McSweeney’s Lists

Evidently, humor is most successfully delivered to the “young” voting demographic in list form. I have lost the article I might have once used to cite that piece of information, but see Jon Stewart, the Late Show, Demetri Martin, cracked.com, etc. for empirical (if minimal) evidence.
Really though, the best of them all, in this humble person’s opinion, come from McSweeney’s. Five recent favorites, listed below:
-JOKES I CAME UP WITH WHILE RECOVERING FROM METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS.
-PLANNED SEQUELS TO NICOLAS CAGE’S UPCOMING FILM BANGKOK DANGEROUS.
-DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION
-TEXT MESSAGES THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL
-A PICNIC DATE ENDING IN AN AWKWARD SEXUAL ENCOUNTER, TOLD CHRONOLOGICALLY THROUGH BOARD-GAME TITLES.

-EC.

Pictorial Editorial

…on the GOP’s proprietary usage of the word (click for full-size):

I Want This

Inhaling sulfur hexafluoride has the opposite effect as helium.

How Hiccups Evolved

A book from University of Chicago anatomy professor Neil Shubin proposes:

Spasms in our diaphragms, hiccups are triggered by electric signals generated in the brain stem. Amphibian brain stems emit similar signals, which control the regular motion of their gills. Our brain stems, inherited from amphibian ancestors, still spurt out odd signals producing hiccups that are, according to Shubin, essentially the same phenomenon as gill breathing.

The book is apparently a kooked-out case for evolution, with Shubin sharing out all the weird ways in which ancient, waterbased DNA still affects us today.

Fossil amphibian fins that demonstrate a structural affinity with human hands; teeth, first discovered in ancient jawless fish, that evolved into modern mammary and sweat glands; and genes, which control our eyes and ears, that correspond directly to DNA found in primitive jellyfish.

The title?  Your Inner Fish.

-BB

The Emo Vote

The headline on Drudge as of 8AM this morning is “She Did it Her Way” under a photo of Sarah Palin. (Read the article here.)

I especially enjoy the quote from Chuck Gast, the arbitrarily interviewed Maryland delegate, and constant references to Palin’s tone of voice/cheerful demeanor, and none to the irrelevance of her persistent ad hominem bleating.

The author of this post also remains incredulous at how this situation with Palin’s daughter has been handled, as if Mrs. Palin’s got her own personal Juno who’s just as twee and somehow inspirational for suffering through this ordeal (question mark). Can you imagine, if Obama had an older child who was expecting? The GOP would be beating the family values drum to death. And America would probably buy it. Cos the baby wouldn’t be white.

But now I’m editorializing.

-EC.

You Think You Know A Guy

Apologies to the readers who occasionally visit here in search of thought deposits.  You two have been very loyal.

It’s been a busy and mobile few weeks, but things will settle soon.

In the meantime, John Hodgman points out that something very different is afoot when “Richard Nixon’s personal Rasputin” is re-reading a Democratic Nominee’s speech with astonished admiration.

Awesome

adj. 1) extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear. 2) inf. extremely good; excellent. 3) this video.

Use “the Google”

(As W. once called it.)

“There’s this e-mail that he didn’t shake hands with the troops,” Mr. Stickles said of a rumor that is false. “I don’t have the time to check out if it’s true, but if it is, it’s very offensive.”

- 57-year-old Ivan Stickles of Beaver County, PA, telling the New York Times why he won’t ‘take a gamble’ on Obama.

Verizon Goes Viral

How did they know?

-BB

Emergency Hottie of the Week

Anonymous Georgian Reporter

Observe as she is shot and then proceeds to calmly inform her viewing public that she’s been fired upon by oncoming Russian forces – all outside of a town called Gori. I-rony~…

No, but seriously. Marry me.

-EC.