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Embarrassment on Ice
2007-03-13 01:45:00
So I was on the phone this evening, on my way to class, in which I am the professor, talking to my sister about the Justin Timberlake / Pink concert we are seeing in a few days. I said it was at the local arena and my sister started wondering if she had ever been there. I was all, “Um, yeah. That where we saw Beauty and the Beast On Ice.” This guy who was walking in front of my turned around,
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Rock - it's good for your soul
2007-03-13 01:40:00
I am in the midst of trying to enrich my life through rock. Things are too busy right now and work and in personal commitments. I am trying to tread that fine line of being a good friend, beyoncé, employee, coworker, family-member, volunteer… Well frankly, it’s all become a little much and I am not being very good at any of them. Lately I’ve been relying a lot on my favorite support – Miller
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Where the cleavage has gone
2007-02-21 22:56:00
When I was in college I used to hang out at one of two bars during my freshman year. Really, that paints a pretty diverse picture when the reality was that 98% of my time was spent at one bar. The Greenery, aka The Cheese, so named because it was so cheesy. I recall weeks where I quite literally went to The Greenery 7 days a week. They served beer to people who were underage, had a cheap cover if
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Finding a home for random facts
2007-02-20 17:04:00
This past week on This American Life one of the segments focused on people who love quizzes – people who love quizzes so much they participate in 36 hour (sometimes lot more) long quiz competitions. They started interviewing this one quiz-lover named Dave and I’ll admit that all I could think about this guy was, “What a loser.”He talked about his love of the trivial. His love of learning. At one
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Wow
2007-02-19 16:38:00
I recently tried to enroll ins some program through my energy company that would allow me to save money. I signed up and then received this rejection letter. You can click on the letter to see a larger image, but below you'll see why I was rejected.Why I was rejected:The account number is invalid, incomplete, or incorrect.The account address is incorrect.The county in formation associated with
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Addictive, news-filled tidbits
2007-02-09 22:44:00
Years ago I sat in a meeting, the youngest at the table by at least 15 years, and listened to the people around me talk about National Public Radio (NPR). I sat and quietly listening, knowing better than to mentioned my favorite radio stations that kept me up to date on boom-boom, bubblegum and the like. At some point a woman sitting across from me noticed the slightly glazed look on my face.“You
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On toasting conservatism
2007-02-07 21:36:00
Some of my best friends are conservatives. Really. Okay, maybe one of my best friends? There are a lot of moderates I am friends with, too, but they aren’t nearly as entertaining as My Cons ervative Friend.One of the reasons I like to hang out with My Conservative Friend is that we get to egg each other on and try and make the other person’s head pop off. For instance, while out drinking a few
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Rock on the road
2007-01-18 21:10:00
You know the sensation. The wait in a long line eyeing those around you and verifying that how you are dressed is appropriate for the venue, taking in new fashion trends and generally being catty about the impracticality of hipster kids and their outfits. You enter the room and claim your space, a space with ample room for moving your arms and feet without being singed by any nearby cigarettes.
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Explanation
2006-12-29 16:35:00
I am preparing to teach a subject that I love – a way to view the world as a series of interactions between the people on it. (This, as a clarification, is only because of my alignment with one philosophical train of thought over the other variations.) Teaching any topic, whether it be sociology or anything else, is hard when you love it so much.This sounds dumb, I think. So many people I know
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Thoughts
2006-12-21 17:03:00
“Thought s on Life” with UPS Driver Cliff AKA all the funny shit my UPS driver has said this break, by my brother"'You can't have your cake and eat it too.' Man, that's the stupidest shit I ever heard. What the fuck do I want cake for if I can't eat it? Of course I want to have my cake and eat it too. Shit.""Man, that's like taking sand to a beach.""I saw my first porno the other day. I sure did

The Lesson
2006-12-15 17:11:00
I've tried to stop posting forwards, but this one made me laugh...A lesson to be learned from typing the wrong email address!A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during a particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier.Because of hectic schedules, it was difficult to coordinate their travel schedules. So, the
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My new bodyguards
2006-12-08 20:01:00
I have two new roommates named Addy and Newton. They’re Wonder Boy’s cats who are adjusting to their new home and missing their dad while he’s on a business trip. They are also working very hard to make sure that I stay safe.Everyday, from the moment my foot hits the floor to when my head hits the pillow at the end of the day, Addy is within 1 foot of me. He is always on the lookout lest danger
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Lost in sensuous lather
2006-11-29 16:50:00
By the (In)Famous Judd:I thought I might be late for work today but at least I would have had a good excuse.I was going to tell my boss I got lost. "Lost in sensuous lather," to be precise.My "exotic and nourishing adventure" began this morning in the shower when I ran out of my normal shampoo. This was not entirely unexpected because my giant, opaque 99-cent bottle was indeed getting lighter and
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Bands galore
2006-11-29 15:41:00
Passed on by Jason B.:In this picture, there are 74 bands represented. How many can you name?
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Weird, right?
2006-11-20 23:01:00
In Ecuador Wonder Boy and I went for lunch in a posh café on the third floor of a beautiful old building in Quito, next door to the presidential palace. We ate like a king and queen, mainly because we had no idea how large the portions of food we were ordering were, and drank local brew and wine. Off on one corner of the balcony there was a local man playing a keyboard and on the balcony below us
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Ecuadorian delights
2006-11-19 18:51:00
Introduced to Wonder Boy and I by Patrick in a pizza shop in Otavalo, enjoy yourself some La Playa [translated: The Beach; spoken by Patrick: The Bitch].Links to the RidiculousVideo of a man putting on 155 tshirts over a four-hour periodJust a funny pictureWhat Matthew McConaughey does not want you to knowFreeze dry your pet20 works of art to see before you die
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A little curry with your clothing?
2006-11-19 18:43:00
I have traveled my way through a small portion of the world, visiting mere dots on our huge planet. One point I have become very clear on is that in countries with less of a belief in deodorant than my own, long trips on buses and time spent in subway trains and terminals is filled with the overwhelming scent of curry. That’s right – you get a couple hundred stinky people together and their
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Apparently references to Diff'rent Strokes mean you are old
2006-11-06 22:30:00
This is not about me, but it is funny so I am sharing. Halloween weekend one of my friends went out to a costume party on a college campus. He’s my age – 28 – so knew he would be older than the student attendees of the party. Like most of us though, he still feels the same as he did in college so thought it would be no big deal.Now my friend, we’ll call him Tony, because that is indeed his name,
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Daring to ask the question
2006-11-01 20:10:00
How many candy bars are too many? Due to an overwhelming amount of leftover Halloween candy sitting around the office today (the result of an apparent underwhelming amount of trick-or-treaters this year), I have launched myself into what I fear will be the world’s largest sugar high.I would take a picture of my trash can, filled with crinkled Kit-Kat, Reese’s Cup and 2 Musketeers wrappers, but
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ACTUALLY said to my Beyoncé
2006-10-27 16:15:00
In reference to a David Sedaris story I was reading:"It's a good thing this guy is gay, because I love his word choice."What does that even mean?Links to the RidiculousWTFHowl-O-weenNoooooooooooooooo oooooooooo!Callin' Cats with Steve CarellSo THAT"S how goths get girlfriends...
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The Frontline® Trio
2006-10-27 15:29:00
I volunteer at an animal shelter once a week where I get to scoop poop, clean cages and be overwhelmed by furry, four-legged love. A while back I fostered two puppies (spawn of Satan) for the shelter and then more recently I fostered Tsing-Tsing for a week while his real foster mom was out of town. For the past two and a half months I have been caring for three sisters: Cotton, Candy and
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Out of order sign
2006-05-17 23:01:00
Another joke passed on by Ellie: A co-worker got a pen stuck inside our printer.He started to try and remove the pen, but I told him we don't have time for that now, just put a note on the printer telling folks not to use it and then report it to the Help Desk.So he grabbed a piece of paper and scrawled on it. I left before he finished the note.About 20 minutes later, one of my techs comes in
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Touched for the very first time
2006-04-04 16:34:00
This weekend I entered a whole new world in a way I have only done on a couple rare occasions. The last is when I attended a Phish concert and was surrounded by more pot-smoking hippies than I had seen in all of my previous years combined. This weekend I attended my first ComiCon.Wonder Boy’s friend, Jesse, who I guess is my friend now too because don’t you basically inherit friends when you
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McEdit
2005-04-15 13:47:00
I have used WOTD as a forum to share my love of Aaron McGruder before, and yesterday only validated why. I looked online for his comic Boondocks, as I do almost every day. What I saw made me laugh my ass off: So of course, never one to keep humor to myself, I shared the "I'd hit it" comic with my cubicle neighbors. One of them asked me if I had seen the banner ad McGruder was talking about. I
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STDs
2005-01-05 16:16:00
For my day job, I work as a web editor and one of my responsibilities is responding to inquiries people send to the web site. Most of them are about things I don't answer myself because they are of a sensitive or technical nature. Sometimes they are emails looking for jobs or business. Occasionally the emails are amusing but because of their subject matter I have to keep the amusement to myself.