December 2011
13 posts
Actual Conversation I Had
FRIEND (after observing nametag): This is a Cuban restaurant and that waiter's name is German.
ME: What is it?
FRIEND: German.
ME: What's his name?
FRIEND: It's German.
ME: What is it? "Kurt?"
FRIEND: His name is German.
ME: Wait, his name is G-E-R-...?
FRIEND: Yes.
ME: We just had a Who's on First thing there.
FRIEND: We really did.
Multiple Fails of the Day
Newt Gingrich fails to collect 10,000 valid signatures in his adopted home state and is disqualified from the Virginia primary ballot. Campaign director Michael Krull blames Virginia’s “failed system” and vows a write-in campaign, presumably unaware Virginia does not allow write-in campaigns. Later on Facebook, Krull amends the blame to Virginia’s “cumbersome...
“A funny woman, no matter how conventionally lovely, generally has to accept that she’ll also be perceived as a little bit funny looking. When she gets a laugh, she risks subliminally conveying the message that she’s making up for some hidden deficiency, that she’s sad or irreparably broken.”
-Meghan Daum, Christopher Hitchens Gets the Last Laugh, L.A. Times
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THE JAMES URBANIAK CHRISTMAS SONG
I wrote this...