tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86159537751879054522011-11-27T17:34:31.047-06:00art, entertainment and nonsense by c. mclarenJack Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00511123806127425973noreply@blogger.comBlogger831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8615953775187905452.post-8638482630317826692011-09-19T05:02:00.000-05:002011-09-19T05:03:31.786-05:00

It's come up many times in conversation, and I just want to make a record of it for future reference, without making a big-ass article about it and the many socio-political reasons it pisses me off.  So for the record, in modern movies and TV, the Boomer Timeslip is the pervasive, unexamined assumption that people who grew up in the 1950's and went to college (and/or Viet Nam) in the '60's are

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Give a little bit...give a little bit of your lunch to me Why do fools fall in lunch? All you need is lunch Some people call me Space Cowboy; some call me the Gangster of Lunch. Both of us knowing....lunch is a battlefield Lunch lifts us up where we belong Tainted lunch, whoa-oh-oh, tainted lunch I don't wanna lose your lunch tonight, I just wanna use your lunch tonight What's lunch got

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(I don't know.  Don't ask me, I just don't know...)

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Specifically, from the credits thereof: Oh come on!

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Cheap is one thing, but seriously... wtf?

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Um. How could a trailer possibly be "approved for" anything else?

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...goes to that sort of party, does she? (thanks to Chris Sims once again)

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it's a strip club called Despairit's beside the highway, where two roads crossone road is every mistake you ever madeone road is every mistake you'll ever make The dumpster is on the same side of the building as the entrance.Between them is a fiberglass umbrella table with parenthesis benches, and a coin-operated carousel with three shell horse-seats.No more than eighteen feet of asphalt

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...are definitely the Nazis' worst enemy.

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Taking a dose of DayQuil, I refill the little cup with water a few times and drink it, both to wash down the gooey syrup and to rinse out the cup.Basic homeopathic theory says I should be getting an exponential benefit from each subsequent refill, right?

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No, 'Session 9' is not an adequate substitute for 'Hellraiser'. The only thing for which 'Session 9' is an adequate substitute is Unisom.Moreover, your contention that Top Picks for me, personally, should include 'Moonstruck' and 'The Secret Garden' comes close to direct insult. Put any more Cher on that list and I shall be forced to demand satisfaction with pistols.

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Silence in the absence of mind. A moment frozen, now eternal, no past, no future. Water on stone. A lesson in Zen:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqJxz5EM2kc&feature=player_embedded

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Okay, look: part of the normal course of using a web browser is clicking on a newly-loaded page to select it, following which the arrow keys can be used to scroll up and down. This is a common occurrence and I (here representing the web-using public at large) am quite accustomed to clicking on a blank part of a page to do this. Usually I click on the far right or left side of the page as it's

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...not because the title "Getting A Shot: You Can Do It!" makes for such an easy joke, but because Sid's right hand was already in that exact position, needing no editing.

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From a description of the EPCOT attraction "The Making of Me" comes this chilling gem of an ultrashort horror story:"Hosted by Martin Short, this film is about human reproduction."

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I just felt that this quote from MightyGodKing.com deserved spreading: "Everybody knows at least one white person who doesn’t understand why black people get to use the N-word and why white people can’t; to them, the word being bad is completely understandable. Taboo behaviour is nothing new, after all, and they can understand a new type of taboo behaviour, but what they don’t understand is

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Wow, three months since the last post. It has been one king HELL of a three-month period however, and there is a string of fascinating stories to share about where I've been lo these many days. So naturally, here's an unrelated post about cartoon nudity. This little research study began when a character in a movie I was watching with some friends kept demanding "aerial photographs", so I

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Internet humor has not yet hit bottom -- a fundamental element has been taken up by the bums bringing up the rear at A Butt A Day, and one hopes they'll get to more movies in the end, even if they're way behind on posting. ass

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A trivial post while I procrastinate over my intolerably delayed Live Nude Bisque articles -- now I'm behind by four restaurants, and our millions of fans are slavering I tell you, slavering. Point One: re a promo last night for Fox's new series 'Sons of Tuscon' (coming soon to a running gag on Family Guy, I assure you): if you happen to be selecting clips from a show to put in an ad.

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Eww. No, no, no...shrimp? At Taco Bell? Ew, no. Just...no. No. Ew.Thanks anyway, but...ick. No. Don't do seafood. Don't. Ick.

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In a random conversation last night I found myself making the unfounded generalization that Disney villains all but universally fall off cliffs. Since this is, in fact, a topic I return to fairly frequently, I decided to do some actual research to back this sweeping statement up. It turns out that it's very close to entirely accurate -- or at least, of the Disney villains who die, falling from

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Mister Nihil, aka James' Dad, has initiated a new project in which I am entangled: Live Nude Bisque, a food related blog with an emphasis on reviewing, or at least saying peculiar things about, restaurants and coffee shops in Austin. Other features intended to be implemented are discussions of recipes, baking, and the ongoing chronicles of my search for the secrets of soft pretzelry.

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This is the coolest thing since Roy in Clingfilm.

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The Sender brings to my attention the fabulous degree to which the management at the channel formerly known as SciFi have their heads up their own syffies:“The name Sci Fi has been associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements with video games and stuff like that, as opposed to the general public and the female audience in particular,” said TV historian Tim Brooks,

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In 1987, this scene from 'Amazon Women on the Moon' wasn't even science fiction, it was just absurdity.We live in a parody of reality.

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All right, America, we face the point where we have to address what's really in our hearts and take decisive action. Television, movies, video games -- from South Park to Dexter's Laboratory, Ren and Stimpy to Pinky and the Brain, Sam and Max to Night at the Museum 2 -- even Walt Disney was moved by the impulse that our pop-culture mass subconscious makes so clear. Ladies and gentlemen, I have

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Chris Sims' Invincible Super-Blog has issued the challenge, and none shall hold their head high but to answer! Hence my entry in this year's contest:Frank Miller's All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonderin 30 Seconds!(click T-Rex to view it because Blogger has cleverly and helpfully prevented me from just putting the goddamn thing on this page at a readable size.)UPDATE: Well, did not win, or

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Frank Castle......finds demon-killing guns so hot, he'll even hit on a dude.

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Okay, so, you know, I'm sitting here watching Sesame Street (ahh fuck you it's what's on the noise-box at 7:30am) and there's this bit with some characters I'm too decrepit to know --specifically, a trio of Muppet faeries.I wasn't paying attention to much of it, but apparently the sequence involved one of the faerie boys being temporarily made a prince. At the end, he's a bit disappointed not to

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Matt sent this link to me, possibly in revenge for something: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGhT_ylXN8s&NR=1 (video, sfw)It's...it's just awesome. I mean in the sense of "terrible". I mean, it's just so, so awful...and yet, it was necessary that this should exist. I've already watched it like five times. It's just so charming, in the sense of having the fascination of some dark power at

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The static, man. Digital broadcasts still get interference, but not the same grainy fuzzy hissing effects that TV signals used to get. Instead, you get these trippy pixellation effects, sometimes animating along with the image in bizarre ways -- as though characters on the screen had suddenly turned into smooth-flowing blocky robots. A screwed-up signal on digital just plain looks cooler than

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This is in response to a very old post* at Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin (guess what I've been reading lately?), but I couldn't resist -- for no other reason that I can't believe none of Sterling's respondents had done this one.* from almost THREE WHOLE YEARS AGO whoa did they even have internets then?

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...with your penis....WITH YOUR PENIS!Oh, what, did you think I was just being randomly vulgar?No, really...THE POWER IS IN YOUR PENIS(images found at Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin. Used without permission from anyone.)

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...you know, just in case producers are randomly trolling obscure blogs in hopes of finding unsolicited concepts. Maddy Pierce is an altruistic young lady who volunteers on a suicide prevention hotline, where she's just returned to work after taking a little break. She's a little shaky, though, because not too long ago, she sadly...lost a caller, while he was on the line with her. But everyone

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Mentioning My Name is Potato in the immediately previous post led me toward the related Rita Pavone videos, which reveal that the enthusiastic energy she poured into her ode toward potatoes seems to be a general trademark of her performance style; in this video she gets equally excited about Tuscan tomato soup (apologies ahead of time, incidentally, for getting this tune into your head, where it

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...no really, what the hell?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk2wViKSh_MDon't think you've got the idea after just a few seconds, either. It gets even stranger.Is this...kinky? Is it comedy? Is there any rational explanation at all, or is it actually Japanese?The video's provenance is as baffling as its content; this comment on reddit seems to be the most detailed information available anywhere*

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Looking at an archive of movie reviews, I noticed these three titles in succession:A DAY AT THE RACESA NIGHT AT THE OPERAA STUDY IN TERRORAnd I can't help but think that a Marx Brothers film called A Study in Terror would probably have been awesome.-----P.S. (several days later): Same goes for a Queen album.

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By what path 'online auto insurance sales' became such a prominent genre of TV advertisement I'm not sure, but there's some kind of shared wavelength effect going on -- something like the force that makes 'someone wants to steal the cereal' the almost universal children's cereal ad -- that drives the four or five competitors in this niche field toward very similar campaigns and marketing

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This turned up in the message box of my account at the Cracked.com, which provenance makes me wonder whether it's really a genuine scam, or someone faking a scam, which would presumably in some way be different. Follow the link for spam! From : Melanie Ibrahim Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire My E mail : m2009ibrahim@yahoo.co.th Dear lovely one, Pardon me for not having the pleasure of knowing your

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Humor me for a moment and envision something: in darkened surroundings, a woman looks downward to something in her hands, something which emits a soft blue radiance, illuminating her features dramatically from below.Not an entirely unfamiliar image, is it? You've probably seen some variation of the concept on any number of fantasy paperback covers and movie posters -- it's got to be at least as

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This is clearly the purpose of film.

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Some good, very good, nigh unto miraculously good news: I got a graphic design job! Thanks in large part to my friend Matt, to whom I now owe a big huge lobster, I've been offered a paid internship working on design and web stuff for PetsMD.com.So for the vast multitudes who've been hanging on this ever so intriguing saga, that means I'm not going to have to leave Austin, or even leave my

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Swimming around aimlessly online recently (far too listlessly and without direction to justify calling it 'surfing'), I ran across this collection of Bad Movie reviews, a topic understandably close to my heart -- these folks poke at movies even more deeply and at greater length than I do, as well as a much lower profanity percentage, so if you like that sort of thing, I recommend skidding over

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Alll righty, things have been getting weird around here. I need to vacate this current apartment very soon; my roommate has plans in motion to head for New York and I have no visible means of support remaining. Whether I'll even be able to stay in Austin depends very heavily on the miracle factor of finding a better than minimum wage job around here, on which the odds are dropping with each

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Note from future me: A dated relic of an article, containing a big spoiler warning for Lost, a series which later turned out to spoil itself.  But I did like it a lot while it was running and the watery ending doesn't change that the ride along the way was fun. Lost won't be back until February, so there's time to write up a few speculations about the upcoming season before it airs. This week

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No idea why I woke up thinking about the Daredevil movie this morning, but there you go. I've got a tall stack of smartass remarks I've been hauling out when the movie comes up in conversation, so I might as well give the old horse a fresh flogging and see if I can't make a full twenty-five-point Reaction out of it. Though hardly a current film, it's at least somewhat relevant given that the "

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To the tune of this Upskirt girlGot a photo I can show the worldWhen her skirt went riding up her thighI got a shot to make her momma cry I'm gonna spy on that upskirt girlShow her coochie to the whole damn worldWhen she climbed out of the back of the vanShe wasn't looking for the camera manThat's what I am Before she knows itI'll upload these shots of mineAnd then she'll wake upWith millions

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...when an application freezes, I use CTRL-ALT-DEL to open the Task Manager. I do this precisely because the application has frozen, and is not responding. If it were responding, I would use its close button to close it. Because it is not responding, I did not do this. Instead, I opened the Task Manager and pressed the button clearly labeled "End Task".I KNOW THAT THE GODDAMN THING IS NOT

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Today's random idea for a DC character: the Joker. They never find a body...it's one of the Joker's prominent tropes. He keeps falling off of tall structures, plunging into the harbor, getting seriously wounded and barely managing to crawl offstage, or just plain disappearing before he can be brought to justice. That he has managed to thwart death so many times is something that even the

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Okay, I just can't believe that there are two separate ad campaigns for two separate fast-food chains forcing me to say it, but please, please, CEASE REFERRING TO MY "KISSER". I do not call my mouth a "kisser", particularly when the activity being referred to is eating, not kissing; my friends do not call it a "kisser"; my parent's generation does not call it a "kisser", NOBODY HAS CALLED IT A

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It's ready to go! There are some pages launching without content, but they've at least got menus and headers on 'em, and the really important parts -- Galleries and Articles -- are all prepared. The new Devil's Virtue should be up and running online within the next 48 hours! Squee! The site is currently visible at http://www.sanguinus.org/devilsvirtue/Home%20-%20TDV.html until the address

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All right, it's 7 AM and I haven't got all the Galleries ready to go yet. 8 out of 14 ain't too bad, though, and now that I've got the process down smoothly the remainder should be relatively easy. But the sun is coming up and I'm fried. Will continue tomorrow, or technically, later today.

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Note from future me:  this post and several around it relate to the previous version of TDV before I moved it all over to Blogger, in a tradeoff of fine detail control for convenience. For all that it hardly seems the case, the new Devil's Virtue design continues at decent speed. I've gotten back into a roll on it and knocked out a goodly chunk. The plan now is to publish the site

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Got an unexpected invitation to a midnight showing of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", at the Alamo, naturally (are there any other theaters worth speaking of?). Just returned from that, so this is a quick initial-reaction dump, hopefully soon to be revised into an actual review. Caution, contains some spoilers for a wildly popular story published four years ago. Initial reaction:

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Fig. 1. Marilyn Monroe in a Slinky Dress

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More to come as I watch them...* Mental: It's House in a mental hospital! Only instead of an asshole, House is Patch Adams! Every bit as appealing as it sounds.* The Goode Family: Remember that hippy-dippy teacher from Beavis and Butt-Head? This is a show about that guy's home life, for an hour. Not quite as good as it sounds.* Don't Forget the Lyrics!: Sort of a karaoke game, dragged out

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An overdose of the Internets for you.

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Whee!  And in just one day, after spending the morning writing up that long "design document" post.  Compared to my usual speeds that's pretty good!

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On the surface this may appear to be an effort to keep breathless fans up to the minute on the progress of The Devil's Virtue.  Secretly, though, this is just a note to myself, posted in public with the vague hope that it will provide pressure to finish this project in a timely manner. ----- TDV will consist of six sections: 00.  Main: "Home" page, featuring latest site news and a colorful menu

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Andrew Wheeler over at The Post-Game Show delivers a terrifically snappy and pointed rejoinder to a recent geographically perplexing act of legislature.  Take that, the state of California!

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Compliment, with an i, is the word you want when you mean positive commentary, flattery or praise: He complimented her hat, they received many compliments on the show.  In actual usage, the word sometimes takes the metaphorical meaning of improving or reflecting well on (the gold fringe tastefully compliments the red velvet), but strictly it refers to words specifically, actual spoken or written

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I mean, bad enough the guy goes around without pants...(view the original cartoon)

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Continuing the big push to renovate the Devil's Virtue, working on the graphics now. Here's a preview of the new look -- be warned these are big huge images.

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Which is surely what everyone is clamoring to know.  The new wallpaper here is part of a big revamp project for my website (The Devil's Virtue), which is currently laboring under some pretty terrible graphics that I dunno, I guess I thought were a good idea at the time.  The new look will be much more attractive and interesting, as well as being hosted on a friend's server instead of being a

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Hey, you want to render a bomb harmless?  You want to DEFUSE it.  DE-, remove, render ineffective; FUSE, the trigger mechanism.  D E F U S E.To DIFFUSE something, on the other hand, is to cause it to become scattered, less dense, widely separated, even to the exent of disappearing into its surrounding medium; as for example, ink diffusing into water, or morning fog diffused in a breeze.The

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I wasn't actually diving.  I'd already climbed down on the side-ladder and lunged into the water, kicked off the wall expecting to paddle to the bottom.  But the bottom was about three feet closer than I expected...CRUNCH! So I spent the night in the emergency room, listening to "Married With Children" and somebody moaning over in the next bed, getting pointy things stuck in my elbows and not

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Okay, I picked up Promethea vol. 3 by Alan Moore, and this is my review: This series has the highest quality-to-pretentiousness ratio I've ever seen, but good GRIEF that's a pretty high total volume of pretention.  I'm calling it about (Illuminatus!) x 2.5 on the pretentiometer. "Behold, cretins, I will teach you magic in a comic book!" Just barely justified by the fact that he does do a

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of Moribund Figures of Speech Used Today Only by Advertisers and Humorists with Small Imaginations Our collection's specimens have been carefully gathered from television, newspaper ads and small theme restaurant menus, polished and restored by our resident linguistic cleaning experts to remove tarnish and superfluous "quotation marks". A Whale of A...deceased ca. 1940's; modern use exclusively

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A SUIT a SUIT is clothing you WEAR A SUIT no matter how fancy it is, a suite-with-an-e A SUITE IS A SET OF ROOMS, A SEQUENCE OF MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS or possibly even A SET OF RELATED SOFTWARE but it is NOT SOMETHING YOU WEAR.Maybe this entry is a bit more outraged than is really justified but I dealt myself a pretty serious head injury last night and now I am in pain all along my spine AND I have

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The April 29th, 2009 "Weekly Haul" entry at Every Day Is Like Wednesday gets a special award for the first correct use of to pore over that I've seen on the internet in years.To pore, as a verb -- almost always used in the form "to pore over" -- means to examine or read carefully.  It's a phrase most often used for books or other printed matter.  One goes to the library and pores over ancient

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I got a Twitter account like all the cool kids, so, another format to type things for nobody to read, yay.

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Another direct quote from their own advertisement:"When you're eating a Whataburger, you've got to brace yourself somehow."I suppose a fresh bottle of whiskey might help.[edit:  No, tequila.]

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Actual narration of a recent Whataburger ad, completely un-Photoshopped:"Can you get a burger at 3:00 in the morning?""No.  But you can get a Whataburger."Really?   Did they honestly pay someone to say this about their product on television?

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Palpable means able to be squeezed, or detectable by touch, such as a palpable cyst; or figuratively, easily perceived though intangible, and typically unpleasant, such as an atmosphere of palpable terror.Palatable means acceptable -- generally, no better than acceptable -- to the taste, or to the sensibilities, as in a palatable entertainment for fans.For fuck's sake.

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I believe I may have mentioned the roaches in our apartment.  A few days ago I happened to see a couple of them doing something I really hadn't expected.They were bathroom roaches, and when I spotted them they were high up at the juncture of wall and ceiling.  I'd gone in there to take a shower, but I could hear that one of the neighbors was already running one, threatening a hot water shortage,

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We have a cockroach problem in the apartment.  There's a colony of them actually living inside the microwave and another smaller group roaming the bathroom -- the bathroom ones must have a nest somewhere but I haven't found it.This is of course pretty much our fault.  To begin with we're a couple of slobs -- I can be very neat and tidy when I get around to it, but I get around to it on a pretty

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A site with a homepage all about how awesome the site is offers nothing useful for free.

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Today I prepared a complete Thanksgiving dinner, all by myself, including a turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, stuffing, a baked dish of sweet potatoes and carrots with marshmallows on top, dinner rolls and a cherry pie for dessert.  All by myself.

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Pursuant to this entry on the eminently amusing Polite Dissent, my impression of the Frank Miller version.

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Holy crap....really?  Like, for real really?Wow, thats......like......good.Weird.

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Silliness written shortly before the 2008 presidential election, so narrowly topical it only made sense for a few days while the news links inside were active. So it came to pass, that in the days before, came omens and foretokenings, and rumors of portent. For it had been seen before, of the champions of the palace city, who wear the banner of their vanquished foe-men's head, that if they

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