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Is It Warm Yet?

Just saw a beer commercial – Coors, I think – that said their product “starts out cold and ends up refreshing.”

So their beer is never cold and refreshing at the same time? I wouldn’t have thought it was a good idea to admit that.


A Way With Words

crystal skull So it looks like the fourth Indiana Jones movie isn’t going to be called Indiana Jones and the City of Gods after all.

Instead it’s going to be called Indiana Jones and the Kingdom Wherein Is to Be Found a Skull Composed Entirely of Crystal – or, well, something like that.


Hwæt the Heck?

Amazon’s description of Christian Wolff’s Real Happiness of a People Under a Philosophical King reads as follows:

1750. This work is demonstrated not only from the nature of things, but from the undoubted experience of the Chinese under their first Founder Fohi, and his illustrious successors, Hoam Ti and Xin Num. Added to this dissertation by way of notes from the other philosophical works of Mr. Wolff, the principles and definition he refers to in this dissertation. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English.

Old EnglishOld English? In 1750?

In related news, Miss Teen South Carolina’s geographical concept-poem is enigmatic.


Super Amazing!

Super-Skrull Amazo is an evil android with all the powers of the Justice League of America. The Super-Skrull is an evil alien with all the powers of the Fantastic Four. The Super-Adaptoid is an evil android with all the powers of the Avengers.

The moral? With great power comes great dorkiness of name.


Harry Popper

Did Olbermann just say that the idea of Harry Potter “literally popped into her [J. K. Rowling’s] head”? Sounds painful.

Or maybe he was using the term “literally” non-literally.


2 Sexy 4 Primetime?

Tonight on Countdown the talking heads were blah-blahing endlessly about how inappropriate it was, at the press conference where Senator Vitter was apologising for patronising prostitutes, for Vitter’s wife to be wearing a “tight, sexy dress” The Vitters with a “plunging neckline” that made her look “like a prostitute herself.” And judging from a quick websearch it looks like others are expressing similar sentiments.

Huh? What on earth are they talking about? I’ve seen the clip over and over ad nauseam, and to me the dress looks perfectly ordinary, even somewhat conservative. (Here it is, on the right.) What am I missing?


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