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In case you've been living in a cave for the past few days, emerging only to read this blog: "ginormous" is now an Official English Word, according to the dictionary people at Merriam-Webster. -
Just in time, in fact, for me to post a picture of this ginormous yellow duck.
From the linked page:
A yellow spot on the horizon slowly approaches the coast. People have gatherd and watch in amazement as a giant yellow Rubber Duck approaches. The spectators are greeted by the duck, which slowly nods its head. The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn't discriminate people and doesn't have a political connotation. The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relief mondial tensions as well as define them. The rubber duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!Y'know the
Tall ShipsGinormous Ships visited fair Portsmouth Harbor a while back, and I didn't go. But I'd totally be there for the Duck. I'm pretty sure I have mondial tensions out the wazoo, which I could stand to have either reliefed or defined. -
Drew Cline points out
that Fred Thompson has an excellent shot at winning the New Hampshire Primary
if he can get a lot of people wearing these t-shirts.
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But it's not all frivolity at Pun Salad today: all right-thinking
Americans should get over to check out
the Porkbusters
Scorecard page to see how your state's senators voted on
earmark-reducing legislation.
For NHites: Senator Sununu garnered a top score of 100%, an honor only shared by one other senator. Senator Gregg scored a disappointing 50%; while that's pretty bad in an absolute sense, it's well above the median for the entire august body. But should we be grading on a curve?
Well, maybe. Scores for current senators from neighboring states: Collins, 25%; Kerry, 16.66%; Kennedy, Leahy and Snowe, 8.33%; Sanders 0.00%. So it could be worse. And probably will be.
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Someday I will stop quoting people on the wonderfulness
of Ratatouille. But that day is not today. Here's
Peter Suderman, direct from the Fort Lauderdale
airport:
I want to start with a proposal: When they make Die Hard 5: Die Really Hard, and For Real, This Time, which may not happen till far into the future at a point when the studio will have to graft a digital Bruce Willis face onto some poor stunt-shmuck and recreate his voice using a version of Pro Tools so smart that it will eventually control our nuclear weapons systems before turning on us, Skynet-style—when this movie is made, as it (or some variant) surely will be, I want Brad Bird to be the director.
Me too.
Jul
12
2007
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