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[doyle]

Stolen from girlfromsouth:

Give me 1000 comments in this entry. Or whatever, really. YOU, in particular, don't have to supply the whole 1000, but a tiny contribution would be nice. Then let me know if you post this in your journal and I'll return the favor.

Dudes, so this is your chance to spam me with anything! Pictures, lyrics, the word SPAM over and over. Feel free to tell me something about yourself, or screen your comments. Do whatever you want! It's all up to you.

Okay, so I realise 1000 is a tall number so just spam away and we'll see where we get up to. Please entertain me!

Entertain me while I tackle inability to make words come out right and try to get some of these ficathon entries done... You could tell me what strange pairings you're into, since I've been thinking lots about unconventional shipping today. Or anything. Go on.

Also contemplating a game of tag where the first person writes a drabble - 100 words or less - with a pairing and a word or requirement at the end, and the next person writes that one. Might try to instigate a game of that later tonight if the ficathoning goes badly.

ETA: Okay, the drabble tag's here, come and play.

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[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I suppose it was a new and interesting idiocy only for me, but still I loved and laughed and
now I spam you with it.

Dictionary Definition of Breatharian

A Breatharian is one who follows a diet in which no food (and possibly no water) is consumed. Breatharians claim that they are sustained by 'light energy' (or prana) alone, and that this 'diet' is an option for anybody, once the proper techniques for accessing it are made known.

Both current scientific theories about nutrition and generally accepted common sense indicate that a person who followed these diets would die of starvation or thirst.

Indeed, there is no accepted scientific evidence for any of the claims put forward by the breatharians. The only breatharian to undergo scientific scrutiny -- Ellen Greve (aka Jasmuheen) -- became ill and bowed out after a few days without food or water, citing stress as the cause for her symptoms.

The well-publicized deaths of Verity Linn and Lani Marcia Roslyn Morris whilst attempting to enter the breatharian "diet" have drawn further criticism of the movement.

The breatharian movement also suffered a credibility blow some years ago when another of its leading lights, Wiley Brooks, was caught sneaking into a hotel and ordering a chicken pie.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I've heard of those lunatics! I love the chicken pie part...

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

yeah, chicken pie moment adds to the story a certain oomph... I wonder if those morons got the Darwin Award? Because they deserved it as nobody else.

also, in the spirit of spamming:
http://php.iupui.edu/~asimmon/thief.html

http://www.flashtoons.org/vedimovie.php?id=74

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I think I heard about them through the Darwin awards...

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

I found it when I was looking up the definition of "a fad" - together with pet rocks and cabbage patch dolls.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I had both a pet rock and a cabbage patch doll. I was never a breatharian, though, thankfully.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

Hee-hee! I thought though. My sister had a troll doll, that also - as I found out - a fad once upon a time. We weren't aware about the concept - being in Russia and all (doesn't mean we didn't have them). Pet rocks and cabbage patch dolls were mentioned as an example of usual fads, and breatharians as an extremity of food fads.