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This was forwarded to me by my spouse who received it via my sister. Lot of truth and giggles in the message.

Sadly, the author's name was not forwarded the many times the message was. Folks, keep the author's name with the content; it is only fair thing to do. Morally proper.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE PETS, THIS IS A TRUE STORY.

FOR THOSE THAT DON'T, IT’S ALSO A TRUE STORY.


The following was found posted very low on a refrigerator door.

Dear Dogs and Cats: The dishes on the floor with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Placing a paw print in the middle of my plate does not mean that is suddenly your food, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Racing me to the top of the stairs is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort. Dogs and cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. It Is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other, stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out on the other end to maximize space that you are taking up, is nothing but sarcasm.

For the last time, there is no secret exit from the bathroom! If, by some miracle, I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob or get your paw under the edge in an attempt to open the door. I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years - canine/feline attendance is not required.

The proper order for kissing is: Kiss me first, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

Finally, in fairness, dear pets, I have posted the following message on the front door:

TO ALL NON-PET OWNERS WHO VISIT AND COMPLAIN
(1) They live here....you don't.

(2) If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture.

That's why they call it “fur”-niture.

(3) I like my pets a lot better than I like most people.

(4) To you, they are animals. To me, they are adopted sons/daughters who are short, hairy, walk on all fours and don't speak clearly.

Remember, dogs and cats are better than kids because they:

(1) eat less,

(2) don't ask for money all the time,

(3) are easier to train,

(4) normally come when called,

(5) never ask to drive the car,

(6) don't hang out with drug-using people;

(7) don't smoke or drink,

(8) don't want to wear your clothes,

(9) don't have to buy the latest fashions,

(10) don't need a gazillion dollars for college and

(11) if they get pregnant, you can sell their children.....

End of lesson in fairuse.

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Steampunk Style Test [ my results are ? ]

[ Your result for The Steampunk Style Test...

The Gadgeteer

36% Elegant, 55% Technological, 47% Historical, 40% Adventurous and 34% Playful!

You are the Gadgeteer, the embodiment of steampunk technology. Ironically, many of the things that most define your style are probably too large to easily carry about, but given the opportunity you would prefer to be seen surrounded by boiler engines, gear-driven calculators, and incredible automata. Of all the steampunk fashion styles, you place the greatest emphasis on technological accessories, and you are the most likely to create elaborate gadgets that are as much a part of your outfit as your clothes. You probably have goggles, but unlike most people you consider them to be for more than decoration. Whereas most people might look odd carrying a satchel of tools around, for you they may well be essential. Above all, you remind everyone that what sets the genre apart from Victoriana is simply the level of technology.

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[ Your result for Test Who You Are in the Steampunk Ether City of Salmagundi...

Doctor Josephine Bell (the Mad Scientist)

22% Cerys, 37% Ras, 50% Bell, 38% Wilde, 25% LeClerc, 33% Kendrick and 23% Fuzzy!

You are Doctor Josephine Bell, Salmagundi’s foremost surgeon and expert of medicinal science. You are erudite, detached, and above all clinical. You are also descended from an aristocratic pedigree, and you show it. Anyone who fails to meet your high standards of intelligence and conduct is immediately beneath you. Your detractors call you “haughty” and “callous,” but they are jealous and afraid. In reality, you have merely come to the realization that only a fraction of the people you encounter will be worth your time, and that the rest are an unwanted distraction. People will come and go, pass and be forgotten, but Science is forever.

Intrigued? Learn more about G. D. Falksen's Salmagundi and the Cities of Ether here

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[ Take Test Who You Are in the Steampunk Ether City of Salmagundi at HelloQuizzy ]

[ Take The Steampunk Style Test at HelloQuizzy ]

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Robot (2010) eng sub - Hindi film [Playlist]

Parts 1 to 13 in the playlist.

IF you want to skip to the Ass Kicking Robot takes on the Army (everyone really) just select part 9 and play at 5:45 minutes. The car chase is only the beginning, eat your heart out Roger Corman.

IF you want the good fight scene skip to part 12.

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Shame the film is 360 instead of 720.

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Not Your Typical Touchy-feely and Sharing Guy Shows

Date: September 2, 2011 05:52 EDT [09:52 Z]

[ Next Time : Fall Shows

Fail, Fall or Slither? ]

I read Where the Bros are: A Guide to TV's Top 10 Male Bonding Shows in July and thought it was okay. However, the list was built for the "Standard Viewer" in my opinion; 18 to 34 / 25 to 42.

The List in order ( * indicates I have watched the show more than 3 times; # indicates I have watched show at least once.):

Entourage #

House *

White Collar

Burn Notice *

Big Time Rush

America's Got Talent

Rescue Me

The Simpsons #

NCIS *

How I Met Your Mother

Community #

Three # and Three * and Five never watched. I guess I want the story to be deeper. More guy and less weakness in the guy sharing department.

In the interest of full disclosure I am not a fan/watcher/follower of; medical drama, reality, contests, cartoons and anything with a laugh track. I am, however, big on; cop, spy, lawyer, comedy and procedural forms with solid writing. Alright, who just said the words, Arrogant & Elitist? The good thing about TV programming is choice. If one theme or format drives a viewer to insanity there is another viewer who thinks that same show is the best show on TV.

My Totally Biased Top ?? List of Tough Guys Sharing:

0. Breaking Bad

1. Burn Notice

2. NCIS:LA

3. Psych

4. Wilfred

5. Warehouse 13

6. In Plain Sight

7. Leverage

8. Louie TV Schedule

9. Combat Hospital

Runner Up: Happy Endings

Honorable Mention: NTSF:SD:SUV:: for being what it is. It is a 15 minute live-action spoof of procedural shows. A team of government agents fight terrorism in the San Diego area.

Cast (eps count order): June Diane Raphael as Piper Ferguson, Brandon Johnson as Alphonse, Kate Mulgrew as Kove, Paul Scheer as Trent Hauser, Rebecca Romijn as Jessie Nichols.

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Reference Links:

Where the Bros Are: A Guide to TV’s Top 10 Male-Bonding Shows by Craig Tomashoff, Jul 29th, 2011 | 4:37 PM

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Ergonomic Writing Tool: This is not a sex toy.

[ Whatever you think this is, it's not. ]

I saw this odd critter when my wife dumped her bag of Human Resources Conference give-a-ways on the table. For those folks who never attended such a conference it is an estrogen party, therefore, my question is not that crazy.

My question was, "They had a toy store booth on the vendor floor?" Naturally she looked at me with the what-the-fuck-are-you-talking-about look. Me being the gentleman I am, I picked up a little blue thing that looked kind of like ......

Now it was her turn to stare. Not at me but at the tool. "Oh My God, is that what I think it is? I don't know where it came from." I thought, "I am allowed to be confused because lights are off and with just window light it is easy to confuse the instruments - she has to be pulling my leg."

With all the tact I can fit in one statement I replied, "Right, and I wish I had the dildo booth over there too. With a 90% skirts to jockstraps ratio it is a windfall profit." (Close to what was said then. Darn memory) At that point it was laugh as if Robin Williams told the Viagra joke, me knocking over an empty wine bottle which made her laugh more. It was just one of those moments.

As composure set back in, she said with a total straight face, "You know, that does sound like it would work. Print company logos and whatever advertisements on them and it could pay for inventory." This is where I just stare, totally derailed; expected the you-are-full-of-sexist-shit-look. "Cool", I said.

Now that the comedy hour was over we actually tried to write with the damn thing. She said it was cute but not her kind of writing tool (Ok, she really said pen.) and gave it to me. I of course asked for batteries. Which got the eye roll instead of a comment. And that is the story of the "little blue pen that is not a rocket ship" and not the purple thing shown in the picture above.

Where do I go from here? I could pull the buzzer out of an old Beeper and wire it up in the "not Rocket" and make it a rock-it. No, that would lead to breaking who knows how many laws in some Baptist states. But it would be fun breaking those laws.

[ Pink Bear says go to: http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/About-NBCF/Events.aspx

The Pink Ribbon Challenge® is an annual NBCF event that happens every October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It combines the efforts of radio stations and syndicated programs nationwide, the support of top-name music celebrities, and most importantly listeners, to raise funds to provide free mammograms for underserved women.

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[ Notes and Reference Links:

The JustWrite site is a happening place for pens of all kinds. From space pens to $700+ fountain pens.

Every product on justwrite has been carefully selected and personally tested by us. We ensure that every product performs as claimed, is high quality and represents value for money before we add it to our range. Every product is backed by a manufacturers warranty as well as our own 7 day Satisfaction Guarantee.

The funky ball point pens page is -- JustWrite.com.au Ergonomic Pens and Pen Grips

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The Purple Thing Web Site (You are over 18 years old right?)

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We React To Ads In Unplanned Ways: Fells Point Has Gone To The Tourists

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This is how Fells Point looked before the tourists took over. All the fun bars are gone, replaced with brand name restaurants, trendy shops and a hotel I never heard of.

The scruffy waterfront is postcard pretty to some but it is so packaged up for the sell, sell, sell I want to drop my wine bottle and vomit in the street. Damit I don't care about the "don't scare the horses visitors" rule.

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The reason for all this anger is simple. I had a boatload of fun down in Fells Point. A bunch of us would ride down, park, shoot pool, drink beer at a cheap price and have a blast. That was followed by sitting on the bikes till the cops got tired of watching us and left. At that time it was safe to go home by putting up S. Broadway to the Interstate. Work the next day was usually as rough as the starched shirt collar and got as ugly as the mandatory tie. BUT WE HAD FUN the night before.

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Present day: JFAC as one friend would say if he saw the current sanitized Fell Point. And before I forget I would like to thank the folks who put this editorial in my head.

First is http://adland.tv who posted an entry from http://workthatmatters.blogspot.com/ who in turn had an interesting commercial by a Fells Point area business.

Work That Matters: F'd Ad Fridays: Baltimore lingerie store ad turns ...: "It's awesome, in its own special way. Via Adrants"

---- Check it out because 1) it is a neat local ad, and 2) it should really be located down by the other business (see above image, Love Zone). In a more interesting time it would be and the place would be under sege by packs of college girls out for the weekend plus the so called biker chicks (Wife hates the term "property of" so I won't use it. It is just another stupid label. /derail)

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Some notes on this image:

1. B is the location of the shop in the ad. Kind of off the tourist route.

2. A is about where Love Zone was located. It is a pizza shop now and you can look it up. The area is one clean-cut hog trough.

We are walking ...

We are walking ...

We are walking ...

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The business, Accentuate Lingerie is located here (B). Since this is an old shot per Google Street View the store front of the new business is not shown. Watch the ad.

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So that is it. Amazing how a commercial can generate unintended reactions.

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Can Hollywood Blame Everyone Except Management for Lost Jobs?

With a question like, Can Hollywood Blame Everyone Except Management for Lost Jobs?, as the title there should there be a punch line. Sorry no can do, every punch line I think of is a paragraph sized rant. On with the show.

With distractions like the MPAA campaign of disinformation, AFL-CIO: Digital Theft Hurts U.S. Workers which is about "Rogue Sites" and "Streaming Theft" taking away jobs. And while the MPAA was circling the wagons around PROTECT IP [ Video: Why The Act Is Bad ] as if it was Hollywood's job savior; employees in DVD products are getting laid off. This is not due to the myth of lost sales but because the movie industry has not marketed DVD products very well. The business model of treating DVD media products of all types as a cash cow without alternatives failed.

At this point I could overload this post with links to sites that link back to a site that has a paragraph describing DVD vs streaming a la Netflix or Amazon but that is your adventure. I am just making a point that the movie industry is seeing the fruits of its arrogance today. Here is the rundown of layoffs because of "declining DVD sales" due to pressure from streaming video.

June 8, 2011

Fox Lays Off 22 Staffers In Home Entertainment

Just because the movies seem to be working this summer and the flood of deals at Cannes indicated that the appetite has returned to the acquisitions business, that doesn't mean studios are immune to layoffs. Fox has become the fourth studio this week to lop staff. The studio has laid off 12 in home entertainment and 10 in IT. It's described as a minor realignment that occurred mostly in the analytics group for Fox Home Entertainment and the IT group that supports them.

June 10, 2011

Warner Bros Lays Off 50 In Home Entertainment & Consumer Products

deadline, EXCLUSIVE: That's about 1% of the Warner Bros' total domestic work force. When I asked about it, Warner Bros Entertainment issued this statement, “As part of the continual review of our business operations, Warner Bros. Entertainment will be undertaking limited staff reductions in our home entertainment and consumer products divisions. The total number of employees and positions impacted by these reductions is a relatively small percentage of our domestic workforce.”

June 6, 2011

Now Disney And Lionsgate Laying Off Staff

Add Walt Disney Studios and Lionsgate to the companies laying off staff. Disney's will be roughly 5% largely in the distribution area with other areas impacted as well. Lionsgate laid off less than 20 people as part of a reorganization affecting home entertainment and service areas. And, Viacom No. 2 Phillippe Dauman said this about Paramount Pictures signalling what may be layoffs there: "As the home entertainment stream is challenged, fewer DVDs are being sold, so you have to review your home entertainment overhead. That's adjusting to the business model. We’re very focused on that. We continue to work on the overhead there."

June 2, 2011

Did Philippe Dauman Say He Plans Job Cuts At Paramount Home Video? You Decide

deadline, UPDATE, 3:50 PM: The folks at Paramount say that we misunderstood Dauman. He wasn't trying to say that he plans to make cuts at home entertainment, they say. He was simply talking in general terms about being vigilant about all of Paramount's costs. That's not how it looks to me, but why don't you decide for yourself? Here's the transcript of Dauman's response to a question about how he might "improve Paramount's fortunes":

"There are some things you can control in the movie business…that is the overhead. It doesn't matter what movie you make. You can control that; that's money in the bank if you can do that. And we have continuously improved that part of it. You continually have to adjust. For example, as the home entertainment stream is challenged, fewer DVDs are being sold, so you have to review your home entertainment overhead. That's adjusting to the business model. We’re very focused on that. We continue to work on the overhead there."

Wanted to get this off my mind so I can watch tv: http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/full_episodes

Internet Censorship Secret Planning Meeting (Vortex)

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This video is the result of boiling off all the lawmaker's fancy double talk and weasel words. What is left is the plan; naked with only raw power grabbing arrogance as a shirt. Watch from the"fly on the wall" perspective what is going on behind closed doors.. So, medicated worker bee, go for it or lose it - freedom.

Thanks go out to Lauren Weinstein for making the video, fairuse on twitter ||

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Link: http://youtu.be/c5Kx4z6q7AE ]

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"Leaked video" of an Internet Censorship Secret Planning Meeting, aimed at stomping out free speech on the Net. More (serious!) information about Internet censorship via: http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000859.html
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Lauren's Blog Home Page
Lauren on Twitter

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After School Video Special - Dessa of Doomtree: Music and Interviews [YT]

This piece is a YouTube playlist. The content belongs to the respective copyright holders and has been hunted down and assembled by The Cat's servant, 309nmBlonde. If by chance a video is the work of some immoral music jacking scumbag, I will narc on them to YT and remove it from the playlist. @fairuse (aka The Cat aka 309nmBlonde)

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About this playlist

16 videos

Total length: 1 hour, 2 minutes

Description: Just my play with the following:

Acts:

01 Introspection: Film - Iron Sky Teaser 3 - We Come In Peace [energia productions]

02 Dessa, Dixon's Girl - Doomtree

03 Dessa, Alibi - Doomtree

04 Dessa, Kites - KEXP radio

05 Dessa, Behind the Smile - Doomtree

06 Dessa, "Poor Atlas" - Doomtree

07 Dessa, Seamstress - KEXP radio

08 Dessa, Go Home - KEXP radio

09 Interview: An interview with Dessa, Seattle Show Gal

10 PSA-(k) People Should Already - (know): Miss Representation Trailer (2011 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection)

11 Dessa, The Chaconne - (89.3 The Current)

12 Album Track Interview: Dessa Darling of DoomTree Speaks Out...Album Badly Broken Code (Chacone & Children's Work) - Mr Davey D

13 Dessa, Into The Spin - Doomtree

14 Dessa, The Crow - Doomtree (via nerdsgethunk)

15 Dessa, Minshaft 2 - Doomtree (via infamoosic)

16 Epilogue: Film - Iron Sky teaser (720P HD) - Space nazis attack! [energia productions]

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