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Tuesday, July 27, 2004
( 5:14 PM ) The Rat YARD-SALE TIPS from the Onion. Third from the bottom is the best. # Posted by The Rat @ 5:14 PM ( 3:11 PM ) The Rat HAVING A BAD DAY? At least you're not this woman. # Posted by The Rat @ 3:11 PM ( 3:10 PM ) The Rat MINER FINDS 182-CARAT DIAMOND. # Posted by The Rat @ 3:10 PM ( 1:56 PM ) The Rat DUCK! The Rat just received a spam e-mail headlined, "You are about to become an ordained minister." # Posted by The Rat @ 1:56 PM ( 1:26 PM ) The Rat EXCELLENT CAPTION on the top photo here. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:26 PM ( 1:23 PM ) The Rat THIS is just so wrong!! # Posted by The Rat @ 1:23 PM Thursday, July 22, 2004 ( 7:34 PM ) The Rat CLICK HERE AND HERE for two excellent headlines. # Posted by The Rat @ 7:34 PM ( 7:25 PM ) The Rat Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. —Yeats # Posted by The Rat @ 7:25 PM Wednesday, July 21, 2004 ( 1:50 PM ) The Rat FOR YOUR DELECTATION, here is a photograph of Rick Brookhiser. Don't miss the comments section. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:50 PM Tuesday, July 20, 2004 ( 12:15 PM ) The Rat SCHROEDER HAILS MEMORY OF HITLER'S WOULD-BE KILLERS. It's about $#@! time. Sixty years after a failed bid by German officers to kill Adolf Hitler, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder marked the growing recognition of the plotters by calling them patriots who tried to save Germany from moral ruin. On July 20, 1944, they detonated a bomb inside Hitler's eastern headquarters and tried to stage a coup d'etat in Berlin. Four died from the blast, but Hitler emerged almost unscathed, dooming the coup and its architects. The Nazi reprisals saw some 140 plotters executed and thousands of arrests. In the postwar years, the conspirators were regarded by many in West Germany as betrayers of the Fatherland, only to be dismissed by subsequent generations of leftist students as conservatives who had collaborated with the fascist Nazi regime... The driving force of the assassination attempt was aristocratic colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who planted the bomb inside a briefcase in Hitler's "Wolf's Lair" in what is now Poland and was executed by firing squad some 12 hours later. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:15 PM Monday, July 19, 2004 ( 11:45 PM ) The Rat TWIN KOALAS! Because, you know, why not. # Posted by The Rat @ 11:45 PM Sunday, July 18, 2004 ( 6:57 AM ) The Rat Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny. —John Oliver Hobbes # Posted by The Rat @ 6:57 AM Thursday, July 15, 2004 ( 2:00 PM ) The Rat OOOOH... # Posted by The Rat @ 2:00 PM ( 1:08 PM ) The Rat As late as 1913, Max Beerbohm was still able to mock the vogue for Russian literature by creating an all-purpose Russian writer named Kolniyatsch, of whom Beerbohm wrote: 'his burning faith in a personal Devil, his frank delight in earthquakes and pestilences, and his belief that every one but himself will be brought back to life in time to be frozen in the next glacial epoch, seem rather to stamp him as an optimist.' —Joseph Epstein, The New Criterion, October 1992 (via Otto) # Posted by The Rat @ 1:08 PM Wednesday, July 14, 2004 ( 2:05 PM ) The Rat CELEBRATE CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER MONKEY DAY by reading this Rob Long piece about the French, or by looking at some pictures of Paris. Also, here are some drink recipes. # Posted by The Rat @ 2:05 PM ( 2:02 PM ) The Rat "VA-VA VOOM," "SPEED DATING," "DESIGNER BABY," and other words newly added to the Oxford Concise English Dictionary. # Posted by The Rat @ 2:02 PM ( 2:00 PM ) The Rat "AN OBVIOUS ANCESTOR of The Way of the Rat is Machiavelli's The Prince..." # Posted by The Rat @ 2:00 PM ( 1:16 PM ) The Rat HEY! YOU! GET OFF OF MY CLOUD... A storm is brewing in China as drought-plagued regions accuse each other of stealing clouds for rain-seeding. With the help of modern technology, scientists can fire rockets filled with various substances into light, fluffy clouds to make them rain. "But the practice has caused considerable controversy in recent days, with some saying that one area's success with rain has meant taking moisture meant for one place and giving it to another," the China Daily said on Wednesday. The row over rainclouds was particularly heated in several cities in central Henan province. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:16 PM Tuesday, July 13, 2004 ( 7:35 PM ) The Rat BILL MAHER SPENDS ALL NIGHT ARGUING WITH REPUBLICAN HOOKER. Via the Onion. (This week's horoscopes are also pretty good, especially for Virgo and Sagittarius.) # Posted by The Rat @ 7:35 PM ( 2:43 PM ) The Rat ANTI-SOCIAL SHEEP TERRORIZE AND DIVIDE NEIGHBORHOOD. # Posted by The Rat @ 2:43 PM ( 2:27 PM ) The Rat "I don't believe in jealousy, it's for the weak. One thing though—touch his dick and he's dead!" —A Fish Called Wanda # Posted by The Rat @ 2:27 PM Saturday, July 10, 2004 ( 11:50 AM ) The Rat The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing. —Proust # Posted by The Rat @ 11:50 AM ( 11:50 AM ) The Rat IT'S PROUST'S BIRTHDAY! Here is a link to a general site of things Proust-related. And here is a link to Monty Python's "All-England Summarize Proust Competition" sketch. # Posted by The Rat @ 11:50 AM Thursday, July 08, 2004 ( 1:27 PM ) The Rat BEHINDTHENAME.COM. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:27 PM ( 12:08 PM ) The Rat ...a prison cell of paradise, with yellow window shades pulled down to create a morning illusion of Venice and sunshine when actually it was Pennsylvania and rain. —Lolita # Posted by The Rat @ 12:08 PM Wednesday, July 07, 2004 ( 3:11 PM ) The Rat HEH. # Posted by The Rat @ 3:11 PM ( 12:31 PM ) The Rat HMMM... # Posted by The Rat @ 12:31 PM ( 1:56 AM ) The Rat A MORE USEFUL PAGE than you might think. # Posted by The Rat @ 1:56 AM ( 12:42 AM ) The Rat POT ACTIVISTS FORGET TO FILE SIGNATURE PETITIONS. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:42 AM ( 12:42 AM ) The Rat NOW, THIS IS A HEADLINE. Thanks to GV for the link. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:42 AM ( 12:40 AM ) The Rat The piano is an orchestra with 88... things, you know. —Vladimir Horowitz # Posted by The Rat @ 12:40 AM Tuesday, July 06, 2004 ( 12:55 PM ) The Rat FAGGOTS IN THE NEWS! # Posted by The Rat @ 12:55 PM ( 12:20 PM ) The Rat A NEW MAN IN BARBIE'S LIFE. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:20 PM ( 12:15 PM ) The Rat LISA SIMPSON TO ISSUE CRY FOR CORNISH FREEDOM. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:15 PM ( 12:02 AM ) The Rat THE WORLD IS WIDE. # Posted by The Rat @ 12:02 AM Monday, July 05, 2004 ( 11:49 PM ) The Rat RESULTS FROM the fifth annual Wife Carrying World Championships. # Posted by The Rat @ 11:49 PM ( 11:47 PM ) The Rat "[Music] is a terrible instrument in the hands of any chance user! Take that Kreutzer Sonata, for instance, how can that first presto be played in a drawing-room among ladies in low-necked dresses? To hear that played, to clap a little, and then to eat ices and talk of the latest scandal? Such things should only be played on certain important significant occasions, and then only when certain actions answering to such music are wanted; play it then and do what the music has moved you to..." —The Kreutzer Sonata # Posted by The Rat @ 11:47 PM Saturday, July 03, 2004 ( 7:30 PM ) The Rat IN A WORD... astonishing. # Posted by The Rat @ 7:30 PM Friday, July 02, 2004 ( 10:48 AM ) The Rat HEADLINE OF THE DAY. # Posted by The Rat @ 10:48 AM ( 10:38 AM ) The Rat AND... the latest in rodential news from Tokyo. # Posted by The Rat @ 10:38 AM Thursday, July 01, 2004 ( 12:00 PM ) The Rat If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made. What if I look upon a man As though on my beloved, And my blood be cold the while And my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel Or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was Before the world was made. —William Butler Yeats # Posted by The Rat @ 12:00 PM |