February 2010
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delgrosso asked: Did you ever fill that Moleskine?
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Deleted Scenes from The West Wing.
CJ: Friday is "take out the trash" day.
Josh: What's that?
CJ: Well... the trashmen come on Saturday, so... You should probably take out your trash.
Josh: Oh. I thought it was, like, code for someth-
CJ: Unless you want to leave it until the last minute, I guess.
Josh: ...
CJ: But you do *not* wanna piss off the trashmen.
I don't watch LOST, but I still have some...
Everyone on the island is a former Philip Morris exec, and the smoke monster is a legion of souls who died of lung cancer. We figure this out when Hurley confronts the smoke monster and finds an ACLU card in its wallet. This explains why everyone on the island dresses like they’re in Mad Men. I don’t know how the polar bear fits into this.
The story is not taking place in present...
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Recursive rabbit-hole.
I’m going to get a tattoo. Don’t worry — it’s not your run-of-the-mill, everyday tramp stamp or something like that. I’m going to get a tattoo of a tattoo artist tattooing the word “tattoo” on my arm, on my arm. I figure that as soon as it’s finished, just as the leftover ink on my skin is wiped away, the singularity will occur and we’ll all...
Conversations with my sister.
Her: I bought this shirt three weeks ago, and it already has holes in it. God, child slave labor sucks.
Me: You know, those kids get paid, so technically it's *servant* labor.
Her: Well then why are they always complaining? I'd kill for a job where I could get paid even when the shit I make falls apart.
Me: Yes. Those impoverished children are extremely lucky.
Her: *And* they get to live somewhere warm.
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I should totally write slogans for a living.
“Fool me once — shame on you. Fool me twice — shame on me.
The Bible. Shame on us.”
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You know why my generation is so screwed up?
Because we were told that the cartoon versions were the “real” ghostbusters.
Dear Abby.
Editor’s Note: Abigail Van Buren is on vacation this week, so today we feature responses from our guest columnist, Prisoner 242B.
Dear Abby,
My husband has recently developed a terrible habit. After dinner at the house of a friend or colleague, he will declare the meal to be “the best [he’s] ever had.” Clearly, this cannot be true of every single meal, and word of his...
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