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Oct. 27th, 2003
What's in a Name? Everything When the Name is Butt
Fri October 24, 2003 09:54 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - A British couple have been forced to move house because of the shame caused by the name of their street -- Butt Hole Road.
Paul and Lisa Allott sold their $250,000 bungalow in Conisbrough, northern England after living there for just 15 months, fed up with the constant leg-pulling.
Taxis and pizza delivery men would fail to turn up, thinking their order was just a prank, and they grew tired with groups of youths posing for photos by the nearby street sign with their buttocks bared.
"I like a laugh, but it was beyond a joke," Allott told the Sun newspaper.
Attempts by Reuters to contact the new residents were unsuccessful -- they have taken a confidential telephone number.
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Good thing they're not living in Mianus...
Fri October 24, 2003 09:54 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - A British couple have been forced to move house because of the shame caused by the name of their street -- Butt Hole Road.
Paul and Lisa Allott sold their $250,000 bungalow in Conisbrough, northern England after living there for just 15 months, fed up with the constant leg-pulling.
Taxis and pizza delivery men would fail to turn up, thinking their order was just a prank, and they grew tired with groups of youths posing for photos by the nearby street sign with their buttocks bared.
"I like a laugh, but it was beyond a joke," Allott told the Sun newspaper.
Attempts by Reuters to contact the new residents were unsuccessful -- they have taken a confidential telephone number.
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Good thing they're not living in Mianus...
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Oct. 27th, 2003 01:44 pmComputers are female!
Computers are male!
- Nobody but their creator understands their internal logic.
- The language they're using to communicate with each other is incomprehensible to anyone else.
- Even the slightest mistakes is memorized to all eternity.
- As soon as you've decided to get one you end up spending half your salary on extensions and additional components.
Computers are male!
- To get their attention you have to turn them on.
- They've got access to a lot of data but don't know what to do with it.
- They're supposed to help you solve your problems, but half the time they're causing them.
- As soon as you've decided on getting one you realize you could have gotten a better one if you had waited a little longer.
I'm reading some of the texts I need for my shameful Introduction into American Literature class (okay so I didn't realize I had to take it and need to do it now with all the n00bs, fuck off!) and I came upon this curious text.
From: William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, (Heath Anthology, Fourth Edition, Vol. I)
"Not only incontinency between persons unmarried, for which many both men and women have been punished sharply enough, but some married persons also. But that which is worse, even sodomy and buggery (things fearful to name) have broke forth in this land oftener than once." [p. 328]
I found this still rather amusing. And then this...
"[A Horrible Case of Bestiality]
And after the time of the writing of these things befell a very sad accident of the like foul nature in this government, this very year, which I shall now relate. There was a youth whose name was Thomas Granger. He was servant to an honest man of Duxbury, being about 16 or 17 years of age. (His father and mother lived at the same time at Scituate.) He was this year detected of buggery, and indicted for the same, with a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey. Horrible it is to mention, but the truth of the history requires it. He was first discovered by one that accidentally saw his lewd practice towards the mare. (I forbear particulars.)* 1 Being upon it examined and committed, in the end he not only confessed the fact with that beast at that time, but sundry times before and at several times with all the rest of the forenamed in his indictment. And this his free confession was not only in private to the magistrates (though at first he strived to deny it) but to sundry, both ministers and others; and afterwards, upon his indictment, to the whole Court and jury; and confirmed it at his execution.)* 2 And whereas some of the sheep could not so well be known by his description of them, others with them were brought before him and he declared which were they and which were not.)* 3 And accordingly he was cast by the jury and condemned, and after executed about the 8th of September, 1642. A very sad spectacle it was. For first the mare and then the cow and the rest of the lesser cattle were killed before his face, according to the law, Leviticus xx. 15, and then he himself was executed.)* 4 The cattle were all cast into a great and large pit that was digged of purpose for them, and no use made of any part of them." [p. 329]
*1: Too bad, I would have loved to hear how the thing with the turkey worked out...
*2: !!!!!!!!!!!
*3: Good thing he managed to identify the animals... O.o;
*4: What was sad, the execution of the animals or the fact that they're killing a teenager for such a silly thing?
Okay, so... he's been caught doing nasty stuff with aforementioned animals, some of which make you wonder who on earth he might have managed that, was forced to identify the animals so that they could be put to death and then was executed for his crimes. >_> Yeah... right. Puritans. Gotcha...
From: William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, (Heath Anthology, Fourth Edition, Vol. I)
"Not only incontinency between persons unmarried, for which many both men and women have been punished sharply enough, but some married persons also. But that which is worse, even sodomy and buggery (things fearful to name) have broke forth in this land oftener than once." [p. 328]
I found this still rather amusing. And then this...
"[A Horrible Case of Bestiality]
And after the time of the writing of these things befell a very sad accident of the like foul nature in this government, this very year, which I shall now relate. There was a youth whose name was Thomas Granger. He was servant to an honest man of Duxbury, being about 16 or 17 years of age. (His father and mother lived at the same time at Scituate.) He was this year detected of buggery, and indicted for the same, with a mare, a cow, two goats, five sheep, two calves and a turkey. Horrible it is to mention, but the truth of the history requires it. He was first discovered by one that accidentally saw his lewd practice towards the mare. (I forbear particulars.)* 1 Being upon it examined and committed, in the end he not only confessed the fact with that beast at that time, but sundry times before and at several times with all the rest of the forenamed in his indictment. And this his free confession was not only in private to the magistrates (though at first he strived to deny it) but to sundry, both ministers and others; and afterwards, upon his indictment, to the whole Court and jury; and confirmed it at his execution.)* 2 And whereas some of the sheep could not so well be known by his description of them, others with them were brought before him and he declared which were they and which were not.)* 3 And accordingly he was cast by the jury and condemned, and after executed about the 8th of September, 1642. A very sad spectacle it was. For first the mare and then the cow and the rest of the lesser cattle were killed before his face, according to the law, Leviticus xx. 15, and then he himself was executed.)* 4 The cattle were all cast into a great and large pit that was digged of purpose for them, and no use made of any part of them." [p. 329]
*1: Too bad, I would have loved to hear how the thing with the turkey worked out...
*2: !!!!!!!!!!!
*3: Good thing he managed to identify the animals... O.o;
*4: What was sad, the execution of the animals or the fact that they're killing a teenager for such a silly thing?
Okay, so... he's been caught doing nasty stuff with aforementioned animals, some of which make you wonder who on earth he might have managed that, was forced to identify the animals so that they could be put to death and then was executed for his crimes. >_> Yeah... right. Puritans. Gotcha...
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Oct. 27th, 2003 05:40 pmUpon discussing with my brother we have established the following to be a list of morals taught in The Wizard of Oz:
There's no place like home.
You don't need a wizard, you've got it all inside of you.
Friendship is important.
and...
Don't go outside during tornadoes or someone might drop a house on you. XD
Any additions?
Additions by others:
Michael Jackson wasn't always white. [by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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and...
Any additions?
Additions by others:
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