The Abbreviated Saturday Post
Taking advantage of halftime in the Clemson - South Carolina game... Lotsa good football games today and most of 'em are rivalry games which makes for good football, indeed.  I don't have a dog in any of these fights but I will (am!) enjoy the spectacle(s).  I fully expect to be disappointed in the outcome of the one game in which I do have vested interest, although an upset would be nice.  That may be too much to hope for, however.―:☺:―It won't be ALL football today.  We'll take time out of our b

Google Loves Me
I've posted on this subject before yet I remain amazed at two things... first: the stuff Googlers click through on when they visit EIP and second: Google's amazing and mystifying (to me) search algorithms.  Another case in point... (click for larger and you'll see EIP scored eight of the first 21 results)Our Googler clicked through on the oft-published pic of TFMP (second from left, lo

The Last Word...
... on Thanksgiving, since it's over in about half an hour.  "Thanksgiving: a displaced Brit writes..."  The first bits:When I first heard about this “Thanksgiving” thing, I thought it sounded like a great idea.We Brits sp

Happy Thanksgiving!
For the third year in a row...  If the Wall Street Journal has been running the same piece since 1961 I figure I can get by with re-runs, too. I'm not quite as good as they are, though. But seriously: Happy Thanksgiving!

Heh
SN1 sent this along today...George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die and go to hell. While there they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is for. The devil tells them it is for calling back to Earth. Putin asks to call Russia and talks for 5 minutes. When he was finished the devil informs him that the cost is a million dollars so Putin writes him a check.