This is blogwhoring at its worst, but it’s blogwhoring in the good sense of the word, and just in time for the Holidays. A simple click on either image will take you to the Official Cutting Edge Wave of the Future New and Improved Now More Than Ever Tacky Raccoons Store for almost all your clothing and caffeine container needs. After all, it’s for the children, and the awesome design is awesome.
As with any pet, the first rule is to be firm and consistent with training, and remember that rewards generally work better than punishment.
Reward your annelid when it behaves well. Fill up the bathtub with damp (not wet) newspaper and coffee grounds for your annelid to explore. They love it!
Express your displeasure as soon as possible when your annelid misbehaves so that it connects its actions with your disapproval.
Do not yell at your annelid as they cannot hear. Stomp your feet instead. In severe cases of disobedience, keep a salt shaker nearby.
If your annelid leaves castings about the house, lock your pet in a brightly lit room for 10-15 minutes after rubbing your annelid’s nose in it. Dispose of the castings in the garden. Once your pet makes the connection between in-house castings and bright light, the number of “accidents” should diminish.
When your annelid learns to moosh at the door to go out to leave castings, reward it when it returns by allowing it to explore any dark damp space, like that puddle next to the sump drain in the basement.
Above all, be patient. Properly trained and cared for, your annelid should live 10 years or more; otherwise you’ll find it dead and dried up on the sidewalk and all the love and affection will be gone. Enjoy!
[Top image found here.]
(via Strutts News Services, Washington D.C.)
H.R. 4997 (ih), currently under review, proposes a requirement that all cinematic movie theaters replace standard xenon arc lamps with energy saving fluorescent bulbs or tubes and to retrofit the projectors with “kinetoscope” discs, rotated via electrical motors powered by photovoltaic cells, to allow frame-by-frame illumination. Films that previously employed the standard 24 frames per second shall be reduced to 8 to 16 frames per second in order to shorten the length of the illumination power requirements.
Yep, that’s where it all started. The original Avenues Crips, flashing lower case A’s. That’s the late Cuzz Tookie Williams on the right.
[Found here.]
…I don’t know what the hell it is either, but the Goggle Site Transpertion reveals this self-explanatory caption:
“Familiar brought from Guinea, photo, do not think that installation. She said scientists felt flew and flew away. They said: ‘We know this, have seen.’ Twice, dead, washed ashore from the Atlantic. In the photo, much of it decomposed… As they say has all the ‘whiskers, paws, tail… Scales not. And on the back of a comb and hair… View from the front. Lying on his back. With open mouth. visible front and rear ‘legs.'”
[Found here. Translation verbatim.]
Tyler Stevenson, an urban forester, measures barley that is growing in the fields at the Great Park on Friday morning.
Irvine, California (Strutts News Services, Opinion Section) –
Continue reading “The Great Farm: Urban Forester Scores Job Measuring Barley Crop”
And boy is KayKay pissed, having to drag that sucker around from now on. Or maybe it’s heartworm he picked up while wading barefoot through the swamps of the Hamptons. Either way, he’s got my pity.
[Found here.]
Dee Wallace (Elliot’s mom) hasn’t aged well.
Other E.T. trivia: Howie Hammerman provided E.T.’s belch. Thought you’d like to know.
[Found here.]
The line forms to the rear.
P.S. Happy Birthday to Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, George Duke, Rob Zombie, Sheila Jackson Lee, the Amazing Kreskin, Marco Boogers, Mississippi Fred McDowell.
And Bunk. Don’t call… I’m sleeping in tomorrow.
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