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is Where it is now At.

so saunter over thataway if this sort of tomfoolery still intrigues you after all these years.

While really only an excuse to use the above subject line, it's true that I have been experiencing a lot of this lately ( Read more... )

Hyvää huomennaa, sluts.

An overabundance of advertising for these vile objects, as well as a brief but thought-provoking conversation with Jonelle over the etymology of sandwiches, prompted me to compose the following letter, which I then e-mailed the KFC's Customer Service department. I believe I selected the heading "Marketing Suggestions."

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A linguistics phenomenon called "structural ambiguity" exists, wherein the same utterance has multiple semantic interpretations, relying, so they say, on where the various parts of speech "attach" in the utterance's "S-structure." All these fancy terms are attempting to explain nothing more entertaining or complicated than why, when we hear

I like ( Read more... )

Paucal - the red-headed stepchild of pronouns ( Read more... )

Good afternoon. How is everyone? Good? Good ( Read more... )

I figured after 23 years of geekdom, it was time to finally open my heart to Farscape. And after watching the pilot episode, all I can think to myself is ( Read more... )

I can understand entire lines from Finnish songs ( Read more... )

Unlike the Stranger, I, novel and innovative me, wait to recommend films until after I've actually watched them.

Having now watched The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, I feel qualified to go ahead and recommend it, under the following conditions:1. You are a Terry Gilliam fan. This movie has Terry Gilliam bleeding from its every orifice. This movie ( Read more... )

How pathetic of me ( Read more... )