56 posts tagged “silliness”
From a local paper: Highway floral displays face cuts
From an e-mail, in which a chocolate shop was apparently having an Easter sale: 20% off Toady!!!!
(The poor toady: you know it's a harsh economy when even henchmen get downsized...)
Fish eats cell phone, still works after a week
Thank heavens--I don't know where you take a fish for warranty service.
I knew it!
Me: So, given the weirdness of the last several months, what are you going to do for Valentine's Day?
Also Me: I'm getting my cat neutered!
M: I see. Is it true that you asked a vet whether this could be done as a house call so the little mite wouldn't be nervous?
AM: Yep!
M: And when they said no, because of the general anesthetic, did you really say "I consider that optional at this point?"
AM: Yes.
M: And why did you say something so mean?
AM: He peed on me.
M: Has he peed on anything else lately?
AM: Apart from the furniture? A blanket and my bathrobe.
M: Would this be the same blanket and bathrobe from yesterday's laundry?
AM: Correct!
M: You're right. This is going to be romantic.
As my Scion ownership might indicate, I have an interest in eccentric-looking cars, from the retro and wildly expensive Morgan to the futuristic Aptera. And now that I've read this Wired story, I find myself lusting over a concept car that looks like a giant correction-tape dispenser.
On the other hand, I liked the Scion xA because it looked like a giant comma, so this may not be news to some of you.
Until then, however, enjoy the best Miss Manners headline ever:
"Don’t let strangers be poisoned"
(It's about poison ivy. I feel bad for being disappointed that someone wasn't trying to make toadstool soup.)
I bought myself one of those plastic bento boxes to carry my lunch at work, and while I was gone for the holiday, it arrived in all its glory: cute little three-layered box with dragonflies in the corner, cute little matching chopsticks, a carrying bag and an elastic strap to hold the tiers together.
And then I noticed this was on everything...even the box lid:
That's right: it says "LUBE SHEEP." Who knew dragonflies were like that?
I love Shiny Shiny, the woman-oriented gadget site from the UK, more than I should love anything that routinely encourages me to spend my money on robot bunnies and USB necklaces. But this headline gives me the willies:
Review: Trialling the GO!View service on the PSP
"Trialling." That's......not a word. It may be even less of a word than "irregardless*" or "incentivize." They're trying to say "trying." They are metatrying. They should please stop.
*Yes, I know "irregardless" is in the dictionary now. And if the editors jumped off a bridge, I...come to think of it, I'd have a much better chance of taking it back out!
Someone is (evidently unironically) marketing this to schoolchildren.
