Feb
8
2011
…from @loresjoberg
"I got 01100011 problems but a bit ain't one."
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Feb
7
2011
- Wisdom of decision to NOT watch StuporBowl confirmed by the firehose of entertaining snark about the BlueEyedPoos' halftime show. #
- Trivia Time via @badbanana "The G on the helmet stands for Gouda. #superbowl " But that would make the 'cheesehead' hats the wrong shape. #
- Looks like the most memorable thing on a StuporBowl ad this year is… "Cram it in the boot". #
- …or maybe "Cram it in the Groupon"? #
- okay, time to Pack It In The Steele,,, #
- It's final, Packers beat Steelers, Groupon beats Godaddy and Glee beats BlackEyedPeas… goodnight everybunny! #
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Feb
6
2011
- Put 'Civil' in front of another word = instant oxymoron. War, Servant, Engineer, Disobedience… #
- famous droid-guy @ADaniels3PO is currently tweeting a series of fish-based puns. Just for the halibut. Really, swear to Cod! #
- best bad influence of the day: @GeorgeTakei "Dear TSA agent: If you touch my junk, I'm going in with tongue." #
- Celebrity Cause: @johncusack proposes a "Weirdos Union". What did Groucho say about clubs that would accept him as a member? #
- You ask why the star of "Two and a Half Men" would go on a self-destructive binge? He's the star of "Two and a Half Men"! Isn't that enough? #
- quotable @ApocalypseHow "In the future we will all be famous for 15 minutes, and in rehab for 35." #
- tonite's SyFy Movie: "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid" So it's a programming language fighting a sports drink? #
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Jan
26
2011
If you consider Time Lords named after academic degrees… The Doctor… The Master… and, of course, The Bachelor. (do it, Moffat!)
NY’er cartoon for @Fake_Rockstar Dog at computer: “After Facebook’s last privacy breach, now EVERYBODY knows I’m a dog” #youhadtobethere
follow up to @Southworth They can kill you AND they can eat you, but they can’t digest you. Don’t ask how I know that.
As a CBS executive said when he tried (unsuccessfully) to change the title of “$#*! My Dad Says”, “The Pun is mightier than the S-word”.
“MC MLXX”? @loresjoberg Genius! (from MC MLV). The best I could come up with was “MC IPhone” (not what you think)
@kottke I, for one, don’t appreciate when my “Everything Bagel” includes the kitchen sink…
@kottke It was Steven Wright who concisely said “You can’t have everything, where would you put it?” Well, on a bagel, duh!
@kottke The people who think an “everything bagel” should have EVERYTHING are also disappointed when All Detergent doesn’t clean it ALL.
@dabitch Yeah, well my Oedipus Complex can beat up your dad… or something like that.
Jan
23
2011
Today, morbidly obese me wrote an obit of Jack LaLanne for MetaFilter.
“Feel better, look better and live longer” (video) was the credo of "Nutritionist, Author, Lecturer and Physical Culture Expert on Your Figure and Beauty", Jack LaLanne, who despite everything, passed away today of pneumonia at the age of 96, less than a week after the Slate "Fitness Issue" compared him to other "fitness gurus".
Best known to the ‘kids’ as the guy selling the Power Juicer, he did a usually-daily TV show for a record-setting 34 years (1951-1985), leading a mostly-female audience in a workout wearing his trademark blue jumpsuit and ballet slippers. But he also invented the Smith Machine (negative review) and other commonly used pieces of exercise equipment, and ran a chain of over 200 "health spas" with his name on it before selling out to Bally Total Fitness. With a legendary life story (starting as a less-than-98-pound weakling), he was a devoted vegetarian and enemy of white sugar and white flour, and unafraid to be controversial, as one of the first to promote weight training for women.
Every year, on his birthday, he’d go for a little swim.
Outside Magazine said he was "Still an Animal" in 1995.
Jack LaLanne’s 10 Point Self-Improvement Plan
His website JackLaLanne.com is almost as well-developed as he was (front page features a video of him explaining how fitness is patriotic)