(Image stolen from the one and only Stavrosthewonderchicken)
I shoulda taken a picture of my own....
The parade, the giant balloon floats, the football games, the tryptophan.
But most importantly, what wine should I serve? I've given up on the happy coincidence of Beaulolais Nouveau and the pilgrim forebearers showing up at the same time of year.
We all know there are two or three people who hate our guts and never lose an opportunity to get even. Almost always, these slights are sensed (and stored) as if we went out of our way to cause them.
How in the hell do you dissuade and even reconvert someone who's out for revenge for wrong-headed reasons and turn him or her into a friend?
Vengeful persons' self-esteem is actually helped by singling out offenders and condoning their exaggerated sense of contrariness - so that confessing they weren't the target at all just seems to make them feel diminished.
This problem is currently very important with one of my three best friends. How do you make up with someone who needs you to be an enemy and gains consolation from the idea of one day reducing you to tears of regret?
"All that was left was a little red bathing cap."
Shark attack beats slow and lingering, in my opinion.
Do you see yourself going out in a blaze of glory? In flagrante delicato? Eaten by your own loving pets?
This is what makes the internet great! These guys filter cheap vodka a couple of times through a Brita pitcher and it comes out tasting as good as Ketel One.
Yes, I know, it was over there, but it was good enough to repeat, dammit.
Teenage Central: supposing you had no commitments or obligations, what would be your ideal sleep arrangements and timetables?
300 children bitten by 'blood sucking' monkeys at famous Indian temple
Monkeys lurking at an ancient Hindu temple in India's northeast have attacked up to 300 children over three weeks, temple officials said Tuesday.
"They hide in trees and swoop on unsuspecting children loitering about in the temple premises or walking by, clawing them and even sucking a bit of blood," Bani Kumar Sharma, a priest at the Kamakhya temple in Assam state, told The Associated Press....