...can't sleep...clown's gonna eat me...can't sleep...clown's gonna eat me

[WilliamPitt]

...actually, can't sleep because I wrote 2,800 words on 9/11 today and my brain won't shut off. Entertain me.

[6000eliot]

1. The Stephen King clown?

I can't remember his name.

[Tom Kitten]

6. I don't remember his name, either...

but I have seen him around before, probably on one of those "When Bozos Go Bad" videotapes...

[jpgray]

7. Pennywise

But I think Will's referencing the Simpsons here.

[6000eliot]

10. I guess I missed that episode.

[Splatter Phoenix]

8. Pennywise.

or It. :D Poor mother must've been on acid...

[WilliamPitt]

20. Pennywise

[General Zod]

2. The Steelers won big today.....

....just thought you'd like to know.

[WilliamPitt]

21. I saw

Big Ben is fo' real.

We will still crush you come playoff time. But you knew that. ;)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. Like this one??

[WilliamPitt]

23. Thanks. I just shit my pants. Thanks.

[Droopy]

4. I'm lucky to get to sleep by 4 now

My brain won't shut of either. If I go to bed at 1 I'll toss and turn for 3 hours. I'm going to try cutting back on the computer time and see if that helps.

[WilliamPitt]

24. Heh

Good thing my job involves reading 30-50 newspapers a day online and answering 200-500 emails a day.

I'll see what I can do. :)

[Name removed]

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[WilliamPitt]

17. Drat. I missed this one.

:(

[Tom Kitten]

9. I proposed marriage to somebody last night...

the problem is it was in the Lounge and I've never met said person in person!
:blush:
I still haven't got an answer, though...

[pharc]

11. what kind of entertainment

All I got is:

Zombie Santa rampage at Fall PDF (= Playa del Fuego), buncha freaks being tribal in Delaware coming up soon.

that just makes me smile. So I can sleep now.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

Welcome to DU.

[Heidi]

43. Welcome to DU, pharc.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. 2800 of the most beautifully composed and sharp words I have EVER

had the pleasure of reading, my dear Will...

That was the article you did for Truthout, right? I made a copy of it for my own pleasure...and I just got it out to look at it again...

Probably the BEST synopsis I've read on 9/11 and the consequences...

I'm sorry I can't entertain you...my brain doesn't want to shut off either...

I'll be up awhile as well...

:hug:

[Draill]

13. Damn, I'm afraid of clowns, too.

Clowns are creepy. Pennywise, KillerKlowns from Outerspace, Gacey. ~shudder~

Can ya sleep now?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

14. Welcome to DU Draill.

[Draill]

22. Thank you very much Crazy Guggenheim! n/t

[WilliamPitt]

25. Sta away from Crazy Guggenheim

...crayzee...

[Crazy Guggenheim]

27. LOL.

[Draill]

30. I like many kinds of crazy. n/t

[Whoa_Nelly]

15. Think frogs

Now...stare at this frog...



You are getting sleepy...sleepy....

[WilliamPitt]

36. I think 'frogs' and I see this...

Thanks.

[Whoa_Nelly]

38. Ahhh...the Dalai Lama of Frogism n/t

[bridgit]

16. hm, hm, hm; hm: hm-hm-hm...

whoopsy

[orleans]

18. Once Upon A Time There Was a Little Sleepy Fairy

and it was her job to make sure that all the little boys and girls went to sleep.

But this one night she was so tired she decided to take a nap before she made the rounds to check on everyone.

needless to say, many boys and girls were unable to get to sleep.

Some of them sat in their beds reading a book under the covers with a flashlight.
Some of them snuck back in the living room and quietly turned the tv on.
some of them called out for a glass of water.

when the little sleepy fairy finished taking her nap she saw all the boys and girls who were still awake. so she flapped her wings and sailed up to the night sky. carefully, she gathered a handful of moondust and two handfuls of star dust. she put the shimmering powders in her special fairy bag that was made from the silk of a spider's web.

and she sailed back to earth and quietly she tiptoed near the bed of a little boy who was lying awake, staring at the pictures on his wall. she sprinkled just a bit of the moondust mixed with stardust over his head. with a final yawn the small boy closed his eyes for the night.

next, the fairy found a little girl sitting on her couch watching the tv. with her silent movement the sleepy fairy sprinkled some moondust mixed with stardust over the small girl. within moments the girl felt her eyelids grow heavy and she curled up under the blanket on the couch and fell sound asleep.

and just when the sleepy fairy thought she had sent all the children off to dreamland for the night she found young will, seated at his computer. the sleepy fairy shook her head. she smiled knowingly and reached into her silk bag of nighttime magic. she sprinkled several grains of the moondust mixed with stardust over will's head and just as he was beginning to type he felt a wave a sleepiness wash over him. he got up from his computer and climbed into bed and fell sound asleep before his head touched the pillow.

the sleepy fairy went back to her flower petal for the night. she reached into her silk bag and took the last grains of moondust mixed with stardust and sprinkled them above her head. she yawned and pulled the leaf up around her shoulders and wings. the sleepy fairy looked up into the night sky and saw the north star shining a gentle night light down just for her.

smiling, the sleepy fairy closed her eyes and felt the last of the summer breezes blow a warm kiss through her hair.

[WilliamPitt]

37. Horse walks into a bar

Bartender says, "Why the long face?"

Get it?

[WilliamPitt]

19. SORRY

I was entertaining myself:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4742149&mesg_id=4742149

:)

[XemaSab]

26. I just discovered minesweeper

on a friend's computer....

Good times, good times....

[WilliamPitt]

31. I have NEVER

figured that goddam game out.

[XemaSab]

34. Each number

tells you the number of mines next to that square.

So if you randomly click on the board and it gives you a one, there's one mine next to that square.

My friend says that the strategy is to click all 4 corners first.

Helpful? :)

[XemaSab]

39. What, my explanation

totally underwhelming?

;)

[WilliamPitt]

40. I'm brain-cramping trying to put it to use

[XemaSab]

41. Oh dear

:(

I'm sorry.... will you ever forgive me?

On edit: try the "beginner" mode. It's easier to figure out the strategies.

[CanuckAmok]

28. sweet dreams...

[WilliamPitt]

32. ...nnnnnooooo....

[Not_Giving_Up]

29. Did you recover from the fire ants?

Your poor feet!

[WilliamPitt]

33. All better now

Thanks for asking. :)

[Not_Giving_Up]

35. I learned early to watch for them

I was standing in a bed once, didn't know it until they ALL bit at once. Grabbed the water hose, but I had a million bites by then. I never go outside barefoot, and when I went to Crawford I wore thick boots. Nothing bit me all day, and I didn't use repellant.

Glad to hear that you have fully recovered!

[Syrinx]

42. Pasquale's friend Clem hates clowns too

I used to get guilty pleasure from that comic strip, but rarely read the comics anymore.