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Hey everybody, did you hear it was Cyber Monday? Let's all switch on our acoustic-coupler modemtrons and dial Comp-U-Serve to visit some E-Tailers, before the year two-thousand apocalypse wipes us all out ( Read more... )

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When checking out at Safeway, one is presented with this offer on the payment console... Would you like to make a donation today to:
Prostate cancer
I always click no because I would like for there to be less of that. Really, how many Safeway shoppers are prostate cancer allies?

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A digital road sign on 280 proclaims: LEAVING ROADWAY
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Confidence levels in my HMO rose immeasurably upon seeing Kaiser-Permanente's "Thrive" logo shrink-wrapped onto a HEARSE. Either their marketing department is thinking very, very outside the box, or else some undertaker has a grudge...

The biggest disappointment about the recent B-52s album Funplex is that they failed to include a cover of Du Hast. Whenever I hear that song, it's filtered into my head with Fred bubbling off the jubilantly perturbed German verses, as Kate's and Cindy's honey-sweet harmonies drip their way through the chorus, held up by Keith's laid-back speed ( Read more... )

Near my desk, a lone saxophonist is warming up for an event tonight. Before doing the usual scales, he alerted us to his presence with a solo rendition of Ride of the Valkyries, which sounds every bit as silly as you'd think.

David Bowie's Kinsey score has an imaginary component: scientists currently approximate it as 22/7 ± e*i.