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The Snopes urban legends site has a roundup of Christmas Mondegreens. [Of course, first they explain that a mondegreen is a misheard song lyric.]

Indeed, some folks apparently hear Christmas songs and carols with somewhat different words than the authors and performers intended. Old favorites, like:

While shepherds washed their socks at night

and

Police car ahead…

and

Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Barney’s the King of Israel.

and

Get dressed ye married gentlemen…

According to Government Computer News | GCN.com: The Internet is dead.

Causes of death include: Phishing, Spam, Spyware, Advertising, and URL redirection.

“The Internet is survived by wholly private networks and e-mail systems. ”

No services are planned.

In like a dimwit, out like a light.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

If you are a Californian, do visit A Californian’s Conception of the Continental United States. I await the revelation of a New Yawker’s conception of same.

Thanks to Rebecca Blood for including this in her pocket.

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

Statement from Microsoft Regarding Illegal Posting of Windows Source Code

Last updated: Feb. 13, 2004, 6:00 p.m. PST

REDMOND, Wash., Updated Feb. 13, 2004 — On Thursday, February 12, Microsoft became aware that portions of the Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 source code were illegally made available on the Internet.
[full statement]

The Blogzilla site has posted a small portion of that code.

Do you ever read fiction when you are depressed or to cheer yourself up?

Do you often read alone?

Now help is available: American Literature Abuse Society (ALAS)

UPDATE Sept 9, 2004

Michael McGrorty, of LibraryDust, claims authorship of the Literature Abuse piece.

In Courtney’s blog, she quotes from the current DNRC (Dogbert’s New Ruling Class) newsletter (presumably soon to be here)… A somewhat true story of an Induhvidual.

“Observant DNRC members continue to send me true quotes of Induhviduals. After staring at the list for a while I realized that if I put them together they make an excellent story:

“We were sitting on our hands, twiddling our thumbs, when suddenly the door opened. It made the hair on my back stand on end. He was smoking like a fish and swearing like a stuck pig. I could tell from his shifty eyes that he might try to pull the fox over my leg.

“‘Do you have a pen?’ he asked. ‘I need to make a mental note.’”

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(more…)

Many of you may recognize the name “George Spelvin,” an actor of stage and screen since as early as 1886. You may not be aware that he has a web site. (Now, who will admit to recognizing the name “Georgina Spelvin”?)