23 posts tagged “thisisajoke”

From the eternal Friday of my Scotch tape mind...

(CBS/AP) President-elect Barack Obama warned of dire and lasting consequences if Congress doesn't pump unprecedented dollars into the national economy, making an urgent pitch Thursday for his mammoth spending proposal in his first speech since his election.

"In short, a bad situation could become dramatically worse" if Washington doesn't go far enough to address the spreading crisis, Mr. Obama said as fresh economic reports showed an outlook growing increasingly grim...

(view full article here)

Hell, if they can go on & on about maverick this and maverick that (it was funny, actually -- Jezebel's drinking game totally backfired), then I can darn well re-use the OM NOM NOM gag.

Y'know, I'm feeling snackish myself; think I'll head on over to the 24-7 and pick me up a box of Credit Crunch.

[doubletake]

Sorry, um, what's that in the video bar at the bottom, there?...

Greedy bastard.  And him not even elected yet.

...says Russia.

(from the Associated Press via Yahoo News)

This isn't really an IM chat, but what the hey.  They're bits of a conversation I'm having under this Cute Overload post of fruit bats, which is Other Mike's nod to the massive weekend opening of The Dark Knight.  I liked it, by the way -- the movie and the post both.  ANYWAY.  On to the chattiness.

PJ: Everyone know that Batman's success is due in large part to Alfred's blankie and bottle regimen. (One study suggests that it has a 94.3% success rate in fostering cape fetishes in super-heroes.)  %>}
Theo: NNNO CAPES!  [ - Ed.na]
Hon Glad: Your comments are becoming so gnomic, you're going to disappear up your own fundament.
Theo: OK, I looked up "gnomic", and, well, I still don't get it.
Hon Glad: If you look at Oxford, it is defined as: 1 Short pithy aphorisms or maxims  2 Enigmatic or ambiguous. i.e. nothing to do with little men with pointy ears.
Theo: ah, I see. Oxford English != Wikipedia.  I was quoting Edna Mode, from "The Incredibles". If you've never seen it, then for the love of all that's right and good in the world, rent that DVD. IT IS TOTALLY WICKED.
BerthaServant: Teho, you know Edna Mode is Edith Head, right?
Theo: ZOMG, it's a meta-homage!  (I have no idea how to pronounce that, btw)
BerthaServant: I once ordered a meta-homage in a Parisian cafe and got a slice of moldy cheese melted on a red brick. (Tasted like chicken).
Theo: Yep, even the BRICKS taste good in Paris. (with a delicate Nouveau mortar)
LurkerType: All I can say, is, given the species, they'd better name one "Eric".  And given the locale, the rest can be "Bruce". (which makes a double homage, and there we are again.)

[14:00] Teho: [snicker] http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/07/cute-icles.html#comment-120903168
[14:01] Teho: Camera's charged, right?
[14:01] Schmoop: LOL
[14:01] Schmoop: well, i used it a little since then, but....um..........do you *have* a hat for your ass?
[14:01] Teho: we have hats.
[14:01] Teho: we have ass.
[14:01] Teho: in the immortal words of the Reese's company...
[14:02] Teho:
[14:02] Schmoop: ..."You got ass in my hat"??
[14:02] Teho: LOL !
[14:02] Teho: no.
[14:02] Teho: ROFL
[14:02] Teho: hell, mine's just not as funny.
[14:03] Teho: I was thinking Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together.
[14:03] Teho: [lafftears]
[14:04] Schmoop:

I bet you thought this was going to be another political rant, didn't you?  Fess up!

Well, it's not.  (CBS/AP)
No harm no foul, though.

Found this article just now at CBS News online, as is.  As Dave Barry says, I am not making this up.  I'm guessing CBS will correct it soon, so here's a screen grab...