Yet another scarily accurate quiz. Eek!

You are 50% geek

You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator. Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend. You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You’ll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines! Geek [to You]: I’m givin’ her all she’s got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals! You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

Via Interrobang

Howard at Global News Network waxes poetic about Elvis. He tears into a critic who has fileted Elvis. Too bad the critic is right, not an idiot. See what I wrote in the comments section.

“Howard sorry I have no seen a bigger load of rubbish that this post. Elvis made his name by ripping off black artists and re-packgaging it for whites. He was a racist piece of shit who thought blacks were only there to exploit.

Elvis fanatics are a bunch of ignorant hicks who would not know decent original music if it bit them on the arse. Elvis signified all that was wrong with the South, the music business and popular music in the early days. Great site but you (Howard) don’t know jack about decent music. ”

By the way, I don’t buy the crap that Elvis was forced into a lot of it by Col. Tom Parker. Elvis was an ignorant drug-addled over-eating cretin. He would have been forgotten if he had not died on the bog from an overdose.

Update: Howard is not happy with me, check the comment section. You know what they say about Elvis fans (esp. in the South). There is only one greater sin than dissing Jesus in the South, dissing the (so-called) King.

The post that got him going. (Yes, I am posting a link to something on CNN.)

Robert Locke responds to Derbyshire’s pessimistic post. Please welcome his blog to the roll of honour.

Just discovered a new metal/hard rock magazine called Revolver. They have taken the metal-porn link as far as it can go and not be a “top shelf” mag. Not that I blame them; let’s face it, today’s rockers are, with a few exceptions, butt ugly. These days it seems that being a “pretty boy” makes it harder for your band to get a contract. And be honest, Vixen are a lot more pleasant to look at than Kittie. Should you wish to purchase some of the clothes on show, the magazine makes an effort to list all the “items” worn by the models.

Pollard is right, this is some scary stuff. Racial profiling for the purposes of voting? Where the hell is the Commission for Race Equality? The whole idea is fascist, racist and evil, and as Pollard states: it has to be stopped!

Muslim students at Florida Altlantic University seems to be getting in on the act as well. And to think a publication I worked on at Colby was shut down because we made a link between Dukakis and Alf (the furry TV character)! (Punchline: they both like to eat kitty.)

A Sneer From The Den….....

That’ll be the day!!

After reading this, MommaBear had all she could do to keep from falling off her work-stool from snickering and growling at the same time. How much chance does anyone think there is of bringing all those professional politicians back to ground and reality? In the vernacular: Not bloody likely!

This admirable but unworkable proposal deserves a cheer for putting the premise out in the open, but the chances of achieving the stated goals are slim to none. This ought to be the litmus test for all the “pro-pols” of the world, but it has the chance of survival of that well-known ice-sphere in Hades. All it will do is “look good”.

Nigel Farendale takes it to rockers for messing about in politics. He is so right; it is always pathetic to see a pop star making a tit of themselves in politics. Whether it’s Bono or George Michael, all look the fool. As Farendale points out, it can be terminal for a career as well. What many of these musical egos fail to realise is that most people don’t want politics with their music. Music is an escape, not another way to be brainwashed by leftists. George Michael’s latest video is very funny, but its political point is insipid at best.

Here is hoping the “re-alignment” in the music business will mean a return to more feel-good stuff. Rumour has it that Tower Records is pulling out of the UK market and Virgin is cutting back to just its “flagship” stores. The smaller stores just do not have enough floor space to give anywhere near the selection needed to satisfy their clientele. Well, besides the total pop-junkies that is, of course.

On another note, Nigel writes about the qvetching about those who use pop songs for their funerals. This is a classic piece, especially the last paragraph.

“Personally, I am going to choose Celine Dion singing My Heart Will Go On (the song from Titanic which occupies the number two slot in the country’s favourite funeral tunes). I can think of nothing that would make people want to cry more. Cry and projectile vomit. It will be a comforting thought for me as I gasp my last.”

The bloke deserves a medal for his use of the term “projectile vomiting” in a broadsheet.

A Snarl From The Den….....

Whom do they think they are kidding!

That Abomination Of Idiocy, a/k/a the Department of Homeland [IN]Secuirity�, is now testing a system of low-level X-ray scanning equipment to be used on people that allegedly will show anything concealed under clothing, but not “expose” the individual in any compromising manner. That lie is exposed for the ugly truth it is, right here. The accompanying story has another picture contradicting, flat out, the promise that: only a female scanner operator will see any woman and only a male scanner operator will see any man so exposed. It is obvious that the scan picture will be visible to a lot of people!

It is also obvious that we are now not only being lied to, but the department no longer cares about anyone’s rights as individuals; all power to the state!

Mark Keane has won �7,000 compensation from an NHS trust. It rejected his application to be a phone operator because he is deaf. – Daily Mail

A Response To A Challenge From The Dodge….....

MommaBear has been challenged to write a paragraph incorporating all these.

What do Anna Nicole Smith and Marilyn Monroe have in common; why, voluptuous figures, of course. What do Ronaldo and Jelena Dokic have in common; why, athletics, of course. Crop circles and Lord Of The Rings are connected to mysticism. Friendship Day and Dia Dos Pais would both have a good premise in common. West Nile Virus, however, is all too real a threat to life. The scramjet seems to be the odd man out, here, having been thrown in just to make the total come to 10. And what is the purpose of this exercise…it would seem that it is all in effort of some kind of new game to be played on the internet. To what good end you ask: who knows, but MommaBear just had to answer the call of the head honcho here at Dodgeblog. Hope this keeps him happy.

I promise to get back to regular blogging tomorrow. All my “distractions” are away this weekend, more’s the pity.