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All I did was plug in text from this post and this post, and it was definitively confirmed…
Hey, Dr. Karl Hufbauer – you and your C+ dismissal of my Freshman Billy Budd paper can kiss my baby tuckoo!
What can I say? I try to keep C&B more on the Dubliners/Portrait of the Artist end of things than going all Ulysses or Finnegan’s Wake up in here. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: college, Dubliners, Ireland, James Joyce, literature, words, writers
OMG, listen to what he says to Obama during the applause!
Really, I am flabbergasted. That is just plain inappropriate, and I can’t imagine what possessed him to say it. I know Biden is prone to gaffes, but this is major. Think about it: after scratching and clawing through the fetid political muck for well over a year, Obama signed the historic health care reform bill into law, and Biden says it’s “A big fucking deal?”
No I say, NO! Ho-ly FUCKING shit, it is a HUGE fucking deal! I mean, fuck me running, that is ass-kickingly goddamned big. Suck it, FOX News punditiots, because Yes We Did! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: George Carlin, health care reform, Joe Biden, news media, Obama, profanity, punditiots, Tea Party, teabaggers, videos, words, wtf?
Hallelujah. Somebody with a much bigger name than mine (in every sense) blogged this so I don’t have to. Now I can simply linkblog it, which is ever so much quicker.
We can finally drop the “thousand.” Last year may have been two thousand nine, but this year, mercifully, is twenty ten. And next year will be twenty eleven. And so on until—well, until the year 3000.
Sing it, Rick. I for one am in favor of anything that signifies departure from the last decade.
Everybody got that? “Twenty ten.” Woohoo! Our long extra-syllable nightmare is over!
Tags: 2000s, Hendrik Hertzberg, words
You know, just… pop it in the mail slot.
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Tags: innuendo, LA, names, photos, San Fernando Valley, slang, words
I just noticed that the regular view of my area on Google Maps now shows property lines:
Maybe only map nerds like me get excited about the rollout of this kind of feature. Frankly, I’m not even sure what utility it has for a normal Google Maps user. The nearest thing I can think of at the moment is perhaps for increased specificity in giving directions, as in, “It’s the fifth house on the right.” Or something like this… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: geekiness, Google Maps, LA, maps, words
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