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happy 359th day of the year!

it is not yet midnight and the turkey seems to have lulled everyone else to sleep. vegetarians unite!

during our fabulous feast (thanks anne and merran!) we partook in traditional british christmas crackers.

don we now our crafty colourful paper crowns.

while my friends got “recognizable” novelty toys in their cracker (mini-stapler, mini-sewing kit, rubic’s cube key chain, mini-toothbrush, dolphin bracelet, nail clippers, bouncy rubber ball, water gun, shoe horn), i found myself with this item of mystery:

it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…

suggestions so far are: teeth flosser, slingshot, poking device, needle threader… please help identify this mysterious novelty item! is it related to bridge, golf, knitting, karate?

here is an article about the decline in quality of christmas crackers.

anyway, crackers are no fun without cheese…
here is some requisite corny “family friendly” christmas cracker humour…

Q. why can’t prisoners have chocolate?
A. because it makes them break-out

Q. What’s the most popular gardening magazine in the world?
A. Weeder’s Digest

happy holidays!

i just discovered a new social software site called Wordie:

Wordie [wûrd • ē]
Like Flickr, but without the photos.
Wordie lets you make lists of words — practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever — and see who else has listed the same words.

i know, you are thinking “what a word nerd” — well, i also love scrabble, my Thinkmap visual thesaurus subscription, and making lists… so a word nerd i will be!

Wordie lets you make lists of words, so my first list words-stacey-hates was inspired by my next-office-neighbour who came into my office one day and randomly blurted out how he hates the word ubiquitous.

Wordie lets you add comments and citations, and subscribe to word list feeds, so feel free to subscribe!