December 2008
24 posts
Things I Have Explained to My Mother Over Break
1) LOLCats.
My mother had “heard of them.” After explaining the history of the internet meme, we then spent a half hour on the blog as my mother giggled incoherently.
2) Rick-rolling
She stumbled across this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiQCJXpbKg and we had to then explain the entire history of rick-rolling (which she had not heard of!) in order for her to understand exactly...
Chris Bishop . Obama Shirt →
I WANT THIS SO BAD.
Critic’s Notebook - The Polaroid - Imperfect, Yet... →
RIP Polaroids— This is why they couldn’t take our picture at Slim Goodies over the summer. And what will the hipsters do for ironic fun now?
Ten Sephirot, Nine and a Half Fingers, Eight... →
xkcd was joking in their latest cartoon but they should have known better. Someone wrote erotic fanfic about Barack Obama and Rahm Emmanuel.
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And it’s very funny. We live in an odd world.
Sarah Palin Calendar 2009 ... Judy Patrick... →
oh my gawd. PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO BUY THIS!
I officially apologize to everyone I gave crap to about their big screen/hi-def TVs. Watching sports on one really is the best thing ever. It’s like little mini-men are playing football in the snow, IN MY LIVING ROOM!
It’s AWESOME.
The Straight Dope: 2, 4, 8, 16 ... how can you... →
“Some geneticists believe that everybody on earth is at least 50th cousin to everybody else.”
Because keeping track of my 50 second cousins wasn’t enough… now I have to worry about all of you?
Or Maudes...
Me: Well, I just don't feel like going to Paris again...
Erin: Listen to her! "I just don't feel like going to Paris."
Me: ...And most of the other programs to more interesting places don't work for me time-wise. Like Ghana-
Erin: I would just LOVE to see you in Ghana.
Hailey: Oh my god, yeah. I can't even imagine.
Me: Why would this be so funny?
Hailey: Because traveling in third-world countries requires having a certain trait called "compassion" and you don't have a SOUL.
Me: Sure I do!
Erin: No, Hailey, maybe it's better that she doesn't have a soul! She won't feel bad about all the poor people!
Me: Sure I would! I just wouldn't feel like *crying* about it!
Hailey: NO SOUL.
All the Best Conversations in my Life Have Taken...
Hailey: Well he seemed kind of gay.
Nicky: OK, what do you mean by that?
Hailey: What do you mean?
Nick: Do you mean that he was interested in forming meaningful, sexual relationships with other people who identify as the same gender?
Hailey: Well--
Nick: Because otherwise you should use "effeminate."
Hailey: Look, I'm sorry Nick, but no I did not assess how he felt about having sex with other men.
Nick: That's all I'm saying.
'How I Met Your Mother' Cast In 'The Best of 2008' →
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS, MARRY ME NOW.
A Gainesville Christmas Break Driving Miracle: Last night in a burst of awesome I drove all the way from Erin’s house to my house without having to stop at a single light. This has not ever happened in the two-and-a-half years that she has lived out on her farm. Of course it was nearly midnight, so like half of the thirteen lights had switched to blinking yellow but STILL. It was so...
Civic Literacy Test →
Ooo, ooh! I took the test too! 32/33. But it was hard. There was some stuff on there that was definitely more “intro econ” in my head than “civics.” But then again being an IB dork meant that I didn’t have to take Civics (or Life Management Skills or Econ or PE… this explains a lot about me doesn’t it?).
In any case, I guess I get to stay.
...
I spent a half-hour thinking about this in the car...
I can’t decide if it’s better driving from Gainesville to Durham, when you get 301 out of the way right at the beginning
or
from Durham to Gainesville, when the mile numbers countdown and you know exactly how many miles are left in the godforesaken state of South Carolina.
In the end I decided that it was just for the best that I drive south rather than north because otherwise 301...
Womb Raiders: Orgasmic Childbirth Story Prompts... →
This would be fairly high on the list of things you DON’T want to be reading when President Brodhead comes up to randomly ask what you are studying.
No joke.
A Fun Game for Finals Week
I am not so totally Duke Centric as to think that Finals Week here is any different than it is at most schools, particularly super-hyper-active “peer institutions” (except for the part where our “reading period” is a 12-hour joke unlike the actual reading WEEKS that other schools have) (except again, who are we kidding? If Duke had a reading week, we would spend five days...
“What is this, first grade?
No. This is way more mature than that. This is...”
About the Diaries/Submit Your Diary « My Sweet... →
my new nostalgia/lol blog. makes me want to go find all my intermitent emo diary entries from elementary/middle school.
From a night full of bizarre interactions...
Guy: Hey, wanna go make out on the dance floor?
Girl: Sure.
Guy: Who's your actual date?
Girl: This guy. (pointing)
Guy: Oh. Well, I can't steal you from your date.
Girl: OK. Wanna just make out at the next party?
Guy: ... That sounds good. Later.
Girl: Bye!