September 2009
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10 year old attempts to sell grandmother on ebay →
mallisser:
She was getting over £2,000 for her before eBay shut it down - can’t sell humans on the internet.
Well, not on eBay, anyway.
who’s paying £2,000 for a used grandmother?
ATMs: Two things
josh:
Why don’t ATM cards remember anything about me? Like, for example, my preference for the English language? It’s such a stupid step to have to select my language every time.
Why don’t ATM cards let you pick a second PIN to use in an emergency? It would still let you withdraw money, but also call the police and tell them where you are. If someone holds you up, they wouldn’t know you used...
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Brain Scan Reveals what You’ve Seen
only 31 years until my dream-recorder is here!
Alcohol may Protect the Brain during an Accident
so … if you’re not drunk … you’re probably not gonna get in an accident; but … if you do get an accident, it’s better if you’re drunk? (from a health standpoint at least, if not a legal one)
what’s the overall message supposed to be in this article? if you get in a car crash, start hitting the...
Roman Polanski finally gets pinched. →
Swiss arrest Roman Polanski on US request in sex case
bryanwashere:
After 31 years, Roman finally screwed up.
Swiss remain neutral, my ass.
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Homework!
yourpalmal:
“Oh, and before you leave I have one more assignment,” I said to the class.
Naturally, this news was met with audible disgust from my students.
“The assignment…is to have a great weekend!” I said, smiling now as the groans quickly transformed into a wave of cheers. “Now get out of here!”
For the most part, all of my students did particularly well on that assigment and were...
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Watchyourpalmal:
alexblagg:
spiegelman:
Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent.
On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the...
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if there are any women out there who would (or have been known to) describe themselves as a young Shohreh Aghdashloo … we should go out for a drink.
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the...”
– Aldous Huxley (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover) (via herland)
… so that’s why.
anyone know the couple that got married under the Brooklyn Bridge last night (6/18/09, around 6pm-ish)?
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david:
When I wake up at night in a bad mood, I like to throw all my neighbor’s recycling down the trash shoot.
apparently I’m the only person on Tumblr who does NOT like this.
(save the planet!)
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Aretha Franklin ~ Don’t Play That Song (You...
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