July 2010
June 2010
A Hobby of Mine
Emphasize a random word in a sentence, raising an eyebrow and smirking in a way that leads others to believe you are speaking in sexy innuendo.
However, you must avoid using actual innuendo.
- “I have to go to the grocery store for some… mustard.”
- My favourite colour is orange. It reminds me of… Florida.”
- Your… shoe is untied.”
I really want to get a job as an editor of some kind, somewhere
But only so I can do a “GPOYW: Edition edition”.
dubiousmerchant replied to your post:There’s a Mexican restaurant about a block down the street that advertises .99 cent tacos
They’d also have no idea what your taco-ing about. Taco about? There’s a pun but I can’t figure it out.
I believe “Taco bout” would work the best, but that could be describing a fight between a man and a taco, or between two or more tacos. The former is not an uncommon occurrence in the Gorman household.
I tried to make a similar joke when Gary Coleman died. Someone on Twitter clarified that it’s spelled “Bruce Willis” not “Bout Willis”, and I corrected him, saying everyone was talking about the Willis bout (I think he was fighting Holyfield) but had their words in the wrong order.
Yours is funnier. And it reminds me that my roommate made tacos the other day and insisted on calling it “taco night”, probably 15 times.
Dear Coke Talk: On bearing arms. →
dearcoketalk.com
Do you think America’s obsession with guns is more of a mental health issue (ie little dick syndrome or some other syndrome you deem fitting), than a question of freedom? Or is it just about the money?
(apologies, but this retarded article - …
I still find it weird that some people are so heavily supportive of the right to have guns, as if by dint of it being a right, it’s a logical thing to want and need. Like, just because you’re allowed to do something, you must defend that something against its would-be detractors - the real question is, why are there even any detractors? If it’s something everyone has a right to, as put down in the “shit we missed” section of the Constitution, then why are people against it? Maybe I’m setting myself up with a stupid question there. Just as an outside observer of America’s pro-/anti-gun debate, I don’t know of an argument in favour of them that goes very far beyond a “we can, so therefore we will” attitude. Guns are weapons and violence is sort of the lowest common denominator of problem resolution.
If I’m way off-track here, let me know.
“Corporate life is composed only of lower underlings and higher underlings. Bosses are everywhere, and all the bosses are underlings. This is invariably revealed when the time comes for accepting responsibility for something unpleasant, such as the Exxon fiasco in Prince William Sound, for which certain lower underlings are blamed but no higher underlings are responsible. The underlings at the top, like telephone operators, have authority and power, but no responsibility.”
—Wendell Berry (via thebronzemedal)
Sometimes I feel like a Dumbass because...
1. I can’t tell the difference between affect and effect.
2. It takes me a few seconds to realize that “a quarter till” means 15 minutes till, not 25 minutes till.
3. For the life of me I can never get that dimple under the knot of my necktie.
4. I think that putting cucumbers in leftover pickle juice will make more pickles.
5. I’ve never used a semicolon in my life (because I don’t know how). Also, is it supposed to be, or suppose to be? Sigh…
Never before have I read a short list of things one is meant to agree with, and felt so polarized. I find 1, 2, and 5 to be below me - for reasons ranging from common sense to a love of spelling and language. But number 3 is something I feel completely defeated by, and 4 is hilarious. But does the 40% of delight outdo the 60% of banality? There must be some sort of weight system in place, right?
