Showing posts with label Whimsy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Whimsy. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

America! America outraged! America broken! America martyred! But America liberated!

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 A sneak preview of Biden's inaugural address in just over an hour:
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

TWO IMPORTANT LANGUAGE NOTES

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1) The proper English term for the Jewish celebrations in early adolescence is hereby termed "b'mitzvah" (both singular and pl...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Four Questions For the Second Seder

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Why is this night exactly the same as last night? Last night, we had a seder. Tonight, we're having exactly the same seder. Last night...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Far From the Only Reason, But A Key One, This Blog Has Been Slow of Late, Revealed In Humorous Fashion as a Parodic Request

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Hey, y'all, quick favor: I need the entire world to stop for, oh, I dunno, not too long, maybe a week?, yeah, a week, that'll do it,...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

I Swear I Don't Know Why But Sometimes These Things Just Pop Into My Head

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Rudolph, the red-eyed dragon, Had a very flamey breath, And if you ever saw him, It would be a firey death. All of Santa's reindeer...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Stray Thought

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In some (presumably hypothetical but perfectly realizable) language, the sentence You have to be a good speller to write a palindrome is, i...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

The Four Questions: A Modern Day Version

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Why is this night different from all other nights? On all other nights, the house is a total mess, but tonight, the house is clean. On a...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

On the Mayan Apocalypse

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CORDELIA ...if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note. -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Episode 3.12, "Helpless...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Joss Whedon on the Election

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( Via , but what, like I wasn't going to run across this somewhere and post it at soon as I saw it? Puh-leeze.)
Monday, August 06, 2012

If I Twittered, I'd Retweet This

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You've really got to hand it to short people. Because they often can't reach it. — rob delaney (@robdelaney) January 8, 2012 Actuall...
Monday, July 23, 2012

The Suspension of Disbelief Has Limits, After All

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From America's Finest News Source ( via ), it seems Superman has gotten a bit too unrealistic: While they acknowledged that enjoying th...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Generic LImerick

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There once was an X from place B, Who satisfied predicate P,     The X did thing A,     In a specified way, Resulting in circumstance C. Tha...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

Poem of the Day: Theme with Two Variations

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The theme, William Wordsworth's classic poem "Daffodils" Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er v...
Wednesday, July 04, 2012

The Unanimous Declaration of the Scientific Teams at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

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In Press Conference Assembled, July 4, 2012: When in the course of scientific events it becomes necessary for one particle to create the ma...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Poem of the Day

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Lives there a man with soul so dead He's never to his toaster said: “You are my friend; I see in you An object sturdy, staunch, and true...
Thursday, February 09, 2012

Theodorides's Epigram (and Diverse Tangentially Related Matters)

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A shipwrecked sailor, buried on this coast, Bids you set sail. Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost, Weathered the gale. -- Theodorid...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Headline All of Human History, Up To This Point, Has Been Leading To

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" Gordon Ramsay's dwarf porn double Percy Foster found dead in a badger den in Wales. " - Source ( via Abi Sutherland at Maki...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

But What Was the Name of the Cat?

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"We even adopted a cat—a sweet indoor kitty with an autoimmune virus we named Wimbledon." -- Paul M. Davis
Monday, January 23, 2012

I Dream Things That Never Were, and Ask, "Why Not?"

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"They don't pay people $25,000 a month to be a historian." -- Mitt Romney ( title cite )

"Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Clay, Charles De Gaulle, William Wallace, Pericles...

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...The Duke Of Wellington, Thomas Edison, Vince Lombardi, The Wright Brothers, Moses, and 'a viking.'" -- A list of the people ...