From this day forth:

Brian will now be known as Beefy McManstick - make sure when you see him you refer to him as such!

And on a different note: Beefy McMansitck probably makes the best burgers ever in the world.

Palooza

Tomorrow is Happy-Birthday-Bob-Merlyn-Chuck-Bye-Bye-Wickses-Palooza at the Casa de Stack. Offended that the Palooza doesn't name you? Too bad, Christel.

'Ginormous' tops non-dictionary word list

By Associated Press
Posted May 17 2005
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- The response from the "vocabularians" was so "ginormous" that the lexicographers let out a "whoot."

"Confuzzled?" You must be a "lingweenie."

The editors of Merriam-Webster dictionaries got more than 3,000 entries when, in a lighthearted moment, they asked visitors to their Web site to submit their favorite words that aren't in the dictionary.

"It was a lot of fun," Arthur Bicknell, a spokesman for the Springfield-based dictionary publisher, said Monday. "We weren't expecting so many. They only had two weeks."

Some of the proposed words even gained multiple submissions so the editors came up with an unofficial Top 10 list.

First place went to "ginormous" -- bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous -- followed by "confuzzled" for confused and puzzled simultaneously, and "whoot," an exclamation of joy. A "lingweenie" -- a person incapable of making up new words -- placed 10th.

Besides the Top Ten, some loyal Mary Poppins fans submitted "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," which is in the Oxford English Dictionary, Bicknell said. He also spotted "a number of Harry Potterisms" among the entries.

"We will have to see about those," he said.



Source: Fark.com / Sun-sentinel.com

I am this rejected crayon color:

Call Crayola - I think we have a winner!

You are

What Rejected Crayon Are You?

Another Cute Doctor/Lawyer Joke:

A Doctor and a lawyer were talking at a party. Their converstation was constantly inperrupted by people describing their ailments and asking the doctor for free medical advice. After the fifth interuption, the exasperated doctor asked the lawyer, "What do you do to stop people from asking you for legal advice when you're out of the office?"

"I give it to them," replied the lawyer, "and then I send them a bill."

The doctor was shocked, but agreed to give it a try. The next day, still feeling slightly guilty, the doctor prepared the bills for eveyone he had advised at the party.

When he went to place them in the mailbox, he found a bill from the lawyer.

Taken from: My Nurses Desk Calendar (May 12th entry)

Siete de Mayo

So it's May 7th, what are you doing with your weekend?

Cinco De Mayo

It's Cinco de Mayo - how will you be celebrating today?

What is Cinco De Mayo? I found this at http://www.mexonline.com/cinco.htm

The holiday of Cinco De Mayo, The 5th Of May, commemorates the victory of the Mexicans over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. It is primarily a regional holiday celebrated in the Mexican state capital city of Puebla and throughout the state of Puebla, with some recognition in other parts of the Mexico, and especially in U.S. cities with a significant Mexican population. It is not, as many people think, Mexico's Independence Day, which is actually September 16.