I came upon a page mimicking various authors, with the conceit that they're ordering breakfast in a diner. I was shocked and then quite tickled to see a certain name midway down the list . . . but I don't think he ever used "perfectly complemented", not even when characters spent half a page pairing booze with food. That's modern, banal, soulless ( Read more... )

-'d is nearly always funnier than -ed, often funnier than -t, and sometimes funnier than -éd, it all depends

if you're dealing with purée, however, just go nuts

So there's this Star Trek fansite that performs radio shows, Starship Excelsior. The episodes I've listened to have been good solid stuff. And there's this other Star Trek fansite FiveMinute.Net, which does short parodies of Star Trek, Star Wars, movies, videogames, Shakespeare, what-have-you. And it's all very funny. (I might add that I am a ( Read more... )

This whole contraceptives thing highlights how outmoded our country's fundamental documents are. The man behind IMAO explains how to fix the Bill of Rights so that it reflects what people expect of government in these modern times. (Watch out, pop-ups) An excerpt:

We want a strong government that guarantees us all the things we need, and we should ( Read more... )

"Captain, I am detecting massive amounts of whee directly ahead ( Read more... )

From Frank J over at IMAO:

Often as I’ve played videogames, I’ve wondered if scientists would tell me why I like playing videogames. Well, Science! to the rescue! Quoth the scientist: “The attraction to playing videogames and what makes them fun is that it gives people the chance to think about a role they would ideally like to take and then get a ( Read more... )

The Pharisees went unto Jesus, and wanting to test him they said unto him, "Teacher, suppose a woman's husband dies, and after a while he dies again, and then again, and so on four more times. When she dies and goes to heaven, which of his angels shall have first dibs ( Read more... )

Cardinals announcer just said that, over in the Phillies-Mets game, the Phillies pitcher threw his first eighteen pitches for strikes. What did the Phillies fans do when the next one was a ball? They booed.

"If Pooky ran out of vowels, her name would be 'Ooky'!"

and

"If the Y in Pooky's name acted as a vowel, she'd be 'Pokey'!"

I fear that my laptop is on its last leg toe. If and when I get another one, it should be inexpensive, with a solid hinge area, and capable of running a version of Windows that comes with Shutdown MS-DOS ( Read more... )

(A.K.A. "The end of the semester can have the same effect as oxygen deprivation")

For some reason, there is a copy of Redbook in the house. I don't know why. I don't want to know why. But I do know it's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Because I am going to read* all the stuff that's advertised on the cover and spoil it horribly for you, ( Read more... )