If you’re a lady going to school at Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego, you better not wear a thong to a school dance — the vice principal will check you for them and send you home, embarassing you in front of everybody. Think I’m kidding?
Month: May 2002
Some things for you to ponder today
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
Ever wonder about those people who spend $2.00 a piece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backwards: Naive
Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?
So if the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as the “Jags” and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are known as the “Bucs”, what does that make the Tennessee Titans?
If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea. does that mean that one enjoys it?
If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren’t people from Holland called Holes
Why do we say something is out of whack? What’s a whack?
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren’t they just stale bread to begin with
When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say
Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites
Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
Why isn’t the number 11 pronounced onety one?
Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?
What hair color do they put on the driver’s licenses of bald men?
Whatever happened to Preparations A through G?
Don’t hurt me, but feel free to kick their butt
As you may know, there were May Day riots yesterday in Paris. Some folks knew they were coming, and were prepared.
Now where’s the “things TO learn” list?
Things NOT to learn in school, from the folks at Rice University.
Sure beats standing in the unemployment line
Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to be able to play games for a living? Unless you’re playing them professionally, you’re probably not making any money. Nintendo is going to give you a chance, however, according to this BBC Article. They’re “recruiting an army of people to look animated while playing computer games all day long all summer.” And the lucky gamers get paid $100 a day. Better than an unemployment check, that’s for sure.
Maybe you’ll see her in a Marlboro ad next?
For those of you fruitcakes that idolize Britney Spears, I’ve got news for you: she’s a smoker.
Unflattering Sports Pics
Some times sports pics are NEVER flattering…see Exhibit A from the Daily Pennsylvanian. The poor lady looks like she’s trying not to vomit.
Save Internet Radio
Just so everybody knows, today is the Day of Silence for internet radio to protest the upcoming U.S. Copyright Office ruling on royalty rates that may shut down or bankrupt the vast majority of the nascent Internet radio industry. Some of my favoriate Shoutcast streams are participating as well.
I don’t care if you’re from the newspaper, don’t call me during dinner
From MediaNews, according to this article on the Washington Business Journal site, the newspaper industry thinks they should be exempt from national “do-not-call” regulations proposed by the Federal Trade Commission. Newspaper Association of America CEO John Sturm says: “With nearly 60 percent of new subscription sales generated by telemarketing — the single largest source of new subscribers — imposing these onerous and unnecessarily restrictive requirements on newspaper telemarketing activities” would hurt the industry without giving customers any new protections.
While I’d usually support newspapers in most everything they do, this is absolutely ridiculous. I get phone calls regularly from the Bend Bulletin, trying to get me to subscribe. I’m not a subscriber, but even when I was, I’d get calls from them nearly weekly — which was far more often than AT&T or Sprint called me. I canceled my subscription and started reading their news online (their site needs some work, but that’s another beef entirely). But why the newspaper industry would want to be involved in the same kinds of infamous practices that the long distance telephone industry is known for (an industry that is known for screwing people) is beyond me.