Trick or Treat

[shanmonster]

My sister just got back from a vacation in Missouri. While down there, she visited a casino. She had to present identification to the bouncer to be let in. He looked at her ID, made a confused face and said, "Canada. What state is that?"

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In other news, Siobhan, snowy_kathryn, littlekeltie, and I got all dressed up to go to a costume competition at the Social Club last night. When we got there, we were astonished at how many people were lined up. There were hundreds! We waited and waited and waited (probably for more than a half hour) and only progressed about ten feet in the queue. Costumes of all sorts abounded. Ahead of us in line was a guy dressed as a box of Tampax. I'll betcha he won the competition, or at least placed. I also saw a man with the biggest wig I've ever seen. If you stretch your arms out to the side as far as you can, well, that's about how big it was. Crazy!

I was being buffeted and shoved and jammed by queue-jumper bimbos. Fuckers. Then, after overcrowding and waiting far too long, we discovered that only members and their guests were welcome. It didn't say that in the advertisements! Grr... So we hiked all the way back downtown again. Keltie and Siobhan decided not to do the all-dressed-up-and-no-place-to-go thing and journeyed to the bars downtown, but Kathryn and I turned in early. We had a beginnners' dance class this morning, after all.

I dressed up again today. I'm currently a bellyrina. I'm wearing a black tutu with an orange hip scarf. I think my outfit amused my students. Tonight, I'll be going out as an evil queen. After a potluck supper, I'm going trick-or-treating, and then I'm off to yet another Rocky Horror Picture Show. This one's at Pitchman's Pub at midnight. Would you like to join us there?

And now, I shall offload all the links clogging up my browser.

Son of Spam: "We receive dozens of variations of the ubiquitous ubiquitous Nigerian Scam in our inbox every day. Usually we just file them away, but once in a while one comes along remarkable for its audacity or its humor. The one quoted below is an example of the latter category, although the humor is intentional — it's a parody which has been around since early 2004 and neatly incorporates a plethora of common spam pitches into its text."

Hamsters in Hats: Get your hamsters dressed up for Hallowe'en, too (this one's for you, cynebeah)!

Samoa Worm Sperm Spawns Annual Fiesta: "The first biologists to describe the Samoan palolo scientifically, in the 19th century, made an interesting observation: The swarming worm has no head." And they're tasty, too.

The road to Abu Ghraib: Pseudoscience, incorporealism, goat labs, and war. It reads like an excerpt from a Joseph Heller book, except this isn't fiction.

Forever Yours: Taxiderm you dead grandma? Why not? It's good satire because I can easily see someone doing it.

And now, since it's Hallowe'en, here are some dressed-up kitty cats from the 1930s.

Comments

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

In that Road to Abu Ghraib article, it
seems that at least the thing about
shooting goats is real. I found this
article a while back, but never posted
it:

http://www.gazette.com/display.php?sid=1205429

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

That article about getting your
loved ones stuffed and mounted
is a joke...isn't it?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Considering the strict laws and regulations on how corpses must be handled, I should imagine so.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Which state is that?

Heh...