The Good News:
Google’s answer to Yahoo Messenger and MS Messenger, Google Talk is out.
The Bad News:
You have to have a Gmail account to use it.
The Good News:
Those are publicly and freely available now.
The Bad News
They are only publicly and freely available for mobile phones.
The Good News:
I’ll give you an invitation to Gmail FREE, just for the asking. Comment if you want one.
The Bad News:
The Google Talk installer uninstalls the rather nifty gmail notifier program.
The Good News:
It replaces it with an even niftier notifier integrated into Google Talk.
The Bad News:
I’ve only got 45 gmail invitations to give away.
The Good News:
Google Talk has voice chat.
The Bad News:
You can only have voice chat with one person at a time on Google Talk.
The Good News:
Google Talk doesn’t have real time, as-you-type context sensitive ads.
The Bad News:
Google Talk probably WILL have them. Soon.
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Carnival Of Comedy #17: NOW With More JIMMYB!
“First!” JimmyB of The Conservative UAW Guy is gunning for extreme Comedy Carnival excellence this week with the 17th Carnival of Comedy.
It’s his First! time hosting the carnival and its a really good First! Attempt. Good job Jimmyb.
First!
Carnival of Comedy Reminder
Hey there pajamahedeen! The Carnival of Comedy is coming up Thursday, Aug 25th! Spooooon! Fooooork!
JimmyB everyones favor conservative UAW guy will be hosting the carnival at,um The Conservative UAW Guy for Week 17 on Aug. 25. It will be JummyB’s First! time hosting the carnival so please, be gentle.
Submissions:
Do you have a funny essay, fake interview or animal leavings for that matter any sort of funny (smelling or otherwise) anything, there’s still lots of time to ride the magic funny bus.
Carnival Scheduled Stops:
Week 18 – Sep. 1 – Doc Rampage Don;t let the ‘rampage’ stuff fool you, Doc’s heart is as big as the mondo graphic dominating his blog.
Week 19 – Sep. 8 – Rapid Politics Rapid sounds good to me, this intralectoral time period is making me antsy.
Week 20 – Sep. 15 – Either, Orr Neither, nor, have, has, had, do. did. done,
Week 21 – Sep. 22 – Instapundit
Week 22 – Sep. 29 – Nobody yet
Want to host?
Send your mindless yammering re: hosting the Carnival of Comedy to flyingspacemonkey-at-gmail-dot-com. (substitute the appropriate nonsense, y’know the ‘at’ and the ‘dot’)
Still have questions?
Info about joining the Carnival of Comedy is here.
PS: Not a single woman has hosted the carnival yet. Just saying.
Iraq Not Really Vietnam
No matter what Congressmoop Hagel bagel navel says, Iraq does NOT look the least little bit like Vietnam.
For crying out loud, John Kerry didn’t even SERVE there (BTW).
“Hanoi Jane” Fonda hasn’t manned an AAA position on a goodwill tour to the insurgents in Iraq to my knowledge.
Iraq is really dry and hot whereas Vietnam was/is WET and hot.
And there are dozens, nay, scores of other perfectly reasonable reasons why they aren’t the same.
UPDATE: Fewer letters in Iraq than Vietnam also, precisely 3, countem three fewer.
The Face Of Grief
Warning: below the fold are images of extreme grief of an emotional nature.
It’s a Gas Gas Gas.
With the price of gasolne higher than your average liberal’s opinion of himself, I have deemed today as good a time as any to drag out and rewrite an old relevant post. I (re)present the:
Top Ten (revised) things that can help stretch your gasoline budget.
10) Learn astral projection. It’s just like being there with out all the actually being there.
9) Take a lesson from NASCAR and draft as much as possible. (No, Rep. Rangel, not that draft)
8) Be uphill from everywhere you want to go. So you can just coast.
7) Three things: Siphon hose, gas can, and cover of night. You do the math.
7b) Recommended 4th thing – breath mints.
6) Apply for and get job as Ted Kennedy’s (designated) driver, run errands while he’s passed out.
5) Always drive the speed limit. Speeding not only burns more gas, it can seriously get your Commie Italian rear end shot at/up.
4) Instead of the fine gasoline you normally use, fill up with dark, rich, sparkling Folger’s crystals and see if your car can tell the difference.
3) Get from place to place using roller blades and a water ski tow rope. Have your geeky brother tow you into town behind his minibike.
2) Get the eco-friendly utopia converter kit that the hippies use so your car will run on moonbeams, butterfly kisses, and B. O. (that’s right, now you know)
And the number one thing that can help stretch your gasoline budget….
Carnival Of Comedy: Sweet 16 at .5
Missing your monkey/badger/cowbell fix for the week? Sweet tooth bothering you? Need a good hearty laugh?
Then you need to RUN, not walk nor trot nor trapse nor saunter, RUN, well technically, CLICK to see the new Carnival of Comedy baked up fresh over at the Point Five Blog.
Evil Emperor Mindstation shows that hosting the Carnival of Comedy isn’t hard. It’s a piece of cake.
News Update: Diddy Dropping P For Less Fortunate
Rapper Sean Combs, previously known as Puff Daddy and more recently P Diddy is dropping the ‘P’. Combs, 35, contends that this name change is not merely an effort to get his face back in the public eye to promote his music career, clothing line, various restaurants and television ventures. He says: “I’m not just about about making money. I’m dropping the P to help the less fortunate. For the renally challenged, to help them check their blood or whatever. You know.”
A press release issued by Bad Boy Records reveals the dropped P is intended to be used to power medical devices containing a special battery recently developed to run on human ‘p’.
Could yet another name change could be in the future for Diddy? Perhaps so, says the artist, “If they make something that runs on diddy, then I’ll probably drop that too.”
Super Fantastic Carnival Reminder
Hey sportsfans! The Carnival of Comedy is coming up Thursday, Aug 18th! Awwwwwww freak out!
A4g will be hosting the carnival at Point Five for Week 16 on Aug. 18. Will joy return to mudville? Can the ROF be put back in the ROFL?
Submissions:
If you have a semi, quazi funny post or for that matter any sort of funny anything, there’s still lots of time to show us the funny!
Carnival Schedule:
Week 17 – Aug. 25 – The Conservative UAW Guy
Week 18 – Sep. 1 – Doc Rampage
Week 19 – Sep. 8 – Rapid Politics
Week 20 – Sep. 15 – Either, Orr
Want to host? Want to Prove Mithras has
Send your feeble pleas regarding hosting the Carnival of Comedy to flyingspacemonkey-at-gmail-dot-com. (substitute the appropriate nonsense, y’know the ‘at’ and the ‘dot’)
Still have questions?
Info about joining the Carnival of Comedy is here and its in English: official language of most world superpowers for the last four hundred years.
We’re RICH!
Carnival Of Comedy Is In An Elevated State Compared To Other Previous Conditions.
Even though there are no few funny conservatives, the 15th Carnival of Comedy is up (yes, that’s what the title meant) at
Conservathink.
You, Go, Now!
Game Over, Man
Whoever said “video games won’t kill you”, apparently lied.
Carnival Of Comedy Reminder
Don’t forget, the Carnival of Comedy is coming up Thursday, Aug 11th! YAY!!!
Damian G. will be hosting the carnival at Conservathink for Week 15 on Aug. 11. This is his first time hosting. Will he fly like an eagle or will he go down in flames? Will he find a photo of a badger, monkey and a cowbell in time? Tune in this Thursday to find out!
Submissions:
If you have a good, funny post or for that matter any other funny something, there’s still lots of time to get your attempt at funny on!
Carnival Schedule:
Week 16 – Aug. 18 – Point Five
Week 17 – Aug. 25 – The Conservative UAW Guy
Week 18 – Sep. 1 – ?? If you’re scared say you’re scared.
Week 19 – Sep. 8 – ?? OK, I’m just going to assign it somebody.
Week 20 – Sep. 15 – ?? Fine, I’m making Scrappleface do this one unless…
Want to host? Want to keep Scott Ott from hosting
Send your demands for ransom and transportation regarding hosting the Carnival of Comedy to flyingspacemonkey-at-gmail-dot-com. (substitute the appropriate nonsense, y’know the ‘at’ and the ‘dot’)
Still have questions?
Info about joining the Carnival of Comedy is here and you can read it as slow as you need to.
Joke Time!
Funny is in the Birth Defect of the Beholder
Frank beat me to this but…
Mithras a blogger, who is, and I mean this with the strictest inter-blogger professional courtesy, an ignorant moonbat nutjob of I’m sure, the most delightful sort, also possibly an extremely large radioactive moth [ed note, nope that was Mothra], asks Where Are All The Funny Conservative Bloggers?
Then he (she? no offense, dunno, don’t read him/her) lists a few:
* IMAO.US (good call),
* Scrappleface (I’ll link him, even though he gets plenty ‘o traffic already) and
* Lileks (ditto, I’ll link them in the off chance they link back)
Outside of them, it’s all self-righteousness and persecution complex, all the time. And outside of the three listed above, when a conservative blogger does employ humor, I find that usually it’s in retelling a joke they read somewhere else.
First of all thanks for including us on your extremely short list of funny conservative blogs. Really thanks, glad to know we don’t use words that are too big for some of y’all.
Mithras also wonders:
Is there just some birth defect that prevents right-wingers from being funny?
But instead of assuming we, conservative as a lot have some sort of birth defect that doesn’t allow us to make, as we in the funny business call ‘teh funny.’ perhaps you should take the long view. When liberals are in thier natual habitat at a protest, painted pink and green head to toe, running rampant, howling at the moon, at the OUTRAGEous things the conservatives are saying, THAT’s what we are laughing at. And we laugh our rear ends off at you. Figuratively.
Mithras also asserts
The key to successful humor, after all, is to be able to see things from other people’s perspectives – a liberal trait that conservatives deride variously as “relativism” or “objectively pro-terrorist”.
What about our perspectives? Can you see our worldview? Perhaps liberals should try to use that ‘see things from other, whatevers” ability and try looking at humor, which arguably is not a thing, from another POV namely ours. When conservatives make fun of liberals, conservatives laugh and laugh and laugh, while the liberals, best case, don’t get the joke, worst case, call the ACLU to set up legal proceedings for a civil rights abuse case.
I will look at humor from a liberal point of view.
When liberals make fun of conservatives, liberals laugh and laugh and laugh thinking “BUSH LIED!! PLASTIC TURKEY!!” blissfully ignorant of the fact they are in fact a bunch of unfunny, treasonous freaking sillysallys, while the conservatives are frankly too busy happily researching new and more efficient ways to destroy the environment for any such futile impotent flailings emanating from the left to make a blip on their radar.
See? It all becomes painfully clear when you simply broaden your mind and look through the eyes of your intellectual superiors. Us.
Where are all the funny conservative bloggers? Somewhere, laughing at you, just not with you.
Heh.
Disclaimer: I know I didn’t list any conservative humor blogs, pointing them out to liberals would have been as futile as the list of lefty ‘humor’ blogs was to us. Also, I know, I use commas, too much. I’m getting help.,