February 2012
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Buying lumber
Me: I'd like 60 feet of cedar.
Guy: That'll be $550.
Me: Oh, uhm, I think I want the lower grade.
Guy: Oh well then it's $125.
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Just spent ten minutes learning about ablative...
trying to figure out a short-term ablation pun. Decided no one would get it anyway.
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Short-term Ablution
n.f. - like, when you crash overnight at your brother’s apartment, and in the morning you don’t take a full shower, just brush teeth and hair, and put on a fresh coat of deodorant
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I know a thing or two about
not being sure how many things I know about.
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The DC NFL team
Got an idea for a new nonracist mascot/logo that lets you keep the name. It involves potatoes.
“He’ll save children, but not the British children.”
– Brad Neely’s George Washington
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"colossal" linguistic formations
when used to describe a person, never a positive. You will never hear, “he is such a colossal humanitarian.”
By induction we find the adjective turns any noun into a pejorative. e.g., “That guy is a colossal Przybysz.”
DEAR ONE ABSENT THIS LONG WHILE
whitneyricketts:
June efforts quietly. I’ve planted vegetables along each garden wall so even if spring continues to disappoint we can say at least the lettuce loved the rain. I have new gloves and a new hoe. I practice eulogies. He was a hawk with white feathered legs. She had the quiet ribs of a salamander crossing the old pony post road. Yours is the name the leaves chatter at the edge of the...
“Everything my sister cooks is delicious.”
– Merricat Blackwood, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
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Not turtle
Owls and bats, for instance.
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Every night
Step 1: Begin bedtime ritual.
Step B: Go slowly more insane the longer child retains consciousness.
Step Gamma: Child delicately perched on the border between sleep and waking, desperately avoid making any sort of noise or doing anything perceptibly fun; insanity deepens, darkens, grows tentacles.
Step 666: Child snoring loudly, emerge from madness like a chrysalis. Note time — Precisely...
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Just think in a few years it will be time for Super Bowl “L”. And 9 years later, Super Bowl LIX. Should be fun.
Downton Julie Brown
What's the deal with The Man in the Sin City... →
On the one hand, it’s nice to know when a writer has a full concept for a trim scene. But, this explanation by Frank Miller feels sort of like someone explaining a punchline. Like the Star Wars prequels or JK Rowling’s endless post-Deathly Hallows interviews, having a creator spell out everything tends to drain my enjoyment.
When they let me use my own brain to fill in the blanks,...
“I grew up in a family of feldspar, and I have to say,as a Rock-American, this...”
– top comment on Shit Rocks Say
“When they came back to us, they were bad Runners, ignorant of every means of...”
– Six Nations review of college grads via Futility Closet