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“Ma, I’m home!” “I’m in the kitchen, Krampus! Come give your mom a hug.” “Maaaaa!” “You know the rules, Krampus–no hugs, no dinner.” Krampus lumbered into the kitchen, dumped his bags on the floor, and limply hugged his mother. “Hey, ma, I brought a friend home from college. This is Nick. Nick, this is my ma, […]
“Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.” from Rex v. Sussex, though I first heard it in the 1985 movie The Black Arrow, based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel of the same name.
Recently I was checking my blog stats and saw some of the search terms that drove people to my site. I thought this search term was rather curious: At first I assumed that they had misheard the name of Billy Joel’s Shameless, which Garth Brooks covered on his album Ropin’ the Wind. But maybe they meant […]
Questioner: “How do you deal with writers block? Seinfeld: “Writer’s block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.” from a recent AMA at Reddit.com
CUSTOMER: I need some more space on my system because I’m trying to send some attachments and it says they are too big. ME: How big are the attachments? CUSTOMER: They are eight ME: Eight… CUSTOMER: Eight…BTUs ME: …(stifling laughter) CUSTOMER: Wait–eight MBs ME: Oh, OK. I increased the customer’s mailbox size so that she […]
A few years ago while I was mourning over a recent death I went out to see my friend and mentor, The Bob. As we kicked around the farm doing random chores we took cover from the frigid January rain inside one of his many out-buildings. Very seriously he said, “I wish I could hurt […]
There is only one G.I. Joe figure from the classic 1980’s toy line whose underwear preference is listed on the toy packaging: Snake Eyes. I don’t know why they did that–probably because as a wolf-owning ninja Snake Eyes is so awesome that they had to have something (apart from his inability to speak) to bring […]
n., British slang term for the police. If you watch Top Gear U.K., you have likely heard James May use this term several times, as in ‘The rozzers are behind me.’ “From ‘Robert’, after Sir Robert Peel (1788–1850), commonly considered the father of modern policing, and who established the Metropolitan Police Force in London (1829). […]