howdee true believers and happy new year. here is something of a chuckle...


The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are this year's {2005} winner:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an a--hole.

3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

12. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

14. Glibido: All talk and no action.

15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

greetings true believers. and so the fall season is upon us and great hiking and chilly adventures await us outdoors.

just came back from a trip to south lake tahoe and bought a new sleeping bag for the winter. yay!! i love fall.
my wifey just called me 'petey' this morning. i'm guessing a mix between 'pumpkin' and 'sweetie' unless there is a patrick or peter in the sidelines, this was really funny 8^)

can i just cry for a little bit. just a short bit. here we go.

okay i'm done now.

and no, the fire was not an april fools joke.

...went to the big fire in pacific heights yesterday.

'Conflagration in Pacific Heights' ...it really wasn't. The press love those big words!

Conflagration in Pacific Heights - from sfgate

A two-story brick auto repair shop in Pacific Heights was gutted by
flames Thursday night in a fire that drew hundreds of onlookers from
the surrounding residential and commercial neighborhood. Sixty
firefighters and 25 pieces of equipment were used to combat the blaze,
which scorched the interior of the building and almost completely
consumed the roof. No injuries were reported.

Chronicle photo by Mike Kepka"

Huge Fire Destroys SF Auto Body Shop
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The San Francisco Fire Department has
brought under control a two-alarm fire in the city's Presidio Heights district.
The fire destroyed an auto body and repair shop on the 3500 block of
Sacramento Street at Laurel Street.The fire was reported at 5:55 p.m.,
according to a fire dispatcher. No injuries have been reported.
There is no word on the cause of the blaze.
Bay City News contributed to this report.
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