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Archive of entries posted on 6th July 2018
I’m Guessing Not “Bacon”
A major medical convention has decided not to come to San Francisco because they don’t feel the city’s streets are safe, between the homelessness, open drug use, and violent crime.
Huh. Wonder what kind of hole Trump would call San Francisco?
A Lot of Questionable Decisions
[Star Wars: The Force Awakens Pitch Meeting] (Viewer #357,075)
Yeah, this pretty much covers everything awful about this movie.
Link of the Day: I Know Precious Little About the Civil War Besides Who Won, So I Found This Interesting
[High Praise! to Mental Floss]
11 Facts About the Battle of Gettysburg
[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]
Icebreaker: If You Could Instantly Become an Expert in Something, What Would It Be?
Previously: “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data”
Currently: The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)
Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.
If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.
If you could instantly become an expert in something, what would it be?
Obscure movie-related questions, like “should we have just left George Lucas to destroy the Star Wars franchise on his own, or is it better off the way it is now: being murdered by Disney so grotesquely that it makes “Saw” look like the Teletubbies.
You’ll Understand When You’re Older
Straight Line of the Day: It Sounds Like Science Fiction, But China Has Developed a New Gun That Fires…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
It sounds like science fiction, but China has developed a new gun that fires…
The Illustrated Frank J: Also, for Some Reason, Littering a Lot
Americans Make Everything Better. We’re Like the Bacon of Nations
A new report shows that the World Cup soccer tournament ratings are down 42% without an American team playing.
Not an accident. We ruin the ratings, wait to see which team wins, buy it for cheap, and use it as the American team next year.