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Years ago I used to make a lot of these hooded frog towels for friends as baby gifts, but for some reason I quit making them for a while. I have to say, when I made this I was reminded just how cute they really are. My 7 year old is begging me to make him one now. And the best part? I really could! These hooded towels are great for newborns clear up to young kids. Toddlers, preschoolers, everyone. So, here's my frog hooded towel tutorial for you so YOU can make one too!
Isn't this froggy cute?!?! OK, maybe it's partly the adorable model too. I've also done a ladybug and a monkey and will introduce a new towel each month.
These towels take maybe 30 minutes to an hour max and cost less than $10. Not bad! And guess what? I have tutorials for a duck, monkey, dragon, ladybug and others coming in the future.
Frog Hooded Towel Tutorial:
What You Need:
Green bath towel (I got mine at Target and it cost about $4-5)
Green hand towel to match the bath towel
Small amounts of white and black fabric
Iron on transfer paper
Small amount of red fabric (I usually use fleece or felt but any will work)
Green, white and black thread
Frog Hooded Towel Tutorial:
To start, snip all the tags off of your towels and hand towels to get them out of the way.
Then cut your hand towel in half the hamburger way (as in not the long skinny hot dog way, but the short, fat, hamburger way.)
Fold the edge of the hand towel over about 4 or 5 inches. Pin it in place and sew a straight stitch.
Simple enough right?
With the leftover half of your hand towel, cut out your green frog nose from the pattern piece you printed. Cut two and then sew them together leaving a couple of inches open on the top (the straight part) so that you can turn it. Then turn it.
Stitch together leaving opening on top straight part:
Don't worry about sewing that opening closed. That will take care of itself when you attach the nose to the towel.
Now do the same with your red fabric and the tongue pieces-cut two, sew them together leaving an opening at the top and turn it. If you are using felt you can just use one layer and not sew it.
Flip the hand towel over. Center your nose on the hand towel right along the stitch line you made previously. Stick the tongue up under the nose right where you are going to sew so that you will catch it in there too while you sew the nose on and then do a fairly tight zig zag to attach your nose.
See how the tongue is under there:
Zig Zag along the nose to attach it:
Cut out two white eyes and two black eyeballs from the pattern pieces. Iron them onto the iron-on paper and then iron them into place on your towel:
Now, using a very tight and fairly narrow zig zag stitch (applique), sew around them first in white on the white parts then in black on the black parts:
While you have your black thread in, add some little nostrils to your nose. Flip the nose out so that you can work with it. Then I just use the same tight zig zag stitch and go forward about an inch and then reverse over it one time. You could do this before you attach your nose to the towel if you prefer, I just like to wait until I have my black thread in anyway.
There's your frog face!
Now, fold the hand towel in half with the face on the inside and zig zag the raw edges together to form the hood.
I like my frog to have more of a rounded head rather than pointy. To do this, fold your head like this:
And stitch a straight line across the top triangle part like this:
Then you can just snip that tip off if you want.
And now you should have a nice, cute frog head.
Next you need to sew your head onto your hooded towel. I have sort of a fancy way I like to do it with a little pleat that makes the towel wrap around the kid even better. You can do it that way or you can just center it on your towel and zig zag it in place. I recommend using a zig zag to keep it nice and secure.
Here's how to do the the pleat if you want it:
In the center of the towel right where you want to sew your head on, make a fold like this:
Pin it in place and zig zag it together:
Now, sew your head on with a zig zag stitch like this: (see the pleat?)
And ta da! You have an adorable little frog hooded towel!
Really-your kids or your friends or whoever this is for-they are going to LOVE this!
See also:
Monkey Hooded Towel
Like I said, more tutorials for hooded towels coming…ducks, monkeys, dragons, ladybugs, owl, maybe a shark? Butterfly? Tiger? What do you want to see first? Other ideas? I think I will do a towel a month, so stayed tuned (like me on facebook, RSS, Twitter, Pinterest) to see more!


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I am so busy at work that I have been doing my posts after hours in the comfort of my easy chair. However, last night our internet was down. We live in a small town so I do not have the luxury of having internet access in a multitude of local coffee shops/cafés.
So you will just have to imagine that I blogged.
Now on with today's blog.
Today is the last day of the Gifts Galore blog hop and also my day to post my block and recipe.
These three Moda designer will also be blogging, Hop on over to their blogs to see what they have to offer.
Basic Grey ~ Jen Williamson
Jan Patek Quilts ~ Jan Patek
American Jane ~ Sandy Klop
I chose the Honey Bee block...my favorite quilt block.I forgot my recipe book the day that the recipes were due so I just sent Lissa this one as a joke. I sent her my real recipe the next day. Well nobody likes a joke better than Moda Lissa so she printed this one instead.
Click here to download and print.
I would not want you to be cheated out of a recipe so here is my real recipe.
Baklava - one of my favorite sweets.
1 (16 oz.) package phyllo dough
1 pound chopped nuts
1 C. butter
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 C. water
1 C. sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 C. honey
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Butter the bottoms and side of a 9 X 13 pan.
Chop nuts and toss with cinnamon. Set aside.
Unroll phyllo dough.
Cut whole stack in half to fit pan.
Cover phyllo with a dampened cloth to keep it from drying out as you work.
Place two sheets of dough in pan, butter thoroughly.
Repeat until you have 8 sheets layered.
Sprinkle 2-3 Tablespoons of nut mixture on top.
Top with two sheets of dough, butter, nuts, layering as you go.
The top layer should be about 6-8 sheets deep.
Using a sharp knife cut into 4 long rows, then cut rows into diamond shapes.
Bake for about 50 minutes until baklava is golden and crisp.
While Baklava is baking.
Boil sugar and water until sugar is melted.
And vanilla and honey.
Simmer for about 20 minutes.
When Baklava is done remove from oven and immediately spoon sauce over it.
Let cool.
Serve in cupcake papers.
And it this would not be a Moda blog hop without a give away.
By now most of you know that I love glasses - the funkier the better.
I have found some pictures of glasses that are even a bit odd for me to wear.
Every evening we have deer stroll though our yard.
What do you suppose the deer would think
if they saw me watching
them while wearing these glasses???
And last but not least this would not be a Moda blog hop without a give away.
Yesterday I received a big Moda box filled with my 2012 Christmas fabric.
Yes, just in time for Christmas!
I have named this line Merry Medley.
You have until Sunday December 12th at 11:00 PM to leave a comment on this post to be eligible to win a Layer Cake of this line. I will post the winner on Tuesday.
If you are a shop owner your Moda rep will be showing you this new line -and many other lines in January. If you are a fabric collector this fabric will be in quilt shops in July.
May you always see clearly.
From my heart,

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Jewel to Walk the Line as June Carter Cash in Lifetime Biopic
Snaggletoothed songstress-turned-actress, Jewel Kilcher has been tapped to play Johnny Cash's beloved wife and musical partner June Carter Cash in the upcoming Lifetime biopic, 'The June Carter Cash Story.'
Kilcher will step into the role that earned Reese Witherspoon an Academy Award in James Mangold's 2005 Johnny Cash biopic, 'Walk the Line.' 'American Horror Story' and 'Big Love' star, Matt Ross will play the Johnny to Jewel's June.
Lifetime programming VP, Rob Sharenow promises a film that will explore Carter Cash's own musical and personal journey, a story that's often overshadowed by that of her music icon husband.
"Many people know about the legendary love story of Johnny and June, but June Carter Cash has her own epic journey filled with triumphs, tragedies, loves and losses. This movie will explore all aspects of the woman behind the icon, and we're thrilled Jewel will be playing the role," said Sharenow.
The made-for-TV-movie will draw on "Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash," a memoir written by the couple's son, John Carter Cash, for source material. The Carter Cash biopic marks the second book-to-TV-movie announcement from the network today, who earlier revealed Rob Lowe's casting in a film about the Casey Anthony trial.
Coincidentally, Jewel appeared in Judd Apatow's 'Walk the Line' send-up, 'Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.' However, it's unlikely the Lifetime flick will involve dwarfs or machetes.


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Rogers, Telus urge telecom watchdog to scrap proposed caps on data usage
Posted Feb 12, 2013 05:54:54 PM.
This article is more than 5 years old.
GATINEAU, Que. – Two of the country's largest telecom companies have some advice for Canada's telecommunications regulator as it considers imposing new rules for cellphone contracts: scrap the $50 cap.
A $50 spending limit on extra wireless data charges is one of several ideas on the table as the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission holds hearings on a proposed new wireless code.
But executives from Rogers Communications and Telus Corp. say a spending cap would be a bad idea.
"That's very disruptive to customers," Rogers' regulatory chief Ken Engelhart said Tuesday. "It's very disruptive to be cut off."
Under the CRTC's draft code, wireless companies would have to suspend some services when a customer reaches either $50 in additional charges over and above what they pay for their monthly plan — though roaming fees, for example — or an amount each consumer would set.
Earlier Tuesday, Telus told the commission it already caps charges incurred outside Canada at $200, according to the Financial Post.
There are better ways to warm customers about their data usage, such as alerts sent to a handheld device, Rogers executives said.
"Even with these precautions, Rogers recognizes that some customers remain concerned about data services," said Raj Doshi, the company's head of products.
"Unlike voice and text messaging, data usage is more passive and it can be difficult for a customer to understand just how much of their allowance they have used.
"This is why Rogers supports requiring near-real-time alerts advising customers when they are approaching the limits of their data allowances, both domestically and abroad. These alerts address a real need by consumers and will help them avoid bill surprise from data services, currently the biggest source of unanticipated charges."
Alerts for voice and text services aren't worth the expense since they are rarely the source of surprise charges, Doshi said.
But alerts only go so far, Engelhart added.
"No matter how much you warn people, 50, 60, 75 per cent will ignore you."
The telecom regulator is holding a week of hearings in Gatineau, Que., as it aims to set national standards for the content and clarity of cellphone contracts.
Much of the testimony so far has focused on the length of cellphone contracts, locked devices and roaming and cancellation fees.
On the second day of the hearings, the telecom regulator heard from Telus, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, OpenMedia.ca and academics.
One of the academics suggested the issues that have come up at the hearing suggest there's a lack of competition in the marketplace.
Wireless contracts written in clear language would be a start, but more needs to be done, said Catherine Middleton, the Canada Research Chair in Communication Technologies in the Information Society at Ryerson University in Toronto.
"Action is needed beyond informing consumers of the terms of their contracts," Middleton said.
The CRTC has suggested companies would need to comply with a new wireless code within six months of it coming into force.
But Rogers urged the regulator to roll out its wireless code in stages. While some of the proposed changes can be made swiftly, the company said, others could take as long as a year and a half.
"There is no reason why at least some of the recommendations could not be implemented in the short term," Engelhart said.
"Those changes requiring more significant work can then be allotted additional time."


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Singapore to be world's richest country by 2050
Singapore is set to be among the world's richest economies by 2050 on a per capita basis, according to a study by Knight Frank and Citibank.
Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea are projected to be the world's richest economies on a per capita basis by 2050, a study showed.
The survey by property giant Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank, reported in Singapore media Wednesday, also showed multi-millionaires in Asia will continue to outnumber those in North America and Western Europe by 2050.
Singapore topped the list in 2010 and is expected to keep the top spot in 2050, when the city-state's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita would reach $137,710.
It will be trailed by Hong Kong ($116,639), Taiwan ($114,093) and South Korea ($107,752) with the U.S. coming in fifth place, falling from third place in 2010.
Singapore's 2010 GDP per capita stood at $56,532, while Hong Kong ($45,301) — the only other Asian economy in the top 10 that year — was in fourth place.
"While rapid GDP growth does not in itself guarantee a sharp rise in high networth individuals, rapidly growing economies do provide key opportunities for large-scale wealth creation," Grainne Gilmore, head of UK Residential Research at Knight Frank, wrote in the study.
Gilmore said there are now around 18,000 "centa-millionaires" — those with $100 million or more in assets — in the region covering Southeast Asia, China and Japan, more than the 17,000 in North America and 14,000 in Western Europe.
By 2016, Southeast Asia, China and Japan are expected to have 26,000 centa-millionaires, compared with 21,000 in North America and 15,000 in Western Europe, she wrote, citing data from Ledbury Research.
On a country basis, the United States will lead in 2016 with 17,100 centa millionaires but China is expected to double its numbers to 14,000.
"Southeast Asian deca-millionaires — those with $10 million or more in assets — already outnumber those in Europe and are expected to overtake those in the US in the coming decade," she said.


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- From: Henry S. Thompson <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:25:23 +0100
- To: email@example.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 now available at http://www.w3.org/2009/09/03-tagmem-minutes.html and below as text. ht - ----------------- - DRAFT - TAG telcon 03 Sep 2009 See also: [2]IRC log Attendees Present Tim Berners-Lee, Dan Connolly, John Kemp, Ashok Malhotra, Larry Masinter, Noah Mendelsohn, T. V. Raman, Jonathan Rees, Henry S. Thompson Chair Noah Mendelsohn Scribe Henry S. Thompson Contents * [3]Topics 1. [4]HTML5 review 2. [5]Version identifiers * [6]Summary of Action Items _________________________________________________________________ NM: Next call 10 Sep ... DC, can you scribe? <DanC> yes, can scribe 10 Sep NM: NM is at risk for 17 Sep ... Minutes of 13 Aug? JK: Read them, wasn't there NM: Propose to approve ... RESOLVED to approve [7]http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/08/13-minutes as a record of 13 August telcon ... Minutes of 27 Aug? NM, JK: Good NM: RESOLVED to approve [8]http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/08/27-minutes as a record of 27 August telcon ... Top priority for f2f is HTML5 reading and comments ... will be some work on webapps arch and metadata ... please send email suggesting specific agenda items in those areas NM: Wrt ACTION 257, I've discussed a joint call on the subject of sniffing with Mark Nottingham and Lisa Dusseault -- given timezone constraints, proposal is to have them call in to the f2f on Thu or Fri (24 or 25 Sep) at 1000 EDT ... Agenda review HTML5 review HST: I have not read the issues emails -- I sent one <noah> [9]http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/09/TagHTMLIssues.html <noah> [10]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Sep/0009.html <johnk> I'd just note that Henry also sent a note to www-tag <johnk> Henry's note: [11]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Sep/0015.html NM: What issues raised so far are of interest? <noah> [12]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2009Sep/0012.html AM: My comments are not high priority, there are bigger issues to consider ... such as versioning, extensibility and conformance ... my comments are mostly on style HST: My most important question is about conformance. What is meant by conformance, and the relationship between document conformance vs. impl. conformance is not clear. DC: What's not clear? Example please? HT: E.g. input attrs must have a name? That's a constraint on doc format. What do I find that corresponds in the implementation spec? A specific parse error? Some fallback instructions? NM: That's very similar to the first issue on my list <DanC> (ah... so it's not unclarity about conformance itself.) <noah> [13]http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/09/TagHTMLIssues.html#errror <DanC> [14]http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/61 ISSUE-61 conformance-language Conformance depends on author's intent HST: Yes ... In particular, where does it say, wrt to the rel attribute for link, that "processing is to continue" in the absence of a rel attribute? NM: I assume that's somewhere else NM: Henry, do you recognize that issue as same as first reference under [15]http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/09/TagHTMLIssues.html#errror HT: Yes. DC: Not sure what the question is here <DanC> interesting... this bit is not flagged as implementor-only: "If the rel attribute is absent, or if the values used are not allowed according to the definitions in this specification, then the element does not define a link." <DanC> (re not flagged, that was re 4.2.4 The link element ) NM: Not clear what the relation is between document 'must' statement and implementation behaviour <noah> Not sure that's quite what I said, we can clean up later. NM: Pop -- we've established there's an issue of high priority here JK: There is a whole cluster of issues around extensibility ... The introduction is not clear about this, e.g. if I want to extend the use of a particular element, is that possible, and if so how <noah> [16]http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/09/TagHTMLIssues.html#extensibility <DanC> #extensibility title is "Potential Issue: Does HTML 5 establish appropriate policies for extensibility?" NM: OK, JK and NM both listed this ... data-related -- either in principle, or the proposals actually in the draft? JK: Both, they are different DC: Seems very wide -- focus on specific bullets? NM: We'll split if that works DC: In particular, where there's a section reference or quote <DanC> (I recommend using a section # and the section title; that's fairly easy and sufficiently redundant) <johnk> I also cited section numbers, using HST's snapshot version HST: Please at least use the section numbers from [17]http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/07/html5/Overview.html or .pdf NM: Specific topic for discussion -- what's an error? <noah> Floor is open to discuss [18]http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/09/TagHTMLIssues.html#errror <DanC> (ugh... the TAG copy is one-big-honkin-page. [19]http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/07/html5/ ) <noah> FWIW: one big honkin page works best for me. YMMV <noah> HT: In 2.2, the document is clear there are two types of conformance: document conformance and implementation conformance. doc conformance is clearly in play when RC 2119 is used, e.g. when discussing required characteristics of element or attribute structure <jar> For comparison, RFC2616 also uses MUST sometimes to mean producer (document) conformance, sometimes consumer (server) conformance. The cases I just checked are all perfectly clear as to which is which. It helps a lot that often the subject of the MUST sentence is the agent being constrained (producer or consumer), not something being traded such as a protocol element <masinter> [20]http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7034 <masinter> "Please change all instances of the phrase "conformance checker" in the spec to either "ideology checker" or "loyalty checker". HST: 4.2.4 begins with several document conformance statements -- links MUST have 'href' and 'rel' attributes ... that's clear ... But it goes on to say that absent those attributes, the element "does not define a link" -- what impact on processing does that have? TBL: We could separate how we go about this -- on the one hand, with the language as such, or, on the other hand, looking at the error correction <johnk> Mike's draft: [21]http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/ NM: We were trying to address the high level question of the relationship between document conformance and implementation conformance HST: We were looking at 4.2.4 just as an example ... I'm concerned that I can't tell if the conformant/non-conformant document question lines up with the normal/error-recovery processing question -- it's a problem if the conforming/nonconforming document distinction doesn't line up with the normal/error case consumption distinction, and especially a problem if we can't even tell whether they line up or not <masinter> it isn't a design goal in the charter, Ashok; some people may have had that as a design goal, among many other design goal HST: I think they ought to line up, but I can't tell whether they do or not <masinter> I think that technically, the conformance requirements for conforming documents are too liberal, and will result in allowing 'conforming' documents that won't operate well outside of browser contexts TVR: The truth is that the only way to tell whether something works or not is to hand to a browser and see DC: How is that different from where we are now? TVR: There were two responses originally -- let's work towards a world with no error (i.e. XML), or just extend the browsers to cope ... The first has been abandoned, the second is what we're standardizing ... the way it could be worse is because browsers are not the only consumers, but their turing-complete behaviour is driving the specification, and therefore what people produce TVR: with the result that the browser behavior and the behavior of other agents is diverging <DanC> (some of the error recovery is not just in DOM construction, as this example of link/@rel presence and values shows) TBL: I don't think we want to repeatedly moan about the error recovery ideology -- the semantics of the DOM can be considered and criticised independently of the error recovery stuff NM: Is there a germ of a comment from the TAG here? <masinter> i think my criteria for what is worthwhile for the TAG to say is: is this something you would also want to say to every other working group and worth putting in a finding NM: I'd like to work harder to make a few well-prepared comments DC: Alternatively, make individual comments to public-html, and come back to the TAG if you don't get a satisfactory response ... for example, 4.2.4 could well get a "oh yes, we'll fix that" reply NM: But that was just an example of a larger issue <Zakim> noah, you wanted to talk about conformance checkers NM: by focussing on higher-level comments, we can encourage a serious resposne LM: What's worthy of a TAG comment is what's worthy of comment on any spec. on the REC track -- are there arch. principles which aren't being followed, for example NM: In this particular case? LM: That it is important to clearly separate document conformance from implementation conformance, so yes, this makes the cut <raman> have a hard stop, need to leave <noah> ok raman <noah> thanks LM: I have a very specific example, to do with image API NM: Not sure where to go with this. . . ... hearing yes, no and go private. . . ... let's let this simmer a bit Version identifiers LM: Going back to old territory, but with something new, at least for me: ... 1) Language as specified; ... 2) Language as encountered in the wild. ... So I defined a framework which helps manifest this distinction, which I hope doesn't overlap unhelpfully with existing TAG-defined terminology ... The argument wrt version indicators is that they apply to specifications (v4 of the spec., v5 of the spec.), but what people want is version indicators for the language that's actually used ... so not being clear about what the vi means has lead to them being misused ... They aren't useful for liberal consumers, because they are not reliable ... I think this analysis applies to mime types (hence sniffing) and even namespaces LM: Language as used, the conservative language spec'ed for producers, the liberal language spec'ed for consumers <Zakim> noah, you wanted to say I think there are other reasons people don't like version indicators NM: I find it useful, up to a point ... Not convinced it addresses the only/main reason for opposition to using VIs ... Caution is needed, because this is just another bit of mechanism ... No matter how well specced, VIs will have to be authored, maintained, checked etc., and likely to introduce as many problems as they solve ... So I don't see a clear basis for advice LM: Can we distinguish between the value of the analysis and the wisdom of input to the HTML5 WG? <noah> I also think there's a rich history of users putting in the wrong version indicators, even when the specs are clear on what would be right. LM: In the authoring workflow, there is real value in allowing ussers to indicate what they are authoring to <noah> Yes, Tim, exactly what I was trying to say. LM: VIs optional but not required is a possible option, so if it doesn't help, needed be used <noah> But John, that new attribute may be OK in several versions, and my even have different meanings per the different versions. <Zakim> johnk, you wanted to note that there are always version indicators, and only some are explicit JK: A lot of mechanisms, in HTML5 and elsewhere, are implicit, not explicit -- that is, the presence of an attribute may signal a version just as clearly as a specced-in VI <noah> It's that last case that I think is the one where you >need< explicit indicators to disambiguate <johnk> explicit per-instance indicators? <noah> TBL: Distinguish Web case from internal publishing. On the Web, there's a good case that explict version indicators for HTML are not needed. TBL: Rather than arguing that HTML needs VIs on the web, I think it doesn't, and for in-house, in-house conventions are sufficient <Zakim> timbl, you wanted to say that it seems to me that the case against version indicatiors is quite strong: the existence of a super languaage of which all various versions are sub TBL: Some observations: There is a superset of all HTML, i.e. tag soup, and a validator can tell you / should tell you what subset you're using ... 2) The situation is not one of concentric circles -- extensions have happened independentlly and in different directions ... 3) Implementing a liberal consumer, essentially for tag soup, is a reasonable strategy because the differences are not so great as to matter very much <timbl> 3) There is a cimmitment to back compatability TBL: All of which nets to making VIs unecessary NM: Three options: put energy into taking this forward for input to HTML5; put energy into it, but not for HTML5; move this to the back burner <masinter> I'd like 20 minutes to discuss it <masinter> only 20 minutes <timbl> Option 1: This is one of the top 5 <masinter> is it worth 20 minutes of meeting time to let me respond and have a discussion <masinter> i vote for option 1 <timbl> option 2: This is one of many, not related to HTML5 <johnk> johnk: option 2 <jar> I'm with #1 or #2 <Ashok> 1.5 Poll outcome: 1: LM 2: HST, JK 1/2: JR, AM 3: [none] LM: Yes, you can have in-house VIs, but generic HTML tools/workflows/editors/verifiers also want to interoperate ... So that you can e.g. edit with first FrontPage and then DreamWeaver, it would be useful to have a standard way of indicating what version the author had in mind -- DOCTYPEs did this in the past, we're looking at removing this ... which is taking something which was standardised, and removing it, because some people don't find it useful <noah> Hmm, Larry's point is interesting, but I'm only half convinced that what's needed is an in-band indicator. LM: But there were other people who found it useful ... The other reason for VIs is that there is sometimes a need for imcompatible changes <noah> Let's say I author a document a few years ago that starts out as say, HTML 2. Now we're going to start working on it with new tools. Is what's interesting that the document was labeled inband as V2, or that the tools (or community) about to deal with it is happy with V4 features. <DanC> (for reference, [22]http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/4 ISSUE-4 html-versioning HTML Versioning and DOCTYPEs) LM: so VIs at least give you the chance to figure out which interpretation is wanted NM: Why is 'in-band' the right solution ... I label a doc't V2 in-band, it survives a long time, most implementations upgrade to V4, what value does the V2 VI have? <jar> noah, what if v4 is incompatible with v2? LM: In-band isn't the end, there is a place for OOB, but in-band has the advantage of staying with the doc NM: If the language is upward-compatible, I don't need the VI to tell what version we've got -- 'grep' will usually do ... incompatible changes are the only reason I can see for VIs <DanC> (seriously, larry? you think not having in-band version identifiers in ascii documents is bad?) LM: I can't guarantee incompatible change will happen, but I've never seen a long-lived language which doesn't have them at some time <masinter> the nature of text/plain is that the version indicator is external <DanC> exactly. <HT> DanC, well, there was a time when email was hugely problematic in Europe because of all the incompatible uses of some characters for national language chars <DanC> yes, ht, but internal version indicators didn't turn out to be the answer (on the other hand, the fact that utf-8 can be inferred from the bytes could be considered an internal version identifier) HST: I'm still interested in this -- particularly the fact that there is no standardised way for me to indicate my target version as an author HST: not required, just optional, for those of us who want it <DanC> (baron explains reasons against providing it in [23]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Apr/0279.html "adding version information will make it harder for competitors to enter the browser market and stay in the browser market" ) <jar> yes, i've read that email and it's compelling <DanC> I have some sympathy for it; I find it compelling some days and not others <masinter> based on a premise that incompatible changes are large <masinter> and on the premise that having a version indicator encourages the standards group to make incompatible changes HST: I agree with DC -- Baron's argument has to be addressed or this dies <DanC> ACTION: DanC to notify the TAG when the HTML WG gets closer to closing issue-4 html-versioning [recorded in [24]http://www.w3.org/2009/09/03-tagmem-minutes.html#action01] <trackbot> Created ACTION-299 - Notify the TAG when the HTML WG gets closer to closing issue-4 html-versioning [on Dan Connolly - due 2009-09-10]. NM: What is the argument? 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We begin Part 03 of our Bayline Gathering coverage with a pair of matching '85 A60 Celica 'verts. San Francisco's hills form one of the most beautiful urban landscapes in America and navigating them with an open top must make for a pretty bitchin' drive.
San Francisco Bay is gorgeous but the San Leandro marina, with its mammoth concrete edifices, could be a stand in for the edge of Tokyo Bay. That's particularly true when there's a brutish S130 parked at water's edge.
Beside the 280ZX was its successor, a Z31 300ZX, stanced out on the factory gold wheels of a 1984 50th Anniversary Turbo. Extreme Z31 love or a flaunting of the blingy wheel trend? Either way, rad concept.
The only problem with being situated by a wide body of water is that it's rather windy. Marilyn Monroe would have had gawkers lined up all day. We at the JNC booth had them too, but it was probably due to Patrick Ng's gorgeous TE27 Corolla SR-5.
Of course, we had to show a little Nissan love too, so flanking our booth from the other side was NorCal native Lou S.'s beautiful gray RHD Fairlady Z. It sits on a full Arizona Z-Car suspension and some exclusive custom-offset Panasport Japan 17-inch barrels.
L28 power! The lickably flawless engine bay was the work of Rob Fuller, owner of one of the Bay Area's top Z tuners, San Jose's Z Car Garage, who specialize in the big brake upgrades those 17s are sized for. You can read more about the build here on Rob's Z-car blog and check out the gallery below for more photos.
Perhaps feeling outdone by the plethora of JDM Skylines at the show the Z contingent had a second right-hand-drive S30 present, what looks like a JDM Fairlady 240Z-L.
Just gaze upon the purity of that cockpit — the cross-stitched console, the vintage racing seats, the simple wooden-y shifter. Everything you need, nothing you don't. It's about driving, kids.
Sunny Liang's slick 1973 240Z and its Star Road style Work Equip 03s was hanging with the crew from Oak-town's Performance Options. Sunny won Reader's Choice for Car of the Year on Speedhunters last year. You can read more about his car here.
Lest you think all Zs at the show were modified, here's a bone stock 1983 280ZX T-top. Apparently Nissan had some Turbo hoods that needed using for the final model year, because even non-turbos such as this one had the NACA duct on the hood.
A friend from Japan once said, "Gather 100 Mark II owners and you'll have 100 different styles of Mark II." Well here's two. Technically the zokusha'ed-out one is a Corona Mark II, but by the X60 generation it had dropped the "Corona." Of course we Americans know it as the Cressida and this MX63, resplendent in Apricot Metallic, is one of the cleanest we've seen. All it needs is a rear bumper and some period barrels and it'll be cruisin' in high style.
SoCal might have the numbers when it comes to rotaries, but Bay Area Wankels exude a subtler style. Somewhere tucked away in the hills of NorCal are brilliant specimens of Mazda like this banana yellow RX-2 sedan on period correct Enkei 92s.
Roaming through the parking area we noticed this panda-perfect AE86. With gunmetal Wats it was a shoe-in for the star of a certain anime about drifting through the mountains of Japan.
Elsewhere at the gathering, a slightly less pristine hachiroku exhibited clever drift rat touches like a fender still wearing junkyard paint pen markings, a sticker where the radio antenna should be, and a connecting rod turned tow hook.
Speaking of hachis, Jojo Collantes' TE27 might look like a mango on the outside, but underneath the daily driven Corolla has a complete AE86 suspension and drivetrain. For those who remember the Bay Area autocrossing scene, Jojo drove an N2-fendered Starlet sponsored by Ling Nam Chinese-Filipino Noodle House, a cornerstone of NorCal dining.
We saw a stock-height Datsun 710 sedan in Part 02; here's its polar opposite. What are they, growing on trees in NorCal? It's got quite the shakotan street racer thing going on. You can almost imagine it tearing through the streets of 1970s Tokyo.
This installment wouldn't be complete without at least one killer wagon, and this is it. A slammed army green TE72 on SSR MkIIs and a roll bar? Total sex machine.
We've heard the clamoring for daruma love, so here's Ray Santos' WiqdToy, a 1971 Celica powered by a Honda S2000 motor. Before purists start pounding their keyboards, the F20C has already been long established by Roper's Rule of Three as one of a trio of engines that is okay to swap into any car.
More photos await in the gallery below, and we have more Bayline Gathering coming up so stay tuned. In the meantime, in case you missed them check out Part 01 and Part 02.
Photos by Ben Hsu, Ricky Silverio, and Justin Principe.


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WASHINGTON – On the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC, People For the American Way president Michael Keegan issued the following statement:
"The deeply misguided Citizens United ruling four years ago brought immeasurable harm to our democracy, but it also inspired a re-energized national movement to get big money out of politics. In the four years since, sixteen states and 500 cities and towns have officially gone on record calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and related cases and to take back our democracy from the outsized influence of wealthy special interests.
"Poll after poll shows that the American people are deeply disturbed by the big money in our political system. They want a real voice in our democracy, not one that is overwhelmed by billions of dollars in corporate and special interest spending. We'll keep up the pressure for commonsense regulations on political spending and a democracy that is truly of, by, and for the people."
PFAW and ally organizations hosted a Get Money Out of Elections advocacy training in Arlington on Monday afternoon to educate activists about reforms to restore the power in our democracy to the voters. For more information on PFAW's money in politics advocacy work, please visit: https://www.pfaw.org/GovernmentByThePeople


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Vox Political reblogged a post on the Skwawkbox blog yesterday, identifying a commonplace tactic used by members and supporters of the Coalition government.
It works like this: You make an assertion in the media that will harm your opponents, even though you have no evidence to back it up. You argue your case vehemently, refusing to accept any alternatives to what you are saying. And when the evidence comes in and it's against you, you say it is a stitch-up and continue claiming both the moral and factual victory.
This is what the Conservative Party has been doing, loudly and continually. Look at its record on the NHS and on social security reforms and you'll see that this assertion is supported by fact. Now, more factual evidence has arrived to undermine other Tory claims.
In spite of this, the Labour Party presents the appearance of an organisation torn by inner disagreement, after several high-profile figures broke ranks to criticise the leadership for failing to go on the attack during the summer, when the Conservative-led Coalition was vulnerable on any number of levels.
The BBC ran a story in which Labour's Tessa Jowell warned that public criticism of Labour leader Ed Miliband by party colleagues creates an "unappealing sense of toxic disunity".
We'll come back to the BBC shortly, but for now it is enough to say the story quoted an article by Dame Tessa in the Observer, claiming that "disloyalty" of this kind risked handing the next election to the Tories.
She wrote: "There is… nothing constructive in publicly delivering 'helpful advice' that could be much better delivered quietly in private," but for all we know, Mr Miliband's critics had already done this, only for him to turn a deaf ear.
She is wrong, of course. Those people spoke up because they believed that their leader has been ignoring the mountain of evidence piling up against the Coalition – evidence that he could use to pummel David Cameron and Nick Clegg into the dust long before the next election; that Mr Miliband is unaccountably trying to avoid criticism from the likes of the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, in an attempt to court the right-wing readership of those papers; and that he would get more respect from those people – and win back disenchanted Labour voters – if he acknowledged and supported the evidence against the Coalition's policies and set out opposing plans that mapped out a different course for the UK, one that might actually have a chance of success.
There are so many ways to strike against the web of so-called 'myths' (in fact outright lies) spread by the Conservatives since they came into office with the Liberal Democrats that it is hard to know where to start.
Let's begin with the report by the international doctors' organisation Medecins Du Monde (Doctors of the World), stating very clearly that the claim, by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, that health tourism is rife in the UK, is nonsense.
In a policy briefing, the organisation stated: "Seven years of data… shows that service users had, on average, been living in the UK for three years before they tried to access healthcare. Only 1.6 per cent of people using the service had left their country of origin for personal health reasons."
Concentrating on one particular illness, "Research carried out by Terrence Higgins Trust and George House Trust found that people living with HIV using their services had been resident in England for between 12-18 months before testing positive for HIV. If access to HIV drugs had been their motivation for coming to England, they would have been unlikely to wait so long to become eligible for life-saving treatments."
Therefore, "Research by Doctors of the World's European network indicates no correlation between accessibility of healthcare to migrants and migration patterns."
The government has made health tourism a major part of its anti-immigration campaign, claiming that it costs the taxpayer a fortune, but even this was rubbished by the professionals: "Current estimates vary greatly, although last year the NHS estimates it spent £33 million treating foreign nationals and wrote off £12 million of this sum. This represents about 0.01 per cent of the £107 billion NHS budget. These sums are considerably less than the net contribution made to the UK by migrants of 1.02 per cent of GDP, or £16.3 billion, according to the OECD."
Just 0.01 per cent of the NHS budget is lost treating foreign nationals who do not pay – even less than the 0.7 per cent of the social security budget that is lost to fraud, according to DWP figures. But the government talks up these comparatively tiny amounts as though they will topple us all into bankruptcy (impossible).
One might almost believe there was an intention to distract us from something else. Remember, the Conservatives are well-practised at 'bait-and-switch' fraud, as mentioned in an earlier article. Perhaps they don't want us examining their lackadaisical attempts at pretending to counter corporate tax avoidance that costs up to £120 billion per year? Or maybe they don't want us thinking about what could have been done to restore respectability to our bankers after the financial crisis they caused.
Meanwhile, Tory claims that the Bedroom Tax – I said the BEDROOM TAX – would cut the Housing Benefit bill by £480 million have been destroyed after Labour MP Karen Buck retrieved figures from the House of Commons library, showing that the cost will in fact increase by £1.5 billion this year – and still further over the next three years.
The Mirror reported that this is because more than 40,000 more people have claimed HB since this time last year, with the biggest pressure coming from working people who need help with housing costs because their wages no longer cover them, especially since private landlords have increased rents by an inflation-busting three per cent over the last 12 months.
Meanwhile, councils have been forced to rehouse victims of the Bedroom Tax from cheaper social housing into more expensive private rented properties, creating more unwanted extra costs.
It was previously reported that larger social housing is going empty because people do not want to move in and then fall foul of the Bedroom Tax. I can't currently find the reference for that, but if anyone can help out, please send in a comment with the link.
The SPeye blog has filed an alternative take on Housing Benefit, which claims that the current amount paid by the taxpayer on HB, at £23.77 billion, is £5.77 billion more than George Osborne predicted in 2010 when he said his changes to HB meant it would be "controlled and reduced" from £20 billion in that financial year to £18 billion by 2014-15.
This blog is highly critical of Labour's reasoning, as reported in the Mirror story, but then comes up with an even greater loss to the taxpayer, caused by the Conservatives' changes.
Back to the NHS now, where the Coalition government has spent £1.4 billion on redundancy payoffs, rather than care, since it came to power. This can be added to more than £3 billion that was spent on the pointless and unnecessary top-down reorganisation that David Cameron promised, prior to the 2010 election, would not take place.
The government has claimed that the redundancies will save £1.5 billion per year, which will be reinvested in patient care – but this will only bring annual spending back up to just above where it was when Labour left office, as it was revealed at the end of 2012 that annual spending on the NHS has dropped by nearly £1 billion. The government has stated that spending will have increased by £12.7 billion by 2014-15 which, in financial terms, is next year.
The Coalition lied when it said changes to the planning system would protect the Green Belt. This land, "intended to provide countryside access for urban dwellers and ensure conservation of nature, as well as maintaining agriculture and forestry" according to a BBC website article, is being eroded away with the help of new rules introduced by the Coalition, with planning applications on Green Belt land in England almost doubling from 81,000 homes in 2012 to 150,000 this year.
The government said protection was being maintained but the Council for the Protection of Rural England said the Green Belt was under threat. Who do you believe?
The announcement that the UK economy grew by 0.7 per cent, rather than 0.6, has been greeted rapturously by the Coalition, whose representatives have claimed that it shows the economy has moved "from rescue to recovery". This is, of course, utterly ludicrous. There is no way an improvement of this kind – after years of economic flatlining thanks to Coalition policies – can be claimed as either evidence of a sustained recovery or evidence that Coalition policies are responsible for the improvement. The weakness of the upturn suggests the change brought on by conditions that would have arisen, whether the Coalition had tinkered with the economy or not.
Thankfully Michael Meacher has returned, after a brief holiday from blogging, to give us chapter and verse. "Today's announcement by the ONS that its initial 0.6 per cent growth estimate for the second quarter of this year has now been upgraded to 0.7 per cent is insignificant when put into perspective against the recoveries of the five other UK recessions in the previous 100 years," he writes.
"This time the economy still remains 3.3 per cent below its pre-crash level in 2008, while at the same stage of cycle (ie five years on from the crash) it was nearly FIVE per cent above the pre-crash level in the early 1980s, SIX per cent above pre-crash in the 1920s, SIX per cent above pre-crash again in the early 1930s, SEVEN per cent above pre-crash in the early 1970s, and nearly 10 PER CENT above pre-crash in the 1990s." (Caps and italics mine)
"Come on, at this stage 0.7 per cent is to be apologised for – both historically and in comparison with other other economies emerging from recession this time round – Britain still three per cent down, but France one per cent down, Germany two per cent up, the US four per cent up and Canada six per cent up."
The above stories emerged over the past couple of days. Look back over the rest of August and we have:
- The revelation that the upcoming Lobbying Bill will do nothing to prevent professional lobbyists from influencing Parliament unduly, but will attack your right to campaign politically in "an outrageous attack on freedom of speech".
- The revelation that a 'top ten' list of benefit fraudsters, reported by right-wing newspapers, does not exist.
- Information that the government may be corruptly supporting fracking because several of its members have stakes in fracking firms.
- Home Office vans stirring up racism in London.
- Conservative plans to abolish the human rights of everybody in the UK, in order to inflict a dangerous and exploitative regime on working people that will amount to slavery.
- The revelation that recent attacks on the NHS for causing needless deaths have been blown out of proportion in order to make public opinion more receptive to further privatisation.
- The revelation that the DWP is spending £1.3 million on extra staff who have been calculating the government's flagship benefits cap – perhaps its only popular policy – because the computer system needed to do the job has not yet been built. Ministers had no intention of admitting this and the information only became public after it was discovered by somebody else.
- And then there's the fact that the fundamental claim of the Coalition government – that the financial crisis of five years ago happened because Labour overspent massively and mishandled the economy – was absolute and total groundless fabrication. Labour in fact handled the economy responsibly, even when the financial crisis hit.
That has to total more than 10 ways in which Labour could undermine the Coalition. All Mr Miliband has to do is open his mouth and tell people about them in ways that will be reported by the media.
And on that subject: If and when he does, and it is reported by the BBC, we can all be certain that right-wing commentators will claim that this is because the BBC is full of pinko left-wingers who support Labour. Let's put that myth to rest as well.
A lecturer at Cardiff University has checked the facts and found that the BBC has a broadly right-wing bias. The study showed that the government of the day generally gets more airtime than anyone else (natural considering it is making policy and actually carrying out the business of government) but in reporting of immigration, the EU and religion, in 2007 Gordon Brown's appearances on the BBC outnumbered David Cameron's by less than two to one, while in 2012, Cameron's outnumbered Ed Miliband's by around four to one. The same ratios occurred for other prominent members of each party. When reporting of all topics is taken into account, Conservative politicians were featured more than 50 per cent more often than those from Labour in both 2007 AND 2012.
Going into the autumn Parliamentary session, Ed Miliband has a strong hand to play – if he has the stomach for it. And if any of the media try to suppress his arguments, he can just point to the evidence of right-wing bias and tell them they need to clean up their act just as much as the Coalition.


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In the Eskimo language, there are over 20 different words for snow. That, presumably, is because there was so much snow around them all the time. In English, we have over 20 different words for crap...for the same reason. A load of crap is a compilation of all the synonyms for the word crap. The purpose of this article is two-fold. First, to expand the vocabulary horizons of the general public who tend to use a single word exclusively. (Hopefully, those who read this will endeavor to add variety to their vocabulary.) Secondly, because who wouldn't want to spend countless hours and an advanced degree researching and writing all about turd? How better to enrich humanity?
Over the course of this scholarly work, each word and its origins will be discussed exhaustively. However, if you are taking the time to read an article about poo, then you most likely are not very scholarly. Therefore, I will try to explain some of the larger words to you. For example, scholarly means sumthin' they dun learned ya at school. Other meanings for big words will be at the end of each section of this article. Below, you can see the Big words explained list at the end of this section.
I have placed the entries of this article in alphabetical order, not in the order of frequency of use, to prevent bias toward any one word.
Big words explained
- Compilation - To put stuff together
- Synonyms - Words that mean the same thing. For example, you and ignoramus.
- Horizons of vocabulary - Words you know how to say. Go ask Mr. Rogers.
- Exclusively - Without using any others
- Endeavor - Try your very hardest
- Variety - Lots of different stuff
- Enrich - To make something better than it was
- Exhaustively - As much as you can; If you ever did your homework exhaustively, you might become scholarly.
- Alphabetical - Starts with A and ends with Z
- Frequency of use - How much people (like your dad) say it
- Bias - Not fair, not fair, not fair
Bowel movement[edit | edit source]
Bowel comes from the French root boele which means innards. Movement is a part of a symphony; as in the 2nd movement of Beethoven's 5th symphony. Some time around 1874, someone combined the two words meaning the sound you make when you defecate. His attempt to orchestrate this, however, was a dismal failure. Someone misinterpreted the term movement meaning "the song" to movement meaning "to go to a new place", and thought it was just a not-quite-as-gross way to say poo. The term stuck around.
Big words explained
- Bowels - Your guts; that part of you that people say they hate. But with what comes out of your guts, who can blame them?
- Innards - Another word that means guts. You might not have any.
- Symphony - A kind of music that ignorant people don't like to listen to.
- Defecate - Make a do
- Orchestrate - To take sounds that you hear and write them down on paper so that other people can play them on musical instruments. (Either that or make a deafening squelch.)
- Dismal failure - Epic fail
- Misinterpreted - Doesn't understand, like you with this word.
Buffalo chip[edit | edit source]
Regardless of anything you might have heard or thought, the term buffalo chip does not originate from the American bison. Rather, it comes from some British sailors who wouldn't let a little thing like rules get in the way of their fun.
The captain of the HMS Buffalo was an austere man and had no use for anything that might blemish the good name of the British Empire. He demanded that his men look sharp, avoid all vice (such as alcohol and gambling), and above all refrain from swearing like a sailor. Some of his men couldn't be bothered with a useless little thing like self discipline and disregarded the rules as often as possible. Each night at the end of their shift, they would go down into the belly of the ship and play a quick game of poker, drink whatever fermented thing happened to be around, and tell 'yo' mamma' jokes in the most vulgar way possible. After about three months of consequence-free poker, they ran upon a bit of bad luck. The second mate happened upon their game and was duty bound to report it to the captain. The captain took their cards and poker chips and tossed them into the ocean. Each of the sailors also ended up with some shiny new red marks on his back.
While the sailors did have more cards, they only had just the one set of chips, which had just been gifted to Davy Jones. For a while, this ended the poker frenzy. However a cook's mate happened upon a brilliant plan. Long before Myth Busters ever did, he disproved the myth that you can't put a shine on a turd. Without going into the gruesome details, this fine young sailor put a high gloss on some turd chips, embossed 1, 5, 10, and 25 denominations on them, and soon play resumed. From that day to this, a turd can be referred to as a Buffalo chip.
Big words explained
- American bison - A big cow
- Austere - Strict; much worse than your parents
- Blemish - Something that looks bad; like that huge zit on your face
- Self discipline - Doing what you are supposed to do; people tend to like this in other people, so you should try to acquire a little of this.
- Consequence-free - No punishment; it never lasts
- Embossed - Draw stuff
Bung[edit | edit source]
Bung comes from the 15th century Dutch word, bonge which means stopper or plug. The traditional Dutch diet consisted of bread and herring, and as everyone knows, too much kippered herring will plug anyone up. Doctors back then spent so much time helping patients with their constipation issues that they soon started using the word bonge to refer to all forms of feces. Thus bung remains with us to this day.
Big words explained
- 15th century - Before you were born
- Kippered - Cut open so the guts get all over everything
- Constipation - When the poo poo gets stuck in your bum and won't come out
Cow pie[edit | edit source]
This is exactly what it appears to be. It comes from a cow and looks like a pie. Enough said. A kindergartener could figure it out. Why did you have to look it up?
Crap[edit | edit source]
Crap is a word frequently used in the United States and other English-speaking countries. Its origin comes from the fish called the carp, which tastes like crap. In the 16th century, in some fishing villages in Great Britain, talking about poo was taboo. If a fishermen's wife caught him talking about poo, the poor sod ended up sleeping in the dog house. So, some fisherman had a bright idea, because carp tasted very similar to poo (I have no idea who first tasted poo to decide this) the fishermen started referring to poo as carp to keep from getting yelled at all the time. For example, they would say, "You're full O' carp, Haans" or "Clean up this carpy room. It looks like a big pile O' carp." Eventually this became the current word, crap.
Big words explained
- Frequently - Lots and lots
- English-speaking - What you are supposed to be
- Origin - Where stuff comes from
- 16th century - A long long time ago - like Star Wars
- Taboo - Very, very bad
Crud[edit | edit source]
Do you remember the story of Little Miss Muffet? OK, for those of you who's parents were too self-envolved to read you bed time stories, it goes like this:
" | This girl named Muffet was sitting on a tuffet eating curds and whey. Apparently she didn't like spiders much. | " |
So the real point of this story is that she was eating curds. Here's a picture of curds.
Now that you know what a curd is...In 1596, young man emigrated from China to Ireland. His name, sadly enough, was Kik Mei, which often happened. But this was not the only form of abuse inflicted on this poor lad. Every day Kik Mei's mother put cheese curds in his lunch. As a joke one day, some kids at school replaced his cheese curds with something a dog left in the street. He didn't eat it, but everyone said he did. In honor of Kik Mei's lunch, everyone started referring to poo as curd, but because crud is easier to say than curd, the term soon became crud.
Big words explained
- Self-envolved - Parents who care only about themselves; this usually means that you were an accident.
- Tuffet - A padded foot rest; regardless of what your friend might have said.
- Emigrated - Moved; like you often do because your dad can't hold a job.
Do do[edit | edit source]
The term do do comes from the Maori people. This noble race of cannibals gave a whole new meaning to the phrase "love thy neighbor". They decided that this was best accomplished with a side of breadfruit and garnished with a banana leaf. This beautiful example of native culture existed in New Zealand for centuries until the white man appeared and thrust their short-sighted notions of civility on these esteemed warriors. After all, what adverse psychological effects could Maori children possibly have suffered from knowing that at any time their parents or they might be taken and boiled alive by a neighboring tribe? White men with their self-righteous notions of cultural supremacy have ruined the world! But back to the topic at hand...
Anyway, whenever a visitor entered a Maori village, a warrior would greet this person with a challenge. During this challenge, the warrior would stick out his tongue repeatedly. The meaning of this was "Your grandfather tasted good and so will you." That was the standard greeting of respect. If the warrior held any animosity towards the visitor, he did an insulting form of the greeting called the do do. For this greeting, he would curl his tongue into the form of a log (perhaps you understand the symbolism) meaning "Your grandfather tasted like crap. In fact, he tasted so bad that the dog wouldn't even eat him. We couldn't even get the vultures to eat him. He was just plain disgusting! And you are a walking turd, just like he was."
As the white man invaded and wiped out this most respectable tradition, they integrated the term do do (which they thought sounded funny) into their language to mean dung.
Big words explained
- Cannibals - People who eat other people; like your old pal, Jeffrey Dahmer
- Native culture - A completely arbitrary idea of how people should act in society
- Short-sighted notions of civility - Dumb ideas
- Esteemed - Awesome!!!!!!
- Adverse psychological effects - Stuff that makes you worry and have bad dreams; like the way your uncle used to look at you.
- Self-righteous notions of cultural supremacy - We're better than you! Nah nah n-nah nah nah!
- Animosity - A feeling of being truly ticked off at someone
- Integrated - Assimilated; like the Borg.
Dung[edit | edit source]
Dung comes from the word dungarees, which is a military uniform worn in the Navy. In the old days, dungarees were different than they are today. They had a quick-release hatch in back, much like long johns, so sailors could just open 'er up and let the poo fly. (Sometimes they weren't quick enough on the draw, and then the dungarees just became dungy.)
What was the point of the opening at the gluteus maximus you ask? Well, contrary to what you might hear from someone in the Army (and if you don't know what they say in the Army, it's probably for the best) during a battle, a sailor couldn't just up and stop for a potty break. If they were in the middle of loading a cannon or hauling a powder keg over to the port side when nature called, they just opened the handy flap, and multi-tasked. This made it really fun to swab the deck afterwards.
Before the invention of dungarees, the captains had a special rainbow flag they had to run up that meant "stop the battle, the bosun's got to head to the john." (If the bosun's name was John, then it would be 'John to the head.') There was a rule back then that when the rainbow flag went up, everyone had to stop fighting. The captains got tired of this and came up with dungarees. And from dungarees came dung...literally.
Big words explained
- Quick-release - Easy open, kind of like...(Ok, that one is just too obvious)
- Gluteus maximus - A butt. (The part of you that gets kicked all the time.)
- Multi-Task - Do two things at the same time; like do your homework and read this (wait, I bet you're not doing your homework.)
- Contrary - Different
- Swab the deck - Mop the top of the ship. If you lost the mop overboard, it's probably better to just jump in after it unless you want to use your own shirt.
- Bosun - The guy in charge of making sure you swab the deck and kicking your gluteus maximus if you don't.
Excrement[edit | edit source]
This word comes from a combination of the word ex which means over or finished, and scream, which means to yell loudly, and usually in a high-pitched tone. The word comes from the torture chambers of the Spanish Inquisition. Over the 72 hours of agony while being purged of their sin, the prisoners usually became somewhat incontinent. The janitors of the time called all the poo on the floor, excrement, meaning what is left after the screaming stops.
Big words explained
- Combination - To put together
- High-pitched tone - The tone you use when you whine about having to eat vegetables.
- Spanish Inquisition - A terrible torture Spanish priests used to inflict on people who went to the wrong church. Now this happens to you after you die if you go to the wrong church.
- Purged - To be forcefully removed from something, kind of like how your lunch money is forcefully removed from you every day.
- Incontinent - You can't hold it any more. How do you know if you have it? Well, that depends.
Feces[edit | edit source]
This word comes from the Latin faeces which does not mean ugly face. I can see how some of you might have thought that, but this is a misconception. Instead, the word means dregs or grounds, as in coffee grounds. You know, that stuff at the bottom of your cup that looks like one of your co-workers played a practical joke that was in very bad taste...literally. Not only do the coffee grounds look like turd, but when you drink coffee, your breath smells that way too. It is for this very reason that the term feces comes from the Latin word for The gunk at the bottom of your coffee cup.
Big words explained
- Misconception - Something that lots of people believe, probably because they heard it from you.
Guano[edit | edit source]
Long before Alberto came out with Vo5, there was hair, and as long as there has been hair, there has been a need to style it. But because there was no hair gel, the ultimate in ultra hold was a nice, fresh bear turd. Poo from other animals just didn't have that all-week hold that everyone was looking for in pre-colonial North America.
Just like anyone else, the average Native American wanted to look his best. But because a good hair stylist was hard to find in your local tribe, most braves opted for the do-it-yourself salon. For some, this meant letting those long locks blow in the breeze. However, without proper styling, all that long hair blowing around in your eyes could make it difficult to get off a clean shot at a that buffalo, so some Native American tribes opted for nature's organic hair gel.
The tribe most famous for using poo in this way was the Mohawk tribe, from which the famous hair style of today originates. This Fox tribe chief has also spiked his "do" (pun intended) with this most useful substance.
The term guano comes from the Fox tribe's language, and means stiffened hair. The Mohawk term was simply too difficult to pronounce, and sounded too much like a profane word in French, so it was discarded.
In these tribes, young boys could not sport a mohawk until they had passed their coming-of-age test. In order prove their manhood, and earn the right to wear a tricked-out hair do, a young brave had to go take some fresh dung from a live bear. This made the average 14 year old Indian about 50 times tougher than today's punk rocker wannabe.
Big words explained
- Pre-colonial - Before the British, French, Spanish, and Dutch decided to take over the place.
- Substance - Stuff
- Discarded - Thrown away; like all that perfectly good food that could go to Africa.
Hud[edit | edit source]
Hud was coined in the United States around the mid 1970s, but it is unclear how the term came to mean crap. This term has several possible origins.
The least likely option is that it came from an anti-Islamic sentiment. Islamic records tell of a pre-Qu'ranic Prophet of Islam named Hud. However, because most Americans can't even find an Islamic nation on the map, the term hud originating from this prophet's name is very unlikely.
Another possibility is that it came from the acronym for the heads-up display in a U.S. fighter jet. Early versions didn't work very well and fighter pilots thought they were a bunch of crap. By contrast, today's fighter pilots love them. The Tetris app really livens up those long, boring patrol flights.
The acronym for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is an additional option. Like every other government agency of every nation in the world, these people foul up everything they touch. And in the 1970s, the housing they provided was thought of as being of inferior quality. It is not known whether this is because they were made poorly or because the residents who had little financial stake in the home simply trashed them. Probably a combination of the two. Anyway, HUD homes were often thought to be synonymous with crappy homes, so this could have been the basis of the word hud.
The final, and most likely option is that the word just plain sounds like it should mean poop. Consider the sentence Your date looks like hud. Hud just doesn't sound like it could possibly ever mean a million bucks or anything.
Because there is no record of the term's etymology, you will just have judge which theory is the most believable.
Big words explained
- Sentiment - Someone's feelings or ideas; yours are probably wrong.
- Acronym - What happens when people are too lazy to say all the words.
- Contrast - Something different.
- Inferior quality - Breaks the first time you touch it; you probably have had some Christmas presents like this.
- Financial stake - A reason to care about something; if you bought it yourself, you usually care about it more.
- Etymology - The study of words; usually no one cares unless the word is profane.
Manure[edit | edit source]
The word manure is brought to you by the French. It comes from the word meynoverer which means to hold property. In France, in about 1007 AD, serfs couldn't build fences because all the land was owned by the feudal lords, and they thought fences looked like eyesores and wouldn't allow them on their property. Not wanting to work any harder than the next guy, the serfs were perplexed about how to delineate their portion of the land they had to work. However this was soon resolved. Taking a cue from Fido, they found an alternate way to mark the boundaries for their areas of responsibility. For this reason, outhouses were not invented for five more centuries.
Big words explained
- Serf - A peon; what you are to President Obama.
- Feudal lord - Da boss man
- Eyesores - Ugly to look at; like train cars that have been tagged with stupid paintings from your worthless punk gang.
- Perplexed - Confused; like you were about this word before I explained it to you.
- Delineate - Mark off or separate; like those retarded shoes hanging over the telephone wires that mark off territory for your worthless punk gang (because you can't read maps.)
- Responsibility - Something that you can put off a little longer by wasting time on Uncyclopedia.
Meadow Muffin[edit | edit source]
The term Meadow Muffin comes from a beloved Gambian fairy tale told for generations to Gambian children at bed time. It goes like this (loosely translated of course):
" | Once upon a time there was a fair maiden who danced in the meadow each day. She was as fair as the dawn and as sweet as a honeycomb (from Africanized bees of course). Her name was Monosyllabalia, but everyone thought that sounded like fingernails on a chalkboard, so they just called her Meadow Muffin.
As she was dancing in the meadow one day, a handsome prince was riding by and saw Meadow Muffin dancing and singing in the meadow. He was instantly stricken with love for this most lovely damsel. Soon the two were courting and no two people could have been happier. Each day as they walked and talked together they fell more and more in love with each other. Soon enough, wedding plans were made and a large, beautiful wedding was held in the meadow. The bride looked ravishing and the groom looked dashing. People from all around the kingdom had come to the wedding of the happy couple. The women wept for joy, while the men all had allergies. The witch doctor (this is Africa after all) who presided over the ceremony had just asked Meadow Muffin, "Do you take Prince Manly to be your lawfully wedded husband?" Meadow Muffin was just about to answer when suddenly a large golden-red dragon swooped down, grabbed Meadow Muffin in his great talons, swallowed her whole, and flew off. Prince Manly immediately mounted his noble steed and set out after the beast. ...15 pages of bravery, harrowing events, and untold suffering later... Prince Manly enters the dragon's lair, and faces down the menacing beast. A heroic battle ensues and a victorious Prince Manly cuts open the dragon to free his beloved bride, only to find that she has been completely digested and expelled. Heart broken, Prince Manly gathers all that is left of his soul mate, the dragon droppings he finds in the cave, and returns home. He buries these remains in lavish tomb, places Meadow Muffin's name over the tomb in gold letters, and spends the rest of his life fighting legal battles with PETA for cruelty to animals. Years later, as a child and his mother are walking by the tomb, the child innocently asks, "Mommy, what's in that building?" The mother replies, "That's Meadow Muffin, dear," and the two walk home. The child sneaks back the next day, opens the door and sees a load of crap. |
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And that is how a turd came to be known as a meadow muffin.
Big words explained
- Africanized bees - Killer bees; what happens when man reads the book of Genesis and thinks, "Hey, I can do that too."
- Damsel - Young woman; No, not the little tiny dragonfly.
- Courting - Going to the movies and stuff.
- Ravishing - Seriously babe-like
- Dashing - Hunkalicious
- Presided - To be in charge of; the relationship you think you have with the world.
- Steed - horse
- Harrowing - Gives you the willies
- Lair - pad, turf, or 'hood
- Menacing - Very scary
- Lavish - Tricked out or pimped
Night soil[edit | edit source]
Night soil, as we all know, is human waste used as fertilizer. In several South American nations, they grow the biggest, juiciest, best tasting vegetables using night soil. Eating these has the insignificant side effect of giving the average American a severe case of dysentery. However, the farmers really don't mind because that simply means more night soil. But that's not the point. There are competing theories as to how poo came to be known as night soil:
Theory 1[edit | edit source]
According to a report on NPR, in the 1750s under the reign of Marie Antoinette when all the people were starving, a boy named Jack had sold his old hag of a cow to purchase some bean seeds. Jack's mother was infuriated that he would be so stupid. Not for the loss of the half-dead cow with meat so tough that you couldn't cut it with a saw, but because the cow was the only source of fertilizer for the family garden. Now, Jack was an enterprising lad, and so he set his mind to work on how to get some fertilizer for his beans. That night, while sitting on his chamber pot, the answer fell right beneath him. Jack ran to the shed, grabbed a bucket and spent the night stealing the contents of all the chamber pots in the village. At about 3:00 AM, he returned home, threw a shovel of dirt on top to disguise the contents, and hit the sack for a hard-earned couple hours of sleep. In the morning, when his mother saw the bucket, and asked what it was, Jack replied, "Soil from the night." He planted his beans, in the special soil, and the beans grew so large and quick, that a few weeks later, he won a golden egg from Marie Antoinette at the royal fair. No one ever figured out why the royal family was ill for several weeks thereafter. Jack became rich selling his "night soil" to the local populace, who soon developed an immunity to "the great squirt plague of 1751."
Theory 2[edit | edit source]
Fox News disagrees with what they depict as "NPR's obvious rip off of a common children's story." According to them, the term is actually a misspelling of knight soil. Unlike the sailors and their dungarees, medieval armor had no handy opening for the call of nature. However that didn't stop nature from calling with an ever-increasing volume. So these men of valor often had suits that were shiny on the outside, but not the inside. The squires, of course, spent many hours lobbying the blacksmiths for handy openings, but the blacksmiths poo pooed on the idea as blatant feature creep. So the squires ended up cleaning the "knight soil" all the time. Because the kitchen maids refused to let the squires clean the armor in the sinks, they went to the next closest location with a water source, the garden. Of course, the vegetables always grew really well, and some genius finally figured out that it was the "knight soil". Of course, he couldn't read or write, so on his death bed, when he revealed his secret, it was written down incorrectly.
Big words explained
- Dysentery - A bad case of the Hershey squirts that lasts for months and will probably kill you.
- Infuriated - Really really mad; like the judge was at you
- Enterprising - Got off his backside and solved problems
- Depict - Say or tell
- Squire - A knight's side kick
- Feature creep - What computers programmers say when they don't want to do their work
Poo poo, poop, and poo[edit | edit source]
Poop and poo are just the lazy person's way of saying poo poo. Poo poo, comes from the early 1600s. At that time, if something was below your dignity or you looked down on it, then you poo pooed it. You might have said at the time, "I poo poo on the Duke's ridiculous opinion." This of course meant that you thought the duke had a dumb idea, not that you were planning on dropping your drawers. (Of course, I wouldn't actually have recommended that you say this to the duke, unless you wanted to be looking down the inside of your neck for the 11 seconds it takes a beheaded person to loose consciousness.)
Now, nothing could be more looked down on than a turd...figuratively and literally. (If you are looking up to a turd, there is probably a shower in your near future.) As time progressed, the term poo poo when used as a noun soon took on the meaning of a turd.
Big words explained
- Dignity - Self worth; something that people think they have a lot more of than they actually do.
- Ridiculous - Just plain stupid; sort of like reading an article about dung.
- Figuratively - The world of thoughts and ideas. Things like physically attractive video game players exist only in this world.
- Literally - The world of reality. You should probably visit more often.
S***[edit | edit source]
This is the profane synonym of the word dung. It is used most often in speech by delinquent miscreants who can't manage to put two brain cells together and come up with anything else. Most of them prefer video game playing and skirt chasing (which are mutually exclusive activities) and wouldn't know what to do with a book if it hit them on the head. So, they would have never come across Benjamin Franklin's famous quote:
" | Anyone who has to resort to profanity does so because he is too stupid to put two brain cells together and come up with anything else. | " |
This is related to another of his famous quotes:
" | Anyone who won't wear a helmet has nothing to protect anyway. | " |
But I digress.
As much as I hate to, in the spirit of completeness I will trace the origins of this naughty word.
The word comes from the Japanese word shitsurei which means rude. Whenever a Japanese person burps, bumps into someone, or does something else socially unacceptable, they say shitsurei shimashita which means I did a rude. Well, one of the rudest things done in Japan is tachi shonben which means to relieve yourself in public. So, tachi shonben is shitsurei but the lazy English speakers couldn't manage shitsurei so they shortened the word.
Are you happy? My keyboard feels dirty now.
Big words explained
- Synonym - a word that means the same as another word.
- Delinquent miscreants - A bad, bad man.
- Mutually exclusive - Don't go together; like you and a biography of Benjamin Franklin.
- Socially unacceptable - Acting in a way that will get you thrown out of any respectable place.
Stool[edit | edit source]
Stool, or a stool sample is the medical term meaning a big nasty turd doctors poke around in to determine what kind of diseases you have. The term comes from the Middle Ages when they used to tie witches and scolds to stools or chairs called ducking stools, and give them a nice, refreshing dip in the river. For scolds, the dip usually was meant to demean them and make them feel more humble (somehow I doubt it worked) and was temporary. However, for witches, the idea was to test them to see if they were really a witch. A true witch would never go under the water because water is pure and holy and used for baptism, so a witch would just float on top when dunked. A witch would also use her magical powers to save herself from drowning, so if the girl ended up dead, obviously she was innocent. If she didn't drown, then she was a witch and had to be burned.
The term ducking stool was also called a cucking stool. Cucking comes from the Old English verb kukken which means to crap your nightie. When the women (and especially the teenage girls) were accused of being witches, they were thrown in a wheelbarrow often full of horse dung, hauled to the stream, tied to the stool, and given the opportunity to visit with the fishes. This scared them so badly that they lost control of their bowels, and left a sample on the stool. Sometimes, after the witch was proven innocent, a doctor might be called in to examine the stool sample to see if there were any evil spirits making the "witch" sick. Evil spirits, of course, were expelled naturally by the body in the forms of sneezes and crap. If some demon was vexing the dearly departed, it obviously would now be trapped in the residue on the stool. This is why we have the current term, stool sample.
Big words explained
- Scold - A woman who gripes constantly and gossips about all her neighbors; chances are that you are related or married to one.
- Ducking Stool - It floats like a duck, or maybe a duck floats like a witch.
- Demean - Embarrass or shame someone, like every Tuesday when you get a wedgie or swirly.
- Vexing - Making problems for someone; like you do to the community in which you live.
- Dearly departed - Dead; What happens to all gang bangers before they turn 30.
Turd[edit | edit source]
The word turd comes from the old Germanic turdam which shares a root with the English word turban. The root, of course means coiled. Now everyone knows that a turban is a coiled cloth used often in South-east Asia and often in Arabia to keep the hair out of a man's eyes. A turd is of course, a coiled bit of fertilizer that attracts flies. The two look similar, so to avoid confusion, Arabian men rarely wear brown turbans.
Big words explained
- Arabia - You know, that place with Aladin and the Genie


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'The Walking Dead' Spinoff Series Adds 'Sons of Anarchy' Writer Dave Erickson
It's been a good while since we've heard anything from the front about 'The Walking Dead''s companion/spinoff series at AMC, what with the mothership preparing to head into its fourth season finale this coming Sunday. Now, AMC has unveiled a slew of new scripted developments for its lineup, including a 'Sons of Anarchy' alum attached to write and develop the spinoff of AMC's monster-drama.
Courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Low Winter Sun' vet Dave Erickson will both co-write and executive produce 'The Walking Dead' companion series, which doesn't yet have its own title, or a premise that AMC has shared publicly. For now at least, the entire series is something of a mystery, other than its purported 2015 airdate.
When last we heard, here's what franchise creator Robert Kirkman had to say of the proposed companion series, in an interview with IGN:
It's a really different location with completely different people, so we are going to see an entirely different corner of the Walking Dead world. It definitely won't be set in Georgia, I can at least say that. It's important to us that this show exists on its own. The spinoff has to be a show worthy of existing, or else we've all sold out.
So that's something we're all working hard towards doing, and I think we can pull it off. I think that the ideal situation is, when you're watching the spinoff, you're like, "Wow, this is a really awesome show." The whole other show doesn't need to exist for this show to be cool and stand on its own.
'The Walking Dead' proper has of course been renewed for a fifth season to begin later on this year, while it'll be interesting to see how the cable network handles a second series with such specific subject material. In the meantime, what say you? Does a 'Sons of Anarchy' vet's addition have you any more interested in 'The Walking Dead''s 2015 companion series?


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