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Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #765
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archive for February of 2008
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #759
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I know I am a dearth of content of late
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You Are Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
 “We saved the world. I say we have to party.” |
Annoyances
Annoyance one:
I was really excited about going over to Mason tonight to see the former president, the one whose wife I’m voting for tomorrow. I got my stuff together, I drove over, I paid five dollars to park, and then it all turned to shit. No signage, no visible volunteers directing people around, no security even. The permanent maps in the parking garage said “concert hall” but it wasn’t a building with seats, it was the student center-slash-library, and I guess the event was in this middle atrium area, which you can see if you are in it or if you are right up against the railing on one of the four upper levels. If you’re not right up against the railing, you can’t see down into the atrium.
The building was stuffed with people, and maybe 100 of them had a view of the shitty pop cover band that was playing to kill time before the event. Lots of students were eating and studying and doing whatever they normally do in the library (which, by the way, I hope isn’t Mason’s main library, because it was so small! are university libraries just a joke now in the age of the internet?), and their frustration with the crowd was clear.
I saw maybe four people with Hillary buttons on or carrying signs, nothing like the massive publicity I’d have tried to be passing out if it had been up to me. Maybe quadruple the number of volunteers would have made it so you could tell where to go or what to do, and the only guards I saw were Mason police cadets herding people away from one particular part of the railing on the third and fourth levels. The elevators were stuffed with people trying to go up and down to find a place to stand; the stairs were worse, a real fire hazard. The eight feet or so between the railings and the book stacks were completely packed with people, but like I said, no one could really see anything.
Maybe if I’d gotten there two or three hours early I could have been positioned in a place where I could see anything. I was really expecting an auditorium environment, someplace with seats plus standing room, like they show on TV, not just the lobby of the college library, and I remain absolutely stunned by the lack of security. I worried about whether I’d be allowed to carry my good camera with a long lens without a press credential; a laughable concern, as I could have carried anything into that place.
What also stuns me is that the only reason I knew where to park was that I had turned on the AM radio station that broadcasts campus visitor information. There were no signs. I realize this was one event among many, the night before the primary, the campaign manager was fired yesterday, and it wasn’t even an event attended by the candidate herself, but come on. I remember events of a similar scope at Tech and there were always signs all over the place, and that was even without the involvement of the Secret Service, who I would assume have a little experience with crowd control. This is no way to run a railroad.
Complete waste of time.
Annoyance two:
Man, I don’t even remember what annoyance two was. This whole thing has been that disappointing.
Stew Pot: The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats board game you can print and play
Ape Lad posted a photo:
Rules, etc, here:
apelad.blogspot.com/2008/02/stew-pot-board-game-you-can-p...
the price is right, really it is
(Contestant wins a pool table.)
(Next prize: scuba equipment.)
Drew: Do you scuba dive?
Contestant: No, I don’t.
Drew: Well, you can wear the scuba equipment while you play pool!
(Contestant wins scuba equipment.)
(Next prize: wine cabinet.)
Drew: Now, if you’re going to wear scuba equipment while you’re playing pool, let’s face it, you’re going to need a lot of wine.
(Contestant wins wine cabinet.)
(Next prize: PT Cruiser.)
Drew: So now you can get drunk, play pool in your scuba equipment, and then
(slight awkward pause)
–when you’re all sobered up–
hop in your PT Cruiser!
(Contestant wins car.)
Fun jigsaw puzzle
Give it a try!
http://www.smart-kit.com/games/jigsaw/
Don’t give up too fast. It’s very satisfying.
Want some hints? Okay. The resulting picture is square. Almost every character is properly affected by gravity (heads up, feet down). Look for the weird-shaped openings. Do the big pieces first.
And click here if you just want to see the answer.
