Umm… I have news for you.
The language spoken in Luxemburg actually is called Luxemburgish. It’s a dialect of German. Score one for Mom!
You obviously haven’t been looking at mine.
(shocked silence)
Seriously – it gets so long that my wife tells me when it needs to be cut.
I heard 2 radio DJs discussing Stephen King movies. One of them didn’t know SK had written The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, or Stand By Me. Of course, he knew about Firestarter, Children of the Corn, etc.:rolleyes: Hopefully, he was just pretending ignorance to make for a more interesting radio show…
I didn’t know King had written the Shawshank Redeption until a few weeks ago, and it’s one of my favorite movies.
Earlier this year I found out that my mom thought that jaywalking was when you crossed a street diagonally.
Well, that’s what he meant: that hair (the “down” that some people are claiming may not qualify) does not grow on the outsides of the ears, but that there’s no such restriction on the insides.
And here’s where I quote Cecil’s “ear hair” column for the nth time:
I’m afraid that yopu’re the one who doesn’t understand – I’m talking about hair growing on the outside of my ears. I don’y have hair growing on the inside. And I know exactly where it’s growing, since it’s a pain to cut.
Calmeacham, you have those linx ear puffs? I know someone with those!
Rilchiam, Cal is referring to the fine, fine, fine peachfuzz (hell, peachfuzz is coarser!) that covers the ears in the areas that are favoured for piercing. He’s not referring to the pubic like kinky hairs coming from the inside.
You need a really good magnifying glass, but there are teensy weeny mini fuzzies on ear lobes and up on the top edge of your ear (another common piercing spot).
There are also miniscule hairs that line the eyelids (my optomertrist showed me a super-magnified picutre). In my case, one of those itty bitty follicles had become blocked producing a sty.
Think of it this way, most (not all, but most) pimples are caused by blockages of sebaceous hair follicles. Anywhere you can get a pimple, you can probably bet there is hair, even if it’s too fine for you to see it without magnification.
For the ear down, as some men get older they can get these bizarro, thick, long. mutant hairs on the top rim – look like linx tufts!
For some reason, I always think guys with the links tufts should be able to wiggle their ears.
My hubman has hair growing on the outside of his ears too. I cut them for him. Not on the tragus, either…all along the outer rim of his whole ear. Its outline, if you will. It’s only been noticeable for the last three or four years…but it’s there. So I know what you mean, anyhow.
:eek:
I stand corrected, then.
If only they were “teensy weensy” and “mini”. PepperMill can grab them and pull!
Yep, one of my wifely duties is to pluck Hubby’s ear hairs - on the rim, the outer edge and the lobe. Thick wiry insect whiskers - definately not peach fuzz. In fact, I have a friend whose ear hair, on the outer curve of his ear, grows thick and sticks straight out. Like fringe, but none growing in the bell.
You guys are sure in for a rude awakening as you get older!!
When my sister was younger she would pitch fits about going to school. She was about 12-13 and had gotten into an arguement with my mother that caused her to miss the bus. After being grounded and taken to school by my mother, they sat in the car for a moment before she went in.
mom: Now today while you’re in school I want you to ponder over what you did this morning.
sis: Um… what does ponder mean?
mom: Think about it.
At this my sister takes a long pause.
sis: I could think about it all day and I still won’t know what ponder means!
When Beck’s song “Loser” came out, I had no idea the chorus was in Spanish. I thought he was singing incomprehensibly. I lived in Argentina for at least a year before I suddenly realized…
FYI the hair cells that are involved in hearing have nothing to do with the type of hair that grows from your skin.
Sorry to go back to this, but what was with the bit about seventy-six trombones on the ceiling of a house in Iowa? I have no idea what this refers to.
Here are 3, all from the same person, who considers herself witty, urbane and really smart…
-Where Rennet comes from (after 10 years of being a vegetarian)
-What a “reacharound” is (although she is constantly blathering about what a “faghag” she was at art school)
-that an easy way to keep someone on the other end of the phone from hearing a nasty comment is to COVER THE DAMN MOUTHPIECE!
Thanks, Wikkit. Guess I should go see The Music Man sometime.
I have been reading, “Helter Skelter” lately. It’s a book about the Manson Family murders in 1969. (It’s not the murders that are scary, but the incompetence of the police that is truly frightening!)
Anyway, one of the lawyers questioning prospective jurors asked several of them, “Have you or anyone in your family been the victim of Homocide?”
“Yes, I have… I got better.”
Part 1: Moose Fences
A friend (17? at the time) along with other friends and some of my family were driving through New Hampshire to hike Mt Washington.Living in a fairly developed area, and not having been to New Hampshire, the friend was startled by the ‘moose crossing’ signs by the road. Somehow, he connected this with the workers laying some sort of cable by the side of the road.
My father is not the type to miss this sort of opportunity. He promptly explained that the cable was part of a giant ‘invisible fence’ for moose, just like people have around their yards for dogs, and gave bogus info an voltage etc involved with these fences.
A year later, on a similar trip, this kid turns to a friend he brought that year and explains, after seeing the moose crossing signs, about the invisible fence. He remembered every detail and had added a few of his own.
Part Two: The Cairns
Encouraged by this recitation, dad mentioned casually while hiking to the Appalachian trail hut that the kid should ask the caretakers what they did with the cairns in the winter.
For those of you unfamiliar with the AT and Mt Washington:
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The weather is the worst in the world as measured by wind speed and precipitation (scientific fact.)
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The cairns are there so that, in inclement weather, such as there often is in winter, hikers will not get lost. The upper slopes are completely barren rock with no trail markings except the cairns. Also, the cairns are 5-foot piles of big rocks with emergency supplies inside.
To continue:
After dinner, at a Q/A session, this kid pipes up and asks,
“How do you get all the cairns put away for the winter?”
Dead silence ensued. Had the subject not been changed, the whole lodge would still be sitting there.