The care and feeding of your Florida lottery tickets

#1 -- Don't run them through the washer and dryer.

Okay, so that's not exactly what it says, but the first item under How To Care For Your Ticket is Keep your Florida Lottery tickets cool and dry.

Kozy as 2 kittehs

in a cookie jar

Oscar, LOLcat of Death

This is Charley

Doubledog Films

All the cool kids are doing it.

This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

* abortion (5x)
* torture (3x)
* death (2x)
* sexy (1x)

I could have sworn I'd said death and abortion both more often than that.

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Lolcat Caption Contest #1

You have till 11:59 Monday.

cliff... rocks...

I've done some mildly ambitious skiing before, but nothing like this. I'm not even sure I want to try it. This makes me feel old. O-L-D old.
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Christmas Wish List

I belong to a largish clan, well-scattered over the 50 US states, and [mostly] we all like each other. We [mostly] all like each other enough to enjoy exchanging Christmas presents.

But with dozens of cousins and such all over the West, Midwest, Alaska, Hawaii, and even that outpost of civilization, Washington DC, I was spending beaucoup bucks on presents, wrappings, boxing and shipping.

We're all more or less middle class, comfortably well off, and can usually go out and buy whatever we want. Besides, none of us needs more stuff.

So, several years ago, we all decided to take whatever money we wanted to spend on a person and donate that amount to the charity of that person's choice. Or to the charity of our own choosing, if our loved one[s] expressed no particular preference.

My wish list this year:

adopt a panther
adopt a kid
set somebody free
help somebody live their final days as well as possible



If you would like to donate to a charity, but wonder if your money will be used wisely, you can always check them out on the web:

Give.org
CharityWatch.org
CharityNavigator.org
even the government [FTC] is watching out for us

Science and ... the MLA?!

Dude!

There's a reason why my degrees are in science, and yours are in English.

Even so, I think everyone ought to experiment, and this one does look like fun. How-some-ever, I refuse to beg anybody to do anything.

If any of you actually belong to the MLA, I'd kinda like to know if Acephalous actually does present his findings [much of the MLA site appears to be members-only].

STFU

taking a break from ranting, raving, pseudo-pontificating

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