Guest Thomas Keske Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 ALL FAUX PAS LEAD TO ROME The Abecedarian Holy Roman Emperor approaches, scolding the Caitiff Caliph with many reproaches of scholarly Byzantine Erudition The fetid faecal effluvium of his prognostrilications causing a serious inflammation of the catarrh Quoting from the innermost atrium of his coronary passages, from the most veracious and loquacious ventricle of his heart, from the most classical and calcified arteries of his articulation, he unwittingly unleashes the powers of Infinite Infantile Infatah In the flawless falsetto of a Holy Castrati Choirboy The Infallable Fallopian Protector swings his mighty Falchion against every Fanatic Fakir of False Faith, employing the full force of his quavering fauces, gesticulating furiously with his fasces, in the fallaciously felicitous oratorical equivalent of Fellatio He fetes the Fellaheen in resounding Faux Pas Invoking the Right of Eminent Domain against all Antinomians He raises his Symbolic Ankh, to shield the Embryonic Larvae His mission is to preserve the Ancient Wisdom of the Thunnus Alalunga In a tunic of finest albacore In a whirlpool of profound cavitations Under the crushing weight of Jupiter gravitation In a Sacred Tsunami of unquestioned assumptions With flourish of high drama, he dismisses the dragoman and orders his dragoons to escort away the Drag Queen A portait of the most Rigid Upright Rectitude His Rectal Fortitude secured in the Anals of History He employs every available platform in order to propagate his most Implausible Imperial Platitudes Knowing fully how to conjugate every Latin adverb and ablative His highest duty is to employ his vast cognitive powers To summon his carabineers, if necessary and exercise his full plenipotentiary powers in order to prevent the conjugal bliss of the plebeian canaille and pedestrian philistines In a festering favoritism of faith His many followers, feverishly fertile with fetish to facilitate great multitudes of feti that they may come forth, not to lie fallow He delivers the Highest School Diplomacy of pure Damascus Steel A great abundance of Holy wine, he imbibes As relevant Bible passages, he attempts to describe in a public forum of alfresco dipsomania for all citizens, for aeons to come, to bear witness =============================================================== =============================================================== TUNA CASSEROLE CATASTROPHE Tuna Terror: The Attack Of The Tuna Lunatics I have seen the Chunk Light In a tunic of finest albacore- a tuna meltdown in the reactor core 2-kiloton TUNA - Coming Soon.... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tuna Big Tuna (2004) is the first Israeli mockumentary film and a cult movie. 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It sounds almost like the kind of thing you read about when a non-union "scab" crosses a picket line during a union strike. As far as I can tell, there's nothing saying what Tommy Hook does (did) at LANL. He's consistently described as a "whistleblower." Audit reports conducted by Mr. Hook and Mr. Montano in 2002-2004 found a disturbing pattern of financial irregularities in the Los Alamos Lab' procurement division. In compliance with Department of Energy (DOE) requirements, Mr. Hook and Mr. Montano produced a report assessing the Lab's contracting operations. 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In what has been called the largest "mass hack" in computer history, a group of teenagers known collectively as Milworm infiltrated 300 websites run by nuclear and defense organizations around the world and plastered each home page with a picture of a mushroom cloud. An accompanying 800-word statement declared: "This mass takeover goes out to all the people out there who want to see peace in this world." The Milworm hackers provided links to a host of alternative sites devoted to such non-nuclear entertainments as Wimbledon, The World Cup and Drew Barrymore. Do Not Pass, Glow Directly to Jail: A New York inventor is looking for someone to manufacture a new board game for people "tired of the standard real-estate-buying" games. In this game, players build nuclear power plants and attempt to turn a profit while avoiding a meltdown. The game is called "Fall-Out!" and is intended to raise "consciousness of the environmental and social issues related to the nuclear power industry." [invention Submission Corp., Dept. 97-NTL-3682, 217 Ninth St., Pittsburgh, PA 15222, (412) 288-1300, ext. 2527.] ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_ id=7141&display=photoshop The rules of this game are thus: You are to create an image of utter destruction. It can take place through any form, natural or manmade, real or silly (i.e. meteor strike, nuclear meltdown, or a tidal wave, or have the whole world doused in tuna fish, etc...) So long as it depicts some form of mass destruction it's on-topic. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Tuna Girl: Mystery Guest Blogger Gay Tuna Pet here. Tuna is still donning on her gay apparal, so we have another mystery guest blogger. This guest blogger is shooting for the stars with tunagirl.blogspot.com/2004/12/mystery-guest-blogge... [Found on Google] 6. 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Michael: Maybe we could go out for a beer, sometime, and you can tell me how you do that to another dude. Oscar (flabbergasted): That sounds like a great, wonderful idea. Let's do that. Angela: It explains so much. Oscar: Yeah, I'm gay. Jim: I can't say whether Dunder Mifflin paper is less flammable, sir, but, I can assure you that it's certainly not more flammable. Andy: Steer clear, Big Tuna. Head for open waters. The writers did an excellent job handling the task at hand. That task was explaining where "The Office" is ~5 months after this kiss. They did just that while allowing the story to expand and have more depth. A few of the dynamics are different but the plot and characters we've all come to love are all here. Characters have grown since we last saw them, Jim with his tuna sandwich and Pam with the move on to her own place, but at heart they remain the same people. 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Arabic scholars examined the fish and determined the writing was a Koranic verse meaning "God is the greatest of all providers," said Hassan Mohamed Hassan, an education officer with the National Museums of Kenya in Mombasa. "It is so clearly spelt," he said. "That is why we believe that Allah is sending a message to mankind." ------------------------------------------------------------------ Main Page I could like suddenly have a revelation about, say, tuna and I wouldn't be able to find something to write with before I forgot about my thought. http://www.snakerancher.com/archives.htm [Found on Ask.com] ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.fieldandstream.com/fieldstream/fishing/saltwater/ article/0,13199,1186507-4,00.html This fish is still strong," I told Tuna. "Yes," he said, "but he's staying on top." I did not tell Tuna about my conviction that the time for summing up had come nor about the strategy that proceeded from that conviction. The most important sign that a reckoning was in order came from the fish. After seeming tireless for so long, it was allowing us to stay close. There was also the conversation that the smarter part of my brain was having with the fishing part. What? What's wrong?" Tuna said. "The leader broke," I said, which was true as far as it went. For a long time after the marlin left us, taking my wonderful $5 fly into the far ocean, no one spoke. For the first time that day, Tuna let the motor idle for a bit. I cranked in until both line and broken leader were onto the spool of the tireless Battenkill 10/11, the choice of budget-conscious, traveling fishermen around the world. I propped the rod, the 10-weight Sage, in the bow of the boat. I thought of the old hymn: "We Shall Be Released." So may we all be released, in our hour of darkness, in our time of need. Darkness was upon us now in the sweet situation that enveloped us at every point?the diamonded sky above, the sea below and roundabout, and the place where we were, in a hardy boat with quite a good chance of surviving our plunging navigation through the churning combers that rise, curl, and crash luminously night upon night all across the very pass that admitted Captain Bligh on that Christmas Day so long ago to the island that had become, despite the intervention of guns, personalized devils, contrary religions, and thermonuclear flashes, just what the sign at the airport promised, a paradise of birds and fish. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.lanl.gov/mst/SPML/capabilities.html In-situ sample heating up to 250? Tunneling Atomic Force Microscopy (TUNA) ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefan/hc/publications/Moore04Thesis.pdf Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to thank the many individuals who assisted me throughout the course of this work. I owe a great debt of gratitude to Arianna Bassoli, my partner in the tunA project and master of tunA's ethnographic dimension. I must also praise my supervisors Timothy Hall, and Stefan Agamanolis for their generous advice and direction. Thanks to Nick Hawes for his T9 reference code. Thanks also to my friends in the Human Connectedness group, and the eighteen flatmates who have filled my time at the lab with laughter. Finally, I would like to thank my parents for my rugged good looks, and their boundless encouragement and support. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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