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I hope you all appreciate that I have kept the examples free of excrement or genitalia. But Weird Converter also gives you those options.
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My alarm clock wakes me up with NPR’s “All Things Considered”, usually too early in the morning. I recently heard a story about some suicide bombings in Morocco, followed by an update from the Democratic presidential campaign trail. In my semi-conscious fog, I thought I heard:
“Barack Obama hit by Morocco bomber.”
Say it five times fast.
I’m speechless.
This column from the Washington Post has the color commentary. But it doesn’t make it any easier to watch. (Free registration required. Thanks to Justin C for the link.)
Here’s our Sprint ad that ran on the Super Bowl:
I think it’s pretty good, and it’s one of the few where the humor actually came from the product benefit. We had talked about having the guy throw the PC card at the woman’s head, but that’s been done before.
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“HD is great because people want to see how people really look. People just want to see what’s real.”
–Kirsten Price, porn star, on the benefits of Hi-Def TV
as quoted in the New York Times
(Ported from the old blog.)
It makes me chuckle every time I hear Libby Lewis of NPR reporting a story on the Lewis “Scooter” Libby trial. I think can guess who they’re going to assign when the Totenberg Nina scandal breaks…
(Ported from the old blog.)
