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• Commented on Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour
  That's the craziest shit I've seen in years. That clip alone brought on the punk revolution....
• Commented on XKCD explains how to be a tech-support guru
  Tech, gotta love it. Today was the first day back in school. All the admin folks got brand new laptops. Every one of the attachments that they sent, class lists, scheduled, lunch periods can't be opened by the Windows rock...
• Commented on AIDS Healthcare Foundation files workplace safety complaints against porn producers
  My God, give them all the protection available. There is all sorts of coercion in the porn biz. We can start a long thread about choice, however I can't imagine any little girl saying that she wants to bang goats...
• Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
  Jesus, I can't wait to go back to my high school teaching gig. Last year I had to take a meeting with a parent who insisted that Obama is an "islam" who wants to destroy America from within. If Frank...
• Commented on Designer axes
  Do they sell the handles separately? Have they been "road tested," I mean can you club hippies with 'em?...
• Commented on "I'm Fat and Nobody Likes Me"
  Well, I like you now, FATTY!...
• Commented on Flowcharting the gay marriage debate
  Patrick Farley...well there's a guy that hates Jesus!...
• Commented on Adopt a Classroom, help kids and teachers, get a tax-break
  My school just sent around a request to all employees asking for donations of any electronic equipment, computers, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, if you are upgrading the home system, because the AV/tech budget has been zeroed out for next year....
• Commented on Florida town orders employees to wear underwear and cover wounds
  > Finally, a job I'm qualified to do!...
• Commented on No Entry sign changed to Ninja Entry sign
  I've always liked the "No (P)assing Zone" sign I pass every day on the way to the job. Kidz!...
• Commented on Happy 35th Anniversary, 10-cent Beer Night
  "meh. In Japan you have hordes getting shit-faced and no violence. They don't have to go together." Yeah, but where's the fun? If anyone thinks that 10 cent beer created problems, you should have gone to dollar beer nigh at...
• Commented on Spinal Tap finally record "Saucy Jack"
  I caught them in Philly and really didn't understand why Derek, Nigel and David kept referring to a bunch of other musicians and movies that I had never heard of. Also, they were touring without a drummer. I hope nothing...
• Commented on Young Conservative rappers explain Jesus, Ayn Rand, and ANWR drilling
  Conservative rappers ATE MY EYES!...
• Commented on Wiki on using IT in curriculum
  My experience is that computers in the classroom really interfere with learning, partly because of the great points that teufelsdroch makes, but also because oldhead administrators, who don't understand tech, are making decisions about software, hardware and access. For example,...
• Commented on Book about "the surprising, and surprisingly tame, self-organization of pirates"
  Arrrr!!! And our healthcarrrrre system be a thing 'o beauty too! Fair seas and a followin' wind t' ye, Squiffy...
• Commented on Bush cronies land jobs charging for advice on not getting eaten by the monsters they created
  Republicans ate my eyes!!!!!!!!...
• Commented on Scouts training to fight immigrants and terrorists
  As long as they keep the gays and the brown people out, the terrorists haven't won! No, I was just joshin'. I was a boy scout and our leader, a fantastic guy who gave up all of his personal time...
• Commented on Good deal on cardboard US flags for caskets
  I'm not seeing many clues that these won't be needed, but I'm a liberal....
• Commented on BB on GOOD: "Fast People, Slow Food - Better Living Through Homemade Yogurt"
  This is a really great idea, plus you can usually find those little plastic incubators at a garage sale. Much better taste, more complex flavor when used as a marinade and less likely to break in a sauce. We used...
• Commented on Sam & Dave's "Hold on I'm Coming" performed by Italian scarecrows
  Who needs acid when you have this!...
• Commented on Mr. T on ghosts, UFOs, Pee-wee Herman, etc
  I got you all beat. I was Mr. T's bodyguard at a Barnes and Noble book signing back in the 80's. Great guy, a total hoot, certainly didn't need my protective abilities, since his biceps were as big as my...
• Commented on MPAA to teachers: don't rip DVDs, just record your television with a camcorder
  I'm a high school teacher in Pennsylvania. I teach economic theory with a heavy emphasis on current events to explain the course content. I would like to use information from major news sources to illustrate what we are discussing in...
• Commented on Liberal hunting permit
  "Anybody have any genuinely funny examples of conservative wit?" How 'bout this one, a bumper sticker given out at a mid 80's Republican Convention in California. "AIDS-Killing all the right people!"...
• Commented on Video of UAE torture prince assaulting 25 others -- who's censoring this news in the UAE?
  #13- Fox News was briefly calling the Aporkalypse the "Obama Flu" last week. I'm wondering if their political bias has effected their news coverage? As for the Sheik, I guess he should get honorary American citizenship....
• Commented on Making better panhandling signs for a homeless man
  This might be kinda sick, but could someone please bang out a sign generator for this picture....
• Commented on Swine Influenza: Another Reasonable, Reasoned Discussion Thread
  Has anyone named this flu yet? My vote-Miss Piggy....
• Commented on Swine Influenza Update from a Nurse: Virus, Panic, Precautions, and End of the World Websites.
  I like my daughter's spin on this. "I guess God decided to lay off of Africa for a change."...
• Commented on 500 million Indians prove their vote by flipping the bird
  I did the same thing for 8 consecutive years during the Bush administration....
• Commented on Untitled 2
  Nice post about the wisdom of FOX NEWS! You covered it all in a fair and balances way. Squiff...
• Commented on Your Day Can't Possibly Be as Bad as Richard Simmons' Day.
  The good Cap'n isn't sleeping well tonight. That was more fearsome than all the swabbies in Davy Jones' locker. Squiff...