February 2011
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Dear Deathsnow 2011,
I enjoyed your performance as an Ohioan snowstorm tonight, but as a devout fan of amateur theatre, I’ve decided to provide you with a couple of tips to increase the believability of your next performance:
It is generally considered poor form to drop entire snowballs at a time; instead, consider individual flakes. As a guideline, if the snow formations you are dropping make soft...
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Story of my night.
Mandor: You seem a trifle agitated.
Merlin: That's because it's an awfully long walk from downstairs to upstairs with all the powers of the universe converging to slow me.
January 2011
I have 100 followers?!???!?
roflcoffee:
What the SHIT? This is NOT a quality blog.
This. I just realised that I have 111 followers, and I’m a little puzzled as to where y’all came from.
Thanks, though. You’re all awesome.
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“Don’t be startled if you accidentally bump into a staff member at...”
– Holograms Will Greet Travelers at UK Airport - Digitized employees to explain security measures
Welcome to the weird-ass future.
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Philanthroper →
thewordunheard:
Do you like Groupon? LivingSocial? DailyCandy? Gilt? You like getting more bang for your buck, and getting creative new ideas for how to spend your money?
Philanthroper’s like that, except instead of giving you coupons for restaurants and jewelry stores, it highlights a different nonprofit or charitable cause.
If you like the cause, you give a dollar. Why a dollar? Because it...
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“Tonight
Snow developing after midnight. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches....”
– Oberlin, Ohio (44074) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground
In other words: hide yo kids, hide yo wife.
(Yes, okay, I lied.)
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“The establishment No. 66 West Houston St. is conducted by the fun loving Mrs....”
– The New York Times » A Vest Pocket Guide to Brothels in 19th-Century New York for Gentlemen on the Go
This particular item hails from page sixteen.
Hat tip to clapifyoulikeme.
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“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish...”
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, pt. 1, “The Author’s Profession of Faith” (1794)
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“Thank you for your email.
Vodafone restored voice services to our customers in...”
– I had emailed Vodafone encouraging them to restore service in Egypt as soon as possible, on the off chance that popular demand would have any effect on their decision making. I honestly hadn’t expected a response.
Good on Vodafone for responding to people on this issue. In my case, they were...
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Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Is Beaten to Death →
David Kato knew he was a marked man.
As the most outspoken gay rights advocate in Uganda, a country where homophobia is so widespread that Parliament is considering a bill to execute gay people, he had received a stream of death threats, his friends said. A few months ago, a Ugandan newspaper ran an anti-gay diatribe with Mr. Kato’s picture on the front page under a banner urging, “Hang Them.”
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“I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious,...”
– General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, discovered via the Wikipedia article on Hanlon’s razor
Clever and lazy? Rock. Who wants to promote me?
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“During the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the United States used large numbers of...”
– Mule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The US Marine Corps: known for kicking ass and packing mules.
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“Germline chimerism occurs when the germ cells (for example, sperm and egg cells)...”
– Chimera (genetics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So, marmoset siblings have each other’s children. That’s… neat?
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I would like to go to Adult School to learn how to...
nanner:
neonloneliness:
alexandrahamilton:
-bobella-:
Classes I would take:
Groceries 101
The US Postal Service: What the Fuck Is This Shit
Sleeping at Night and Not Like a Vampire
Getting Your Shit Together 251
Genius. Could we also add “Ironing: Why it’s the Worst” and “Employment 101”?
Contextual Applications of the Phrase ‘Deal With It’.
Mailing Packages on Time: Why it...
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“That there should be no government licensing of marriage.
I think economic...”
– What is your most controversial opinion? : AskReddit
This. THIS. For some time now, I’ve been trying to reconcile my belief that polyamorous unions are just as valid as simple heterosexual pairings with the loopholes that recognising polyamorous marriages might bring to marriage law.
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“Now men’s intercourse with women involves giving like enjoyment in return....”
– Pseudo-Lucian » Affairs of the Heart
Every damn time someone quotes this:
Saying that JAVA is great because it works on all platforms is like saying Anal Sex is great because it works on all genders.
I think of Pseudo-Lucian.
For the record, “genders” is definitely not the...
