An interesting & well written Tale

Movies I am looking forward to:



( Cut for flist-saving purposes )

For Sarah:

( Heroesbook. )

(cross-posted to baby_names)

Every year, my local newspaper has this giant section devoted to the babies who were born over the past year. Being a giant geek, for the past three years, I've compiled all the baby names to see which ones were most popular. Keep in mind that these statistics represent people in my city who have the money and the inclination to put their kid's picture and name into this special feature thing... Anyway, that said:

Out of 664 babies born in 2008...

( Click here to see all the exciting statistics. )

And my vote for the worst names for 2008, for boys: Jaxon, Ayrton-Anthony, Braylon, Broden, Chaseton (probably THE worst), and Zaidan.

And for girls: Finnleigh, Braylin, Gracyn, Jadyn, Jorja, Kailey-Ann, Paighton, Pyper.

MAH ICONS.

default	oldest	newest
saddest	happiest	angriest
cutest	sexiest	funniest
fave ship	fave fandom	fave animated
best quote	best textless	best stolen idea
use the most	favorite	use the least

HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 42
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 49
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: I did before, but I let it expire.
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: If there's some statement to be made by the obvious facts that I have no sexy icons, no sad icons, and an overabundance of Stephen Colbert, then yes.
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: If Stephen Colbert is a fandom, there you go. If not, Strangers With Candy, which shockingly enough involves Stephen Colbert.
AND THE SECOND MOST: Harry Potter.
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Chuck/Geoffrey from Strangers With Candy.
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: Yes.
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: Sometimes, but they're basically just cropped pictures.
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: See above.
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: ...Animated. I guess.

DO THE MEME.

I had no idea what was meant by 'best stolen idea', so I just used Gandalf, since I stole him from somewhere...

The icon that I'm using for this post really should have gone on the last one. I need to start actually using appropriate icons. My default icon is getting overworked. She's up in that tree, saying, "I'm not coming down from this branch until I've got overtime pay and at least twelve vacation days a year."

Yes. I have also been watching inauguration stuff all day. So far I approve of both of Michelle Obama's outfits, and that's what I'm mentioning because obviously that's what everyone really cares about, here.

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama... muaha. :P

On CNN, some reporter was at one of the balls, saying, "This is probably the most formal ball tonight." But in the background, all I could hear was:



I think they should have T.I. perform, because he did, after all, sing "I want Joe Biden, need Joe Biden."

Me and my sister also for some reason started contemplating a Mamma Mia! themed inauguration. I'm not sure how it started. For some reason I began with: "Rahm Emanuel jumps up and says, 'Let me get this straight - I may be Barack's father, but it may be Dianne Feinstein, or Harry Reid?!'"

Then Obama says, "Now I really know what I want! Biden, let's just not get inaugurated yet! Let's travel the world instead!" And Biden picks up Barack Obama, and they exit the stage.

Everything is in confusion, until Hillary Clinton appears and says, "Hold on, why waste a good inauguration?"

Then everyone breaks into song and dance. The highlight is when John McCain sings, "If you change your mind, I'm the first in line! America, I'm still free! Take a chance on me!" But then Obama and Biden return, and begin breakdancing to an ABBA cover of 'Changes' by Tupac.

Our Littlest Crisis, told through the aid of pictures I've got saved on my computer. Let us begin:









( Ladies and gentlemen, hold onto your cowboy hats. )

My sister showed me this, and it is pretty much the best thing ever. It's 'Pride and Prejudice', told in the form of the Facebook news feed.

Austenbook

Trust me, it's awesome.

I know many Canadians take great joy in being completely ignorant about the way their government functions. That's fine. But if you are completely ignorant, keep your ignorant mouth shut when it comes to politics. If you can't explain to me how a parliamentary system works, don't even think about trying to tell me that this is a coup d'etat, and, oh my goodness, we need to call the military. Newsflash: the military is busy in the Arctic, making sure Denmark doesn't steal anymore rocks from us.

( Everything you never wanted to know about our current delightful situation. )

That's all for now. If people have thoughtful, educated reasons for not supporting the coalition, that's great. I don't think this coalition is the best thing to ever happen omg, either. It's just the lesser of a lot of evils at this point. All I want for Christmas is for people to stop regurgitating the misinformation that the Conservatives are actively pushing.

Please, Santa.

So last year for Canadian History class, I had to do an assignment on Martin Frobisher. I went to Wikipedia to find out who exactly this guy was, and found that someone had messed with his article.

THIS is Martin Frobisher. I had thought that the articles of men from the 1500s who explored Canada might be obscure enough to not be targeted, but clearly I underestimated the power of bored school children.

Vastly underestimated.

( The Saga of Martin Frobisher. Pictorial Evidence. Warning: foul language, immaturity, and nonsense await. )

These edits all occurred between February 2007 and around September 2008. There could have been earlier edits, but I didn't go that far back. One day perhaps I will, if I can work up the courage.

This will be the final Sims update before the election.





( Gigantic Final Sims Update - for all the Americans reading this, DON'T FORGET TO VOTE! )

I'll be posting the last Sims update before the election soon, but before I do, I thought I'd share this:



Watch it - there's a twist!

The Petrelli family is more dysfunctional than ever, and IT IS AWESOME.

<3 the crazy Petrellis, and their connexions the badass Bennets.

Man dies in Quebec cemetery after tombstone falls on him

A 77-year-old man died Monday night in a cemetery in Buckingham in western Quebec after a tombstone fell on top of him, police say.

Officers said the man had gone to St. Gregoire Cemetery to visit the site where his parents were buried and was digging next to a tombstone when it fell.

"It appears he moved the stone and was digging a hole around the foundation when the concrete block fell on his back," said Const. Isabelle Poirier.

Another visitor to the cemetery noticed an apparently abandoned car on the grounds at the corner of Buckingham Avenue and Lépine Avenue and called police just after 7 p.m.

Officers searched the cemetery for the car driver and found the man under the gravestone. Paramedics pronounced him dead on the scene.

Not many this time, but I thought I'd upload some more, as they keep mysteriously appearing in my magical Heroes folder, and they seem to be popular.





( More wonderful pictures. )

Now that I've got all this free time, I figured that I owed the world a Sims update.



( The VP candidates arrive. )

Now for that essay...

This is one of my favourite stories.

One evening, the gravedigger's wife was sitting at home with her black cat, Old Tom, waiting for her husband to return. She waited and waited, and she was almost asleep, when finally he came bursting in, looking very distraught.

"Who is Tom Tildrum?" he demanded. When his wife declared she didn't know, he told her his story:

"I was digging a grave," he said, "when what do I see, but nine black cats, just like Old Tom here, come walking up, carrying a coffin with a coronet of gold. When they reached me, they stopped, and the biggest cat turned to me and said, 'Tell Tom Tildrum that Tim Toldrum's dead.' And then they went on their way. I came rushing back home, but how can I tell Tom Tildrum that Tim Toldrum's dead, if I don't know who Tom Tildrum is?!"

At that, Old Tom the black cat lept up and shouted, "If Tim Toldrum's dead, then I'm the King o' the Cats!"

And he rushed up the chimney, and was never seen again.

I figured if I'm going to be mostly gone till October, I should leave you with a post full of awesome, so here it is.

Here is my first post full of awesome.

( The awesome continues here. )

Yes. The Candidates are finally back. I checked, and I haven't updated this since March, so I feel very ashamed. Anyway, I wanted to get this out before they chose their running mates, so here it is.


( Part Six, or something. )