Sunday Silliness: who’s naked now edition

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As if the news that 1 in 4 UK lap dancers has a college degree isn’t funny enough by itself, the more specific details of the finding are absolutely howl-worthy (emphasis all mine): The researchers found arts degree graduates were most likely to report that they had turned to dancing after being unable to find [...]

Thoughts, interrupted

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Fun with dictations.

Sunday Silliness: 1984 edition

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Courtesy of security expert  Bruce Schneier, a link to SnapScouts, an Android program for “crowd sourcing crime prevention.” If you have any doubt as to what point the website owners are making, their company is called “MiniTru.”

Tonka tough

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Engadget is mostly a consumer electronics site, so it’s kind of odd that they would have a brief blurb about the Lifepak 15–but at least they came up with a great title for it: Medtronic’s LIFEPAK 15 defibrillator for extreme conditions, or extremely clumsy paramedics

When no means no

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Turning a compliment into not-a-compliment, one missing word at a time.

Sunday Silliness: first we kill all the lawyers edition

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From the always-entertaining Failblog:

Sunday Silliness: naming rights edition

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The unfortunate thing about global commerce is that company names that aren’t problematic in, say, German, can become offensive or silly in other languages.  Would you buy from Assmann Electronics?

Sunday Silliness: doctor sillies edition

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There is a whole string of riddles that ask “How do you hide a hundred-dollar bill from” a particular type of physician.  There’s pretty much the whole array of them here, but what I can’t seem to find right now is a discussion on some board somewhere about the proper answer regarding an ED doc. [...]

Not quite a Garmin

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Not all advice is as applicable as its purveyors would have you believe.

Best censorship ever

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I’m watching The Big Lebowski on Versus, and I just watched John Goodman smashing a Corvette and yelling:  ”This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.”  (Original completely vulgar line here, if you didn’t already know.)