Some pretty photos of the Illuminations de Noël à Paris Above is the dressed up Mouffetard,Cette année, 50 rues et places de 30 quartiers de la capitale s'illuminent pour Noël grâce à l'opération 'Paris illumine Paris'.
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Stumble aimlessly amid the trolls and waste, but remember what peace there be in staring at your toes for a couple of weeks. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all readers. Publish your posts quietly and clearly, and listen to podcasts, even the dull and garbled, for they too have a right to hog bandwidth. Avoid loud and aggressive bloggers. They are pains in the ass.
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A newlywed couple, a blind man, an Iranian mullah, a chicken, a used car dealer, Judith Regan, a proctologist, and a Hollywood starlet, along with a nun, a man who just received a gorilla brain transplant, two Hassidic Jews, a stuttering hotel clerk, and a can of Spam are riding in a compact car.
Suddenly, they hear a siren and a state trooper motions the vehicle to pull over. 'License and registration,' says the cop. 'You've exceeded the legal character limit in this joke.'
There’s a “green line” that runs down the middle of Ohio. For points to the West of that line, it is more carbon efficient to consume wine trucked from California. To the East of that line, it’s more efficient to consume the same sized bottle of wine from Bordeaux, which has had benefited from the efficiencies of container shipping, followed by a shorter truck trip.
| You Are 60% Open Minded |
 You are a very open minded person, but you're also well grounded. Tolerant and flexible, you appreciate most lifestyles and viewpoints. But you also know where you stand firm, and you can draw that line. You're open to considering every possibility - but in the end, you stand true to yourself. |
Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris, a pretty 18th-century coaching inn in Durham and an all-night kebab shop in London - eating out has never been sexier.
The most risque recommendation we got? From Mourad Mazouz, owner of Sketch. Apparently if you go to Bordo in Moscow, a restaurant and, ahem, gentleman's club, naked women will drape themselves around as you eat. Rooms for 'private use' are available by the hour, if it all gets a bit too much.
Each year Veterans Affairs Canada commissions the design of a poster to commemorate Veterans' Week. It is hoped that these posters will remind Canadians of the sacrifices and achievements made by Canada's veterans, during times of war and peace.
Nothing over the course of many years of having dinner parties prepared me for the list, provided without request, by the couple I invited to my new Los Angeles home. It contained the items they would not consume: no red meat; no dairy; fish only if grilled, but no salmon; and please, no button mushrooms. Once at my table to eat their prenegotiated meal of grilled tuna and dry couscous, the husband spotted flecks of garlic in the mango salsa and recoiled, demanding to know if he had indeed spied a mote of cheese.
No surprises here. Amy's place looks exactly as I'd pictured it.Of all the protagonists in America’s horrible string of high-profile political assassinations and attempts in the 1960’s, 1970’s and early 1980’s, Arthur H. Bremer, who tried to kill Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, appears to be the first and only one to become a free man again. He was released on parole today in Maryland.
Meet Burd... So here's the dead Burd that started it all....my friend Glendene took this pic of a (posed) dead bird while in Kentucky and left it up to my 'mad skills' on Microsoft Publisher to jazz the little dude up...Here he is after a night on the town.
Newman claimed an intimate knowledge of my wife's and my sex lives, with each other and elsewhere. He knows nothing of these subjects; the passages are frequently defamatory. Only a qualified psychotherapist could say what would possess an author who takes himself seriously to write such drivel. His principal comment on my current legal travails has been to regale Canadian television viewers with predictions that I will spend many years being sexually assaulted in U.S. correctional institutions. I think not, but I will leave that one also to the psychotherapists.
I sincerely hope that Newman responds with a figurative bitch slap. I'll keep you posted.Now 78, shambling about in his ridiculous sailor's cap, bilious and at least verbally incontinent, Newman is pitiful, but not at all sympathetic. Canada and Canadian letters and journalism would benefit from his subsidence.
Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder, treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, ’twas his intent
To blow up the King and Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope.
A farthing o’ cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we’ll say ol’ Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah hoorah!
You can now leap up to 6 feet, run lightening speeds up to 23 MPH with ease and take 9-foot strides like Steve Austin’s Six Million Dollar Bionic Man with recent aerospace employed technology using Velocity Stilts for a new sport coined as ‘Bocking’ or ‘Powerbocking.’
Scientists have announced the death of the first animal to break the language barrier, a female chimpanzee called Washoe who could communicate 250 words in human sign language.
Celebrity chef Daniel Bouloud gave this all-American dish a fancy French makeover and a couture price tag. His version of the classic ground beef burger is stuffed with red wine-braised short ribs (off the bone), foie gras, a mix of root vegetables and preserved black truffle.Sounds tasty but would you pay $120.00 for it?
| You Should Be a Social Worker |
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It's as if the Pied Piper of Hamlyn came and spirited them away. For the 4th year in a row not one trick or treater has come to our door! We buy candy and Baby Nag carves a pumpkin, hoping to appeal to little hobgoblins but all for naught. I'm thinking that the street buzz goes something like this, "Whatever you do don't go to ** Johnson St. A crazy old Nag lives there and she'll put you in a cage and fatten you up and eat you for breakfast, leaving your tasty brains for last."
