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QotD: That's Just Cruel

What's the weirdest baby name you've ever heard (or considered)?

Well, it's not so much "a" name as a set of names. J plans on having 4 children, and naming them, in order, Flora, Hugh, Delores, and Mordecai. Regardless of gender. Because then he'd be able to say that he named his children after a Clint Eastwood movie.

Attention stalkers!

That's right, I mean you, Eugene.

I've updated the Stalkeratzi Page.

That is all.

QotD: Three Wishes!

If you could have three wishes from a genie, what would they be? 
Submitted by tatteredhalo.

Well, first I'd wish for world peace.
Then I'd wish for a really good plate of nachos.
Then I'd ask for 3 more wishes, and when the Genie tells me that I "just can't DO that" and that it's, you know, "IMPROPER" or something, I'd really freak out and go "Dammit! Why did I waste a wish on world peace? I wish you'd told me that before!"

At which point reality and all that is contained in it would collapse upon itself in a giant space/time paradox, and I'd be all like "psyche!"

...

I'm really tired. I need to go to bed.

QotD: Repeat After Me...

How have people mispronounced your name?  How is it supposed to sound? 
Submitted by Lorie.   

I've been called "Wayne" before, by a guy named Derrick, who also called Jay "Jack." We, of course, took to calling him "Darrell." 

QotD: Dreamy

What did you dream about last night?  

I dreamt that I was able to buy a Cubs hat that actually fit. But then it kept growing, until it hung down over my eyes and ears. I took it off and looked at it, and realized it was actually a foam-front trucker-style Cubs cap that I had had when I was a kid. After coming to this realization, I looked in a mirror and saw, of course, that I was a short, squat, Mexican child.

Then I woke up.

QotD: Next On My Itinerary

What's the next country you want to visit? 
Submitted by Schomer.

Sticking with the "Top 5" format from Scott and Pat, in reverse order to switch it up:

5. Canada
4. Brazil (I hear they have great waxes there)
3. Italy
2. Germany
1. England

Vox Hunt: Uncork It

Show us some interesting bottles.
Submitted by Red Pen.

Flickr!!

Taken at the Tacom Museum of Glass, Fall 2006. We later got yelled at for taking pictures of the art.

QotD: Rubbing Elbows

Have you ever met any celebrities? Any interesting stories?
Submitted by Tasha.

Um, yes and no. I've "met" several baseball players when asking for autographs (this was about 14 years ago). Randy Myers was pretty cool. He was warming up in the bullpen at Wrigley before a game, and I managed to be one of two of three people that were there when he finished throwing. When he signed the baseball card I gave him, I said "Thanks Mr. Myers" (I was very polite) to which he replied "Mr. Myers is my dad. I'm Randy."

And yes, that looks worse in print than it sounded in person.

Another guy that was pretty cool was Todd Jones. He was a rookie for the Astros, and was hanging out by the visitor's bullpen, talking to one of the ushers. I walked over and asked if he'd mind signing a baseball card. As I recall, this was between innings, though it might have been before the game. At any rate, he initially refused, but when I got a couple steps away he said he was just joking and signed the card. I said something like "it's a pretty good picture of you," to which he replied "you're right--I don't look as fat there."

I didn't have the heart to tell him he was wrong.

QotD: Take That, Writer's Block!

How do you beat writer's block? 
Submitted by marvel is my pen name.

Well, first of all I...um..

What I mean is, I just, you know...

Nevermind.

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