...that Yuku still hasn't implemented automatic Daylight Savings Time adjustments.

(And I even started http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/topic/6741]this thread late last week... Okay, Bob http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/topic/6738]was busy last weekend, so it's understandable that he'd miss one clock.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

http://www.dorktower.com/2010/03/15/dor ... h-15-2010/]Today's Dork Tower
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Peter Graves, aka Jim Phelps of Mission Impossible, has died.  Article here.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

James Bond or Ghost in the Shell?
I say its the latter. Considering how easy it is to hijack someone's ID nowadays. I'd say the Mossad took a couple of true ID's for their hit teams and then changed them back to their true identities or gave them new ones after the operation. No one had ever accused the Mossad of institutional bungling. Dubai's showing them on TV may have null value. What is the use of all these biometric equipment if you can swap identities like trading cards?
On a related note...Peter Graves aka Jim Phelps died.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

Okay, here's my first draft on the Centauri A system. Despite the names, there are no giant blue catpeople wandering around. At least, not at the moment... you know fen, after all. Comment @ will. --Mal

Don't forget Arizona. they don't believe in DST over there, either.

Cup of Brown Joy
Obviously does something tea related, I'm thinking either turning all liquid in the AoE into tea or causing everyone in the vacinity to have an overwhelming craving for the drink in question.

Pat Boone "Speedy Gonzales"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PiQCKrvCI
 
SPOKEN: It was a moonlit night in old Mexico. I walked alone between some old
adobe haciendas. Suddenly, I heard the plaintive cry of a young Mexican girl.

You better come home, Speedy Gonzales
Away from tannery row
Stop alla your a-drinkin'
With that floozie named Flo
Come on home to your adobe
And slap some mud on the wall
The roof is leakin' like a strainer
There's loadsa roaches in the hall

Speedy Gonzales, why dontcha come home?
Speedy Gonzales, how come ya leave me all alone?

SPOKEN in a male Mexican accent: "Hey, Rosita-I hafta go shopping downtown
for my mudder-she needs some tortillas and chili peppers."

Your doggy's gonna have a puppy
And we're runnin' outta coke
No enchiladas in the icebox
And the television's broke
I saw some lipstick on your sweatshirt
I smelled some perfume in your ear
Well if you're gonna keep on messin'
Don't bring your business back a-here

Mmm, Speedy Gonzales, why dontcha come home?
Speedy Gonzales, how come ya leave me all alone?

SPOKEN in a male Mexican accent: "Hey, Rosita-come queek-down at the cantina
they giving green stamps with tequila!!"

Power: Superspeed (what else?), possible side effects include being turned into a mouse, sombrero, mexican accent or combination of them.
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Skillet "Monster"

The secret side of me
I never let you see
I keep it caged but I can't control it
So stay away from me
The beast is ugly
I feel the rage and I just can't hold it

It's scratchin on the walls
In the closet, in the halls
It comes awake and I can't control it
Hidin under the bed
In my body, in my head
Why won't somebody come and save me from this
Make it end

I feel it deep within
It's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I feel like a monster
I hate what I've become
The nightmare's just begun
I must confess that I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster

My secret side I keep
Hid under lock and key
I keep it caged but I can't control it
Cause if I let him out
He'll tear me up, break me down
Why won't somebody come and save me from this
Make it end

I feel it deep within
It's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I feel like a monster
I hate what i've become
The nightmare's just begun
I must confess that I feel like a monster
I feel it deep within
It's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster

Its hidin in the dark
Its teeth are razor sharp
There's no escape for me
It wants my soul it wants my heart

No one can hear me scream
Maybe its just a dream
Or maybe its inside of me
Stop this monster

I feel it deep within
It's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I (feel like a monster)
I hate what i've become
The nightmare's just begun
I must confess that I feel like a monster
I feel it deep within
It's just beneath the skin
I must confess that I feel like a monster
I've gotta lose control
It's something radical
I must confess that I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster
I, I feel like a monster

power: possibly a 'Jeckyl and Hyde' effect, unleashing Doug's darkside. It might be on his 'locked out' list.
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

(Okay, let's try this a second time.  For some reason, the first posting went in without any text.)
Well, for those of you who aren't in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, we're right now being battered by a nasty rainstorm -- lots of rain, lots of wind.  It's been going on for about 24 hours, and is project to keep going for another 48 or so.
And it just knocked down a fir tree in our yard that was located about five feet from our house.
We're okay, the house is okay.  The tree was positioned such and the wind blowing such, that it fell down along the side of the house, the trunk coming no closer than about 18 inches at any point.  But it came down in two stages, when its branches got snagged on the roof.  It's all the way down now, and we have a tree top in the patio, but it seems to be stable and not prone to movement, even when pushed by the monster gusts of wind we're getting.  We'll probably hear branches moving still for a while, but we don't seem to be in any danger of losing any windows or anything at this point.  I think.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled Saturday night.
ETA:  Oh, and we had a little blackout between the first partial fall of the tree, when it initially caught on the roof, and the final fall to the ground.  Obviously the power's back, but I really wish the lights would stop flickering.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I didn't even hear about this until I heard a radio ad alluding to her. Now I keep thinking about Billy Joel's "The Piano Cat"..err..Man that is.
__________________
Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell