Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

Don't we know archaic barrel
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

UPDATE: Here's the real deal.

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After more than 10 years, the amount of traffic USS Clueless gets is very much attenuated. Which isn't surprising and is actually welcome, because when the Qube finally dies I probably won't replace it. (No suggestions, please.)

So the majority of my traffic these days is actually SEO, mostly from the former Soviet bloc. Here's one of the best:

http://' + (location.hostname.indexOf(':')>=0?'['+location.hostname+']':location.hostname) + ' -> /Chizumatic/

As is commonly the case, this one came from Ukraine. Somehow or other a lot of people in Ukraine are involved in feeding bogus refers to various servers (like mine) presumably because they, or their customers, think it will increase their Google ranking (or that of other search engines). In my case it doesn't work because my referer log isn't available on a public web page, so the search engine spiders never see it.

Nonetheless, it would be hilarious if it weren't so infuriating to see so much effort going for such a small return, especially among those who are blithering incompetents.

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A woman deliberately drove into a crowd of people on the sidewalk in Vegas last night. Then she did the same thing two more times. One dead, several dozen in various hospitals with varying degrees of injury. She's been charged with murder.

Stop me if you've heard this before: The police don't quite know what her motive was -- but they're absolutely certain it wasn't terrorism.

Now maybe it wasn't terrorism. Maybe they're right about that. But if they aren't sure what the motive actually was, how in hell can they exclude terrorism? They always say this. "Nope, nope, nope, no terrorism here. Go about your business!" The goal always, always is to prevent all the knuckledragging bitterclingers from considering any kind of backlash against Muslims.

Because that's the most important thing. Keeping ordinary non-Muslim Americans safe is down the list a long way.

Now never mind that there has never been any kind of backlash. No wholesale torching of mosques. No Muslims being beaten in the street. No Halal butcher shops getting bricks thrown through their window. But our betters are absolutely certain that the population of bitterclingers is a powderkeg with a fuse primed (and closets full of AR-15's), waiting for one spark to go off.

They fear their own people more than they fear enemies who are hostile to us and our way of life.

Or perhaps it might be more accurate to say that they think that the "enemies who are hostile to us and our way of life" are indeed those same bitterclingers.

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...a woman who wears a butcher knife in a sheath on her arm when she's working.

Of course, that's not the only reason.

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I'm not a big one for beauty contests; I don't think I've ever watched one since before Bert Parks died.

But I missed something special today. It seems that the announcer announced that Miss Columbia was the winner. Actually it was supposed to be Miss Philippines.

It reminds me of this.

Mariya Dmitriyenko had just won the gold medal in the 75 target event at the 10th Arab Shooting Championship in Kuwait and as she stood on the podium with the other medal winners she was expecting to hear the sound of the Kazakhstan national anthem.

Instead the obscene lyrics of the spoof Kazakhstan anthem from the film Borat began to play. ...

Ms Dmitriyenko looked around to see if anyone else had noticed the wrong music was playing, they hadn't so she was forced to listen all the way to end of the tune with her hand on her heart and a bemused look on her face.

The organisers had found a copy of the anthem online and hadn't realised it was from the satirical film the head coach of Kazakhstan's team, Anvar Yunusmetov, told Tengrinews.kz on Friday.

The organizers later apologized abjectly for the mistake.

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It's been a long time since I've added anything to the top rotation, so I'm getting into it. So far I've collected the following:

Ani Tore EX: 48 candidates
Classroom Crisis: 49 candidates
Senran Kagura OVA: 71 candidates

Queued up to process:

Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry
Shinmai Maou no Testament BURST
Hakone-chan
Shoukugeki no Souma
Etotama

I'm not sure if the last two will end up being worth processing, or whether I can get through them without losing my lunch. I remember at least one of the zodiac members (I think it was the sheep) was nicely shapely. But a lot of each episode was rendered and there was a potato-kun in a lot of it. I only watched like two episodes before I dropped it, back then. So there's no telling.

Shoukugeki no Souma was a miserably stupid show IMHO, but there are at least two girls who are awesome looking.

Hakone-chan will have a few images worth plundering but it isn't going to be hugely fruitful.

Shinmai Maou no Testament BURST is a problem because the best fan service was in the plentiful orgy scenes and it's too explicit to use here. But I'm sure I can come up with at least a hundred candidates from it.

Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry really sucked, and I dropped it about ep 4. But even in the episodes I did watch there was plenty of plunder material, so I'm sure it will make a healthy contribution. (I had the Horriblesubs version but it turned out to be hardsubbed, making it worthless to me. Right now I'm downloading an AT-X raw, which should be more useful for plunder.)

I think I'm going to skip 35th Test Platoon. And I'm sure that Shomin Sample could make a huge contribution but I'm not sure if I'm capable of processing it without going nuts.

I might end up doing Hackadoll; I haven't decided yet.

But even with the ones I do plan to plunder I'm sure I can come up with a big increase. It's currently 6089 images and I'm hoping for at least 500 more. No promises, of course.

UPDATE: In case you're curious, the picture is from Classroom Crisis. There was one beach episode. But most of what I got from that was wrench wenches working on stuff -- which is pretty cool, too.

UPDATE: Rakugai Kishi no Cavalry was good for 78 candidates but I'll probably prune about 10 of them.

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I was going to do a single post today for Ani Tore and Hakone-chan, but ep 9 of Ani Tore is a fan service special and it deserves its own post. (Also, ep 12 of Hakone-chan ended in a cliffhanger, so I'll wait until next week.)

This girl's family is rich and her home has an indoor pool. She invites the youngest one, the blonde pettanko, over for an episode.

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Step 1: point out that the droids are effectively slaves.

Step 2: Contend that Chewbacca is female, and in love with Han.

UPDATE:

There's going to be a new Munchkin addition called "StarMunchkin" and this is one of the cards. Kovalic is right in the groove, as usual.

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I tell you; why does this never happen to me? (NSFW below the fold)

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My internet connection went out about 11:30, and for a while I was afraid that my Qube had finally kicked the bucket. It's lasted for fifteen years, so it's hard to complain, but it would be hard to reconfigure all my gear to allow internet access without it.

So I had a pretty significant fear experience. Eventually I started seeing if I could find a neighbor's unprotected wifi to see if I could access the Qube from the other side. And while I was doing that, my connection came back up.

It was Comcast, after all. Total downtime about an hour and a half.

I can't really complain; it's been months since the last time they did that to me. But it still wasn't good for my heart.

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