"we've been poisoned by these fairy tales / the lawyers dwell on small details / since daddy had to

[larryhammer]

From the Wikipedia article on Mongolia:

"Gobi" is a Mongol term for a desert steppe, which usually refers to a category of arid rangeland with insufficient vegetation to support marmots but with enough to support camels. Mongols distinguish Gobi from desert proper, although the distinction is not always apparent to outsiders unfamiliar with the Mongolian landscape.

So the Gobi Desert isn't.

The Toast summarizes the Judgement of Paris with copious illustrations -- which are available because "pretty much every dude born between the years 1100 and 1850 with an ounce of sprezzatura and a brush tried his hand at painting it at least once." (NSFW for artistic nudity, via)

you said i could just pick and then youd go home and it would be over
sorry i cant hear you with this helmet on
with this war helmet on

A fun Flash-based timewaster: Wunderputt. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "The End of the Innocence," Don Henley.