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#FTFY, WBEN
26 JunLocal talk radio station WBEN held an online poll about its listeners the tea party on Wednesday. Here are the results as of mid-morning:
Big surprise, right? So, I fixed that for them:
Or this:
Thursday Comic Relief
19 JunMaybe weather forecasts should always be like this. Jeremy Paxman does the weather on UK nightly program, Newsnight.
https://vine.co/v/MTAWgqxj3Wh/embed/simple
Kathy Weppner poses with her campaign staff:
OK Go with incredible optical illusions:
Mick Jagger & David Bowie’s odd video for “Dancin’ in the Streets”, which aired during Live Aid in 1985, excerpts from which are now presented without music:
Just so you know, if you’re out in public, no one needs your permission to record video of you.
In Rally, the co-driver calls out pacenotes to the driver, advising him of what’s coming up, letting the driver go as fast as possible. But come on, Samir, you’re breaking the car!
Finally, Philosopher Football (as in soccer), from Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Here, Germany v. Greece.
It’s a funny skit, but the genius of Python is this:
The Germans are disputing it. Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside.
With Apologies to Ludwig Bemelmans
16 Dec
lived a grumpy old man, with buckets of dough.
With buckets of dough, he sent his notes
called the press, and shilled for votes.
He smiled at the right and RINOs he mourned
and sometimes he’d forward equestrian porn.
He left the house at half past nine in an X-5
in rain or snow – the angry one is Paladino.
He likes dollars, euros, escudos –
he shows up on Fox with Neil Cavuto.
To the rhino in the zoo,
Carl just says, “fuck you!”
And no one knew so well
how to scream or how to yell.
One day Carl stood at the door
of the former Maltese ambassador.
He had helped a man named Brian
whom he had defamed on a sign.
Everybody had to snarl.
Everyone was pissed at Carl.
To Astorino and to Trump,
Carl would not be such a grump.
Carl had threatened, cajoled, and whined,
he’d run on the Conservative line.
But Skelos and Kolb were the big priority,
for his microscopic tea party minority.
Good night, all you teabaggers,
and thanks for your drama!
Now go back to hating
that Kenyan n0bama!
Now, let’s turn out the light
and close the door.
That’s all there is,
there isn’t any more.
Learn Guitar with David Brent
30 Aug
But now that both are done, Ricky Gervais, who played Brent and co-created the series, has revived the Brent character through a series of YouTube videos called “Learn Guitar with David Brent“. You don’t really learn how to play guitar, but Brent’s awkward and clueless arrogance comes out loud and clear.
Here’s an appropriate one for today – language NSFW. I find ’em. I find ’em.
Captain Collins
9 Aug
America doesn’t do peerages, so Collins bought himself the next best thing – a Congressional seat, and dammit he’s the captain of that ship. He’s got the stripes to prove it.
Is it just an Adidas ad, or does it designate rank?
I can only assume that Grant and Loomis have similar white and red golf shirts with two stripes. Interns and lower-level staffers get one. It’s good to know your place.
