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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Rinse Cycle Not Included
September 26, 2008 – 1:02 pm
This is the last one, I swear. All I ask is that you watch it to just past the 1:40 mark.
Also, He’s Not Here to Make Friends
September 26, 2008 – 9:09 am
It turns out it’s not just Top Design contestants spouting alternafacts about history. Here’s VP candidate Joe Biden on the current economic crisis.
“Part of what being a leader does is to instill confidence is to demonstrate what he or she knows what they are talking about and to communicating to people … this is how […]
We Also Always Clapped on 1 and 3
September 25, 2008 – 3:09 pm
Growing up in the Southern Baptist church, I often heard (from others, mind you, not my parents) that we shouldn’t dance. They said it was because dancing was sinful.
Now that I’m an adult, I realize there are other reasons why you might not want to dance.
Does this make up for yesterday’s video?
(the original source)
Another Great Quote From Bravo
September 25, 2008 – 7:56 am
“Sweet, ’cause my hands can use a break. My hands look like a Polish potato farmer during, like, the famine.”
—Top Design contestant Eddie Ross, from Greenwich, CT
First I learned about the Chinese and the Hiroshima bomb, and now this. By the end of this season I’ll have a whole collection of alternafacts about the world. […]
I Bet I Could Have Beaten Him at Call of Duty 4, Though
September 24, 2008 – 4:14 pm
People often say that war-themed first-person shooters are completely unreasonable. No one person, they point out, could really do what your in-game avatar does.
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Major Robert Henry Cain, recipient of the Victoria Cross. His weapon of choice was the Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank (PIAT), an early rocket-propelled grenade launcher. During the Battle […]
Sadly We Occasionally Run Low on Christian Ska
September 24, 2008 – 8:59 am
Sometimes our non-Christian friends ask us what our church services are like. It’s always hard to describe them in words, which is why I’m glad a friend of ours pointed us to the video below. Our services are exactly like this.
Zap!
For the Record, I Don’t Like Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches
September 22, 2008 – 4:35 pm
When I was in middle school, I was–well, “pudgy” would be the kindest word for it. I weighed about what I weigh now, but was half a foot shorter. I resembled Jerry O’Connell in Stand By Me. When I went to Space Camp, staffers took a picture of me in the Moon gravity chair. I […]
What I Learned in Japan About Parking Your Bike
September 19, 2008 – 11:23 am
The English translation on signs does not necessarily tell the whole story.
If It’s My Fault, Where’s My Pile of Filthy Lucre?
September 19, 2008 – 9:33 am
“Wall Street has rocket scientists creating securities…. A scientist sort of in the back room with lots of test tubes and bunsen burners–they’ve created monsters. They’ve created these securities that no one has a handle on.”
Nancy Kimmelman, former Wall Street economist
That’s right, it’s all our fault. We’re done creating V-2 rockets to rain down poorly-aimed […]