Forum: The Lounge

I do not know this woman, and I am not taking umbrage with her views, exactly... http://www.facebook.com/cgautomotive#!/profile.php?id=1518674965 What I find so depressing is the convenient avatar icons plugged into the political and...

I'm not sure what my wife and kid are giving me, I'm sure it will be nice. We're going to Dave and Buster's for dinner. (My choice, family fun.)

My sister (Finky here on Mello) was off to the hospital to have her baby this AM. I'm so excited I don't know what to do with myself! :dance:

I have money in my account and cash in my wallet. My electric razor's battery is charged as is my mobile phone, which I just topped up with credit. My bus ticket now has enough money on it to last several weeks before needing more of my hard-earned...

This is awesome in so many ways: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-waters/kfc-shows-they-dont-give-_b_874971.html

Feeling in a disapproving, tsk-tsking mood? Here, lemme help you out a little. EXAMPLE #1: We have friends with an 8 year old daughter and 4 year old son. Except for a few times while visiting the maternal grandmother (who lives halfway across...

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/celebs-without-makeup-2493826/#photoViewer=1 As it turns out, they're all still pretty darn cute. Madonna's starting to look her age, but I say she's allowed.

Does anyone else find themselves on the receiving end of a line like that? For years, I went off playing pool because I studied physics and therefore should have been far, far better at it than I was. Apparently. "It's all just maths and angles, you...

Which way is this guy facing?

Twenty years ago, if you told me that I would be paying $150 a month for cell phones (I have several on my account), $75 a month to watch TV, and that bottled water would become one of the nation's most popular beverages, I would have doubted you....

More than likely by year's end. Count on complete retrenching followed by recalibration.

Pick one of the following:

When reusing the name of one of the most well known sailing ships that sank on its maiden voyage, you should not be surprised when your boat also sinks on its maiden voyage as well. I wonder what other names would have been good to avoid?

I don't have the $130 to spare, but just playing with the builder is fun. You can make yourself in Muppet form! I can't decide if FAO Schwartz is awesome or evil for this. My parents should be very glad this didn't exist when I was a kid.

Haynes' Manuals which are used by car enthusiasts everywhere have turned their attention to some heavy duty machinery before and this time is no exception. Should you have a Tiger Tank in the backyard, this manual is the ultimate guide in how to...

Anything Disney

Betty the hedgehog has a skin problem and as a result all her spines have fallen out. As a result, she will never be released into the wild because without any protection from predators, she would soon be eaten. She is also afraid of other...

My very best friend and I don't see each other too often, as I live in Chicago and she lives in New Mexico. Last weekend, though, she came in to town due to unexpected circumstances, and the timing allowed her to attend my sister's baby shower. ...

Out-of-code ketchup

A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a theater history class taking a quiz on elizabethan theater practices, specifically in regards to the staging of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and I had the thought: "What if all the other contemporary resources and...

So Big O is doing a tour of Europe and getting to shoot photo Ops in each location. We have already had the Pint of Guinness in an Irish Pub and now an untraditional barbeque (it didn't rain) with the British PM. What shenanigans is likely to...

The Bama has come to Ireland to find his roots. Apparently he has a great, great, great, great, great grandfather from Ireland. Is this is a necessary trait for US Presidents that they have to have Irish heritage somewhere down the line, just to...

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Hi everyone - my big project is winding down (the book is at the printers now, yay) so while I am still busy picking up the pieces of all the aspects of my life that I neglected for the past few months, I am ending my self-imposed mello exile. How...

http://www2.tbo.com/news/offbeat/2011/may/17/4/wisconsin-man-ready-to-eat-his-25000th-big-mac-ar-208008/ What a strange way to earn fame. I remember, in the Eighties and into the Nineties, this guy in Chicago would camp out, beginning New...

So it's Friday 13th and I'm expecting everything to go horribly wrong somehow. It will find a way, it always does. Anything unlucky happen to people out there today?

A local baker has concocted this. I intend to buy a few of them.

I just bought this tray, something I've been looking for for a long time: Why did I buy it? It's identical to the one Laura Ingalls Wilder famously ordered from the Montgomery Ward catalog, as a wedding gift for herself and her husband. It...

Saturday, we bought this car, in this color: We traded in her largish crossover, good for about 17 mpg for this 2011 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Sportwagen. This diesel wonder should be good for about 40 mpg in regular driving. VW diesel...

The Onion staff sure thinks so: http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/justin-verlander-doesnt-bother-telling-parents-dif,20379/

Speed Skater Sam Tuffnell decided for his next trick he would set off a speed camera. So late one night, wearing a high-vis jacket, he set off at high speed down a 30mph road with a speed camera at one end. In order to set one off, you need to be...

The Toronto Tower is now offering adrenaline junkies a new thrill to enjoy "The EdgeWalk". You get to walk around the edge of the building several hundred feet in the air on an invisible 5 foot ledge attached only by a harness. I'm sorry, but the...

Perfect for avoiding those zombie apocalypses or making sure those unwanted guests stay gone. Of course, you would have to move to Poland where it was built, but imagine all the fun you could have with ensuring you are safe from harm behind...

Something that's starting to happen to me oddly often. I'm on the subway. There are no open seats, so I stand, no big deal. A young woman, always Asian or African, insists that I take her seat. I'm not sure if they're showing respect for an...

Bomb disposal unit was called in to do a controlled explosion on a car parked outside the Garda (Police) Station, which is located about 500 metres from my house. Seems someone pulled up and told the police there was something strapped to his car....

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The donuts at the Dunkin Donuts by me are getting so freakin' miniscule, it's not even worth driving over there to get them anymore. I'd really rather just pay a bit more and get a decent treat. Anyone with me?

Long live the Empire Carpet Man. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chibrknews-empire-carpet-man-dies-at-89-20110427,0,703522.story Everyone in Chicago knows this dude. Empire went national with this campaign, but I don't know how...

It seems that Royal Tunbridge Wells now has it's own Ninja protector, there to fight crime and help little old ladies across the road. He was obviously "disgusted" with the area and decided to help out. :lol: Actually, if he is being...

Lent is finally over and as I had given up coffee for the forty days and forty nights, it was great to finally have a cup again. In fact several cups, extra strength :coffee: Happy days are here again.

Despite the fact he is one of the more popular and shared patron saints, it is still St George's Day and so let all Englishmen celebrate. Go on, do something English today.

I was worried about wasting it, so I decided to put it here for safekeeping. :dumbo:

I think I've met adherents of other cults like the Jehovah's Witnesses (lovely people, salt of the earth), Mormons (similar, nicer folk you'd seldom meet) etc. but I've never met a Scientologist in the wild. I suppose except the one time a guy tried...

I tend to get sleepy or lethargic, which apparently is a symptom of ADHD, who knew? Last week I was practically catatonic I had it so bad. I think I've had it easy too long. :(

I had a dream last night, that I was the Pope. I stood out on the balcony in the Vatican, beer in hand, wearing some faux-papal apparel. The crowd roared. I lifted my beer, they roared louder. I blabbered on similar to Brian in the Monty Python...

Ok folks, if you're logged in, you have to chate. Otherwise I'm closing down mellophant through nefarious means*. Don't think I won't do it.

Since I'm not currently in classes, I'm thinking about what I like to call "independent study," meaning I'm looking into the marketability of different designs and such, how they're best used, and stuff of that nature. I'm also going to bug Zuul...

http://www.bellybuds.com/ In case your prenatal young'un wants to here the latest Glen Beck podcast.