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Or you end up with this…

The picture is from www.failblog.org.

Nowhere else will you hear a DJ say something like “we’ve heard too much from Sweden today, so here’s Mews, the most famous prog-rock band from Denmark”.

And not only do you get to hear comments like that, they’re said in a very carefully enunciated voice that sounds like he’s being very very careful to keep the levels at exactly the right spot.

Good times.

Bet none of you knew that I used to be a DJ.

Here’s an excerpt from the community list serve. Other high points were someone asking for 50 legal-sized hanging files and the theater asking if anyone just happened to have 500 square feet of metal or fiberglass corrugated roofing.

Enjoy.

To all concerned,
Because Keds on a treadmill are a recipe for sad, I am searching for some stellar sneaks, preferably ones that can handle a hard days’ run across the Walla Walla terrain and leave my feet comfy as a cushion!

I’m a size 9/9.5 women’s, and would love to give you some dollaz in exchange, depending on the quality/shape of the shoe.

Smelly sneakers need not apply.

THANKS!

Taken out of context, this was quite an email:

Dear Dan, I might have a tool that would suit your purposes.

Just when I’d finally accepted the fact that Tom Cruise is crazy (duh) but it’s still ok to watch his movies, now I’ve made a horrible discovery and will never be able to watch a Jason Lee movie the same way.

Eh, it hopefully won’t be a big deal, as long as Lee doesn’t make it a big deal, but still… should I have been surprised? Did other people know about him/others on the list?

Biggest surprise to me: Greta Van Susteren – yes she’s on Fox, and that’s worth a few crazy points, but she has an education, for one, and by all accounts was a pretty good lawyer, so oh well.

Some deep thoughts from our old buddy Joe:

Think about those words: “Wildest dreams.” Most of us, I suspect, have some pretty wild dreams. I don’t expect any of my wildest dreams to come true but if I win a billion dollars tomorrow or get asked to play second base for the Cleveland Indians or win the Pulitzer Prize or have Jenna Fischer just call … to say … she loves me or have Morgan Freeman call to say he’s turning Soul of Baseball into a movie, well, I won’t be able to lie and say I never dreamed them.

So, what would be beyond my wildest dreams? I don’t know. If I could come up with something, by definition, it would not be beyond my wildest dreams.

But I have to say this … I suspect what has happened to the Snuggie is beyond these people’s wildest dreams. I mean …

And, unrelatedly except for “huh?”, check this out. Has anybody actually seen this commercial on TV? It’s allegedly a real product, at tiddybearcomfortstrap.com.

Having their sworn commitment to each other and all related rights therein recognized by the highest court of a sovereign U.S. state is ultimately not worth the hassle of moving to Iowa, longtime partners Danny Mindlin and Alex Small determined Monday. Good point.