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When Pete Mitchell submits a quiz, I respond whole-heartedly.

So I imagine that everyone has at least heard about the potential discovery of a Sasquatch in Georgia. These types of "news" items always bring out the the BEST in People, as can be seen in this lengthy forum on the subject What would YOU do if you were to find a Bigfoot/Sasquatch. These are not edited and delivered to you in all their original "glory".

Here are a few of my very favorite answers...

Bigfoot Bob:
I would have a one of a kind throw rug in my living room... I would have its head mounted with a button underneath it that made it sing some Hank Williams Jr. song.... Better yet, I would stuff the whole monster with packaging peanuts and let people take their picture with it for 5 bucks.....

Gern Blanston:
I would poop on it.

Terry-388472:
If i saw bigfoot, I would immediately put out what I was smoking, Cause i heard he has big lungs and i wouldnt want to share it with him cause he'd suck it all up. Then I would get back in my flying saucer, fly back to Loch Ness, and tell Nessie that I had indeed confirmed the existence of bigfoot, but dont worry, her secret is still safe with me.

frankhorton:
scream, run and keep going. how do i know i would do this? because i did actually this when i was teen ager living in crossett Arkansas. i was out taking a bicycle ride and a hairy man stepped out of the woods. i screamed turned and pedaled my ass home.

amw0511:
Bigfoot does exsist!! It's actually a female, not a male! I've seen her. She's living with my ex-huband in the Pacific Northwest!!!

Lucifer-403000:
I saw bigfoot yesterday leaving KFC, he had gold teeth and was driving a 1978 candy blue monte carlo with 24 inch rims.

And my VERY favorite...

Yukon Cornelious:
If I ran into Big Foot, first I'd trick him out of his cave with pig sounds and knock him out cold with falling rocks from the mouth of his cave. Then me & Herbie would pull all his teeth while he was out. Dude, he would totally be one humble bumble. Then I would give him a job putting stars on top of Christmas trees.

I suppose if I found a Sasquatch, dead as in this "case", I would probably do almost exactly what these guys did (if in fact this turns out to be real) because as everyone knows, without a body its hard to prove something like this. I guess that's the practical answer.

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2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
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1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

My day:

8:15 ish - I arrive at work, 15 minutes late but still the first one to arrive. Can you be late when you are the first one at the office? Sources say no.

8:30 ish - Coffee into system.

9:00- Begin serious work (as serious as it can get when you are in advertising - we sell air for cripes sake).

9:30 (approximate) - A construction worker near begstodiffer's office innocently and thoroughly slices thru a fiber connection belonging to AT&T. Internet and Phone resources are instantly terminated.

9:31- All hell breaks loose. Advertising office staff begins the day long service as back up tech support for desperate customers who don't/cannot/don't want to understand that the actual backbone that connects all the Cable Modem service (save a rare few) to the rest of the world has be physically ripped apart by a backhoe.

10:00 - Joplin staff is informed of the breach. Joplin staff realizes that they cannot connect to Bartlesville to run necessary procedures to schedule new commercials for the next day. Panic on the bosses face. Production staff realizes that finishing any work for the day will be impossible, because our online approval system has been time jumped back to 1988. Phone rings continuously.

11:30- All advertising office staff vacate the building for an hour lunch. This is unheard of normally but since hacky sack was starting to sound like fun, we needed to take desperate measures. Chinese food, the bill footed by the company even (bonus).

12:30 - Staff returns to office. The phone is already ringing. Co-worker Blex is informed that he is an asshole by an angry customer. This brings nods of approval from co-workers.

12:45 - In celebration of our 1980's themed work day- A-HA's "Take on Me" is played at high volume throughout the office. There is dancing and merriment.

1:00 - Boss and saleswoman leave office to go make a sales call. Support staff bets that the sales call was at Dillards.

2:30 - The spell is broken and internet returns. Emails go out and in- work is done. I email mom and suggest Tacos for dinner in lieu of actual cooking. It's too hot for cooking anway. She concurs.

3:30 - I start typing this blog post.

3:38 - Connection to the internet is lost again. I copy and paste text into file, just in case. God knows I'm not typing this all again!

3:44 - Internet returns, but for how long no one knows.

3:45 - Boss goes home, we are all stuck here. Nice.

And that's it, a running account (trunicated) of the magic that is my office. I will update if anymore fun occurs before five, I know you all are just on the edge of your seat.

You Are An INTP

The Thinker You are analytical and logical - and on a quest to learn everything you can. Smart and complex, you always love a new intellectual challenge. Your biggest pet peeve is people who slow you down with trivial chit chat. A quiet maverick, you tend to ignore rules and authority whenever you feel like it. In love, you are an easy person to fall for. But not an easy person to stay in love with. Although you are quite flexible, you often come off as aloof or argumentative. At work, you are both a logical and creative thinker. You are great at solving problems. You would make an excellent mathematician, programmer, or professor. How you see yourself: Creative, fair, and tough-minded When other people don't get you, they see you as: arrogant, cold, and robotic

This is explains it...they've been busy.

I don't talk about the subject of politics very often, mostly because I find it becomes an easy excuse for the bourgeois to bicker and complain about something that they have no idea about. Sometimes my husband and I get on the subject, and while I mostly agree with his self-proclaimed "anarchist" libertarian ideas, we have differing opinions on some very sticky subjects. It generally turns out best if we just leave it alone and accept each others opinions.

The subject of the 2008 Presidential race has been burdening my mind for quite awhile now. Even when after W. Bush was elected for the second time and the "Hillary" rumors had just began it stuck itself in my brain that this election was going to be very important, and controversial. Back in those days, nobody talked about Barack Obama, 4 short years ago.

Now, it has finally come down to it. I cannot remain peaceful about it anymore and I am turning to the people I respect and care about to serve as a barometer for some opinions I am having about Barack Obama that, frankly, scare the crap out of me.

Why oh why could the Reps not find ANYONE else to run but John McCain? That man looks like he is a reanimated corpse with a matching sense of humor and absolutely no charisma. As much as they want him to look spry and nimble, he looks old. He looks like the establishment. I believe everyone will agree with me that what we don't need is more of the same. In my gut, I feel that a republican has a snowball's chance in hell of getting elected after the cluster we have experienced for 4 years.

Then there is the alternative. Barack Obama gives me chills when he speaks, but I'm not sure that is a good thing. It scares me that he is so enchanting. Iconoclastic. His politics scare me, but he is such an inspiring leader. I want to believe what he says, but when you get down to the nitty gritty of things his policies seem not well thought out, and far more liberal than he is letting on. I think having him as our president would be inspiring to our nation at least for awhile, but will his idealism and policies last for the long haul? Too socialist?

My office is filled with Right Wing Nutjobs. I would classify myself as conservative for the most part, but not to the point where my brain shuts down all rational thought. It doesn't help my situation at all, because all I hear all day is "Obama is the Anti-Christ" and "you better buy more ammo" ( I don't own a gun for cripes sake!)

Anyway, I guess the thing I want to know is, does ANYONE feel good about this election? Do you have confidence in ANY candidate? The polls loom closer and closer, and I want to make the right choice.

But this is some funny crap. I'm so stimulated!

Tonight I had the pleasure of introducing Sophie to one of my favorite places, the movie theatre. It has been entirely too long since I have been to the movies. B'Ville has a regular full price theatre, and a "dollar" theatre where the tickets actually cost $2, but close enough. The popcorn prices are still the same though, and yet I still succumb to them every time.

The dollar theatre "Eastland 4" was showing "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggietales Movie", an obvious choice given Sophie's current fascination with Pirates. In all the proud moments I have had as a mother (and there have been many) never was I so proud as when my 2 year old girl sat motionless and transfixed through an 82 minute movie. While all the other children were tagging out, she paid attention, ate her skittles and WATCHED the movie. It was a really, REALLY good time.

While I'm not ready to take her to see Schindler's list quite yet, I am still really proud of her.

No witty preface is required here... just watch.

After weeks and weeks of dismal failures, I have defeated Slash on the Hard level tonight, and I'm very VERY pleased with myself. I rock.

I love it, and it loves me back.

Thanks to perkygothess for the great Christmas Gift. Now I'm all practiced up to make and "roll my own". Click on the pic to see all the sushi action.

We just discovered today that someone somewhere posted a commercial from our PH on youtube. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Any publicity is good publicity....right?

I am SO having a hard time describing exactly how I feel right now. My husband has already rolled his eyes at me once, so I will turn my whining on you, the unprepared masses.

I just heard the news (albeit a bit belated, my RL has been crazed as of late with the holiday and what-not) that Billie Piper is reprising her role as Rose Tyler for 3 episodes of Season 4 of Doctor Who. I am neither a Rose lover or hater. I DID bawl like a baby when she was parted from 10, but that was mostly for him and not for her. I am also not a big fan of Martha Jones, but honestly for me its not the companions that keep me coming back (I'd rather see Sally Sparrow take one the role, personally, but anyway). I just don't see that ANY good can come from Rose's return except for more pain and sorrow. She's dead already, let her go.

It does, however, cause my heart to thump a little to think that in just a few short months I will be able to escape back into my happy world of WHO. Also, just in case you didn't already know my POV on the subject, David Tennant is the sexiest man who has ever walked the earth-he makes me giddy. Traditionally, I have always been into scrawny pale guys, and he is the king of geek sexy. Sorry Hon :)

Can't wait for Christmas, and it has nothing to do with another pair of reindeer socks.

Tonight our 2 year old daughter was walking around the living room with our largest aluminum mixing bowl on her head saying "I'm a Dalek, Dalek, Dalek."

And she was saying it correctly "daaaa leck".

She also says "arrr" every time she sees a Jolly Roger, and will occasionally say "Bollocks" when something doesn't go her way. She was a pirate for Halloween.

She has taken quite a few naughty words for a spin, but I believe her favorite is "the S word". I find it humorous when she does it, but I try not to let her know that. She always uses it correctly.

Every time I open my Macbook she looks to see if her friend is ready to chat on iChat. She calls him by name and then looks dejected when he isn't there. She learned to say the word apple very quickly because of the glowing fruit on the back of my screen.

Her favorite stuffed toy is a red dragon. So much for the fluffy pink poodle.

A few nights ago, she told my mother (her Grandma or "Poppy" as she is called) that she needed to watch her attitude, and she was right. It was her Grandma inadvertently who first taught her "the S word" last Christmas and has reinforced it through repeated use.

She has an unexplained love of horses. Grandma Poppy tells us it's a "recessed" family trait. Makes sense, I guess. She has no fear, and wants to ride every horse she sees, including the Clydesdale we saw a couple weeks ago.

However, our Genius child refuses to use the potty, oh well I guess you can't always win.

Being a parent is hard work, but pretty darn cool. I don't think she has much hope of not being a geek, but I don't personally think that is a bad thing. I think we're doing an okay job, so far.

to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY sigma7! Hope you had a good day.