Sunday, September 9, 2012
A masterpiece of modern satire from the Onion, they’ve really outdone themselves this time. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL622682EF88B3C077[/youtube]
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done It gets lonely. George Burns was told to date girls his age. “There are no girls my age.” For all of us, there are fewer and fewer people our age. Who wants to be the last one on board? I am happy I knew them. They […]
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
The lampshade that drives its owners mad: Strange truth behind 20th century’s most disturbing object The lampshade’s current proprietor […] won’t keep it in his home and says that, even now that it’s here, safely in storage, he feels more at ease when he knows the shade is shut away in its white cardboard box. […]
Male pattern baldness and the mysteries of human sexuality are no puzzles for the president of Bolivia, who has declared they are caused by eating chicken.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues βIt is like the tobacco industry asking for compensation for lost revenues as a part of a settlement to address the health risks of smoking,β said Jake Schmidt, the international climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. βThe worst of this racket is that […]
take your tracking pixel and shove it.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Pear-shaped business plan reaps fruit of success | Small Business | Reuters
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since i’ve been blogging, i’m not going to dignify the source by linking to it. Jillian Harris, Vancouver’s most famous singleton, says she wants an honest man — one who will tell her if she’s got a booger in her nose. She’s hoping to find him on reality television. … i mean, really.
Robert Augustus Chesebrough, January 9, 1837 β September 8, 1938) was a chemist and the inventor of petroleum jelly, trade-named Vaseline. […] Chesebrough lived to be 101 years old and was such a believer in Vaseline that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it every day.