Having been dumped two months ago and fired a week ago, and having just gone on a bender that would have killed a lesser mortal, I came home to find that my laptop is all fucked up. If I believed in God, I would be fucking pissed.
Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by funnyman Mike Lacher of WONDER-TONIC.
Strunk and White: The Elements of Style.
Um, according to this infographic, Bmore has a positively shockingly small number of Asian, Hispanic, or Other residents. Which I guess I could’ve guessed, but never stopped to think about (possibly because I live in the immediate vicinity of Johns Hopkins University, but still).
UPDATE: Seriously this needs to have more reblogs, etc. Will it help if I mentioned that in this video the Slipnutz open up for heavy metal band Slipknot at the Continental Airlines Arena??! Come on people.
The Slipnutz
Last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Jon Glaser from Delocated came on and the Roots played him on with the Slipnutz song.
Slipnutz is an amazing Conan bit that Jon Glaser, Andy Blitz, and Brian Stack did on Late Night way back. If you aren’t familiar with this, please watch the above clip now.
Conan will be on TBS soon!!!
Whereas dial telephones are more difficult to operate than are manual telephones; and Whereas Senators are required, since the installation of dial phones in the Capitol, to perform the duties of telephone operators in order to enjoy the benefits of telephone service; and Whereas dial telephones have failed to expedite telephone service; Therefore be it resolved that the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate is authorized and directed to order the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. to replace with manual phones within 30 days after the adoption of this resolution, all dial telephones in the Senate wing of the United States Capitol and in the Senate office building.
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From a 1930 Senate resolution that sought to ban telephones that required users to dial numbers rather than speak with operators, as pushing buttons was too labor intensive. Thank goodness dial telephones weren’t banned. Can you imagine the inconvenience that we’d be suffering today if Senators had to speak with human operators in order to sext their mistresses? (via morninggloria) I can’t believe that I’m pedantic enough to join tumblr for the purpose of making the following statement: They were not talking about touchtone phones, they were talking about rotary phones, which are significantly more annoying. Still an amusing excerpt. |
