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She chooses the muddiest spot in the whole pasture to go for a roll
And shovels hay around with her face before eating it
Pepper is not halterbroke, but is cautiously interested in humans. She is four years old, of unknown breeding, and available for placement in an appropriate forever home from Rescue 100 Horses Foundation.
While the Jehovah’s Witnesses may be most famed for refusing life-saving medical treatments like blood transfusions for their children, their doctrine also ruins lives in smaller ways. And they’re determined to get their message out. See below for a message to the Deaf community, setting a Biblical foundation for forbidding masturbation. (The soundtrack was added later by somebody else.)
The main thing I personally learned from this video is that the ASL signs for male and female masturbation are different, and whoever made up the sign for female masturbation didn’t know about the clitoris.
Below the fold, subtitles for what the guys are actually saying.
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The Pope is getting his own weekly fanzine! We’re not talking some stodgy relic to buy at the Vatican gift shoppe to prove you were there, oh no! This is something that’s going to be coming out every week on newssstands all across Italy, and being produced by a regular capitalist magazine publisher, not an official Vatican source. This presumably means that somebody has market research to suggest the Italian marketplace has enough demand for Pope Junk that they’ll keep paying for pages and pages of it, week after week after week, or the publisher wouldn’t be bothering.
The 68-page Il Mio Papa (My Pope) will hit Italian newsstands on Ash Wednesday, offering a glossy medley of papal pronouncements and photographs, along with peeks into his personal life. Each weekly issue will also include a pullout centerfold of the pope, accompanied by a quote.
source: New York Times
One thing that could cut into their profits: apparently the Holy See owns the rights not only to the Pope’s writings, but also his “figure and personal identity.” Says Rev. Giuseppe Costa, director of the Libreria Editrice Vaticana, which administers the copyright, “In the case they publish the pope’s words, I will have to intervene.”
Religion as commodity much?
I will lead it to the loyal commentariat to make the jokes involving the words “Pope”, “Centrefold”, and “Junk”.
Hat tip to Melissa McEwan, Shakesville
A note scribbled on a napkin and left behind by a passenger on a Westjet flight. It reads:
To Capt./Westjet the cockpit of an airliner is no place for a woman. A woman. A woman being a mother is the most honour, not as ‘captain.’ Were short mothers not pilot’s westjet. Proverbs 31 (Sorry not PC) PS I wish WestJet could tell me a fair lady is at the helm so I can book another flight!
The other side says “in the end this is all mere vanity… not impressed”, and is signed “respectfully, in love, David”.
The pilot’s response is ultra classy, though:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/female-pilot-in-shock-after-passenger-leaves-sexist-note-1.1713304
If “David” wants to play duelling bible quotes, then en garde!
Hat Tip to Melissa McEwan, Shakesville
Tom Lehrer is a Renaissance Man of the twentieth century. He’s not only a composer, pianist, and singer, who lectures extensively on musical theatre; he’s also a published and teaching mathematician.
Mystro is a particular fan of Dr. Lehrer’s work and has performed it on several occasions, when our choir replaces rehearsal with Talent Nite.
Last week was our singing teacher’s student cabaret. Upon learning, maybe a month ago, that the Italian aria he had been working on wouldn’t do for a cabaret, Arb had to scramble for some different, lighter repertoire, and decided to follow Mystro’s example. Here’s the song Arb sang, as performed by Tom Lehrer himself:
(and yes, he brought down the house)
Recently, I started volunteering with the Rescue 100 Horses Foundation. They’re a group that formed several years ago when a previously well-established Arabian breeding operation went under and left all its horses to starve. The original hundred horses have all been fed up to healthy weights and found homes, but unfortunately there are still cases of abuse and neglect and there’s still work for the foundation. My volunteer duties are (1) to socialize the horses, and teach them that when a human shows up in the pasture, it’s a good thing; and (2) photography.
There are currently three foals in care, who were born last spring to mares who came in pregnant. The rescue has brand-new baby pictures of them, but nothing current. The other day I went out to get some current pictures, and discovered that photographing baby horses is even more challenging than photographing puppies of the same age. They are curious. They are rambunctious. They want to nibble on you. Unlike puppies, they weigh several hundred pounds and have pointy hooves that they kick with when they are startled. I didn’t get very many quality shots.
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I set myself a challenge to get these done before the Olympics closing ceremonies, and I did!
bleatmop
Mystro
The Arbourist
Dead Wild Roses 
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