Between the good and bad, that's where you'll find me, Reaching for Heaven

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I ran across a list on Wikipedia of what are known as The Northanger Abbey Horrid Novels, the list of crazy-titled books which Isabella recommends to Catherine Morland, and that phrase "The Northanger Abbey Horrid Novels" just struck me as A Good Name For a Band. (Come to find out that the Horrid Novels are real books, thanks to the efforts of an enterprising British librarian who dug around for them, but I digress). They'd be a sort of tongue in cheek geek rock/goth rock band, something between Emillie Autumn and Oingo Boingo (when the lead singer isn't being an idiot between numbers and doing random bad impersonations of Tom Waits, or Till Lindemann of Rammstein). Their first album? "Mysteries of Udolpho". Cuts would include "Rats in the Basement, Bats in the Belfry", "Regency Twihard", "It's 1799, Do You Know What Your Daughter is Reading?", "Murk 'N Peek", and "Murdering Ye Oldie English" as well as covers of The Strawbs' "Lady Fuschia", Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party", Titus Groan's "In the Hall of Bright Carvings", and Emillie Autumn's "I Know Where You Sleep".

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Ultrasound diagnostic

Heh, proves how much I am *not* fond of small children...

Found this in a e-newsletter from a Catholic men's organization; not surprisingly, it was a (HAH!) submission from the wife of the guy who founded said organization:

INSTALLING HUSBAND Version 1.0
Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0, and noticed a distinct slow-down in overall system performance - particularly in the Flower and Jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.
In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as NFL 5.0, MLB 3.0, NBA 4.0, NASCAR 4.2 and Golf Clubs 4.1. Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail. What can I do?
Signed,
Desperate

Dear Desperate:
First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an Operating System.
Please enter the command: "http//www.I-Thought-You-Loved-Me.com" and try to download Tears 6.2, and don't forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. But remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, or Beer 6.1.
Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0 (it runs a virus in the background, that will eventually seize control of all your system resources). Also, do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program. This is an unsupported application and will crash Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory, and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Hot Food 3.0 and Desert 7.7.

These two lines from one of the more recent entries on interdictor's LJ made me laugh, albeit in black humor way.

"- The strip clubs are open on Bourbon Street.

"- The Saints fumbled away another game."

Now I *know* the Saints here is the Louisiana football team, but I couldn't resist reading some mischievous Catholic humor into it, as in "Hm. Does the fact that the saints are fumbling stuff up have anything to do with the strip joints reopening?" I bet Walker Percy would have similar thoughts... ( Possibly contraversial remark behind the cut )

Hey, we could use a little wierd humor to keep us going through these trying times....

Yanked off Godawful.com, it's the Virtual Snowglobe!! Shake that thang... Oh man, that's too funny!!!!

http://mtxref-fic.livejournal.com/9594.html