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I haven't watched the last three eps of One Tree Hill but I saw a promo the other day and now I kind of want to see how it all ends. And I've also decided that I'd like it to end with Lucas and Peyton pushing Clay and Quinn off a cliff.

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I posted the icons I made for

insmallpackages over here

There's a couple of Sandra, Genevieve, Jared, Danneel, Chad and Adrianne.

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How does one delete tags from a comm?

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[from a Bathroom Reader]

If you work in television, or even just sit in front of the TV a lot, here's your girl.

St. Clare of Assisi: She's the less famous member of the "of Assisi" family, her brother St. Francis being the really well-known one - the one who's always shown with all the cute animals around him and birds on his shoulder.

Anyway, Clare started an order called the Poor Clares, but she wasn't poor to begin with. She had everything: she was pretty and nice, and lively and rich. But her brother converted her. He did such a good job that she swung totally in the other direction: she and her Poor Clares wore no shoes, slept on the ground, and lived in absolute poverty. They had to beg for their food.
So why is she the patron saint of TV? One Christmas in the mid-13th century, when she was old and sick and couldn't make it to the midnight services, Clare heard singing and saw a vision of the nativity scene on her wall. Talk about custom programming!

~~Willow~~ Sam: That's right, Big Boy. Come and get it.

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[this from a Bathroom Reader]

The real Dracula's ancestors were warlord princes of Wallachia, a principality in what is now Romania. Dracula's father, Basarab, was in line for the throne, but there were a lot of relatives in the way. So for the moment, Basarab had to settle for the post of governor of Transylvania. In 1431 he was inducted as a knight into the Royal Order of the Dragon. He started calling himself the Dragon, which in Romanian is Dracul. His second son, Vlad, was born a few months later, and the little tyke was nicknamed "Dracula" which means son of the dragon.

[yadda yadda yadda]

In most stories, it's the White Knight who rides in on his charger and saves the day. But this is real life. And this particular White Knight wanted more than anything to be the king of Hungary. He saw Wallachia as a stepping-stone, and the Dragon as an impediment. The White Knight killed Vlad's father, mother and older brother, and took the throne of Wallachia. When Vlad found out what had happened, he vowed revenge.

[blah blah blah]

He sometimes wiped out entire villages for no reason but he didn't just kill his own people. Foreign dignitaries and traders, monks, priests, Turks- everyone was a likely candidate. Travelers started to go the long way around Wallachia. It was during this time that the Turks named him "Vlad the Impaler."
Virtually any crime was punishable by impalement. Sometimes Vlad killed just because he was bored. He tortured and mutilated people, hanged them, burned them at the stake, and boiled them alive, but impalement was his favourite. It's estimated that Vlad the Impaler was responsible for 100,000 deaths.

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Vlad was killed outside Bucharest in a skirmish against his oldest enemy, the Turks, but it's a historical toss-up as to whether he died in battle or was killed by his own men. The Turks decapitated him and sent his head to Constantinople, where it was put on display to prove that the man they had named "the Impaler" was really dead. His body was buried at a monastery near Bucharest, but disappeared. When archaeologists in the 1930s removed the slab over Draculas supposed grave, they found an empty pit. Think about it.

30 Strangest Animal Mating Habits.

Fun and educational!

[snippets]

A female hyena has a pseudopenis, basically an enlarged clitoris, that they can erect at will. To mate, the meeker male has to insert his penis into her pseudopenis. That’s difficult for the males, but still nothing compared to the female having to give birth through a penis!

[giraffes] First, he nudges her rump to induce urination. He then takes a mouthful of urine. If it tastes good to him, then he begins to court her.

Second, to court a female during the short mating season, a male porcupine stands up on his hind legs, waddles up to her, and then sprays her with a huge stream of urine from as far as 6 feet away, and drench his would-be paramour from head to foot!

I didn't know that giraffes and porcupines were into watersports.

Male macaques will pay (in form of fruits) to get a peek at the hind quarters of a female macaque.

Actually, that’s not all: they will also pay to gaze at pictures of dominant "celebrity" monkeys (i.e. the high-ranking males) in their pack

They're just like us! :p

There’s dancing and there’s dancing - like the moonwalk that the male Manakin does to impress the ladies! Michael Jackson has nothing on them manakins!

You should really watch the video with that one. Mmhmm.

The male argonaut produces a ball of spermatozoa in a special tentacle called a hectocotylus. When meeting a female it fancies, the male then detaches its penis to swim by itself to the female!

Hahaha. "Go on without me but I want details when you get back!"

Straw Itch Mite: Incestuous Brothers

They really actually mate with their sisters but still. I like the heading.

The average size of a banana slug penis is 6 to 8 inches. This is incredibly impressive, considering their entire body length is 6 to 8 inches as well!

The title of world’s longest sperm actually belongs to a tiny fruit fly called Drosophila bifurca. When the coiled sperm is straightened out, it measures about 2 inches which is over 1,000 times longer than a human sperm. In fact, the testes of a fruit fly makes up 11 percent of the body mass of the male!

From head to tail, the Argentine lake duck measures about 17 inches. That also happens to be the length of its corkscrew-shaped penis when stretched out.

And then I insist, yes INSIST that you go here and watch the "Mating leopard slugs" because it's just awesome and nifty and kinda neat all at once. They're both male at the same time and yet they're both impregnating each other at the same time. And the male organs "entwine" and some how it's really kind of pretty. No seriously.

Go watch.

Was watching episodes of QI today and learned ...

o1. Blorenge rhymes with orange.
o2. The Ancient Greeks made dildos out of bread.
o3. Chocolate is poisonous to people. The lethal dose is 22lbs.
o4. Sperm can smell Lily of the Valley.

I was looking at a pizza menu today, looking at the list of toppings that they had because I do that. And most of them were your normal type of pizza toppings but also listed were raisins. WTF? Seriously. I just ... What? I looked at their list of pizzas and none of them had raisins as one of the toppings. What else would you put on a pizza that you'd think, 'Oh, I think raisins would go great with this?' If you know the answer, please tell me.

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screencaps of Sandy in CSI:LV here - if one wanted to use them or just ogle.

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In the old days, freckles were called "moth-patches" and were considered an affliction.

An exocannibal is a cannibal who eats only enemies. An indocannibal eats only friends.

[stoled from

mrbig1316]

Micmezle never wet her bed as a child. The bed wet itself out of fear.

Micmezle once partook in a pissing contest outside of a bar. Her opponent drowned.

Micmezle doesn't see dead people. She makes people dead.

We all know the magic word is please. As in the sentence, "Please don't kill me." Too bad Micmezle doesn't believe in magic.

The saddest moment for children is not when they learn Santa Claus isn't real, it's when they learns Micmezle is.

Micmezle once finished "The Song that Never Ends".

During the Vietnam War, Micmezle allowed herself to be captured. For torture, they made her eat her own entrails. She asked for seconds.

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