The Nightmare Before Easter Open Thread - [Niedermeyer's Dead Horse]

I remember the first time my daughter saw Santa Clause at the mall. She was none too happy about it. And, when I took her to the circus for the first time, and she saw the clowns, she was similarly having nothing to do with them either. Yet, despite the occasional and jarring contact with the masked or make-up covered characters associated with Christmas or with the three-ring circus, I tried to keep her nightmares to a minimum.

I wish I could say the same of these parents.

22 Easter Bunnies That Are Definitely Serial Killers

Don't believe me?

Check below the fold.

And this isn't even the worst of them.

Parents. Just don't.

Open thread.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:09 PM

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#23

"Hoppity" Harry Reid

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 19, 2014 07:13 PM (kdS6q)

2 My brother-in-law was a professional Easter Bunny for the city of Baltimore (as a side job). As far as I know, he is not a serial killer...

Posted by: Y-not at April 19, 2014 07:14 PM (zDsvJ)

3 My brother-in-law was a professional Easter Bunny for the city of Baltimore (as a side job). As far as I know, he is not a serial killer...

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As far as you know...

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 19, 2014 07:15 PM (DmNpO)

4 Yikes, the one in the pinkish long johns is the stuff of nightmares!

Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 07:16 PM (ILBCY)

5 I stand corrected from earlier. Not only are rabbits and coneys white meat, children must be too.

*shudder*

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2014 07:17 PM (QKJMN)

6 Santa pictures I can understand, but not Easter bunny pics. Although my photographically deranged DIL will probably have an entire album of the grandson with the Easter Bunny.

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 19, 2014 07:19 PM (o3MSL)

7 Oh my God!! Here comes Peter Cottontaill!!! Run for your lives!!!!11!

Posted by: Terrorized at April 19, 2014 07:20 PM (nEIMV)

8 Our traditional Easter picture was a shot of us in front of the azalea bushes. No Easter bunnies.

Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 07:20 PM (ILBCY)

9 Our traditional Easter picture was a shot of us in front of the azalea bushes. No Easter bunnies.

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Me too!!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 19, 2014 07:21 PM (DmNpO)

10 Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 07:20 PM (ILBCY)

That, I can understand!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 19, 2014 07:21 PM (o3MSL)

11 Done with the horses for the day. Now I'm sitting in my shed shooting my new air pistol out the door at a pie plate 30 feet away.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 19, 2014 07:22 PM (ZshNr)

12 Sigh.

As a child, Mom took me see both Santa and the Easter Bunny. I must have thought it was important to her, because I never told her that a GIANT FREAKING ODD COLORED RABBIT THAT TALKED absolutely terrified me.

Posted by: shibumi who is exceptionally cynical today at April 19, 2014 07:23 PM (25HWz)

13 Look up The Easter Bunny Hates You on YouTube. Freakin' hilarious.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 19, 2014 07:23 PM (mx5oN)

14 Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 07:20 PM (ILBCY)

My azaleas got eaten to the ground last season or that would have been a good idea.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 19, 2014 07:23 PM (HDwDg)

15 Are Easter hats made out of Easter bunnies?
Helluva big rabbit there could make a lotta hats.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2014 07:23 PM (QKJMN)

16 Don't believe me?

Check below the fold.

Oh. My. Word.

Those are horrible.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:24 PM (oMKp3)

17 I have candy in my basement child.

Posted by: Senator Reid at April 19, 2014 07:24 PM (Aif/5)

18 My azaleas got eaten to the ground last season

Wow, what eats azaleas?

Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 07:24 PM (ILBCY)

19 Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 07:24 PM (ILBCY

Apparently deer.

My neighbor has counted 11 at once in our neighborhood.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No Really!) at April 19, 2014 07:25 PM (HDwDg)

20 Idiot neighbor has an 8ft tall Inflated Easter Bunny deployed on the front lawn. Things hideous.

Posted by: Behind Enemy Lines at April 19, 2014 07:26 PM (thLL8)

21 THATS what has been leaving the basket of goodies every year!!?? Holy Crap!!

Posted by: freaked at April 19, 2014 07:26 PM (JdEZJ)

22 As a child, Mom took me see both Santa and the Easter Bunny. I must have thought it was important to her, because I never told her that a GIANT FREAKING ODD COLORED RABBIT THAT TALKED absolutely terrified me.

Posted by: shibumi who is exceptionally cynical today at April 19, 2014 07:23 PM (25HWz)

She may have thought you liked it, unfortunately.

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:26 PM (7yt0b)

23 You shouldn't leave candy out because your basement child will eat it. Sheesh.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2014 07:26 PM (QKJMN)

24 Wow, what eats azaleas?

Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 07:24 PM (ILBCY)

There's nothing quite as tasty as azalea fed venison!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 19, 2014 07:26 PM (o3MSL)

25 Look up The Easter Bunny Hates You on YouTube. Freakin' hilarious.

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http://bit.ly/1hdkj27

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 19, 2014 07:27 PM (DmNpO)

26 Since Ace isn't around to re-post Hoy Air content, let's be kind and do it for him!

Masculine boys and feminine girls are more likely to engage in cancer-risk behaviors

http://tinyurl.com/l6ljqfm

"Young people who conform most strongly to norms of masculinity and femininity�the most �feminine� girls and the most �masculine� boys�are significantly more likely than their peers to engage in behaviors that pose cancer risks, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. The most feminine teenage girls use tanning beds more frequently and are more likely to be physically inactive, while the most masculine teenage boys are more likely to use chewing tobacco and to smoke cigars, compared with their gender-nonconforming peers.

The study, the first to look at cancer risk behaviors in teens based on their gender expression, appears online April 16, 2014 in Journal of Adolescent Health.

�Our findings indicate that socially constructed ideas of masculinity and femininity heavily influence teens� behaviors and put them at increased risk for cancer. Though there is nothing inherently masculine about chewing tobacco, or inherently feminine about using a tanning booth, these industries have convinced some teens that these behaviors are a way to express their masculinity or femininity,� said lead author Andrea Roberts, research associate in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at HSPH."

My comment there (First!) about sums it up:

"More inane balderdash from Progressive Lysenkoists trying to �prove� that cis-gendered normalcy is in fact pathological.

Yes, better dress your boys in tutus and give your girls testosterone injections to save them from the dreaded cancer!

Zombie on April 19, 2014 at 7:21 PM"

Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2014 07:28 PM (mizYg)

27 Hoy Air content = Hot Air content

Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2014 07:28 PM (mizYg)

28
This is kind of an open thread, right? I have an 'ette related question. I need some girl advice.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:28 PM (oMKp3)

29 There's nothing quite as tasty as azalea fed venison!

Or a giant rabbit. The one in that picture would feed a family of 4 for a month.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 19, 2014 07:29 PM (0HooB)

30 On the front porch, in our Easter suits, with blow up rabbits. Thank God this was way before digital cameras so the pix are safely filed and not on the scrolling frame.

Posted by: DaveA at April 19, 2014 07:29 PM (DL2i+)

31 This is kind of an open thread, right? I have an 'ette related question. I need some girl advice.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:28 PM (oMKp3)

Please ask.

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:30 PM (7yt0b)

32 Those Easter bunnies are horrifying! I didn't even know they existed, like, in that mall Santa realm. Never seen one.

Posted by: Peaches at April 19, 2014 07:31 PM (8lmkt)

33 Two words: Kate Upton Easter Bunny Video

Posted by: Cicero Kid Can't count and fap at teh same tyme at April 19, 2014 07:31 PM (Fp7JI)

34 Or a giant rabbit. The one in that picture would feed a family of 4 for a month.

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No. I feel rather certain that whatever it has it contagious.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 19, 2014 07:31 PM (DmNpO)

35 Don't trust 'em grammie winger. They'll just make you spend all your money and then break your heart.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2014 07:31 PM (QKJMN)

36 this was way before digital cameras

I cannot tell you how grateful I am that there were no digital cameras/cell phone cameras around when I was younger. I always told my friends no pictures and keep your mouths shut at school if we were going to do something stupid.

Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 07:31 PM (ILBCY)

37
So here's my question.

I am old. I am also Scandinavian. So my hair is kind of that dirty Scandi old person blondish. I've been coloring it for twenty years now to keep it my same old dirty Scandi blonde color. Do I just let it go now? And let it be that dirty Scandi whitish thing?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:32 PM (oMKp3)

38 OK those bunny pics were freaky, I may have nightmares tonight.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 19, 2014 07:32 PM (0LHZx)

39 29
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she did

Posted by: uncle bob at April 19, 2014 07:32 PM (/vO0r)

40 Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2014 07:28 PM (mizYg)
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You got a problem with that

Posted by: Gramsci, Adorno and Horkheimer direct from bolgia 9 (sowers of discord) at April 19, 2014 07:33 PM (W6wuT)

41 Show us on the doll where the Easter Bunny touched you.

Posted by: Sgt Friday at April 19, 2014 07:33 PM (nEIMV)

42 I am old. I am also Scandinavian. So my hair is kind of that dirty Scandi old person blondish. I've been coloring it for twenty years now to keep it my same old dirty Scandi blonde color. Do I just let it go now? And let it be that dirty Scandi whitish thing?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:32 PM (oMKp3)

How have you been coloring it? At the salon or by yourself? If so, highlights or the whole head?

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:33 PM (7yt0b)

43 Let it go white grammie. Let your freak flag fly!

Posted by: freaked at April 19, 2014 07:35 PM (JdEZJ)

44 Monty Python tried to warn us.

Posted by: eman at April 19, 2014 07:35 PM (AO9UG)

45 No. I feel rather certain that whatever it has it contagious.

Yeah, there's some type of growth on the front of it that looks just like a kid.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 19, 2014 07:35 PM (0HooB)

46 Yikes, grammie winger. I think it's pretty hard to stop coloring your hair once you start. The tough part is going to be growing it out, I would think - do you have the patience for that?

Posted by: Peaches at April 19, 2014 07:35 PM (8lmkt)

47 Vendette

I do it myself, the whole head. So it's all over dirty Scandi blondish. But I find I have to do it oftener and oftener because it doesn't hold the color anymore. The salon lady said it won't even if she does it. So Im coloring my hair like every three weeks.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:36 PM (oMKp3)

48 We keep Easter simple at our place. Just some decorative eggs and such.

Posted by: Alexandra Feodorovna Romanov at April 19, 2014 07:36 PM (8MjqI)

49 46 Yikes, grammie winger. I think it's pretty hard to stop coloring your hair once you start. The tough part is going to be growing it out, I would think - do you have the patience for that?
Posted by: Peaches at April 19, 2014 07:35 PM (8lmkt)

Yeah that's the problem. The growing out part. Although I guess I could put a bag over my head until the next election.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:37 PM (oMKp3)

50 I want to wish President Obama and Michele Obama a Happy Easter and there lovely children. May the Heavins Bless You.

Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at April 19, 2014 07:37 PM (iB0Q2)

51 35 Don't trust 'em grammie winger. They'll just make you spend all your money and then break your heart.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2014 07:31 PM (QKJMN)

Truer words were never spoken.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 19, 2014 07:37 PM (mx5oN)

52 If one of those bunnies comes after me I'll just bite it's head off. I've got lots of practice at that.

Posted by: freaked at April 19, 2014 07:38 PM (JdEZJ)

53 43 Let it go white grammie. Let your freak flag fly!
Posted by: freaked at April 19, 2014 07:35 PM (JdEZJ)

I think this is secretly what I want to do.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:38 PM (oMKp3)

54 I do it myself, the whole head. So it's all over dirty Scandi blondish. But I find I have to do it oftener and oftener because it doesn't hold the color anymore. The salon lady said it won't even if she does it. So Im coloring my hair like every three weeks.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:36 PM (oMKp3)

I'd say let the color go and embrace what you have.

The Horde worships the ground you walk on, so you're good.

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:39 PM (7yt0b)

55 I do it myself, the whole head. So it's all over dirty Scandi blondish. But I find I have to do it oftener and oftener because it doesn't hold the color anymore. The salon lady said it won't even if she does it. So Im coloring my hair like every three weeks.

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I started going gray in my 20's. My grays are so stubborn that the colorist has to put me under the dryer for about 20 minutes in order to open up the cuticle. I keep saying that, some day, I'm going to have him strip away the color and go natural.

"Some day" has not yet arrived.

If you do decide to go natural, check with a good stylist for options. You might not have to endure the awkwardness of growing it out.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 19, 2014 07:39 PM (DmNpO)

56 Rabbits are why you should always keep a weasel handy.

Posted by: eman at April 19, 2014 07:39 PM (AO9UG)

57 is your hair short? if not could you cut it to make the grow out go faster?

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at April 19, 2014 07:39 PM (u8GsB)

58 YOLO grammie YOLO

Posted by: freaked at April 19, 2014 07:39 PM (JdEZJ)

59 grammie winger, ONE time I colored my hair. the lady at the drugstore helped me pick a nice "natural" color. well, didn't I just have hair the color of an orange popsicle the next day! my mom toned it down (she was a dedicated colorer of her own hair), but then I just let it grow out. Still have pics somewhere of that line of demarcation getting farther and farther down, until I could cut off the icky part. Not that much fun! But, once it's done, you are FREE of all that time-consuming pita thing you have to do every 3 weeks and I bet it will look great!

Posted by: Peaches at April 19, 2014 07:40 PM (8lmkt)

60 Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:39 PM (7yt0b)

Oh my you are so sweet !!

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:41 PM (oMKp3)

61 Yeah that's the problem. The growing out part. Although I guess I could put a bag over my head until the next election.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:37 PM (oMKp3)

Have your hairstylist put in two sets of foil highlights and let it all grow out.

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:41 PM (7yt0b)

62 Not to rain in anyones Easter parade, but...

I once knew an old Jewish lady for whom Easter was the Worst Day of the Year. Why? Back in the Old Country -- the "Pale of Settlement" in what is now called "Ukraine," Easter was the traditional day for anti-Semitic progroms and ethnic cleansing, as medieval-mentalitied Russian villagers would punish the Jew for killing you-know-who on that day. She saw many a relative and neighbor killed on distant Easters past.

Now safe in modern America, many decades later, every Easter she'd still draw all the curtains and sit in the dark, praying to be spared, occasionally peeking outside to look for torch-carrying mobs.

Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2014 07:41 PM (mizYg)

63 So, hey guys. How about those NBA playoffs, huh?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 19, 2014 07:41 PM (0HooB)

64 Have your hairstylist put in two sets of foil highlights and let it all grow out.

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:41 PM (7yt0b)

Two sets = Two shades

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:41 PM (7yt0b)

65 Yes, maybe a gradual return to your natural color now wouldn't be so shocking to you.

Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 07:42 PM (ILBCY)

66 I say color it RED.

Posted by: Ronster at April 19, 2014 07:42 PM (puNd6)

67 I also noticed the rabbit has light colored fur, why not brown or black to honor our president?????

Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at April 19, 2014 07:42 PM (iB0Q2)

68 57 is your hair short? if not could you cut it to make the grow out go faster?
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at April 19, 2014 07:39 PM (u8GsB)

Ya my hair is fairly short and the way my natural white comes into the fake blonde it looks like highlights. So maybe it won't be so bad.

I think I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna go hair-naked!!

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:42 PM (oMKp3)

69 I once knew an old Jewish lady for whom Easter was the Worst Day of the Year. Why? Back in the Old Country -- the "Pale of Settlement" in what is now called "Ukraine," Easter was the traditional day for anti-Semitic progroms and ethnic cleansing, as medieval-mentalitied Russian villagers would punish the Jew for killing you-know-who on that day. She saw many a relative and neighbor killed on distant Easters past.

Now safe in modern America, many decades later, every Easter she'd still draw all the curtains and sit in the dark, praying to be spared, occasionally peeking outside to look for torch-carrying mobs.

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How truly horrible what they have endured.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 19, 2014 07:43 PM (DmNpO)

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63 So, hey guys. How about those NBA playoffs, huh?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 19, 2014 07:41 PM (0HooB)

And just think. They'll be over sometime in mid June.

Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2014 07:43 PM (LI48c)

71 So, hey guys. How about those NBA playoffs, huh?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 19, 2014 07:41 PM (0HooB)

They wouldn't know a traveling call unless it was called in international competition.

(I kid because I love.)

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:45 PM (7yt0b)

72
Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at April 19, 2014 07:42 PM (iB0Q2)

Your sock is not funny or interesting or original. And even the mary cloggenstein joke has been played out for over a year. Give it up.

Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2014 07:45 PM (LI48c)

73 Ya my hair is fairly short and the way my natural white comes into the fake blonde it looks like highlights. So maybe it won't be so bad.

I think I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna go hair-naked!!

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:42 PM (oMKp3)

I hate to say this, but Barbara Boxer frosts her short hair like crazy. You, grammie, are better than Barbara Boxer.

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:46 PM (7yt0b)

74 32 Those Easter bunnies are horrifying! I didn't even know they existed, like, in that mall Santa realm. Never seen one.

Posted by: Peaches at April 19, 2014 07:31 PM (8lmkt)

Same here. I never heard of such a thing.

Just as well, apparently.

Posted by: rickl at April 19, 2014 07:46 PM (sdi6R)

75 Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2014 07:41 PM (mizYg)

That's a horrible thing. No excuse for any of that kind of evil. That is not the message of the Gospel. At all, period.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:46 PM (oMKp3)

76 Especially the one you put up looks like the mascara is running after crying it's eyes out from not balancing the uppers and downers j-u-u-u-s-t right.

Nothing a bright, shiny, happy knife can't ~~kill~~ fix.

Posted by: Clutch Cargo at April 19, 2014 07:46 PM (pgQxn)

77 63: The NBA is still in business? Who knew?

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at April 19, 2014 07:46 PM (Q8vlx)

78 grammie winger, we know you want an orange mohawk.

Go for it!

Posted by: eman at April 19, 2014 07:46 PM (AO9UG)

79 I haven't watched the NBA playoffs since they broke in with the slow speed OJ Simpson chase. The Rockets wouldn't shoot and neither would he.

Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 07:46 PM (ILBCY)

80 78 grammie winger, we know you want an orange mohawk.

Go for it!
Posted by: eman at April 19, 2014 07:46 PM (AO9UG)

You laugh but Somewhere I have an old college picture from the early 70s proudly sporting a red Afro.

Don't judge me.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:49 PM (oMKp3)

81 @22

Yes, my Mom thought I enjoyed both Santa and the Easter Bunny. They seemed important to her so I just kind of went along. As a child, I was really super considerate....

The only thing I really enjoyed were petting zoos that they occasionally had a the mall. Mom had a great story about a goat eating my coat. Which I kind of remember, but honestly, I was busy feeding the other animals. How was I supposed to know that a goat was eating my coat?

Posted by: shibumi who is exceptionally cynical today at April 19, 2014 07:50 PM (25HWz)

82
Ho Rhee Fook!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars� at April 19, 2014 07:50 PM (HsTG8)

83 Grammie: I can get past the red afro, but, college?

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at April 19, 2014 07:51 PM (Q8vlx)

84 "The Easter Bunny Ate My Candy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqz0YtSCetg

Posted by: A B at April 19, 2014 07:51 PM (lSuTK)

85 I remember the first time my daughter saw Santa Clause at the mall. She was none too happy about it.

Well yeah. Not all youngin's are fond of Tim Allen movies...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 19, 2014 07:51 PM (N9I+M)

86
Now, Ralphie in the pink bunny suit from Aunt Clara...

...cute, not creepy

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars� at April 19, 2014 07:51 PM (HsTG8)

87 grammie winger: if you don't like it, you can always change it. That's the beauty of hair. The only thing I would not really recommend would be going too many shades away from Scandi blonde. Outside of that, give it a try! If after a while, you don't like it, you can try something else.

Posted by: shibumi who is exceptionally cynical today at April 19, 2014 07:52 PM (25HWz)

88 Here's a chic refusing fate:

http://tinyurl.com/n96rwcl

Posted by: Retread at April 19, 2014 07:53 PM (cHwk5)

89 You laugh but Somewhere I have an old college picture from the early 70s proudly sporting a red Afro.

Don't judge me.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:49 PM (oMKp3)

Ma'am, this young man is the son of the woman who was the vice-principal of my high school:

http://tinyurl.com/qxzapor

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:53 PM (7yt0b)

90 Can't miss the pie plate from 10 yards, so the accuracy on this air gun is at least decent. Only fired about ten shots so far, but my feeling is that I need to lower the rear sight a tick or two.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 19, 2014 07:54 PM (ZshNr)

91 Ma'am, this young man is the son of the woman who was the vice-principal of my high school:

http://tinyurl.com/qxzapor
Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:53 PM (7yt0b)

Oh my. Oh my. ......

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:55 PM (oMKp3)

92 How truly horrible what they have endured.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 19, 2014 07:43 PM (DmNpO)

And it looks like another cycle may be starting, thanks in no small part to Obama's incompetence or upbringing, although I think it is a bit of both.

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 19, 2014 07:55 PM (o3MSL)

93
There used to be a steam railroad that ran from my hometown to about ten miles to the north and back.

They ran a Christmas train on which Santa would board at the end of the line and then ride back to town and meet all the kiddies.

My Dad knew the guy playing El Claus-o and was heard by one of my younger brothers greeting Dad by his first name. That may have marked the beginning of the end for his belief in the "jolly old elf".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars� at April 19, 2014 07:55 PM (HsTG8)

94 OK, bunny boilers, pizza and a movie await.

Y'all have fun and try not to trash the place, 'k?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 19, 2014 07:56 PM (0HooB)

95 Oh my. Oh my. ......

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 07:55 PM (oMKp3)

His mom: Very short-haired blonde (at least when I was there).

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:56 PM (7yt0b)

96
I say color it RED.

Posted by: Ronster at April 19, 2014 07:42 PM (puNd6)

Go big or stay home.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 19, 2014 07:58 PM (yh0zB)

97 "Young people who conform most strongly to norms of masculinity and
femininity�the most 'feminine' girls and the most 'masculine' boys�are
significantly more likely than their peers to engage in behaviors that
pose cancer risks, according to a new study led by Harvard School of
Public Health (HSPH) researchers."

Meanwhile, here in the SF Bay Area, the public health authorities are always pounding the drums of alarm because of the disprortionately high rates of smoking and alcohol and drug abuse in the adult GLBT-OMG-WTF population. Also over the massive venereal infection rates in the local gay male community.

So, er, which is it? Is being straight a health risk factor, or is being gay?

Or are all these expensive epidemiological studies on the taxpayer's dime just a load of dingo's kidneys?

Posted by: torquewrench at April 19, 2014 07:58 PM (noWW6)

98 You didn't really think the easter eggs and chocolate were free did you ?

Bwahahahaha

Posted by: willow at April 19, 2014 07:59 PM (nqBYe)

99 Blue. Light blue hair.
Go for it.

Posted by: navybrat at April 19, 2014 07:59 PM (JgC5a)

100 Gorgeous sunset here tonight.

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 07:59 PM (7yt0b)

101 I need to make Easter baskets for my monkeys and iron clothes for tomorrow before I polish off this bottle of malbec I've been working on. Ironing may be dangerous.

Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 08:00 PM (ILBCY)

102 Some of the Easter Bunnies look like serial killers and some look aliens from horror films. The picture that has the boy with the red jacket and blue baseball cap makes the bunny look like he'd had too much of the funny grass while he was delivering eggs and would be too stoned to do any real damage.

Creepy, yes..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2014 08:00 PM (XyM/Y)

103 iron clothes!?

sheesh just put them on and run through the sprinklers!

Posted by: willow at April 19, 2014 08:01 PM (nqBYe)

104 Charted number 5 in 1933, and I'll bet you haven't heard it a single time this year..., maybe in 20 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj0-iwAogK8

And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your easter bonnet
And of the girl, I'm taking to the Easter parade

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 19, 2014 08:01 PM (aDwsi)

105 For us Easter was all about New clothes, Church ,a visit to Grandma's and candy... oh and food and cousins and getting yelled at if we misbehaved

Posted by: Regular Guy at April 19, 2014 08:01 PM (N3Al8)

106 There used to be a steam railroad that ran from my hometown to about ten miles to the north and back.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars� at April 19, 2014 07:55 PM (HsTG

You don't live in PA, do you?

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 19, 2014 08:02 PM (yh0zB)

107 I remember my youngest being terrified of my sisters doll collection.

and yes some of them would give you the willies.

Posted by: willow at April 19, 2014 08:02 PM (nqBYe)

108 Yes; The sunset has been incredibly beautiful here too/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 19, 2014 08:02 PM (XyM/Y)

109 Ironing may be dangerous.

Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 08:00 PM (ILBCY)

Ironing in general is dangerous. Although Malbec is a good choice.

Seriously, the sunset is fabulous.

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 08:03 PM (7yt0b)

110 Posted by: torquewrench at April 19, 2014 07:58 PM (noWW6)

Hey, whatever it takes to get that sweet grant money. Give me the conclusion you need, and I'll get you a supporting study (for a very reasonable price). No-bid contracts preferred of course!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 19, 2014 08:04 PM (o3MSL)

111 103 iron clothes!?

sheesh just put them on and run through the sprinklers!
Posted by: willow at April 19, 2014 08:01 PM (nqBYe)

I know, right? Last month my daughter had a birthday. I took the grands shopping for a present for her, and the four year old said she wanted to " get mama one of those smoothing-clothes things like they have on tv!"

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 08:04 PM (oMKp3)

112 just thought i'd peek in and say hi. going back to everything else.

have a good time.

Posted by: willow at April 19, 2014 08:05 PM (nqBYe)

113 Or are all these expensive epidemiological studies on the taxpayer's dime just a load of dingo's kidneys?

Posted by: torquewrench
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What are you, trans-phobic or something? We must find answers to these crucial questions facing our society. I am heartened to hear that $1.5 million of taxpayer money is being expended to find out why lesbians are overweight.
http://tinyurl.com/arwgrym

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 19, 2014 08:05 PM (aDwsi)

114 Posted by: willow at April 19, 2014 08:05 PM (nqBYe)

Good for you, sounds like you have a life!

Posted by: Hrothgar at April 19, 2014 08:06 PM (o3MSL)

115 grammie, heck i own one, for my hair .
hahah

anyway kisses grammie, be well, have a great holiday.

Posted by: willow at April 19, 2014 08:06 PM (nqBYe)

116
Related:

There is a movie on syfy in about an hour called "Big Ass Spider".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 19, 2014 08:06 PM (hJauc)

117 Posted by: willow at April 19, 2014 08:06 PM (nqBYe)

Thanks sweetie. Big hugs to you too.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 08:07 PM (oMKp3)

118
You don't live in PA, do you?
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at April 19, 2014 08:02 PM (yh0zB)

I was referring to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Specifically, Marquette and Harlow Lake.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars� at April 19, 2014 08:07 PM (HsTG8)

119 Role Models is on Comedy Central.

Posted by: buzzion at April 19, 2014 08:07 PM (LI48c)

120 There is a movie on syfy in about an hour called "Big Ass Spider".

I saw a commercial for it the other day and thought it was an Orkin ad.

Posted by: no good deed at April 19, 2014 08:08 PM (ILBCY)

121 Grammie, I think white hair looks great, especially with a tan and some make-up. Are you a Judi Dench fan, as in the Brticom "As Time Goes By"? Her hair is gray and white, and also really short, a pixie cut, but she looks great. That could be a solution for growing it out. Go short for a while.

Posted by: Emily at April 19, 2014 08:09 PM (7Rn+/)

122 Posted by: Emily at April 19, 2014 08:09 PM (7Rn+/)

Oh yes, she looks fabulous. Thankfully, my hair is fairly short so maybe it won't take too long to make the transformation.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 08:11 PM (oMKp3)

123 Movie thread up, but if you don't want to watch it I guess you'll stay here.

Posted by: Vendette at April 19, 2014 08:12 PM (7yt0b)

124 I remember fondly the times I sat on a giant gefilte fish's lap to celebrate Passover.

Posted by: Throat Wobbler Mangrove at April 19, 2014 08:14 PM (wtBnz)

125 Zombie, a few nights ago you talked about being a serial entrepreneur. I wanted to ask you whether you have any tips about dealing with the compliance and paperwork side of things. I find it intimidating, and I suspect I'm not alone. Would be grateful for links or words of wisdom.

Posted by: Emily at April 19, 2014 08:14 PM (7Rn+/)

126 I was referring to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Specifically, Marquette and Harlow Lake.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars� at April 19, 2014 08:07 PM (HsTG

Nice country.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 19, 2014 08:14 PM (oMKp3)

127 So, er, which is it? Is being straight a health risk factor, or is being gay?

There is no single "health risk", but multiple different risks and behaviors that enhance or diminish them.

Honestly, the study is not that upsetting. Girly girls are more likely to tan and expose themselves to the possibility of skin cancer. Quell horror! Masculine men are more likely to smoke cigars or dip and get oral cancer. Knock me over with a feather.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 19, 2014 08:38 PM (lr3d7)

128 Tomorrow is the 35th anniversary of the Carter-rabbit incident - course all you morons knew that already.

Posted by: Burnt Taost at April 19, 2014 08:48 PM (NaeCR)

129 112 grammie winger at April 19, 2014 08:11 PM (oMKp3)

Let your natural color out, grammie winger. Less stress, more you. I'm sure your smile will always be radiant.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 19, 2014 08:49 PM (u82oZ)

130 More crazy Xtianist bullshit, though I should not be surprised that a moron blog run by someone who owns an Ewok costume is posting pics of furries molesting young children in public and calling it religion.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at April 19, 2014 09:53 PM (Pb41/)

131 125 Zombie, a few nights ago you talked about being a serial entrepreneur. I wanted to ask you whether you have any tips about dealing with the compliance and paperwork side of things. I find it intimidating, and I suspect I'm not alone. Would be grateful for links or words of wisdom.
Posted by: Emily

Well, I break all the rules. I am the wrong person to ask. Compliance and paperwork? Snort.

Posted by: zombie at April 19, 2014 10:28 PM (mizYg)

132 What, no Bun-bun? ka-click

Posted by: Andy at April 20, 2014 12:50 AM (XqYV9)

133 Thanks, Zombie : )

Posted by: Emily at April 20, 2014 07:01 AM (7Rn+/)

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