The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

Have you been near gamma radiation or vampires or werewolfs lately?

[Eddie Teach]

All 3.

[The Brain]

Grats on your new powers.

[Grey Fox]

It's strange, something happened in my ear a couple hours ago and now everything seems really loud. Shutting doors, running water, even typing.

Some Wax got dislodge & now you can actually hear what's happenning.

[Razgovory]

I found an anime I like.  Well sort of.   When I was a youngster I remembered loving a cartoon show that came on Nickelodeon in the late 1980's about fairy tales.  I looked it up and found that it was animated in Japan (though they don't use the stereotyped anime styles, you can still see some of influence).  It has no magic school girls or angsty androgynous male heroes that I despise about anime, but it is kinda neat.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sx9pun305Q&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL4ED92F7FA5335B47

[fhdz]

Is it like Darth's head, or just a mug with Darth's picture on it?

It's Darth's entire motherfucking head.

Sweet.

[CountDeMoney]

Is it like Darth's head, or just a mug with Darth's picture on it?

It's Darth's entire motherfucking head.

Sweet.

He looks great next to all my Tarkin HeroClix figures.  I call them The Board.

[MadImmortalMan]

I just found out the local talk radio station shitcanned their main local host, who is a complete dickbag. Happened a couple weeks ago. The world is now a better place. 

[garbon]

WoW has a Chuck Norris commercial?

[Grey Fox]

WoW has a Chuck Norris commercial?

No, Chuck Norris has a WoW commercial.

[Tonitrus]

He looks to be in pretty damned good shape for being 71.

[garbon]

WoW has a Chuck Norris commercial?

No, Chuck Norris has a WoW commercial.

Seeing the commercial was funny as we were just explaining today about Chuck Norris to a colleague that had never heard of him.

[Sheilbh]

The joy of Congressional acronyms:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/11/legislative-titles

Why do they do this?  Also I didn't know that the PATRIOT Act only wanted to 'Obstruct' not 'Stop' terrorism

I particularly like the anti-Obamacare REPEAL (Revoke Excessive Policies that Encroach on American Liberties) Act and the, probably 1990s, FRIENDSHIP Act (For Reform In Emerging New Democracies and Support and Help for Improved Partnership with Russia, Ukraine, and Other New Independent States).

[Sheilbh]

At the risk of souding old and curmudgeonly there are times when I just don't understand this country:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/02/jeremy-clarkson-one-show-rant-complaints


I agreed with Dara O'Brien's comment that Brits should lokse the right to claim Americans don't get irony if we insist on bleeding all non-literal speech out of our discourse.

[fhdz]

The joy of Congressional acronyms:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/11/legislative-titles

Why do they do this?  Also I didn't know that the PATRIOT Act only wanted to 'Obstruct' not 'Stop' terrorism

I particularly like the anti-Obamacare REPEAL (Revoke Excessive Policies that Encroach on American Liberties) Act and the, probably 1990s, FRIENDSHIP Act (For Reform In Emerging New Democracies and Support and Help for Improved Partnership with Russia, Ukraine, and Other New Independent States).

I wonder how much it costs taxpayers in gov't worker staff time to come up with and vote on these acronyms?