impudent strumpet

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Things They Should Invent: stop tasing people as part of training

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Often much is made of the fact that police officers and taser salespeople get tased as part of their training. I think this is a shitty idea...
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New Rule: stop staying "Googlegänger", start saying "Doppelgoogler"

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It has come to my attention that people are using the word "Googlegänger" to mean another person who comes up when you google your...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

How to be funny

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Anything can be funny, no matter how offensive. The trick is, it has to be funnier than it is offensive. You get positive points for funny...

Let's all stop being feminists

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From last Saturday's Globe and Mail: Is Feminism Going Out of Style? This article has inspired me: let's declare feminism obsolete! ...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Stupidest thing ever EVER!

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So it seems some pathetic losers who need to get a life are going to picket Heath Ledger's funeral. Because apparently he once played ...
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Monday, January 28, 2008

Did someone die?

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From my normally eerily prescient iTunes: Aerosmith's Full Circle k.d. lang's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah The Beatles...
Sunday, January 27, 2008

Religious theory

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I have a bunch of long posts in mind, and I'm too lazy to type them all out. So instead here's my latest religious theory: If the m...

Cringe

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The only thing worse than googling something and accidentally landing on one of my own translations is googling something and landing on a t...
Friday, January 25, 2008

Apartment etiquette question

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There are two flyers on my neighbour's door, and they've been there for a couple of days. It kind of screams "I'm not home...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Scary

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Dr. Morgentaler looks frighteningly like my father. Every time I see a picture of him, I get this massive wave of cognitive dissonance.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

My kingdom for a time machine

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It's one of those "Do the impossible at any price" situations at work, so it looks like I'll be incommunicado for the rest...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Trusting strangers

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This is a tangent to a larger post I've got festering in my brain, but I think it's turned into its own separate idea: We all know t...
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Band name, free for the taking

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I think Eisbär-Baby would make a good band name. In English, at least - it would probably sound ridiculous in German. (For those of you w...
Saturday, January 12, 2008

I wonder if there's a comedy kissing etiquette

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I'm watching Whose Line, and I noticed that when people kiss - even if it's making out type kissing - they don't move their lips...

What I appreciate about Ugly Betty

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One thing I really appreciate about Ugly Betty is that Betty has a sex life, and no one makes a big deal of the fact. Yes, some of the catt...
Thursday, January 10, 2008

Best sleepwalk ever?

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Last night I went to bed wearing black socks. This morning I woke up wearing white socks. I was alone in the apartment all night and have no...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Stupidest rule ever of the day

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So they're making a rule that men who've had sex with another man in the past five years can't be organ donors. Okay, so here...
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Am I reading these numbers right?

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Check out the chart at the bottom of this article. (I can't copy it here, the formatting won't hold.) It looks like it's sayin...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Eddie Izzard gets political

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Eddie-baby ( a.k.a. Frank ) gets political, gets a standing O from George Clooney, confuses Angelina Jolie, and manages to incorporate the w...
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