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font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- &amp;nbsp;Etymology Man, who can&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;reconstruct proto-languages in a single&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;lexicostatistic, and who, disguised as&amp;nbsp;R.L.G.&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"&gt;JOHNSON,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;a mild-mannered correspondent for a mediocre newspaper, is no help when fighting a never-ending battle with hordes of giant Praying Mantises.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aYHz_Y56XOk/Tzm63Kzw18I/AAAAAAAAARw/GrVgMXLoY0E/s1600/FF+Johnson+Cartoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aYHz_Y56XOk/Tzm63Kzw18I/AAAAAAAAARw/GrVgMXLoY0E/s1600/FF+Johnson+Cartoon.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; 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BLAM! &amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Etymology man! | The Economist&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://econ.st/ylRBGf" data-ultimate-url="http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2012/02/etymology" href="http://t.co/eORBul2Z" rel="nofollow" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #7a0711; font: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="http://econ.st/ylRBGf"&gt;econ.st/ylRBGf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-2078829363538354256?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/2078829363538354256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2012/02/spelled-wrong.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/2078829363538354256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/2078829363538354256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2012/02/spelled-wrong.html' title='Spelled wrong!'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aYHz_Y56XOk/Tzm63Kzw18I/AAAAAAAAARw/GrVgMXLoY0E/s72-c/FF+Johnson+Cartoon.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-1043817406474485415</id><published>2012-01-27T19:52:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T19:55:11.497-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roger Ebert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vaguely humorous'/><title type='text'>Introducing General Zod</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; --&amp;nbsp;Sad and Useless: the most depressive humor site on the net presents:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Movies from an Alternative Universe!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rHNtOImTzqI/TyCGbyHgLeI/AAAAAAAAARk/3PWypLu2Kcc/s1600/FLIP+superman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="337" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rHNtOImTzqI/TyCGbyHgLeI/AAAAAAAAARk/3PWypLu2Kcc/s400/FLIP+superman.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-size: medium; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Movies from an Alternate Universe -- William Shatner and Natalie Wood in "Avatar" !!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://po.st/MqEeUg" data-ultimate-url="http://www.sadanduseless.com/2012/01/movies-from-an-alternate-universe" href="http://t.co/j9fbJlfd" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.sadanduseless.com/2012/01/movies-from-an-alternate-universe"&gt;po.st/MqEeUg&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="  twitter-atreply pretty-link" data-screen-name="Po_st" href="https://twitter.com/#!/Po_st" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; 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font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; --&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;To celebrate the centennial of the late, great cartoonist’s birth, Google feature on Jan. 7th a deft ghoulish “Doodle” in honor of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;Charles Addams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;, the longtime &lt;i&gt;New Yorker&lt;/i&gt; magazine contributor who was a master of the macabre and a brilliant wit of the weird.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/fWYojaKwYD0/0.jpg"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fWYojaKwYD0&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fWYojaKwYD0&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;“I think he was so far ahead of his time by realizing that horror was funny,”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;Robert Mankoff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"&gt;, the New Yorker’s cartoon editor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;.......................&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="float: left; 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font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-8835761826158276828?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/8835761826158276828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2012/01/and-its-kooky.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/8835761826158276828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/8835761826158276828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2012/01/and-its-kooky.html' title='And it&apos;s kooky!'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-2614551658449547301</id><published>2012-01-09T17:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-09T17:01:58.033-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>Giant elliptical galaxy</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editors note &lt;/span&gt;--&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;NASA's "image of the day" last Tuesday was taken with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 in July 2010.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NASA ellaborated, "Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--tXhAPphKvY/TwtdRh1LoZI/AAAAAAAAARc/ght3rySv_04/s1600/FLIP+Galaxy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--tXhAPphKvY/TwtdRh1LoZI/AAAAAAAAARc/ght3rySv_04/s400/FLIP+Galaxy.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;"Centaurus A contains the closest active galactic nucleus to Earth, a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;t a distance of just over 11 million light-years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;"&gt;. 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font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- Emperor Julius Caeser consulted with the&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt;most prominent astronomers and mathematicians to design a calendar&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;that aligned with the sun's orbit naming Januarius 1, 46 B.C. the first day of his Julian calendar.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Romans celebrated with sacrifices to the two-faced god Janus, decorated their homes with laurel &amp;nbsp;branches and attended&amp;nbsp;raucous parties.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bS-w6V3qulc/TwDjPzIfc7I/AAAAAAAAARU/fK12wbLszo0/s1600/Flip+pope+gregory+xiii.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bS-w6V3qulc/TwDjPzIfc7I/AAAAAAAAARU/fK12wbLszo0/s400/Flip+pope+gregory+xiii.jpg" width="332" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Namesake for the Gregorian calendar&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;But Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;1582 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;because the year was too long. 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font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Editor's note&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;-- &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;/i&gt; feted our Dear Leader's&amp;nbsp;death&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;with a stunning pictorial of his&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;treacherous life&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;during possibly the worst Sunday Night Football on NBC in weeks.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/kim-jong-il-dead-at-69/2008/09/09/gIQA5uvP3O_gallery.html?tid=sm_btn_tw#photo=1" target="_blank"&gt;Kim Jung Il dead at 69&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DF7rp_8ijBU/TvCoqLkjA-I/AAAAAAAAARI/S2g03dyrCfY/s1600/FLIP+dear+leader.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="292" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DF7rp_8ijBU/TvCoqLkjA-I/AAAAAAAAARI/S2g03dyrCfY/s400/FLIP+dear+leader.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="heading4 title" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 7px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Aug. 23, 2002&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.2em;"&gt;Vladimir Putin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;and KimJung Il "p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;"&gt;arty down"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 1.2em;"&gt;in Vladivostok.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;...........................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="k. a. gardner" class="user-profile-link js-action-profile-avatar" data-user-id="51489256" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1183597564/bromeliad_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link js-action-profile-name" data-user-id="51489256" href="http://twitter.com/#!/karenagardner" style="color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;NEWSFLASH:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="  twitter-hashtag pretty-link" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23DearLeader" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#DearLeader"&gt;&lt;s class="hash" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;#&lt;/s&gt;&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; white-space: normal;"&gt;DearLeader&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with horribly overprocessed hair dies.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="  twitter-atreply pretty-link" data-screen-name="washingtonpost" href="http://twitter.com/#!/washingtonpost" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;s style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.5; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;@&lt;/s&gt;&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; white-space: normal;"&gt;washingtonpost&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;wants us to take a look at his life. Much better than&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="  twitter-hashtag pretty-link" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23SNF" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#SNF"&gt;&lt;s class="hash" style="color: #7a0711; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;#&lt;/s&gt;&lt;span style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal;"&gt;SNF&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-2075228315991529044?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/2075228315991529044/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/12/vlad-and-kim.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/2075228315991529044'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/2075228315991529044'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/12/vlad-and-kim.html' title='Vlad and Kim'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DF7rp_8ijBU/TvCoqLkjA-I/AAAAAAAAARI/S2g03dyrCfY/s72-c/FLIP+dear+leader.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-8742413343371338520</id><published>2011-12-11T18:56:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-11T22:35:39.236-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>En L'an 2000</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- SAD AND USELESS &lt;i&gt;the most depressive humor site on the net &lt;/i&gt;found "&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Illustrations by French artist Villemard in 1910 of how he imagined the future to be in the year 2000". Unfortunately, &lt;i&gt;Boing Boing&lt;/i&gt; already ran a Villemard &lt;a href="http://boingboing.net/2007/09/12/french-art-from-1910.html"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; on Wed. Sept 12, 2007.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;S&amp;amp;U's post wasn't entirely useless as it featured more than one postcard but, sadly, the blog does not have "&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;BB's&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paris liaison,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;Alex Boucherot, editor of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fluctuat.net/" style="line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Fluctuat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_s3irLX68bQ/TuUwv19CjcI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/ZD3mq7VZzyc/s1600/FLIP+future20+spy+helicopter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_s3irLX68bQ/TuUwv19CjcI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/ZD3mq7VZzyc/s1600/FLIP+future20+spy+helicopter.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spy Helicopters&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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--&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Broadway Tower was designed by&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;English architect James Wyatt&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;as&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;a folly for&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lady Coventry&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;in&amp;nbsp;1794.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;She wondered if she could see a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;pretend castle&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;22 miles away&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;from her home&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Yes. By 1799, Lady&amp;nbsp;Coventry could see it clearly.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A folly is a&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;building&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;so extravagant that it transcends the normal range of garden ornaments.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FcW_odpQvNc/TtqrLdmwGkI/AAAAAAAAAQg/tGclseyUbZE/s1600/FF+Broadway+Tower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FcW_odpQvNc/TtqrLdmwGkI/AAAAAAAAAQg/tGclseyUbZE/s400/FF+Broadway+Tower.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;A Gentleman's Folly, Broadway Tower by Andrew Lockie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;--&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Today, Broadway Tower is an English tourist attraction&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;"&gt;located on Broadway Hill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;"&gt;, one mile southeast of the village of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Broadway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;"&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Worcestershire&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; 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font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- Michael Kupperman has another new book. Although he says he's exhausted, he'll still make an effort to attend his own book release party in Brooklyn. Note date and time.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-STUC_MLK10I/TtLu_c2XvHI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/yycvRMi0-2M/s1600/FF+--+Michael+Kupperman+book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-STUC_MLK10I/TtLu_c2XvHI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/yycvRMi0-2M/s640/FF+--+Michael+Kupperman+book.jpg" width="414" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;.................................................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); 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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;December 9th is Thrizzle time!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://twitpic.com/7k9x29" href="http://t.co/hUki1Wx1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://twitpic.com/7k9x29"&gt;twitpic.com/7k9x29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-timestamp js-permalink" href="http://twitter.com/#!/MKupperman/status/140582169528643584" style="color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; white-space: normal;"&gt;karenagardner&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-8426222688030690772?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/8426222688030690772/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/11/on-bergen-street.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/8426222688030690772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/8426222688030690772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/11/on-bergen-street.html' title='On Bergen Street'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-STUC_MLK10I/TtLu_c2XvHI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/yycvRMi0-2M/s72-c/FF+--+Michael+Kupperman+book.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-1847902182623108412</id><published>2011-11-20T16:48:00.011-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-20T18:55:51.405-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vaguely humorous'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>Oregon Route 212</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- Known for his dry wit, British photographer Martin Parr has long gathered amusing photos of contemporary boredom. The firetruck below serves the unincorporated community of Boring, located on Oregon Route 212 in Clackamas County.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tEOrzU33dJE/Tsl9SvWTUaI/AAAAAAAAAQI/bY8dyAdVlzM/s1600/FF%2B-%2BBoring.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677206566178345378" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tEOrzU33dJE/Tsl9SvWTUaI/AAAAAAAAAQI/bY8dyAdVlzM/s400/FF%2B-%2BBoring.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 268px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;A &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Boring F&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;iretruck &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;--&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Boring's unincorporated community motto:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;An exciting place to live and work.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;..............&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="tweet-user-name" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link js-action-profile-name" href="http://twitter.com/#!/karenagardner" id="51489256" style="color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; 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margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal;"&gt;MagnumPhotos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-1847902182623108412?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/1847902182623108412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/11/oregon-route-212.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/1847902182623108412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/1847902182623108412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/11/oregon-route-212.html' title='Oregon Route 212'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tEOrzU33dJE/Tsl9SvWTUaI/AAAAAAAAAQI/bY8dyAdVlzM/s72-c/FF%2B-%2BBoring.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-1839631118925503677</id><published>2011-11-10T18:58:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-11T01:00:59.916-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Delicious Recipes'/><title type='text'>Satsumas</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; --&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Earlier this year, in April,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Chinese Sweet and Sour Rabbit recipe was included on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;a post about the global market for rabbit meat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Today, the Editor is featuring&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;an "easy enough" rabbit recipe from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Wall Street Journal by&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Chef Stephen Stryjewski of Cochon, a Cajun Southern-Cooking restaurant in New Orleans.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 class="subhead" style="background-color: white; font: italic normal normal 1.6em/1.1 Georgia, 'Century Schoolbook', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 668px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204394804577010170862498892.html?"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;"&gt;Paneed Rabbit with Citrus, Sage and Caper-Butter Sauce&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wegT34okTVc/TrsMsPxsYRI/AAAAAAAAAPw/VstWq_YgPpk/s1600/FLIP+paneed+rabbit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wegT34okTVc/TrsMsPxsYRI/AAAAAAAAAPw/VstWq_YgPpk/s400/FLIP+paneed+rabbit.jpg" width="372" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 10px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Justin Walker for The Wall Street Journal, &lt;br /&gt;Food Styling by Karen Evans, Prop Styling by DSM&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Chef Stryjewski insists that one of the ingredients in the sauce must be t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;he&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;satsuma,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;a seedless and easy-peeling&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;citrus&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;mutant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;of Japanese origin.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Jesuits brought the mutant from Asia&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;in the 18th-century&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"&gt;to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, where groves still thrive to this day.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;....................&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); 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line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;-- The &lt;i&gt;Guardian's&lt;/i&gt; Mind Your Language blog praised Ambrose Bierce on Friday for still being wise and witty after 100 years on the occasion of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;centennial anniversary of his relatively famous lexicon,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt; "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Devil's Dictionary".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jOP52v52-fY/TrHy6mWUXSI/AAAAAAAAAPo/sPpcVZHuBh4/s1600/FLIP+dev+dic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jOP52v52-fY/TrHy6mWUXSI/AAAAAAAAAPo/sPpcVZHuBh4/s320/FLIP+dev+dic.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; clear: left; display: inline !important; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;he Mind Your Language blog forgot to mention that Ambrose Bierce's relatively famous short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", is coincidentally celebrating its 120th anniversary of publication.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; clear: left; display: inline !important; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Guardian's blogger alphabetically listed his favorite D.D. definitions, of which the Editor's favorite is... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Famous, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;adj.,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"&gt; Conspicuously miserable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;"&gt;Editor's note &lt;/span&gt;--The guy from &lt;i&gt;The Economist's &lt;/i&gt;Johnson blog tweeted his favorite &lt;i&gt;Guardian&lt;/i&gt; blogger's favorite D.D. definition which is, ambiguously, about whiskey or perhaps bread. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;.................. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Robert Lane Greene" class="user-profile-link" height="48" id="49170981" src="http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/978085053/square_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="color: #444444; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link" href="http://twitter.com/#!/lanegreene" id="49170981" style="color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert Lane Greene"&gt;lanegreene&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Robert Lane Greene&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="retweet-icon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1320254175/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -192px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-bottom: -2px !important; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; width: 15px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;em style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;by karenagardner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wheat: A cereal from which a tolerably good whiskey can with some difficulty be made, and which is also used for bread &lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://t.co/soLMAN6E" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind-your-language/2011/oct/28/mind-your-language-ambrose-bierce/" url="http://bit.ly/u3TmBd"&gt;bit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://t.co/soLMAN6E" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind-your-language/2011/oct/28/mind-your-language-ambrose-bierce/" url="http://bit.ly/u3TmBd"&gt;.ly/u3TmBd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; 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font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- Roger "I dunno" Ebert didn't know this is a picture of a guy&amp;nbsp;holding a headless action figure while standing next to a bizarrely-dressed mannequin.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L-nPAGFk9Jc/Tqj3lR7FYDI/AAAAAAAAAM4/aEAtnogd2jM/s1600/salvadore+dali.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="375" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L-nPAGFk9Jc/Tqj3lR7FYDI/AAAAAAAAAM4/aEAtnogd2jM/s400/salvadore+dali.jpeg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;It's not easy to recognize Salvadore Dali because his&amp;nbsp;mustache&amp;nbsp;is normal-looking.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- The guy holding&amp;nbsp;the action figure&amp;nbsp;is Salvatore Dali. The Editor assumes that Man Ray took the picture because they were friends and did weird things together.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Roger Ebert" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="79797834" height="48" src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1097198153/33ebert_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link" data-user-id="79797834" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ebertchicago" style="color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Roger Ebert"&gt;ebertchicago&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Roger Ebert&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="retweet-icon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1319669585/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -192px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-bottom: -2px !important; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; width: 15px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;by karenagardner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Photo for 10/25 of I dunno what:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://bit.ly/rBfMxz" data-ultimate-url="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/photos-in-need-of-comment/photo-for-1025-of-i-dunno-know.html/" href="http://t.co/f74hGH8E" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/photos-in-need-of-comment/photo-for-1025-of-i-dunno-know.html/"&gt;bit.ly/rBfMxz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;~8~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-5715120864387049159?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/5715120864387049159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/10/not-man-ray.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/5715120864387049159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/5715120864387049159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/10/not-man-ray.html' title='Not Man Ray'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L-nPAGFk9Jc/Tqj3lR7FYDI/AAAAAAAAAM4/aEAtnogd2jM/s72-c/salvadore+dali.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Jacksonville, FL, USA</georss:featurename><georss:point>30.3321838 -81.65565099999998</georss:point><georss:box>30.0909418 -82.02204599999997 30.5734258 -81.28925599999998</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-6232523287897156975</id><published>2011-10-16T20:08:00.008-04:00</published><updated>2011-11-01T02:08:33.905-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mark Twain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>Comic book characters</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Editor's note &lt;/span&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 33px;"&gt;Michael Kupperman went to New York Comic Con 2011 this weekend dressed in a Mark Twain costume. He had his picture taken with Beetlejuice, Solomon Grundy, Big Bird and a Wookie.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c_21idH32X8/Tq-KHgItARI/AAAAAAAAAPY/dNVve5D3nvw/s1600/FLIP+michael+and+beetle+juice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c_21idH32X8/Tq-KHgItARI/AAAAAAAAAPY/dNVve5D3nvw/s640/FLIP+michael+and+beetle+juice.jpg" width="473" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;i style="background-color: white;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"It was more fun than being just a guy and making small talk.&amp;nbsp;Like being a character at Disneyland," said Mark Twain. &lt;br /&gt;(photo by Alex Cox)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- Here is a picture of Michael Kupperman in a Mark Twain costume &amp;nbsp;with Beetlejuice. Michael was at NY Com Con 2011 to promote his new graphic novel THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN 1910 - 2010.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;.........................&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Michael Kupperman" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="22722452" height="48" src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/87230267/BlackCatSkbook_normal.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link" data-user-id="22722452" href="http://twitter.com/#!/MKupperman" style="color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Michael Kupperman"&gt;MKupperman&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Michael Kupperman&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; 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padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="media photo" data-media-class="photo" data-media-type="flickr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1318625636/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px -96px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Photographs of today's madness!&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://tinyurl.com/3e3j2gu" data-ultimate-url="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16938754@N02/sets/72157627771617063/" href="http://t.co/oqVxshM4" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16938754@N02/sets/72157627771617063/"&gt;tinyurl.com/3e3j2gu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-6232523287897156975?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/6232523287897156975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/10/comic-book-characters.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/6232523287897156975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/6232523287897156975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/10/comic-book-characters.html' title='Comic book characters'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-c_21idH32X8/Tq-KHgItARI/AAAAAAAAAPY/dNVve5D3nvw/s72-c/FLIP+michael+and+beetle+juice.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-3059670848290291530</id><published>2011-10-05T20:34:00.007-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T20:41:56.148-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York Yankees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Post Season'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>Eliminated</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- The New York Yankees wanted its twitter followers to retweet this picture so they could&amp;nbsp;go Back to the Bronx on Thursday for Game 5 against&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;the Detroit Tigers.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3M-WCChYtIs/Tqj5ENo5MoI/AAAAAAAAANA/6cgW2a5Ef6k/s1600/Flip+%253D+yankees+pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3M-WCChYtIs/Tqj5ENo5MoI/AAAAAAAAANA/6cgW2a5Ef6k/s400/Flip+%253D+yankees+pic.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Russell Martin is excited&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;-- Twitter followers of the New York Yankees anticipate the Detroit Tigers are already wishing they hadn't gone Back to the Bronx on Thursday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="New York Yankees" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="40927173" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1554110101/73x73_NYY_Twitter_ALEC__1__normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="color: #444444; display: block; line-height: 15px; 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padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;New York Yankees&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="retweet-icon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1317832954/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -192px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-bottom: -2px !important; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; width: 15px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;by KarenAGardner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="media photo" data-media-class="photo" data-media-type="copiedtwimg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1317832954/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px -96px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;RT this amazing Russell Martin photo if you think Yankees will hang on tonight.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-hashtag pretty-link" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23BacktotheBronx" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#BacktotheBronx"&gt;&lt;s class="hash" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;#&lt;/s&gt;&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; white-space: normal;"&gt;BacktotheBronx&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://twitter.com/Yankees/status/121409540305584130/photo/1" data-twitter-media-url="true" href="http://t.co/M20PljsZ" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://twitter.com/Yankees/status/121409540305584130/photo/1"&gt;pic.twitter.com/M20PljsZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Footnote to History&lt;/span&gt;: Unfortunately, it was the Yankees who were eliminated from ALDS because A-Rod struck out. The Editor wishes the Tigers well in their quest to obliterate the Rangers.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-3059670848290291530?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/3059670848290291530/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/10/eliminated.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/3059670848290291530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/3059670848290291530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/10/eliminated.html' title='Eliminated'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3M-WCChYtIs/Tqj5ENo5MoI/AAAAAAAAANA/6cgW2a5Ef6k/s72-c/Flip+%253D+yankees+pic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-2296433931079384342</id><published>2011-09-28T00:07:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T20:41:15.513-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Somewhat confused'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roger Ebert'/><title type='text'>Honky Tonk Woman</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- In which Roger Ebert is unaware this is a picture of Mick Jagger in drag.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rb5oboyKASY/TqkAmP1cGQI/AAAAAAAAANQ/w7yE45FhFB4/s1600/Flip%253DMick-Jagger-.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rb5oboyKASY/TqkAmP1cGQI/AAAAAAAAANQ/w7yE45FhFB4/s1600/Flip%253DMick-Jagger-.jpeg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- Maybe, Roger. It all depends on who you think it is.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Roger Ebert" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="79797834" height="48" src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1097198153/33ebert_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" title="Roger Ebert"&gt;ebertchicago&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Roger Ebert&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; 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padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;by KarenAGardner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;Photo for 9/28: &lt;/span&gt;Is this who I think it is?&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://bit.ly/nIxapp" data-ultimate-url="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/photos-in-need-of-comment/photo-for-928-is-this-who-i-th.html/" href="http://t.co/iWnKKY2K" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/photos-in-need-of-comment/photo-for-928-is-this-who-i-th.html/"&gt;bit.ly/nIxapp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-2296433931079384342?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/2296433931079384342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/09/honky-tonk-woman.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/2296433931079384342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/2296433931079384342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/09/honky-tonk-woman.html' title='Honky Tonk Woman'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rb5oboyKASY/TqkAmP1cGQI/AAAAAAAAANQ/w7yE45FhFB4/s72-c/Flip%253DMick-Jagger-.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-9148340893086439324</id><published>2011-09-26T02:25:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-27T02:53:36.891-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Somewhat confused'/><title type='text'>Shooters</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- If an Iowa City nerd doesn't know what to do on Bourbon Street on a Friday night, then it isn't a good idea to let everyone know.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NEgNh7CZtbU/Tqj_pqmqTyI/AAAAAAAAANI/ihx3HGiD_Y0/s1600/Flip+acme-oyster-house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NEgNh7CZtbU/Tqj_pqmqTyI/AAAAAAAAANI/ihx3HGiD_Y0/s1600/Flip+acme-oyster-house.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note &lt;/span&gt;-- As I've said, try oysters raw at Acme. Or if you just want crappy food, go to Pat O'Briens and have a Hurricane instead.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="float: left; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Will Wilkinson" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="2568461" height="48" src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1393677984/inksketchwillreg2_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-atreply pretty-link" data-screen-name="KarenAGardner" href="http://twitter.com/#!/KarenAGardner" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;s style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.5; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;@&lt;/s&gt;&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; white-space: normal;"&gt;KarenAGardner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;I didn't know, honest. Anyhow, aren't oysters aphrodisiacal? And aren't there enough kids in this lousy world? Why risk it?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-9148340893086439324?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/9148340893086439324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/09/shooters.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/9148340893086439324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/9148340893086439324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/09/shooters.html' title='Shooters'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NEgNh7CZtbU/Tqj_pqmqTyI/AAAAAAAAANI/ihx3HGiD_Y0/s72-c/Flip+acme-oyster-house.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-4182289054519101864</id><published>2011-09-17T19:35:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T20:43:04.938-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Roger Ebert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vaguely humorous'/><title type='text'>Covert cat?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Editor's note &lt;/span&gt;--&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;uthor and former CIA Agent&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Larry J. Kolb relayed this picture&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;of a short man conferring with a s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;uspiciously&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;tall cat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;Roger Ebert's Journal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j4ZeQ3ha5ak/TqmCaYes4xI/AAAAAAAAANY/oSbhuuXgYbg/s1600/flip+A+Man+and+His+Cat-thumb-500x499-39283.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="398" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j4ZeQ3ha5ak/TqmCaYes4xI/AAAAAAAAANY/oSbhuuXgYbg/s400/flip+A+Man+and+His+Cat-thumb-500x499-39283.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- As it turns out the cat was not an undercover spy in a covert operation, but was simply&amp;nbsp;overly&amp;nbsp;tall.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; 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margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Photo for 9/9 of a tall cat:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://bit.ly/mWIWis" data-ultimate-url="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/photos-in-need-of-comment/photo-for-99-of-a-tall-cat.html/" href="http://t.co/Qj4EswI" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/photos-in-need-of-comment/photo-for-99-of-a-tall-cat.html/"&gt;bit.ly/mWIWis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-4182289054519101864?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/4182289054519101864/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/09/covert-cat.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4182289054519101864'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4182289054519101864'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/09/covert-cat.html' title='Covert cat?'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j4ZeQ3ha5ak/TqmCaYes4xI/AAAAAAAAANY/oSbhuuXgYbg/s72-c/flip+A+Man+and+His+Cat-thumb-500x499-39283.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-4941770593145610586</id><published>2011-09-08T16:35:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T20:03:48.188-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Talk Like A Pirate Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>Nay, Matey!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- Shiver Me Timbers is a Carribbean- based &lt;i&gt;Talk Like A Pirate Day&lt;/i&gt; countdown clock. It's twitter name is @pirateday.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Everyday @pirateday tweets "Nay, Matey" and how many days are left to&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sept. 19th with the image below:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;[image not available anymore!?!]&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;-- As of today, there are 10 days left to&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Talk Like A Pirate Day.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;............&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="k. a. gardner" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1183597564/bromeliad_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="k. a. gardner"&gt;KarenAGardner&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;k. a. gardner&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons js-icon-container" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note to self: Now only 10 days. RT&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="  twitter-atreply pretty-link" data-screen-name="pirateday" href="http://twitter.com/#!/pirateday" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;s style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.5; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;@&lt;/s&gt;&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; white-space: normal;"&gt;pirateday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: Nay, matey! There still be 11 days till&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="  twitter-hashtag pretty-link" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23TLAPD" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#TLAPD"&gt;&lt;s class="hash" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;#&lt;/s&gt;&lt;span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; white-space: normal;"&gt;TLAPD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://tinyurl.com/kjw7qf" data-ultimate-url="http://www.isittalklikeapirateday.com/" href="http://t.co/5N5ODrF" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.isittalklikeapirateday.com/"&gt;tinyurl.com/kjw7qf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text js-tweet-text" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7a0711; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-4941770593145610586?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/4941770593145610586/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/09/nay-matey.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4941770593145610586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4941770593145610586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/09/nay-matey.html' title='Nay, Matey!'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-6405609047196216023</id><published>2011-08-30T13:20:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T01:13:09.678-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>County Fair</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note &lt;/span&gt;-- &amp;nbsp;Michael Kupperman went to the Brooklyn County Fair in Connecticut &amp;nbsp;last weekend. He took pictures of cows, turkeys,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;chickens&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;and several Angora rabbits in a cage...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cqPGctLJnK8/Tl130gCcyGI/AAAAAAAAAK0/fqTBAtKcHK8/s1600/kupperman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="297" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cqPGctLJnK8/Tl130gCcyGI/AAAAAAAAAK0/fqTBAtKcHK8/s400/kupperman.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- He visited a snack booth and ordered a 32 oz. Sprite and Fried Twinkies. Then he went home.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="k. a. gardner" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1183597564/bromeliad_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" href="http://twitter.com/#!/KarenAGardner" style="color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="k. a. gardner"&gt;KarenAGardner&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;k. a. gardner&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="media photo" data-media-class="photo" data-media-type="twitpic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://a1.twimg.com/a/1314637676/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px -96px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Here is a picture&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="  twitter-atreply" data-screen-name="MKupperman" href="http://twitter.com/MKupperman" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span class="at" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.5; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="at-text" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;MKupperman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;took of a fried Oreos and fried Twinkies sign.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://twitpic.com/6br50n" href="http://t.co/6oUNFhv" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://twitpic.com/6br50n"&gt;twitpic.com/6br50n&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;~8~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-6405609047196216023?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/6405609047196216023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/county-fair.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/6405609047196216023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/6405609047196216023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/county-fair.html' title='County Fair'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cqPGctLJnK8/Tl130gCcyGI/AAAAAAAAAK0/fqTBAtKcHK8/s72-c/kupperman.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-4292276427863444383</id><published>2011-08-21T19:03:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T01:13:36.763-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>Vacation Postcard</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- The President should be advised that lime-green Slurpees are ill flavored.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Slurpees that are rosy in hue are better digested.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://obamagetaway.com/images/card16.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;........&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="k. a. gardner" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1183597564/bromeliad_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" href="http://twitter.com/#!/KarenAGardner" style="color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="k. a. gardner"&gt;KarenAGardner&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;k. a. gardner&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This is frikkin hilarious! I am so bored with Obama that I appreciate he eats Slurpees in August @&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://obamagetaway.com/" href="http://t.co/xyaJRWq" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://obamagetaway.com/"&gt;bit.ly/owpfvx&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="  twitter-hashtag" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23ObamaGetAway" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#ObamaGetAway"&gt;&lt;span class="hash" style="color: #7a0711; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hash-text" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: normal;"&gt;ObamaGetAway&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-4292276427863444383?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/4292276427863444383/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/vacation-postcard.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4292276427863444383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4292276427863444383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/vacation-postcard.html' title='Vacation Postcard'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-3470274154798793334</id><published>2011-08-16T22:09:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T13:43:46.271-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Somewhat confused'/><title type='text'>Unfortunate event.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- &amp;nbsp;While Roger Ebert of the &lt;i&gt;Chicago Sun-Times&lt;/i&gt; claims this photo was taken today, the Editor seriously doubts it. Her shoes and anklets are circa 1951.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UWJuL9YwoFE/Tqw6wn1ER5I/AAAAAAAAANk/cdCI-V8vp98/s1600/unfortunate+event.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="370" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UWJuL9YwoFE/Tqw6wn1ER5I/AAAAAAAAANk/cdCI-V8vp98/s400/unfortunate+event.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 33px;"&gt;Mount Prospect teen holds dislocated head on a picnic table for 60 years.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;...................................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Roger Ebert" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="79797834" height="48" src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1097198153/33ebert_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link" data-user-id="79797834" href="http://twitter.com/#!/ebertchicago" style="color: #7a0711; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Roger Ebert"&gt;ebertchicago&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Roger Ebert&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="retweet-icon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a1.twimg.com/a/1313513738/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -192px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-bottom: -2px !important; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; width: 15px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;by KarenAGardner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Today's photo of an Unfortunate Event:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/photos-in-need-of-comment/photo-for-816-of-an-unfortunat.html/" href="http://t.co/tfVPCWm" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/photos-in-need-of-comment/photo-for-816-of-an-unfortunat.html/"&gt;bit.ly/ov98UG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;~8~&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-3470274154798793334?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/3470274154798793334/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/unfortunate-event.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/3470274154798793334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/3470274154798793334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/unfortunate-event.html' title='Unfortunate event.'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UWJuL9YwoFE/Tqw6wn1ER5I/AAAAAAAAANk/cdCI-V8vp98/s72-c/unfortunate+event.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-6616918291723958258</id><published>2011-08-11T16:00:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T17:02:37.076-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Somewhat confused'/><title type='text'>Imagine that</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- At the &lt;i&gt;Flipped Again&lt;/i&gt; blog, Weirsdo, of &lt;a href="http://pansifiles.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Stuffed Animal Tales&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; prefers Aubrey Beardsley's LYSISTRATA in its entirety to the more subdued version below.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CAEHwEzMZPw/Tq27HRLhIkI/AAAAAAAAAOE/mwe6SZsC9BM/s1600/lysistra-aubrey-beardsley%255B1%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="330" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CAEHwEzMZPw/Tq27HRLhIkI/AAAAAAAAAOE/mwe6SZsC9BM/s400/lysistra-aubrey-beardsley%255B1%255D.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgba(122, 7, 17, 0.0976563); color: #444444; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="k. a. gardner" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1183597564/bromeliad_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Special post for Weirsdo&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://flipsideflorida.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/special-post-for-weirsdo/" href="http://wp.me/ptueX-AG" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://flipsideflorida.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/special-post-for-weirsdo/"&gt;http://wp.me/ptueX-AG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-6616918291723958258?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/6616918291723958258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/imagine-that.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/6616918291723958258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/6616918291723958258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/imagine-that.html' title='Imagine that'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CAEHwEzMZPw/Tq27HRLhIkI/AAAAAAAAAOE/mwe6SZsC9BM/s72-c/lysistra-aubrey-beardsley%255B1%255D.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-5335936292528284848</id><published>2011-08-07T14:42:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T01:14:41.189-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Somewhat confused'/><title type='text'>A sorry state</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- Florida State University asks if Jim Morrison's parents will be sufficiently interested in the rock legend's future.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/meMiC1g_kZI/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/meMiC1g_kZI&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/meMiC1g_kZI&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.americanlegends.com/morrison/images/mug_shot.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="float: left; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Florida State" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="154533838" height="48" src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/984919716/FSU_Seal_normal.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Florida State&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; 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margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;FSU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;promo&amp;nbsp;&lt;a avglsprocessed="1" class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/video/video.cfm/?VID=10" href="http://bit.ly/JimMorrisonFSU" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/video/video.cfm/?VID=10"&gt;http://bit.ly/JimMorrisonFSU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;~8~&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-5335936292528284848?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/5335936292528284848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/sorry-state.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/5335936292528284848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/5335936292528284848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/08/sorry-state.html' title='A sorry state'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-6131961045733637998</id><published>2011-07-30T22:24:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T01:15:06.384-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Somewhat confused'/><title type='text'>Old and Rusty</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; --&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri criticized road and bridges in the United States on Thursday, according to The Onion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img height="230" src="http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/21/21008/Al_Qaeda_Claims_R_jpg_600x345_crop-smart_upscale_q85.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;Ayman al-Zawahiri criticizing U.S. bridges&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;"We want to turn your bridges into rubble, but if we claimed credit for making them collapse, nobody would ever believe us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;"We'd really just be doing you a favor because then you'd actually have to rebuild them," al-Zawahiri added.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="k. a. gardner" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1183597564/bromeliad_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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Infrastructure Must Drastically Improve Before Any Terrorist Attacks&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.theonion.com/articles/alqaeda-claims-us-mass-transportation-infrastructu,21008/" href="http://t.co/txQaLAH" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.theonion.com/articles/alqaeda-claims-us-mass-transportation-infrastructu,21008/"&gt;onion.com/n9Q6Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;~8~&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-6131961045733637998?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/6131961045733637998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/outdated-and-rusty.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/6131961045733637998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/6131961045733637998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/outdated-and-rusty.html' title='Old and Rusty'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-394941535718207332</id><published>2011-07-23T15:08:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T01:15:31.767-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vaguely humorous'/><title type='text'>Tick. Tock.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- The guy from the &lt;i&gt;Infectious Greed&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;blog gloated at WSJ's contradiction in headlines yesterday.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mind your own beeswax&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Kedrosky," &amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;WSJ fired back&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;. "Our Futile Headline&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;as of 12:41 p.m.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;is&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903554904576464011643526504.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Talks on Debt Resume&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;!"&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 9px; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nmvB_sPXK9E/TitF3rtFsnI/AAAAAAAAAKc/EvJKadvCJR4/s1600/wall+street+journal.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="196" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nmvB_sPXK9E/TitF3rtFsnI/AAAAAAAAAKc/EvJKadvCJR4/s400/wall+street+journal.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Cute"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Paul Kedrosky" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="1717291" height="48" src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/66464034/pkedrosky4_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link" data-user-id="1717291" href="http://twitter.com/#!/pkedrosky" style="color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Kedrosky"&gt;pkedrosky&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Paul Kedrosky&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="retweet-icon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1311355668/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -192px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-bottom: -2px !important; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; width: 15px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;by KarenAGardner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="media photo" data-media-class="photo" data-media-type="twitpic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1311355668/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px -96px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This is cute: WSJ can't keep up and has contradictory adjacent headlines on US debt dance.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" href="http://twitpic.com/5u8m8d" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-394941535718207332?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/394941535718207332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/tick-tock.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/394941535718207332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/394941535718207332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/tick-tock.html' title='Tick. Tock.'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nmvB_sPXK9E/TitF3rtFsnI/AAAAAAAAAKc/EvJKadvCJR4/s72-c/wall+street+journal.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-2274686090708766369</id><published>2011-07-16T16:25:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T17:13:08.943-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>Nerd</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- The &lt;i&gt;Wall Street Journal &lt;/i&gt;ran a compilation of news stories on July 14th. The featured news story was about&amp;nbsp;&lt;i style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/psychodrama-queens/" style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Psychodrama Queens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The WSJ thought&amp;nbsp;Paul Krugman&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;was a nerd because he said anyone who didn't read his blog was&amp;nbsp;an ignoramus.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OZhBCol0Gu0/Tq28_20w2YI/AAAAAAAAAOM/wGuJtRuh4ZU/s1600/Krugman+at+Brooklyn+Book+Festival.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="254" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OZhBCol0Gu0/Tq28_20w2YI/AAAAAAAAAOM/wGuJtRuh4ZU/s320/Krugman+at+Brooklyn+Book+Festival.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Krugman at Brooklyn Book Festival&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note &lt;/span&gt;-- Krugman used to read Isaac Asimov's &lt;i&gt;Foundation&lt;/i&gt; science-fiction novels about&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;scientists in the future using &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;psychohistory&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;to save civilization.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; 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margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304203304576446112991913884.html/"&gt;http://on.wsj.com/qoGcJv&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;~8~&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-2274686090708766369?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/2274686090708766369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/nerd.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/2274686090708766369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/2274686090708766369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/nerd.html' title='Nerd'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OZhBCol0Gu0/Tq28_20w2YI/AAAAAAAAAOM/wGuJtRuh4ZU/s72-c/Krugman+at+Brooklyn+Book+Festival.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-4766814304654228603</id><published>2011-07-09T17:25:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T17:20:42.564-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Somewhat confused'/><title type='text'>Anniversary Aves</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note &lt;/span&gt;-- Raven Smith at AnOther Magazine loved Alfred Hitchcock's &lt;i&gt;The Birds&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Barbie Doll&lt;/i&gt; about a week ago. &amp;nbsp;Barbie is portraying Tippie Hedren portraying Melanie Daniels being attacked by black birds that are either crows or ravens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S “THE BIRDS” THEMED BARBIE DOLL" height="400" src="http://www.anothermag.com/filestorage/141011.png" width="269" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note &lt;/span&gt;-- Mattel, Inc. made the &lt;i&gt;The Birds Barbie Doll&lt;/i&gt; for the 45th anniversary of &lt;i&gt;The Birds&lt;/i&gt; in 2008. &amp;nbsp;Below is a picture of what she looks like in the box. Amazon sells &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Hitchcock-Birds-Barbie-Doll/dp/B00142V9X0"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;The Birds Barbie Doll &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;for &lt;strike&gt;$99.42&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;nbsp;$99.99...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IM-L_ypk67Y/Tq2-4NCONAI/AAAAAAAAAOU/bl_9WI2Sa_c/s1600/FLIP+raven+barbie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IM-L_ypk67Y/Tq2-4NCONAI/AAAAAAAAAOU/bl_9WI2Sa_c/s400/FLIP+raven+barbie.jpg" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;The Editor is not sure why Raven Smith at AnOther Magazine all of a sudden loved Alfred Hitchcock's &lt;i&gt;The Birds&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;Barbie Doll&lt;/i&gt; a week ago, but wishes the doll a Happy 48th Anniversary anyway!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;........................&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S “THE BIRDS” THEMED BARBIE DOLL&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.anothermag.com/loves/view/12266/ALFRED_HITCHCOCKS_THE_BIRDS_THEMED_BARBIE_DOLL/" href="http://t.co/poEJ28X" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.anothermag.com/loves/view/12266/ALFRED_HITCHCOCKS_THE_BIRDS_THEMED_BARBIE_DOLL/"&gt;bit.ly/kBquuk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-atreply" data-screen-name="AnOtherMagazine" href="http://twitter.com/AnOtherMagazine" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-4766814304654228603?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/4766814304654228603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/anniversary-aves.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4766814304654228603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4766814304654228603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/anniversary-aves.html' title='Anniversary Aves'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IM-L_ypk67Y/Tq2-4NCONAI/AAAAAAAAAOU/bl_9WI2Sa_c/s72-c/FLIP+raven+barbie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-7823238035467875786</id><published>2011-07-05T21:45:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T01:16:55.933-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Somewhat confused'/><title type='text'>The day after</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- Once again, Paul Krugman is wrong. And somewhat delusional. Perhaps he had too many libations at Fourth of July&amp;nbsp;celebratory festivities.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/Xe2UXccid40/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xe2UXccid40&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xe2UXccid40&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;I realized that a Yiddish song&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;performed by three Greek sisters&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;is what America is all about,"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Krugman slurred&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(Your video is a nice slice of Americana. I'll&amp;nbsp;give you that much.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Paul Krugman" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="17006157" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/278881234/krugman_75_twitter_normal.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="color: #444444; display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link" data-user-id="17006157" href="http://twitter.com/#!/NYTimeskrugman" style="color: #7a0711; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Paul Krugman"&gt;NYTimeskrugman&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;Paul Krugman&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="retweet-icon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1309631605/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -192px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-bottom: -2px !important; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; width: 15px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;by KarenAGardner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Music for the Fourth of July&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/music-for-the-fourth-of-july/?seid=auto&amp;amp;smid=tw-NytimesKrugman" href="http://nyti.ms/mDEaEc" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/music-for-the-fourth-of-july/?seid=auto&amp;amp;smid=tw-NytimesKrugman"&gt;http://nyti.ms/mDEaEc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-7823238035467875786?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/7823238035467875786/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/day-after.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/7823238035467875786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/7823238035467875786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/day-after.html' title='The day after'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-4615761682263824921</id><published>2011-07-04T12:21:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T01:17:41.442-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Somewhat confused'/><title type='text'>Freedom from Like</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"&gt;-- In defiance of the &lt;i&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;, the Editor has indeed tweeted its article. They should be pleased to learn, however, that it was not well-liked enough to merit a &amp;nbsp;"like" on the Editor's Facebook page.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="[LIKE]" src="http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-OO448_LIKE_DV_20110701180110.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Rise up against the tyranny of the 'Like' button," &lt;br /&gt;said the WSJ.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="k. a. gardner" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1183597564/bromeliad_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="48" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="color: #444444; display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="tweet-user-name" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a class="tweet-screen-name user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" href="http://twitter.com/#!/KarenAGardner" style="color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="k. a. gardner"&gt;KarenAGardner&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;k. a. gardner&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;And please, despite what I said earlier, do not tweet, like ..."&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-atreply" data-screen-name="WSJ" href="http://twitter.com/WSJ" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span class="at" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.5; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="at-text" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;WSJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;.com - &lt;/span&gt;The Insidious Evils of 'Like' Culture&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584004576415940086842866.html/" href="http://t.co/pnRUA81" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584004576415940086842866.html/"&gt;on.wsj.com/lHwk6M&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Happy Independence Day 2011!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-4615761682263824921?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/4615761682263824921/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/freedom-from-like.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4615761682263824921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4615761682263824921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/07/freedom-from-like.html' title='Freedom from Like'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-8925157298466083891</id><published>2011-06-27T16:34:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-30T17:26:36.775-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Somewhat confused'/><title type='text'>No. Bullshit.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note &lt;/span&gt;--&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Apparently, The Holy Roman Empire asked the village of Castrillo de Murcia to think up the dumbest idea it could as an alternative to baptism&amp;nbsp;on June 26, 1620.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hyHy0DWLg74/Tq3AuO-_WjI/AAAAAAAAAOc/KkQEZKioVAM/s1600/FLIP+no+bullshit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="305" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hyHy0DWLg74/Tq3AuO-_WjI/AAAAAAAAAOc/KkQEZKioVAM/s400/FLIP+no+bullshit.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Israel Lopez / AP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; A man dressed up as the devil jumps over babies lying on a mattress in the street during 'El Colacho', the 'baby jumping festival' on June 26, in the village of Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos, Spain. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Baby jumping is a traditional Spanish practice dating back to 1620 that takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; During the act - known as &lt;i&gt;El Salto del Colacho&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; (the devil's jump) or simply "El Colacho" men dressed as the Devil (known as the Colacho) jump the babies to take the evil from those born the last twelve months of the year as they lie on mattresses in the street.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Man dressed as the Devil" !?! RT&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-atreply" data-screen-name="pourmecoffee" href="http://twitter.com/pourmecoffee" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span class="at" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.5; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="at-text" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;pourmecoffee&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;WTF? "Spanish celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi with baby jumping"&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://bit.ly/k1YA52" href="http://t.co/TDjvGAI" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://bit.ly/k1YA52"&gt;bit.ly/k1YA52&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;.......................................................&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;UPDATE: &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;The Editor is grateful to Mr James Hovendick of Houston, Texas for his expertise on&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;El Salto del Colacho:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;"The Pope 'frowns' on the Baby Jumping festival now, since 2009," he says.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;ANOTHER UPDATE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"&gt;: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;Mr Jim, and, I assume Mrs Jim, live in &amp;nbsp;Montgomery, Texas, NOT Houston. As a personal anecdote, I'll add that I have relatives (on my father's side) who used to live in Katy, Texas but now live in an assisted living community in Houston.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;FOR THE RECORD:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mr Hovendick would also add that, "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Google had more about the festival than I could read in the time I had. I just wanted to share a bit."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;~8~&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="photo_credit" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #aaaaaa; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: inherit; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; width: 900px !important;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;Israel Lopez / AP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-8925157298466083891?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/8925157298466083891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/06/no-bullshit.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/8925157298466083891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/8925157298466083891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/06/no-bullshit.html' title='No. Bullshit.'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hyHy0DWLg74/Tq3AuO-_WjI/AAAAAAAAAOc/KkQEZKioVAM/s72-c/FLIP+no+bullshit.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-3178148006840966635</id><published>2011-06-24T21:39:00.013-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T01:18:52.316-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>"Victim's plight"</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- &lt;i&gt;The Onion ~&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;American's Finest News Source&lt;/i&gt; announced on Wednesday it was ignored by the Pulitzer Committee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="The Onion" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="14075928" height="48" src="http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/334357688/onion_logo_03_L_normal.png" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; 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cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="The Onion"&gt;TheOnion&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="tweet-full-name" style="color: #999999; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;The Onion&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-meta" style="color: #999999; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; 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padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;by KarenAGardner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Infographic: Onion Ignored By Pulitzer Committee&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-hashtag" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Onion1000" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#Onion1000"&gt;&lt;span class="hash" style="color: #7a0711; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hash-text" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;Onion1000&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.theonion.com/articles/onion-ignored-by-pulitzer-committee,20859/" href="http://onion.com/jTFYMV" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="http://www.theonion.com/articles/onion-ignored-by-pulitzer-committee,20859/"&gt;http://onion.com/jTFYMV&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;The Editor disagrees with reason #8. The board is not a&amp;nbsp;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;Bunch of babies pooping in their baby diapers."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img height="230" src="http://o.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/20853/Reporter_Spends_R_jpg_600x345_crop-smart_upscale_q85.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SAN FERNANDO, MEXICO—In an effort to better connect with the men and women murdered by the Zetas drug cartel, Josh Sullivan, an investigative reporter for The Onion, eschewed modern conveniences and the comforts of home for a month, going undercover and posing as a corpse in a mass grave to gain an intimate understanding of the victims’ plight.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- It's widely acknowledged by the news industry that Mr Sullivan of &lt;i&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Onion&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;was snubbed for a Pulitzer Prize in the category of&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="k. a. gardner" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1183597564/bromeliad_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; 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padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;via&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-atreply" data-screen-name="TheOnion" href="http://twitter.com/TheOnion" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span class="at" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.5; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="at-text" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;TheOnion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;/span&gt; Reporter Spends Month Undercover In Mass Grave&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.theonion.com/articles/reporter-spends-month-undercover-in-mass-grave,20853/" href="http://t.co/h5hJRCB" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; 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white-space: nowrap;"&gt;#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hash-text" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;OnionPulitzer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;~8~&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-3178148006840966635?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/3178148006840966635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/06/victims-plight.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/3178148006840966635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/3178148006840966635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/06/victims-plight.html' title='&quot;Victim&apos;s plight&quot;'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-7534466008478171358</id><published>2011-06-17T19:44:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T01:19:21.234-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>Cheeky grin</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- Thanks to &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;@pourmecoffee &lt;/span&gt;for sending the Editor her own picture of the day that he found in the &lt;i&gt;Telegraph's&lt;/i&gt; Animal Pictures of the week: 17 June 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img height="353" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01920/smiling-bat_1920177i.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;"Flying mammal's cheeky grin," said the Telegraph&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Robertus Sudiatmoko, who took the photo near his home in Jakarta, Indonesia, said:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;"I was so happy when I realised one of them showed the bat smiling.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="pourmecoffee" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="16906137" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/421566216/coffee1242220886_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; 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font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="retweet-icon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://a2.twimg.com/a/1308256633/phoenix/img/sprite-icons.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -192px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; margin-bottom: -2px !important; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -99999px; width: 15px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;by KarenAGardner&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="extra-icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: absolute; right: 5px; top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="icons" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="inlinemedia-icons" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Your photo of the day.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/8582088/Animal-pictures-of-the-week-17-June-2011.html/?image=4" href="http://bit.ly/maErjT" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/8582088/Animal-pictures-of-the-week-17-June-2011.html/?image=4"&gt;http://bit.ly/maErjT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;~8~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-7534466008478171358?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/7534466008478171358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/06/cheeky-grin.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/7534466008478171358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/7534466008478171358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/06/cheeky-grin.html' title='Cheeky grin'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-4686254864606603246</id><published>2011-06-12T17:51:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T01:20:08.730-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>Backyard invasion</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;A Georgia resident remains unconvinced by WSJ's ode to weeds. Kevin Brown will never love Poison ivy or Kudzo.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"I'll defend my backyard from their advances," Brown avowed. "By any means!"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="k. a. gardner" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1183597564/bromeliad_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;k. a. gardner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-content" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 58px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 48px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-row" style="display: block; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-corner" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; 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margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Weeds" height="266" src="http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/RV-AD091A_Weeds_G_20110603000527.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Dunwoody resident Kevin Brown's backyard? &amp;nbsp;(photo Grant Heilman)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Editor's note&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"&gt;-- (AP) Herd of s&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"&gt;heep eat invasive Kudzo in Mr Brown's backyard, but only after they finish off the poison ivy, said local&amp;nbsp;Shepard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; 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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;jaxdotcom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;--&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 15px;"&gt;~8~&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-4686254864606603246?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/4686254864606603246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/06/backyard-invasion.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4686254864606603246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/4686254864606603246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/06/backyard-invasion.html' title='Backyard invasion'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-7808994243191448392</id><published>2011-06-03T14:37:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2011-10-29T22:11:57.283-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Somewhat confused'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Useless factoid'/><title type='text'>Isaac's manuscript</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"&gt;-- &lt;/span&gt;Ptak Science Books announced several days ago that Isaac Newton confessed to 47 sins in the "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"&gt;extraordinary work known as the Fitzwilliam Manuscript"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yK-i0NC-Qg0/TqyxK_UGCWI/AAAAAAAAAN0/7EJ2tdQzH2k/s1600/Isaac+Newton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="241" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yK-i0NC-Qg0/TqyxK_UGCWI/AAAAAAAAAN0/7EJ2tdQzH2k/s400/Isaac+Newton.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;-- The Storer family was not well-liked by Isaac. 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line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Stealing cherry cobs from Eduard Storer" RT&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-atreply" data-screen-name="ptak" href="http://twitter.com/ptak" rel="nofollow" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span class="at" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.5; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="at-text" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;ptak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;The 47 sins of Isaac Newton recorded by himself, 1662.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-hashtag" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23hist" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#hist"&gt;&lt;span class="hash" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hash-text" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;hist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-hashtag" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23physics" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#physics"&gt;&lt;span class="hash" style="color: #7a0711; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; 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line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-image" style="color: #444444; float: left; font-size: 15px; height: 48px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 48px;"&gt;&lt;img alt="k. a. gardner" class="user-profile-link" data-user-id="51489256" height="48" src="http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1183597564/bromeliad_normal.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: rgb(122, 7, 17) !important; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; 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line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Denying that I did so" RT&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="  twitter-atreply" data-screen-name="ptak" href="http://twitter.com/ptak" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;span class="at" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.5; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;@&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="at-text" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;ptak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;The 47 sins of Isaac Newton recorded by himself, 1662.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-hashtag" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23hist" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#hist"&gt;&lt;span class="hash" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hash-text" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;hist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="  twitter-hashtag" href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23physics" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="#physics"&gt;&lt;span class="hash" style="display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0.7; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;#&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hash-text" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;physics&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2011/05/the-47-sins-of-isaac-newton-as-recorded-by-himself.html/" href="http://ow.ly/56gOo" rel="nofollow" style="color: #7a0711; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2011/05/the-47-sins-of-isaac-newton-as-recorded-by-himself.html/"&gt;http://ow.ly/56gOo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="tweet-text pretty-link" style="font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;~8~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/130858666393797513-7808994243191448392?l=flipsideflorida.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/feeds/7808994243191448392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/06/isaacs-manuscript.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/7808994243191448392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/130858666393797513/posts/default/7808994243191448392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://flipsideflorida.blogspot.com/2011/06/isaacs-manuscript.html' title='Isaac&apos;s manuscript'/><author><name>Karen</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11807633349311664382</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_yO9IECT0Kcc/TG16OKG8LRI/AAAAAAAAAEM/Kk0pJB0UAnM/S220/bromeliad.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yK-i0NC-Qg0/TqyxK_UGCWI/AAAAAAAAAN0/7EJ2tdQzH2k/s72-c/Isaac+Newton.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130858666393797513.post-3786583443391220891</id><published>2011-05-29T16:11:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-28T01:22:23.302-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vaguely humorous'/><title type='text'>Sky Scooters</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div class="actorName actorDescription" style="padding-bottom: 3px;"&gt;&lt;h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;msg&amp;quot;}" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;div class="actorName actorDescription" style="padding-bottom: 3px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"&gt;Editor's note&lt;/span&gt; -- This experimental Social Media feature article is not altered news via twitter.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="actorName actorDescription" style="padding-bottom: 3px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; 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padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 10000px;"&gt;&lt;a class="actorName" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001826916079" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001826916079" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Patty Lamb&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span data-jsid="text"&gt;‎2030? 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padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 10000px;"&gt;&lt;a class="actorName" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100001826916079" href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001826916079" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Patty Lamb&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span data-jsid="text"&gt;I mean jet ski thingy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="commentActions fsm fwn fcg" style="color: grey; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;&lt;abbr class="timestamp" data-date="Sun, 29 May 2011 10:24:38 -0700" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial;" title="Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 1:24pm"&gt;2 hours ago&lt;/abbr&gt;&amp;nbsp;·&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="comment_like_625755 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: grey; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;button class="stat_elem as_link cmnt_like_link" name="like_comment_id[625755]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: auto;" title="Like this comment" type="submit" value="625755"&gt;&lt;span class="default_message" style="display: inline;"&gt;Like&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/button&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="uiUfiComment comment_625842 ufiItem ufiItem" style="background-color: #edeff4; border-bottom-color: rgb(229, 234, 241); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"&gt;&lt;div class="UIImageBlock clearfix uiUfiActorBlock" style="display: block; zoom: 1;"&gt;&lt;a class="actorPic UIImageBlock_Image UIImageBlock_SMALL_Image" href="http://www.facebook.com/flipside.florida" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin-right: 8px; text-decoration: none;" tabindex="-1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="uiProfilePhoto uiProfilePhotoMedium img" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/49132_1571536252_7867021_q.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; height: 32px; width: 32px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;label class="deleteAction stat_elem UIImageBlock_Ext uiCloseButton" for="u874588_5" style="background-image: url(http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/z5/r/Yz_2RL5XOEG.png); color: #666666; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; float: right; font-weight: bold; height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; opacity: 0; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 15px; zoom: 1;"&gt;&lt;input id="u874588_5" name="delete[625842]" style="cursor: pointer; font-weight: normal; opacity: 0; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 18px; padding-right: 18px; padding-top: 18px;" title="Remove" type="submit" /&gt;&lt;/label&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="commentContent UIImageBlock_Content UIImageBlock_SMALL_Content" style="display: table-cell; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 10000px;"&gt;&lt;a class="actorName" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1571536252" href="http://www.facebook.com/flipside.florida" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Karen A. Gardner&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span data-jsid="text"&gt;Maybe everyone will have their own lunar landers, too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="commentActions fsm fwn fcg" style="color: grey; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;&lt;abbr class="timestamp" data-date="Sun, 29 May 2011 11:13:56 -0700" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial;" title="Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 2:13pm"&gt;about an hour ago&lt;/abbr&gt;&amp;nbsp;·&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="comment_like_625842 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: grey; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;button class="stat_elem as_link cmnt_like_link" name="like_comment_id[625842]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; width: auto;" title="Like this comment" type="submit" value="625842"&gt;&lt;span class="default_message" style="display: inline;"&gt;Like&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/button&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="commentActions fsm fwn fcg" style="color: grey; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;&lt;span class="comment_like_625842 fsm fwn fcg" style="color: grey; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="commentActions fsm fwn fcg" style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; padding-top: 2px;"&gt;&lt;span class="comment_like_625842 fsm fwn fcg" style="font-size: 11px; 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