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redandjonny: Jonny and the swamp, originally uploaded by RedandJonny.
This is a picture of a man wearing a suit with a stormtrooper helmet, standing in a swamp. I [...] -
off kilter
Will the Barback Be a Diplomatic Envoy?
The crackdown on public smoking isn’t just an American phenomenon. Here in California, nobody is allowed to light up in bars and restaurants, or anywhere near buildings or food. I am a nonsmoker, so it doesn’t have a huge impact on me outside of better smelling hair after a night at the bar. Yet, I [...]
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humor, links, off kilter
A Corollary to the King of Queens Effect
While Hollywood keeps trying to convince us that we live in some kind of Kevin James-ian Wonderland where Maxim models routinely go out with chubby schlubs and unkempt losers score with improbably hot young women on a regular basis, we know that life in the real world is remarkably different. The cold hard truth is [...]
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off kilter
Nobody Frightens Children Quite Like the Russians. Except Maybe the Germans.
06.21.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsOver at the mental_floss blog they’ve posted some scans from a Russian book of bedtime stories for ill-behaved children with accompanying translation. It’s creepy as hell. For example:
“If you play during your meal each time, then you should know that spider will come.”
See more here.
It reminded me of something else I came across recently. I [...] -
off kilter
Don’t Scurry, Mouse. You’ll Just Die Tired.
I have always backed the notion of having animals do our fighting for us. Not only are they bred to endure the harsh necessities of constant struggle for survival but they are inherently awesome. Can you imagine pitting a unit of heavily-armed marmosets against a rag-tag bunch of armored gibbons?
<groan-inducing pun> That’s what I’d call [...] -
music, off kilter
Oh, that’s why he’s hot.
If you’re like me, you like to construct elaborate models and similes to explain things that you really shouldn’t waste your time thinking about. Sites like indexed do this sort of thing all the time, and I can never get enough of it. I find this sort of thinking to be a useful hermeneutic [...]
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