the fear of palindromes.
haha ahah, AAAAHHHHHH!
The latest press release from Vincente Fox:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to serve as president of the great nation of Mexico. For nearly 200 years, our people have withstood the onslaughts of man and nature. We have withstood attack from without and attack from within. We have withstood the wars of faith, and the creeping despair of faith's absence. We have faced famine, pestilence, and poverty, and time and time again, we have succeeded, for running in our blood is the hearty stock of our Mayan and Aztec ancestors. My fellow Mexicanos, we can stand certain in the belief that we shall prevail over the trials of today. Except insofar as the Chupacabra is concerned."
This is a neat site at which you can watch the popularity of your name over the decades.
http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/
Rebecca was the 13th most popular name in the states when I was born.
It's fun to pick old names like Enid and Clarence and watch when they died.
This is a neat site my brother sent me of links to various quirky web museums, as the title suggests.
Some of the best ones:
Airline Safety Card Museum
(I actually have been collecting these for years and was sort of dissapointed by this...)
This one is the best: A Circus Sideshow Museum!
My friend Stu made up the term "Aerolaudal Dyslexia" to describe misplaced air quotations.
i.e. None "of" my so-called friends came to the potluck.
har har.
Fun!
http://www.howtofoldashirt.net/
Yes, it has problems, but DAMN! Very cool. Think of of the ninja possibilities... black is SO 500 AD.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE
New York, NY
CONVENTION SCHEDULE
6:00 PM Opening Prayer led by the Reverend Jerry Fallwell
6:30 PM Pledge of Allegiance (twice)
6:35 PM Burning of Bill of Rights (excluding 2nd amendment)
6:45 PM Salute to the Coalition of the Willing
6:46 PM Seminar #1: "Getting your kid a military deferment"
7:40 PM EPA Address #1: Mercury, it's what's for dinner
8:00 PM Vote on which country to invade next
8:10 PM Call EMTs to revive Rush Limbaugh
8:15 PM John Ashcroft Lecture: "The Homos are after your children"
8:30 PM Round table discussion on reproductive rights (MEN only)
8:50 PM Seminar #2: Corporations: The government of the future
9:00 PM Condi Rice sings "Can't Help Lovin' That Man"
9:10 PM EPA Address #2: "Trees: The real cause of forest fires"
9:30 PM Break for secret meetings
10:00 PM Second prayer led by Cal Thomas
10:15 PM Lecture by Karl Rove: "Doublespeak made easy"
10:30 PM Rumsfeld demonstration of how to squint and talk macho
10:35 PM Bush demonstration of trademark "deer in headlights" stare
10:40 PM John Ashcroft demonstrates new mandatory Kevlar chastity belt
10:45 PM Clarence Thomas reads list of Black Republicans
10:46 PM Seminar #3: "Education: a drain on our nation's economy."
11:10 PM Hillary Clinton Piñata
11:20 PM Second Lecture by John Ashcroft: "Evolutionists: The
dangerous new cult"
11:30 PM Call EMTs to revive Rush Limbaugh again.
11:35 PM Blame Clinton
11:40 PM Laura serves milk and cookies
11:50 PM Closing Prayer led by Jesus Himself
12:00 AM Nomination of George W. Bush as Holy Supreme Planetary
Overlord
A forward:
MURPHY'S LAW
"Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong."
MURPHY'S LAW EXTENDED
"If a series of events can go wrong, it will do so in the worst possible sequence."
MURPHY'S PARADOX
"Doing it the hard way is always easier."
MURPHY'S FIRST COROLLARY
"Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first."
MURPHY'S SECOND COROLLARY
"Nature always sides with the hidden flaw."
MURPHY'S THIRD COROLLARY
"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious."
MURPHY'S LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
"Things get worse under pressure."
O'TOOLE'S COMMENTARY ON MURPHY'S LAW
"Murphy was an optimist."
SILVERMAN'S PARADOX
"If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will."
GATUSSO'S EXTENSION OF MURPHY'S LAW
"Nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse."
FIRST POSTULATE OF ISO-MURPHISM
"Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other."
BEAGLE'S QUANTUM ADJUSTMENT TO MURPHY
"Everything that can go wrong, has gone wrong already. It just hasn't happened yet."
BEAGLE'S LAW OF MATERNAL PRECOGNITION
"Why tell your mother what you did? She already knows."
BEAGLE'S FIRST LAW OF MATERIAL COEXISTENCE
"A square peg will fit into any round hole if traveling at sufficient velocity."
BEAGLE'S FOURTH IDEOLOGICAL INSIGHT
"Size does matter. The bigger your education, the deeper your paradigm."
BEAGLE'S PARADIGM SHIFT NUMBER ONE (with apologies to Newton)
"A belief in motion tends to stay in motion, in a straight line, at a uniform rate of acceptance, unless acted upon by outside facts."
BEAGLE'S FIRST LAW OF GOVERNANCE
"Tyranny expands to fill the amount of passivity available for its implementation."
BEAGLE'S SECOND LAW OF GOVERNANCE
"Tyranny is neither created nor destroyed, it just changes suits."
BEAGLE'S THIRD LAW OF GOVERNANCE
"The result of an irresistible freedom force meeting an immovable tyrannical object is, well, revolution."
BEAGLE'S FOURTH LAW OF GOVERNANCE
"The desire for freedom varies inversely with the number of cable channels available."
FINAGLE'S FOURTH LAW
"Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse."
FELSON'S LAW
"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research."
SOULDER'S LAW
"Repetition does not establish validity."
HECHT'S FOURTH LAW
"There's no time like the present for postponing what you don't want to do."
MAYNE'S LAW
"Nobody notices the big errors."
WRIGHT'S FIRST LAW OF QUALITY
"Quality is inversely proportional to the time left for completion of the project."
STEINER'S MAXIM
"The fact that you do not know the answer does not mean that someone else does."
GUMMIDGE'S LAW
"The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the general public."
DOOLEY'S LAW
"Trust everybody, but cut the cards."
BRALEK'S RULE FOR SUCCESS
"Trust only those who stand to lose as much as you do when things go wrong."
SCHMIDT'S LAW
"If you mess with a thing long enough, it will break."
HOARE'S LAW OF LARGE PROBLEMS
"Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out."
CAPTAIN PENNY'S LAW
"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool MOM."
DISMONI'S RULE OF COGNITION
"Believing is seeing."
HANE'S LAW
"There is no limit to how bad things can get."
PERUSSEL'S LAW
"There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong."
LOFTUS' FIFTH LAW OF MANAGEMENT
"Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book."
SWEENEY'S LAW
"The length of a progress report is inversely proportional to the amount of progress."
RUDNICKI'S NOBEL PRINCIPLE
"Only someone who understands something absolutely can explain it so no one else can understand it."
JACOBSON'S LAW
"The less work an organization produces, the more frequently it reorganizes."
FIRST LAW OF LIVING
"As soon as you're doing what you wanted to be doing, you want to be doing something else."
BARUCH'S ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLE
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
FOX ON PROBLEMATICS
"When a problem goes away, the people working to solve it do not."
FARNSDICK'S COROLLARY
"After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat itself."
DUCHARM'S AXIOM
"If one views his problem closely enough, he will recognize himself as part of the problem."
HALDANE'S LAW
"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it's queerer than we CAN suppose."
MRS. WEILER'S LAW
"Anything is edible if chopped finely enough."
SIMON'S LAW
"Everything put together falls apart sooner or later."
LIPPPMAN'S LEMMA
"People specialize in their area of greatest weakness."
AIGNER'S AXIOM
"No matter how well you perform your job, a superior will seek to modify the results."
RUCKERT'S LAW
There is nothing so small that it can't be blown out of proportion."
JENKIN'S CONUNDRUM
"The unaware are unaware of being unaware."
Also this is really cool and doesn’t involve reading:
Also, ladies and gentlemen, my friend Will.
Ninjas are totally Sweet
http://www.realultimatepower.net/
Rumsfeld Hand Technique
http://www.poe-news.com/features.php?feat=31845
Bruce Lee Remixer!
http://skop.com/brucelee/index.htm
Monkey Steals Peach testical ripp move:
http://members.shaw.ca/Digitalvisions/Monkey_steals_peach.jpg
I'm having a hard time believing this is an actual ninja move and not something this guy in super tight jeans thought of to get felt up by a ninja.
But there's also this. It's about pirates being alive and well in Indonesia. Somehow, I find it romantic, but you could see it negatively if you wanted.
my sister's friend suggested that March 4th always be a day for people to
protest whatever they feel like protesting. get it? march forth? har har. it
should be. Everyone could just wear a sign of the issues they think are
important. that would rock.
i've just wasted 15 minutes with this guy. you can make him dance really
cool.
U.S. Upset After Aliens Land In Italy
WASHINGTON, DC-White House press secretary Scott McClellan issued a statement Monday expressing disappointment "on behalf of all Americans" that alien envoys from the planet Xygal 8B made their historic first landing in Italy, rather than in the U.S. "We are confused and saddened that the Xygalians chose to take their first steps on Tuscan soil," McClellan said.
"We are hopeful that [Xygalian] Cmdr. Gorx will recognize the oversight mand relocate to the U.S., which is better equipped to host an intergalactic traveler." McClellan added that the internationally televised handshake between Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Gorx "added insult to injury."
(from the onion)
(some of the dresses are actually sort of hot...)