August 2005 - Posts

Monday, August 29, 2005 12:43 PM

Oh my GOD Magnum!

OK, this has nothing to do with Magnum, P.I. That's just what went through my head when I read this:

They're now allowing kids to swear in school!
And this from the Brits!

Sure, kids swear, but actually being allowed to say the "f word" in class??

That's just ri-effing-diculous!
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005 5:01 PM

Earth Girls Are Easy

Or at least the ones that go to this high school in Ohio are.
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Friday, August 19, 2005 12:13 PM

It amazes me that this kind of ignorant crap still happens

Some ignorant waitress in New Jersey identified a table as "Jew Couple" on their bill.  That is so un-f-ing-believable.  How do people get to be so intolerant?  It boggles my mind.

In a fair world, that girl would be sterile.

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Monday, August 15, 2005 7:02 PM

What's that old adage?

"Those who can, do and those who can't try to crush the spirit of those who can?"

I know it's something like that...

Here's Wil Wheaton getting a little revenge on one of his teachers, who must have been a complete bitch.

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Monday, August 15, 2005 10:58 AM

This is really interesting, but they need to be fast and cool looking to succeed

People tinker with their hybrid cars and make them get up to 250 mpg in the process.

This is really impressive, but we're still going after the tree-hugger demographic.  What we need is a hybrid muscle car that gets 200 mpg and can out-accelerate everything else (which electric drive can do very well, AFAIK).

Then, people would buy metric assloads of them.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005 2:14 PM

Call me "Jitters"...

This guy is trying to visite every Starbucks in the World!

I like my coffee, but geez...

My favorite quote: "Every time I reach a Starbucks I feel like I've accomplished something, ...when actually I have accomplished nothing."
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Friday, August 05, 2005 11:55 AM

Microsoft is trying to screw us again... I know you're shocked

If you want to watch DRM-enabled video on Windows Vista, you'll have to buy a new monitor!

Well, you don't HAVE to, but the video will be blurred. 

That is so obnoxious it makes me want to hurt someone.

As if they needed to do more to alienate people...

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Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:31 PM

The Police (in general) have completely lost their minds...

No, I'm not talking about Sting's old cronies...

I'm talking about the morons who, along with a district attorney, were charging an 11-year old girl with a felony for throwing a rock at boys who were pelting her with water baloons...

Umm... sounds like pretty normal kid's behavior to me.  Well, except the rock was a little bigger than normal.
Still, "During her five days in detention, Maribel was reportedly granted one 30-minute visit by her parents."

An 11-year old girl was denied access to her parents for FIVE DAYS?  WTF is wrong with these people?

It's not like she shot these kids... they were riding by on bicycles hitting her with water balloons...  It was a normal response.  I might even do the same thing and I'm 33! 

Anyway, this kind of stuff is ridiculous.
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Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:24 AM

Well, it isn't Vapoorize, but it's still cool

I thought someone was trying to spoof the movie Envy with Jack Black and Ben Stiller in which Jack Black invents a spray (Vapoorizer) that vaporizes animal feces, but I was wrong.

These guys invented a spray that freezes your dog's crap to a stick so you can pick it up without needing to wash your hands later.

I'm sure this is especially helpful if your dog had Mexican food recently...
(originally found on Boing Boing)

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Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:07 AM

As if I needed another reason to watch Alias...

Apparently, there aren't enough hot people in the TV show Alias...

The Associated Press says that they added Elodie Bouchez of France.

The picture in IMDB is not very good, but rumor has it that she may have been in some movies in various states of undress... 

I wouldn't know....

Honestly...

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Thursday, August 04, 2005 6:44 AM

R.I.P. "The Tupac of TV"

Seems that after all the wondering and hand wringing, Chappelle's Show is dead

Are you going to miss his show?

"Wwwhhhhhaaaaaattt!??"

Are you going to miss his show?

"Wwwhhhhhaaaaaattt!??"

ARE YOU GOING TO MISS HIS SHOW??

"Yeeaaaaahhhhhh!"

Can I hear an "I'm Rick James Bitch!"?

posted by Tom (Comments Off)
Wednesday, August 03, 2005 10:16 AM

This is just so shameful

Sometimes, I try to make up funny things to say about news headlines and things, but, frankly, this is almost as horrifying to me as the Enron (et.al) scandals.

Sony to Pay $1.5M Over Fake Movie Critic (AP)

Some MADE UP a film critic in order to make up their own reviews for their movies.  That is frankly appalling.  There are SOOO many critics, how could they not find any that said what they wanted?  So ridiculous.  And they only have to pay $1.5 million.

T
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