“Then Hendley what was next to youngest of her seven children got sick and died. Aunt Cissy ain’t sorrowed much. She went straight up to ol’ Massa and shouted in his face, “Praise God! Praise God! My little child is gone to Jesus. That’s one child of mine you never gonna sell.”
Nancy Williams, taken from To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
The last few months of Phil Frank’s “Farley” cartoon he seemed to be mounting a campaign to get the Bay Bridge renamed to “The Emperor Norton Memorial Bridge.” After all, it WAS Norton’s idea…
There is a commenter here who recently authored a wonderful novel about the Emperor and has an e-publishing deal. I’m not gonna reveal more until the thing’s available.
Is it just me, or is anyone else having problems signing in to the Sunday blog? The system seems to think I want to create a blog, not sign in to view an existing blog.
Beacuse it’s Sunday, I’m bored, and I’ve already gone to church, the gym and the office today, it’s time for another installment of …
FAT!
Original text:
“GoComics from Universal Uclick is the online comics portal for the most popular comic strips and cartoons in the world and the Web’s largest catalog of syndicated newspaper strips and webcomics.”
…56 translations later we get:
”The most popular Attraction in the world is better than the animation. Raiburariuebukomikku nevspaper”
Bill Thompson almost 14 years ago
You’ll find “The Little Dead Slave” here:
http://tinyurl.com/4new3ok
The site says it was written anonymously. Other people wrote anti-slavery poems; Longfellow did quite a few himself.
coltish1 almost 14 years ago
I think the little person in the window is addressing Dean Doozie.
Oxnate almost 14 years ago
It could be dangerous to open the fudge gates. Just look what happened when they opened the beer gates,
http://www.damninteresting.com/beer-flood-claims-nine-souls
Rotifer FREE BEER & BATH MATS ON FEB. 31st Thalweg Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Maybe The Little Dead Slave explains Prayer of the Colored Mother.
cleokaya almost 14 years ago
I like to listen to Vanilla Fudge while dispensing hot fudge.
The Old Wolf almost 14 years ago
“Then Hendley what was next to youngest of her seven children got sick and died. Aunt Cissy ain’t sorrowed much. She went straight up to ol’ Massa and shouted in his face, “Praise God! Praise God! My little child is gone to Jesus. That’s one child of mine you never gonna sell.”
Nancy Williams, taken from To Be a Slave by Julius LesterLocoOwl almost 14 years ago
Sometimes a fudge gate is just a fudge gate!
nerdhoof almost 14 years ago
Are the fudge gates in Willy Wonka’s factory? Oompa loompa, doompa tee doo!
trekkermint almost 14 years ago
fudge is more social than molasses
Boston Molasses Disaster http://tinyurl.com/mvtja
androgenoide almost 14 years ago
The last few months of Phil Frank’s “Farley” cartoon he seemed to be mounting a campaign to get the Bay Bridge renamed to “The Emperor Norton Memorial Bridge.” After all, it WAS Norton’s idea…
MemoFromDaddyWarbucks almost 14 years ago
ye all who so believe in telekinetics, ……… raise my hand
FLIGHT SUIT almost 14 years ago
Regarding Norton:
http://obituarytypo.blogspot.com/2011/02/joshua-norton-emperor-of-united-states.html
There is a commenter here who recently authored a wonderful novel about the Emperor and has an e-publishing deal. I’m not gonna reveal more until the thing’s available.
CoBass almost 14 years ago
Is it just me, or is anyone else having problems signing in to the Sunday blog? The system seems to think I want to create a blog, not sign in to view an existing blog.
LocoOwl almost 14 years ago
There you go again, 3hour, making fun of prunes! That is discriminating against the wrinkledly challenged!!!
There will probably be a hate-crime law coming soon to your local, progressive, weak-brained legislature!
Rotifer FREE BEER & BATH MATS ON FEB. 31st Thalweg Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Beacuse it’s Sunday, I’m bored, and I’ve already gone to church, the gym and the office today, it’s time for another installment of …
FAT!
Original text:
“GoComics from Universal Uclick is the online comics portal for the most popular comic strips and cartoons in the world and the Web’s largest catalog of syndicated newspaper strips and webcomics.”
…56 translations later we get:
”The most popular Attraction in the world is better than the animation. Raiburariuebukomikku nevspaper”