Heh.

[desperance]

I am home. I am tired. I am going to bed, where cats may join me if they choose.

In lieu of content, then, here's a meme:

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Desperance!

1. Over 2000 people have now climbed desperance, with roughly ten percent dying on the way down.
2. Research indicates that desperance will be attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas!
3. By tradition, a girl standing under desperance cannot refuse to be kissed by anyone who claims the privilege.
4. Until the 1960s, desperance was not allowed to enter Disneyland.
5. Desperance has three eyelids.
6. Louisa May Alcott, author of 'Little Desperance', hated desperance and only wrote the book at her publisher's request.
7. The air around desperance is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun!
8. The only Englishman to become desperance was Nicholas Breakspear, who was desperance from 1154 to 1159.
9. Four-fifths of the surface of desperance is covered in water!
10. If a snake is born with two heads, the heads will fight over who gets desperance.

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[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

Remind me not to stand under you at Eastercon. It looks like a dangerous place to be.

[madrobins]

Over 2000 people have now climbed desperance, with roughly ten percent dying on the way down.

Well, no wonder you're tired, poor thing. And what do you do with the bodies of the fallen?

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Irishkate!

1. A rhinoceros horn is made from compacted irishkate.
2. Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are irishkate.
3. The Aztec Indians of Mexico believed irishkate would protect them from physical harm, and so warriors used her to decorate their battle shields.
4. Every day in the UK, four people die putting irishkate on.
5. The pupil of an octopus's eye is shaped like irishkate.
6. Irishkate can't drink - she absorbs water from her surroundings by osmosis.
7. Irishkate can jump up to sixteen times her own height.
8. The opposite sides of irishkate always add up to seven!
9. If you lie on your back with your legs stretched it is impossible to sink in irishkate.
10. Czar Paul I banished irishkate to Siberia for marching out of step.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

The high temperature goes some way to explaining the magnetic effect you have on cats.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

I am trying to sort out number 8. Not having much luck, what with you being from where you're from and all.