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Abi Titmuss: Rule 5

Dick Stanley — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:03:58 +0000

Chocolate is dandy but baked goods are nice and, er, warm. Happy V Day.

Comment spam

Dick Stanley — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:50:01 +0000

This stuff is getting out of hand, at the rate of ten to fifteen a day around here.

In six months, since moving the Scribbler from Movable Type to WordPress, I’ve collected (and deleted) almost more than 10,000 examples. A fatal pox on all their pathetic, English-mangling houses!

Leyla Leidecker: Rule 5

Dick Stanley — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:03:58 +0000

Boxer, filmmaker, model, rebbetzin. Boxer?

Via Heeb Magazine.

Snowing

Dick Stanley — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:34:02 +0000

No, it’s not snowing at the rancho. Just on my Civil War blogs Knoxville1863 and the 13thMississippi Infantry Regiment because the plug-in involved has no effect (without significant nanotech) on the actual weather (duh) and can’t be used here because I’m not using Version 3.0 or higher.

Or, so I thought. Seems I have misspoke. Heh, I did it. Altho it’s hard to see on this white background. Happy snowfall, whenever it does appear. The kind you just watch, though it does accumulate at the bottom of the page if you don’t scroll up. At least you don’t have to shovel it.

U.S.S. Monitor

Dick Stanley — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:01:02 +0000

Lovely old (very old) photo of the Monitor taken sometime after its fight with the Merrimack/Virginia in Hampton Roads in 1862. Latest photo at my new book blog, Knoxville 1863, which is coming along slowly. Moving a bit faster is my other new blog 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, focused on the historical artifacts and new interpretations of my great grandfather’s old outfit. Lots of work, three blogs, but lots of fun, too.

Rule 5: Alizee

Dick Stanley — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:16:38 +0000

Thank you, Miles Austin’s girlfriend

Dick Stanley — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:46:58 +0000

Whoever and wherever you are, you have my gratitude. I might not have any hits at all if it wasn’t your popularity with so many of my visitors. Not that I actually have anything for them to find out about you, but they come anyhow. Bless ‘em. And you, too, of course.

IEATAPETA

Dick Stanley — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:05:20 +0000

It’s the Eighth Annual International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day. Hamburger, I expect, will be on the menu at the rancho where we seldom miss an opportunity to mock a pretentious person or organization. Especially an obnoxious one like PETA, which so richly deserves all the ridicule it gets.

Not that we have anything against vegetarians. Just tell us how you’d like them prepared. Heh.

Rule 5

Dick Stanley — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:20:47 +0000

Let’s face it folks. It can’t all be cub scouts and world-famous barn owls around here. Elsewise my diminished hit count from the recent switch from MT to WP will stay diminished. So, borrowing a hint (and the pix) from CG Hill in Oklahoma (not to mention TFG in San Antonio), here’s Rule 5 at work.

Russian spam

Dick Stanley — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:59:12 +0000

For some reason, most all of my comment spam caught by Akismet lately has been from Russia or at least been written in Russian. This is the least offensive one I’ve seen, though if I could read it I might not think so. Our onetime (long time ago, actually) Rooskie allies are coming up in the world, apparently.