March 2009
35 posts
“Most of the country isn’t a Size 2,” Fleiss said. “It’s...”
– Fox orders overweight dating series
Most of the country is pig ugly too. What do you think of that?
(Thanks be to @AndrewGauthier)
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WatchSometimes you’ve just got to love the Germans.
“Very alive humans… Or no longer so alive ones…” meaning “humans shagging in a field, or a dead person in a river”
The attention to detail is deliciously revolting.
I can't resist. iPhone 3.0 thoughts...
A lot of people are talking a lot of stuff about the iPhone 3.0’s “a lot of” features and benefits, but as west-coast chum Robin pointed out, a lot of people are missing a few very key issues (in his case he picks up on the massive potential impact of hardware connectivity)…
I’ll throw in my thoughts.
In-app purchase. In short, Apple, through iTunes, allows...
'Outrage' at AIG bonus payments →
Since the administration feels its hands are tied (even though there would have been no bonuses had AIG just folded and these people been allowed to lose their jobs, so where’s the legal case for paying out?), the only resort left is for us, the taxpayer, to take it into our own hands.
With that in mind, I am opening a shop for the angry peasant. We’re having an opening day special on...
If you live in C21 and the USA, read on... →
Had enough of some anonymous sneak dropping off an OED’s worth of undesired processed tree every 6 months or a year? If you live in the US, YellowPagesGoesGreen.org is an organisation that will petition your phone book provider (in my case, Verizon) to stop dumping the damn things on you.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of all this is that finding phone numbers online is difficult. One...
WatchSurprisingly amusing and well done.
But really posted just to get some tits on Nixtarolls and to post something, anything… I mean, it’s been 4 days.
Neology revisited
While reading through the other day’s reblog of new meanings for existing words, and slight twists to create new words, I was reminded (by the Washington Post’s twist (ha ha) on “testicle: A humorous question on an exam”) of a wee bit of Futurama dialogue:
Zoidberg: “What do you call them?” Bender: “Well, they are tasty, right? Let’s call them...
“You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If...”
– Best Out-of-Office Replies
Pretty sure I could better some of these (witness my remarkable series of answerphone greetings I left on Gaylord Central’s phone back in the day), but there’s some gold in there…
12 years of progress
Q: What happens when you cross schoolyard bullies with explosives, ignorance, and a an unsurpassable dicklessness?
A: The Taliban/Taleban (I would also accept The Republican Party, but we took their explosives away).
In 2001 they blew up the Buddhas of Bamyan in a dickless exercise that would have been farcically incompetent if not for the fact that it eventually succeeded (at one point they...
WTF? OMG? Goodbye TLA, hello TLI?
Well correct me sideways…
initialism |ɪˈnɪʃ(ə)lɪz(ə)m| noun an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g., CPU). • an acronym.
Compare with:
acronym |ˈakrənɪm| noun a word formed from the initial letters of other words (e.g., radar, laser). ORIGIN 1940s: from Greek akron ‘end, tip’ + onuma ‘name,’ on the pattern ofhomonym.
All these years I’ve been calling...
WatchWith due respect to Mexicans, Mexico, and all things Tequila, I bring you Mexico Minute. How is that different to a New York Minute? Your guess is as good as mine, my friends, but I’m supersure it’s better.
DMC and I had the great fortune to spend a week in Mexico last year for JB and Susan’s wedding. We didn’t really experience Mexico at all. It would be a gross...
A few new words for your consideration
Thanks Aaron, you’ve made my day. I’d like to add:
Unitard (n.): A one-of-a-kind idiot.
aaronindenver:
antikris:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus (n.): A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxication (n.): Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until...
“real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and...”
– Facebook et al risk ‘infantilising’ the human mind
Thanks be to TSF.