should have just asked for the bb gun...

get 'em young, raise 'em the wrong way?

Mike the Mad Biologist:

A colleague looking to buy Christmas gifts went to the Discovery Channel store page and noticed that boys and girls had two different pages. It's nice to see that a company supposedly dedicated to scientific inquiry has decided that girls don't like or want science.

The examples are pretty bad; the girls section includes "the Discovery Knit Kit" and "Discovery Friendship Bracelets" while the boys section has "Discovery Whodunit? Forensics Lab".

you did know morris dancers were wierd, right?

>Neighbors, please note that the announcement of holiday
>entertainments I just forwarded to the list includes the Foggy Bottom
>Morris Men doing their infamous Christmas Mummers Play at the Gazebo.
>This group, of which I am a member, has in past years performed this
>VERY SAME "entertainment" in the WACO neighborhood. I assure you that
>you can expect the same level of professionalism, the same tired
>lines, lame jokes, painful puns, and rotten acting. The "performers"
>will also do the perplexing and sedate Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, as
>well as some more energetic Morris Dances so that we, at least, will
>be warmer than the unfortunate audience. That's the evening of
>Thursday, Dec. 21 starting at 6:30 pm. You have been warned!
>
>Also, those of you with children, be advised that immediately
>following the Dec. 21 performance at the Gazebo, we will subject the
>annual Takoma Park Library Winter Solstice Celebration to the very
>same performance, though having run through it at the Gazebo, we
>might (faint hope) know our lines better by then. The program is in
>the Children's Room. Why you would want to subject a child to this is
>beyond me, unless of course he or she has been BAD.
>
>That program starts around 7:00 pm with more wholesome entertainments.

Sent by one of our members to a Takoma Park residents mailing list...

Fripp on traditional wedding vows

Robert Fripp's Diary:

Only snuggllng, assurances of love & devotion, a tickling of feet & toes (and on this occasion, sharing sweet bean treats returned from Japan), returns her to the person that promised to love, honour & obey me. I knew at the time that these three promises were already at least one too far, but it seemed inappropriate while the vows were being made to query details.