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08 July 2009

I'm back! From nearly two weeks spent in Santa Barbara, Germany, and a short trip to Prague. What have I missed?→[More:]
Y'all missed:

1) Getting felt up by airport security in three different countries,

2) My epic fall off of a Segway, which has resulted in a nasty and probably-infected leg scrape,

3) The debate about whether the "K5 Relaxation Spa" in Prague is or is not a brothel... (answer: it is!)

Final thought: Germany beer is probably the best beer in the world.

post by: muddgirl at: 09:57 | 16 comments

Santa Barbara, California?

(One of the places I've lived.)

posted by danf 08 July | 10:11

Well, Nuke is scared, 'cause his eyelids are jammed and his old man's here. We need a live... is it a live rooster?.... we need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose's glove, and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present. That about right? We're dealing with a lot of shit.

posted by Melismata 08 July | 10:23

Melismata - you just made my day.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 08 July | 10:54

OMG! MICHAEL JACKSON DIED. I bet you didn't hear about THAT.

posted by msali 08 July | 14:50

Belgian beer is the best beer in the world.

posted by Wolfdog 08 July | 15:13

I ACTUALLY DIDN'T until a few days into my trip - my friend told me and I was like, "No way!" and he said, "I read it in the paper and saw it on the news!" and it turned out he was right.

I also didn't hear that Billy Mays died until just now.

posted by muddgirl 08 July | 15:21

Also, Steve McNair. I was two days late hearing that one. Oh, and Sarah Palin. (Not dead-dead, just politically dead. Or politically shrewd. No one really knows yet.)

posted by mudpuppie 08 July | 15:36

What Wolfdog said.

Also, Steve McNair? 20-year-old mistress, murder/suicide? Wow.

posted by box 08 July | 16:57

And Oscar Meyer. And Farah Fawcett. And Ed McMahon.

posted by danf 08 July | 17:19

Oscar Meyer?

posted by mudpuppie 08 July | 18:09

Yes, Oscar Meyer, of the Wienermobile. I am sorry that I am the one to have to break this to you mudpuppie.

posted by danf 08 July | 21:22

I'm with you, pups. I'm a little surprised Oscar Mayer was a real guy. Here's a brief obit. I'll never hear that jingle the same way again.

posted by box 08 July | 21:23

Wow, Oscar Meyer. I hum/sing that song all the time, I think it's a comfort thing. I dunno. Anyway. Wow.

posted by deborah 08 July | 21:59

My surprise wasn't so much that he was real, or that he died. I thought deborah was adding him to the list of people who had died in the past week, so I was surprised that I hadn't heard about it. But she tricked me -- tricked me! -- by citing his death a mere two hours after it was reported. Tricked!

So I'm no longer surprised. He was old and full of nitrates. Clearly, it was his time.

posted by mudpuppie 09 July | 10:40

Before I died I made those little wieners
They were popular most certainly (ly-ly)
Don't bother with my suit from the dry cleaners
They can now just make some out of me.

posted by danf 09 July | 12:52

Don't blame me; it's danf's fault!

*huddles in corner, rocking back and forth, humming the Oscar Meyer song*

posted by deborah 09 July | 15:30

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