Random thoughts...

[Sensei]

In his bedroom that was a living-room now the wall-bed was up, Spade took Brigid O’Shaughnessy’s hat and coat, made her comfortable in a padded rocking chair, and telephoned the Hotel Belvedere. Cairo had not returned from the theatre. Spade left his telephone-number with the request that Cairo call him as soon as he came in.
Spade sat down in the armchair beside the table and without any preliminary, without an introductory remark of any sort, began to tell the firl about a thing that had happened some years before in the Northwest. He talked in a steady matter-of-fact voice that was devoid of emphasis or pauses, though now and then he repeated a sentence slightly rearranged, as if it were important that each detail be related exactly as it had happened.
At the beginning Brigid O’Shaughnessy listened with only partial attentiveness, obviously more surprised by his telling the story than interested in it, her curiosity more engaged with his purpose in telling the story than with the story he told; but presently, as the story went on, it caught her more and more fully and she became still and receptive.
A man named Flitcraft had left his real-estate-office, in Tacoma, to go to luncheon one day and had never returned. He did not keep an engagement to play golf after four that afternoon, though he had taken the initiative in making the engagement less than half an hour before he went out to luncheon. His wife and children never saw him again. His wife and he were supposed to be on the best of terms. He had two children, boys, one five and the other three. He owned his house in a Tacoma suburb, a new Packard, and the rest of the appurtenances of successful American living.
Flitcraft had inherited seventy thousand dollars from his father, and, with his success in real estate was worth something in the neighborhood of two hundred thousand dollars at the time he vanished. His affairs were in order, though there were enough loose ends to indicate that he had not been setting them in order preparatory to vanishing. A deal that would have brought him an attractive profit, for instance, was to have been concluded the day after the one on which he disappeared. There was nothing to suggest that he had more than fifty or sixty dollars in his immediate possession at the time of his going. His habits for months past could be accounted for too thoroughly to justify any suspicion of secret vices, or even of another woman in his life, though either was barely possible.
“He went like that,â€

[Nick Collide]

...Maybe it's all too simple
For the big-brains to figure it out.
What if the hokey pokey
Is really what it's all about?

JIMMY BUFFETT
"What If The Hokey-Pokey Is All It Really Is About?"
"Far Side Of The World" (2002)

[Nick Collide]

You put your left hand in
You take your left hand out
You put your mind in
And you shake it all about.
You've only got two options:
Having fun or freakin' out
And that's what it's all about...

(ibid)

[Aiee! It burns!]

Astonish me.

[gyre]

Hip hip hippity hop
Let's all do the bunny hop

[Aiee! It burns!]

May all of your pot-holes be full.

[geekster]

http://www.hatsofmeat.com/

[Nick Collide]

May all of your pot-holes be full.

I'm confused. Is this good wishes for those who are traveling the highways and byways this weekend or even better wishes for all the stoners out there?

You astonish me.

[Lukky]

[jpx]

learned a new word: consort.

as in :

once i had a sidekick. some day i will find my consort.

jpx

ps, the Maltese Falcon *drool... my favourite line is: You're gonna hafta hock 'em.

[gyre]

Cette poste a traduit à français.

[EvilDustBooger]

Vous vous attendiez à l'allemand ?

[gyre]

Nein überhaupt nicht.
Amber wir könnten in jene Richtung gehen.

[itwazed]

The plaque for the alternates is in the ladies room

[gyre]

Vous vous attendiez à l'allemand ?

Non, pas du tout.
Mais nous pourrions aller dans cette direction.

[gyre]

http://www.eyebeam.com/1984/index.php?num=157

[gyre]

Some nice photos here.

[gyre]

I just got my Survival Guide in the mail for 2006.

Is that random enough?

[BAS]

It seems, if my experiences with Civilization III Complete are any indication, it is nearly impossible for the Industrial Revolution to have taken place anytime earlier than 1950. History books should be re-written accordingly. Oh, and the Incas dominate the Earth.


B.

[Ugly Dougly]

Do you like to eat shrimp?

[Aiee! It burns!]

Watch who you're calling shrimp.

[AntiM]

Has that always been that big?

[EvilDustBooger]

I think there`s a pill for that now .

[Bin Noddin]

Where's my li'l quarter-sheet sander?

[Bin Noddin]

Found it.
In a bag
In a bushel basket
Under a paint pan
Next to the water heater
In the back room
Of my wife's store.
What the hell was it doing there?

[LeChatNoir]

sleeping?

[Bin Noddin]

sleeping?

Yeah, just like that parrot. Well, it got a 9 hour workout today, making a ratty oak table look loverly. Time to go and leave this thread to truly random stuff.

[Ugly Dougly]

It's not sleepin, it's bleedin deceased.

[AntiM]

As my Hamster says, "Fuck you, asshole, I'm not lazy, I'm nocturnal."

[Bin Noddin]

Those little Hondas that many of the Vietnamese and Central American hoodlums around here like to drive - do they just slap on a resonator and a bunch of decals or are they really souped up?