Carnival of the Vanities #5
Written by Laurence Simon
Published October 22, 2002
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  • Steve from Ravenwood - Big Deal: Flarry Simon turns 100,000: Why toot my own horn when others are more than willing to blow it for me? Best line of the piece is "We also noticed that his weblog turned 100,000 only after he took his picture off the front page."

  • Steve Gigl - An Exercise in Fishbarreling: Steve fisks Woody's article in the Guardian. You know, if you fisk your woody too much, you'll go blind.

  • Kitchen Cabinet - Golf Wimps: A fine testimonial to the many injuries and accidents inherent in a brutal game of Ultimate Frisbe. I should know... Ultimate was the Sport of Baker College and I think it was a Baker-Baker matchup for the championship my Senior year. I rarely make it to the campus to play 18 holes now.

  • Raving Atheist - Shroud Dating Proves Jesus Was "Oz" Scarecrow: Wonderfully silly. As John Cougar Mellencamp would say, "Reign of the Scarecrow, Blood On The Cross"

  • Fran of Northwest Notes - Trip To The Ozarks: A bunch of beautiful pictures from a trip to the Ozarks.

  • N.Z. Bear - The Bear Doctrine: The Bear states his own principles for justifying American military action and regime change and how it differs between Iraq and North Korea. But if you apply it towards Major League Baseball, Bud Selig would be deader than a dodo...

    Well, that's about it, so all rise while the blogpastor leads us in a hy-

    What? Oh, fine. If you're looking for something by me, well, I got inspired by Fred of Fragments From Floyd and decided to pull out two of my Raving Zionist Loony classics: The Two Thousand And Forty Year Old Man Part I and Part II. I keep trying to come up with Part III, but no matter how many times I listen to the Rhino CDs they just don't come fast enough.

    Cue the end credits music please...

    The Carnival of the Vanities is published every Wednesday at Silflay Hraka and Blog Critics, except for this week, when it is being hosted and compiled with time-honored Amish webcrafting tradition at Amish Tech Support. Many thanks to Bigwig for allowing me to risk the reputation of his blogging franchise for a few cheap laughs.

    Information on how to join the Carnival is available here, and all are welcome.

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    #1 — October 22, 2002 @ 21:09PM — Eric Olsen

    Very nice annotation ye olde Amish dude (how's that for conflating various European and post-European tongues? Hey, that sounds like fun) Biggy: get well soon. It's always more fun to jump off the wagon and then lie in wait for the driver.

    This is a great series!!

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