Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
I could have sworn I posted this one, but a decent enough look around tells me otherwise. So yeah, let’s be fixing that because this takes some serious balls…and wieners…and baby makers…and beer…and possibly drugs but we’re not really sure…and…absolutely no damn sense whatsoever. I mean, holy shit! Husnik, who was on probation, was handcuffed …
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I learned something last week, and apparently I’m not the only one who did. Someone was talking about those fields on a form where you have to choose one choice, for example are you male or female, and kept referring to them as radial buttons. I was 99.999999999999 percent sure they were supposed to be …
Time for some more wrestling talk. See you soon, everyone who comes here for dick jokes or dog stories. 1. Even with all of the recent drama, you expect Brock Lesnar to re-sign with the WWE. First things first, everyone needs to stop saying “the WWE,” because the World Wrestling Entertainment makes no sense and …
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No, that’s not the start of a bad joke. We’re actually curious. Carin and I were having breakfast and chatting as usual when I made a comment that somebody was “a rapist at worst and an…assaulter? at best.” It occurred to us that if there’s a word for someone who commits assaults, neither of us …
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I usually don’t wait until the day before advanced polling starts to put up a link to accessible stuff around the region, but a. Captain Nameless Illness is making me work really slow, and b. We’re still figuring out this huuuge city, so didn’t have much of a clue. So, it took longer to make …
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We have a guest contribution from Gill for the first time in a little while. She’s right. Learning English is hard enough when it’s your first language let alone your second, and slang just adds to the…fun? Canada’s Cool Factor We are a nation of immigrants, so whether you are the son of Cambodian refugees, …
Today in perhaps you should be enrolling in the school instead of running it: Language School Blogger Fired for Writing About Homophones A social media specialist for a Utah language school that teaches English to non-native speakers says he was fired for writing a blog post about homophones—words that sound the same, but carry different …
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Weird Al released a new album this week. It’s called Mandatory Fun, and you can buy it on his website, among other places. He’s been putting songs on YouTube to promote it, and this one’s the best of the bunch, no contest. “Weird Al” Yankovic – Word Crimes In case you’ve somehow been fortunate enough …
When Carin and I write news stories, we can pretty much call them whatever the hell we want. But sadly, our “real reporter” friends don’t enjoy that same degree of editorial freedom. So it’s nice to see that there exists a place where all of the clever/funny/that’s just wrong headlines I know for a fact …
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Do me a favour. Read this article all about how periods at the ends of sentences in text messages now mean that you’re angry at the person you’re writing to and see if it makes any sense to you, because I understand about 0 of it. Honest to god, in a million years I would …