For the last few weeks, I kept getting emails from PayPal, asking me to please activate my brand new debit card since my old one would be expiring the end of this month (today). In every email, they said my new card was mailed to my home address. I was about ready to tell them I hadn't received it, when I visited my mailbox (at a completely ( Read more... )

When I was waiting for dinner earlier this evening, I saw a sign in the restaurant advertising Salsa dance classes. The sign contained an "interesting" (to say the least!) mistake.

See for yourself, and notice what it says on the line immediately below where it says, "New classes!"

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"57 academics just punched the air."
Say WHA...??!

Okay, I saw this reference on more than a few LJs over the weekend, and I'm scratching my head something fierce. Anybody wanna explain it to this noob?

By the way, I entered the phrase into Google, but all I was able to glean was that:

1. It's a Doctor Who reference; and
   
2. It has something to do ( Read more... )

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( Click here and you'll know what I mean if you click here. )

After work, on my way to Soprano section rehearsal, I had to stop downtown to pick up some shoes for tomorrow's wedding. As I was heading to the shoe store, I passed this guy with a sign, who seemed to be begging (figuratively) to be caught on film.

( How could I possibly ignore him? )

Only this time, I wasn't the one who was struck. (See this post where I was.) Even with my Asperger-like tendencies, *I* knew this was a joke! But judging by the comments below, apparently a lot of people who read Engadget didn't. I mean, come on, people!

Onion newsbrief: iPhone 2.0 in the works

Or, as she worded it, "Hey, Gloria! I just made a total elf of yourself!" It manages to be both funny and eerie at the same time.

Elf Gloria (make sure the sound is on)

I was glancing in the bipolypagangeek community when I saw a post about a pun the OP's (original poster) wife told. I didn't get it. (Why am I surprised? Actually, I'm surprised that I'm surprised!) Am I not as big a geek as I profess to be? (Gloria, stop attaching meaning to everything ( Read more... )

For years, I identified as an "Aspie" (someone with Asperger Syndrome). One of the characteristics of an Aspie is that of taking things literally and being unable to detect irony or satire -- in other words, being "humor-impaired". I think my sense of humor has improved exponentially over the past few months.

So when I read Ken Jennings' blog ( Read more... )