Entries Tagged 'Odds and ends' ↓

Best (worst) newsroom jokes

Reacting to the news that a truck carrying cattle overturned and closed Interstate 69:

  • Were there any cow-sualties?
  • This photo is really moo-dy.
  • What, was the truck T-boned?
  • I’d always heard that beef could clog arteries …

Favorite coffee mug I don’t actually own

helveticamug

The Helvetica coffee mug from Veer, with some sans serif typeface humor.

No reason.

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Hat tip: BuzzFeed

It explains a lot

Click the comic to see it larger. Arlo & Janis by Jimmy Johnson.

“Happy” to be selected

I had submitted this photo of a billboard on U.S. 30 between Fort Wayne and Columbia City to The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks.

It was posted today. I am “honored.”

Today is National Chocolate Day!

Celebrate appropriately.

China puts the ‘mock’ in ‘democracy’

From the AP story, “China has yet to approve protest applications: Critics accuse officials of using process as trap to discover potential trouble.”

“This is not realistic,” Wang (Wei, vice president of the Beijing Olympics organizing committee) said. “We think that you do not really understand China’s reality. China has its own version and way of exercising our democracy.”

Be kind to your web-footed friends

I don’t want to be in Texas right now, but I wouldn’t mind warning signs that mention large funny birds.