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ABOUT THIS RESEARCHER

Created: 18th May 2001 
WELCOME TO MY PAGE
U200000


Thank you for visiting my space. smiley


I know I promised to give some apathy lessons,
but I doubt that anyone would bother to come.


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Top ten ways of knowing if an egg has gone bad:

10. You notice it selling drugs on the streetcorner.
9. It always seems to be leaning against Humpty Dumpty whenever he sits on walls.
8. It doesn't phone its mother. Heck, it doesn't even write.
7. It cheats the Easter Bunny every time the two play cards.
6. It refuses to come out of its shell when guests come to dinner.
5. It moons Faberge at every opportunity.
4. It refuses to go to any functions if the chicken will be there, because it wants to discourage speculation as to which came first.
3. It leads kitchen revolts on Egg Foo Yung Day.
2. It refuses to show up for the annual Easter Egg Roll.
1. It smells bad even if you cut off its nose

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ODE TO A POTATO CHIP

Potato chip, thou noble slab of starch,
With freckles brown bedotted 'round an arch,
Granitic fat doth sparkle on thy rim,
To thee I dedicate this little hymn.

Some Philistines with ketchup thee would drench,
Or use thee for a spade to dig a trench
In Onion dip or salsa. Tis a bane!
For I prefer thee in thy state most plain.

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Brass fanfare, followed by lush chords
from the string section, and an insistent
drumbeat. On the screen, stars are whizzing
past at Warp 11>

Welcome to tonight's episode of "In Search
of Lost minds." In our last episode, the valiant
crew of the Czarship Roamin' Off rescued
Princess Anesthesia from a red star. Ratsputum,
the Czar's counselor, had suggested a tourniquet,
which Czar Nickelass mistakenly interpreted as a
tournament. So now the whole population of the
spaceship was playing bridge.

CZAR Nickelass: Okay, I bid hearts....

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Scene: Notre Dame Cathedral. It is the 13th century,
or maybe the 15th century. Esmeralda has been quietly
hiding a humpback whale in the belltower for years,
but he is soon to be flushed from his hiding place.
His name is Quasimoby. Someday he will be known as the
Humpback of Notre Dam.

<Impressive music weaving together the themes "Dit dat dittum,
dattum, wattum, choo!" and "Hi ho, hi ho, A Whaling we will go.">

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We now resume our normally silly programming smiley

Come on in.

Make yourself comfortable.

Have a drink.
Ignore the strange creatures that scurry for
the shadows as soon as you notice them out
of the corner of your eye. They're probably just
harmless carnivorous saber-toothed squirrels
that haven't eaten in a month or so. Nothing
we can't handle if we have major weapons at our
disposal. Not that I have any. I hope you
brought yours. smiley

Down this hall to the left, we have a nice modern
bathroom complete with shower. The cleaning
staff has done a very good job of removing the last
traces of blood from the shower stall. Even
Mrs. Bates couldn't tell anybody had been murdered
there. Wait, did I say murdered? Ha, ha, slip of
the tongue. I meant to say christened. The two
words are so much alike, it's easy to get them mixed up.

whistle

The dining room boasts an enormous chandelier.
It's a replica of a chandelier that Marie Antoinette
was very fond of before her head got cu... Oh,
there I go again, ha, ha! I meant to say before she
cut her little finger while cutting cake to give
to the poor, starving masses. Anyway, the dining
room is right over a major fault line, so in the
event that there's an earthquake, you won't want to
be under the chandelier. The guy who installed it
was a pastry chef who had never done any building
before. He was cheap, though, which was a good thing.

So, enjoy your stay at my page. If you need
anything, just yell...

WELCOME TO THE POSTMODERNIST SMILEY ART GALLERY

I call this one "Meaningless Random Smiley Cluster"

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spider bubbly biggrin moon stiffdrink erm elf
rocket chick flyhi wow schooloffish
strawberry clown smooch rose thief kiss
thief nahnah xmaspud bigeyes santa hotdog


This may not answer your questions about me, but....

Who is Paul H. and Why is he Harmly Mostless?

If you are visiting my space for the first time,
welcome! You will probably never get to meet me
in person. You might not even want to smiley . I am
5'4" tall, with a bushy moustache and thick (some
would say unruly)grey hair. We won't discuss my
weight winkeye . I have a penchant for collecting things:
birthdays (I've accumulated 53 of them so far), music
recordings (mostly classical and musical theater),
funny songs, dinnerware patterns, pumpkins, recipes,
and clutter. My house is expected to sink into the
swamp any minute now. biggrin

I work at the reference desk in a public library
south of Boston, Massachusetts. This means that I
have accumulated thousands of odd facts over the
years, which I insert into many of the discussion
threads that I participate in. It's lucky that the
only kind of tomatoes anyone can throw at me are the
virtual kind. smiley

Come back often, as I make changes to my site
fairly often.

HOW TO SPELL MY NAME WITH SMILEYS

pumpkin = P
angel = A
ufo = U
laugh = L

hotdog = H

smiley Honorary Patron Saint of Ragtime Vogon Poetry

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Sinister leaves, the Supreme Court, and Meryl Streep (a dream)
Last Week

I dreamed that I was in a strange country where many of the people did not speak English. I was the fourth-ranked government official in some faroff outpost that was always getting buried in Autumn leaves. (Toward the end of the dream, we finally rose above our industrial backwardness by realizing that the surplus leaves could be burned to produce steam for our industrial revolution...)

Many of the people were not especially happy, though they realized we couldn't do much about their complaints. Still, I was more than happy to be the one that steered them toward using the leaves for industry. For this I was rewarded by appointment to the Supreme
Court. At this point, I realized that we were a distant part of the United States. When I arrived in washington to take my seat on the Court, I found that Meryl Streep was the Chief Justice. She sat at the right end of the bench, while I sat second from the left.
The one person who was to my left turned out to be a nutter who spoke gibberish in a high-pitched falsetto. No one threw him out, as Supreme Court justices serve for life. I found that budget constraints prevented the court from being able to provide comfortable chairs, so I was never able to sit high enough for more than my head to peep over the top of the bench. The room was filled with people, as this was the opening day of the court session, the proverbial first Monday in October.....

Discuss this entry - 55 replies - Latest reply: 2 Days Ago

Watching the Cucumbers grow (a dream)
Last Week

Last night I had quite a well-organized dream. I was visiting a college campus that was situated around the flanks of a hill. (My own college experience was in a dorm on a place called "Orchard Hill," so maybe this was a return as an alumni).

Anyway, I approached by helicopter. There was a prominent greenhouse covering the top of the hill, but when we got lower and landed in the main part of the campus, the buildings above us hid the greenhouse. We visited various buildings, which were done in the brick-facade neo-Colonial style that characterizes a lot of college buildings in New England. Finally, we neared the top of the hill and could see the greenhouses. The propiretor told us that this was the day of the year when we could see something amazing. This was Cucumber Day, the day when removing the glass canopy stimulated the cucumber seeds to sprout and do an entire season's worth of growing in just twelve hours or so. I watched them grow, and ended up with tiny cucumbers to bring home again.

Discuss this entry - 121 replies - Latest reply: 38 Minutes Ago

The state of bananas in a Shakespearian tragedy
2 Weeks Ago

The dream I had last night was too weird not to record for posterity.
I dreamed that I had been dropped into the middle of a classic tragedy, set in a country inn in some European country. There was a young family with a couple little girls and a young son, who had just arrived at the inn. To welcome them, the staff members brought in the bananas and spread them out on the tables in the dining room. Everyone nodded approvingly, because it was common knowledge (in this dream counry, at any rate) that you could reliably rate the quality of an inn based on the ripeness of their bananas. These particular bananas helped put the inn in a favorable light,
because they were neither too ripe nor too green. Obviously the staff
bought them when green, and moved them to the dining room when they were at the perfect state of ripeness.

Alas, the banana idyll ran its course as grim reality set in: there was sword-fighting, with blood everywhere. The young family either died or fled the scene...

Discuss this entry - 136 replies - Latest reply: 1 Hour Ago

A run-down summer resort on a hill (a dream)
5 Weeks Ago

This was a very vivid dream, set on a gently rounded hill where a summer resort has been in operation for a very long time. There's an officious woman (who later turns out not to be the owner, but rather a longstanding member of the kitchen staff) who tells the teenage workers what to do. The kitchen is fairly large, with signs of wear everywhere. The veneer on the counter tops has been worn down in a few places. The plumbing seems to be holding on so far, but who knows what weak spots lurk below the sink? Still, there is something comforting about being in a place that has such a lot of history, and has probably been the scene of some very good times.

It's hard to tell how many summer guests there are, but maybe the season is mostly over anyway? A few people go out on the lawn to sun themselves on the benches and enjoy the view of the nearby town. What makes the place less than desirable is the large number of rotting carcasses of large animals (probably cows) that have been deposited at random across the landscape. Some of the picnic
tables are off-limits for use because the carcasses are perched on top of them.

At the end of the dream, I have gone into town on some errand, and when I come back, I can't drive up the hill until a long funeral procession goes up. Perhaps the owner of the resort has died?

Discuss this entry - 53 replies - Latest reply: Last Week

Standing outside at 2 a.m. because my house is full of smoke (not a dream)
Oct 8, 2009

I didn't get much sleep last night. Somewhere around 2 a.m., my carbon monoxide detector went off, warning me of fire. I dressed as fast as I could, aware that the house was filling up with thick blue smoke. I ran to the phone to call the fire department, and then waited out in front of the house until they came. I could see smoke coming from my roof, so I was worried that the roof was on fire.

When the the firemen got there, they used a heat detector to pinpoint the location of the fire. The verdict: my oil burner was misfiring. They told me to turn it off and have someone service
it as soon as possible. I went back into the house and returned to bed. There was no more smoke after that, but also no heat.

The smell of smoke gradually lessened, though not completely. It was in the low 50s (Fahrenheit), and I had enough quilts to stay warm, but sleep was slow in coming.

Update: It's almost noon the following morning. The furnace service people will be sending someone today, but don't know exactly when the person will arrive. This may get expensive, as my oil burner
is 39 years old, and could well need replacing. sadface

Discuss this entry - 43 replies - Latest reply: Oct 13, 2009

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