As this clip proves, awkward can strike anywhere, at any time, without warning.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
” I like rice. Rice is great when you’re hungry and you want 2,000 of something.” – Mitch Hedberg
A PSA Gallery
These are part of a series of Public Service Announcements in Britain to protect children from second-hand smoke.
Control yourself
These are true words of wisdom displayed below. All too often we let others dictate our conduct. We’re nice to those nice to us, but let someone cut us off in traffic and we’ll retaliate with road rage and nasty hand gestures. Someone is rude to us, so we respond with rudeness. Sarcasm is answered with sarcasm. Meanness begets more …
This is real???
If I had known the debates were like this I might have watched one. Oh well. Too late now.
I call shotgun
You know what? Screw everything. Let’s just hit the road. It’s Hump Day. Time for a break. A Hump Day Hiatus. Road trip! Let’s check out Yellowstone. Devil’s Tower. Buffalos. Mount Rushmore. Chicago. Farmland. Niagara Falls. The Big Apple. Cape Cod. Let’s do it all. We deserve it. And let’s take 5,000 pictures and put them all together to document …
FEDERAL JUDGE RULES TOBACCO COMPANIES DELIBERATELY DECEIVED
A federal judge today ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they lied about the dangers of smoking and disclose smoking’s health effects, including the death on average of 1,200 people a day. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler previously had said she wanted the industry to pay for corrective statements in various types of advertisements. But Tuesday’s ruling …
i HATE funerals
Wherein we have another installment of I Hate Monday. Today the spotlight shines on those saddest of all occasions, funerals. This topic weighs heavily on my mind today: the friend I wrote about (in “Quitting: Reason No. 73,” below) died earlier today. My friend Kelly is at least now free from the pain and torture that years of cancer and …
29 Years Ago Today
…for no particular reason (except maybe yesterday’s post), here is a clip from Thanksgiving Day (or night) 1983. This is brilliant, but it seems like the audience didn’t quite get it.