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Hello, livejournal! Long time no type.
I'm running on approximately 2 to 2.5 hours of sleep and am consequently a little cracked out. Clearly the best thing to do in this situation is blow off my inbox and update LJ with a few amusing items.
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Did you know that if you type "Where is Chuck Norris?" into Google and click "I'm Feeling Lucky," this appears?
Those cheeky Googlers.
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To add to your celeb trivia files: Before he became an actor, Steve Buscemi was a firefighter in Manhattan. After 9/11, he volunteered at Ground Zero for a week. He currently lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in the same house he's lived in for the past 20 years. My coworker's friend grew up next door to him, and when she was a little girl playing in the yard, Steve (we're on a first-name basis) would spray her with the hose. (Good-naturedly, the way you spray children with hoses and they shriek in delight.)
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This item from today's Metro (a free mini-newspaper passed out in the subway, for non-NYers) made me laugh really hard, out loud, in the relatively tiny and crowded space of a train car, and that reaction earned me plenty of annoyed/quizzical looks from other straphangers:
"On Thursday, two big things happened in the world of entertainment news: 1. J.D. Salinger, one of America's premiere authors, died at the age of 91. And: 2. It was announced that Jessica Simpson farted in a business meeting, according to USWeekly. Now, we don't want to get all conspiracy theory on you, but both have the same initials; both are divorced; he wrote a novella called "Nine Stories" and she released a country album, "Do You Know" on September 9, 2008! Crazy! Could it be? Could it be that every time Jessica Simpson "passes gas" a notable, elderly personality "passes" on? If so, Andy Rooney had better hope she stays far away from the beans."
For bonus lulz, the picture of Jessica Simpson bore this caption: "We bet she even poops, too."
The author responsible for this crass hilarity has a tumblr, if you're into that sort of thing. I was for a while, then I stopped, but now I'm thinking about getting back into it.
wmetoile, you and Dorothy are cut from the same cloth. I see y'all are internet friends. Are you friends IRL too?
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Apparently Pope John Paul II used to self-flagellate, like Dimmesdale from the Scarlet Letter.
I'm running on approximately 2 to 2.5 hours of sleep and am consequently a little cracked out. Clearly the best thing to do in this situation is blow off my inbox and update LJ with a few amusing items.
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Did you know that if you type "Where is Chuck Norris?" into Google and click "I'm Feeling Lucky," this appears?
Those cheeky Googlers.
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To add to your celeb trivia files: Before he became an actor, Steve Buscemi was a firefighter in Manhattan. After 9/11, he volunteered at Ground Zero for a week. He currently lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in the same house he's lived in for the past 20 years. My coworker's friend grew up next door to him, and when she was a little girl playing in the yard, Steve (we're on a first-name basis) would spray her with the hose. (Good-naturedly, the way you spray children with hoses and they shriek in delight.)
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This item from today's Metro (a free mini-newspaper passed out in the subway, for non-NYers) made me laugh really hard, out loud, in the relatively tiny and crowded space of a train car, and that reaction earned me plenty of annoyed/quizzical looks from other straphangers:
"On Thursday, two big things happened in the world of entertainment news: 1. J.D. Salinger, one of America's premiere authors, died at the age of 91. And: 2. It was announced that Jessica Simpson farted in a business meeting, according to USWeekly. Now, we don't want to get all conspiracy theory on you, but both have the same initials; both are divorced; he wrote a novella called "Nine Stories" and she released a country album, "Do You Know" on September 9, 2008! Crazy! Could it be? Could it be that every time Jessica Simpson "passes gas" a notable, elderly personality "passes" on? If so, Andy Rooney had better hope she stays far away from the beans."
For bonus lulz, the picture of Jessica Simpson bore this caption: "We bet she even poops, too."
The author responsible for this crass hilarity has a tumblr, if you're into that sort of thing. I was for a while, then I stopped, but now I'm thinking about getting back into it.
wmetoile, you and Dorothy are cut from the same cloth. I see y'all are internet friends. Are you friends IRL too?
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Apparently Pope John Paul II used to self-flagellate, like Dimmesdale from the Scarlet Letter.