On the teevee, there’s been a couple of Chrysler commercials that have really, really annoyed me. The first one is subtly annoying, because I had to pay attention to it before I realized how awful it was. There’s a young waifish boy who is leaving school. We hear, but don’t see, a boy say “Hey, [...]
I just read that an employee of BP who was on the Deepwater Horizon Rig, pleaded the 5th at a federal investigative panel about his actions on the day of the explosion. The obvious reason for this is that there was criminal negligence or possibly criminal action. The article deserves a read. One passage stood [...]
Especially when the new things are hundreds of years old and sound Muslim! Found on MSNBC: I have no desire to read the story. It may even be positive, since it is believed that hookah smoke is safer than directly inhaling smoke from a burning source, like cigarettes or pipes. But the only reason that [...]
Two headlines on the very same MSNBC page at the same time (as of 10:45 AM). This one is at the top: Wall Street seesaws in early trading Stocks slump at opening bell amid continuing investor uneasiness before bouncing back. Emphasis mine. This one is further down, but reflects the current trend: Wall Street tumbles [...]
Captured on the checkout line at my local market, The Complete Idiot’s Guide: Ghosts and Hauntings: The entirety of the contents: “Thank you for purchasing this book. You hold in your hand the complete guide to ghosts and hauntings. There are none. Ghosts don’t exist. Now you are less of an idiot. Congratulations.”
Rudy does not mention September 11 as much as we think: Mmmm, the vomit heaving into the back of my throat tastes so bile-y. Anyone miss The Daily Show because of the writer’s strike? Here’s something the writers put together for us to get our fix (via This Modern World):
The headline? The top story? Really? K… show of hands. Who here is eager to go through the pain of childbirth without having that modicum of pleasure we get from sex? Listen, I know there is a small subset of women, who, for whatever reason, can’t get pregnant from their partner. I know it’s big [...]
So I got this email from eBay that had this banner: “Peak buyers’ interest”? Really? While I appreciate the proper use of the possessive apostrophe, the word is pique. It means to stimulate. It also means to annoy. Which they did.
Lincoln is still the only head of state in the world to submit himself to an election during a revolution, during a rebellion, during a Civil War. Found here.
Last Christmas, my fianceé tried to buy reindeer meatballs for her father. It was kind of a tradition to get him some sort of unusual Norwegian treat, since his family is from there. But we couldn’t find them. There was a site that wouldn’t ship them out of Norway, but that was the closest we [...]
