“Competitive floating”
From the BBC: “The extinct Olympic sport that was the ’dullest’ of all time,” the distance plunge, derided as “competitive floating.”
Weaving through traffic
“Trump’s campaign team was miffed by a lack of traffic support from local police after he arrived in Washington, forcing the motorcade to weave through rush-hour traffic.”
Starring Joe Namath et al.
The Spokesmen, a tragedy.
A Vivaldi for our time
The Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
Another circuit
Cf. the Chitlin ’ Circuit.
Barr code
Color-coding the Barr redactions.
“Baby TripAdvisor”
“In the morning, we visited the table room. There were many, many tables in the table room.”
Imaginary local news
“Well, they don’t call it FALL for nothing.”
Topical humor from The New Yorker
Re: Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
Plainfield T.
An imaginary football team.
Pitching Wishbone
“My winsome Jack Russell Terrier is no mere peddler of phonics. He is the bard, the scop, the muse. He is the flame that lights the cave.”
Afterthought
How great that every so often — for no reason at all — the moon should turn from green cheese into a tasty port wine variety.
AP-Chicago feud
“At this time we have reason to believe the killings were gang-related and carried out by adherents of both the AP and Chicago styles, part of a vicious, bloody feud to establish control over the grammar and usage guidelines governing American English.”
Porky and Bette
With apologies to DuBose Heyward and the Gershwin brothers.
Subdivisions of the imagination
The Real Estate Subdivision Name Generator.
A Robert Creeley story
With a Finnish sense of humor.
Fun, fun, fun
The greatest Downfall spoof of all time.
The McNulty
A new McDonald’s item.
Hands[-]Free Hair Rejuvenator
Too late for Ricky Ricardo.
Bill Madison on the Ryan nomination
“Ryan is best known in Washington policy circles for a stubborn resistance to government intervention, and for fierce opposition to taxes (‘revenuers’).”
Poets’ press conference
“Its astral luminescence wrapped in arid gauze.”
Radio buttons
Burma-Shave!
Headlines quiz
Can you tell which ones are real news?
Call for papers (“Friday”)
The East-Central Illinois Cultural Studies Association Conference’s Music-as-Culture Division’s Pop Music section’s moderators have issued a call for papers on Rebecca Black’s “Friday.”
Emoticons with Auto-Tune
Today is Thursday. Thinking about that song got me thinking about Auto-Tune.
A computer “with only the basics”
Area dad Paul Moyers is in the market for a computer “with only the basics”
Dog elected
Wheaten terrier Ms. Beatha Lee has been elected president of the Hillbrook-Tall Oaks Civic Association.
A Depression psalm
The 1932nd Psalm
Welcome, freshmen
Fred Willard is a funny guy
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