This is wrongness on the same level as Manties (“panties for men”).
[via Defective Yeti] Holy crap, they’re now making kitty litter for dogs.
At Albert M. Greenfield Elementary School in Philadelphia, they’re either brutally honest or lowering expectations:
The slogan works just as well for Future Shop. Click to see the original photo’s page.
Update: The original photographer has been found, so I can now attribute the photo: it’s Mike from Satan’s Laundromat.
James Taranto, in his Best of the Web Today column in The Wall Street Journal‘s OpinionJournal took notice of my blogging the 1959 Superman comic story that makes use of the word “blog” (see the end of the section titled Wag the Blog).
Thank you, Mr. Taranto!
In case you haven’t seen the Superman comic, click the comic panel above to read the entry.
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She’s Just Not That Into You, Greg
A slightly modified version of the actual book cover.
I suspect that there are the fortunate few for whom dating never was an ego-crushing experience; they may have had bad dates or bad relationships, but they have the perfect combination of looks, charm and plain old luck to have been spared. The rest of us — that includes me — have to deal with rejection.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (quit rolling your eyes, I’m trying to make a point here) introduced the “Kobayashi Maru” test, a starship simulation in which a Starfleet cadet is put into a situation considered to be a “no-win scenario”.
The simulation is meant to be a test of the cadet’s discipline, character, and command capabilities when faced with great adversity. “How we face death,” as Admiral Kirk put it, “shows how we face life.”
Getting rejected in dating provides all the character testing of the Kobayashi Maru scenario without the military service — or William Shatner’s acting.
There are many ways to get rejected, but one of the worst has to be when they simply don’t return your calls. Many rejectors take this take because it spares them the awkwardness of having to be “the bad guy”, but the rejectee is left hanging with an “unresolved” feeling.
In my opinion, the correct way to handle such a scenario is to leave a single message along the lines of “I’d appreciate it if you would call me back” and leave it at that. There are many wrong ways, and this set of messages left by a guy named Greg [1.7 MB MP3, included as an enclosure for you Podcast listeners] is a prime example.
I don’t know either party in the recording; I just stumbled across the file. The first girl I ever asked out stopped returning my calls after a while and I think I responded in the same way that Greg did, but hey — I was 15. Greg sounds old enough to know better.
Are you on a coffee break right now? Take a look at this mesmerizing stick-in-your-brain Flash song-and-dance animation.
WARNING: Loud, silly techno music — you might want to turn down your computer speakers first!
Click on the image to see the Flash animation. It will stick your brain — you were warned!
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This is Laura. She Rocks Out.
Click the photo to see the corresponding Yahoo! News page.
Egad. The only woman less qualified to “throw the horns” is Kathie Lee Gifford.
Perhaps this is related to the news that the other fake cowboy, Kid Rock, is playing the youth presidential inaugural concert hosted by the Bush twins (a.k.a. “Drunk and Drunker”).
Robert “My Blahg” McLelland is holding a 2004 Canadian Blog Awards contest, and this blog has been nominated for the “Best Blog” category. To borrow a quote from the Simpsons episode in which Homer becomes an astronaut:
I’d like to congratulate all those who made the “Best Blog” nominations — you’re all best blogs.
But in another more accurate sense, mine is the best blog.
The vote runs from now until January 15th. You can vote once per
category per day, so the “vote early, vote often” adage actually
applies. So go vote, and vote for me!