Category Archives: Humor

Business, Culinary, Health, Humor, Media Criticism, Popular Culture, Social Commentary

V8

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So, it wasn’t just me:

I found the stuff revolting, because it was like drinking cold tomato soup.

…It had great brand awareness when I was growing up, thanks to the constant barrage of ads featuring people who had, for some reason, forgotten to avail themselves of a V8, and remonstrated themselves by slamming their palms into their foreheads.

Not even this made me want some.

Me, neither.

History, Humor, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

Happy New Year

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And good riddance to 2013. Let’s hope that it won’t have turned out to be an average year — worse than the one before, better than the coming one.

One good thing about it, though. It’s the year that defiance of the State became cool.

[Update a while later, watching a rerun of the Rose Parade]

That was the year that was — Dave Barry summarizes the suckitude of the past twelve months. We laugh so we don’t cry.

Humor, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society

Stuck In The Non-Existent Ice

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As I noted on Twitter yesterday, you’d have to have a heart of stone to not laugh out loud at this.

Also:

As a commenter there notes, irony, like revenge, is a dish best served cold. Very cold.