The Off Topic Topic

[garbon]

I've got a Gmail doppelganger whose first name is the same and whose last name is one character off from mine, mine being the more common version.  Weirdly, we were both in Knoxville at the same time, he as a lecturer at the Univ of Tenn and me as a public defender intern; so when I first got mail for him relating to Knoxville things I didn't even catch that it wasn't for me. 

But then I got emails from random students submitting things or asking questions, so I found him online and, with apologies for it being weird, starting forwarding him the emails that I guessed were intended for him, which I've continued to get off-and-on for a few years now.  He was grateful.  Eventually he got one intended for me from Blue Cross Blue Shield about my coverage, and forwarded it my way.

A little while back, I got an email asking my help for proofreading an English document in a Balkan country, mentioning my credentials as an academic and native English speaker, and offering to pay me a fairly small sum.  I had to think it was some kind of scam, but it was truly a weird one.  I looked up the organization and the sender and it all seemed legit.  So eventually I thought maybe it's for him, and forwarded it along.  He told me that, yeah, he'd moved to Bosnia, and sorry for the emails I was getting.

So we've actually come to know each other eerily well in this strange way...

Much less odd by at my last company (that had hundreds of various divisions around the globe), there was another guy with my exact same name out of Australia. He and I bonded over exchanging emails back and forth for each other.

[The Brain]

Time for a soul, mate?

[jimmy olsen]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/dorieanstevenson/15-highly-questionable-pieces-of-vintage-dating-advice

I like this old dating advice that Buzzfeed pulled.

Nice

I liked this one.
http://questionableadvice.tumblr.com/

[garbon]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/conservative-acquaintance-annoyingly-not-racist,35236/

Conservative Acquaintance Annoyingly Not Racist

Acknowledging that the man's right-wing views are more nuanced than one might expect, 36-year-old liberal Diana Hardwick confided to reporters Tuesday that her conservative acquaintance Brady Daniels is, quite frustratingly, not racist. "We got to talking about immigration, and I really wanted him to undermine his argument for stricter border controls by saying something disparaging of Latinos, but apparently his opinions are based entirely on national security issues instead of race—which is super irritating," Hardwick said of Daniels, who reportedly describes himself as a "strong conservative" on fiscal issues but, annoyingly, exhibits no racial biases. "It would be so much easier if I could just write him off as a bigot, but as far as I can tell he harbors no resentment or disdain toward people of color. For God's sake, we argued every issue from states' rights to income disparity but nope, he didn't say anything even tacitly racist. Not once." Hardwick later concluded that her acquaintance's opposition to most of President Obama's policies meant he was probably "close enough" to count as a racist.

[Ideologue]

 

Fiscal conservatism is the new racism.

[Ed Anger]

Fiscal conservatism is the new racism.

Flat tax!

[DGuller]

[Ed Anger]

Gold standard!

[Ed Anger]

Eliminate Capital Gains! No death tax!

[Caliga]

  What's up with all the doppelgangers in Knoxville?

[Eddie Teach]

Probably Mexicans needing a social security number.

[sbr]

If Star Wars Existed in a 1980's High School

Luke and Leia



Nerd Droids



Coach Yoda and Professor Kenobi

[Ed Anger]

Not enough Chess King.

[Ed Anger]

Oh shit, a skunk spraying in winter.   

Right outside my bedroom too. 

I hope the fucker freezes to death and I come across its skeleton in the spring. Fucking polecats.

[PRC]

The fashion, hairstyles and artwork is way too late 90's / early 2000's to be called an 80's version of Star Wars High.