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At last night’s book discussion, I sat down between L, the moderator, and N, another attendee. Then the following exchange took place:
This morning, @joeyhagedorn tweeted that his word of the day is “defenestration”:
I was moved to respond to him on Facebook:
His response:
I later stopped by his office and observed that everyone talks about defenestration, but refenestration never gets any love. It turns out the Urban Dictionary has a definition for “refenestrate”:
Sad to say, this exchange may have been the high point of my day. Sure made me laugh, though! I’m always amused when I see the following slogan as part of Safeway’s Eating Right campaign. I recall something a friend said, that “It’s not just about eating kids, but about eating the right kids”. In this particular ad, the Tasmanian Devil really seems to underscore that notion. (Nom nom nom…) The campaign’s been around for a while; I can’t believe this obvious joke hasn’t made the rounds among Safeway employees…  This will come as no surprise to anyone, but my favorite routine by the late George Carlin is his bit on baseball vs. football. If you’re not a regular reader of John Scalzi’s blog, nip over there to read his hilarious report about visiting the Creation Museum:
It’s well worth the time to read through it all, especially the photo set. (For more hilarity, visit the Creation Museum’s web site, too.) Then you can enter Scalzi’s LOLCreashun contest. In related news, the long-running PBS science program Nova last night ran an episode about the 2005 trial involving the Dover, PA school board which rejected Intelligent Design’s claims to be a rational alternative to evolution. I unfortunately missed the episode (hopefully I can catch it some other time), but Ars Technica has some additional info about the Dover trial’s impact on the ID movement and what the ID people are up to these days. It’s too bad we sometimes have to take these people seriously in order to refute their silliness. It’s much more fun to just mock them like Scalzi does. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to decisively and finally win a battle against what amounts to rampant (if not willful) ignorance. Brought to you by the letter arrr! and by pieces of eight. It’s part of “avast” conspiracy. That is all. (For now.) From The Warehouse:
If you’re not familiar with the referenced nonsense, you can watch the short movies about Badgers and the Bananaphone. My current favorite picture going around the Internet:  I’m not sure why I find it so funny, I just chuckle every time I see it. I have no idea where it originally came from. I CAN HAS PRIVACY? (LOLCATS linketty goodness.) |
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