Michael J. Fox has Partisankinson’s Disease.
The Daily Howler
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Befouled
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Oakland Dilettante
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Saying Yes
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Empire of the Senseless
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Blue Girl in a Technicolor Dream State
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Really Small Fish
- Jack Crow January 8, 2013
One liners work better at a cocktail party.
Is it weird that I feel hungover? I drank no alcohol yesterday.
Well, if you can have a bowel hangover, I have that. The rest of me feels pretty good. Also, it gives me good cover for my “stomach problem” that I was experiencing yesterday.
Oh, I just had that. I don’t know if it helped.
cocktail weiners work better at a cocktail party.
li’l smokies in li’l blankets work even a li’l better.
Rush Limbemu and Ann Althemu, however, need huge blankets, and each have the effect of ending previously entertaining coctail parties.
So, how was the snorkle?
so you’ve never found anything new whose deliciousness or digustingness is in question? Because I can go on posting about how yummy egg nog is until the Yuletide is over.
Also, long-harbored question: is there only one pair of serious pants, and do the three bulls share? is it a magical pair of pants that fit everyone perfectly?
I’d go so far as they are form fitting, but not necessarily flattering, but they definitely don’t fit an emu.
Kathleen, the Serious Pants are communal across the Bullosphere, but not (dang I hate comment searches) for reasons of hygiene.
Insert “shorter” joke here.
I suspect the serious pants would fall into the “distressed” category, perhaps artfully so. However, whereas the consumer product known to us poor folk as “purchased at Value Village” is tended to with a razor-sharp scalpel and a head full of blow, our humble pants have been weathered by emu attacks, rib sauce stains, and the slime of the dread Roughage Whose Name Shall Not Be Uttered.
Plus, they make my ass look GREAT.
And now my tags are showing. How embarassing…
I’m with Blue Girl on this one, what the heck are you kids yammering on about?
Tag fixed. I don’t know if a link was actually intended as there was no URL.
This one, spoadhump.
What was I supposed to do? Paste the comment into Google and press “I’m feeling lucky”?
In other news, you guys are so doomed.
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/09/robot_thinks_pe.html
It’s not just the robot. I also think people taste like prosciutto. No wait, that’s pigs.
Oh, Kathleen, we can’t all wear the same pair of seriouspants, because Plover has a different pair. You know, being a wading shorebird and all.
Yeah, plover’s serious pants are permanently bonded to tiny little skinny plover legs. Also, they say “Jeans by Gloria Vanderbilt” on their loop-de-loop butt cheeks.
He/she/avian looks like a Blue Footed Boobie when he/she/avian is wearing his/her/? serious pants.
Blue-footed boobies are actually plover mechas.
Fear the mighty battle-booby and its blue foot webbing!
Though it’s not clear mechas strictly qualify as serious pants.
And no, they’re not (usually) armed with plungers.
Oh my god. That is the second funniest bird next to an emu.
I have to admit I’m having trouble coming up with bird pictures as ridiculous as that booby, but this anhinga ain’t bad.
Here’s a pretty good frogmouth. More frogmouths here and here.
Perhaps a hornbill?
How about this one? The eyelashes do it for me. Or maybe it is the caked mud lipstick (at least I hope it’s mud).
That appears to be a male Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill.
It’s male because of the red area at the throat, females are all blue. For the other species of ground-hornbill, the Southern Ground-Hornbill, the patch around the eye is red, as is nearly the entire throat pouch. From the pictures I’ve found, the Southern Ground-Hornbill also seems to have a flatter casque (apparently the term used for the horn), though I don’t recall seeing anyone mention that explicitly.
From my search yesterday, the picture seemed clearly to be a hornbill. However, the casque looks a bit damaged, so I was curious as to whether the picture was representative. (See e.g. a rhinocerous hornbill for comparison.) Whatever damage there is appears to be more or less minimal – the casque looks fairly typical when compared to other pictures. Note that some species of hornbills seem to have no meaningful casque. (And some give the impression of having spent too much time reading right-wing websites.)
Ground-hornbills are about three feet tall, and are fairly impressive when flying, though they mostly walk.
More info on ground-hornbills (includes photo of juvenile
delinquent).Uniquely among birds, ground-hornbills have no carotid artery, from which I conclude their brains are hyperdimensional and run on phlogiston. Their plans for world-domination will likely be set in motion any day now. Prepare to bow before your new Bucorvid masters!
Pretty much looks like they set fire to a pile of Ken dolls then stuck their faces in it. I will never bow to ground horn-bill, I cast my lot with the Blue Footed Boobies.
And I bet the rhinocerous hornbill got beat up a lot as a kid.
The Booby Collection: