A fishing competition in Texas ended in accusations of cheating, which is probably common. What is less common is that the guy accused tried to get away with making his “winning” catch heavier by putting a one-pound lead weight in it. Â I can just imagine how busted he felt when the fish sank when it was dropped in a tank at the judging booth. Â Oops. Â And, since it was a contest with a $55000 boat as the prize, it’s a felony. Â Double oops.
Saw this headline today, and figured that is one they can recycle for every bill so long as the GOP is in the minority:
Republicans Unanimously Against Bill Being Brought to the Senate Floor This Week
One of my great pet peeves of the attempt by media folks to be “with it” and give out URLs on TV.
The “magic box” method of explaining my job.
A few years ago, Thinkgeek introduced an 8-bit tie for April Fools Day. They eventually produced the thing for real. Last year, they featured the Tauntaun sleeping bag. In November, they produced it for real. This year, I hope they make this alarm clock come true. It’s better than Tribbles ‘n’ Bits.
I know, it’s unfair and biased. Â But funny!
Thank you, California, for finally diverting some of the “oh no they didn’t” attention from Texas. Menifee, a town in Riverside County, has decided to pull the Webster Collegiate Dictionary from their school library, because it has definitions of terms like “oral sex” and the poor children just can’t handle such things. Seriously, didn’t everyone flip through the dictionary looking for dirty words, just because you could? Our children are not so delicate and easily bruised, people!
Is Menifee in the 909?
Kat and I thought they should have tried to get some of these into the broadcast.
A student at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee was walking home from work when four men pulled him into an alley and forced him to lie face-down with a gun to his neck. They took everything from his pockets, but when the gang leader looked in the victim’s wallet and saw an Army Reserve ID card, he told his accomplices to give him his stuff back. “The guy continued to say throughout the situation that he respects what I do and at one point he actually thanked me and he actually apologized,” the unidentified 21-year-old victim said. “The leader of the group actually walked back [and] gave me a quick fist bump.” Police note that 10 minutes later, the gang robbed another man, who had a Department of Corrections inmate ID in his wallet. They didn’t give him his wallet back.
A few years ago, I had a coworker who routinely burned microwave popcorn. I don’t miss him much. I do wonder, though, if it would have been better if he’d been burning bacon-flavored popcorn instead. Is everything really better with bacon? Is it?
This is just crazy – the past three days, I’ve been working all day long. This is just unacceptable; my boss is crazy to think I can keep up this kind of pace. Next he’ll expect me to accurately report my work hours.
Seriously, I’ve installed Red Hat on 18 machines in the past three days, and some of them have CPUs propelled by gerbils. Painful.
After listening to Orgy’s “Santa’s Creepy Secret” this morning, this comic seemed appropriate.
I have, over the years, frequently pointed out that most of the world’s great philosophical and religious movements can be boiled down to one phrase: Don’t be a dick. Glad to see someone agrees with me.
Thinkgeek has a problem with their April Fool’s Day gags – some people actually want to buy them. In 2007, they posted the 8-bit tie as a gag. So many people wrote in, it’s now part of their catalog. This year, they invented the then-satirical Tauntaun Sleeping Bag. They’re gonna sell them in November. There ya go, Lys. 🙂
Just one more example of why I avoid that place.
Wouldn’t this have made the movie much more interesting?
Once again, a Democrat finds a new and entertaining way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. For want of a signature…
It’s just so easy.
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