If God told me that I could pick any animal on the planet and exterminate it from the entire earth and asked me which animal I chose, I would say fucking fleas. And if there were an animal whose diet consisted solely of fleas and I would cause it to become extinct by exterminating fleas, I would say fuck that animal because it has done a piss poor job at controlling the flea population and deserves to be extinct for doing such a shitty job as a predator.

If you could exterminate one animal from the planet, which would you pick?

This might sound like a weird question and I just posted one but I'm filling out a form.

What are some skills you can fake very well?

Robert Pattinson may be a global heartthrob, but when it comes to his own romantic exploits, the Twilight star admits he can be a bit wimpy. "I can't think of a single romantic thing that I've ever done," Pattinson said while promoting the latest installment of the vampire series, New Moon, in Los Angeles Nov. 6.
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Promo and preview for tonight's season finale:



( GQMF TED DANSON )

Cate Blanchett: A Streetcar Named Washington D.C.

Cate Blanchett goes for a morning walk with a friend on Saturday (November 7) in Washington D.C.
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I would love to see her play. Also, what are some of your favorite things to do in D.C., ONTD? I'm going there in a few weeks.

i feel like there's a lump in my throat everytime i swallow. 
do you know anything that i can eat or drink that will get rid of this lumpy feeling?

He didn't care that tabloids caught him cheating on his wife, but now that he's accused of cheating on LeAnn Rimes, Eddie is filing a lawsuit.



Eddie Cibrian is preparing to sue a U.S. magazine over claims he is cheating on new girlfriend Leann Rimes with a former lover.

Aspiring actress Scheana Marie Jancan recently told Life & Style magazine that the American TV star is a serial cheat who will sleep with women behind Rimes' back, as he did to his ex-wife Brandi Glanville.

Jancan warned Rimes, who quit her own marriage to date Cibrian, that the hunk will dump her after he has had his fun.

And the same publication, Life & Style, went on to claim Jancan was once again in Cibrian's bed - behind Rimes' back.

But the actor is fuming over the allegations, and is getting a case ready to file a libel lawsuit against editors of the glossy mag.

A statement from the star's rep says, "Unfortunately Life & Style Magazine has chosen to go out with a story filled with inaccuracies and deceitful lies, presumably to titillate sales, but clearly resulting in harm to Eddie Cibrian and others.


"This is irresponsible and reckless journalism. Eddie has met with his attorneys and will be filing a suit for libel and other actionable grounds shortly.

"It's a shame that Life & Style resorted to a story of this nature and they will regretfully now have to face scrutiny of untruthful reporting in a court proceeding."



OIC. He had no issues when he was denying his affair with LeAnn but now he has issues with being accused of cheating on someone who he used to cheat on his wife. Douche. *Edit for those not getting it: THE LAWSUIT IS NOT MY ISSUE WITH DOUBLE STANDARDS. It's thinking it's ok to cheat on your wife but no way would you ever cheat on your mistress... that would just be wrong.

Source
via WENN.com (but I couldn't find the direct link there)

Assuming it would lower cost of care collectively..

Would you support a federally mandated limitation on the amount that medical practioners can be sued for malpractice?

Do you agree with the idea that victims of medical malpractice are entitled to compensation, but should not profit from damages suffered?

Dakota is on the December issue of Teen Vogue. Here's 15 pics from the shoot and behind the scenes.
( If it's not at the supermarket checkout Reggie hasn't read it )

TQC, I'm 24 and have never been to a gynecologist. I don't have any health issues and the only sexual activity I've had has been a monogamous relationship with someone who's both clean and incapable of getting me pregnant, but I should probably go anyway, right?

Any reassuring words? From what I've read the whole experience sounds rather ghastly.

I meant to post this yesterday, on Carl Sagan Day, the 75th anniversary of his birth. But lots of stuff happened yesterday, and so I am posting it tonight. It makes me feel just a little better:

What's your favorite Hamburger Helper?

Do you get Veterans Day off this year?
If you do, is is Monday or Wednesday that you get to take off?

I want to get my grandma & grandpa a stuffed turkey and send it to them for Thanksgiving if Mr Wookie & I can't go up to their house this year. Good idea or should I just stick to a card & phone call?

My network connection isn't working and its status is RF OFF. Anyone have any idea what that is or better yet how to correct it? Google isn't helping.

( More details here. )

Thanks dawgdays!

Ok if that's too techy and boring here's a random question I was wondering about.

Say you are stuck on an island with a cow, chicken, goat, bunny rabbit, dog, cat, guinea pig, rat and a tank of 3 beautiful but delicious rainbow trout. (I dunno, your pet store boat crashed) You have a couple of bags of fruits and veggies that'll last 3 or 4 days between all of you and the island you crashed on has no other animal life on it and no edible plantlife nor does the surrounding ocean have any fish in it. However you have all the water you can drink due to your handy dandy solar powered mini sea water desalination doodad.

You and your little animal friends are going to be running out of fruits and veggies soon. Do you eat any of them? Which ones would you be able to bring yourself to eat and which ones would you rather starve than have to eat?

Do you think having named and befriended them all before hand would make it harder to eat any of them?

My friends, I have found the greatest painting ever.



He's not RONERY anymore!

I'm friends with a girl on facebook who made a huge post a week ago about how she is getting rid of her facebook. Since then she has changed her status, mentioning it, several times a day as well as including her blog address.

Do you think this totally defeats the purpose?
Why not just delete it?
How long before she signs up again?

What should my boyfriend and I eat/make for dinner? :)

Does anyone still use a cd player/discman as their primary music listening device?

What about a tape player/walkman?

If a 20 year old girl who has never had sex before goes to a gynecologist to be prescribed birth control primarily for acne and also to regulate her period and to have sex in the not-so-distant future, should she be required to have a pelvic exam before being given the prescription?

 Does anyone here attend or know someone who attends Boston University? How do you/they like it? Was it hard to get in?

What's your favorite movie that has a twist ending?

...she will not freeze.

NO ONE FREEZES ON AUNTIE'S WATCH!

Packages are going out this week to scottrossi and lilyforthewin and slug_life, I SWEAR.

BTW, the yarn for that lovely rubbly looking scarf was dyed and spun by the talented lyme!

The boy and I got married last weekend. On our registry we asked for Calphalon Contemporary Non-Stick 10-Piece Set from Bed Bath and Beyond. At our wedding we received from Target, the Farberware Affiniti 12-pc. Cookware Set.

I know we need new pots and pans since the one's we currently use are from when I was in grad school and are dying but I am clueless as to what type/kind of pots/pans will be a good investment for the long term. As for cooking, we are average cooks, nothing to fancy. It would be nice to put pots/pans in the dishwasher but quality and longevity are important to me right now.


At BBB, the person helping us recommended getting the 10 piece set. Looking at both the Calphalon and Farberware sets, some of the items, we wouldn't use. With each set(description below for each) they are two very different materials. I'm more than ok with buying different pieces, I just don't know what materials are needed for what type/style of cooking.


The description for the Calphalon is-
-hard-anodized outside and non-stick inside combine durability and performance
-long, stay-cool handles,
-Glass covers
-Hand wash.
-Lifetime warranty.
Ten-piece set includes 8" omelette, 10" omelette, 1 1/2-quart covered saucepan, 2 1/2-quart covered saucepan, 3-quart covered saute pan and 8-quart covered stockpot.

The Description for the Faberware is
Pan-Pot Material: Aluminum
# Handle Material: Silicone
# Lid Material: Glass
# Set Includes: 1.5-qt. Saucepan with Lid, Slotted Spoon, 3-qt. Saucepan with Lid, 11" Skillet, 10" Skillet, Slotted Turner, 6-qt. Stockpot
# Care and Cleaning: Hand-wash Only

I have almost successfully talked my dad into letting my get my nose pierced.

I just have some questions that I hope someone could answer for me!

1) I take pain like a five year old. Although I know people say getting your cartaledge (sp?) pierced hurts a lot but I have had it done twice and thought it was a breeze. I know the nose is all cartaledge so is it the same amount of pain?

2) When getting the jewlry put in right after getting it pierced can you get a tiny hoop put in right away or do you need to wear a stud first?

3) Do nose piercings get easily infected?

4) Does is bleed right after you get it done?

5) If I ever wanted to take it out, when the hole closes do it leave a scar or is that only on certain people?

People help me :]

thank you!

What do you think Billy Zane is more famous for: three hours of Titanic or two minutes of Zoolander?

I turn 21 in a week!
What are some good scavenger hunt ideas for a group of 10-15 doing a bar crawl through NYC?
How did you spend your 21st birthday (or 18th birthday where drinking at said age is legal)?
If you aren't old enough, are you looking forward to your birthday of legal drinking age?

Either tonight or tomorrow I'll be driving 4 hours from Pittsburgh to DC. I haven't updated my iPod in months, and I want to put new music on it for the trip. Any new music must-haves? Any songs you've been particularly enjoying lately that I should add? I'd like a variety of styles, but no rap or hip-hop.

 Here, I hope, is a very brief video shot at the Haunted House in the Massachusetts village where I live.  My neighbor builds an elaborate circuit within his house and barn and the kids (and grownups) come; there are four or five stations and the locals act out skits etc.  The theme this year was grade school -- the nurses's station, detention, the evil janitor in his closet etc.  You can imagine.  Last was graduation.  That was my venue.  (I've done this several times before, as Igor awaking Frankenstein while Mahster is away, etc.)   What you see here is the end of the previous skit, which was about getting through the MGAS (as are all such events, ours is big on bad puns.)  There is a brief period of total black then as my piece begins -- actually the audience could dimly perceive the graduates in cap and gown facing the dais.  I built the puppet with my neighbor, and I am manipulating it and speaking.  The head is actually a radio-operated talking skull.  At the end the spiel continues as the graduates charge the crowd, but it's drowned out here.


Here!

www.youtube.com/watch

What do you spend too much money on?

What's the trick to not spending so much money all the time?

TQC, I desperately need to get over someone who is bad for me. We were together for a year, then he broke up with me and fucked a stripper. I finally got him to ditch her. I overdosed and almost died because of him being an asshole. I never did anything bad to him - never lied, never cheated, never said anything mean to him. He is just a jerk but of course he can be all sweet and lovey and that keeps me in love with him. We were best friends and he was my everything for so long. I need to get over him. I long for the day he will call me and I can be like fuck you! I'm better off without you! If you have ever thought you could never get over someone and finally did, how did you do it? What were the circumstances?

What are the best [or just your favorite] funny motivational quotes or sayings?

they don't need to be funny, but it would definitely help.

Tuesday at 6:30pm is when I can register for classes for next quarter. I work from 3-10pm that day. Should I strategically take my break at that time so I can register on my phone?

What is the weather like where you are?

What is something that you wish you could do that you can't?

Pete Wentz finds it "odd and slightly amusing" that his band, Fall Out Boy, is issuing a greatest hits collection.

After all, it's been only four years since the Illinois-based foursome released their major-label debut, the multi-million-selling From Under The Cork Tree, and since that time they've put out just three other albums.

"Greatest hits records are a funny thing," Wentz says. "I always think of them as being from bands with loads of huge songs. Fall Out Boy, we're kind of a different group."

Indeed, the appearance of a greatest hits set (the official title is Believers Never Die - Greatest Hits) is fanning the flames on Fall Out Boy fan sites with rumors that the band (which also includes singer-songwriter and guitarist Patrick Stump, guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley) might be pondering a breakup or a split from their label.

( Long-ass interview under the cut. )

Sauce

The base was made from my bean stalk vines, the flowers come from our Japanese hydrangeas, sedum flowers, and red berries.

This pic is a bit fuzzy.  I am very proud of it. Made it at 6am this morning.

I have hundreds of photographs all gathered together in boxes. Ideally I would like them scanned in and saved to disc but it's going to be a very long and tedious job.

However, I have a friend who has no money at all right now and is too proud to accept a loan of money from me so I thought I would ask him if he would scan my photographs in for me in return for a 'fee' I think he'd be glad enough to accept money that way.

I jusr can't decide on how much I should give him for it. Any suggestions? (I'm in the UK so think pounds!)

Are you an educated fool with money on your mind? Do you have a ten in your hand and a gleam in your eye? Are you a loc'ed out gansta set trippin banger? Are you down with your homies? Is your anger aroused?

Last night Dashboard Confessional played their last show for a while in Louisville, KY with the Louisville Orchestra. It was actually pretty good, and I managed to walk back stage and right up to the band to ask for a pic. I told him about ONTD and that he has a pretty good amount of fans here, and he was happy to hold the sign. Woohoo!

( DC <3s ONTD! )


Source: Me & my camera
(pics not hotlinked; they're hosted on my domain)

Matthew originated the role of Link on Broadway when Hairspray opened in 2002.


( Hairspray cans )
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So last night Zac Efron was supposed to go for cheese fondue at Lt. Dangle's but:



But what in life could be better than cheese fondue w/ Tom Lennon?
Then Drama from Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory twittered:




Awesome even if the video is kind of sucky. At first we were a bit skeptical if it was him. ( The rest of the story w/ pics )

Also remember when Zac and Vanessa hung out with Lucas and Autumn Grabeel at that hockey game? Well Zac and Vanessa were given personalized jerseys by some suits and they proceeded to wear them and take pictures looking dorky:



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Pop quiz, pop culture fans. Whom does this best describe?

( Bottle blonde. Platinum-selling album(s). Gay following. Ambiguous sexuality. Ubiquitous paparazzi target. Undeniable pop savvy. Appeared on 'Saturday Night Live' in October to wrestle another famous musician. )



( Paparazzi Singer Refusing to Reveal Her Poker Face )

A few years ago for Christmas  I made these for some younger girl cousins (im in my 40s there are lots).They are emeragancy kits for their car.

I went to a thrift store and got glitzy evening  purses for about $5 each (bought on sale, and brightly colored or metallic thats important so they are easy to find in the dark and cute helps when you are in an emergency it reminds you are loved. )

I then filled them with emergency supplys  different mixes for different people, you can adjust it to where they live and how much you want to spend. (most of mine ran around $20)

a first aid kit, sewing kit, small flashlight, a few hard candy's, a granola bar,a small can of tuna, packs of condiments and salt, small bottle of water, lighter,  adjustable screwdriver, folding knife, small note book, pen, a small amount of duct tape, a few ziploc bags, emergency cell phone charger,  one trash bag,  two pairs disposable latex gloves, a small tube of crazy glue, baby wipes, thermal blanket, gas card, phone card, quarters, $10 bill, and a tampon and pad.

I also added a list of what was in there so when they use things they can replace them and a list of phone numbers and addresses if their cell phones dont work.

most of the stuff can be bought at a doller store or in bulk.

(ill be posting more Christmas gift ideas later if anyone wants it)

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How do you feel about people who don't have curtains on their downstairs windows? I HATE the idea of people on the street looking at me!

I have a book I recently bought that I'm going to need to make notes in and highlight, but the pages are pretty thin. Since it's a book it's printed on both sides of the paper and naturally I'll need to highlight things on both sides of the paper. I don't want one side to bleed through to the other. Does anyone know any good don't-bleed highlighters? It'd be awesome if they came in yellow.