Mundus Vult Decipi

You know you are bored when you spend an afternoon organising the several thousand bookmarks you have accumulated over time and find a few that defy explanation as to what ever prompted you to bookmark them to begin with. A few fun oddballs from my bookmark-o-rama;

• I don't like to shop much but I have a sort of macabre fascination for the US 'shopping clubs' where you can buy 200 rolls of toilet paper to stock your bomb shelter. Am I the only one who finds the name BJ's Wholesale hilarious? I mean...c'mon.
• I don't cook but HappyCookers must have gotten bookmarked because it makes me giggle. I wonder if they have seen the cult classic The Happy Hooker?
• Health conscious? Since 11 September you should eat like there is no tomorrow and Blow health out your ass!. Besides, noone cares if you are fat when you're dead, right?
• I went looking for the 'things' in the Linens 'n Things site and still haven't found anything remotely useful. It should be renamed 'Linens and lots of crap. The marketing department would shoot that down though I'd bet.
• Sometimes the truth is more naked than we can bear. If this were socially acceptable in public I wouldn't be surprised to see men gazing at their euphamism frequently and with great pride. :)
• I thought that bat boy was a joke and had it filed under humour. Now that it's really an off-broadway show I'm scared and even more convinced than ever that the end of the world is nigh.
• I don't have a fetish for cold butter so I can't quite figure out why I fancied the butter dispenser. If this thing fetches $17 then I really need to start selling paper clips for $10 as 'a special macintosh tool'.
• Perhaps I noted the page of clerihews to plot a scheme to replace the haiku meme.
• Friends shouldn't let friends create pages like this one. Keith, stop with the blinking!
• It is a tragedy that New England doesn't have a single White Castle. I could really go for a bag of 12 with a tall iced tea. Maybe I bookmarked this just to torture myself.
• As something of a casual historian I knowI sleep better at night knowing that someone is archiving all of the annoying banner ads on the net. Why Mangos, indeed.
• Have you noticed lately that there are little books on just about every niche topic in history possible? Now we have a web site and museum run by a man [ because a woman probably finds it too mundane ] on menstruation. Most interesting is the list of euphamisms for menstruation around the world. Finland is not represented, but the French have 'the English Navy has arrived'. I wonder if a travel agency could book a tour of the Museum of Menstruation and then fly you off to iceland for a visit to the Penis Museum.
• I bookmarked the Disgruntled Housewife long before I was married and it still is hilarious. The Meals Men Like make me think of pudge and giggle :)
• The completely useless yet wicked funny masshole site.
• If you think bailing out the airlines is expensive you should check out the Big Dig. Billions of dollars and more than 10 years later they still aren't done, raising tolls on the pike and it won't improve traffic through downtown when they are done. But hey, it's visible from space!
• The Journal of Mundane Behaviour proving there is a journal for everyone. They are looking for papers on 'mundane sex' for their next issue so...
• Now even your dog can be a flag waving freak!

I owe my bookmark organising sanity to URL Manager Pro, a terribly useful little utility.