CRIME IN JAPAN

It is completely out of control.

(Thanks to Alberto Mengoni)

Comments

[slyeyes]

Jeff, KC doesn't need to be anymore out than he is.

[BigD®]

petroleum distillates: $2.18

[DDi]

*rubs eyes*

I'm having a helluva a morning thus far. It seems my eyes are still asleep. I keep reading KC as KFC, and its making me hungry.

[Eleanor]

*zips in*

Gas here, I saw yesterday, is down to $2.65 for the middle gas - amazing. Wish I needed some. *sigh*

Temps are supposed to get up to 80F today, yay!

The sun is already out.
/end su.co.ca. report

[Kibby F5™]

Prague - sunny, cold

... that is all.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Here it is overcast, windy and chilly, even though it is 60 degrees. Rain supposed to arrive tonight, and continue overnight.

Friday it gets cold.

/end weather report

[Jeff Meyerson]

On the funny names for places thing: we do know a couple who live at Moreton-Under-Lugg.

[DDi]

Chilly and rainy today, in to the evening and tomorrow, are you ready!? SNOW FLURRIES are POSSIBLE!

*faints*

[Jeff Meyerson]

Here's a good one sent by a friend of Jackie's:

Little Johnny attended a horse auction with his father. He watched as his father moved from horse to
horse, running his hands up and down the horse's
legs and rump, and chest. After a few minutes,
Johnny asked, "Dad, why are you doing that?" His
father replied, "Because when I'm buying horses, I
have to make sure that they are healthy and in good
shape before I buy. Johnny, looking worried, said,
"Dad, I think the UPS guy wants to buy Mom"

[wolfie]

cold and rainy. possible snow tonight.
*twitches*

robin williams new movie is pretty good. i give it a thumbs up.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Tell me, don't you think by the time you're 60 years old and President of the fricking United States you should be able to pronounce NUCLEAR correctly?

Sheesh!

[DDi]

With all due respect, the pronunciation of NUCLEAR was studied recently and it has been proven that MANY EDUCATED PROFESSIONALS pronounce NUCLEAR the way our President does.

Of course that's not the right way, but people do it.

It's ok. Really.

[Jeff Meyerson]

That doesn't make it right, Di.

[DDi]

I didn't say it did make it right. I just said it's OK. Eisenhower, Carter and Clinton are all former Presidents who have been noted as using "nucular" in place of "nuclear".

IMO, there are a million other important things in this world to get hung up on... for example - if it's barely 10:30am, if one eats now, does that make it an early lunch? Or a late breakfast? Anyone?

[Trillian]

that's why brunch was invented

[DDi]

BTW, allow me to explain when I say "OK", I mean "It is what it is"... Just like when D.Q. couldn't spell his produce while visiting the classroom of little ones way back when. It's OK.

Just like Pop and Soda and Coke.

PS: I dont like how he pronounces it either, but eh! It is what it is. I'm more interested in his thoughts on the reactions we'll have when North Korea really does send a gift this way. Then what? At that point whatever you or I call it won't matter, because we wont be here anymore. The only things left will be the roaches.

[Sarcasmo]

Here's a couple of pet peeves of mine that are used by a majority of people:

24/7/365 - 24/7 pretty much covers it, if you want to make the next logical step it would be 24/7/52 NOT 365.

IRregardless - regardless gets the job done, IRregardless just makes you sound like a twit.

[DDi]

Snap dragon Trillian! There you go! Thanks!

[slyeyes]

So, what's a meal that's eaten at 3:00 in the afternoon?

Dunch?

Lupper?

Sunch?

Linner?

Important questions, IMHO.

[wolfie]

snack.

[Trillian]

tea

[DDi]

At 3pm, its first dinner and 8pm, its second dinner?

Better a twit than a twat, I always say.

[Sarcasmo]

Speaking of T.W.A.T.

[«LabSpecimen»]

The problem isn't so much that the DPRK will send a gift this way, as much as how freely the DPRK shares weapon technology.

[BigD®]

I vote for Lupper.

[Eleanor]

Very cute, Sarc!
/end tiny bit of sarc-asm

Speaking of meals, in the past couple of weeks I've received snail mail invitations for a free lunch and a free dinner, if I'd just listen to a presentation about how to best invest my investments, so to speak.

So CG and I took a look at them, thinking, well.....maybe. The were at pretty good restaurants.

LUNCH: 10:30a.m.

DINNER: 3:30p.m.

We passed.

[wolfie]

i could do dinner at 3:30. of course i'd call it lunch, but for free i'd go.

[Susan]

A racoon took my pants? Hmmm. *makes a note to play "Rocky Rac(c)oon" in a few minutes*

KC and the chicken...GNFARB, or just really strange?

Kaf, the kids weren't wearing your underwear I would hope...

I've been to Charlotte many many times...but never through Gaffney, so I've never seen the peach.

If you look at the link to Cheraw that Jeff posted, (Thank you!) the Cheraw town hall is where I was last night, upstairs in the court room.

Gas is about $2.07 right now...

Sarc...I agree on the 24/7. 52 would be next.

Weatherwise, temps down to 40 or so by Friday.

[Trillian]

what about 24/7/4/12?

[insomniac]

52 weeks would give you a day off once a year anyway...(2 in leap years)

[Susan]

I may go crazy next week. At least I don't have to do the morning show over across the river...but I will have to go over and do the program logs, and news, and all that fun stuff...

I was there this morning, took allll kinds of notes on doing the logs, since I haven't done them over there in a while...

And just got a phone call about something else regarding the logs.

(My notes make it seem more complicated than it is...)

The playlist...

(And I didn't get a chance to play Rocky.)

Wednesday 10-11-06 All Request Lunch Hour
News
“What’s Love Got To Do With It” Tina Turner
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“Hot In The City” Billy Idol
“December ‘63” Four Seasons
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“You Make My Dreams” Hall and Oates
“Let’s Spend The Night Together” Rolling Stones
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“Straight On” Heart
“Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” Steely Dan
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“You Shook Me All Night Long” AC/DC---Vicky
“Hot Legs” Rod Stewart
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“Cruel Summer” Bananarama
“Roll To Me” Del Amitri
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“Kentucky Rain” Elvis Presley---someone in Chesterfield

Lunchtime!

[Leetie]

I'm with Trillian.

[Marie in Kourou]

A meal eaten at 3 PM is called teatime. Unless, of course, the meal doesn't actually include tea, in which case it's a late lunch... to me, anyway.

Dizzy Gillespie was born in Cheraw. Who knew? (Not me!)

[Kafaleni]

The 4 would have to be a variable, though, because there's 4 weeks in a lunar month, not a calendar month. Except for February, three years out of four. To get a full year, you either have to be incredibly precise (a full year is 365.25 days, which is why the leap year every 4th year.. you throw in an extra day to use up all your quarters.) or if using 52 weeks, you need to give one (two in a leap year) off. If you go with 24/7/4/12, that's only 48 weeks per year, and there's 4 weeks and 1 day holidays built in, so it can never genuinely be Open All Hours. In NZ, even the 24/7 places shut for the major holidays (Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Christmas Day and opening at 1pm on Anzac Day) but they usually shut at the last possible moment, and shifts start again at midnight the next day. I think "Open 24 Hours Daily" covers it nicely. Why be verbose when you don't have to be? *rereads post* Um, never mind.

The funniest place name I can think of isn't really that funny to New Zealanders but a lot of people find it quite amusing is Whakatane. It looks fairly innocent until you say the name out loud, because the Maori pronunciation give "Wh" an "F" and their "A" is pronounced as an "uh" and the "e" has an "a" sound (don't ask.. :)) So it comes out sounding like Fuh-kuh-tun-ay.

[Kafaleni]

Marie.. I knew. That's why they have a Dizzy Gillespie day (or possibly a festival) each year, to honour the town's most famous export

[DDi]

*head spinning*

[«LabSpecimen»]

*after sever bouts of falling asleep*

Thanks, Kaf. Except that a lunar month isn't 28 days, a year isn't 365.25 days long, and there isn't always a leap year every four years. Irregardless, it was intoxicating reading your soliloqui.

[«LabSpecimen»]

Who is Dizzy Gillespie? Did he play for the Yankees or something?

[Eleanor]

Yes. He was the 3rd baseman before A-Rod showed up.

[Eleanor]

Susan!
Light my Fire!

Are you trippin'?

Long or short version?

[«LabSpecimen»]

Well then, who's on first?

[rita]

{{{Susan}}}

I'm a Special Ed assistant so I'm familiar with Aspergers, but I don't know much about it. I work with the school's head of SpEd, and I'd be glad to ask her about it if you want.

[«LabSpecimen»]

Head of Sped wbagnfa death metal b.

[rita]

Gas is $1.85 here. Or $1.95 or $1.99, depending on the part of town. Even over the mountain in Fumbuck it's only $2.20.

[Kafaleni]

Lab, that's what I said.

[Kafaleni]

Also.. if none of the above is true.. are there still 24 hours in a day?

[Sarcasmo]

So long as it's not 24/7/365, I'm fine with it. Either 24/7/52 or 24/7/4/12 although, you prolly won't get much buy in on that one as it takes more time to say.

I also agree that "open 24 hours a day" pretty much sums it up.

RE: Funny Names - we have Bucksnort here in TN

[Susan]

Let's see if this works. I was trying to reply, and took a detour to the Cheraw site (cheraw.com, of course) to see if there was a listing for the Jazz festival. I think there is, but my FF (not fantasy football) froze up trying to load the adobe page...

This is the first Jazz festival here...the South Carolina Jazz festival. Last year I did the lunch hour featuring Dizzy that Friday, October 21....and plan to do the same the 20th. I don't know how much I can get by other performers, but I did email someone I went to school with, whose jazz trio is playing Friday and Saturday, and he's supposed to be sending something...

Well, we'll see what I get.

[Leetie]

*bucksnort*

[Sarcasmo]

We could change it to Butt*snork* to be more in line with the blog.

[insomniac]

the 'sidereal' day is 23 hours 56 minutes which is because we don't see the same stars every night...

[«LabSpecimen»]

1 day = 24 hours exactly, almost always.

[Leetie]

The internets have told me that 1 lunar month = approximately 29.53059 days

Have we beaten this subject to death yet?

[Leetie]

Does anybody really know what time it is?

[Marie in Kourou]

It's always pivo:30 somewhere in the world.

[«LabSpecimen»]

You can lead a dead horse to water, but don't look it in the mouth.

[Blogchik]

I pronounce the word 'nu-kya-ler' or 'nu-clee-er' or 'nu-kyu-ler' depending. Depending on what, I don't know. It's like either. I used to pronounce it only EEther, but then I encountered more people who pronounce it EYEther, and now I'll use EYEther if I really want to emphasize my point but otherwise use EEther.

There's a prayer at church that uses the word "neither." I grew up pronouncing it NEEther, but the former priest at my home parish pronounces it NYEther (he's from Jersey) so I picked it up from him when saying the prayer. Here at school they pronounce it NEEther and I wind up saying it NEEther the first time and NYEther the second. (There are two "neither"s in the prayer.)

Guy Of Interest still hasn't written me an email. It's been 3 days. I'm going nuts here. Is he not interested anymore? I should just chill. I haven't even met the guy yet. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

But still, I really like this guy.

[«LabSpecimen»]

I just heard a slow, accoustic version of "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song", and let me tell ya, it sounds like a completely different song.

[Leetie]

Did it have any cowbell?

[DDi]

By Maps?

[«LabSpecimen»]

No, no cowbells.

[«LabSpecimen»]

I think it was still the Flaming Lips.

[slyeyes]

*applies chapstick*

[Higgy]

What this song needs....is more cowbell....

Really explore the space...

[BigD®]

We have Hanging Dog

[Will Farrel]

I agree.

[Will Farrel]

From CNN Breaking News:

-- New York Yankees manager Joe Torre says the plane that crashed into a building in Manhattan is registered to team pitcher Cory Lidle.

[slyeyes]

oops, forgot to change my name.

[Leetie]

Speaking of hanging dogs... a video of Lucy"

[Blogchik]

They used to say "24 by 7" where I used to work this summer.

Don't beat a dead horse into a bushel.

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

A flaming dead horse was beaten 24/7/4/12/52/365?

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

Does anyone else have to eat colored foods in a pattern? No just me then. Ok.

[jamester]

LTTG, but Jeff, back to baseball for a moment. I looked up the 1959 Dodger's lineup -
3 outstanding starting pitchers - Podres, Koufax, Drysdale. Larry Sherry in relief.
3 or 4 players who were the class of their postions: Gil Hodges, Carl Furillo, Duke Snider, and you could make a case for Wally Moon and/or Ron Fairly (at that time).
Coming up rookies who were on the club: Maury Wills, Tommy Davis.
I'd call that a pretty good team, myself, but then I'm a partisan, of course...
/end baseball trivia

[Eleanor]

*zips in*

RIP Corey Lidle.

He was 34.

[Jeff Meyerson]

R.I.P. Cory Lidle.

IRregardless - regardless gets the job done, IRregardless just makes you sound like a twit.

The one that has been bothering me lately is the use of "impact" as a verb. "The plane made a huge impact when it crashed into the building" is so much better than "the plane impacted the building" IMHO.

But Jackie says it is common usage and to get over it.

There "could" be showers tonight? HA! By 3:00 as we were driving back from the Island of Long it was (as our British friends might say) bucketing down with rain. Still is.

So, what's a meal that's eaten at 3:00 in the afternoon?

Sly, Jackie has always preferred "linner".

LUNCH: 10:30a.m.

DINNER: 3:30p.m.

Were these restaurants in so.cal. El, or South Florida?

Dizzy Gillespie was born in Cheraw. Who knew? (Not me!)

Me! Me! I knew. So did Kibby. And probably all other visitors to Cheraw. Susan took us on the tour and we saw Dizzy's park. Nice place.

This is the first Jazz festival here...the South Carolina Jazz festival. Last year I did the lunch hour featuring Dizzy that Friday, October 21....and plan to do the same the 20th.

Susan, the 20th is the first day of the Third Annual Vegas Blogmeet. I don't know if anyone else but us will be there by lunchtime, but I doubt we'll get to listen to Dizzy & you that day.

Partay!

Now that is a hangdog, Leetie!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Koufax was 8-6 with a 4.05 ERA.

Furillo had 93 ABs and 13 RBIs.

Wills had 7 SBs and 242 ABs.

Larry Sherry, one of the stars of the World Series, appeared in 23 games, 9 of which he started.

Ron Fairly hit .238 with 23 RBIs.

To me they were a mediocre team who benefited from the ridiculous ballpark they played in that year.

Compare them to the Milwaukee Braves, who should have won their third straight pennant. Look at Aaron or Matthews or Spahn or Burdette.

The Braves were underachievers.

[Jeff Meyerson]

But then, compare them to the 1981 or 1988 World Series champions, they don't look so bad...

[Blogchik]

It is raining here too, Jeff. Of course, I'm not that far away from Brooklyn. I need to go to the pharmacy but I don't want to get wet.

We have a sort-of deck area which is the roof of the building next to ours. At one time people must have used it that way. Anyways, I sprayed this Spray-n-wash stuff on my Polartec jacket (I spilled something on it last semester that won't wash out) and left it out on the deck because the fumes were bothering me. Then I took a nap. I woke up and it was pouring and my jacket had fallen down. I had to go out there and retrieve it. Then I got locked out of the building and had to pound furiously on the door to get let in!

I guess I should put it in the washer and see if it'll get clean this time...

[jamester]

yeah, it wasn't until next yr that Wills (my all time favorite player) stole 50.
1981 was all about pitching.
1988 was all about pitching and Kirk Gibson's HR against the As. That was one of the best moments of my sports fan life.

[neophyte]

Leetie! Your dog is great! And it looks like a wonderful excersize, too! How long can you dangle the dog (this is not a euphamism) before your arm gives out?

And back to the meal discussion, I often eat brlupper around 2:30 or 3:00.

[«LabSpecimen»]

My favorite is the 1919 World Series. I had a ten-spot on the Reds.

[neophyte]

I had a g-... um... never mind.

[bbescuela]

But Lab, weren't you pitching for the White Sox?!?!

[Mad Scientist Weasel]

Neo I had a g- oh nevermind.

[«LabSpecimen»]

No, BB. That was my uncle. I was named after him.

[Rocky Racoon]

boom boom, If my name were "Roky Raccoon" it would be pronounced "Roe ky". I'll stay a "one C" racoon, thanks.

[neophyte]

Hey!!! My friend J just called!! The surgery went very well!! The doctor was able to remove the cancer!! They'll have lab results in about a week, but it looks remarkably good, considering!!

They didn't put her under - she was AWAKE for the procedure. It was anesthesia that everyone was so worried about.

YAY!!!!!!

[Blogchik]

neo, happy to hear about J! :)
:D

Guy of Interest still hasn't written me an email...grrr.

I have nothing to add to tonight's baseball discussion, so I'll just tell you I found out how to use "Party Shuffle" on iTunes. Perhaps I'm easily amused, but I think it's cool! :)

[Blogchik]

On the weekend of the Blogmeet, I'll be at my parents' house. My friend is having a dance exhibition at the dance studio on the 21st and I promised himi I'd come. Also, incidentally, I'm scheduled to meet Guy of Interest on that day too.

I would have liked to have come, but no funds for that this year!

[me again]

The Cloaked One and Friends take up their assigned positions around the Moat. However, recent moat activity has been noted, so the leader silently signals to the others that the operation has been post-poned for the time being.

According to plan, they return to the pub. Due to his watching being out of sync with the others, The Little One was five minutes late. Though he had been warned, he had forgotten to adjust for the lunar month. The Cloaked One was forced to smack him in the back of the head for this transgression.

Pints of Guiness were ordered all around, as was a bucket of chicken.

Irregardless of the jocularity of The Others, The Cloaked One was concerned about how this delay would impact the mission. The image of the imploring look temporarily replacing the bewilderment in the kangaroo's eyes was a haunting one indeed.

Fortunately, the jukebox was fired up with a Dizzy Gillespie tune and someone got out his cowbell and played along.

[neophyte]

An imploring look
replacing bewilderment
We need more cowpens!

(I'm not here. I'm studying.)

[Blogchik]

Clearly we need more
Cowbell, cowbell, cow
bell in our lives here.

Guy of Interest wrote me an email!

I think I'm going to start abbreviating him to GoI. Or GI? What do you think--GI or GoI? The first's either "GastroIntestinal" [as in the tract] or a soldier; and the second is a Gentile [as in 'goy']. Should I make this a Y poll? GI or GoI?

[bbescuela]

How about IG (interest guy)? You could call him Iggy.

[Kafaleni]

Iggy is cool. I think that works well.

Today was Dad's friend's funeral. I'm going to ring him in a little while and see how it went.

Neo.. I'm so glad everything seems to be working out well for J - it's such a joy to hear positive news so soon!

What's the old cliche? You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much cowbell... I'm sure that's how it goes.

[Jeff Meyerson]

Hello?

The rain is over. It really came down hard for a while yesterday evening and last night. I had to laugh at one of the weather guys who claimed that not only would the Mets get their game in but there "might be minor disruptions".

NOT!

If you can't get that right, what's the point of the 5 (or 7) day forecast?

Anyway, hope today is a better day for all of us.

{{{Neo & J}}}

I'm so happy to hear that. We can all use all the good news we can get.

Blogchik, don't worry about being easily amused. I use the party shuffle most of the time I use my iPod (™).

It is cool!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Say you're on a business trip to Florida. You finish up and go to get your rental car from the hotel garage and run into this bad boy.

OMGWTFBBQ!

[Marie in Kourou]

My aunt's poodle, Juana, looks exactly like this dog, only in black. Same doggy smile and all-around perky, perky perkiness. Kawaiiiii!

Glad to hear the good news, Neo!

[Trillian]

It's snowing in some area of Southeast Michigan.
:(

[wolfie]

Putting in contacts when you've gotten 2 hours of sleep is really really painful.
Who left chicken bones on the floor?

El ~ ask and ye shall recieve. click me.

[slyeyes]

Good morning! Today is Snipers On the Roof Day.

Yes, W and Laura are coming to town.

W is coming here for a speech downtown at the Convention Center on biofuels; Laura is coming to plant a tree in Forest Park, to illuminate the Arch in pink for cancer awareness and for a Jim Talent fundraiser.

They are arriving in separate planes. THAT has some media types making comments about W here to talk about biofuels and they aren't even "planepooling".

None of their events are open to the public, but traffic WILL be disrupted.

Neo, great news about J!!