What has the EU ever done for us?

REG : They’ve bled us white, the bastards…. And what have the Romans ever given us in return? PFJ #1: The aqueduct? REG : What? PFJ #1 : The aqueduct. REG : Oh yeah, yeah. They did give us that. That’s true, yeah. PFJ #2 : And sanitation. LORETTA : Oh yeah, the sanitation, Reg. [...]

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Oh, right

The explanation for the title of the last post totally slipped my mind while I was typing. Anyway, on my way to the subway I saw that a car parked on the curb had a bunch of geraniums and dirt resting in a huge dent in its roof. This was puzzling, until I thought about [...]

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There’s an Air and Space Museum

My brother was kind enough to call me yesterday from Graz to tell me that the following exchange from the Simpsons, which happens to be pretty much my all-time favorite clip, doesn’t translate well into German. Btw, the Simpsons is on twice a day here too. And people love it. But they do make a [...]

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McSweeney’s

For some reason, this totally caught me off guard and I couldn’t repress the sudden laugh-eruption that followed, causing the other teachers in the computer room to look at me warily: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/3/22litt.html

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Oldie, but Goodie

You Know You’re From a Small Town When… The “road hog” in front of you on Main Street is a combine or an old man driving his riding lawnmower. You leave your jacket on the back of the chair in the cafe, and when you go back the next day, it’s still there, on the [...]

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For some reason, livejournal is displaying in Russian…

Well, it snowed today for the first time.  Already this is better than last year.  Last year it snowed for the first time on Oct. 24th, and not just a little.  It was a good 6 inches.  I know the date because I was so shocked that I took pictures of it and dated them.  [...]

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A dog that eats cats.

Are You a Guy? Take This Scientific Quiz to Determine Your Guyness Quotient 1. Alien beings from a highly advanced society visit the Earth, and you are the first human they encounter. As a token of intergalactic friendship, they present you with a small but incredibly sophisticated device that is capable of curing all disease, [...]

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Wow, look at that!

I always tell people that St. Louis is not the South, and it’s not really the North either.  Now there’s proof. Soft Drink Map of the USA Hmm…

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Who would win in a fight between Fredbird and the Dirt Cheap Chicken? take 2

Ahhh, the good ol’ River Front Times.  How I love and miss thee. EDIT: just found this while browsing the RFT’s Best Of section for this year: Best Local TV Commercial Dirt Cheap Cigarettes Beer & Liquor (low-carb version) An obvious choice, perhaps, but a worthy one. Seriously, who among us wouldn’t recognize Dirt Cheap [...]

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Die Millionenshow

I would like to relate a conversation that just transpired as my Grandma and I were watching the Austrian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. It is moderated by Armin Assinger, a former skiing champion. All Austrian celebrities are former skiing champions. But this is not a bad thing, as they are generally [...]

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