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Monthly Archives: April 2009

On the ins and outs of linguistic complacency

To wit: it is not just the medium. but also the message.
This cartoon wrote a sweary word on your toilet wall. « the rut..

Memo to Times Square Tourists

Your right to wear open-toe laceup boots ends where they meet my eye.

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Curvy Clone Scarlett Galabekian

Key questions as you read on:

Who stole Scarlett Galabekian’s biological material and how?
Do U.S. anti-cloning laws apply in Germany?
What is the Woody Allen connection?

Hello dear Ladies and Gentlemen!I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson ?actress? actually is a clone from original person Scarlett Galabekian last name,who has nothing with acting career, surname Galabekian, [...]

An Etymological Mystery for the Ages

Exactly why the Pennsylvania Dutch culture evolved in such a way as to require this word is unknowable…
From the “Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins”
Arschgnoddle (n) (Pennsylvania German) Scads of dung collected among the hairs proximate to the anus.

When Curb Your Enthusiasm Meets the NBA

How do you say, “de-uncomfortable?”

Tom Just Took the “Which Obscure WWF Wrestler of the 1980s Are You?” Quiz on Facebook and the Result is: IRON MIKE SHARPE

No discernible finishing moves (check)…Impressively well-documented OCD (check)

“Yes, I’d Like to Order Three Pallets of the Rastafarian Vellum, Please”

In a warehouse somewhere deep in Brooklyn the ghost of John Candy lazily scrawls orders on a battered clipboard.

And His Hair Was Perfect

Maybe it’s the hair, or maybe it’s the endlessly entertaining Pat Summitt-baiting, but I am a fan of this guy. And the 47 seconds of last night’s NCAA Womens’ Final I was subconsciously lulled into watching did suggest hours and hours of fundamentally sound scoop-layup drills. You can almost sense David Stern stroking his chin mulling over [...]

Penthouse Letters of the Old Testament : Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife

(cue sound of a wah-wah lyre)
Genesis 39: 7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
Depending on your perspective, this ends badly for Joseph. Already a slave, he resists the repeated entreaties of his mistress. Who, it must be said, [...]