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Archive of entries posted on 17th August 2018
Must Be a Union Payoff Boondoggle, Because This Has Never Been a Problem
Los Angeles’ subway will soon become the first mass transit system in the US to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives.
Coming soon: automatically checking your Twitter account to make sure you won’t trigger anyone’s safe space.
Personally, the Det Cord Is My Favorite Part
[Massive Explosive Chain Reaction at 200,000fps – The Slow Mo Guys] (Viewer #1,767,633)
I actually sat through all of it, but you can skip around to the explody bits if you want
Link of the Day: Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children or at Least the People Who Act Like Children?
[High Praise! to ScrappleFace]
Charlottesville Rally Bust Made White Man Feel Blue
[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: What Languages Do You Know How to Speak?
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.
What languages do you know how to speak?
English, Sesame Street Spanish, and Jive
Burt Reynolds Is Still Alive. Let’s Make This Sucker!
Straight Line of the Day: The One Thing Venezuela Hasn’t Run Out of Yet…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
The one thing Venezuela hasn’t run out of yet…
The Illustrated Frank J: Personally, I’m None of the Above
Puppet Show and Joe Biden
Former Vice President Joe Biden wasn’t allowed to campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker because he was “under doctor’s orders not to travel“.
Quite a relief for the Dems, since he’s always violating his orders not to gaffe.