Funny
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Two links and new word
- Gentleman’s Emporium – for that cool 1879 look.
- More comic covers! From wired
The new word is MacGanized. It’s the organization of Mac users. Rather than be organized, they just know people who are organized who find stuff for them. Quite common.
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The headbutt seen round the world
Here is how it was seen in different nations.
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My favorite famous last words
From this page on WikiPedia loosely categorized by me:
Toughest
- “No! I didn’t come here to make a speech. I came here to die.”
Who: Crawford Goldsby, aka Cherokee Bill, when asked if he had anything to say before he was hanged. - “Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? ‘French Fries’!”
Who: James French (No relation to your humble blogger).
Notes: French, a convicted murderer, was sentenced to the electric chair. He shouted these words to members of the press who were to witness his execution.
Ironic
- “That’s very obvious..”
Who: John F. Kennedy, responding to Mrs. Connolly’s comment, “Mr. President, you can’t say that Dallas doesn’t love you.” - “I think I’m going to make it!”
Who: Richard Loeb, half of the famous murderers Leopold and Loeb; said after being slashed ninety times with a razor by a fellow inmate
Funniest
- “Why yes, A bulletproof vest”
Who: Domonic Willard
Notes: Willard was a small time foot soldier during the Prohibition just before his death by firing squad, he was asked if he had any last requests. - “Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.”
Who: Francisco (“Pancho”) Villa - “Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.”
Who: Voltaire (attributed), when asked by a priest to renounce Satan
Deadpan
- “Already?”
Who: Hangquin Zhou - “It’s stopped.”
Who: Joseph Henry Green, upon checking his own pulse.
Succinct & True
- “To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?”
Who: George Eastman, Inventor (in his suicide note)
Odd and Worth Mentioning
- “I see black light.”
Who: Victor Hugo
- “No! I didn’t come here to make a speech. I came here to die.”
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Quote of the moment
From one of the AJC Gwinnett Blogs
Deer come out of the woods and hit our cars like jihadists attacking infidels.
I love the South.
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Quotes of the moment
From the comments of a vitriolic post about an Israeli flag being waved at some soccer game
This is why the entire Arab world can barely make a good washing machine and we send people into space for fun.
And via Jane Galt (original post about second languages)
I’m a poor programmer whose solution to execution failures is type louder and more slowly.
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Random thoughts and links
Things I found interesting today
- What is childhood but a series of injustices that we spend the rest of our lives avenging?
Colin Quinn - An interesting collection of photos from New Orleans. It’s still a wasteland.
- Voluntary kidney donor Virginia Postrel delivers the smackdown to the National Kidney Foundation.
- GreenPeace is funny, but not on purpose, from one of their “fact sheets”
“In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world’s worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE].”
Via The Agitator
- AllOfMP3.com finally gets some attention, thought not in a good way.
- What is childhood but a series of injustices that we spend the rest of our lives avenging?
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A couple of classics
News anchor slips up, in a very funny way. And surprisingly, this page of Emo Phillips quotes.
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A masterpiece
The Phillips/Norelco Bodygroom site. Absolutely perfect use of Flash, video and cleverness. A rare meeting of high tech and high concept.
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Quick zinger roundup
- “George W. — We will be forever in his debt.” (Bumper sticker quoted on Andrew Sullivan’s site)
- “If he was shot in the head by the front, that is good marksmanship, if he was shot in the head by the back, that is good judgement.” (from the WikiPedia entry on the outlaw and gunfighter John Wesley Hardin)
- “like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car”
and
“like how you’d sound if you drank a quart of bourbon, smoked a pack of cigarettes and swallowed a pack of razor blades… Late at night. After not sleeping for three days”
(people describing the singing voice of Tom Waits)
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Hilarious
An archive of Jimmy Kimmel’s “Unnecessary Censorship” clips. Quite good.