MEME: Wednesday Mind Hump – Going Postal

Happy Wednesday! Today's theme is supposed to be Back Hair Appreciation Day. Ick! Let's skip to tomorrow's theme, which is Postal Worker's Day.

Come on, Back Hair Appreciation Day? About the only good thing about back hair is the friction reduction one achieves when playing under the sheets, but that's countered by it getting tied into knots if the play becomes extra vigorous...

1. When is the last time you sent someone a letter in the mail?
Hooo, boy, it's been a while. A long while. Personal letter, hand written? Maybe 12 years? Business letter? Sometime in the past six months. Do you still put a stamp in the upper right hand corner of the envelope?
2. What usually comes in your mail?
Bills.
3. What kind of a mailbox do you have?
Plastic, black, looks as though I'd sat on it – it's “squat” in a breadloaf-shaped way. I got tired of kids smashing the big metal one to smithereens from the back of a pickup just to hear the ringing of the steel bat...
4. If you could send a package to your postal worker to show your appreciation, what would you send them? Well, my postal worker is a youngish (under 40 and we'll leave it at that) female, so a lace teddy was the first thing that came to mind. Bad dog. Back when I could afford such things, a bottle of single malt was the gift of choice, or some hand-tied flies – I knew my carrier's likes and dislikes in those days. Now I don't know her name and have no desire to, either. The less cause for jealousy, the better. The lumps on my head thank you...

Monday Music Mambo - Week 115 – Bright Ideas

Rfduck, mememeister of this bit of musical mayhem, let fly the fowl feces of fate with this broadside:

“Oh my! A mambo on a holiday! Well, let's do it anyway, because it's fun and not work. Today is (in addition to Labor Day) Bright Idea Day.”

Tell us your best idea to improve music - it could be a general idea, an idea for a specific genre, or a suggestion for a particular band or artist.

If you want to do a Labor Day question too, tell us who you think is the hardest working band/artist in music today - whatever "hardest working" means to you.

Until next time, this is your music-lovin' Mememeister saying have a good Monday and a good Mambo!

The rules are, there are no rules!!! All you need to do is copy and paste the above questions into your blog and add your responses. After you've finished, return here and leave us a comment so we'll know you've Mamboed. Be sure your Mambo is linked back to http://bdinsanity.blogdrive.com so others can dance too.

Remember, there are no right or wrong answers. If one of the questions doesn't inspire you then simply "pass" it. Just use your imagination and dance like crazy!

If you don't have a blog or you're an exhibitionist *woo hoo* feel free to Mambo right here in our comments section. There's absolutely no pressure ... although it's called the Monday Music Mambo you can Mambo on any day.

A bright idea concerning music, eh. How about this – henceforth, Madison Avenue may no longer employ popular, published music as the background for any advertising in any medium. Instead, new music must be commissioned for each new advertisement. Details regarding allowing theme music to appear in concurrent ad campaigns, repeats, etc. to be worked out by a newly established Federal Advertising Commission, operating in much the same way as the FCC does.

There, that'd screw up the media mogul little pinheads but good ... and make those assholes at the RIAA sit up and take notice, too.

Not terribly musical, but then again, that's what you get for making me labor on a Federal holiday without salary, benefits or pension.

MEME: Monday Madness -- Holiday Edition

Otto greeted one and all this morning, thusly:

“Happy Monday to everyone! Thanks for playing Monday Madness! Have a marvelous week!” =)

1. Which holidays (if any) do you consider more as a day off from work, than anything else? As I no longer toil in the marketplace, one day is pretty much the same as another ... all good.
2. Which 3 holidays are most celebrated in your family? Personally, for me it's Samhain, Yule (Winter Solstice), and the Vernal Equinox. My wife thinks of them along the lines of Halloween, Christmas and Easter. Then again, she's a Christian and I'm not. We choose not to worry about nomenclature too much.
3. Do you have an organized filing system at home? Nope – nothing about home is “organized.” Sort of like the scrambled eggs that pass for my brains these days...
4. Do you clip coupons for groceries? If so, do you remember to use them? If not, why? Rarely, but if I do, it's usually forgotten.
5. How many magazines do you subscribe to? None at present.
6. Do you play any computer games on a regular basis? If so, which is your favorite, and why? No, that was never my forte. I do play solitaire on the computer, but it (they) have been around in one form or another for many years before computers became commonplace.
7. Have you watched any movies worth recommending, lately? We watched “Failure To Launch” the other night and found it amusing, but predictable.

Want to play along? Just visit Ms. Otto's “House of Pain” and snag the questions for yourself, leaving a link in her comments to your answers. Easy, that.

Seal Silliness

John Scalzi showed us his, so I'll show you mine...

Get your mind outta the gutter...

A Belated Wednesday Mind Hump

A Belated Wednesday Mind Hump – Because I couldn't gain access on Wednesday and never did get around to rechecking until now...

RFDUCK was heard to utter the following in frustration after trying to access his meme blog:
“Hello again! Let's do another Mind Hump. Today is National Geek Day, so let's geek it up!”

Star Wars or Star Trek? -- Star Trek
Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter? I like them both, but LOTR is the better of the two.
Internet Explorer or Firefox? Firefox. Or Opera. Netscape is best.
iPod shuffle or iPod Nano? Neither – a SanDisk Sansa – I won't give in to the absurd licensing terms imposed by the RIAA through Apple.
Camera phone or mp3 phone? Until the camera phones are an affordable 3 MP, neither.
Dilbert or Jon from "Garfield"? Dilbert

And of course, the big question

Mac or PC? Neither – a Unix (or Linux) box is best.

Put that in your geek pipe and smoke it!

The rules are, there are no rules!!! All you need to do is copy and paste the above questions into your blog and add your responses. After you've finished, return here and leave us a comment so we'll know you've humped. Be sure your hump is linked back to http://bdinsanity.blogdrive.com so others can hump too.

Remember, there are no right or wrong answers. If one of the questions doesn't inspire you then simply "pass" it. Just use your imagination!

If you don't have a blog or you're an exhibitionist *woo hoo* feel free to hump right here in our comments section. There's absolutely no pressure ... although it's called the Wednesday Mind Hump you can hump on any day.

Until next time, this is your music-loving mememeister wishing you a happy hump day!

MEME: Sunday Seven - Episode 53

As we start the second year of the Sunday Seven, I'm thinking about regular traditions that no Sunday is complete without. And the Sunday newspaper just caught my attention...

But first, Frida, of "I Hate Blog Names" was first to play last week! Congratulations, Frida!

(By the way, email alerts from "Yutter" seem to still be down, so be sure to sign up with FeedBlitz.)

On to this week's question!

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:
Name up to seven Sunday cartoons from the comics section that you enjoy from time to time.

Either answer the question in a comment here or answer it in your journal and include the link in a comment. (To be considered "first to play," a link must be to the specific entry in which you answered the question.)

1. Peanuts

2. Dick Tracy

3. Calvin & Hobbes

4. Brenda Starr

5. Dilbert

6. The Phantom

7. Farscape

Unconscious Mutterings -- Week 187

Unconscious Mutterings

Free association is described as a "psychonanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content." Over time, this technique is supposed to help bring forth repressed thoughts and feelings that the person can then work through to gain a better sense of self.

That's an admirable goal, but for the purposes of this excercise, we're just hoping to have a little fun with the technique. Each week I'll post ten words to which you can respond to with the first thing that comes to mind.

"Rules are, there are no rules." There are no right or wrong answers. Don't limit yourself to one word responses; just say everything that pops into your head. AND you don't have to have your words up on Sunday. Take all week if you want! Read the FAQ for more information.

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Week 187

7 hours, 19 minutes ago

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Wiggle :: Walk
   
2. Face :: cloth
   
3. Adjustable :: wrench
   
4. Room :: venue
   
5. Easy :: button
   
6. Store :: hardware
   
7. Maid :: service
   
8. 9 pm :: primetime
   
9. Challenge :: marathon
   
10. Debt :: collection
    

MEME: Saturday Six - Episode 125

This week seemed to go by quickly, despite the fact that it had a very slow start. I hope all of my friends on the east coast are drying out after Ernesto's heavy rains. I'm just glad that it wasn't worse than it ended up being!

But first, Novelist Judy of "Welcome to My World of Dreams" was first to play last week because she was first to post a link to the specific entry in which she answered the questions. Congratulations, Judy, and welcome to the "Saturday Six!"

Here are this week's "Saturday Six" questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal...but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as "first to play," you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. What was the last charity you donated something to? How long ago did you make your last donation?
American Red Cross – this past spring. Nosy, ain't cha?
2. Describe the worst weather event/national disaster that you experienced firsthand.
I've been through several hurricanes, monsoons, tornadoes, and ice storms ... each with it's own terrifying elements. However, I think the worst national disaster I've ever experienced was the re-election of George Bush to a second term. That just gutted any faith I had left that a free and informed electorate was possible in this country.
3. Did the experience you just described change you in any way, (or if you've never experienced such an event firsthand, do you think it would change you significantly)?
I answered the question above. Now, the worst weather disaster in my experience was the 1997 ice storm. It came down to the question of which would happen first: Do I freeze to death or will they get power turned on before I do. I'm still here.
4. Take the quiz: What subjects should you have studied in school?

Your Learning Style: Practical and Rational

You aren't afraid of hard work... or learning something completely on your own. You Should Study: Accounting Business Civil Engineering Finance Health administration Law Medicine

What Should You Study?

5. Did you actually study or major in any of the courses suggested by the quiz?
No, but I've worked at the periphery of civil engineering for many years as a regulator.
6. What's your current screen saver? How long have you had it, and what do you like best about it?
I use the Webshots screen saver. I like it because I am provided with a steady stream of new, high quality images from all over the world. Four a day, as a paying member. I like the variety. Plus I can add my own images into the mix.

If you have a Reader's Choice question you'd like to see asked (and answered), click the e-mail link in the Blogger profile for Patrick and send it to him. If you feel like playing along, visit Patrick at his Patrick's Weekender site and get a copy of the questions for yourself.

Weekend Assignment #127: "Goodbye Summer" Haiku

It's Labor Day weekend, which brings with it the unofficial end of summer (which technically ends on September 21, or three weeks later than it really does), and as we all wind things up with one last barbeque blast (or whatever -- remember that Journals Editor Jeff wants to know how you're spending the weekend), I thought it might be fun to get poetical about the fading of hot summer days and nights: Weekend Assignment #127: Write a haiku saying farewell to summer. A haiku, as many of you know, is a poem of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second and five again in the third. Simple and fun, and anyone can do 'em. You can do more than one if you want. As a bonus, technically speaking haiku are supposed to feature seasonal imagery, so we've got that going for us this time around. Extra Credit: A picture of a fun summer activity you're saying goodbye to for another year.

Gee whiz, how could it be Sunday already? Where's the week flown?

I've not been feeling up to snuff and the Mrs. has been under the weather with a bad sinus infection. Woes at work have her down, too. Focus has, perforce, been inward. Sorry about that -- I'll try harder next week, for sure.

One of the things I've been noticing for the past few weeks is the relative silence. No bird calls, save the plaintive wails of the resident family of loons by my brother's place on the lake. Beaver activity has stepped up with no one home -- the fat bastards have been cutting trees left and right. And the Canada Geese have flown south in great chevron flights, honking their alarm at the onset of winter in the North Country. It's an ill omen, with Kerosene up to $3.49 and the heating season not yet started.

So there you have my inspirations for what follows ... an end of summer haiku:

Goodbye, little bird;

South you have gone. Heat gone too.

Chore left; scrape bird doo.

Extra credit: imagine a photo of a fat old man squeezed into a long red and yellow kayak here.

There, that wasn't so hard, was it?

MEME: Monday Music Mambo - Week 114

This just in from the home office in Mamboville…

Greetings, everyone! It’s time for another mambo. I don’t have a theme this week. I’ll give two choices for the question. You can do one of them or both of them, whatever you wish.

1. Name a musician/band or two connected with your state. They could be from your state, have a member born in your state, played a famous show in your state - you get the idea. If you’re not from the U.S., pick a musician or band from your own country.

Hmmm, I'm really not up on the local band scene at all. The Moody Blues have a tenuous connection to me and Maine through the father of one of the performers who lived up the road and used to “borrow” an island I used to manage for TMB when they played concerts in the area. Turns out they love to “rough it” - sleeping in tents on the ground, cooking over wood fires, shitting with bears in the woods. The most incongruous image, though, is of their limousines pulling up and dropping them all off to pile in little motor boats to head off to the island. They'd go play for a couple of days or three, recharging their batteries, and then head back out on tour.

2. What’s your favorite place to see a concert? Is it a small club, a large sports arena, a concert hall, an outdoor amphitheater? Tell us why you like to see music in that place.

A small club. I HATE crowds. I'm not all that fond of humanity, either. So the fewer, the better. That limits who I get to see; unknowns on the way up and has-beens barely clinging to life. And so it goes...

MEME: Monday Madness – Head Noise Edition

Otto raves, “This week's questions are coming off the top of my head; hope you enjoy! Hope you all have a great week, and thanks for playing!” =)

1. Do you do dishes by hand or do you use a dishwasher? I do dishes, when I do dishes, by hand.
2. How many people have your cell phone number? Two, and one of them is dead.
3. Do you shower in the morning or at night? My “morning” is your midday, but that's when I shower.
4. Do you ever have a song 'stuck' in your head? Yeah. Annoying, aren't they, those nasty ear memes...
5. Do you pay your bills when they arrive, or do you wait until closer to the due date to pay them? More like pay them when funds are available, hopefully before they file a small claims action against you.
6. Are you obsessive about anything in particular? No. I am particular, though.
7. What one thing would you say you have a zero tolerance for? Fools.

Play along. Click the banner above to get an unanswered set of the questions and a link to the comments where all players leave a link to their answers. Have a good week.

MEME: Sunday Seven -- Episode 52

Here's the 52nd edition of the Sunday Seven, which means that we've wrapped up a full year's worth of questions. No, I'm not expecting any gifts on such a big occasion, but if you've a mind to hit the mall, anyway, you'll be ready for this week's question!

But first, Donna, of "My Country Life" was first to play last week! Congratulations, Donna!

On to this week's question!

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:
Name seven stores no good shopping mall should be without.

1. Sears

2. J.C. Penney's

3. Brookstone

4. The Gap

5. Victoria's Secret

6. A good bookstore, e.g. B. Dalton's, Booksmith, Border's, etc.

7. Spencer Gifts

Unconscious Mutterings -- Week 186

Unconscious Mutterings

Free association is described as a "psychonanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content." Over time, this technique is supposed to help bring forth repressed thoughts and feelings that the person can then work through to gain a better sense of self.

That's an admirable goal, but for the purposes of this excercise, we're just hoping to have a little fun with the technique. Each week I'll post ten words to which you can respond to with the first thing that comes to mind.

"Rules are, there are no rules." There are no right or wrong answers. Don't limit yourself to one word responses; just say everything that pops into your head. AND you don't have to have your words up on Sunday. Take all week if you want! Read the FAQ for more information.

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Week 186

13 hours, 28 minutes ago

I say ... and you think ... ?

1. Visit :: connubial

2. Cake :: walk

3. Period :: Fini

4. Triumphant :: return

5. Screen :: saver

6. Neglect :: rust

7. Guitar :: acoustic

8. Loathe :: adore

9. Sugar :: glucose

10. Montage :: video

Quick Takes: In Her Shoes (2005)

Comedy/drama.

Principals: Toni Collette, Cameron Diaz, Shirley MacLaine

Self-destructive party girl Maggie Feller Diaz runs away to live with her grandmother (MacLaine) after she pulls the figurative rug out from under her spinster/lawyer sister, Rose (Collette), by sleeping with her new boyfriend & boss. Rose is shattered, quits her job and becomes a dog-walker by day and wallower in self-pity by night loser, then finds a man, becomes engaged, detaches, reattaches to self, sister and her Simon (Mark Feuerstein). Predictable results, but a tear-jerker, never the less. I enjoyed it, losing a couple of hours of sleep to watch it; SWMBO managed all of fifteen minutes before turning over and snoring. Perhaps I'm just overly-sensitized to sibling issues, having just lost my last living brother, but I found the sister-sister interaction to ring true and some of it was very funny. I shed some tears, both happy and sad, but a full box of tissues isn't needed – one or two will do the trick. I'd give it a 7 out of 10.

Keywords: High Heels Law Firm Affair With Boss Sushi Deceit Retirement Home Shoes High School Reunion Vomit Scene Makeover MTV Supermarket Party Card Party Girl Rumor Bridal Shower Unemployment Dog Grocery Store Train Station Dyslexia Lawyer Audition Blind Man Learning Disability Book Reading Senior Citizen Business Trip Poetry Sex In Bathroom Drunk Visually Impaired Person Pennsylvania Foot Fetish Nursing Home Stepmother Miami Beach Family Values Shopping Professor Jew Wedding Disgruntled Customer Pub Widow Florida Pet Shop Job Seeking Auto Impound Lot Dysfunctional Family Reconciliation Swimming Pool Jewel Case Sleeping On Couch Grandmother Class Reunion Based On Novel Grandmother Granddaughter Relationship Philadelphia Pennsylvania Sister Sister Relationship

John M. Scalzi's Weekend Assignment #126: Where You Live

Your Weekend Assignment #126: What is the most interesting thing about where you live? "Thing" in this case would be a famous landmark, a famous current celebrity or historical personage from your home town or county, a notable celebration or sports event -- basically, anything that makes where you're from interesting an unique.

Extra Credit: Are there any books that feature your home town (or someplace nearby) in any way?

Dear John,

As I live in Bangor, Maine it's likely you and many of your readers already know what we're currently famous for, so I won't keep you waiting.

Stephen King.

Horror author extraordinaire.

Philanthropist.

Rabid Boston Red Sox fan.

Myopic, opinionated, multi-millionaire.

Piss-poor singer and musician.

Devoted husband and father.

Not a bad bloke to work for, all things considered.

All that and more...

Yep, he lives here. At least part of the time, but it is “home” when he discusses his life. I've written about him before, back when this blog was on AOL. Millions of articles in newspapers, magazines, fan-fiction, blogs and other cyber-sites have extolled his virtues and castigated his weaknesses – no need for me to rehash here.

We're proud he's here. We appreciate his largess. We appreciate being mentioned in passing in his books and advertisements for American Express (that's the Bangor Public Library he was checking books out of for the AE advertisement). I, for one, admire his ability to make a living as a writer and celebrity on the far side of coke bottle lenses and horrendous demands on his time. For the most part, we try to give him and his family the same space and respect the rest of us demand. Mostly, we succeed. Sometimes we fail miserably.

Such is life.

Aside from King, many other writers have used Bangor, Maine as a prop in their stories – sort of natural as it was the second largest city (until recently) and has the largest airport north of Boston – we host all the Muslim crazies and soccer hooligans when they get yanked off their international flights from Europe, being the first airport in the U.S. that a plane can land at coming from Europe, Great Britain or Ireland. We're the gateway to Acadia National Park and Downeast Maine, the last bit of civilization worth discussing until you reach St. John, New Brunswick when driving east. So it makes sense to use Bangor as a place in a story involving activities on the New England coast or Atlantic Canada.

It was even mentioned in a popular country song from the '60's. That's Bangor for you ... a caricature of a city in a Roger Miller tune...

Third boxcar, midnight train
Destination...Bangor, Maine.
Old worn out clothes and shoes,
I don't pay no union dues,
I smoke old stogies I have found
Short, but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.

MEME: Saturday Six - Episode 124

Welcome back to the "Saturday Six." Glad you stopped by and I hope you find some interesting blogs to visit.

But first, Donna of "My Country Life" was first to play last week. Congratulations, Donna!

Here are this week's "Saturday Six" questions. Either answer the questions in a comment here, or put the answers in an entry on your journal...but either way, leave a link to your journal so that everyone else can visit! To be counted as "first to play," you must be the first player to either answer the questions in a comment or to provide a complete link to the specific entry in your journal in which you answer the questions. A link to your journal in general cannot count. Enjoy!

1. Pluto has been demoted from planet to "dwarf planet." Are you willing to give up everything you've been taught all these years and begin referring to our solar system as having eight planets, or will you continue thinking about it having nine?
I was never too concerned with Pluto – impossible to pick out without a telescope most of the time. But I suspect my brain's damn close to a fossil itself, so I suspect I'll be confusing the nurses aides at the funny farm with my allegations of “nine planets and enough ice for the Super Bowl.”

2. Where is the last store you visited? What was your last bill there?
It was yesterday at the grocery and the bill was fifty seven dollars and change.
3. What new television show are you most looking forward to seeing this season?
None, so far. I am looking forward to the new season of House, though.
4. Take the quiz: Which greek God are you? Save yourself some time and space by listing the name of the God, the description it gives you and the famous people you're like. (Don't worry about the graphical information and all the rest unless you just want to!)

Prometheus 33% Extroversion, 66% Intuition, 27% Emotiveness, 47% Perceptiveness

You are most like Prometheus, and you probably knew that before you even took this test. You probably aren't deliberately altruistic, but you still tend to do things that benefit everyone, even at great expense to your health and personal relationships. You aren't ruled by your emotions, but you still have a strong sense of justice. You make good descisions, but they can sometimes backfire (and this isn't due to a flaw in your reasoning, but due to faulty premises instead). You are very reasonable, you understand systems, you can quickly pinpoint flaws and you know how to correct them. You pride understanding and knowledge above everything else, and your greatest fear is to appear to be incompetent. You tend to be contemptuous of authority, but you don't accept leadership roles yourself until everyone else has demonstrated their own incompetence. You've built a very specific skill set. You know exactly where your strengths and weaknesses are, and you pride yourself on this kind of self-knowledge. You distrust tradition, which you see as arbitrary, and you rely instead on your own judgements. You also pride yourself on your pragmatism. You're also a very private person. Most of all, people think you're arrogant, but screw them! They're the ones who benefit from your ideas and discoveries, and if they took the time to understand why it is that you say and think the things you do, they'd realize that you only appear arrogant because you are exactingly precise when it comes to your area of specification, and most of all because, when you don't know something, you don't have an opinion about it (unlike most of the loudmouths that you have to deal with on a day-to-day basis). Relationships are your kryptonite. It isn't that you don't want them -- in fact, you would very much like a very close relationship with someone who understands you. They're just the one thing in the world that you're naturally bad at. Famous people like you: Niels Bohr, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Werner Heisenberg, Issac Newton, John Maynard Keynes, Erwin Schrodinger Stay Clear of: Apollo, Icarus, Hermes, Aphrodite Seek out: Atlas, The Oracle, Daedalus

Link: The Greek Mythology Personality Test written by Aleph_Nine on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

5. Of the famous people it lists like you, which is the scariest?
Bob Oppenheimer – hands down.
6. You decide to bring candy to keep on your desk. If you could only pick one kind of candy, which would it be? Been there; done that: Werther's Original Hard Caramels. If I had to do it over again, the only difference would be the choice of sugar-free over the originals in deference to my diabetes.

Oh well, I'm going to Hell...

The wretched King Minos has decided your fate. His tale (sic) wraps around his body 7 times.

The sweet light no longer strikes against your eyes. Your shade has been banished to... the Seventh Level of Hell!

Seventh Level of Hell

---

Guarded by the Minotaur, who snarls in fury, and encircled within the river Phlegethon, filled with boiling blood, is the Seventh Level of Hell. The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers lament their pitiless mischiefs in the river, while centaurs armed with bows and arrows shoot those who try to escape their punishment. The stench here is overpowering. This level is also home to the wood of the suicides- stunted and gnarled trees with twisting branches and poisoned fruit. At the time of final judgement, their bodies will hang from their branches. In those branches the Harpies, foul birdlike creatures with human faces, make their nests. Beyond the wood is scorching sand where those who committed violence against God and nature are showered with flakes of fire that rain down against their naked bodies. Blasphemers and sodomites writhe in pain, their tongues more loosed to lamentation, and out of their eyes gushes forth their woe. Usurers, who followed neither nature nor art, also share company in the Seventh Level.

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	Very High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	High

Take the Dante Inferno Hell Test

I blame it all on WitNit...

MEME: Wednesday Mind Hump – XXX

MEME: Wednesday Mind Hump – XXX

No, I'm not reviewing the latest porn movie. It seems, according to Rfduck, mememeister of the WMH, that it's time to get very strange, to wit:

Hi everyone! It's time to mind hump again. Today is Hug Day.

What I want you to do is go to someone's blog, website, myspace, etc. and leave them a hug! Instead of linking to your mind hump, you can leave a hug for me and our MIA mememistress Friday in the comment section.

I'm posting this as a public service. But frankly, I think M. C. Quacker has gone 'round the bend, if'n ya ask me...

The rules are, there are no rules!!! All you need to do is copy and paste the above questions into your blog and add your responses. After you've finished, return here and leave us a comment so we'll know you've humped. Be sure your hump is linked back to http://bdinsanity.blogdrive.com so others can hump too.

Remember, there are no right or wrong answers. If one of the questions doesn't inspire you then simply "pass" it. Just use your imagination!

If you don't have a blog or you're an exhibitionist *woo hoo* feel free to hump right here in our comments section. There's absolutely no pressure ... although it's called the Wednesday Mind Hump you can hump on any day.

Until next time, this is your music-loving mememeister wishing you a happy hump day!

Log Off NOW, Dammit!

Via Abandoned in Pasadena. Thank you, dahlink!

TUESDAY TIRADE: A Very Disturbing Meme...

Would you rather:

1. Watch a porno with your parents OR starring your parents?

I vote for watching the P's do the dirty on the silver screen. My mother was a fox in her younger years. She died over forty years ago ... it'd almost be like watching a stranger.

2. Lick the handle on a public restroom toilet OR eat a wad of toilet paper from the stall floor?

Hmmm, I don't think there's any greater chance of catching something nasty from licking the handle on a public restroom toilet than there was from taking lunch at the narthex of all those women for all those years...

3. Be MC Hammer OR Vanilla Ice?

MC Hammer is a rapper, right? Wasn't Vanilla Ice a movie that Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz were in with that sky-pilot, Tom Cruise?

I don't understand the question.

4. Be able to fly OR read people's minds?

Man, I'd like an FAQ on what these abilities would entail. How fast can I fly? Is the ability to land safely included. Can I shield myself from others thoughts when I need a respite? Can I focus on just one individual or must I hear them all, all the time? Assuming safe landings and a rate of speed greater than a walking pace, I suspect that flying would be the better part of the deal.

5. Have whatever you want for one year then die OR be paralyzed for life?

Easy. Have that slot at the crematory ready for yours truly next year at this time.

6. Have a permanent smile OR a permanent blank stare?

A permanent smile – makes people wonder what you've been up to. I already creep the vast majority of civilians with my stare.

7. Be burned alive OR drown?

Drown, hands down. As a former firefighter, I have a horrendous fear of burning alive. I've come close several times.

8. Be known worldwide as a racist OR a child molester?

Child molester – someone will off me in short order. No sense prolonging the pain.

9. Eat three pounds of hair OR drink a gallon of shampoo?

Can I choke to death on my own penis, instead? Hair, I guess – I've probably consumed that much over the years, anyway. Hasn't killed me yet.

10. Be God OR the devil?

I prefer the role of Devil's Advocate. Does that make me God or just a lawyer?

I look forward to what Paul, Simon, Carly, Kas and Marti make of these. V, I suspect you'd have some great answers, too. All of you, if you want to play along, grab them and start answering for your sins...

Credit to Pammy at Lollygaggin for exposing me to this.