Archive for the 'You can’t make this stuff up.' Category
2nd December 2008
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As soon as the pirates showed up, the “security staff” jumped ship. You can’t make this stuff up.
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17th November 2008
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Well, if you’re serious about bacon….
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11th November 2008
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3rd November 2008
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No doubt the hard-core cases will get the Comfy Chair.
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2nd November 2008
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Bureaucracy — straining at gnats and swallowing camels since before recorded time.
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1st November 2008
Posted in You can't make this stuff up. | Comments Off on Muslim police chef claims religious discrimination over sausage and bacon breakfasts
1st November 2008
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30th October 2008
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30th October 2008
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Now how many governments can cause that kind of change so quickly?
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25th October 2008
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16th October 2008
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Sounds like a great plot for a movie.
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7th October 2008
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Good thing he’s not a Mormon or he’d be in real trouble.
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5th October 2008
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Women are actually an alien species. I’ve always said so.
Well, at least it wasn’t $12 million to a dog. That’s a hostile alien species.
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26th September 2008
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I would have thought that Ken would have a beard. And we can see entirely too much of Barbie. And wouldn’t they be called Fatima and Mohammed?
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26th September 2008
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Boy, those Zimbabweans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.
Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.
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21st September 2008
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I refuse to accept any alien species in a science fiction story unless their culture is stranger than that of the Japanese. This rule of thumb has stood me in good stead for over 40 years, and it’s still going strong.
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17th September 2008
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We have the technology.
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17th September 2008
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We have the technology.
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4th September 2008
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No, this is not an extract from the Stuff White People Like book. Although it would certainly fit in.
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30th August 2008
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6th August 2008
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I think God is telling you to move somewhere else. Take the hint. Or put up concrete posts.
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6th August 2008
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29th July 2008
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Unfortunately, it would seem that they neglected the “and prayer” part.
It had never been designed to “take the place” of law enforcement but had served to “bring people together and raise consciousness,” he added.
Will all of the attempts to “raise consciousness” since that vile phrase was originated in the 60s, you’d think that there wasn’t any higher it could go.
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25th July 2008
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25th July 2008
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Be the first on your block to play one on the Internet.
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17th July 2008
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Well, there you have it.
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16th July 2008
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11th July 2008
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10th July 2008
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Well. There it is.
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9th July 2008
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Update: A more comprehensive explanation of the issues is here.
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2nd July 2008
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Gotta love Australians.
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26th June 2008
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25th June 2008
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Good luck to ’em, I say.
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23rd June 2008
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As George Carlin used to say, if you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it.
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22nd June 2008
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20th June 2008
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Usually you have to be elected before you get this pretentious.
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15th June 2008
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Well, that’s New York for you.
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7th June 2008
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California. ‘Nuff said.
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3rd June 2008
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3rd June 2008
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The site is Vegans of Color.
So the semester ended for me here at Vassar, and as all the seniors moved out of their on-campus apartments they threw out a lot food. So my friends and I did the reasonable thing for a bunch of broke students who are working on campus during the summer– we grabbed our backpacks and hit the dumpsters.
I am not making this up.
I don’t think it’s a parody site, but….
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2nd June 2008
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Wonder whether they ground him up and molded him into a body shape first.
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31st May 2008
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They actually pay people to come up with this stuff.
(Well, I don’t really know that — it’s entirely possible to have it done by a computer program.)
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28th May 2008
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Now, this sounds like a fantastic idea; put one of the most virulent hate groups operating openly in the US in charge of fighting crime in Miami….
The fact that they aren’t real Muslims isn’t that much of a comfort.
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27th May 2008
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Rainbow Warrior, here we come….
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21st May 2008
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I would have no problem with that if, in turn, we could declare certain activists to be chimpanzees.
I mean, fair is fair.
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20th May 2008
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- Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
- Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in California.
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17th May 2008
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Sometimes, no amount of snark can top the real world.
I have to agree.
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10th May 2008
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And reality, apparently.
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