OED WotY FAIL
The Oxford English Dictionary has chosen “unfriend” as its word of the year.
Problem: The term is de-friend, not unfriend. I have de-friended numerous people over the years. Twitter is a different matter — on Twitter you follow, and then when the person starts spouting a bunch of Fox News garbage you unfollow. But on Facebook [...]
Paper doing the white man’s overbite
I find it difficult to get excited over Esquire’s “Augmented Reality Issue,” out next week. As a veteran of magazines — a casualty of them, actually — I have to say that this kind of thing is just dead wrong. You get a magazine with a glyph on the front that you hold up to [...]
95 (ish) yard goal
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No way. Really?
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Gee you’re dumb
No, John Mayer is not dumb. He may be a douchebag — for a couple of years now, that’s been a cool thing to say (“John Mayer is a douchebag,” just like that), and he himself has publicly wrestled with the issue. But I think he is of above-average intelligence. Can’t really say that about [...]
Famous people want to give me money
Tom Brokaw, Melissa Theuriau, Katie Couric and Seth Meyers keep bugging me on Facebook, waving around checks with my name on them. I know many of you are feeling the pain of recession, and I’m here to tell you there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Just sit tight and be a [...]
Are you *sure* you don’t want a brown paper bag for that?
I asked the Playboy Advisor and got the straight story: Penis-enlargement is big business. Pun unavoidable.
1. Whip up a placebo (usually made of oats) with a suggestive name.
2. Devise a convincingly unpolished infomercial (these people are not actors — they are men with small penises and accredited urologists willing to lie for money).
3. Count the [...]
