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December 25th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Oh my god, those are awesome! I must have some!
December 25th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Well, new socks or a new digital camera?
December 25th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
…Toe socks. The one thing that is more evil than evil itself.
December 25th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Big Foot phenomenon explained! Where can I get a pair?
December 25th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Well, I didn’t have blue socks for Christmas but I had a blue… telescope!
In a few hours I’ll use it for the second time.
Happy holidays everyone!
December 25th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Here’s a little Christmas cheer for cynical secularists to point at and mock:
Seasons beatings: Parents fight at elementary school Christmas program (good video of the chaos; fortunately nobody was injured)
Mayor blames cheap booze for Halifax brawl (Mounties called in, 45 brawlers arrested)
December 25th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
For a minute I thought you had ODed on colloidal silver.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/become-a-smurf.html
December 25th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Nice rug.
And the socks are lovely, too
December 25th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
BA:
Did you you send an eight-toed “pair” to PZ for the holiday? Or would you have to send a single set with pockets for each sucker?
Happy Holidays,
Will. M.
December 25th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Oh wow! Toe socks! I got a pair of Old Navy red/white striped and green/white striped toe socks from my sister last year. They’re so great!
December 25th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Someone got socks! Nice of Mrs. BA to let you use the computer to post today! Merry Solstice, Holidays, Christmas, Season… Whew! Did I leave anyone out?
December 25th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Nice carpet
Now you can wear your toe socks and mustn’t fear to get cold feet 
December 25th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I assure you, we are!
December 25th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Toe socks, huh? For a minute I thought the good doctor had been stomping the grapes.
Again.
December 25th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Hey, Phil. Love the socks.
My 6 year old daughter and I got an amazing x-mas present this year.
500 minutes on SLOOH, as well as a copy of H.A. Rey’s The Stars.
No ’scope yet, but this’ll be more than enough to whet our appetites.
December 26th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Happy Isaac Newton’s birthday.
December 26th, 2007 at 2:13 am
Ninja socks! (Sort of…)
December 26th, 2007 at 2:40 am
In my toe socks, each toe is a different color!
Rob
December 26th, 2007 at 3:49 am
OMG! The Bad Astronomer has joined the Blue Man Group!
December 26th, 2007 at 4:06 am
Love the flannel PJ’s too.
December 26th, 2007 at 4:48 am
My dad has that same rug in the living room.
December 26th, 2007 at 5:57 am
sweet socks.
I used to have a pair.. but found that - as with gloves / fingers - if the individual tube is too short for the toe, the darn things are almost impossible to play the piano in.
Now, I’m going to step outside and light a huge bonfire to drive the clouds away so my youngest and I can use his new Telescope and CCD
December 26th, 2007 at 5:57 am
Look sort of like Andorian feet.
December 26th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Cosmos marathon on the Science Channel- life is good
December 26th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Darn, Flighty beat me to the colloidal silver joke!
Best wishes to you and yours this holiday season.
December 26th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
My wife likes her’s too. Keeps the tootsies nice and warm.
December 26th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
I note that Phils second toe does not exceed in length the first, indicating he has no relationship to European royalty.
No wonder he’s so smart,,,no inbreeding,,,
Gary 7
December 26th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Wow, first going ecstatic over a stapler, then toe socks. I know what Phil is getting for Xmas next year…
I’m picking out a Thermos for you…
not just any old Thermos will do…
December 26th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
ALF
makes me want to sing that thermos song from the Jerk
December 27th, 2007 at 4:53 am
The BA has become a SMURF!
Merry days-off-work everyone!
December 27th, 2007 at 11:11 am
We’re having a fab, fab time. Me and our youngest, Ben, went to the Birmingham Hippodrome theatre to see their pantomime ‘Alladin’. In the lead role is John Barrowman - Captain Jack from Dr. Who and Torchwood. They used a little Dr. Who stuff AND we had 3 Daleks *Live On Stage*.
http://www.aladdinhippodrome.co.uk/
Bob (Big)
December 29th, 2007 at 1:47 am
Hey Phil, do you have hammertoe? Judging by the way your toes have that angle, it looks like it. Unless the socks are too small or something and you are curling your toes on purpose.