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I’m older than 21.  And I wear my seatbelt.  And I’m not from South Carolina.  And, oh yeah, I’m not dead.

I used to have a “Where Else Can Joshua Be Found on the Web” page, where I also listed the Joshua McGees that are not me.  It’s no longer maintained.  But I feel I must cry out, this lazy loser is not me.

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Encountered online.  It mostly sounds like English:

Reason for READ NFO is, during the feed there was a minor blimp.  IT is not a encoding glitch.  There is no reason for a proper over this, even tho we expect KYR or aAF will find a lame reason to proper 12 hrs from our pre time.

Niall has two sets of favorite music.  System of a Down — seriously, System of a Down — and the most banal set of children’s CDs that someone started calling “Children’s Music” to him.  The latter are insipid, major-key jaunts on a Casio and nylon-stringed guitar, with a bad tenor and a bunch of breathy children singing the most profoundly weird songs.

I loathe them.  I would have said, under other circumstances, that the producers should slip under a freight train for producing, distributing, and charging for these, but Niall really, really does like it, and sometimes likes the same song over and over again.  Annoying, but not quite as annoying as his screaming his head off in the car.  Usually.

One time, Jenn and I were driving along listening to one of these atrocious CDs, and I began questioning the surrealistic lyrics in progressively off-color but G-rated fashion.  Jenn was laughing for a while, then chuckling.  But the one that got her to snap was the following:

Song: Did you ever see a lassie, a lassie, a lassie?  Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that?

Me: Is this one about a girl who goes both ways?

Jenn: STOP!

Looks like Google Answers is gone forever.  Was a really, really neat idea while it lasted.

Do check out PaperBackSwap.com.  Trade books — for free! — with other book lovers around the country.  There is a sister site for CDs, but that costs money.

My good friend Marcus has a site selling philatelic covers.  It is Naval Cover Shop.

The designer of the site has mad skills, BTW.