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Seriously, though: what's with the penguins?
a grizzled con
FOUR THINGS NORA RECENTLY DEMANDED I GOOGLE 1. How old Abraham Lincoln was when he was shot and where on his body he was shot. (56 years old, back of the head.)2. How porta-potties flush. (Actually, they kind of don't…stuff gets rinsed into the holding tank AND THERE IT STAYS.)3. Origin of the Pittsburgh Steelers' […]
the thugs with handguns boot up PowerPoint
I have a DayQuil capsule on my desk, somehow out of its packaging and left over from the last cold. I keep thinking I should throw it away, as it is not professional to keep loose over-the-counter pharmaceuticals around, nor is it fair to make the cleaning staff gingerly dust around my lonely little DayQuil. […]
flamboyant Korean anti-Communist
OH HOORAY Wonderful people have succeeded where I could not: here is my beloved Brinks commercial! IS IT NOT THE BEST THING YOU’VE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE? Ahem, sorry. I am a little obsessed. I know you couldn't tell, seeing as how this is only the third entry that deals with Brinks and their […]
before embarking on the quest
PROTEIN POWER My daughter eats like a high school wrestler. With kindergarten has come the dubious joy of packing a lunch every night, and of course Nora will not eat a sandwich—yuck! Bread! Who eats that stuff? A favorite option is pile of deli turkey, bag of baby carrots, two squares of dark chocolate. Once […]
tiny mining town
YEAH SO WHAT News-type items I am heartily sick of: 1. The “fact” that China has more people with engineering degrees than the United States does. China has something like four times our population. Apparently they also count car mechanics as having “engineering degrees” because of the way their educational system works. I am all […]
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