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| Continued from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=88.8) caristy
Instructions:
1. Copy this whole list into your journal.
2. Bold the things that you have in common with me.
3. Whatever you don't bold, replace with things about you.
01. I google people.
02. I'm fond of cheese
03. I like to read newspapers.
04. I drink at least two bottles of wine a week.
05. Apples are not my favorite fruit
06. Sometimes I have email conversations instead of AIM ones.
07. I never smoked.
08. I do not like grocery shopping.
09. I have bad handwriting.
10. I am in love.
11. I've been known to have a beer or two before noon.
12. I sometimes talk before I think
13. I've never broken a bone
14. I love large snow storms.
15. I need to be surrounded by nature to clear my mind.
16. I enjoy a variety of musical styles
17. I hate math
18. I'm half Irish.
19. I love my wife.
20. I love eating animals.
21. My stress outlet is video games.
22. It is unlikely I would change a tire or the oil in my car.
23. Sometimes when I'm alone, I eat with my fingers.
24. I have no interest in grad school.
25. I’m an achiever and I’m always looking for my next goal.
26. I love food.
27. I’m ok with my body.
28. I don’t like labeling people’s sexuality.
29. My wife is my best friend.
30. I don’t have much contact with my extended family.
31. I have little interaction with teenagers.
32. I like the croc hunter
33. I try to avoid talking to people on elevators
34. I don’t mind work clothes.
35. I drive faster than I should.
36. Money doesn’t go as far as I thought it would when I was a child.
37. I passed my drivers test the first time.
38. I don’t ski
39. I am tired of talking to parents about their kids, especially toddlers.
40. I watch porn.
41. I’ve gone topless on the beach
42. I’ve been to Ireland.
43. I tend to trip on nothing at all.
44. I went to Mexico for a few mins.
45. I am tired of spoiled kids.
46. I can go months without seeing my best friends, but when we're together, it's as if no time has passed.
47. I hate reality tv.
48. I never had an obsession with the New Kids on the Block.
49. I watch the VH1 and CMT weekly countdowns whenever I can.
50. I had a fine time in high school, but I'd never want to relive the experience.
51. I like silence at times
52. I lived in the south getting the accent, sorta y’all.
53. If pot were legal, I’d probably not smoke it once a week.
54. I never had a belly ring.
55. I think religion is the cause of most world problems.
56. I never cared about grades as much as my parents.
57. I don’t write many journals.
58. I feel very strongly that the W administration is fucking up the country.
59. I don’t tend to get addicted to things.
60. I have few scars
61. I don’t wear glasses
62. I hate spending money on make-up
63. I sometimes look forward to dinner before I’ve eaten lunch
64. I have freckles
65. I sometimes remember my dreams
66. I'm not that sentimental.
67. I considered moving to Savannah.
68. I think gays should be allowed to marry
69. I love the Daily Show
70. I used to play the trumpet, I did not like it much
71. I’ve never gone to the gynecologist
72. I haven’t been to the dentist in 3 years.
73. I spend too much time online
74. Different days of the week mean different days to check online sites
75. I’ve had sex on a mountaintop
76. I always have to get the knots out of my wife’s back
77. I like oranges
78. I’ve skinny dipped in my wife’s grandmother’s hot tub.
79. I have never been arrested
80. I am addicted to steak
81. I like banana splits
82. My boobs are natural
83. I’ve been to Canada and Mexico
84. I know how to drive stick.
85. I ‘ve dated people who love to paint
86. College wasn’t as great as I thought it would be
87. I am a competitive person
88. I bought a video game for myself this year
89. Nothing compares to a fresh box
90. I am patient, except in traffic
91. I don’t like to talk for hours
92. I love to travel
93. I like giving presents as much as getting them
94. I don’t love Halloween
95. I sometimes sing alone, but have no talent for it
96. I like drama
97. I hate anger at work
98. I rarely flip people off on the road
99. I like receiving work gossip
100. I don’t do nearly enough work at work. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| The release of the video adds to concern over recent intelligence that has counterterrorism officials increasingly worried about a possible attack against soft targets, such as shopping malls, as the holiday season approaches.
"As recently as two weeks ago, the intelligence community was telling the Homeland Security Department that this felt a lot like the summer of 2001," said Roger Cressey, a former counterterrorism official with the National Security Council. "[We're] seeing lots of data, lots of information coming together that paints a very disturbing picture."
A senior U.S. official stressed increased threat information, including Web site activity, is common before and during key holidays. The problem is separating the legitimate intelligence from the rest.
There were several warnings of possible attacks in the United States in October that never panned out. Also, officials say the terror movement is more scattered and harder to track.
Homeland Security officials say they will not raise the national threat level unless they receive more concrete information. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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| You Better Watch Out: The Hazards of the Season
Here is a list, compiled over several hours of careful risk analysis, of all the things that must be banned immediately before someone gets hurt:
1. Eggnog. Hideously fattening; leads to coronary artery disease. When "spiked" it incites the drinker to turn to more dangerous holiday beverages, including mulled wine, hard cider and schnapps.
2. Decorations. Broken glass ornaments can lead to fatal bleeding in hemophiliacs. Strings of lights offer unusual electrocution opportunities. Extravagant outdoor lighting displays can cause automobile pileups on the street and/or blindness. Live animals in a manger might bite children.
3. Carols. Hypothermia risk. Certain high notes are hard to hit, causing embarrassment, stress and other harbingers of early death. Religious themes of carols could prove offensive to some listeners and inadvertently trigger a clash of civilizations.
4. Sledding. Involves a kinetic event that would more properly be described as skidding. Any close analysis will reveal that sleds not only have poor traction but are expressly designed to have minimal grip on a slick surface. Should be every bit as illegal as dangling a baby from a balcony.
5. Hearths. The ultimate fire hazard. People often use them to have open fires, complete with exploding embers that can land on furniture, on heavily gelled hair or even on a small furry pet that could suddenly go FOOF! and turn into the Yowling Fireball of Doom.
6. Menorahs. Still more open fire. Why not just pass around blowtorches and cans of gasoline?
7. Artificial Christmas trees. Fairfax County assistant fire marshal Mike Reilly, defending the ban on cut trees, said Tuesday: "I just put up my nine-foot artificial tree. I don't think it's a major inconvenience when you look at the risks." Obviously, plastic Christmas trees are growing to enormous size these days, and anyone who stands under a nine-foot colossus runs the risk of being crushed.
8. Gifts. Small gifts are a choking hazard. Large gifts lead to hernias. Coal in the stocking of a person who has been bad poses a severe fire risk. CDs have wrapping that requires the use of knives and scissors in a manner that can lead to the loss of a finger. Shopping leads to excessive debt, anxiety and compensatory high-risk behaviors such as smoking, heavy drinking and attempted gift returns. Improper gift-buying, such as when a well-meaning male gives his sweetheart something unromantic, like a Dustbuster, or a 52-piece socket wrench set, or a jumbo can of Dr. Scholl's Foot Deodorant Spray, can lead to domestic violence.
9. Mistletoe. The number of unwanted pregnancies resulting from the placement of mistletoe on the ceiling and over doorways has never been properly calculated, but is surely astronomical. Tongues are a choking hazard.
10. Shopping mall Santas. A strange man wearing a disguise who asks small children to sit in his lap. You make the call.
11. Reindeer. Lyme disease vectors.
12. Elves. Ideology and political allegiance unknown. Terror risk?
(Excerpted from the Washington Post) | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
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