It always amazes me when I get an e-mail to the effect of, "Hi, I love your website and I read your bio. We like the same authors, therefore we must become friends! E-mail me back, or snail-mail me at 123 Main Street, apartment 456, Sometown, NJ, 12345 ( Read more... )

I got one of those Nigerian scam letters in my e-mail (although it's from Jordan--supposedly--not Nigeria), which I usually delete on sight with the Yahoo spam report feature, but for some reason I actually opened this one.

Let the MiSTing begin!

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[Cross-posted to mock_the_stupid]We have a cordless phone. Nothing fancy, just a wall-mounted unit and cordless handset. Very basic, but the handset is at least two or three times the size of my dad's cellphone. So you wouldn't think they would be easy to confuse with each other ( Read more... )

Mom and I voted this morning. I had lunch, then spent 1:00 through 4:30 at the Democratic HQ making phone calls ( Read more... )

A business associate of my father's told him about a man who applied for a pizza delivery job at her restaurant.

The man listed his current address as the county jail. He had 41 felony convictions ranging from drug dealing to rape to child molestation. He had neither a driver's license nor a car ( Read more... )

Dad had a brain fart earlier tonight. I asked him to hand me the remote control just as the phone rang. He picked up the remote and said "Hello?" XD LMAO! He realized what he had done immediately, of course, and felt really stupid. I, of course, mocked him mercilessly ( Read more... )

I'm at work now, on break ( Read more... )

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( One historical mock from my mom's school days, and one self-mock within )

My aunt told me about this priceless bit of stupidity. She worked as a waitress and restaurant manager for years, and encountered numerous marvellous instances of idiocy from both customers and employees ( Read more... )

Anybody read that dragon novel Eragon? I thought it looked fairly good but I wasn't going to shell out the shaboozies for the hardcover ( Read more... )