*sigh*

[annathepiper]

Russell, dearest, darling light of my eyes, this was really not necessary.

Calm down. Seriously.

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[howlinhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm pretty sure the phone company ads encouraging you to "reach out and touch someone" with the phone didn't exactly have this in mind.

HH

[firni.livejournal.com]

Maybe he should consider Scientology.

Oh wait, never mind.

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

he's going to have fun explaining that one to his wife and his mom. and i would imagine his newest buddy isn't going to be any too impressed either.

[annathepiper]

*snicker* Quite.

[annathepiper]

Quite. And speaking as one of the distressed Crowe fans on LJ today, we're not impressed, either. :(

[annathepiper]

*snort* What, because clams are soothing? ;)

[firni.livejournal.com]

That and I think giving up all your money must be soothing, if you look at Revolta.

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

ah, but while all of you are musing on the question, "WT*F* were you thinking??!?!??" none of you are likely to ask that one to his face. those other three folks (and particularly the first two) i listed probably will.

[annathepiper]

Quite.

[annathepiper]

Hah! Yes. ;)

Dammit, now I have "Acres of Clams" stuck in my head. "And I think of my pleasant condit-ioooooooooon, suuuuuuuuuuuur-ROUNDED by ACRES OF CLAMS!"

[firni.livejournal.com]

I guess it beats

we got crab legs
AT SEA GALLEY

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Russell, you eeediot!

*sigh*

On another note, my friend disc_sophist has told me that the icon she uses in this post is up for adoption, so long as it's credited :)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/disc_sophist/511395.html

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

It says in the Journal from Wall Street
Rhode Island is tiny and odd.
Compared to the rest of the union,
It's a smudge on the road to Cape Cod!

CHORUS

We've got cabinets, grindas and clam cakes,
With chowda the soup of the day
With Newport's spectacular sunsets,
And a rising red tide on the bay

CHORUS

They say that we ain't got no cultcha,
Just get in your auto and drive
There's the School of Design Art Museum,
And an insect on Route 95.

CHORUS

They say that we're slow and lethargic,
But it takes reflexes and nerve
To handle the 5 PM traffic
Around Thurber's Avenue Curve!

CHORUS

New York, it has got the Big Apple,
And Florida has oranges sun-kiss't,
But only Rhode Islanders grapple
With quahogs the size of your first!

(With apologies to Katzberg and Snyder, and pleas to get their albums back in print)

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

*fist

[annathepiper]

Can't see the post, unfortunately. That person have her journal Friends-only?

And yeah, looks like somebody smacked Russell with a stupid stick over the weekend. Grf.

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Whoops, yes. Hang on. http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=disc_sophist

It's the one right at the bottom of the left-hand column.

[annathepiper]

*chortle* Okay, that's funny. :)

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

A lot of the others are as well. Check out the one at top left, and the one at... let's see... eleventh down on the left.

[annathepiper]

Heh! Cute. I like the "Sharpe's Fangirl" icon, too. :)

[darcedor.livejournal.com]

hey anna, sorry to leave you a random message here, but I'm a friend of scrunchions and framlingem so we're in the same company. Anyway, I really like your icon there and I was wondering how you made it. Did you use some sort of portrait maker program? Thanks.

[annathepiper]

Hi there! I made the icon via Yahoo's Avatars page--you need a Yahoo ID to use it, and you need IE, since it works on ActiveX technology and therefore doesn't support any other browser. The link is here.

[annathepiper]

*giggle!* Is this to be sung to the same tune as "Acres of Clams", then? Or is the East Coast version of the song?

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's the tune. It's a 20-year-old-or-so song by Katzberg and Snyder, a group that no longer performs together and hasn't sold tapes in forever. I have two of the tapes buried somewhere, but darned if I know where. I need to find them and then find someone who can burn them to CD for me before a tape player gets hungry....

[annathepiper]

Mercifully, I do not have a tune to accompany those words. ;)

[firni.livejournal.com]

http://www.sanderson-studios.com/cli-seagalley.html

Click it. Now. I DEMAND IT.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

For reference purposes:

• RISD Art Museum (http://risd.edu/museum.cfm)
  
• Nibbles Woodaway (http://www.quahog.org/attractions/index.php?id=58)
  

I wanted to show you "Some guy from Rhode Island ordered a grinder and a cabinet", but it doesn't seem to be online. Oh, well...

[annathepiper]

Oh well! Thank you for the links, though! :)

[annathepiper]

Somewhat belatedly, she clicks...

She eyes the picture of the crab-legged mutants, and the first thing that pops into her brain is that line from the old Roger Corman flick: "Once they were men... now they are LAND CRABS!"

And the actual ad is even more alarming!

[firni.livejournal.com]

WE GOT CRAB LEGS
at sea galley
WE GOT CRAB LEGS
at sea galley

[annathepiper]

Ah cool! Yeah, I've got a bunch of filk I need to do that to, since I haven't touched the tapes in years and who knows what shape they are in now!

[annathepiper]

You are an evil, evil person. Have I mentioned?

[firni.livejournal.com]

I heard about that at dinner tonight. The word "rage" was invoked at least once, too.