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Jeopardy! on DVD?

Posted in Humor, Random, tagged , on November 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Am I the only one who would buy episodes of Jeopardy! if they were released on DVD?  I think there must be a market for this. So what if we already know the answers and who wins?  There’s always plenty to enjoy and learn. It would be cost prohibitive, I imagine, to release entire seasons, [...]

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Radical New Facebook Philosophy

Posted in Humor, tagged on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been doing this all wrong.  I need to stop using Facebook to reconnect with old friends, get to know acquaintances better, and keep in touch with distant loved ones.  That’s boring.  From now on, I’m only going to friend freaks and morons–people whose wild and inane posts will entertain me far more than the [...]

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NPR Irony

Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged , , on November 5, 2011 | 10 Comments »

My local NPR station mingled its glowing Occupy Wall Street coverage over the last few weeks with a pledge drive.  A few days ago, I heard the station manager declare the drive at an end.  Then she noted that fully a quarter of the drive’s funding came from “corporate sponsors.”  She thanked them profusely. Now that the [...]

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I Miss Fake Shakes

Posted in Humor, Random on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I used to love getting a big, gross, cold shake at any fast food place–a thick, syrupy monster of cheap chocolatey slop.  But these days they seem to be even more rare than a competent fielder on the Brewers.  First I noticed Jack in the Box make the transition.  The big beloved cardboard cups were swapped [...]

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Old Floppy Drive Plays Imperial March

Posted in Humor on October 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

And now, your moment of zen:

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Big Bang Theory Theme Song–Full Version With Lyrics

Posted in Humor, tagged , , on October 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

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Funny Gang Name

Posted in Humor, Random on October 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The city park by my house has a lot of graffiti.  One gang has tagged an area with their name: “Loc’d Out Criminals.”  At first glance, though, it looks more like “LOL’d Out Criminals,” which, in my humble opinion, is a much better name for a gang.

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Big Search Engine Is Watching

Posted in Humor, tagged , , on October 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Before I could post my Edgar Allan Poe audio on YouTube recently, since it was over 15 minutes long, it made me provide my cell number so they could send me a confirmation code.  In my haste to have this project done, I complied. Only afterwards did I wonder what difference it made if my [...]

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Ten Best Simpsons Episodes

Posted in Humor, tagged , on September 23, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Wired celebrates the new, 23rd season of The Simpsons with a list of top ten episodes.  They have some good ones (notice that most of their choices come from the first several seasons), but this is hardly the best of the best.  My choices: 10. “Bart the Daredevil,” season 2, writtern by Kogen and Wolodarsky [...]

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The Cold Darwinian Erasers of Editorial Evolution

Posted in Education, Humor, Language and Literature, tagged , , , , , , on September 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

As writers, we wield the cold Darwinian erasers of editorial evolution.  Scrutinizing the compositional gene pool, we are a vehicle of natural selection, finding the weakest words and the unfit phrases.  We exercise the instruments of the delete keys at our fingertips, and thus remove the dead weight that threatens to hold back the success of [...]

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The Dance of Joy

Posted in Humor, tagged , , on September 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »

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Crucible Joke

Posted in Education, Humor, Language and Literature, tagged , , , , on September 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This year, I’m starting my American Lit Honors classes with The Crucible, the classic play about the Salem Witch Trials.  I usually end my introduction to it with a joke like this: “So this is a story about desperate, repressed, stressed-out people crowded into a little village in a hostile wilderness, whose desire for excitement [...]

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Rare “Weird Al” Yankovic Audio

Posted in Humor, tagged on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

From 1988:

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My Maxi Pads

Posted in Humor on August 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »

So my new school gave me a box of maxi pads.  It’s normal at the start of a year for schools to give all the teachers bags of band aids for their students, since kids get lots of little cuts and need band aids all the time.   But, though I’ve worked at several campuses, I’ve [...]

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Spot the Red Flags

Posted in Education, Humor on August 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Even at the start of a promising new year, one can’t hep but spot the occasional red flags; signs that a student will have problems–or cause problems–down the road. At one of my UNLV remedial writing classes yesterday, I asked students to fill out an information card, as I do with all classes.  One young [...]

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