11-11-11

It won't happen again for a hundred years. Enjoy!

A very funny snippet from "Waiting for Godot"

Estragon: "But I can't go on like this!"
Vladimir: "Would you like a radish?"

In case you were wondering, . . .

The Garden of Eden is located in the center of the land mass of the world. A fitting place to start civilization. It is only a few miles from the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

http://www.logoschristian.org/world.html

The evil vicar

As I said before I've certainly run into my share of rude, ignorant, intolerant men in Roman collars, but never one quite like this guy.

Environmental Disaster

PORT FOURCHON, LA—In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation's history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Monday and successfully unloaded 3.1 million barrels of dangerous crude oil into the United States.

According to witnesses, the catastrophe began shortly after the tanker, which sailed unimpeded across the Gulf of Mexico, stopped safely at the harbor and made contact with oil company workers on the shore. Soon after, vast amounts of the black, toxic petroleum in the ship's hold were unloaded at an alarming rate into special storage containers on the mainland.

From there, experts confirmed, the oil will likely spread across the entire country's infrastructure and commit unforetold damage to its lakes, streams, and air.

The Onion

10 funny comments I saw on Facebook yesterday

Once a programmer had a problem. He thought he could solve it with a regular expression. Now he had two problems.

There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don't.

frog

him name is hopkin green frog

Magritte

Google does us the great favor of reminding us that today is the 110th birthday of Rene Magritte. He did a lot of wonderful, funny, weird pictures. For example:

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A web search returns a funny photo of the artist:

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All of which reminds me of one of my favorite jokes:

How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
I don't know. How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
A fish!

Which reminds me of one of my other favorite jokes:

How many retirees does it take to change a light bulb?
I don't know. How many retirees does it take to change a light bulb?
Only one, but it takes all day!

Don't Drink and Drive Ride

Warning!

Garrison Keillor had a funny poem on The Writer's Almanac yesterday. It begins:

A can of self-defense pepper spray says it may
irritate the eyes, while a bathroom heater says it's
not to be used in bathrooms.

"Warnings," by David Allen Sullivan

Go read the whole thing.

The Big Bang

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/video/

Funny t-shirt

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.

Which reminds me of my favorite joke:

How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
A fish.

Role reversal

I sometimes marvel at the things children are willing to put up with. So, apparently, does Simon Rich. The difference between him and me? He's funny.

Unrelated: "My airplane.

My new favorite bumper sticker

"Fine. I evolved. You didn't.

Funny commercial

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Outsourcing

Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas

Drag Race

In response to my post to LifeInItaly, "Guido Gangi" wrote:

About Rome you are wellcome I lived there and I am 100% roman. I can give you all the information for a great holyday downther.

Abou B&B if you are in time check out caffecaldo any trouble let me know he is a friend of mine. I can arrange the contact with Francesco the manager.

For any kind of enterteinement I will be please to have the best about everything.

Cheers

I'm not sure what most of that means, but I'll respond, I'll say thanks, and I'll tell him that I need to find cheap places to eat in Italy (which is kind of what I tried to say in my post).

But the reason I'm mentioning any of this is I looked up Guido's profile: He's 33, lives in London, and his favorite youtube video is http://youtube.com/watch?v=irZyoJm4PNg. Check it out. It's very funny.

A football play for people who don't like football

Courtesy of Andrew Sullivan.

Hey, Look

The New Yorker's "Shouts and Murmurs" column is usually pretty bad. The July 23 installment, by Simon Rich, is an exception. It begins:

What I imagined the people around me were saying when I was . . .
Eleven:
“Oh, man, I can’t believe that kid Simon missed that ground ball! How pathetic!”
“Wait. He’s staring at his baseball glove with a confused expression on his face. Maybe there’s something wrong with his glove and that’s why he messed up.”
“Yeah, that’s probably what happened.”

Shouts & Murmurs: "Hey, Look," The New Yorker

"Windows is Shutting Down" by Clive James

Windows is shutting down, and grammar are
On their last leg. So what am we to do?
A letter of complaint go just so far,
Proving the only one in step are you.

Better, perhaps, to simply let it goes.
A sentence have to be screwed pretty bad
Before they gets to where you doesnt knows
The meaning what it must of meant to had.

The meteor have hit. Extinction spread,
But evolution do not stop for that.
A mutant languages rise from the dead
And all them rules is suddenly old hat.

Too bad for we, us what has had so long
The best seat from the only game in town.
But there it am, and whom can say its wrong?
Those are the break. Windows is shutting down."
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Windows is Shutting Down by Clive James