5/03/2003 - Entry #73
Oh man, this pancake business really isn't working out too well. It's 8:25 in the evening, the day after pancake day, and already I can feel myself dying. So far Pete and I have made a grand total of 24 pancakes, and we're feeling the burn. So much sugar, so much lemon juice, so much golden syrup. Artery-clogging goodness right there. I walked to the shops earlier, with the emphasis very much on the walking, and I got a stitch after about 5 paces. My heart is genuinely fighting me all the way. Just now I tried making the pancakes into some kind of varied meal, by grating some cheese to use as a filling. Now I think I'll just drag myself off into a dark corner and die. I wish I'd never made this stupid nothing-but-pancakes-for-a-week bet. Gah. I wonder if chicken and vegetable pies can be classed as a viable pancake filling...
So I had stuff to talk about, but I can't remember it. Again. I was gonna update on monday, but I got sidetracked by my crushing exhaustion.
Well, first of all, I'll mention Yournotme.com. It's a website which takes any name you input and searches the 2000 Electoral Roll for matches. The idea being that you type in your name, and it tells you exactly how many doppelgangers you have. There are, for example, a mere three Dominic Irelands in this country. Thank God. Yet there are 87 of my brother, 20 of my mother and 38 of my dad. There are only 3 of Mal, but there's 109 of Jesper. There are 6 of Christine, even though she's american. There are 18 of Mr. Ed, but S_O doesn't exist at all. Sneaky bastard. He IS invisible after all. I don't know LG's surname and I've forgotten chiv's, so I can't check you two, unfortunately. Jess and I made a game of trying to find someone with a completely unique name. It was pretty difficult, actually. But as it happens, it turns out I was living with one all along. That's right, there's only one Richard Hate. One Richard Hate. Only one Richard Hate.
It's a cool site though. Check it out. Let me know how many of you there are. I wanna know how many people I'm speaking to.
Also, this is very cool. Someone posted it on a message board in a thread entitled "Magic, or just a neat trick?" Intrigued, I gave it a go, and for so long I was absolutely perplexed as to how it did it. I honestly couldn't work it out at all. Eventually I did, obviously, and have since tried to explain it to other people, though I don't know how well I did. But yeah, a lot of people seem to be left flummoxed by it, considering the guy who made it was so inundated with e-mails he opened a paypal account and began accepting donations in exchange for an explanation. It's cool though. Worth it for the frown you'll get as it keeps giving you the right answer again and again and again, until you work it out.
Okay, I can't remember anything else I was gonna talk about, so I guess this'll just be another meaningless update. Oh! I heard recently that Michael Savage has been hired by MSNBC. He's getting a one-hour show every week, beginning in March sometime. Has it started already? Has anyone seen it? For anyone who doesn't know Michael Savage, he's easily the most bigoted radio talkshow host I've ever heard. Literally to the point of confused hilarity. I don't think I've ever heard him say a sensible thing. I'm a cold-hearted bastard, so I can laugh at him (not with him), but so, so many people must find him ridiculously offensive. I mean, let's see, he repeatedly refers to third world countries as "turd world countries," for example, and renamed the "Million Mom March" in America the "Million Dyke March". Cunning! Not long ago he justified ethnic slurs thusly: "Right now we need racist stereotypes of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to go out and kill them." He hates immigrants with a furious passion. "You open the door to them, and the next thing you know, they are defecating on your country and breeding out of control" he says. "With the Latino population that has emerged, since they breed like rabbits, in many cases the whites will become a minority in their own nation... The white people don't breed as often for whatever reason. I guess the homosexuals are involved somehow. That is also part of the grand plan, to push homosexuality in order to cut down on the white race." Ah yes. Of course. Even better though, was his recent take on charities. When he was discussing student volunteers giving food to the homeless he gave us the memorable gem "the girls from Branson School can go in and maybe get raped... because they seem to like the excitement of it. There's always the thrill and possibility they'll be raped in a dumpster while giving out a turkey sandwich. They love it." Oh Mr. Savage, share with us more of your wisdom. But yeah, he's hilariously stupid, and he has a new show. I wondered if anyone had seen it, is all. I'm willing to bet that it's just an hour of this kind of thing in all honesty. Ah well. Right, I'm gonna try sleep off this sugar/lemon overload. Have fun.
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