Competition, Big 10 Style
You’ve got to hand it to the Iowa Hawkeyes – they sure know how to make a visiting team feel wanted. What better way to reaffirm the perceived masculinity of a visiting football squad than painting the visiting locker room…
Category Humor
Amen To That
Frank J. offers an urgent call to President Bush and I, too, urge him on in this pursuit: punch Senator Chuck “Junior Maverick” Hagel square in the face. The amount of hyperventillating going on on NPR over Sen. McCain, Jr.’s…
Ah, To Be Mango!
Proof, once again, that vanity can do very, very strange things to people: Meet the Real-Life ‘Ken’ Doll. I feel sorry for the poor guy. He actually thinks he looks good, as opposed to hideous. And not just ordinary hideous,…
Yet Another “Support” Fad Has Officially Jumped The Shark
I knew that ribbon campaigns (AIDS ribbons, Breast Cancer ribbons, etc.) had Jumped the Shark when Rush Limbaugh began touting a method for turning $1 bills into “tax awareness” ribbons. I knew that magnetic “ribbon” campaigns (Support Our Troops, Autism…
Compare And Contrast
I report, you decide: vs. Britney FederlineSpears: Brain stolen by mysterious brain slug; Explains bizarre marriage and ensuing behavior. [Picture taken at Spears’ “Morroccan-themed” baby shower, apparently. Click her picture for further creepyinformative details. -ed.]
Fun With Search Phrases
Any website owner/operator could probably hold forth for quite a while solely on the subject of odd search phrases that lead people to their sites. I, for instance, have seen searches for “Thumb+Of+The+Punisher”, “incent d’onofrio” and “what religion is eartha…
Best. Movie. Review. Evar.
From the department-of-not-quite-raving-endorsements: “[…]Pom Poko is bizarre, generally slow, and features a baffling number of raccoon scrotums[…].” Now that sure makes me want to see it. Not exactly what one would expect from a film distributed by Disney…
The Joys Of Big Box Retail Outlets
Jeff over at the Shape of Days has discovered the “joys” of shopping provided by big name electronics stores (in this case, CompUSA). As regular readers will recall, I’ve had my own experiences with big box retailers, although not CompUSA…
“Death To The Slytherin Infidels!”
Overheard in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: “Yes, death to infidels! Except, of course, for that J.K. Rowling woman. She sure can spin a pretty tale. Am I right, my fellow mujahideen?” Heh.
For The Man Who Has Everything
Why not buy him a $75 t-shirt that simulates full arm tatoos, for those times when he wants to slum it at a biker bar? Sheesh.
