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American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Nobody reads this blog, but among those who skim it once in awhile it’s known that my favorite superpower has nothing at all to do with time travel, flight, bullets bouncing off the chest, or magical ropes that make people tell the truth.
My fantasy hero is Sushman, a mutant with the power to wave his hand and bring a virtual “cone of silence” down upon noisy evildoers. That’s the guy I wanna be. And with further outings of yours truly, Shushman gradually accumulates other, secondary powers, like the ability to turn skateboard wheels square and to telekinetically yank sagging trousers above butt crack.
When Shushman is walking along and he sees a wad of sticky gum lying on the sidewalk, waiting to adhere itself onto an innocent pedestrian’s shoe…he can cast a magic spell on the gum. The gum will then pry itself off the sidewalk, fly through the air, hunt down the original chewer who was responsible for so carelessly discarding it, and re-insert itself back into his mouth.
Shushman can point at two people having a conversation across a great distance, like say for example across a parking lot from each other, and use telekinesis to force the two conversationalists to come within ten feet of each other so they don’t have to keep asking each other to repeat themselves.
Shushman can point at a little tiny annoying li’l yip-dog being carried around in a purse, and make it instantly weigh a hundred times more. Not expand in size. Just weigh more. Arf! **klunk**
John Hawkins of Right Wing News, it would appear, could stand a few visits and escorts from Shushman.
Question: “What are your top 10 pet peeves?” — Don_cos
Answer: Not in any particular order,
* People who talk or have crying babies in a movie theater.
* People talking on a cell phone while driving.
:
* People who play their bass way too loud.
* Conspiracy theorists.
* People wearing their pants way too low.
* Pointless meetings.
Can’t help you out with the truthers or the pointless meetings, good citizen. But humming from exactly the same pew in the church with a lot of that other stuff.
And I got a feeling it isn’t just me & Hawkins.
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I’m with you but there’s nothing virtual about the traffic cone of silence I place over the heads of these people and secure with a tire iron.
- vanderleun | 08/22/2008 @ 16:27The alternative: Captain Loud. Captain Loud speaks in a voice as a counterweight to those who are already bringing a version of Shush! to market.
A few examples:
We have a consensus, shush.
Oh hell no we don’t, we’re going to talk about it.
Everyone knows it’s true, shush.
Not me, so your everyone is wrong.
I’m speaking truth to power, so shush.
I’m not power, and you sure as hell don’t speak for me.
- Allen L | 08/22/2008 @ 20:31Pointless meetings.-
- CaptDMO | 08/22/2008 @ 21:13Remove ALL chairs before the meeting.
I like that one.
My experience with pointless meetings is entirely in the technology field. Funny thing about the technology field, people work SO HARD to look like they know what they’re doing. But what better way is there to look like you’re clueless, than to waste everybody’s time in a pointless meeting — and how hard do people work at avoiding that?
I’m with Hawkins there too. As soon as I can figure out a super power Shushman will have to make a meeting productive (or not happen)…he shall have it.
- mkfreeberg | 08/23/2008 @ 09:36House of Eratosthenes
- mkfreeberg | 08/24/2008 @ 22:24When Shushman is walking along and he sees a wad of sticky gum lying on the sidewalk, waiting to adhere itself onto an innocent pedestrian’s shoe…he can cast a magic spell on the gum. The gum will then pry itself off the sidewalk, fly through the air, hunt down the original chewer who was responsible for so carelessly discarding it, and re-insert itself back into his mouth.
Shushman can point at two people having a conversation across a great distance, like say for example across a parking lot from each other, and use telekinesis to force the two conversationalists to come within ten feet of each other so they don’t have to keep asking each other to repeat themselves.
Shushman can point at a little tiny annoying li’l yip-dog being carried around in a purse, and make it instantly weigh a hundred times more. Not expand in size. Just weigh more. Arf! **klunk**
Now that’s good writing!
- mkfreeberg | 08/24/2008 @ 22:29All The Things I Know #6 Initiating or maintaining a verbal conversation across a parking lot is a sign of diminished intelligence
They might bump into eachother a few times.ha ha!
- mkfreeberg | 08/24/2008 @ 22:42