Too Stupid for Words category archive
Droning On 0
Boys and their toys (and you just know it was an overgrown boy):
“At this point, we don’t know who was operating it,” Jamieson said. “No one came forward while we were investigating; security didn’t have any information when we were there.”
Damn right no one’s come forward. You can bet your bippy ain’t no one coming forward either.
A Matter of Time 0
Portland, Maine, has come out with a new logo which states that Portland was founded in 1633, despite it’s having been founded a year earlier. When someone complained, stupid followed.
Chris Busby picks up the story:
The “logic” behind Portland Downtown’s decision is that the logo is a marketing tool, and as such, like most corporate advertising these days, it need bear no relation to facts, history or reality. “While historians may not agree with our logic,” Gilbert wrote to Schechter, “we were really looking at the new brand/logo as a marketing piece and something that people would want to have on tote bags, t-shirts, postcards…”
Suggested debate topic:
- Resolved: That the United States began to go to directly to Hell, without passing “GO” and without collecting $200, the moment that everything became all about the “Brand.”
Follow the link for more.
“The Smart One” 0
Honest to Betsy*, you can’t make this stuff up.
All snark aside, I suspect that Jeb! has been somewhat taken aback to learn how little import being a “Bush” conveys. One suspects he has not paid attention to the origins of the term, “Bush crime family.”
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*Pete’s taking the day off.
Droning On 0
Mike Kelly’s buddy has bought a quadcopter and wants to take it out joyriding. Mike is not sanguine. Here’s a bit from his column.
A drone.
My friend, with laughter interrupting his words, went on to point out how much “fun” he was already having, flying his remote-controlled device up to 1,000 feet above ground and hovering over friends’ houses or cruising down various streets. He said he might even drop into someone’s back yard and snap some candid photographs before buzzing off, leaving everyone to wonder what had just taken place.
“Isn’t that illegal?” I asked.
“Not at all,” he said.
And that’s the problem.
Boys and their toys: a combination that unerringly eventually spells s-t-u-p-i-d.
No, It Isn’t “Challenging Our Assumptions” 0
If it has to be “installed,” it’s not art. It’s a washing machine.
Corollary: If folks who are around art all the time can’t tell that it’s “art,” it’s not art.
Chris-Crossed 0
And this surprises you how?
(snip)
Alexander Mann, a passenger in the Quiet Car, informed Gawker and CNN that Christie, clutching a strawberry smoothie, started by berating a staffer about messing up the seating arrangement.
Then, Mann reported, Christie continued bellowing on his cellphone – a double no-no, violating both the “quiet” in “Quiet Car” and the prohibition against all cellphone calls.
Follow the link, in which a Christie spokesperson suffering from a fit of projection refers to the “quiet car” as “notorious.”
Not Your Father’s Music 0
Anything but your father’s music.
The teenager could no longer take the Schlager music his father was listening to on the radio and needed an out.
Luckily a concerned driver noticed the plea and called the police, as police reported on Wednesday.
The polizei were not amused.
Twits on Twitter 0
It is wise to think before you twit.
Cake 0
Cheesecake, that is.
Test Fail 0
I must ask again whether there is a special intelligence test persons must fail in order to become school administrators.
If you’re an employee of Montgomery County (Va.–ed.) Public Schools, no imagination is necessary. Because that’s precisely what the school system was asking its workers to do.
Thanks to the inquiries of the reporter, the form is being revised. Follow the link for more.