Huh. I've never heard of Pelmanism before. But now I know Pelmanism is not tommyrot.

Can it be “tommyrot” when such people advocate Pelmanism? (Oct, 1925)

Here are only a few of many famous men and women who advocate Pelmanism, and who use its principles themselves. With this testimony before you, can you doubt that it will benefit you ? Find out what Pelmanism has already done for over 650,000 people—send for a copy of the free book illustrated below.

NO doubt you have often heard of Pelmanism, but probably you have carelessly thought of it as “just another new-fangled movement. Some more tommyrot! The usual mental-pep stuff!”

Can it, however, be “tommyrot,” when such people as those pictured here, men and women of the highest intelligence and distinction—prominent statesmen, artists, novelists, jurists, business men, military men, publicists—advocate Pelmanism in the most enthusiastic terms?

Pelmanism has spread, with the force of a religious movement, all over the world. There is no secret as to how it performs its seeming miracles of regeneration among discouraged people. It takes the principles of Applied Psychology, simplifies them so that they can be understood by everybody, and then arranges them into a remarkable system of mental training.

The results of this system are sometimes almost unbelievable. It helps its users in the most practical way. It changes their outlook upon life; it changes their circumstances. They begin to accomplish things they had heretofore only dreamed of. They do more, earn more. Instances are on record (on file and open to inspection), where income has increased 800, 900, and 1,000 per cent. Yet, remarkable though they may seem, these results can be simply explained.

Deep fried bull testicles? Chew on this

IT might take balls to eat them, but deep fried bull testicles have a niche market in parts of Montana.

This north-western US state even hosts its own Testicle Festival every year.

During the festival, held over August at the Rock Creek Lodge near Missoula, north of the capital Helena, punters gorge themselves on the unusual delicacy known as Rocky Mountain oysters.

"You've got to have the cock-sauce with them," quips Rocky Mountain oyster enthusiast Kent Taylor, who operates a lodge in the resort town of Whitefish.

Gud, the comments are priceless. "The Coconut - the Theist's nightmare!" "What about pineapples?"

I can never decide whether the banana video or the peanut butter video is funnier. Fortunately, the internet have gifted us with both!

I'm almost tempted to schlep to Minneapolis to see this: A Klingon Christmas Carol

"Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? Performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles, and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology."

Playing November 27 through December 13 at Minneapolis' Mixed Blood Theater. No really, this is for serious.

You were listening in on my therapy session today, weren't you?

Either that, or you should start paying me instead of your therapist.

I just cracked open one package (of six) of the candy that was delivered on Tuesday. Goal is to spread this out until Christmas. I walked around, most everyone took a piece, I took a second piece, and then put tape on the package and put it away in my drawer for the weekend.

Sooooo good! Marion blackberry jelly fruit candy, not too sweet, made with real fruit juice--tasted like blackberry syrup going down my throat.

As the Daily Kos says, the rich aren't like you or me:

eta: Possible parody?

Goldman: Flu Fear Spurs Donation!

Having inoculated its employees with H1N1 vaccine dosages usurped from pregnant women and children, Goldman Sachs has increased its vigilance against the contagious virus by banning employee contact with spare change.

An internal memo outlines steps staff should take to avoid becoming ill, starting with the eradication of the potentially infected currency that may have lodged itself under the seats of their automobiles. The hazardous materials are being collected and sent to Small Business for disposal.

The memo also advised employees to “resist the urge to open your own car door ; let your driver do it.”

You know what, Goldman Sachs, screw you and the bougie, disinfected horse you rode in on. I felt much better about that bailout before they started...talking all the time.

I bet the drivers have crap health insurance.