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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style1 day ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
(c) 2007 through 2024, inclusive. All rights reserved.
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
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- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
- Home On The Range
- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
- EB5AGV RadioRepair
- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
- Carteach0
- Caleb at GunNuts
- Brick O'Lore
- Better and Better: Matt G
- Ambulance Driver
Blog Archive
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- F. A. Hayek
- With Any Luck...
- State Of Ninnies
- "One-Party Nation"
- Bloggage
- Another Blogger Blooms
- Stumbling Over Diamonds
- BlogMeet
- Lovecraftian Hand-Eye Coordination
- Columnist Gets It Backwards
- Breakfast!
- Brazen Burglary?
- Lawful Carrying Of Guns = Edge Of Anarchy
- Oooooo! Indiana 2011 Primary Info!
- Do You Know What Day It Is?
- A Primary What?
- Tubes...Slow
- April BlogMeet!
- Big Storms, Too Quiet
- Return Of The Pulps -- Again!
- Terms Of Art
- Not So Much "U," Hey?
- North To Peru!
- To A Movie Theatre -- Go!
- Now I Get It
- ...And I'm Off
- April Indy BlogMeet
- Huck The Cat: Attempted Escape
- Indiana Gun Law Update
- Put That One In Your DSM-IV
- An American Chernobyl?
- Triumph Of State Control
- Dangerous Knowledge
- "Get A Move On!"
- Woo-Hoo! "Atlas" Slated To Play In Indy!
- Just Say Know
- They Wear Masks, You Know
- New Chapter at I Work On A Starship
- Disconcerting
- Floral Jailbreak!
- Well, So Much For That
- FedGov Shutdown
- New At Retrotechnologist
- Bookshop!
- And What Happens To Those Who Will Not Remember Th...
- And So A New Day Dawns
- Today
- The Moving Finger Writes...And Moves On
- Astrophysicist Of Doom!
- Ungrh?
- Today's Phrase
- I Was Too Slow
- Lirpa?
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On The Front Lines
What They Say:
"...Savagely cynical Roberta...."
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
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6 comments:
Be of good cheer. Johnson Smith and Co. still operates from these shores and continues to vend whoopee cushions and joy buzzers.
What a flashback, Jim! I remember many great days spent perusing the Johnson Smith catalog and building lists of all the neat things I was going to order. Itching power and a ten-foot genuine latigo bull-whip with extra cracker were always a part of it. Five or six hundred pulp pages of crap to excite the imagination of any twelve year old boy.
Jean Shepherd, in a personal appearance in his hated Northwest Indiana, once opined that Johnson Smith was the Rosetta Stone of American Culture, which actually led me to opine that Monty Python was the rosetta stone of Geek culture.
In all the intervening years, I find that both opinions are far more often true than not.
Snork!
That joke probably worked better 100 years ago. I first saw it in a Boy Scout book from the 30's and I bet it was old then.
But hey, that's part of the charm of being Neo-Victorian. :)
I'll probably regret explaining a joke, but here goes.
The reason it's a joke is that if you can get someone to say "Owatagoo, Siam" three times fast, it sounds like "Oh, what a goose I am." The reason it worked better 100 years ago is that we no longer use "goose" as a term of derision for a person we would now probably call an airhead.
I was kind of enjoying the mystery. Well, at least the very best hotel in the little-known Ohio resort town, Schmilton, is still right where it should be.
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