by Ted Scheinman
Why the hell not, let’s say it is… for now.
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“With the high cost of tickets and transportation, no one likes to spend more money than they have to at the airport. Every dollar saved is another buck towards buying something more fun and useful, like a Lenovo…
“An article on Thursday about efforts to help students improve reading and math skills omitted some skills that students in a math class needed to correctly add three fractions. They needed to find the…
“Butt wipes is a category we’re really excited about.”
Ahhhhh, they found the real-life Sebastian Flyte, who was Evelyn Waugh’s loooooooover.
“A report, published today, claims to identify the point at which the average office worker reaches ‘their most unproductive point of the day.’ And the answer is 2.55pm.”
★★ The sky was emptying itself out. A woman in flip-flops trudged straight through a full…
“Angry Lego faces could have a significant impact on how children play, a University of Canterbury robot expert says.”
“Dunkin’ Donuts says it’s set to debut its ‘Glazed Donut Breakfast Sandwich’ on the nation this Friday, making a split glazed doughnut filled with a peppered fried egg and cherrywood smoked bacon the newest addition to America’s breakfast repertoire.”
“The Maori placename Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is not quite as lengthy as we rendered it in a panel accompanying an article about very long words. Our spelling twice included a stray j — a consonant that does not appear in the Maori language.”
“A cat has been found trying to enter a prison in Russia, with mobile phones taped to its stomach.” I am not much of a cat fan, but I have to say, this photo is astounding.
