Cartoonist Henry Syverson: You Want It When?
For more than 35 years, I've seen this thing posted in offices, stores...pretty much any kind of establishment where someone has to produce something on some sort of schedule. I know it's [...]
The Little Cartoons of Mad Magazine's Sergio Aragones
From the Franklin Mint Blog:
Aragonés became famous for his wordless "drawn-out dramas" or "marginals" which were inserted into the margins and between panels of the magazine. The drawings are both horizontal and vertical, and occasionally extend around corners.' [...]
From David Foster:
Ever see the 1958 movie The Blob? ... In the movie, quick-thinking citizens use CO2 fire extinguishers to freeze the outer-space blob which is threatening humanity, after which the USAF flies it to the arctic and drops it on an ice floe, where it will stay forever…”As [...]
The Surprising Life of House Hunters Host Suzanne Whang
Some highlights:
Suzanne Whang is an actor, television host, stand-up comedian, author, public speaker, dessert topping, and floor wax. She has been paying all of her bills in the entertainment industry [...]
The AA 12 Automatic Shotgun: The Machine Gun That Shoots Shotgun Shells At A Range of 450 Feet
Click on the photo for a YouTube clip from the TV show Lock N Load [...]
Mugs-A-Plenty: Climate Model Software
And here's a close-up:
Mugs-A-Plenty: Climate Model Software
From Bore Patch via The Fat Guy.
' [...]From Planet Proctor:
If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah. If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Foureyes.
When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each [...]
Wikipock: Brings The Full Text Content Of Wikipedia To Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Android And Symbian Mobile Phones
And it's coming soon for iPhone About 4GB worth of text No photos $10 or $15, depending on' [...]
Once upon a time in a jungle village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them.The man bought hundreds at $10 and as supply [...]
Why Green Bay Packers Coach Mike McCarthy Plows His Neighbors Driveways
As with cars, too much power is almost enough.
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Comic Reader Mobi: The Comic Book Reader Specially Designed for Cell Phones
The Blurb:
"I'd love to read comics on my phone But the screen is way too small"
But wait!' [...]
The Obligatory and Gratuitous Christmas Santas Helper Green Elf Costume Blog Post
HO HO HO!!!
[...]While these days Santas leaning over the Baby Jesus are a dime a dozen like rabbis in New York City, the placement of Santa in the nativity scene -- along with the removal of Mary and Joseph -- [...]
Sony Reader PRS-505 and the new Sony Reader Pocket (PRS-300)
In most cases the PRS-505 will cost you around $300 on eBay, whereas you can find the new PRS-300 going for about $200 at various retailers. Either one [...]
A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, “This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you.” The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and [...]
OFFICE OF GROUNDWATER TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM 2009.03
Subject: GROUNDWATER: Ground water versus groundwater
It has been a longstanding practice within the USGS to spell ground water as two words and to hyphenate when ground water is used as a modifier (e.g., ground-water hydrology). Ground Water Branch Technical Memorandum 75.03 ([water.usgs.gov]) issued just [...]
Wisconsin Eco-Artist Tammy Roy
From Wausau's waow.com:
She's not the typical welder nor the typical artist, but Tammy Roy has certainly found her niche. And the mother of three is doing it in an eco-friendly way. Roy says, "We just started collecting scraps and" [...]
Mark Essex gunned down 19 people, including 10 police officers. From trutv.com:
In the cockpit of the helicopter, Pitman was aware that the policemen had discovered the sniper's hiding place. He eased the big helicopter away from the roof as if he were pulling out. It was a high stakes' [...]
Manfred Tekla (1949-2007): Fischerboote bei Ebbe
A Manfred Tekla story from Don Salyards in his post Crossing Checkpoint Charlie – My Story:
On Sunday, July 25, 1971 my college friends Greg Savage, Les Blanchard and I walked through the Berlin Wall at [...]
The Obituary of Future Professional Baseball Player Kevin O'Connell, 13, of Poplar Grove, Illinois
I didn't know Kevin or his family, but after reading this I feel like I do:
KEVIN D. O'CONNELL, 13 POPLAR [...]
It's kind of an involved story, so I'll tell it step by step:
Oct 23, 2007: My 80-year-old Mother develops an aortic dissection. It's kind of like an aneurysm. To find out where it is, they would need to inject dye into her aorta. But that would knock out her already-compromised' [...]A tip from my long-time blog buddy Brian Kane:
My blog-buddy “Going Like Sixty” says he’s figured out a way to game those Coinstar change machines you find in supermarkets: go to the customer service counter and cash in two $20 bills for quarters, pump the quarters into the Coinstar [...]
Diagnosed Diabetes By County - All Races
(via Boots and Sabers)
From BlackHealthCare.com:
In 1993, 1.3 million African Americans were known to have diabetes. This is almost three times the number [...]The Blurb:
The NPR Radio by Livio was recently cited by Time as one of 20 new techie gadgets not to be missed! Now you can listen to Morning Edition whenever your morning starts - the programming you want, [...]
The Text of Psalm 109:8 That Is So Dangerous To Liberals That They Don't Want This Bumper Sticker [...]
From Bill O'Reilly:
With the possible exceptions of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush, no modern era politician has been more derided by the media than Sarah Palin. And the attacks do not stop with her. They include nasty rumors about her family and even the mocking of her children.
' [...]
Four Catholic men and a Catholic woman were having coffee. The first Catholic man tells his friends, "My son is a priest, when he walks into a room, everyone calls him 'Father'."
The second Catholic man chirps, "My son is a Bishop. When he walks into a room people call" [...]
Official 2007 Masters Golf Tournament Teddy Bear For Just $8
Would make a great gift for the golf nut in your life. It's amazing how much they charge for this Masters stuff -- this is about the' [...]
From Jonah Goldberg:
Indeed, some of us will always be sympathetic to Mrs. Palin if for nothing else than her enemies. The bile she extracts from her critics is almost like a dye marker, illuminating deep pockets of asininity that heretofore were either unnoticed or underappreciated. ...
I'm happy about the' [...]
From gwendally's journal:
The operations manager at a grocery store told me a story last night.
That store carries several varieties of milk, including local organic half gallons in glass bottles. It's fairly expensive, as milk goes, about $6 including the $2 bottle redemption fee attached to the glass bottles. (I'm' [...]
Buy The Original Ronco Veg-O-Matic For Under $20
The original Ron Popeil classic! Veg-O-Matic slices, dices and makes mounds of fries in seconds! One of the products that started the Ronco revolution! The Veg-O-Matic was such a breakthrough [...]
From Pat Buchanan:
Are we at war – or not?
For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a [...]
Bruce McCall: DeSoto Discovers The Mississippi
From this lecture by Bruce McCall.
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Stephanie Abrams of the Weather Channel Reporting: Impressive Frontal System Puts All of South Florida on Alert!
A Cold War Flashback: Who Dealt This Mess?
From the glory days of National Lampoon
[...]From J. Robert Smith
What's notable about Sarah Palin's book tour, which starts midweek, is where she's not going. She's not going to L.A. or New York, Boston or San Francisco. She's going smack-dab to the middle of' [...]
Is This The Ring That Inspired Tolkien To Write The Lord of the Rings?
From The National Trust:
Placed for years within a glass-topped cabinet, beside a little type-written note, this solid [...]
Own The Rubber Stamp That Set Off The Boston Tea Party
Just $15, and you get a terrific blurb too:
Surely you must remember that pesky Stamp Act, one of many taxes that eventually led to all [...]
Guess Which One Was On Janet Napolitano's Terrorist Watch List?
Obama's arrogance is killing American soldiers. But he doesn't care. (via Grouchy Old Cripple)
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Two Ways To Improve AM Radio Reception: The Terk Advantage or the Select-A-Tenna
Click on the photo to read Jay Allen's terrific comparison of the two. It seems you can find the Terk on eBay for around $40, whereas the' [...]
From BusinessWeek:
Stuart Frankel isn't what you'd call a power player in the world of franchising. Five years ago he owned two small Subway sandwich shops at either end of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital. After noticing that sales sagged on weekends, he came up with an idea: He would offer' [...]
I got this idea while my wife was watching LMN, the Lifetime Movie Network. Here's one example:
Channel Description ABC ABC DE How to Incorporate Your Business FG The Placekicker Network HI Hello From Hawai'i JK The John F Kennedy Network (PBS) [...]Two weeks before the 2008 election I took my grandson on a 16-block stroller ride in highly liberal south Minneapolis. I counted over 120 Obama signs and one McCain sign (which had been vandalized several times). There were also roughly 50 anti-war signs (“Get out of Iraq”, “War [...]
From The Simple Dollar:
It’s often said that people are reflections of their five closest friends in many ways: behaviors, income levels, values, and so on.
Five years ago, almost all of my closest friends spent money like it was water. They were constantly doing things like playing poker, pushing each [...]
From Neatorama:
Cicadas are winged insects that evolved around 1.8 million years ago during the Pleistocene epoch, when glaciers advanced and retreated across North America. Cicadas of the genus Magicicada spend most of their lives below the ground, feeding on the juices of plant roots, and then emerge, mate, and [...]
From the Assistant Village Idiot:
My politics aligned somewhat with Michael's, but I found him an unlikeable character. The show had clearly lined up to show Archie and his ideas in the worst possible light, buffoonishly so, and this struck me as artistic abuse. As it became clear who Norman' [...]
A Scotsman walks into a bank in Glasgow and asks for the loan officer. He tells the loan officer that he is going to Australia on business for two weeks and needs to borrow £5,000.
The bank officer tells him that the bank will need some form of security for [...]
A hooded robber burst into a Texas Bank and forced the tellers to load a sack full of cash.
On his way out the door a brave Texas customer grabbed the hood and pulled it off revealing the robber's face. The robber shot the customer without a moment's hesitation. He [...]
Sixty Percent of Those Canned French Fried Onions Are Sold Between October and December
From the Washington Post a couple of years back:
They must taste like they have since 1955, when Campbell's' [...]
But as of today, November 1, it's only available for pre-order.
' [...]
Mugs-A-Plenty: Rusty Jones
Sent in by reader Susan Hensley. (Thanks Sue!!!!) For more on ol' Rusty, see my previous post Does Anybody Out There Have An Image Of The Old Rusty Jones Rustproofing Guy From The 1980s?
Mugs-A-Plenty: The Frito Bandito Tile Coaster
They don't mention "Frito" of course, but we know who it is, right? A great gift for that aging Baby Boomer Hippie friend of yours who really likes Fritos.
From the EInsiders.com obituary of Al Martino:
Anthony Bruno wrote in “Fact and Fiction in ‘The Godfather’”:
“In "The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions," Mario Puzo describes a couple of unpleasant encounters he had with singer Frank Sinatra, who was allegedly furious with Puzo for creating the character Johnny Fontane. Like [...]
Introducing The Official 2009 Christine Neumann-Ortiz Halloween Costume
Pretty darn scary, huh kids?
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Introducing The Official 2009 Barack Obama Halloween Costume
He's holding a Green Card because he couldn't find his Birth Certificate.
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Did You Ever Notice The Other Side of the Susan G. Komen Pink M&M's?
Whose lawyers do you think I'll hear from first?
' [...]
My Viewsonic Viewpad 100 eBook Project: I Discover Manga Meeya CE and Decide To Use My Viewpad 100 as a Comic Book Reader
Manga Meeya CE (MMCE) is a terrific piece of [...]
The American Telecare NX Patient Station Runs Windows CE .net 4.2
I got one off of eBay for 10 bucks. use it for a nightstand alarm clock and video player and audio player (moved the Chumby into the [...]
Creamed Chipped Beef in a Can: A Terrific Stocking Stuffer for that Hard-To-Buy-For Army Veteran in Your Life
Of course, you could always make your own SOS.
[...]
My Viewsonic Viewpad 100 eBook Project: I Give Up and Buy a Sony PRS-505
OK, OK, I haven't really given up on my Viewpad. But I did buy one of these on eBay. I got the Sony PRS-505 for the' [...]
A Really Terrific Remote Control at a Decent Price: The URC-200 Automator from Universal Remote Control Inc.
Now sold as the RF20. Look for either model on eBay. Very, very solid; not flimsy at all. I liked the [...]
Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, and slipped quietly into the garage...
I hooked up the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour.
The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the [...]
The Renovation of Soldier Field: So Ugly, It Was Removed From the National Register of Historic Places
As usual, Wikipedia tells all:
On September 23, 2004, as a result of the 2003 renovation, a [...]
Going around Ye Olde Interwebs. I found it at Grouchy Olde Cripple:
If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat' [...]
From The Fourth Checkraise:
John Derbyshire, the cranky old paleo among the neocon crew of the National Review, is certainly my favourite writer in that outfit, plus his "Derb Radio" podcasts always lighten up the Friday afternoons considerably. He now has a new book out, aptly titled "We Are Doomed" [...]
From SciFiWire:
At his recent keynote speech at the New York Television Festival, former Star Trek writer and creator of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica Ron Moore revealed the secret formula to writing for Trek.
He described how the writers would just insert "tech" into the scripts whenever they needed to resolve [...]
From Bill Geist's Zeitgeist:
We've already issued Air Law 5 about the goofs that insist on attempting to carry on luggage as big as small pony. And Air Law 7 about the people who rush to the gate to board, regardless of their section, in order to secure overhead bin [...]
