When I was growing up there was a kid in the neighbourhood who picked up the unfortunate nickname, “Wiener”. I don’t remember who came up with it, or why, but it seemed fitting somehow.
Inexplicably, Wiener’s mother got the idea that the nickname was something that he liked to call himself, and regularly gave him hell [...]
So I’ve been spending some time this morning Googling around the ‘net trying to find a reference to something I swear I saw during the Olympics sometime during the 1990s.
It was a famous British athlete (Christie or Daley Thompson?), either a sprinter or a decathlete preparing for the sprint event, and he had the unfortunate [...]
Post your choice in comments. Me, I think it would return some semblance of dignity to a once-gentlemanly game.
UPDATE: Sean Avery is doing his part.
I’ve got a tune stuck in my head, and I can’t figure out where it’s from.
It goes: “baaa ba ba ba ba ba ba BAA ba baaa ba ba ba ba ba ba BAA ba”
‘World peace’ hitcher is murdered
An Italian woman artist who was hitch-hiking to the Middle East dressed as a bride to promote world peace has been found murdered in Turkey.
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She had said she wanted to show that she could put her trust in the kindness of local people.
Aw, jeesh. Look, I think it was ill-advised and [...]
I’m pulling for the Ny Rangers. They are my favorite squadron.*
* Not really.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LauaI21uFgY
More inside jokes. Read them and be perplexed!
“I’m not sure that SOA is the right approach to this problem.” “What if the ‘SOA’ logo had flames shooting out of the letters?”
“We need some sort of formal introduction for the letter.” “How about, ‘Hey, Fuckface’?”
“Take that, Dave”
“I’m getting 2 = 1 as the solution” “Well, obviously [...]
This map really doesn’t do justice to the sensation of being positively beseiged by no-name camera shops. Google isn’t showing the ones that don’t have “camera” in the name, or are too shady to be listed in the index:
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I know next to nothing about this blog or the mysterious Lord-Z, but it meets Krankor’s stringent standards for repeat visitation: it is both a) peculiar; and b) funny. Your mileage may vary, of course. Especially if you drive a Prius. Al Gore personally fiddles with the odometers at the Prius factory, cleverly disguising the [...]