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Hey @lightcastle I think you'll be very amused by today's A Softer World

Not really, but this badly-worded Trivial Pursuit question makes me wonder if there were more reasons than I knew for all the Harry Potter slash fiction.

Now that I've been tagged a death eater twice by people at work, and all.

I *adore* the message on this anti tea-party protest sign, but I think it needs a graphic designer to punch it up since it is just text and not very big.


Text reads:

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare.

You're thinking of Jesus.

One of my co-workers was searching for something on contraception yesterday and happened upon the medical dictionary page for coitus interruptus.

Check out the McGraw-Hill definition (third one down).

As joenotcharles reminds me, someone decided to write a review of the movie implied by the caption in my previous post.

OK, maybe not, but I'd rather watch this video of the Rent is Too Damn High Party candidate debating than deal with the stuff in Belleville right now.

I also support his response to the gay marriage question.

It actually put me in mind of this argument for third parties in the US.

Thanks to the wonderful gashin, I present to you what I suspect will be my favorite story of the week.

A German student "mooned" a group of Hell's Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.

As some of you know, I sometimes tell stories. I even tell these stories out loud from time to time.

Back around April 1st, I joined some other Montreal storytellers at 92 Degrees of Foolishness - a storytelling event celebrating the role of the Fool in our lives. There I told a story I learned from a terribly clever young man a fair number of you are acquainted with.

As it happens, the host of the event records the stories and sometimes puts them on his website. So for your edification (and since I am storytelling at Hurley's Irish Pub this Sunday), I present the (not at all original to me) Great Debate.

(Yes, this is more of a joke than a story and yes, it doesn't work as well without the hand gestures. Still, I figure I should get over my hesitancy to put any recording of me on the web, no matter how awful I always think I sound.)

Some of you fellow Northerners may recall this classic mockumentary from the 1980s. The premise was taken by Michael Moore for his Canadian Bacon several years later, but the SCTV people got there first.

You always suspected we Canadians were secretly trying to take over, didn't you?

This got linked to a while ago, but I forgot to post about it.

Odd sex laws.

As always with such lists, I suspect many are urban legends and not really on the books. Nonetheless, I tend to wish they are true because this desire to legislate desire always amuses and horrifies me.

Of course, I am proud to know that if this list is true I have broken the law in Massachusetts.

Some of my favourites:

* In New York an old law means you can be fined $25 for flirting. (Rumours that this is why I left New York and am so in debt are unfounded.)

* ...in Oregon it's illegal to whisper "dirty" things in your lover's ear during sex.

* A state law in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister, when addressed by their female counterparts.

* If both parties voluntary participate in 'unnatural intercourse' in Mississippi they are liable to a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

* ... in Walnut, San Francisco men may not dress as a female unless a special permit is obtained from the sheriff and in Florida it's illegal for a man to be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.

* ... if bestiality is your cup of tea, and you're a man, then head over to West Virginia where it's legal for a male to have sex with an animal as long as it does not exceed 40 lbs.

* In Thailand it's illegal to leave your house if you aren't wearing underwear.

* In the state of Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in the same house.