Me too! And I lived in Mississippi!

also see jerry rigged or jerry built

I always took it to mean something like "made it work with what was there."

Macguyver-esque, almost. Not usually derogatory. Like the time my Uncle used his DVR and slingbox to allow us to watch a UGA v. Georgia Tech game when our cable system in Alabama didn't have it.

And not knowing this saying is akin to saying "We always called them Brazil Nuts."

Yeah I heard that plenty as a lad.


edit: both the Rig and the Nuts

or akin to growing up around people who don't use the word nigger. plenty of people I grew up around are bigots, but it's generally frowned upon to just come out with it at Thanksgiving dinner

Way to go Snowe.

co-workers are droppin the RINO bombs for sure

ok, I'll bite. What's RINO?

Republican In Name Only

Speaking of racist terms, an older lady on our condo board described the cold snap we've been in as Squaw Winter. I've heard of Indian Summer, but that one was new to me.

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Whoa, that's new even to me.

came.

Undid the damage to the office that Whoopi wrought.

Can Sister Action be on the way...? I can only hope.

(Porn parodies of Hollywood fare are awesome.)

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Cross your fingers for me, y'all. Today's a biggie.

80s pop sensation a-ha to call it quits

The Associated Press, October 15, 2009

OSLO (AP) -- Norwegian pop band a-ha says it plans to call it quits at the end of 2010.

A statement on the Norwegian trio's Web site Thursday announced the move, which comes after a 27-year career interrupted by a seven-year hiatus in the mid-1990s.

The band became an international sensation in the mid-1980s following the release of its 1985 debut album, which included the hit "Take On Me." Although the group went on to release eight more albums, a-ha remains best-known for that song.

Thursday's statement says that band members want

to follow other pursuits, "be it humanitarian work, politics, or ... new constellations in the field of art and music."

The band plans to arrange a world tour in 2010, playing its final concert in Oslo on December 4.

In regards too....?

oh shit, awesome.

kid flying over CO in homemade balloon

This just isn't going to end well...

(CNN) — Officials are trying to rescue a 6-year-old boy who climbed into a balloon-like homemade aircraft and floated into the sky over eastern Colorado.

The Larimer County Sheriff’s Department said the helium balloon was at the boy’s family home in Fort Collins.

The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it.

The department said the aluminum-covered, dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high.

The Federal Aviation Administration is trying to track the aircraft on radar and has notified the Denver International Airport. Shortly after noon (2 p.m. ET), the balloon was sighted two miles south of Evans.

CNN meteorologist Chad Myers estimated the wind would keep the vessel moving at 30 mph. Authorities say the craft is about 7,000 feet above the ground.

Kathy Davis, spokeswoman for the sheriff’s department, said a dispatcher received a call Thursday morning, and emergency services personnel were contacted.

Davis said a balloon company had been contacted and several media outlets offered to help track the balloon with their helicopters.

We read a case study on them in school 3 years ago, about the perils of over-expanding and taking on too much debt too quickly.