We’re making our slow, careful way out of the City. The road is littered with debris, crashes, bodies of thousands who tried to evacuate. How many millions dead so far ( Read more... )

If you wikipedia on "surprise buttsecks", it helpfully redirects you to "rape".

EDIT: Not long after it was first Twittered about, and I posted this, a wiki troll deleted the redirect. So I guess my subject line ends up being all ironic after all.

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For consideration: pointed out by the man who puts the "prize" in "surprise", chipzdarsky

I found a really cheap method for bottling irony as a liquid but it didn't sell. Turns out it's free and everywhere already.

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For consideration: silver lining, though, I was able to dump the whole inventory on Alanis Morrisette

1. Irony

"Those are people. They are pretending. Are they pretending like robots? That is a robot. The robot is sad!" [The robot is sad because the pretending people are more like a robot than he is. This is funny, but also sad. Irony is a special kind of joke that is funny but also sad ( Read more... )

Perhaps somewhat ironically, using the word "synergy" twice on the same slide does not have more cumulative impact than two separate uses of the word on separate slides would ( Read more... )

1. Spend a year singing various tracks from an album to your baby at bedtime [i.e., the White Album ( Read more... )

There was some recent reconfiguration on our floor to create a couple of new offices ( Read more... )

2001: Writers Guild threatens strike; negotiations succeed ( Read more... )

Reading the recent Snopes article (with attendant pictures) about thousands of backpacks and other travel gear discarded by illegal immigrants into the US, my first thought is, look at all that shit made in China.

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For consideration: and thence into the ocean, World's Greatest Landfill

Maybe Oklahoma ought to use the funds from its new War On Terrorism license plates to combat the only terrorists that have actually ever attacked Oklahoma: white American militia nuts.

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For consideration: or would it actually be that hard for the US to occupy Idaho?