December 2009
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All you ever need to know about Two and a Half Men
Cryer: Penis.
Sheen: Dealbreaker.
Studio Audience: [That scene in Hannibal where the guy does poppers and cuts his own face off … okay, okay, UPROARIOUS LAUGHTER.]
“Fuck this Na’vi shit.”
– Angela Bassett, one would imagine.
I hate it when I forget that I just brushed my teeth and then I drink orange juice! It’s the worst! Relatable!
WatchWhat English Sounds Like To Foreigners.
Italian singer Adriano Celentano wrote this song in 1972 using a made-up language designed to sound like English.
I haven’t seen Nine yet but this is already better than Nine.
'Boat' could explore Saturn moon →
The scientific team behind the idea is targeting Ligeia Mare, a vast body of liquid methane sited in the high north of Saturn’s largest moon. The concept will be suggested to the US space agency for one of its future mission opportunities that will test a novel power system. It would be the first exploration of a planetary sea beyond Earth.
They’ve got my boner vote.
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Recently, an acquaintance characterized me as a “connector.” I’m more of a Lagrange point, I politely demurred.
Nothing conveys the preciousness of time so succinctly as the accelerated scrolling of a motion picture’s credits during a basic cable broadcast.
I wonder if Nora Ephron ever doodles her last name as “Efron”—you know, because. I also assume her sister Delia sometimes doodles her first name as “Nora” … while committing check fraud.
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I’d never thought about this before but the lyrics to “Maria” from The Sound of Music sort of seem to describe nun-rape.
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You know when someone knows exactly what you’re talking about even when you don’t? That’s love too.
I’ve decided that granduncle is one of the more unfortunately constructed words in the English language. It looks like it’s meant to be pronounced grun-DUNKLE, and intended to describe the least-bathed portion of a Viking’s anatomy. “I can smell Odin’s granduncle all the way from the twenty-first century.” Fin.
Google quietly rolls out Dictionary →
Google, let’s you and me emancipate some minors and raise a child army in the Namib Desert.
If you ever want to humble yourself, run a spellcheck on the journal you’ve been keeping since the spring of your sophomore year in college.
Sometimes a really big beastly yes! makes up for a litany of trifling noes.