hardly drinking:

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WTF?

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A masterpiece. John Lasseter made this when he was at CalArts in 1979. Truly a rare find, as I have not seen this ANYWHERE else, not even on Pixar "special" DVDs. John Lasseter's suttle story writing qualities are evident in this film about a human-like lamp that panics and accidentally gets drunk! Found this on an old Betamax tape, part of a Cinemax "short stop" time filler, likely recorded in 1985. Watch this, then compare to any of Lasseter's Pixar movies

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Its astonishing that some people do not get this:

"Oh, for crying out loud.

The whole point of America is that you can burn the flag. Nothing sums up her greatness so succinctly. And it is precisely this – that in America you should be free to do any damn thing you please so long as it does not impinge on the rights of others – that leads most of us to abhor the idea of burning it in the first place.

And one thing you should absolutely be free to do in America is criticize your country and express outrage at its behavior – even if you’re wrong. We call that the Bill of Rights"

-Andrew Tobias

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Stephen Lynch

If lovin' a corpes is a sin... I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL

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hilarious!   

The manager dived into second, pulled up the bag before throwing it into right field. By the time he got ejected, Mikulik was just warming up. He covered home plate with dirt and cleaned it with a water bottle, which he spiked on the plate. From the dugout, he threw bats onto the field.

“I don’t think I ever lost total control, though it may look like it,” Mikulik told the Asheville Citizen-Times. Mikulik was hit with a seven-day suspension and $1,000 fine by the South Atlantic League.

via gimme-five.com

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From the creators of Futurama comes a terrifying message from Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth is now playing in theaters.

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Looking for videos of The Man Show boy?

The Man Show boy sells girl scout cookies

The Man Show boy picks up girls with a puppy

The Man Show boy at the beach
"Can I rub a little lotion on ya?"

The Man Show boy sells beer at the beer stand 
"Interest you dolls in a cocktail?"

The Man Show boy tries to get laid.

The Man Show boy with fake id.

Too funny!

Hat tip: Learning Curve

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From Cars.com comes this list of best movie cars

1. 1981 DeLorean DMC-12:    Back to the Future

2. 1961 Ferrari 250 GT:    Ferris Bueller's Day Off

3. 1974 Dodge Monaco:  The Blues Brothers

4. 1964 Aston Martin DB5:   Goldfinger

5. Batmobile Tumbler:   Batman Begins

6. 1968 Ford Mustang GT 390:   Bullitt

7. 1959 Cadillac ambulance:   Ghostbusters

8. 1958 Plymouth Fury:   Christine

9. 1973 Ford Falcon:   The Road Warrior

10. 2003 Mini Cooper S:   The Italian Job

Way cool!

See also: The Five Worst Movie Cars   

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Sources:

Top 10 Movie Cars   
Kelsey Mays
Cars.com, May 30, 2006
http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2006/05/top_10_movie_ca.html

Cars in a Leading Role
AUSTIN CONSIDINE
NYT, June 25, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/automobiles/collectibles/25COLLECT.html

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Live performance of "That Smell" by Lynyrd Skynrd;

This is the band just before the plane crash brought it all to a tragic end; newly joined Steve Gaines plays the first solo on "That Smell."

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My friend Donny was not a fan of Microsoft, and I know he would have found this too funny:

click for video

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I just learned a friend of mine died last week in a car accident late at nite. 

Don C. Bonifazio of Plainview, NY passed away on June 12, 2006. Beloved husband of Lorraine. Loving father of Ava. Dear son of Sharon and The late Richard. Proud brother of Richard.

Don was a terrific guy, and will be greatly missed.  If you knew him, and would like to leave a mesage for his family, please sign the guest book here . . .

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How cool is this?  Self propelled, 200 mpg 20 mph wheel, from RevoPower:

The Wheel reinvented:

• 200 + mpg
• 20 mph top speed
• Easy installation - less than 15 minutes
• Intuitive operation – single throttle/starter interface
• Customizable
• Easily storable
• Lightweight – adds only 12 pounds*

Excellent technology!

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Genetically engineered pets -- cool!

01. Genpet™

The Only Bioengineered Buddy. Available in 7 different personality types.

02. Color Coding

Each personality type of the Genpets has been linked to its respective colour, and that color is then used as a base for each package. (Read more)

03. Heart Monitor

Each package has a built in low cost heart monitor that is fully functional, with green LED lights and built in speaker. (Read more)

04. Fresh Strip

Every single package includes an easy to use "fresh gauge". Four simple blue LED lights display the status of the Genpet™. The display will also display if the Genpet™ has been sitting on the store shelf too long, or if the package circuitry has malfunctioned in some way. (Read more)

05. Bio-Genica IV System

While the Genpets hang on the store shelves they are in a form of hibernation. Each Genpet™ package has a special nutrient feeding tube attached to it, supplying our specially formulated mix and keeping them healthy and asleep.

06. Genpet™ Restraints

Restraining the pets in their packaging ensures no damage to the product, as well as allowing for optimal consumer viewing.

http://www.genpets.com/meet.php

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Ron Suskind appeared on "The Situation Room" to talk about his new book  "One Percent Doctrine," and said:

• the US took out Al-Jazeera office in Kabul purposefully
• the CIA determined OBL wanted W re-elected
• The president made the decision to rely on local forces to get Bin Laden in Tora Bora, over the CIA's explicit objections (They specifically told the president the local forces weren’t capable and shouldn't be relied upon, and we should nail him ourselves).

Pretty astounding stuff:
click for video

via Crooks and Liars

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Insane clips of Princess Juliana Airport, in St. Maarten (Netherlands Antilles), which is right n the beach.

Lots of Landings and Takeoffs, whith 757s and A340s almost dipping their landing gear in the water! 

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Happy Birthday, Sir Paul McCartney:  He's now 64. (born June 18, 1942)

When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a Valentine,birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out 'till quarter to three,would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?

Hmm------mmm---mmmh.
You'll be older, too.

Aaah, and if you say the word, I could stay with you.

I could be handy, mending a fuse, when your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside, sunday mornings, go for a ride.
Doing the garden, digging the weeds, who could ask for more?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty four?

Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wightif it's not to dear. We shall scrimp and save.
Ah, grandchildren on your knee, Vera, Chuck, and Dave.

Send me a postcard, drop me a line stating point of view.
Indicate precisely what you mean to say, yours sincerely wasting away.
Give me your answer, fill in a form, mine forever more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty four?

-When I'm Sixty-Four
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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Sources:
So Paul McCartney Is 64. Now What?
SAM ROBERTS
NYTimes, June 17, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/arts/music/17paul.html

Fans show why they still need Sir Paul, now he's 64    
Alan Weston
Daily Post Staff,Jun 19 2006
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/printable_version.cfm?objectid=17253640&siteid=50061

Paul McCartney
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_McCartney

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This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music -- a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison's 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.

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A friend emails this too funny tatt:

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cool:

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I detailed the advantages of cancelling a service versus renewing one in Customer Acquisition versus Retention: A case study in costs.

Now, via boingboing, comes this instruction on how to avoid the headaches of cancelling AOL, J2, and Sky TV, etc. from someone who works in the industry:

"I've worked for a telecommunications company that I would prefer to go unnamed, and I'd like to offer some tips to anyone trying to disconnect a service they no longer want. The biggest tip is to call well outside of normal business hours -- in my company, customer service was open 24/7, but the retention department closed in the evening. If you call, say, before bed, or during the middle of the night, you'll just be talking to a regular CS rep who has no incentive whatsoever to keep you as a customer. It can turn a twenty minute phone call into a two minute phone call.

Second, if you get a rude rep, hang up and call right back. Some reps, especially in commission driven departments like sales and retention, are especially pushy, where as if you call back you might get someone who is right at the end of his shift and just wants to get you off of his phone.

Third, there is one reason for disconnection that will work for almost every service--moving. Tell them you're moving out of the service area, or moving in with someone who already has the same service, and they should be required to cancel everything for you.

Also, it would be helpful to remember that the representatives in retention are paid to retain you as customers--threatening to record the call, asking for their name or ID, or asking for a supervisor will not do anything. All calls are recorded and the representatives have responses they are required to give for every customer question or complaint. The rep who actually gets in trouble will be the one who disconnects you immediately without trying to retain you, not the one who spends twenty minutes using every tactic in the book the company wrote for him."

Done!

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Amusing:

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White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, left, and White House Counselor Dan Barlett, ride in a military helicopter wearing helmets and flak jackets for a trip from Baghdad International Airport to U.S. Embassy in the Greenzone:

via Yahoo!

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A good EFF viral video --  the story of Copyright Supervillains who patrol the Broadcast Flag future, blowing up our free and open devices. It's a great, funny viral short, and well worth a watch.

click for video

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I walk out of a building on Madison and 49th this evening, only to see this monstrosity parked on the street:

Screw the Ferrari, I want a catcar!

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Interesting pictures of signs written by those border guarding "Minutemen" -- with apparently questionable language skills:

Via Photobucket
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/piecenow/holyfuckingshit.jpg

via Jamesfaqs
http://www.jamesfaqs.com/Morans.jpg

via Diggiemoon
http://www.diggiemoon.com/efgjbfjnfdjndfjknblbposbpojbopjsbdoj
pfbbbvofdlkfkriwpodpddpfpfcmdsofegfgdflfokfgf/lanaguage.jpg

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Quote of the day:

I — like many others — will always remember him best for his reaction to the Columbine shootings in 1999:

“Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.”

The man who said this has been one of the most powerful leaders of the Republican Party for over a decade and was treated seriously by the DC press corps the entire time. Never forget that — about either the Republican Party or the press. All the rest is trivia.

-Kevin Drum, Washington Monthly

This may be even more telling about the Pres than it is about politicians . . .

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How cool is this?

Websites as graphs displays your website as a graph of colored, connected dots representing the various HTML entities.

Below is a graph of this blog.

via Web log tools collection

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Well, almost. The Wimps at the gray lady didn't post a link! What a buncha chickens.

Here's the story info:

As the train neared Hunterspoint Avenue, one commuter revealed his own approach to problems on the train: "If there's really bad behavior on the train, I simply take a cellphone photo and post it to my Web site."

He has nicknamed some offenders: the Baritone, Barefoot Guy [not to be confused with foot man] and Nail Polish Narcissist. "I realized I needed a healthier outlet than sending my blood pressure up by getting into an argument," he said.

[LIRR Commuter Council] Ms. Krebelj-Douglas was amused by his solution, and she sees humor as part of the Commuters Council's approach, too.

"Ideally, we'd like the L.I.R.R. to put up posters based on our research," she said. "Something clever that pokes fun at it, that doesn't feel like a lecture."

Source:
If Train Riders Don't Mind Their Manners, a Commuter Group Will
BEN GIBBERD
NYTimes, June 9, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/11litrain.html

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The WSJ notes the Best Album Sinatra Made: 'In the Wee Small Hours' -- 'a vast cathedral of a work,' tells of loss and loneliness:

Frank Sinatra's "In the Wee Small Hours" (1955) is the finest vocal album of American popular songs ever recorded. This thought is not original with me. Some people prefer his "Only the Lonely" (1958), but what do they know? "In the Wee Small Hours" came first and set the standard. With it, Sinatra invented the concept album.

Sinatra's comeback after a precipitous fall is one of the best known showbiz legends. The former teen idol had lost his voice in 1950 and his Columbia recording contract. With the help of his second wife, Ava Gardner, he got a part in "From Here to Eternity" and won the 1953 Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor. He got a low-ball contract with a new record company, Capitol, and made two light-and-easy 10-inch LP collections, "Songs for Young Lovers" (1953) and "Swing Easy" (1954), later released as a single 12-inch record.

Then came "In the Wee Small Hours." The radio personality Jonathan Schwartz, whose father, Arthur, wrote, with Howard Dietz, "I See Your Face Before Me," which appears on the album, has called it "a vast cathedral of a work." It contains 16 songs, each one about loss and loneliness. It lasts for 50 minutes. Sometimes -- in the wee small hours -- it can be almost unbearable to listen to. No one, not even Frank Sinatra, ever made a better record.

Nelson Riddle, who wrote the arrangements for "In the Wee Small Hours," once said of Sinatra and his difficult second marriage: "Ava taught him how to sing a torch song. She taught him the hard way." She broke his heart more than once and kept him wildly jealous. She never suppressed her fierce independence when she became Mrs. Sinatra. So when he sang about "wishing that you were there again to get into my hair again," he meant it. He knew what he was singing about.

Sinatra's diction was immaculate. He got that from Mabel Mercer, the queen of the supper-club art song; they shared a friend, Alec Wilder, whose lovely "I'll Be Around" is on the album. He also learned from Billie Holiday. That influence is not so apparent, but something he told the writer Pete Hamill makes it clear: "What she did was take a song and make it hers. She lived in the song. It didn't matter who wrote the words or the music....She made it her story."

That's what Sinatra does here. The composers and lyricists include Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Jimmy Van Heusen, Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, and Hoagy Carmichael, whose "I Get Along Without You Very Well" elicits Sinatra's most wrenching performance.

The arranger, Mr. Riddle, was suggested to Sinatra by Alan Livingston, who was head of Artists and Repertoire at Capitol. Mr. Riddle, who is the subject of a fine biography by Peter J. Levinson, came out of swing bands like Sinatra himself, could be spare and lean, could be, like the singer, both tough and tender. To fully appreciate his contribution, listen to what sometimes happened when Sinatra allowed himself to be set awash in a sea of Gordon Jenkins's strings.

When you think of a Sinatra performance, you think he simply sings the songs as written. But this is not the case, which is why he was able to possess songs written for other people, from "I Get a Kick Out of You" to -- decades after "In the Wee Small Hours" -- "New York, New York." It is also why he was one of the few entertainers able to command a large popular audience by performing one classic American song after another, the ones that have been called the soundtrack of our lives.

All of this is why there was a bar called the Tender Trap on Rush Street in Chicago that featured an all-Sinatra jukebox. Even eight years after his death, there are all-Sinatra radio programs and, for all I know, there may even be an all-Sinatra station somewhere.

What Sinatra did was act a song out. He took a sad song and made it better. He worked very hard to make it sound easy. He stretched out the "o" in lonely to make it lonelier. He stretched out the "o" in cold to make it colder, the "e" in me to make sure we knew who it happened to. No one seems to notice that Sinatra is an anagram for artisan.

He took us -- still takes us, every time we listen to "In the Wee Small Hours" -- to the place in the heart where it happened, to the place in memory where it keeps us from sleep. Blessed with an exceptional natural instrument, and using every technical trick of tone and pace and phrasing at his command -- learned from such diverse models as the classical violinist Jascha Heifetz and the band leader and trombonist Tommy Dorsey -- he makes us, in his company, glad to be unhappy.

Source:
The Best Album Sinatra Made
JOE GOLDBERG
WSJ, April 29, 2006; Page P18
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114625231558339036.html

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The WSJ reports:

"While riding public bus 68X on the night of April 29, Elvis Ho tapped the shoulder of a passenger sitting in front of him who was talking on a cellphone. The 23-year-old Mr. Ho asked the man to lower his voice. Mr. Ho called him "uncle," a familiar way of addressing an elder male in Cantonese.

Instead of complying, the man turned around and berated Mr. Ho for nearly six minutes, peppering his outburst with obscenities.

"I've got pressure, you've got pressure!" the older man exploded. "Why did you have to provoke me?" A nearby passenger who found the encounter interesting captured most of it on video with his own cellphone, and it was posted on the Web.

"Bus Uncle," as the older man is now known, has since become a Hong Kong sensation. The video, including subtitled versions, has been downloaded nearly five million times from YouTube.com, a popular Web site for video clips.

Teenagers and adults here sprinkle their conversations with phrases borrowed from Bus Uncle's rant, such as "I've got pressure!" and "It's not over!" (shouted when the young man tried to end the conversation several times by saying, "It's over"). Also, there are several insults involving mothers. Web sites peddle T-shirts with a cartoon of Bus Uncle and the famous phrases. They are also available as mobile-phone ringtones."

Instead of photos, we've got video!

The Original Video:

See these remixed versions also:

巴士阿叔 Bus Uncle (Darth Vader Version)

巴士阿叔 Bus Uncle (Adagio For Strings)

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Source:
A Six-Minute Tirade On a Hong Kong Bus Rides Into Vernacular
Mr. Chan's Pressured Rant Turns Into Web Sensation;
Ringtones and Remixes
GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
WSJ, June 7, 2006; Page A1
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114962497534572979.html

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Nice job on the new Jaguar by Ford in last Sunday's Times:  The sexiest sports car under $100,000.

Convertible
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Coupe

Excerpt:

DESIGN:  The new XK is elegant to behold, but it seems to lack the swagger and rakish charm of progenitors like the XK 120, XK SS, XKE and XJ 220.

The XK's teardrop-shape headlamps and taillights are one departure. "I looked at the old E-Type elliptical headlights and said, 'It's been done,' " the designer said. "Too obvious. Let's do something different."

The coupe's liftback, however, is pure E-Type. The convertible's rear haunches look a bit swollen, but that is because the trunk had to be big enough to hold the retracted softtop and some luggage.

The Jag does not have a retracting hardtop, like rivals from Cadillac, Lexus and Mercedes-Benz. "There's more power and presence in having two cars — a convertible and a coupe," Mr. Callum said. "It's not just a choice; it's to challenge which one to buy."

The rear wing seems a little too large — it houses the mandatory center brake light. As a result, the spoiler provides more rear downforce than desired, and can cause the nose to lift at speeds over 130 miles an hour. That, happily, is not an everyday worry.

The hood line is not as low as Mr. Callum would have liked it to be; he is also not fond of the lower air dam, which gives the new XK a shovel-nose look. These touches were mandated by new European rules governing front-end design, intended to reduce injuries to pedestrians. "The dimensions are set by regulations," Mr. Callum said of the front end.

There are "gills," or side vents, behind the front wheels that augment the car's catfish face. These recall Mr. Callum's early career designing cars like the Interceptor for the British automaker Jensen . . .

ENGINE: A starter button lights up the 300-horsepower, 4.2-liter V-8. The restrained rumble of that engine won't disturb the neighbors, but it will warm the long-neglected cockles of an Anglophile's heart. More powerful XK's are expected to come — with 420 and even 500 horsepower — at six-figure prices. The smooth six-speed ZF automatic transmission — this gearbox is not a choice but a given — is one of this car's finest attributes.

PRICE: The convertible has a price premium of about $6,000 over the coupe, which starts at $75,500. The convertible I tested had a sticker of $85,200, including the $665 shipping charge. This represents a price bump of about $6,000 over the discontinued XK8, but the Jaguar is still priced some $14,000 below the Mercedes SL.

Source:
2007 Jaguar XK: A Low-Fat Cat
Jerry Garrett
NYTimes,  June 4, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/automobiles/autoreviews/04AUTO.html

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Amusing:

Christo Komar, via Cagle

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This pair of cuties were on a late (but packed) Thursday night train on the Port Washington line.

They were both sloppy drunk, filling the car with drunken gossipy giggles. The brunette rode the phone the whole way home -- the entire trip. I got so annoyed that I could hear her EVEN OVER THE IPOD that I stood up and took a picture with her staring right at me. The second girl -- the one with the lower back tatt -- keeled over and passed out around Douglaston.

The funniest part of their show was watching a series of younger guys approach them. They each looked like they were about to lay a line or two on our drunken friends, but watching the sloppy behavior, must have thought better of it. My guess is they decided these girls were too annoying to be bothered with.

Check out the red bull and tatt

Imagine that:  Even if you are a cute, drunk, 20 something girl, your phone etiquette can offput males of the same age group -- guys that will hit on a drunken girl even as she vomits -- yet the phone blab bothered them. Go figure.

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Stephen Lynch's Why Mommy Left:

Perversely brilliant !

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Via Yahoo!

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Too funny!  Love the sound effects! 

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Astonishing

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Start your Monday with the funniest Bell South ad EVER

Hysterical!

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Sent from a friend in Puget Sound:


God was missing for six days.  Eventually, Michael, the archangel, found him, resting on the seventh day.

He inquired of God.  "Where have you been?"

God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction, and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look, Michael. Look what I've made." 

Archangel Michael looked puzzled, and said, "What is it?" 

"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put Life on it.  I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."

Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused.

God explained, pointing to different parts of earth.  "For example,northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, while southern Europe is going to be poor. Over there I've placed a continent of white people, and over there is a continent of black people.  Balance in all things," God continued pointing to different countries.  "This one will be extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."

The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a land area and said,

"What's that one?"

"Ah," said God  "That's Washington State, the most glorious place on earth. 

There are beautiful mountains, rivers and streams, lakes, forests, hills, plains, and coulees. The people from Washington State are going to be handsome, modest, intelligent, and humorous, and they are going to be found traveling the world.  They will be extremely sociable, hardworking, high achieving, and they will be known throughout the world as diplomats, and carriers of peace."

Michael gasped in wonder and admiration, but then asked, "But what about balance, God?  You said there would be balance."

God smiled, "There is another Washington...Wait until you see the idiots I put there!

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I am rapidly becoming a fan of China Daily:  Partly for their photos of MAX Magazine photo of Marissa Miller:

Yes, that's all paint, not clothes -- top and bottom;

There's more photos of Max girls Marissa Miller and Yesica Toscanini here.

See also:
Bikini's 60th birthday    
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2006-06/02/content_607037.htm

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Stephen Lynch's Superhero

Terrific stuff

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The first second annual "Smallest, Coolest Apartment" contest


Very cool stuff:

James & Margaret's Iconic Studio

Christine's Airy Park View

Greg and Em's Silverlake Sanctuary

Wayne's Diagonal Conversion

Matt's Fargo Chic

via Apartment Therapy

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Awesome cut, found via Entourage -- animated video by Quannum

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