20 August 2009

Catch Phrases IV


Shrek: Do you think he's maybe compensating for something?
Good news everyone!


I invented a device that makes you read this in your head using my voice!
*Not my joke, I got it from Cthulhu.
No, not the unspeakably malevolent super-being, the contributor to the Shortskoolbus BBS.
OK, I've never seen the two of them together, so Cthulhu might actually be the Cthulhu, but the mere fact that he is on a BBS, interacting with humans§ would seem to mitigate against this.
§Yes, I know, this is the internet, where no one knows if you are a dog.

*Full disclosure I worked at Stewart & Stevenson, Tactical Vehicle Systems, in Sealy, TX on the FMTV in 1992 and 1993.
Yes, I have worked everywhere. Maybe I can't hold down a job, but more likely this has been my role as "technical hit man", where you are parachuted in to take care of a specific need.

Adding Roman Polanski to my list of they who must not be named.

Finance, Insurance, and Real-Estate (FIRE) sectors


tax and trade system*

*That is what it really is, after all. It's taxes which are bought and sold to allow Goldman Sachs to generate fees for trading these permits. Cap and trade is used in order to make it sound like it isn't a tax, but it's a tax, only a lot of the proceeds go to Ivy League classmates of Ivy League politicians as sales commissions.

This puts in a "there's more link" in the doc, useful for long press releases, and suchlike.
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This is one big shark that he jumped.
With Frikken Lasers!
Jumping C. Megladon*

*The largest shark, and likely largest predator fish ever. It died out some 1.5 million years ago. The Genus is still in dispute, between either Carcharodon (Great White) or Carcharocles (broad toothed Mako). But in either case, you are jumping C. Megladon, you have jumped the biggest shark ever.


As the saying goes, "ない愚かさはない薬です".*

*Pronounced in Japanese, "baka ni tsukeru kusuri wanai", which means, "There is no medicine for stupidity."


Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Let's add Insertnamehere to the list of people who belong in in the Legion of People You Really Do Not Want To F%$# With (LOPYRDNWTFW), which so far includes Dylan Ratigan, Rachael Maddow, Roger Ebert, Stephen Colbert, the folks at 4Chan, Alan Grayson, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart, and (of course) Jon Stewart.

How the New York Times RSS permanent link works http://www.nytimes.com/restofurl?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

To embed PDF's in documents, use ScribD.

Love*

*In a 110% purely heterosexual kind of way, of course, as the General would say.

Seriously, this is Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man kind of news.

Tobin Tax

Rush Limbaugh, he returned from the Dominican Republican with a bunch of Viagra®.

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