December 2008
26 posts
“Talk about a hairy ‘Sex and the City.’ The Fox network is developing ‘Bitches,’ a dramedy about a quartet of female friends in New York who are werewolves.”
—You gotta be shitting me, Hollywood Reporter.
Typo In Proposition 8 Defines Marriage As Between 'One Man And One Wolfman' →
theonion.com
And once again, the rule is proven: The mere presence of the word ‘wolfman’ makes any joke 1.5x funnier.
“I’d have to sell the cottage in West Palm Beach immediately. I’d need to lay off Yolanda. I could cancel the newspaper subscriptions and read everything online. I only needed a cell phone. I’d have to stop taking taxis. And who could highlight my hair for almost no money? And how hard was it to give yourself a really good pedicure?”
—It’s not impossible to feel sympathy for swindled rich people. But it can be difficult.
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The Snuggie: It's a blanket with arms! →
getsnuggie.com
Now I know what everyone in the Marzolf family is getting this Christmas. Though the marshmallow roasting seems like a severe fire hazard.
“College is really a training ground for becoming an alcoholic.”
—Jon Morgenstern, professor of psychiatry quoted in New York magazine’s Gender Bender
Teach your iPhone to swear like a sailor
It used to be that the iPhone was smart enough to pick up on foul language like an impressionable 8-year-old, but at some point the shiny device decided to get all holier-than-thou. Its predictive texting now replaces “fuck” with “duck,” “shit” with “shot” and generally makes you look like a puritan when you text your shiftless friends. Attempts to train the device have failed (though produced amusing results), but now there’s a new friend out there who’s profane enough to subvert your phone’s sense of propriety once and for all. His name is fucking fuck.
