TH13: Women I'd like sit down and drink a beer with
Thursday, Nov. 09, 2006 at 8:20 a.m.
1) Mary Magdelene
2) J, my friend who died 10 years ago this month. I miss you.
3) Anastasia of Russia
4) Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury, Diana Rigg, and Piper Laurie, because I wanted to be all of them when I grew up.
5) Eleanor Roosevelt
6) Clara Harris, one of the other people in the box seat when Lincoln was shot
7) Cleopatra
8) Dinah, the only daughter of Jacob/Israel
9) Janis Joplin
10) Any one of the prostitutes of New Orleans at the turn of the century
11) Bettie Page
12) My maternal grandmother
13) My paternal grandmother
On this day in 2346, Romulans commit an atrocity now known as the Khitomer Massacre, slaughtering over 4,000 Klingons on an agricultural colony. Worf and Kahlest are the only two to survive.
For those of us who are not hopeless geeks, on this day in 1953, Dylan Thomas drinks himself to death.
Wow. That�s really really tough for an Irishman to do. I mean, substitute the Beck�s for Guinness and this would be an Irishman�s computer:
Of course, that�s the high-end version from Sharper Image�. This is the Wal-Mart version:
And this is the Dumpster Dive� version:
Now, in this picture, I�m not sure which is more disturbing � the pc itself, or the user:
�Sid, what happened?�
�Hey Phil, my pc crashed, so I had to borrow my old lady�s kid�s pc.�
�Dude. I hope you don�t get laughed out of the Halo� competition.�