Like Paul Bunyun? And his giant blue ox, Babe?
My we do get a whole passle a critters in these Oztralian threads . . .
I used to love the image of the lumberjacks with whole sides of bacon strapped to their feet, skating across the hot, giant griddle preperatory to cooking the Big Man's flapjacks . . .
They were french canadian lumberjacks. Traditionally, in the early days, they would wrap their feet in bacon before heading out to the trap lines. This served quite effectively as insulation against the severe cold. Also, as the cold snow and thin moccasin leather tended to keep the bacon at low temperatures, so the bacon could still be unwrapped later and tossed on the griddle.
We had a big, beautifully illustrated Paul Bunyan when i was just a liddly . . . don't know what became of it . . .
Ewwwwwwww!
This is from "Big Fib" - a satirical e-newspaper which is advertising on this site, in the banner ads - (these new ads are full of interesting stuff!)
HIV - New Internet virus unstoppable.
By Joel Surfalot in California - 15/06/2003
Symantec corp. today warned of a new kind of virus which the company's software is powerless to prevent.
"HIV, Human internet virus is a completely new problem for internet users." spokeswoman Radina Blow told journalists.
"Where previous viruses spread by infecting computer software, and by using the computers address book to forward itself to ever more users, HIV infects the users brain... It is the users themselves who propagate and apparently willingly spread the virus."
Citing a recent example the "Life is beautiful" virus Ra
dina explained.
"These new viruses are much more complex than previous computer viruses... They masquerade as warnings about old-style computer viruses when in fact the virus is the message itself and the target is no longer the pc but the recipients brain."
Life is beautiful is a typical HIV virus. The message masquerades as a warning... "If you receive a message containing the file Lifeisbeautiful.pps,? the message urges, "DO NOT OPEN IT! "The entire contents of your hard disk will be erased."
In fact life is beautiful is a hoax. The virus does not exist but the brains of gullible users are quickly infected.
The message ends with the order "Send this message to everyone in your address book."
So far the infection mechanism isn?t understood. "No-one knows how the virus makes people stupidly obey the orders in these messages, no-one knows why they willingly send this completely pointless and obviously idiotic message to everyone they know... willingly infecting them. But they do, and one thing's for sure, our antivirus software cannot stop it..."
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Sucker, thy name is Legion
Setanta wrote:Sucker, thy name is Legion
and here all this time i thought it's name was dlowan
Main Entry: 2it
Pronunciation: 'it
Function: noun
Date: 1842
: the player in a game who performs the principal action of the game (as trying to find others in hide-and-seek)
dlowan - what is your goverment thinking? Is the boss down there Bush's long lost brother?
Wow, serious stuff for this digression -
Hey, don't knock griddled bacon shoes until you've tried them....sweat is an awesome marinade.
Oh, and beaver tails aren't what you think....speaking of Canajun food...
Um, what do I think they are?
Er, which particular Howard outrage are you animadverting to, Little k?
Yes, he wants to play wiv the big boys, he wants to be Deputy Shrub.
They are both neo-conservatives.
Sorry, I guess it is too heavy for the digression.....
love it littlek, it gets heavy in here to often and we need a little humor releif
yeah, I know. I was ust trying to find a spot to ask the Q - this wasn't the right spot.
