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Archives for May 2009

Twitter Classics

by Jane Wangersky May 29th, 2009 | Humor
“Twitterature” is the art of summing up a well-known book in 140 letters or less – short enough to post on Twitter. This article gives some examples, like Hamlet:
“ Danish guy’s mum marries his murdered father’s brother. He sees his dad’s ghost. Everyone dies. Fail.”

And even the Bible:
“ I sent carpenter son, you killed him, but he’ll be back. I’ve got 2 billion followers.”

Here’s my Twitterature version of Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior:
“Put rude people in their place politely. Use the fork on the outside. Most importantly: NO WHITE SHOES TILL MEMORIAL DAY.”
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Who Knew the Supreme Court Could Be Funny?

by Michele May 28th, 2009 | Humor, Late Night TV
Well, maybe the Supreme Court isn't funny, but Jay Leno sure knows how to get a chuckle out of appointments.
Well, the big story is the Supreme Court. President Obama has found his nominee. She is a Federal appeals judge. Sonia Sotomayor, I think her name is. A Latino woman, how about that? So, you know what that means. Ruth Bader Ginsburg no longer the hot chick on the court.

Actually, the Republicans were a little disappointed. When they heard Obama said he might appoint a minority, they went, “Oh, great, a Republican!”
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Unregistered, but Not Unlabeled

by Jane Wangersky May 27th, 2009 | Humor
You’ve got to wonder if the man arrested recently on charges of “attempted arson of a federal facility and possession of an unregistered destructive device” really wanted to get away with it or not.

Not only did he let a surveillance camera catch him walking up to the Federal Courthouse in Sacramento one night with a paper bag, but also running away without it – and the homemade explosive that the guards found was made out of a beer keg with the man’s last name “written in bold black ink on the side”.
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Telescope Trouble

by Michele May 26th, 2009 | Humor, Late Night TV
The Hubble space telescope recently underwent some repairs.  David Letterman summed it up as such:
I don’t know if you folks have been following this, but you know at NASA how they’ve got the shuttle and periodically they take it up into space. They got a call from the Hubble space telescope people, who said, 'The thing is busted. Can you send a crew up there?' So they go up there, and it’s all fixed. The Hubble space telescope is fixed. And now, when they finished up, they put a sticker on the telescope that says, 'Objects may be closer than
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More Crummy Hotels

by Jane Wangersky May 25th, 2009 | Humor
TripAdvisor.com has hotel horror stories for every taste:

The Witty Put-Down: "Oceanview is like saying the room faces Europe -- it is out there somewhere."

The Furious Rant: "The place is not a hotel, it’s just a very unplanned house and they just improvised everything! I asked for extra pillows, they didn't have any.

"I asked for extra towels, they didn't have any.

"I asked for water for God's sake!!! And they didn’t have drinking water!!!!"

The Plain Facts, Which are Bad Enough: "After one night the roof of the building flew off. The rain was pouring into my room and the entire
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