December 2009
22 posts
“I read somewhere that there is a higher percentage of abuse in low income...”
– From the author’s synopsis, The Internet is a Playground by David Thorne of 27b/6
Buy yours today to save Seb from his father’s ostentatious web-based critiques and effete open-handed slaps.
Frank "The Tank" Ricard: Recent research has shown... →
James Carville: We have no response. That was perfect.
This is kinda like that.
Phillip Niemeyer, Picturing the Past 10 Years, the New York Times
via NOTCOT.org
I'm just a jus, a lonely jus, on Christmas.
Grandmother: Are you making gravy?
Aunt: No, Mom, it's a bearnaise.
Cousin: Nobody wants au jus on Christmas.
“Christmas was outlawed in 1647 by the Puritan government of England. The New...”
– Fun fact.
via Book of Odds
For the high-fliers and the jet-setters and the... →
Worn Again, clothes and bags made from retired Virgin (like Richard Branson Virgin) Hot Air Balloons. With pics of how.
via NOTCOT.org
The difference between one and zero.
Is only one, but it’s also a hundred percent.
“First of all, WTF, Centers for Disease Control? Is a report like this even your...”
– via NY Mag Daily Intel
hat tip to K. Fong
“The report, which compares the impact on society of groups of people doing six...”
– Advertising “destroys value” in society, report claims, Campaign
via the New Shelton wet/dry
And I quote...
I want lolcats! Let’s go to ‘have you a hamburger.’
Legally Blonde was based on a true story →
“She is not sure how her 4-year-old managed to get out of the house, open a beer,...”
– Drunk Four-Year-Old Steals Christmas Presents
via News Channel 9
hat tip to Kat
This message brought to you by the members of the...
me: Oh man. I just saw an ad for the AARP that reads: "True or false: oysters are the best aphrodesiac", then fades out to "Answer: FALSE. Champagne is better." That's right, grandpa. Go pop some bubbly and send it in.
Schwartzie: Oh dear. Champagne is better? Sure, I agree, but what's the metric? Lowers inhibitions and, consequently, skirts?
me: "Drunk women are more likely to fuck you than women with food poisoning from cheap inland out-of-season oysters."
Schwartzie: Yeah, I was wondering where gastric distress figured into this.
me: Hopefully not after she's naked.
Schwartzie: That's Tucker Max territory.
me: Whole new spin on "unbecoming." As in, "I figured I'd be coming, but not anymore."
Schwartzie: "Excuse me, Do you have a card that suggests 'sorry I shat you and your bed during reverse cowgirl' in a polite, roundabout sort of way?"
“In practice, of course, actual friends and Facebook friends can be as different...”
– Judges and Lawyers in Florida can no longer be Facebook friends because it creates the appearance of favoritism and influence.
Think they can still poke each other? Can they “like” status updates? What about on MySpace, or Bebo? Can they reblog each other on tumblr, or be gchat buddies,...
“How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the immediate past?
I...”
– Vladimir Nabokov in a 1969 interview with the New York Times
:)
via the New Shelton wet/dry
“You are also mistaken in regards to Adelaide containing no hoppers. I myself...”
– via 27b/6
