Category: Funny

Good Prank

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Well, it looks like a bunch of pranksters created a phony New York Times, and handed it out in major cities:

The Associated Press reported that copies of the spoof paper were also handed out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, and that the pranksters — who included a film promoter, three unnamed Times employees and Steven Lambert, an art professor — financed the paper with small online contributions and created the paper to urge President-elect Barack Obama to keep his campaign promise

The usual suspects for organizing this are the Yes Men, and there is a web page, which, at least for me, is not that Firefox friendly.

Spocko Says…

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That we should forgive and forget the Republicans, just like the victorious powers in WWII forgave the war crimes of the Axis powers and saw no need for judicial activity.

It’s snark, and marvelous snark, and I’ll just leave you with this:

Remember, nobody is a villain when they are doing what they feel is right for the country. This isn’t like the movies where a short bald “Dr. Evil” laughs and holds the world ransom for 700 billion dollars.
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To attack them now, after we have won, isn’t helpful. Why?

One warning…Not only should you avoid drinking anything before reading, you should empty your bladder too….It’s that funny.

This is very funny.

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There have been any number of Youtube mashups of the scene in the Downfall (Der Untergang), where you hear the original German dialogue, and you see English subtitles about something different (the one about being banned from the XBox network was prize).

Well, Barry Righoltz found this on Youtube, and it’s very funny, at least it’s funny if you do not know German, which I don’t.

The Post is Interesting, But the Snark is Prize

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Over at Ares, Bill Sweetman has a post noting the similarities in weights and fuel loads between the Navy’s F-35C and the A-5 Vigilante series.

It’s an interesting read, but his takedown of the Vigilante linear bom bay is just prize:

The A3J-2 or A-5B was designed without that restriction, and had usefully more internal fuel, but by the time it came along two things had happened. The Polaris missile submarine had taken over the Navy’s nuclear strike mission and tests had shown that there was only one version of the Vigilante where the unique linear bomb bay – which shot the bomb out of the tail – actually worked.

Unfortunately, it was this version:

Mr. Sweetman owes me a screen wipe.

Quote of the Day

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It’s been on the radio, and I found a link through “the google”:

“Lately, he’s called me a socialist for wanting to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don’t know what’s next. By the end of the week, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.”

— BarackObama

Heh.

Quote of the Day: He Said THAT? Edition

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From Joe Kline, which I guess proves the old adage about even stopped clocks being right twice a day:

Ronald Reagan used to say that the most frightening nine words in the English language were ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ That is no longer true. This year, the most frightening eight words are ‘I’m John McCain and I approved this message.’

(emphasis mine)

That should go a long way towards alleviating the snark shortage.