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This ain’t your father’s – - – - -

Posted 10/25/06

Can you guess what comic this is from? And yes, this is a regular character from the strip.

 

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Bush Googles

Posted 10/24/06

According to the President, he uses “the Google” (presumably to search the pipes of the Internets).

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This sucks for the bird

Posted 10/24/06

We had the furnace guy install a new, more powerful blower. Unfortunately for Tweety, that also meant more powerful suction at the intakes.

(More at This Old House.)

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Newspapers dead? Not exactly

Posted 10/23/06

I’ve been meaning to say this for quite a while.
Do you know what the two most profitable industries in the United States are, with “profit” defined as the profit margin — that is, how much more a company makes than it spends?
1. Pharmaceuticals.
2. Newspapers.
Yep, you got that right. With an average profit margin of 20 [...]

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Nancy answers the door

Posted 10/23/06

I found this Nancy panel particularly disturbing.

(It’s all in the context. In the next panel we learn it’s a water gun.)

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Fuss over Fabuloso

Posted 10/22/06

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Perhaps an unfortunate headline

Posted 10/20/06

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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OJ’s new book

Posted 10/19/06

OK, listen very carefully. (All right, read very carefully.) You aren’t going to believe this.
OJ Simpson is writing a book, tentatively titled, “If I Did It,” in which he describes the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman as if he was there, calling it “hypothetical.”

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Everything you need to know about personal financial planning

Posted 10/17/06

Courtesy of Scott “Dilbert” Adams:
1. Make a will
2 .Pay off your credit cards
3. Get term life insurance if you have a family to support
4. Fund your 401k to the maximum
5. Fund your IRA to the maximum
6. Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it
7. Put six months worth [...]

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Funny plane to tower convo

Posted 10/17/06

It’s one of several, actually, that you can read here.
Allegedly the German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They, it is alleged, not only
expect one to know one’s gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them.
So it was with some amusement that we (a [...]

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Mike Tyson

Posted 10/17/06

1. He’s gone from joke to, um, bigger joke.
At a news conference at an Italian restaurant, Tyson said he would likely go just four rounds [in his upcoming "Mike Tyson's World Tour"] and that future stops on the tour might include bouts with women, possibly professional boxer Ann Wolfe.
[snip]
When asked if he was joking about [...]

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PJ O’Rourke switches sides (!)

Posted 10/16/06

Holy moly.

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Bravo, Bill Maher

Posted 10/16/06

We live in a country where the ultimate consumer is an obese 16-year-old hooked up at one end to a Big Gulp and at the other to a PlayStation.
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YouTube on relationships

Posted 10/16/06

I note with some amusement the choices YouTube gives you for describing yourself — specifically, the three choices for “Relationship Status.”

And what, pray tell, is meant by “Open”? (Note: Question is rhetorical.) It’s kinda funny that YouTube gives you the option to say that you’re willing to cheat on your S.O.

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Beware the quotes

Posted 10/16/06

If the sign reads
General Tso’s “chicken”
beware.

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Toys in Babeland

Posted 10/16/06

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Be good OR ELSE

Posted 10/14/06

From the Toys ‘R’ Us catalog (“We B Toys” for you in the Chicago area), we have this charming doll.
“Sam, if you’re not good Daddy’s going to put Mad Molly under your bed….”

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Walgreens pharmacists can refuse to dispense The Pill

Posted 10/13/06

Here’s something to file under “I didn’t know that.”
Walgreens corporate policy allows its pharmacists to refuse to dispense birth-control prescriptions. Target and Winn-Dixie apparently have similar policies.
We’re not talking RU-486, we’re not talking and we’re not talking about Plan B. We’re talking about The Pill — you know, the thing that’s been around since 1960.
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These modern days

Posted 10/12/06

The saddest thing you’re likely to see today. Seriously.

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Men, women, and intelligence

Posted 10/12/06

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