Posted on January 9, 2004, by etrigan in Food.

I have often harrased my SoCal friends to keep their eyes open for the elusive Choco-dile, since that is the only place I’ve seen them. I am not alone in my quest as this site shows. I will take my finding of this site as a sign from God to harrass all you BPBers.

Please, please, please peruse your local grocery store aisles looking for Choco-diles.

If you do find them I will gladly repay you and go to Central Market and get you whatever your little stomach desires.

Posted on January 9, 2004, by etrigan in Politics.

More than a few BPBers and friends have been to Killington, Vermont — some to live, some just for snowboarding. I love this article about the town of Killington expressing dissent about the state they are in.

They say the town’s restaurants, inns and other businesses send $10 million a year to the state capital in sales, room and meal taxes, but the state returns just $1 million in state aid to Killington. …

Secretary of State Deborah Markowitz said Killington has little chance of secession “absent an armed insurrection type of thing. … A town is a construction of the state and exists at the pleasure of the Legislature.” …

“I love having a Vermont address. I’m proud of it. It’s a cool place to live,” said resident Steven Kelly.

Posted on January 9, 2004, by etrigan in Games.

This game has nothing to do with trying to drive a bus above 50mph or else it will blow up. Speed is just a card game where you play against the computer trying to beat her in getting rid of your cards.

Posted on January 9, 2004, by etrigan in Games.

This quick little game gives you a round of cheese, a handful of couch-surfing items and a limited amount of time to save a specified number of mice. It starts pretty simple, but round 3 of Cyber Mice Party has escaped my abilities.

Posted on January 9, 2004, by jank in Politics.

Until something turns up, but the Portugese Prime Minister reports that WJC, as recently as October 2003, “told (The Portugese PM) he was absolutely convinced, given his years in the White House and the access to privileged information which he had, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction until the end of the Saddam regime.”

FWIW.

Posted on January 9, 2004, by gordo in Politics.

The IMF has taken notice of the shaky footing of our economy (and don’t let us get into the “what is the economy” question. I’m talking about the financial basis of our government spending and the overall plan for the same in the future) – do you think the voters will?

Posted on January 9, 2004, by jank in Entertainment.

But what I got was Trout Fishing In America on Morning Edition Looks like TFA’s up for a Grammy (Insert snide comment from the Simpsons).

And, showing why I’m such a fan of NPR, the lead in to the half hour at 8:30 EST featured the battle between Beef.com which is a PETA site (featuring cows frothing at the mouth) and Beef.org (which features “It’s What’s For Dinner”) over Mad Cow disease. The bit NPR used to describe PETA was along the lines of “PETA, an animal rights group, is against eating cows, mad or happy.”

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