http://blog.ask.com/2006/10/you_do_andor_ma.html
This is a stich. Best thing I seen from them since they did a bad thing and nuked Jeves. (Sorry Blaise!)
FUN: Do you Google, Yahoo, or Ask?
Friday, October 27, 2006
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FUN: Wrote story, bonanza, stopped blogging!
Thursday, October 26, 2006http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
Issue 14.11 – November 2006
Very Short Stories
33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction.
Page 1 of 1
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We’ll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.
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I liked:
Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
– Stan Lee
And was moved by:
K.I.A. Baghdad, Aged 18 – Closed Casket
– Richard K. Morgan
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FUN: The anti of fun – cruise ship with blocked toilets
Tuesday, October 24, 20061,500 cruise ship passengers without toilets for ‘three days’
23.10.06
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Around 1,450 passengers on a luxury cruise ship have been left without toilets for three days, according to people on board.
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I can’t imagine anything less fun than this. Unless it was that cruise where everyone one had Montezuma’s revenge.
And they say this is pleasure?
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FUN: watched the Mets lose … argh!
Friday, October 20, 2006Stayed up past my bedtime to watch the Mets lose. I’m paying for it this am.
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FUN: Ebay is an interesting phenom
Thursday, October 19, 2006I received an email from FTL about their auction.
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From: FTL-Updates@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:10 AM
To: FTL-Updates
Subject: [FTL-Updates] Just over 90 mins left!
Wow… someone might just walk away with 1,000 guaranteed impressions of their printed ad on the backside of the upcoming bumpersticker for less than $27. That’s the current price of the FTL auction. That’s less than three cents per impression for a direct mail campaign that would normally cost hundreds if not over a thousand dollars!
If you were thinking about bidding, now is the time. Don’t miss out:
http://auction.freetalklive.com
Thanks for listening,
Ian
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On a lark, I bid. (I was not even sure what I’d have put on it. Probably “IluvFTL?”. ;-) I was immediately outbid by someone else’s maximum bid. Interesting concept. So by doing nothing, I got you more money. Strange. Like a poker game? Except if you bluff, and your opponent raises, you get to keep your chips. Weird. Strange. Unsettling.
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FUN Shorthand explanation
Monday, October 16, 2006http://www.aim.com/acronyms.adp?aolp=0
ROFL that they have to PUB a TLA list.
I notice the left out STFU or WTF or RTFM or W00T or … YMMV …
or my personal favorite TANSTAFL!
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FUN: Now it’s in poor taste but … …
Thursday, October 12, 2006… … never let it be said that people can’t make humor out of a sad situation.
http://reuters.myway.com/article/20061012/2006-10-12T015903Z_01_N11421400
_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-CRASH-NEWYORK-DC.html
I am sadden that the young fellow and his instructor were killed. The loss of anyone is a loss for all of us.
http://isu.indstate.edu/ilnprof/ENG451/ISLAND/
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John Donne
Meditation XVII: No man is an island…
“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated…As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness….No man is an island, entire of itself…any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
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… … but some wag, who’s a yankee fan, just emailed me that …
the rumor is out that The Boss (George Steinbrenner), after the Yankee’s big choke again this year, is planning to give A-Rod, Torre, Cashman, the Big Unit, and everyone but Jeter and Mariano, a special gift of their own plane.
(Oh come on now, don’t tell me that you didn’t chuckle.)
It’s a human failing that in the midst of tragedy, we can make a joke out of anything serious.
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FUN: Take a tank to the store; puts a new light on “fighting” for a parking space
Tuesday, October 10, 2006http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=409518&in_page_id=1770
Man shells out £14k on army tank for supermarket run
Last updated at 20:55pm on 9th October 2006
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FUN: Every jobseeker can use the lessons taught here. Especially fancy walking!
Monday, October 2, 2006http://www.loadingreadyrun.com/
September 22, 2006
Job Hunt
Kathleen discovers that when looking for a job, it is important to play to your strengths.
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FUN: I think I made a funny!
Thursday, September 21, 2006>I was thinking of changing to my gmail address
I’ll play Yoda.
“Think, or think not; there is no thinking!”
(Patterned after “do or do not there is not trying”).
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