Monthly Archives: December 2007

Happy New Year, Verizon Style

December 31, 2007 – 7:37 am

This year, you can send text messages or pictures which will be shown on the Jumbotron in Times Square. The text-o-thon is sponsored by Verizon Wireless. Here’s how to play:
Verizon Wireless is giving you the chance to make your thoughts heard — er, read — on New Year’s Eve via a Jumbotron in New [...]

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Another Gratuitous Test Post

December 30, 2007 – 2:02 pm

ecto has been giving me a little grief lately; this is posted using MarsEdit, in hopes that I can ferret out where the problem lies.
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Latest, Greatest

December 30, 2007 – 1:29 pm

A successful upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.2 just happened here at tbbs WorldHQ. Smooth, uneventful. Now, back to regularly scheduled drollery.
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Punchlines #21

December 25, 2007 – 12:23 pm

Combination Christmas/Out of the mouths of babes edition:
“That’s Round John Virgin.”
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Where Else but in Los Angeles?

December 25, 2007 – 9:33 am

Santa in G-String Arrested on DUI Charge
In the Christmas oddities department, from La-La-Land:
A man in a Santa hat was arrested Sunday night for investigation of drunken driving after he was spotted outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood wearing a wig, a red lace camisole and a purple G-string, police said.
And, in a stunning example of [...]

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Silent Night

December 25, 2007 – 12:00 am

Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child
Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
Silent night, holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ, the Saviour is born
Christ, the Saviour is born
Silent night, holy night
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant [...]

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As God is my Witness, I Thought they Could Drive

December 19, 2007 – 8:39 pm

Big Rig Overturns; Live Turkeys Dumped
From Bakersfield CA, an incident that brings back WKRP memories.
… a big rig heading westbound on Highway 58 was driving onto the Highway 99 interchange but hit a guardrail and overturned, spilling hundreds of live turkeys onto the road.
Hundreds of turkeys died in the crash while injured turkeys could be [...]

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It’s Hard to Rally ’round a Math Class

December 18, 2007 – 10:56 pm

While watching NCAA Basketball a while ago this evening, I was struck by the number of players who have been declared “academically ineligible” for upcoming NCAA football bowl games, and who therefore will not be playing.
Without doing any research at all, I’d surmise this is some NCAA final inspection rule prior to the football [...]

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Get a TO, Baby!

December 18, 2007 – 10:16 pm

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Dick Vitale, legendary color man on ESPN’s NCAA Men’s Basketball telecasts. He underwent successful throat surgery today, and is expected to be out of the broadcast booth until February.
I love people who are enthusiastic about their work, and back that up with being skilled at what they [...]

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A Tweet Trainwreck

December 18, 2007 – 6:17 am

All the three preceding bloglet entries were actually tweets, posted via the Twitter. The Twitter Tools plugin has an option “Create blog posts from tweets”. I tried, I didn’t like, I turned it off. I’m keeping the “Asides” via Twitter in the sidebar.
Tweeting is not blogging, nor is blogging tweeting, even though they share [...]

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