03 Apr 2005, 8:44 a.m.

Fetch!

Pupna is a joke search engine.

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01 Apr 2005, 13:32 p.m.

Crate-Building Nuthatch

Do you have the blues? My cure: listen to The Donnas' "Do You Wanna Hit It" and look at Dave Bort's comics.

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01 Apr 2005, 8:54 a.m.

Core Competency

I was about to take Websnark off my to-read list, and then in his April Fool's entry he made me smile with a self-mocking riff on "Diff'rent Strokes Syndrome". OK, you get another week.

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01 Apr 2005, 8:27 a.m.

Farewell

Alan Dundes has died. His work helped me understand Indian superstitions and I'm grateful for that, and sad that he is gone.

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29 Mar 2005, 11:16 a.m.

And All The Faces Are Female!

Am still blah from boring work and tech disaster at last night's Egg/Cookie show. Lunch with a friend will help. What would also help would be if the huge faceless organizations that are supposed to …

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28 Mar 2005, 14:09 p.m.

Also, I Put The Caller On Hold And Then Cursed Them

I bit my own hand as a silent stress relief technique during a bad customer support call today. I must have learned this as a child when my parents did not look kindly upon my …

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27 Mar 2005, 10:42 a.m.

Litigious Fairy-Tale Queens

From The Fact-Checker's Bible by Sarah Harrison Smith, pgs. 74-75: Audiotapes of interviews can be a wonderful source [italics in original]. They offer excellent legal protection. In a trial, libel lawyer David Korzenik says, "the …

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26 Mar 2005, 11:23 a.m.

Fun-To-Say Word Of The Moment

Atavistic! This follows Thursday evening's word, hamentashen.

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26 Mar 2005, 11:21 a.m.

D-D-D-Doctor House in the House!

I originally started watching Fox's medical drama House because it stars Hugh Laurie, better known to American audiences as Bertie Wooster in the TV adaptations of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster stories. Now I watch …

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25 Mar 2005, 7:49 a.m.

Cole Porter, Genius

Did Malcolm X get his "Plymouth Rock landed on us!" line from the eponymous song of Anything Goes? The line in that song that interchanges wrong and right and day and night reminds me of …

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