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01/31/2009 11:30 #47581

question
Category: food
What the fuck happened to my French toast?!

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U Can't This

- Z

jenks - 01/31/09 18:02
aaaahhhhhh, thanks for the laugh.

(and NO thanks for getting me sucked into MS Paint adventures for like an HOUR the other day. I made it to chapter five and kept thinking it was almost over, until I saw there are 22 chapters, and I quit.)
paul - 01/31/09 14:28
Thats awesome
james - 01/31/09 12:20
That is outrageous!

01/29/2009 09:06 #47553

the baddest motherfucker
Category: a series of tubes
Today's "Baddest Motherfucker" award goes to Vint Cerf the man who invented TCP/IP just so that he could have a Facebook page Gaze on his works ye mighty and despair.

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Now he's pissed off like a vengeful creator

- Z

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Today's "Wack Motherfucker" award goes to the first commenter who mentions Al Gore.
jason - 01/29/09 10:10
HAHAHA, wonderful Yakov.
uncutsaniflush - 01/29/09 09:51
You talk as if being a "Wack Motherfucker" is a bad thing.

But, oh, how I love a challenge!!! So here goes:

In Soviet Russia, Al Gore did not invent the interwebs, the interwebs invented Al Gore.

01/26/2009 22:56 #47528

bad command or file name
Category: a series of tubes
> Pose as a team, because SHIT JUST GOT REAL.

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You copy and paste your previous poses into a new file and animate the background rapidly.
>

- Z

01/22/2009 01:09 #47483

venting
Category: misc
I've been crabby lately.

1. Saying 'guesstimate' instead of 'estimate' doesn't make you sound clever. I could be persuaded, but only if you could convince me that you invented the word. I would be on the brink of respecting your wit, until you also told me you were responsible for tarzhay, at which point I would punch you in the teeth until you couldn't say any more words at all, except perhaps a mushy slobbery bloody gurgle. Society would understand and forgive me.

2. Can I be opposed to the ceaseless Israeli-Palestinian violence without taking a side? I am. Seriously people, grow up. You're 50% right, 50% wrong, and 150% loud, and I'm sick of hearing about you. I'm not even entertaining comments about this, because if you're taking a side you're half wrong too.

3. Barack Obama is a rock star. I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing. But you have to admit, it's kind of nice to be worrying about whether the President's going to get to keep his CrackBerry rather than worrying about whether he's going to start hauling people in for sedition.

4. You want my opinion on the poem? Nobody got it. If a poem can't be read effectively by its author, can it be read effectively? We'll let Philosophy 101 talk themselves in circles for an hour. Meanwhile I'll ponder on what would make a writer decide to give up on sentences and

just say words at people
instead
slowly (perhaps)
one by one
until they get it
or not

It's probably the same neural trigger that makes people snap and become Lisp programmers.

5. Yo-Yo Ma. You can't fuck with that.

- Z


joshua - 01/22/09 10:25
Here's a haiku I read today - maybe it will brighten your mood -

A fifth of vodka
Time to make a tiny tot
Penis vagina
joshua - 01/22/09 10:20
Dear Lord! Bravo! Complaint #1 was my favorite and I certainly would understand and forgive you. Tar zhay is an ironic phrase now, as if you've been to the one behind Tops lately you know the place is becoming nearly as ghetto as the Wal-Mart by the Galleria. The word "guesstimate" is redundant.

Answer to #2 is HELL YES. I don't think it is ever going to end, though. It is biblical in nature and there is no solution to the problem that all parties will find acceptable.

  1. 3 - Overall I like Barack Obama (the guy, not his politics). My only problem with his rock star status, and it is a big one, is that there is no evidence that there will be objective coverage of him in the media. The media is has been demonstrably smitten with Barack Obama and that should make any objective observer uncomfortable.

  1. 4 - Actually you raised a point that I wish I would have regarding the reading of the poem. It's true that any nuggets of appreciation that other people may have had for the poem were obscured by the poor reading. I'm just saying -

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

etc.

Maya Angelou - legend legend legend. If I could hug this woman and kiss her on the cheek I would. Anyone could read this (ok.. maybe not everyone!) and the listeners would gain deep appreciation out of it.

  1. 5 - Why were people picking on the Simple Gifts arrangement that John Williams did? I thought it was beautiful. Yo-Yo Ma, no you can't fuck with that!
hodown - 01/22/09 10:13
I'm with you on all of the above!

01/08/2009 21:28 #47335

item
Category: items
Item!

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by Jeremy Fish

- Z
paul - 01/10/09 10:18
I should get basra a poster of that.
tinypliny - 01/10/09 09:30
Those teeth would need some serious dental work after all that dragging. Heh