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.