Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts

Monday, November 25, 2013

How New York City Views the World

I kid Fred Wilson, but I did see an element of the NYC-centered worldview in his comment,
A smartphone can get you a ride but a car can't get you a date.
I think it's safe to say that Mr. Wilson can afford a car that would be very helpful to his dating life, were he not happily married.

But heck, as removed from the singles scene as I am, maybe we are moving into an era where "Hey, babe, check out the productivity apps on my Galaxy" is an effective pickup line.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

"This Court Will Not Tolerate Allusion!"

Michigan has a crime commonly known as "fleeing and eluding," MCL 257.602a. One might argue that if you are brought before a court on that charge, your very presence undermines the prosecutor's contention that you are guilty of eluding, but... I split too fine a hair - the actual statute does not require that you be proved to have been successful in eluding your pursuer.

A couple of years ago the Court of Appeals apparently took an entirely different view of what it means to... elude:
Defendant appeals by leave granted his guilty-plea convictions of third-degree fleeing and alluding, MCL 257.602a(3)(a), and driving while license suspended, second offense, MCL 257.904(3)(b). Defendant was sentenced as a third habitual offender, MCL 769.11, to 30 to 120 months' imprisonment for the fleeing and alluding conviction and 144 days in jail for the driving while license suspended conviction. We affirm.
People v Kade, No. 285402, 2009 WL 1941372 (Mich Ct App July 7, 2009). A sentence of 2-1/2 to 10 years for alluding? I wonder if that includes a sentence enhancement for mixing metaphors.

Monday, March 11, 2013

Mr. Canard, of the AEI

Earlier today on the radio, I heard the host pose a question to "Mr. Canard" of the American Enterprise Institute. I thought she was referring to Edward Conard, but... the reference suddenly seems ambiguous.

Monday, February 04, 2013

Mrs. Carter?

Very traditional, and all but....
Beyonce has wisely chosen the day following her Super Bowl triumph to announce world tour dates for 2013, with UK dates in April and May. So far, so expected, but there is one surprise. She's called the tour "The Mrs. Carter Show", a reference to her 2008 marriage to Jay Z (aka Shawn Knowles-Carter; Jay Z is rumoured to have taken on Beyonce's surname 'Knowles' in 2009).
Why doesn't she just call herself Beyonce-Z?

Monday, November 05, 2012

John Sununu Explains His Role in the Romney Campaign

You're not going to find this on Fox News:
John Sununu: I'm what they call an over-the-top to a, you know, what we use in campaigns, but I'm very... very special because if you can see, my numbers all go to eleven. Look... right across the board.

Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most politicians' over-the-tops go up to ten?

John Sununu: Exactly.

"Game Changing" October Surprises that Never Happened

Breaking News, Big Scoop from Matt Drudge: A powerful political insider claims to have an Ann Romney "Whitey" tape. Rumored content:
"Why vote for whitey when you can vote for 'whiter than whitey'?"
David Brooks reveals his shocking discovery that on the eve of the first debate the candidates were replaced by hideous space aliens. Nobody who saw the debate is surprised - the big surprise is finding out that Paul Ryan and Joe Biden weren't "body-snatched". The candidates then agree that the country should build a giant space cannon, with the polls split 50:48 on whether or not it should be aimed at the planet Kolob.

Donald Trump produces a real Obama birth certificate, resulting in the following exchange,
Trump: Barack, I am your father.

Obama: No. No. That's not true. That's impossible!

Trump: Search your dreams of your father, you know it to be true!

Obama: Noooooooo.......
A secret audio recording is found in which Romney explains why he is running for President,
"It was back when I was still running a small business and was barely pulling in eight figures. We still only had two, maybe three houses, but we were optimistic about the future so we packed the kids into the car and went house shopping. We were driving down Pennsylvania Avenue in D.C. when one of the kids, I think it was Taggart, pointed at the White House and said "Can we buy that one?" Ann laughed, but I said, "You know what...."

Monday, September 24, 2012

William Kristol Loves Driving in the Ditch

Remember how, eight years ago, William Kristol admitted that George W. Bush had driven the nation into a ditch? He then backpedaled furiously, and argued that the guy who drove us into the ditch was the best guy to drive us out? And how, his having received his wish, we got an outcome that resembles the conclusion of Thelma and Louise?

Kristol has now assessed Barack Obama's performance as President:
If this election’s just about the last four years, that’s a muddy verdict. Bush was president during the financial meltdown. The Obama team has turned that around pretty well.
Kristol appears to find terrifying the prospect of reelecting a president who can actually drive.

William Kristol and Mitt Romney

Muddy, indeed.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Things You Already Know About Barack Obama, but Ask Anyway

The Mitt Romney experience inspired me to see what searches people are making about President Obama....

"Barack Obama birth certificate" - I know it's around here somewhere.... Is it this one... no...

"Barack Obama Kenyan birth certificate" - Oh, that birth certificate! It's in Donald Trump's underwear drawer, next to the pink undies he borrowed from Sheriff Arpaio.

"Barack Obama ethnicity" - A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

"Barack Obama gay" - No he's not, but I'm sure he's flattered that you find him attractive.

"Barack Obama muslim" - No, you're confusing him with Hank Williams, Jr.

"Barack Obama religion" - Although worshipped by millions, he has no plans to actually form a church.

"Barack Obama new world order" - Close. He's a New World Man.

"Barack Obama real name" - His birth name was James Anthony Hamilton, but his mother worried that such an unorthodox name would get in the way of a possible political career and changed it to Barack Hussein Obama.

"Barack Obama racist" - Yes, you figured it out, lots of racists dislike Barack Obama.

"Barack Obama's kill list" - It's top secret... except for your name - you're lucky #7.

"Barack Obama's name in the Bible" - Not in the one you own, but perhaps it's in one of the lost gospels.

"Barack Obama's weaknesses" - I know, you were probably thinking "Kryptonite", or perhaps even "The color yellow", but it turns out that it's "The Stupid".

Mitt Romney - Everything You (Apparently) Were Afraid to Ask....

I was running a Google search today and discovered that auto-complete was suggesting that people have serious concerns about Mitt Romney. I thought I would take the time to address some of the concerns implied by common search terms:

"Mitt Romney fetus" - Yes, he once was a fetus.

"What is Mitt Romney hiding" - Everything but his physical appearance.

"Mitt Romney police uniform" - Fetish? Let's not go there....

"Mitt Romney's jeans" - Didn't I just say... Please.

"Mitt Romney trillion" - No, still only a few hundred million.

"Mitt Romney's email" - OPM@example.com

"Mitt Romney's kitchen cabinet" - Poggenpohl. Nice stuff that you've probably never heard of, and probably can't afford. No, seriously, it's the group of guys who used to take care of Howard Hughes.

"Mitt Romney's laugh" - Don't make fun. His laugh box atrophied.

"Mitt Romney's military service" - I will now present the entire record of Mitt Romney's military service: "".

"Mitt Romney's political views" - He believes exactly what you believe, but with more conviction. Even if you change your mind, he's already ahead of you.

"Mitt Romney's real name" - Stephen. No, actually it's Willard. But don't tell Mitt.

"XCR Mitt Romney" - The manufacturer has endorsed Romney, but don't expect a "Romney in a tank" type picture of him shooting off firearms.

"Mitt Romney zombie" - No, truly he's not, but it's an easy mistake to make.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Mitt Romney's Job Plan - Leaked!

To be clear up front, I'm not stating that this document is real. It was or was not leaked to me by somebody who may or may not be an important member of Mitt Romney's campaign, who may or may not be a Bain investor, and who may nor may not actually exist. I may or may not have had it come to me as a relevation after I held what may or may not have been a seer stone to my forehead.

Now, do I know that it's true? As Harry Reid can attest, it's difficult to be certain. By which I actually mean that it is or is not difficult to be certain.

Top Secret
Internal Use Only

Job Strategy Memorandum

From:        Mitt Romney

To:             Campaign Staff

Subject:    Job Creation Strategy

As you know, ever since my retroactive retirement from Bain Capital I have been focused on unemployment. The present job situation is completely unacceptable. I have tried to be upbeat, and have even tried to joke about it, but the truth is painful. I am unemployed, and that’s simply not acceptable. It's not good for me, it's not good for you, and most importantly it's not good for America

I am therefore announcing the following strategy for job growth, a plan through which 12 million jobs will be created during my first term of office The numbers for this plan are solid. They come from a variety of independent, objective sources. To the extent that I depart from their numbers, as you can see, my logic is bulletproof. If their numbers are correct and my numbers are correct my plan will create 12 million jobs over four years.

The best part is, it’s really simple.

First, the data. In April, Macroeconomic Advisers projected growth of 11.8 million jobs over the years 2013-2016. Moody’s Analytics projects job growth of 11.84 million over the same period. We can reasonably call that 12 million jobs. If we get 11.8 million new jobs, nobody is going to complain about what amounts to a rounding error.

Here’s the plan:

Natural job growth:                                          11,800,000

Plus me!                                                                        1      

Subtotal                                                            11,800,001

Minus Obama:                                                                 (1)   

Total:                                                                11,800,000

Remember, this is not about me. It’s about America, and I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for the country that my jobs plan succeeds. This plan is too important to sit on my desk until after the election. I want everybody on my team to immediately devote their full attention to the rapid implementation of this plan. We have a serious unemployment problem here, and it’s your job to fix it.

Mitt              

In regard to the memo, some might say that it's untrue, dishonest, and inaccurate. That it's wrong. But why let trivialities like that get in the way of a good scoop? We have newspapers to sell here, folks. Ad impressions to generate.

What Is "Hardware Stuff" For?

As far as I can tell, "hardware stuff" is a term of art for the spare parts used by self-repairing animatronic robots.

Sunday, July 29, 2012