Strange days

[DCHeather]

http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/tech ... ist-715264

Woman impregnated at Motorhead concert seeks father on Craigslist

Craigslist
If you're a dude with a red Mohawk who recently got lucky at a Motörhead/Megadeth concert in the bathroom at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago — or if you know a dude who matches such a description — you totally need to keep checking the Missed Connections section on Craigslist. The woman with whom you had an encounter has something that was left behind.

"Did we hook up at the Megadeth/Motorhead concert? - w4m - 28 (Aragon Ballroom)," reads the anonymous post that was live through Thursday:

Me: Blue hair, silver tube top, fishnets, Knee high black biker boots.

You: Red mohawk, black pentagram gauges, viper piercings.

The poster then goes on to describe in detail the passionate encounter — the NSFW reproduction you can find here via the Fuse website, which initially spotted the post. Suffice it to say, the couple did not qualify to post their encounter on the Where Did You Wear It? – Planned Parenthood's Foursquare-of-condom-use website. So …

Anyway I'm pregnant. It's yours. contact me if you want to be part of your child's life.

Rather than judging this young woman — and you know you are, jerk — let's help her out. Consider the near impossible odds of the Craigslist Missed Connections for reconnecting with any random encounter.

Take you, for example. The hottie you stared at a little too long at Starbucks this morning is not looking for you. Of that you can be 99. 9 percent sure.

What's more, according to those same statistics I totally made up just now, if he or she is posting about you on Craigslist — the creep who stared at him or her a little too long at Starbucks this morning — it's not in your city's "Missed Connections" section. The hottie is doing it somewhere in the community or discussion forums in a post tagged FML, the NSFW acronym used by texting teens with obtuse parents and Craigslisters bemoaning their unfornatuate — or in your case, creepy — life circumstances in the community and forums sections of the online classifieds site.

If we take blue hair/silver tube top at her word — because of course, nobody ever lies on Craigslist— she isn't a creepy stalker, but a future mom looking out for her impending child. Like everyone else these days, she's using social media of a sort to get things done. So spread the world so she never has to have this discussion with her young head banger: "It's not that your daddy didn't have a Facebook account, I just don't know his name …"

[pettyfog]

Strange Days Bonus to Heather's post:
http://www.uproxx.com/music/2012/04/woman-seeking-man-who-knocked-her-up-in-the-bathroom-at-megadethmotorhead-show-on-craigslist/
Hey.... That would make a great Directv commercial.. except they already did that.
'Dont have a grandson with a dog collar'

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It's all about PEOPLE!
Now I'm a 'car guy' {again, not just 'now'} I found this item really transcendant:
'Greatest Obituary Ever..' {It's not.. I think there's one of these at least every few years but it's still great and only scratched the surface}
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_20391232/frank-obituary-man-who-loved-booze-women-and?source=rss
Gotta say though.. he gets his 15 minutes of fame a year after he kicks the bucket and makes a lot of people sorry they didnt know him.
https://www.google.com/search?q=greatest+obituary+ever

From the blogs, on the right to those supposedly middle:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/13/michael-flathead-blanchard_n_1424248.html
To the Gawker:
http://gawker.com/5902044/is-this-the-greatest-obituary-ever-published-in-the-history-of-death
I only posted those 2 because I enjoyed reading the comments.. I think flathead would have enyoyed them too.

'Another Republican dead. Yawn.'

Here's a write-up by someone who went to his memorial:[url]
http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/15/repor ... y-knew-ye/[/url]
I can't help but think about Ted Nugent. Both are my kinda guy. Except they're gun nuts and I dont really care all that much about guns {except I want all my neighbors to have 'em}, but that's just me.
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[pettyfog]

Stupid Human Tricks
Today's post is dedicated to my favorite Saul Alinsky rule:
'Identify, Isolate, Ridicule!'
Dogs Against Romney
"Putting a dog on the car roof is abuse. Remember Crate-Gate. I ride inside."
Translation: Yes, as a dog, I'm a pussy.. I admit it.



Okay.. that's a good point. CHOICES. But I've had dogs. FREE ranging dogs. Given the choice of riding in a crowded car or on top of it, what would any healthy dog pick? If you dont know you haven't been paying attention to dogs.




"Clean your plate, Barry.. there are thousands of children in America who would love to have a dog"

What I love about fake outrage... just keeps on giving. Amazing how some hate it when it's reversed.

[Clevelandmo]

Didnt realize Greyhound racing had been banned in Mass. It was really popular when I lived there, but I never understood why people would enjoy seeing little skinny dogs race. I always thought it was just an excuse to gamble. I passed the Wonderland dogtrack everyday on my way to work. It was the only thing keeping that part of Revere, MA alive; the last stop on the blueline I think. I wonder what has become of it. If it's closed, they should tear it down and the Krafts should build a soccer stadium there.

[DCHeather]

Personally, I detest these political campaign tactics in the election of POTUS. But, then again, I couldn't help but laugh at this pic:

[pettyfog]

Personally, I detest these political campaign tactics in the election of POTUS. ...

Come ON, Heather! Do you think either side's campaign staff brought this up?

LAy the freakin blame where it belongs... some idiot reporter. . Or Media MAtters.. all the same!

That stupid Dogs against Romney site has been around since 07. I remember seeing some blogger brought up the dog meal about the same time.

Who the hell cares... but lets just think about who is in the tank for who, that would bring the cruelty thing up!

[DCHeather]

Personally, I detest these political campaign tactics in the election of POTUS. ...

Come ON, Heather! Do you think either side's campaign staff brought this up?

LAy the freakin blame where it belongs... some idiot reporter. . Or Media MAtters.. all the same!

That stupid Dogs against Romney site has been around since 07. I remember seeing some blogger brought up the dog meal about the same time.

Who the hell cares... but lets just think about who is in the tank for who, that would bring the cruelty thing up!

Yes, both campaigns brought the Doggie issues up. And the media and bloggers just love to roll in the dirt because people like it and it sells. But it's still just BS that doesn't really matter.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/r ... YNiJFl1zgI

Biting back Tuesday, conservative news site The Daily Caller made note of a passage in Obama's book "Dreams from My Father," in which the president recounted some of his adventurous eats while living in Indonesia with his stepfather Lolo Soetoro from age six to 10.

"With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chili peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy)," part of the passage reads.

Daily Caller blogger Jim Treacher commented, "Say what you want about Romney, but at least he only put a dog on the roof of his car, not the roof of his mouth."

Romney's campaign quickly seized on the anecdote. On Tuesday night, top Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom re-posted a tweet originally made in January by Obama adviser David Axelrod that showed a picture of the president riding inside a car with his pet Bo, a Portuguese water dog.

In a jab at Romney, Axelrod's original caption read, "How loving owners transport their dogs." But Fehrnstrom commented, "In hindsight, a chilling photo."

They may not be the original instigators, but campaign aides don't mind cheap tricks. This episode is mildly amusing and distrubing at the same time. We have bigger issues at hand and the campaigns are doing tit for tat involving what happened to a dog(s) more than 30 years ago? Can't wait for the big October surprises they pull out. Maybe somebody accidentally killed a cat while driving at night.

[nevzter]

Given my unusual aversion to this election - I know nothing (hehe) of this dog incident. However, as a dog guy, I did dig 'fog's picture of the lab/retrievers in the pickup.

COYW

[pettyfog]

Crossposted here, cuz it tickles me:

Crab Collider Logic

Screw photons, let's try crabs...

LOL

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/04/researchers-build-crab-powered.html

They then tried the logic gates for real, using swarms of 40 crabs. The crab swarms were placed at the entrances of the logic gates and encouraged to move by a looming shadow that fooled them into thinking a predatory bird was overhead. The results closely matched the simulation, suggesting that crab-powered computers could indeed be possible.

So... Crabs' brains are like a simple breadboard of logic gates. Which can be assembled into a larger system of logic gates...
Hmmm.. I'm an engineer not a sciencytist... but...

DUH!

At least it would be faster than a turtle computer.

via Tim Blair

[nevzter]

Thanks for sharing, 'fog. The crab story was strangely intriguing.

[DCHeather]

Luck or Skill?

[Clevelandmo]

Luck or Skill?

I believe that's called lack of skill. You could tell he was embarrassed.

[DCHeather]

What was he thinking?! There wasn't another dentist he could see?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/de ... EcG9zAzEEc

Yes, I know she was wrong and stupid. But still

[pettyfog]

First off, let me say I'm pleased as punch that Fulham ended top ten again.. and in company -again- with the Mersey twins, of which Everton showed better. Very satisfying.

And that Randy Lerner still has the chance to stop the Cleveland style revolving coaching door.

And that someone OTHER than Arse Chelsea and esp ManU won top. Not that I care a whole lot. Now to bring the swelled heads of Manchester down and neither of them to make top 4 next year.

But wait.. that's not why I'm here, in this thread:
Here, I just want to amuse and maybe provoke a little, with just a pinch of outrageous social comment.. it IS called 'Strange Days' and I think this qualifies:
The Frisky: This 70-Year-Old Virgin Is Ready To Lose It

Pam Shaw (aka The Sexational Pam) is looking for a man to deflower her. The cabaret singer says she has been too busy working for the last 50 years to find a man and because she does not believe in sex before marriage, she’s stayed chaste. (Note to self: Make time for dates). But Pam says she’s ready for the next phase of life. She’s talking marriage, not retirement:

“Now’s the time. I’m ready to take the plunge for the right bloke … My standards are still very high, though. I’m hoping to bag a tall, dark and handsome millionaire. I feel I am ready to give marriage a go and maybe go to bed with a man. You are never too old for anything. Just look at Joan Collins … There has never been time for me to get a man. I worked so much that sometimes I’d only have an hour’s sleep each night. I wouldn’t entertain the idea of sex outside marriage — and marriage meant giving up on my dreams.”

You know.. It's generally considered not nice to make fun of the emotionally or developmentally stunted. But maybe people should.
Just to keep an equilibrium.
I've been married over 40 years, not about to trade in the missus for anything or anyone. And lord knows I aint rich, or even tall dark and handsome.. but if I were single, rich, handsome and I heard some lounge entertainer stayed virgin because of her standards and because 'she didnt have time..'
And she wanted to marry me to give up what is apparently her prize possession!!!!

I'd be ROFLMAO!!! No thanks, Lady.. I've been interested in, and studying, people and human nature and why folks do what they do and why they dont.
I'd much rather marry a 70 yo change of habit virgin former nun! Sex isnt everything and it shouldnt be.. but it IS something.

I see maybe a reality show with 'Pristine Pam'..
lol! Oh.. wait...
This, possibly related news, just in; from 'the sun rises in the east, dog bites man, news to anyone who didnt come of age in the mid-late sixties' department:

Set your alarm clocks, fellas! Women's sexual appetite peaks at 11pm on Saturday night, says study

There's a time and a place for sex, and latest research suggests for women their desire peaks at 11pm on a Saturday night - the venue TBC.

The finding is just of the statistics to emerge from a nationwide study investigating the truth behind female libido.
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- Amazing! But it explains Pam, despite her spin on it. She was working those hours.. see? I'm not even staying at Holiday Inn Express but I can put a few suppositions together: Repressed childhood experiences, unfavorable peer observations and added to that, genetically low libido. Her Wyld Chyld never had a chance!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z1uuAYBgtK

[Clevelandmo]

'fog, no one is going to join the site if you post musings about sex with 70 yr old women.