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Speaking of Dave Nichol, Carin wondered this morning while we were talking about him why you would ever call a cookie decadent, since decadent means decaying. I said I was pretty sure that it also meant something like sinful or pleasing, but she wasn’t convinced. Well, I looked it up. There’s decay and moral decline …
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If I were in the position to make such a call, there’s almost no way I would have authorized this particular readiness drill. A school district in Oregon is catching some flak after it recently sicced two masked gunmen loaded with blank on a meeting room full of teachers as part of a surprise “readiness …
A question I hear a lot is why does email and comment spam look the way it does? I’ll admit, I never had a perfect answer. Poor automatic translations is the best I’ve come up with, and while there’s certainly got to be some truth to that (Have you ever tried to use Google Translate …
Every day, untold numbers of homes are broken into. Some of them, as we’ve seen time and again, are broken into by people for whom planning is clearly not a personal strength. But it’s not every day we see planning of such poor quality that it results in a couple of guys breaking into the …
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Emails full of fake, funny product name translations go around all the time, but since these ones are from Mental Floss, I trust they’re the real deal. Mmmm, Fart Bar! And you’ll never think about pushing your Siri button the same way again, will you? Credit where it’s due though, I do remember the tender …
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This is clever. A Lesson in punctuation Dear John: I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we’re …
Let this be a lesson to you. Never, under any circumstances, fuck over the taco stand guy. Police said a 17-year-old man canceled his taco order when he realized he was late for school. The 19-year-old man followed the teen and tried to run him over with his truck, police said. When he missed him, …
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I imagine there are quite a few vandals roaming around with a less than adequate grasp of spelling, but I’m not sure how many of them are as consistent or as easy to catch as Adam Hall. Last month, somebody Vandalized Brittany Speckman’s car. Whoever it was bent the license plate, keyed it and scratched …
Here’s a new one for ya. Do you remember being in kindergarten, and having Show and Tell? You brought in something from home, held it up to the class, and talked about what it was. Well, one kindergartener brought some things in for Show and Tell that were not your average items. They were a …
I don’t have a whole lot to say about the felony assault trial of Houston hand surgeon Michael Brown. I’m just hear to draw your attention to one rather amusing detail. Prosecutors this morning said Brown, 54, threw two heavy vases and a humanitarian award at his wife in a the fight that ended with …
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