Someone apparently had a fixation for Groucho Marx, the LaBrea tar pits, and beaded evening dresses a half hour or so ago, considering that I got three messages concerning all of these things in each one.
I had SO much fun free-associating and getting that Groucho stuff. (I saw a film with him in it last night, where he played a sailor. It was disturbing, I tell you.) And as for the LaBrea Tar Pits, I just found a recording of “Pico and Sepulveda” (Dr. Demento song) thanks to a thread in the BBQ Pit. And yes, I have a cat named Henry, and he has six toes. I can’t explain the beaded evening gown, though.
I keep getting this one, over and over…
Double whammy! Kat, you got my traffic directions/La Brea Tar Pits one, I got your message!
This needed to be shared:
This is a test of the emergency Anonymous Message Server posting system. If this had been an actual emergency, there would have been no one here posting stuff except you, and so you would be getting your own messages back over and over again. This concludes this test of the emergency Anonymous Message Server posting system.
Hmm… I just put this message up out of frustration:
To hell with this error page!
There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience
and got this back:
1993 – A California appeals court in November upheld a $100,000 award to the estate of Wesley Wilkins from Wilkins’ former lover, Lillie Siplin. Siplin had invited Wilkins to her mountain cabin in 1985 to have sex but, found the trial court, failed to warn Wilkins that her husband was a violent man. Siplin’s husband broke in and stabbed Wilkins 17 times. As she was taking Wilkins to the hospital, she happened to mention that her husband had acted this way several times -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1996 – In September, Michael Potkul, 33, won a $400,000 malpractice award against surgeon Dominic A. Brandy in Pittsburgh. Brandy had convinced Potkul that he could give him a nearly full head of hair by surgically (in six operations) grabbing the hairy back of his scalp and stretching it over the thin-haired top of his head. Potkul suffered such pain and depression by the fifth operation that he attempted suicide. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1991 – In March, gourmet Howard Schaeffer, 46, received a $1.1 million award from a New York City jury, which believed that a traffic accident had caused him to lose his senses of smell and taste. Asked why he continues to weigh over 200 pounds, Schaeffer said he has found other ways to enjoy food: “It’s amazing how quickly you can get into texture.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1994 – Last year, Bobby Hughes won $800,000 from a lower court in Virginia to cover injuries he suffered when he tripped over a railroad trestle. He was trespassing at the time, and his major injuries were scraped hands and knees. In January 1994, the Virginia Supreme Court overturned the award. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1997 – Dale L. Larson’s $41,000 trial-court award was upheld by a Wisconsin appeals court in October, which agreed with the trial court that the Indianhead golf course in Wausau was 51 percent responsible for Larson’s needing nine root canals and 23 dental crowns. Larson tripped on his golf spikes and fell hard on his face on a brick path outside the clubhouse, and he argued that he wouldn’t have fallen if it had been a smooth concrete sidewalk rather than a brick path. The trial court had found that only 49 percent of the accident was due to Larson’s having consumed 13 drinks that evening, which left him with a blood-alcohol level of 0.28 90 minutes after the fall. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1993 – In October, a federal appeals court upheld a $325,000 jury award to Robert Fischer, who had claimed that an electrical shock he received from a Pepsi-Cola machine in Omaha, Neb., in 1987 had left him impotent. Fischer’s wife was awarded $35,000 for loss of services. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1991 – A General Motors assemly line worker in Oshawa, Canada, won an award from the Workers Compensation Appeals Triubunal in February for job stress after being told by his foreman that he had a bad body odor. The man will receive about $3,000 in benefits after having complained about the loss of appetite, lack of sleep and sexual dysfunctions caused by the foreman’s claim.
That looks to me like someone did a search for the word “award” on News of the Weird , and pasted some of the results. (the reason I know is that I did searches on the site before, and still do sometimes)
Cazzle
April 30, 2002, 4:46am
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*Originally posted by Flamsterette_X *cazzle . For a second, I thought you might have left it there, since you’re into names as well! still haven’t checked that site out yet, but will get to it soon; really!)
On “refresh”, I got:
[wuote]I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I’d like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.
**
You got my message - I posted the pet beds one.
Today, I got
Feeling cheated, I tried again and got
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Still don’t feel like I got my money’s worth today, so going for gold on the third attempt…
Bah! Ripped off!
Sorry, Geobabe … I didn’t mean to imply you were weird!
I just got:
Mu humblest apologies, yosemitebabe … that’s what I get for reading too fast and associating weird things in my mimd!
Kat , you got mine about not being a drama queen.
cazzle m I did check out the site this afternoon; very cool! Also, you got my URL message.
This is what I got just now:
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
The Screaming Trees?
Mu humblest apologies, yosemitebabe … that’s what I get for reading too fast and associating weird things in my mimd!
Kat , you got mine about not being a drama queen.
cazzle , I did check out the site this afternoon; very cool! Also, you got my URL message.
This is what I got just now:
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
The Screaming Trees?
Cazzle
April 30, 2002, 4:57am
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Hey! Looky what else they have on this site - Haiku Generator!!
Scrambled Haiku brings up:
Sweet!
I meant: “My humblest apologies… weird things in my mind ” in my last post, of course.
A Haiku generator? I’d have to say that I didn;t really look at all the other things on the site. Besides, I had connection problems just now. Let’s see what it brings me:
Way cool!
This site also has a Dada Server , which I’d heard about before. This is what I got:
I wonder if it will do the exact same thing if I input the same data again? Let’s try it… yes, it does.
Here’s what I got the first time:
“Why am I visiting a site that is an obvious waste of time when there are more prooductive things I could be doing? And why are you here, I’m sure you also have something better to do!”
The second time, I got a link to the SDMB.
Eek, the dada was scary. I got:
Hippopotamus? HIPPOPOTAMUS??? You can’t say things like that to a lady! The nerve!
I got:
then:
Hmmm… if you put the two together, you get glowing oranges!
Yosemite gets to rest, but I. . . I trudge on. Perhaps I should post a message every hour just so a doper can read it.
So I left a message for those of us who are weary and got this in return.
Do you think the drinking had anything to do with the fathering?
An hour has passed. Here I am again.
Got a stupid message back…
Stupid message.
That’s the song that the Wise Old Baboon sings as he walks around, from the movie “The Lion King”.
I just recieved:
Life is short. Don’t carry grudges. Forgive and move on. If you treat everyone with kindness and respect, most people will do the same to you. If not, don’t take it personally. Move on. Life can be unfair. Don’t be bitter. Bitterness kills. See the best side of everything, Love God, yourself, and others.
I left behind something about why people would choose to tag along on other people’s honeymoons, and got this in return:
I’m guessing this is one of yours, Biggirl .
My work is done here. Someone else got my message, now I can rest. Just so you know, I’m also the one who was giving random traffic directions too.
