Wonderland’s “Apocalypse”
Someone woke up Saturday morning on the wrong side of bed…
The Indian Ocean tsunami caused the global death toll from natural disasters in 2004 to triple from the year before to about a quarter of a million ? the highest total in almost 30 years, the international Red Cross said last week.The body count from Hurricane Stan has reached 1,400 in Guatemala after rescuers retrieved 61 bodies from two mudslide-hit communities.
The 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck Northern Pakistan and India on Friday has thus far killed 18,000 30,000, according to estimates.
There are 20 less people on the planet to worry about the effects of global warming after suicide bombers strolled into restaurants on the island of Bali and blew themselves up last week.
Anyway, you get the idea how Roger was feeling.
As for me, I was just happy that it was a nice day, no one was killed on PCH, and there was a new episode of Rome on HBO.
On a lighter note, Roger was doing some “research” on Craigslist’s Missed Connections and found a hilarious exchange (too funny to be real) between Starbucks barista and a customer. Check it out.
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October 9th, 2005 at 10:57 pm
That’s the thing about some of those Craigs List exchanges: How many are hoaxes? Well, if this one’s a hoax it’s till a damn entertaining and creative one, so who really cares?
October 10th, 2005 at 5:31 am
I think it is real for two reasons -
1. The guy copied the Line Marine March from Jerry Pournelle as the basis for his poem:
We’ve left blood in the dirt of 25 worlds
built roads on a dozen more
And all we have left at the endo of our hitch
buys a night with a second class whore
This makes me think he is as big a desperate geek as I am.
2. He gets shot down fairly brutally. If it was a fake I think the guy would have had the girl swooning over him.
As always this opinion is valued at exactly what you paid for it.
June 8th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
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