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Archive for December, 2005

I Just Bought A Virgin For $69

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

It was a great deal too.
Yup. I bought another prepaid cell phone. What number is this? Lemme think. It’s gotta be at least number five.
The truth is, I’m not glued to a cell phone like everybody else in the world and I just want to have it with me for convenience. […]

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Never Seen THIS Before…

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Pirillo has discovered “the ceiling zit”. Never seen such a thing.

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News To Make The Nerds Cringe

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Go get a cup of coffee and come back. You’re going to need it.
Seagate has agreed to buy Maxtor.
Yeah I’m cringing too.
Addendum: I don’t often copy comments out to the main article, but once in a while somebody writes a real gem. When I got the notification e-mail for this comment I […]

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Scientists have figured out a way to make women stop having periods.
This is not a joke.
OHIP needs to cover this. Surely with the money they’re making from not covering eye exams anymore, and given the importance of this issue, I can see this becoming an election issue in the upcoming federal election.

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A New Paint Scheme?

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

I was browsing airliners.net - as I do every so often. They are a great repository of aircraft photography.
I found this little gem, and so many captions come to mind.

Can’t see me… can ya?
Santa Claus pulls in the big guns for this year’s delivery….

I’m sure I could come up with more, but this is […]

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CNN Apparently Has A Sense Of Humour

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

They carried a story telling how “Western Music” has been banned in Iran.
So they ran a poll asking “What music would you like to ban?” listing the names of some of the banned artists in Iran.
No surprise. At the time of this writing Kenny G led with 52% of the votes.

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Let’s Play Word Association

Friday, December 16th, 2005

I’m gonna spit a few things outta my mouth and you (who live in the Oshawa area) tell me the first thing that comes to your mind. Ok, here goes.

The Regent Theatre
The Genosha Hotel
The Atria

Ok. I’m done. I realize some of you may have been eating lunch - which is ironic in a […]

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