Happy Halloween!!!

Dog of the Week

Name: Lupin
Age: 8 months
Sex: Male
Breed: Anatolian Shepherd mix
Location: Flushing

To adopt him please visit the website: www.animalhavenshelter.org. If you aren't ready to take an animal home just yet, consider Animal Haven's Sponsor A Pet Program.

Prom Gets Cancelled

The New York Times reported this weekend that the prom will be cancelled at Kellenberg, a Roman Catholic High School on Long Island. The primary reasons given are general debauchery and liability. I think they threw liability in there for good measure. Apparently after Prom's now-a-days, kids run out to the Hamptons in houses rented by their parents and have raucous orgies financed by Mom and Dad.

I thought we got away with a lot back in our day. We didn't compared to these kids. Most of all I wonder why the parents don't mind shelling out the big bucks for kids to have so much fun when they could spend it on themselves. If the kids had to pay for all that out of their own pockets, it just wouldn't happen. The most they'd be able to afford would be a limo and a trip to the diner. The worst that would happen is they'd have sex in the back of their 2nd hand car rather than at someone's posh Hamptons address. (and the parents would have more $$$ to spend on themselves)

The ABC's of Barfing

I have no idea how I came across this site, but I found a long list of words and phrases that mean "to vomit". The website is realbear.com

Here are just a few of the phrases they came up with:

Vomit dictionary
A
abdominable voorheaves
air the diced carrots (Gerd R., student.tuwien.ac.at)
alan's Psychedelic Breakfast
animate throat-missles (mac1005.kip.apple.com)
anti-poop (mac1005.kip.apple.com)
arf

B
backwards bungee (slip200.sirius.com)
bad caugh (George Hau, mail.ast.cam.ac.uk)
barfbark at antsbarking turkey (montan.dsava.com)
belch chasers
big spit (newspig)bit spit (garden.ucop.edu)
blanch (absolut.osf.org)
blevis (slip21.uniserve.com)
blowblow beetsblow bile (tbyte.com)
blow breakfastblow chowblow chowder (aurp1a.aur.alcatel.com)
blow chunksblow cookies (bongo.bos.locus.com)
blue chip special
bokebootboot camp bow down before the porcelain godbowel backup
C
cack (Jeff Gerstmann)
call to the seals (arrrrrr aaarrrrrrrrrr)
call uncle ralph, call ralph on the big white telephone
chunder, chunderspew, chunderspew
clean house clearing your throat the easy way
commode hugging
cookin' for the cafeteria (lemma.res.jhu.edu)
copiously cough one's cookies (tbyte.com)
coughing chunks (next30-17.dev.oclc.org)
curl and hurl (tbyte.com)

Men check your Cahones

Saw a bit on the news about this today and thought of how many people ignore "little" problems. The National Cancer Institute says:

"Possible signs of testicular cancer include swelling or discomfort in the scrotum.

These and other symptoms may be caused by testicular cancer. Other conditions may cause the same symptoms. A doctor should be consulted if any of the following problems occur:

A painless lump or swelling in either testicle.
A change in how the testicle feels.
A dull ache in the lower abdomen or the groin.
A sudden build-up of fluid in the scrotum.
Pain or discomfort in a testicle or in the scrotum. "

For more info visit:

http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/testicular/patient#Keypoint3

SCHOOLHOUSE Rock Lyrics

Fellow children of the 70's will know what I'm talking about. The sensible brainwashing campaign was called Schoolhouse Rock. Songs like "Conjuntion Junction" and "I'm Just a Bill" were accompanied by cute cartoons.

occasionally in my adulthood one of these tunes will come to mind, but I really never learned the lyrics. By chance I came across a website that has what seems to be all the lyrics. Here's the link:

http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Index.html

New blog feature

Music Video Codes By VideoCodeZone.com

I really hope this works. I just found this link that lets you put videos on your website. I know I'm dating myself by the choice of band, but whatever. The video quality on this one seemed pretty good.

Cheapest Gas

Search for gas prices by US Zip Code

Since we've all witnessed gas over the $3.00 per gallon mark I set out to find where the cheapest gas is being sold. GasBuddy.com came up on my search and if it works it seems like a great idea. Much less expensive than driving from town to town trying to save 10cents per gallon. Hopefully it will work for you too.

Long Island, Bend Over and...

Remove the poll from up your A$$es. I am by no means a slow driver, but the aggression I witness daily on the Southern State Parkway and the roads all over Nassau is disgraceful. Last week I stopped to let an elderly woman cross in a cross walk and some constipated guy in a Hummer started Honking at me and then drove around me as the old lady toddled in front of my car. This was in a PARKING lot, a place old ladies should feel safe. Well, not anymore. Everyone is too stressed out from paying $500,000 on average to live in a shack on Long Island and then pay out more in taxes. Even so, the maniacs on the road are getting worse and there are more of them.

So maybe this time I'll ask nicely: Fellow Long Islanders, please slow down on the road and please take the poll out from up your a$$es before you sit down in your car. Thanks!

New Look for Fall

I know my blog has very low readership, but I thought I'd announce my new look. Actually I just picked a slightly less nauseating template. I'm sure this one will make me sick in a few months too.

If any of you ever click on the photos I post they will bring you to allposters.com. I only use that site because basically it gives me free image content for my blog without having to worry about any permissions etc. As long as the photo links to them, they are happy to let me use the images. Sure if someone bought a poster after clicking on the image on my blog, I'd get a commission, but it would be all of about 2cents. So that's not why I do it.

It has been a long time since I blogged properly, but some of you may know I'm pregnant and due next month. I've been feeling larger than life and tired, so it's hard to find the spare energy sitting uncomfortably in front of the PC. Now I'm off to begin true blogging once again...