Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
There was a rather nationalist (if not racist) joke making the rounds a while back, about an Arab who visits the US and sees an episode of the original Star Trek series. He notes to his American hosts that many different races and nationalities are represented: Russian, Japanese, African, Scottish, even races completely alien to …
“The devil made me do it” may be out of fashion as a legal defense, but it seems ol’ red-and-pointy-tailed is still busy in some areas of the country. He’s now being accused of masterminding a “stealth invasion” by illegal immigrants by a Utah Country Republican. Good luck, delegate Larsen.
The first line of this article goes “A group of American aerospace engineers have written a book on how to defend the earth against alien invasion.” I have to ask… why would an alien race bother?
And I thought some of my friends were prudes.
Take a look at this story in The Register. Priceless. Simply priceless.
The Transformers were really cool geek things when I was a kid. I could never figure out how some of them fit in though.
The story, short as it is, is here. Too bad that the new option won’t be allowed to win the election. There are some elections where no candidate would be far better than any of the ones running. ‘Choices in Missouri were: John Ashcroft – Dead Man. And people in Missouri went: “I’m sorry, John, …
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Tag-line of moderator grinch2171 on www.ozzu.com: A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles per year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer per year. That means, on average, Americans get 41 miles per gallon. Isn’t that great!
Chris Linfoot has discovered Microsoft’s secret sauce. (Apologies for all the posts today, I’ve got many years of backlogged stuff in my head. I’ll slow down soon, honestly.)
The bank that I use (which shall remain nameless) is supposed to have gotten the highest customer rating for their online presence, as far back as seven years ago. Unfortunately, that doesn’t extend to their online customer service, which is pretty much what you’d expect from a large software company. Case in point: