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Really?

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Senator Ted Kennedy has a children’s book coming out called “My Senator and Me: A Dog’s-Eye View of Washington, D.C.” It’s the story of a “a full day in the Senator’s life, but also explains how a bill becomes a law” as told by Senator Kennedy’s dog, Splash.

Seriously? Ted Kennedy has a dog named Splash?

<forehead smack>

(via Michelle Malkin)

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iBaby: Encouraging bad behavior

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

OK, way back in August, I blogged about this.

Now, they’re running contests for it.

Look for the action figure next…

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Bar Mitzvah budgeting…

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

Avery is five years old now. That means his Bar Mitzvah will be in roughly eight years. So if Bar Mitzvah’s cost $10 million today, how much do you think I should set aside for the event in 2013?

Also, note to self: make sure someone in the band brings a naked woman to the affair, er…., party:

For his estimated $500,000, I hear that 50 Cent performed only four or five songs – and badly – though he did manage to work in the lyric, “Go shorty, it’s your bat miztvah, we gonna party like it’s your bat mitzvah.”

“Fitty and his posse smelled like an open bottle of Hennessy,” a witness told me, adding that when the departing rapper prepared to enter his limo in the loading dock, a naked woman was spotted inside.

OK, everyone say it with me: Oy…

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And they said 8-track tapes were dead…

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

OK, anyone remember this guy?

Simulators are so cool…
(hat tip: Mike Starr)

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Just don’t call them dummies…

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

A lingerie shop in Augusta, Maine is using live models in their store window to attract (mostly male) customers. Here’s the quote that caught my eye, though:

“It’s like a New York thing. It’s urban. It’s edgy,” said Stacy Gervais, owner of Stacy’s Hallmark Store and a founder of a downtown merchants group. “We need a shtick

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Finally, someone said it!

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

The truth about spam!

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Why Statistics Professors Don’t Enjoy Baseball Games…

Monday, October 10th, 2005

So, what’s more amazing? The fact that one guy caught two homerun balls in a single baseball game (alright, a double baseball game – it was 18 innings long), or the fact that the Chairman of the Department of Statistics at Stamford University calculates the odds of catching a homerun ball, without factoring in the thousands of seat-sized spaces in the outfield where a homerun could land and no one would catch it?

(Side note: I bet the guy figured he had million dollar souvenirs on his hands. Must’ve been a letdown when someone offerred him $20 for the pair…

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The Little Things that Make Life Fun…

Friday, September 30th, 2005

Seen on the streets of Manhattan today:

Man throws a wadded up piece of paper at a trash can and misses. Misses by so much, in fact, that when he picks it up, he’s too far from the can to reach, so he takes a second shot. He misses again. This time, he picks up the paper, looks around to see if anyone’s watching, and then sheepishly walks it over to the trash can, makes the easy layup, and moves on.

…and those guys in the NBA make it look so easy.

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Teach Your Children Well…

Saturday, August 27th, 2005

OK, so one of our neighbors is having a Discovery Toys party (think old fashioned Tupperware party, but the molded plastic is for the kids, not the parents), and my wife got invited. Here is the front of the postcard they sent to the house:

Speaking as a guy who has some experience photographing children, I’ll betcha a dollar that when they finally got the kid to smile just right, they stopped trying, even though the book she’s reading with her mom is upside down.

Remember folks – your customers may be illiterate, but the folks with the checkbooks aren’t! :-)

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Guess Who’s On a Stamp? Everybody!

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

When I was a kid, they told me that you had to be dead to have your picture on a U.S. Postage stamp. Now, apparently, anyone can do it.

Another meaningless tradition yields to commercial progress…

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