The Off Topic Topic

[CountDeMoney]

Some people seem to have an irrational hatred of the word moist.

It conveys a sense of darkness and dankness, clammy, of decomposition, where bacteria grow and thrive.  There are prettier terms out there.  Like moist towelettes.

[FunkMonk]

The night was sultry.

[Ideologue]

The night was well-lubricated, indicating arousal.

[CountDeMoney]

The night was sultry.

LOL

I'm going to kill her, Owen.

[jimmy olsen]

Saw this on wikipedia. That's amazing! 

Random population studies later determined that 1 in 23 individuals have some kind of synesthesia, while 1 in 90 have colored graphemes

[Josquius]

Some people seem to have an irrational hatred of the word moist.

It conveys a sense of darkness and dankness, clammy, of decomposition, where bacteria grow and thrive.  There are prettier terms out there.  Like moist towelettes.

Theres lots of words with less than nice meanings though.
Yet...moist seems to get some people I know.

[Sheilbh]

It's the way moist sounds and feels when you say it.

[jimmy olsen]

Just came across this, cool story.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5048970/Parrot-saved-todlers-life-with-warning.html

1:05PM GMT 25 Mar 2009

Willie, the Quaker parrot, alerted its owner, Megan Howard, when the todler she was babysitting last November in Denver, Colorado, began to choke on her breakfast.

As 2-year-old Hannah bagan to turn blue, the bird began squawking and flapping its wings to attract the attention of its owner.

"While I was in the bathroom, Willie (the parrot) started screaming like I'd never heard him scream before and he started flapping his wings," Miss Howard told CBS News. "Then he started saying 'Mama baby' over and over and over again until I came out and looked at Hannah and Hannah's face was turning blue because she was choking on her pop tart."

The carer then rushed to Hannah and performed the Heimlich manoeuvre, saving her life.

"If (Willie hadn't) warned me, I probably wouldn't have come out of the bathroom in time because she was already turning blue, her lips were blue and everything," she said.

The parrot has been honoured by the local Red Cross chapter's Animal Lifesaver Award.

Willie received the award during a "Breakfast of Champions" event in front of Bill Ritter, Colorado's governor, and John Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver.

[Syt]

The kid has probably been run over by a car since then, because she didn't pay attention.

[Josephus]

I always get turned on when a woman says "moist."

[Zanza]

The European Union allegedly plans to extend the Atalanta mandate from pirate hunting in the Indian Ocean to pirate hunting on the coast of Somalia...

[lustindarkness]

Do not download Unblock Me for your phone/pad. It takes massive amounts of willpower to stop playing this instead of working.

[Ideologue]

Just came across this, cool story.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5048970/Parrot-saved-todlers-life-with-warning.html

1:05PM GMT 25 Mar 2009

Willie, the Quaker parrot, alerted its owner, Megan Howard, when the todler she was babysitting last November in Denver, Colorado, began to choke on her breakfast.

As 2-year-old Hannah bagan to turn blue, the bird began squawking and flapping its wings to attract the attention of its owner.

"While I was in the bathroom, Willie (the parrot) started screaming like I'd never heard him scream before and he started flapping his wings," Miss Howard told CBS News. "Then he started saying 'Mama baby' over and over and over again until I came out and looked at Hannah and Hannah's face was turning blue because she was choking on her pop tart."

The carer then rushed to Hannah and performed the Heimlich manoeuvre, saving her life.

"If (Willie hadn't) warned me, I probably wouldn't have come out of the bathroom in time because she was already turning blue, her lips were blue and everything," she said.

The parrot has been honoured by the local Red Cross chapter's Animal Lifesaver Award.

Willie received the award during a "Breakfast of Champions" event in front of Bill Ritter, Colorado's governor, and John Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver.

Personally, if my job was babysitting, I don't think I'd mention this, let alone to the news.

I mean, animal intelligence is cool, but being fired is not.

[Ed Anger]

Read an interesting little article on a iRobot Packbot that took out 17 IED's.

I'm gonna convert one of the Roomba's to anti-rabbit duty.

[mongers]

Read an interesting little article on a iRobot Packbot that took out 17 IED's.

I'm gonna convert one of the Roomba's to anti-rabbit duty.

I have a soft spot for the Wheelbarrow, so quintessentially British  :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelbarrow_(EOD)