Mimi has a Dundeon and she KNOWS how to Use it

I was tagged! : Monday Mimisms ~ I Have a Dungeon and I Know How To Use It

I cheat a little with these, and source code ping. Please do not throw me in the dungeon Mimi oh Hot Queen of Bloggingham (( smiles )) .... OK, here we go

Just because Mimi has a meme site of my own now doesn't mean she has given up on memeing here all together. After all, her name is mmmmeeeeeemi. Sort of. She didn't plan it that way. It just sort of happened. Isn't that the way life goes? What happened to the good ole' days when Mimi stood on her pointy crown and issued an edict from the rooftops of Bloggingham Palace. It was heard far and wide across oceans and valleys and blills in the blogosphere. Every blogger within the sound of Mimi's voice hurried to answer questions wrought forth (She always wanted to say wrought forth). It makes no sense but it was fun to say - anyway .... yeah ... scary questions from the Queen -whohasith a dungeon are long overdue much like her library books but she will digress.

Now I know you've all heard about this dungeon of Bloggingham. Some have even seen it and lived to tell. But that's not the point. Mimi knows how to bury those bodies (( AKK )) And don't think you can hide behind that get-out-of-the-dungeon-free card she issued way back when she didn't have any sense one day and get out of this meme. I'm talking to you, Dawn! And you...and you....and even you!


So bear with her while I think of a goodie meme and do it right here on the page. The chicken's way would be to say "I tag everyone". Bah! You think that's a serious memer?! Ha! I'm taking names and kicking blass (that's blog + a** for all you non-blog speakers) I can't believe I said that. You will most likely find your name at the end of this post marked TAGGED.
Read it and weep.
Or else.YES YOU ARE CONFUSED! ME TOO
The UnValentine Grumpy Meme

1. I, Mimi Pencil Skirt Peace Woman, have officially declared war on Valentine's Day. If I see one more chocolate rose covered in stupid red tin foil paper I'm gonna have a fit. What did you get for Valentine's Day?

NOTHING man, just a bunch of NOTHING

2. What will you miss most about Valentine's Day?
Nothing .... well, maybe candy.

3. What could you have done differently yesterday to make the day sweeter?

NOTHING

4. How many roses make a dozen?

Depends if I am in a bakery


5. You and your love are getting matching tattoos for Valentine's Day. What will they be?

What?? What woman?

6. My kingdom for a man who can spell. I am so tired of getting text messages from college educated 45 yr old men like .....I miss u ....wat up?.... B there by 8... or the ever popular U home? Does your significant other have an annoying cute little habit you'd like to break?

I HAVE NOBODY .... hmmmm, I think this meme was not ment 4 old Speedy cuz he say 2 U wat up womans?? (( HE HE HEEEEEEEEE ))




7. What did you get someone for Valentine's Day?

NOTHING









8. No one is looking. I promise.
Write one word on this candy heart you've been dying to say to a romantic connection from your past. I will not tell.

You were so not worth the 100,000 I spent on your butt stapled to the couch

9. Be a poet. Write a 4-line poem starting with Roses are red....

Roses are red
Violets are purple
take a good hard look
... at my durplally worple


10. What song best describes your Valentine's Day experience this year?

by The Dungeons ( OK, I just copied Mimi on that one ) hehee

11. I, Mimi Grumpy Skirt, am so glad this meme is almost over. This is my final question. I made it eleven questions in honor of the 11 roses I didn't receive. Aren't they lovely? This is my final final question, Regis:
Two cupids are in a knock down drag out fight on the floor of the Senate. One is a constituent from Venus, the other from Mars.
What is the name of the legislation they are fighting over?

The rest is a direct copy paste from Mimi at the Bloggingham Palace

Same Cherub marriage of course.



P.S. The chocolate was messy
The sentiment real
I promise to forgive him
If this meme you steal.
So take this tag
and away you go
You won't be thrown into
the dungeon below!

**This will be the Queen's Meme for Tuesday as well**
Now for the fun part.... Oh ye little Dungeon Dodgers you. I, Mimi Queen of Memes, do royally tag Ferd, Vodka Mom, Summer, Lizza, Starr, Jean-Luc, Linda, Bond, Ciara, Tulip, Eric, Bee, Travis, Melissa, Eyre, Lee, Bobby, Anndi, Mo, Desert, Shannon, Cogitator, Katherine, Ciara, Lois, Jamie, Kitten, Gal, Gary, Mielikki, Charles, Dawn, Cat, Jennifer, Brigit, Melissa, Angelia, Maria, Kwizgiver, Coopernicus, BPD, Allie, Lime, Dixie, Pink Lady, Nessa, Akelamalu, Stef,
Mouse, Sandy, Mommy Cara, Wendy,
Xmichra, Debbie, 800 FB friends and a partridge in a pear tree.


I tag all of the above too, so now you are tagged twice. Happy Valentine

I also tag these people !


Ann's A Nice Place in the Sun
At Home at Last / Chris
BackWoods Drifter West Virginia
Bees Musings
Beetle Blog
Bewildered Brit
Cabbages and Kings !
Cacais Step and Journey (new)
Comedy Plus
Connie's World
Creative Treasures
CUBAPOML?? / Lauren
Daisy the Curly Cat!
Dancing with Daisy
DCR Blogs
Debo Hobo
Deep in the Forest
Drowsey Monkey
Dust Bunny Hostage
Endangered Truth
Fibro Viv
FRACAS
Functional Shmunctional
Golf Boy
Golf Girls Diary
Green Eyes Reflections
Hillbilly Willie Arkansas
Images to Explore
Inconsequential Logic ( Roschelle )
Jane Turley and her Witty Ways
Janice NW
Julie's Jewels and Junk
Lady BANANA
Lady Java
Laketrees
Life in the Short Lane / (Margo)
Lillie's Life
Los LOBO man of Foil
Mariuca
Med Students Wife (ADIParadise)
Meleah
Mimi Lennox the Meme Queen
Miss Moneypenny CPU DD M (best rating)
Momo Fali
My Corner (little jungle box)
My Picture Salad
Nannygoats in Panties
Natural Hawg Arkansas!
Netster
Olga the Traveling Bra
One of a Kind Wisconsin! (gifts and cheese)
Paradise Regained
photoblog
Ponderings from the Pond
Purplefrogcat
RAMBLING BLOGS (Sky)
RennyBA Terella
Revellian
Reveries Simply Jacy
She Lives
Sherry Gates
Shiphire Dominion
Smiling with Daisy
Stuff that MATTERS!
Terri Terri
The Circus Has Come to Town (Summer)
The Rev
Thoughtful Reflections
Throwaway Blog
VTRoom / Teeni
Wendster's Blog
WIXY Gone Bananas!
Wood & Pixels
World Golf Blogs
ZHU

If you do not respond, I will send Google Bots out to tear up your source code. Happy Valentine

ha haaaaaaaaaa !!!!

From SPEEDCAT HOLLYDALE PAGE

at The Queen's Meme #25 ~ The UNValentine Grumpy Meme

Music on MONDAY

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Music Monday Sans Music PS: Because of spamming purposes, the linky will be closed on Thursday of each week at midnight, Malaysian Time. Thank you!

Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:11 PM, EST

Ally's birthday was great!





Tomorrow Ally will get a blood draw. On Friday the doctors told us to be ready to bring her up for a blood transfusion at some point this week. Hopefully it will be later in the week or not at all. Also on Friday one of her oncologists remarked again at how wonderful she thought Ally was doing. She said that some of the other kiddos they see, that have had this surgery, start to look as good as Ally about 4 months out. I can't imagine her being like this for four months. She still will not walk on her own (she can, she just doesn't want to), she must have someone to sit with her and will only tolerate being alone (and by alone, I mean not physically touching her, she needs someone to sit on, not just in the same room) for about 2-5 minutes. She doesn't have much of an appetite and is still puking...which we found out is common for 4-6 weeks after surgery. Ugggghhhh. She is also not interested in her toys very much. She will play with some things for about 5-10 minutes, but then is content to just sit on the couch with someone, sometimes watching tv, sometimes reading books and sometimes just sitting there quietly. We miss old Ally.

On a brighter note Ally LOVES her big girl bed and she slept the whole night through in it last night!

Hopefully not much to report this week.

We head back to NYC the week of school vacation.

Filled with Grace

Some have hearts filled with grace and gentleness
they are few and extraordinary
Someone to count on, someone to call
Someone who listens ... and is there when you fall
She cheers in a crowd of one
She sees the good in everything I do

Inheriting just a few of her traits can smooth my rough edges
By her example alone, the world makes sense

Within moments of my entrance into this world she held me
let me know I was wanted, protected me all along
I will never grow too old to say, "I love you Mom"

1000 Words

1000 Words

This week we have a great photo dated 1916 showing a surf caster in action. We usual get the end result of a saltwater angler's actions, not the action itself, so it is great to see the method of landing a striper.



-- Dr. Todd

Deconstructing Old Ads with Bill Sonnett

World's Record Bass caught on Pikie Minnow?
 

Having had a long time interest in the story of George Perry's world record largemouth bass, I did a double take while looking at this ad for the introduction of the Creek Chub Wiggle Fish. The Wiggle Fish by the way, was misidentified for years as the lure on which George Perry caught his 22 lb 4 oz monster. We now know that lure was in fact the Creek Chub Fin Tailed Shiner. So what's this business with the Pikie Minnow?
 
When Whitefish Press recently published Remembering George W. Perry by Bill Baab, I sent for a copy and quickly read it. Until then, I could not have told you who held the world's record for largemouth bass before George Perry. Luckily there was a chapter in the book devoted to this former record holder. It was only when I read the name Fritz Friebel in this ad that it dawned on me that I was reading a magazine that was printed seven years before George Perry caught the big one in 1932.


This ad is from the May 1925 issue of Outdoor Recreation Magazine. I have blown up the insert portion of the ad so we can get a better look at Fritz's 20lb 2oz monster! It is probably the only look we are going to get because as Bill Baab's book tells us, like George Perry's fish, this one also ended up on the dinner table rather than being mounted.
 
-- Bill Sonnett

January 30, 1:18 a.m. EST - the Wolf Moon

listener's squeeze

Friday, January 29, 2010 8:13 PM, EST

Today has been a very good day for Ally (if you don't count the 2AM puke).

At work Mommy received s couple of gifts for Ally, both of which she opened and loved! (She can't wait to watch the Dora DVD and she has been playing with the piggy all night.) Mommy also got several cards for Ally. Her teacher friends were very generous and got Ally some gift cards to Toys R Us and Build A Bear, both of which have HUGE stores in NYC! Since we are going back at the end of February and we should have a couple of days free we may wait until then to use them.

When Mommy got home there were lots of cards and 2 packages for Ally. She LOVED the cards! She was also impressed with the animal figurines that came in one of the packages and immediately made them poop! Yippie! [Note: that package was from listener and listener’s squeeze!] (The second package was the shots we have to start giving her tomorrow....yuck.)

At the hospital Ally was the star of the day. All the nurses and doctors signed a card for Ally and came in to sing her "Happy Birthday". Even though the staff may have thought Ally was scared to death, she truly enjoyed the singing. BEST OF ALL Ally got a HUGE bag of medical supplies!!!!!! This may be her most favorite present ever! She actually sat on the floor and played with the stuff for 20 minutes when she got home.

Today was a good day....now if only this scratchy throat and runny nose would go away.

Happy Birthday to Ally tomorrow!!! It's nice to celebrate something.

Matthew Rothschild highlights this Howard Zinn quote:

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

Howard Zinn

http://www.progressive.org/wx012810.html

Friday Funhouse

Video of the Week

A shark bites a marlin in half.



Things I Would Buy If Only i Could Afford Them

An awesome Scottish metal lure by Gregory always makes the blood pressure rise.


This George Lawrence creel is awesome.


This South Bend Vacuum Bait is definitely a great find, especially in rainbow.


Oh my, those Heddon Magnum Torpedoes...


I love the Fin-Nor Gar Wood spinning reels.


You don't see these Ambassadeur 9000s very often at all.


How about a Heddon 3-35 in the box?


This is a classic early brass winch.


Purple Eel is such a pretty Creek Chub color.


The Jamison Coaxer in the box is a terrific lure.


How about a Giant Pikie in Pearl?


As I pointed out on ORCA's Reel Talk, I think this is a John Pepper reel and not a Pflueger.



That's all folks! Be good to each other and yourself.

-- Dr. Todd

Thursday, January 28, 2010 6:50 PM, EST

So...you may remember I mentioned one of Ally's NYC nurses came down with shingles sometime after treating Ally. This caused us to need to put her on a yucky banana tasting medicine. This medicine also makes kidneys work hard. Ally does not have good kidneys....until today! Her kidney levels were so good that now, instead of this yucky medicine 3 times a day, she has to take it 4. Luckily she only has 2 days left.

The puke issues continue.

The poop issue has resolved!

I have been getting LOTS of e-mails and messages about Ally's birthday. Unfortunately, because of the chemo this week, we are limiting her party to just family. We are hoping to have a party in the spring for Ally's birthday.

Tomorrow is last day of chemo!

FREE DOG SOULS

Thursday Review: Catch Magazine

Thursday Review: Catch Magazine


In the past five years there have been seemingly hundreds of attempts to create on-line fishing magazines. Most of them fail quickly and rather spectacularly (even some very well funded ones) in large part because they forget the cardinal rule of publishing: it's all about the content. No matter how slick or glossy, if the content is substandard the magazine will fail.

Which is why Catch Magazine is such a delight. Founded a little over a year ago, it has grown into a beautiful and interesting magazine featuring some stunning photography. Their own mission statement declares that they:

are searching the world for the best fly fishing photography, film and video. We hope the layout, content and navigation meet and exceed your expectations. While we may not have long articles on fly tying or casting, we will show, via dynamic and creative photography, the beautiful and exciting sport of fly fishing and expose the places, the people, the culture and the soul of this world wide activity.

In this, they have largely succeeded. A closer look at Catch Magazine Issue #9 includes a video by Todd Moen, a slide show on Mexican Bass by Brian O'Keefe, photo essays like Brad Harris' "Tasmania: Under Down Under" and other beautiful pieces.

Catch Magazine promises a lot, and amazingly enough in an age when very few on-line sites come through with even a portion of their promises, it delivers. It's a wonderful e-magazine and I wish it continued success, so it can stand as a model for how to do these kind of things correctly.

You can access Catch Magazine by Clicking Here. For the magazine's blog and a list of back issues, Click Here.

-- Dr. Todd

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 6:34 PM, EST

Ally going to bed early = 4:45AM wake up time.

We are still working on the puke issue. We have now added the fun: it hurts when Ally poops issue.

I think if we can just stick it out through this week of chemo things will get better next week....right?

Life of Pi-1 Christianity, Atheism, and Agnosticism

Christianity is a religion based on love. All, even the most human-like, Gods Pi is used to are "with shine and power and might. Such as can rescue and save and put down evil" (55). Until Pi encounters Christianity, he believed "that is God as God should be" (55). However, christian God sacrifices himself and dies in humiliation for the sake of his creatures. Pi cannot fathom why a mighty God would do something so humiliating, and Father Martin answers, "love" (54). Christianity supposedly teaches one to love your neighbor and your enemy; then, why is it that Christianity caused wars, which caused suffering and death? Pi goes onto describe Christianity as "a religion in a rush" (57). Hence, as I've heard other people say it, it is a modern religion that fits perfectly with our living styles. Today's people are always in a rush. We take cars, buses, and planes to get to a destination quickly, and while we're traveling, we're always on the phone communicating and getting stuff done. Everything is a fight against time. People are always trying to get things done faster and quicker. Thus, Christianity in which, "the world created in seven days," is perfect for us (57). I thought it was quite funny the way Pi offered, "thanks to Lord Krishna for having put Jesus of Nazareth, whose humanity I found so compelling, in my way" (58).

If God created this in 7 days, he must have been in a rush! Or maybe he is just almighty and powerful.

Pi asserts that atheists are pretty much better than agnostics. He sees that atheists at least believe that there is no god whereas agnostics do not know what to believe. Agnostics appears to lack the ability to believe in anything; their lives compared to believers will be dull and boring. Atheists has the capacity to believe that when they will come to believe in God-perhaps in fear-in their deathbed: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" (64). Agnostics however will make pathetic attempt to explain the phenomenon, "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain" (64). Agnostics miss out on the excitement called life: "[Agnostics], to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story" (64).

It would be nice to be able to believe in a story better than just possible failure of the brain

I thought it was also very interesting that Pi claims to be a Hindu, a Christian, and a Muslim. The imam and the priest asserts that "[Pi] can't be a Hindu, a Christian and a Muslim. It's impossible. He must choose" (69). Pi argues that as Ghandi said, "All religion are true" (69). However, to what extent is that statement correct? Is it really possible that all religion are true? Perhaps, if you believe that all religion are about love as Pi does, it may be true, but many religions disagree, which means if one is true the other must be false. Especially when it comes to Christianity, Christians are the followers of one and only TRUE religion and the rest are heathens. In the end, I still believe these religions cannot coexist.

Only one of these groups believes in the true religion.