This Vampire Killing Kit complete with a wooden stake and 10 silver bullets sold for $12,000 as part of Sotheby’s sale of 19th century furniture and decorative works of art in New York, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003. The kit, a walnut box that also contained a crucifix, a pistol, a rosary and vessels for garlic powder and various serums, was bought by an anonymous phone bidder. (AP Photo/Sotheby’s)
—19thC Vampire-killing Kit (Yahoo/AP)
That doesn’t look like a crucifix to me — it should have a representation of Christ “fixed” to the cross. That’s just a metal cross.
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Some students haven’t turned on the feature to permit HTML in weblog comments, and others haven’t turned on the feature that automatically turns URLs into links.
Thanks, I noticed that too. Will this same HTML work for adding a link to a comment on the NMJ weblogs? I tried but when I clicked preview I saw the text but it wasn’t an active link.
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Rosemary, at this point you have to add in the “http://” part.
At the moment, you have to add the HTML… which means
What do I need to do in order to make an active link in these comments?
Time to play “Attack of the Tweety Zombies“
Here is something you can gleefully use the vampire killing kit on! Happy Halloween! http://shop.store.yahoo.com/progressivegifts/22006.html
Gaack! I have seen evil and it hath seen a puddy tat!