In honor of the new semester, here are some genuine quotes that I've collected from tests and papers over the last couple of years, mostly in my World Regional Geography and Elements of Cultural Geography classes. As Dave Barry would say, "I am not making any of this up."

-- "The European Union requires the teaching of Russian in all the schools to create a common culture."
-- "Northern Ireland is primarily Eastern Orthodox"
-- Devolution: "the destruction of evolutionary materials."
-- "The Men In Knights around here are not Amish, but they do drive buggies."
-- "The Amish allowing tourists in is hippo critical!"
-- "Sri Lanka is located between Israel and Pakestine."
-- "The USSR broke up into Ireland, Scotland, and Wales."
-- "The Swedes in Lindsborg, Kansas used to be Jewish until the 1960s."
-- "The Dominican Republic of the Congo became independent from Africa a couple of years ago."
-- "Three alternatives to fossil fuel generated electricity are electricity, hydropower, and genocide."
-- "Pizza conquered the Inca empire."
-- One of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism: "One must give in to all evil."
-- Karma: "The aroma around you and the feeling it gives people."
-- "I believe that Iraq will become a democratic government whether the people want it or not." [ed. note: Really! I am not making any of these up!]
-- Maquiladora: "A law that says that pregnant Indians are not to be seen."

Happy new semester to those of you reading this who are of the semesterly type, and happy September to those of you who aren't. Onward through the fog.....

Who needs MUSIC-MATCH when you have LAME and AUDACITY???

Thanks Messr Fairly:

(Press the triangly play button to hear his concoction. This will be around as long as I have the room there.)

Maybe blogger will start hosting 10Gb free data hosting next. Everything else is free nowadays...

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Of course, there is always AKWID. LTC-MWC came into my office today and this is what I was playing on my stereo:

(Can't tell you how good it feels to have him with us again.)

--gh

FREE LYRICS..

OK. To save us some trouble in creating lyrics for our neo-con punk band (have we decided on 'Kapitalist' for a name?), I say we use these statements from Bush & his spokesmen as lyrics:

Maybe we could create a chorus (or pull something from our previously suggested song snippets), to fill with.

The song ought be called, I think, I'm Not a Tree, I'm a Bush. Or maybe, Who Needs Trees When You Got Bushes?

-m

W.

OK, I've been out of town for most of the last month, hence my scarce contributions to this esteemed blog. I've spent all morning dealing with computer people who are installing new computers in our offices, but who neglected to actually transfer any of my old files over. Anyway, here's a token post for now: Check out this W. video from Will Ferrell....

Bush/Kerry 2004

As you know, I am more political on Staircase Wit than I am on my own blog. This gives me a wonderful opportunity to share this story with you because it is too cute to miss.

Apparently, George Bush is airing commercials for the Kerry campaign now. Click over to one of my favorite sites, The Smoking Gun to see the footage of a recent speech.

If you are too lazy to click, or don't have broadband, then here is the quote, in regards to "our" enemies:

"They never stop thinking about 

new ways to harm our country and our 

people, and neither do we." 

--gh

Song from Sveriges Radio

Okay, maybe all of our lyrics need to be sung through LET THEM SING IT FOR YOU.

There are quite a few words that are not in his dictionary, which makes this somewhat bothersome to use. Also, to "save" your work, you have to email it to yourself to get the "key."

If you are thinking of writing some wonderful prose, be sure to stay away from the word "I." It's cute for the first 1/3 of the second, and then it gets annoying for the remainder. This dude's engine would be better if it was more random, like that Beavis & Butthead random bot that we played with in the late 1990s. (Has anything replaced that? It should be java-ized and on the web by now.)

--gh

Well...there is a walk-through (incomplete) here for those of you who don't mind cheating..

-m

HELP..

Has anyone solved Peasant's Quest yet?

I'm stuck at 41 points, and can't seem to find a robe, or set myself on fire.

-m

Special Drawer

No nekiddy pictures were used to modify this image (proof!)


--gh

OK...Here is my entry for the Family Circus Mockery Project, Week 1.....
Sort of an inside joke, but I think we're all down with Homestar.

-m

THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!

OK, since G-Had has provided us with this wonderful, inspired, GeoTechnicolor work of genius, here is the next assignment:

Photoshop this Family Circus from the 70's:



My own attempt at the first cartoon will appear soon...(maybe)

-m

Yellow socks

Fine, are you satisfied? I'm ready for my next assignment.

--gh

Some news

So, Dad had a heart attack on Sunday.

He's fine, but incredibly bored. He should be released from the hospital (BryanLGH in Lincoln, NE) Tuesday or Wednesday.

I know that there were murmurings of having him be on this blog, and I'm sure he'd appreciate the invite, and also emails. His address is be21314(at)alltel.net

Sorry for my lack of activity here. Been doing... other stuff... yeah.

You can prolly get more details on my blog.

-- RawkStah

THERE'S NO ACTION..

Fine, you lazy bastards. Don't participate. I won't either..

Here's an easier one..So they're having a competition to suggest the most beautiful German word. Personally, I think of German as a utilitarian language, and not all that beautiful. But, I appreciate the way they tie lots of smaller words together to mean something complicated. For instance, there is probably a word in German that means 'go online to order a laserjet toner cartridge,' that sounds something like 'Gotgittinundtcartrichvonlaserinkeinonlein.'

So I'm looking for nominations for the most beautiful English words. Here are some of my suggestions:

-coffeepot
-lackluster
-somersault
-winnow
-slippery
-perspiration
-spinnerbait

-m