If you win this week but don't have pierced ears and can't wear the teensy cat earrings, I could instead send you a couple of vintage Style Invitational Loser magnets. Or you could just stab yourself.
I kinda liked the "As Alice showed how she used a TikTok video to conjure up the devil, Kevin stepped in to explain how she should have done it." That's my day in a nutshell.
The obvious winner: “Let’s throw some poo against the wall to see what sticks.” Because throwing poo is funny to begin with, doing it in the context of an office is even funnier, and the biz-speak it lampoons is a tired cliché that richly deserves the lampoon. Which I assume is similar to a harpoon.
Thank you to Messrs. Kurland and Livengood - I didn't enter, mea culpa it was a crazy week - but I was headed straight for the "colon of silence." Yay Get Smart/CIA humor!
And again I comment - at the CIA up until 1987, there was a pneumatic tube system that was simply brilliant. Dials on the ends for an "address" and multi-colored tubes for the different Directorates. In a large and confusing building, what a joy to simply send it flying. The advent of connected computers, Wangs at the time, had them stripping out all the tubes/colons to make way for cables. Sigh. Ah the olden days, when spies were lazy and the world ticked closer to chaos.
Pneumatic tubes, you say ? No --- not something relating to an implant for erectile dysfunction. There's a vas deferens. Those legendary newsroom deals, that at one time replaced the guy shouting "COPY!!" and the copy boy lounging in the truck dock smoking a fag, which, themselves, have long since been replaced. Yeah, they still make versions of those. Been thru a bank drive-thru lately ? Some hospitals still use them, as do casinos, among other bizes. Have to wonder though, what would those notes you'd like to pneumatically send from the kitchen to the bedroom say. "One more blintz, and I'll be ready ?" "The brine should kick in any minute now ?"
Hey, a word about "His Fraudulency," aka, Rud Hayes --- but first some of his um...memorable words:
"Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times."
As economists said at the time (and still do, down to this very day): "No shit !" And, of course, let's not forget the hallmark of his administration, the "Great Railroad Strike of 1877," which he resolved by calling in the US Army against the railroad workers. Anyway, I regress. Yes, our less-than-esteemed 19th is, au contraire, considered a saint in Paraguay. Yes, that Paraguay. In addition to calling in the troops on striking railroad workers, Hayes distinguished himself by taking territory from Argentina and giving it to Paraguay. A good US president will do that for you. For this great act of kindness with other people's land, he is forever memorialized there as a one of 17 national "departamentos" ("Presidente Hayes") and its capital, "Villa Hayes." And thus ends another installment of "You Don't Say !?"
A save the date for fans of "The Sweet Science." On July 20, Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight boxing world champion is skeded to step into the ring at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, to fight YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul. Tyson will be 58, Paul will be 27. Seems to me, at this remove, the only science to be involved will be pharmaceutical and medical.
If you win this week but don't have pierced ears and can't wear the teensy cat earrings, I could instead send you a couple of vintage Style Invitational Loser magnets. Or you could just stab yourself.
I kinda liked the "As Alice showed how she used a TikTok video to conjure up the devil, Kevin stepped in to explain how she should have done it." That's my day in a nutshell.
The obvious winner: “Let’s throw some poo against the wall to see what sticks.” Because throwing poo is funny to begin with, doing it in the context of an office is even funnier, and the biz-speak it lampoons is a tired cliché that richly deserves the lampoon. Which I assume is similar to a harpoon.
Thank you to Messrs. Kurland and Livengood - I didn't enter, mea culpa it was a crazy week - but I was headed straight for the "colon of silence." Yay Get Smart/CIA humor!
The Tooting Rombowski Sisters would have gotten my vote! everyone loves a good toot joke, and it fit the photo so well!
My fave:
Inspired by “Get Smart,” CIA scientists developed the Colon of Silence. (Neil Kurland, Elkridge, Md.; Tim Livengood, Columbia, Md.)
I vote for the Colon of Silence.
I can only surmise that Judy Freed was Samuel Tildened this week.
I've been wondering: Does Robert Hur have a distant cousin named Ben?
When I was 18, I decided to be a male prostitute. But business was very slow. The recession or something. So I became an actuary instead.
And again I comment - at the CIA up until 1987, there was a pneumatic tube system that was simply brilliant. Dials on the ends for an "address" and multi-colored tubes for the different Directorates. In a large and confusing building, what a joy to simply send it flying. The advent of connected computers, Wangs at the time, had them stripping out all the tubes/colons to make way for cables. Sigh. Ah the olden days, when spies were lazy and the world ticked closer to chaos.
Pneumatic tubes, you say ? No --- not something relating to an implant for erectile dysfunction. There's a vas deferens. Those legendary newsroom deals, that at one time replaced the guy shouting "COPY!!" and the copy boy lounging in the truck dock smoking a fag, which, themselves, have long since been replaced. Yeah, they still make versions of those. Been thru a bank drive-thru lately ? Some hospitals still use them, as do casinos, among other bizes. Have to wonder though, what would those notes you'd like to pneumatically send from the kitchen to the bedroom say. "One more blintz, and I'll be ready ?" "The brine should kick in any minute now ?"
Shocked I tell you, shocked. Nary a "monkey's uncle" or "kiss your ass goodbye" in sight.
Hey, a word about "His Fraudulency," aka, Rud Hayes --- but first some of his um...memorable words:
"Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times."
As economists said at the time (and still do, down to this very day): "No shit !" And, of course, let's not forget the hallmark of his administration, the "Great Railroad Strike of 1877," which he resolved by calling in the US Army against the railroad workers. Anyway, I regress. Yes, our less-than-esteemed 19th is, au contraire, considered a saint in Paraguay. Yes, that Paraguay. In addition to calling in the troops on striking railroad workers, Hayes distinguished himself by taking territory from Argentina and giving it to Paraguay. A good US president will do that for you. For this great act of kindness with other people's land, he is forever memorialized there as a one of 17 national "departamentos" ("Presidente Hayes") and its capital, "Villa Hayes." And thus ends another installment of "You Don't Say !?"
One word on your Runner-Up and Winner selections; Nope.
A save the date for fans of "The Sweet Science." On July 20, Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight boxing world champion is skeded to step into the ring at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, to fight YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul. Tyson will be 58, Paul will be 27. Seems to me, at this remove, the only science to be involved will be pharmaceutical and medical.