The town of Clintonville, Wisconsin has been kept awake for days by unexplained booming noises, and authorities simply can’t figure out what’s going on. Isn’t it wonderful (provided you aren’t a resident of Clintonville) to find that there are still mysteries in the world today?
For more fun, try to spot something, anything, in the article which tells you this story isn’t from a century ago.
Jenny Lawson, author of The Bloggess, has a book coming out next month. She’s chosen to publish a few excerpts from it, and they’re definitely worth your time.
In the last two months, six separate men filled in the “sex” blank on their job application with some variation of “Depends on who’s offering.” Two answered, “Yes, please,” and one wrote, “No, thank you.” I hired the last one because he seemed polite.
The whole page is fantastic and completely inappropriate. You can pre-order “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)” on Amazon.
The New York Daily News has an amusing rundown of the Secret Service code names used by recent presidents and candidates, including Al Gore’s daughter’s code name of “Smurfette”. Of course, if these are all public knowledge, what’s the point? The answer is that they’re not so much code names as they are shorthand.
Wikipedia also has a more exhaustive list of code names.
The New York Times has a great profile of Ron Akana, likely to be the world’s longest-serving flight attendant. Akana began flying with United way back in 1949, and since then he’s flown over 20 million miles with the airline. Along the way, he’s seen it all, including some great celebrity stories.
“Burt Lancaster had 12 or 13 martinis, then came and bartended with me as if he hadn’t had one.”
While I’m generally loathe to link to an organization as biased as Fox “News”, this interview with a former TSA agent is quite good.
Adult pleasure website Lust with Lingerie has a novel idea of what constitutes a costume:
Click to engorge
I’ve heard of sex play, and I’ve heard of sex work, but I’ve never heard of sex construction work.
This bizarre product listing appears to be the result of using Amazon in conjunction with a web store in some way, and the Amazon affiliation is likely causing it to bubble up in a Google search for the part number. Poking around Google a bit more reveals that this sandpaper shows up in all sorts of strange places, from a baby strollers website to a site for bathroom scales to, most pathetically, a toy store. Still, it’s reassuring to know that no matter where you go, 3M sandpaper will be available.
These may be some of the least appropriate quotation marks out there:
“Do Not Eat”
However, according to a post on Chow.com, these packets aren’t as dangerous as most assume. The packets are far from edible, though, making it rather amusing to see them discussed on CHOW. “A new kind of food media”, indeed.
But [Romney] stumbled back into the rich and out-of-touch narrative on Monday, when he volunteered in a radio interview that he is friends with at least two billionaire football team owners.
Fishermen participating in the annual Lake Winnebago ice fishing contest over the weekend found themselves instead scouting for their modes of transportation after 36 parked vehicles went through the ice, authorities said Sunday.
Whups.
This week, Jonathan Corbett posted a video showing how to sneak metallic items through the TSA’s body scanners. That’s right, the same scanners Europe just banned and Israel refused outright. The TSA has spent over a billion dollars on these offensive machines, and it’s clearer than ever just what a waste that was.
The one thing more pathetic than this security loophole may be the TSA’s official response to it. Using carefully chosen words like “crude” and “allegedly”, Blogger Bob Burns attempts to distract from the simple fact that these scanners are less effective and far more invasive than the metal detectors formerly used.
If you’re interested to learn more, see Corbett’s blog. Its name? “TSA Out of Our Pants”.
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