December 2009
63 posts
I got an $25 iTunes GC and iTunes credited me only...
All of Apple’s links send me in a circle claiming there is 24 hour support on the internet, available via email and chat, but there are no email or chat links, and the phone just disconnects me because it’s not store hours.
How do I get my $5? And after a half hour of trying to solve this, I want my pound of flesh too. Especially the pound of flesh.
I’m not stupid, so what am I...
“How could somebody NOT like Italian food?”
– @rondicasmith, while perusing Yelp reviews.
Twitter Mad Libs: What word should I use in this...
SPOILER ALERT: The new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie is just [insert movie name] played at 45 rpm.
Need cover bands!
Who will be the next group to record this song for YouTube? Certainly there must be others who can sing better than the original group. I pledge that anyone who posts the video will get featured on the liedownchicagobears.com site and tweeted by me endlessly*. Only two games left, show the team what we think of the latest wasted season.
Chicago Bears Fight Song (frustrated fan version)
Lie...
Down to the dregs of TiVo, the shows we’ve stopped watching but haven’t canceled. (The Cleveland Show and The Wanda Sykes Show I’m looking at you!) If we find an unwatched 30 Rock, it’ll be a Christmas Miracle.
Is anal sex where food babies come from?
Asking for a friend.
“Chicago man accused in plot to murder Danish cartoonist.” Will any of the 70 virgins be impressed with a guy who killed a cartoonist? Pardon me, who TRIED to kill a cartoonist.
“I need to meet Johnny Depp so he can teach me how to wear scarves in my hair.”
– @rondicasmith,while watching Johnny Depp being interviewed about Joe Strummer and The Clash.
Party Prep
Wife: Tell me what I can bring. I feel like I can't come to a party empty handed.
Host: Yes, but your need to bring something conflicts with my need to make too much food.
Tiger Woods is home watching cartoons and eating...
Don’t answer that.
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Health News: Drinking coffee found to cut risk of... →
REGULAR OR DECAF | Drops about 7% per cup, studies show
They found that each additional cup of coffee consumed per day was associated with a 7 percent reduction in diabetes risk.
Those who drank three to four cups a day had about a 25 percent lower risk than people who drank zero to two cups a day.
Sounds good, right? There were 457,922 participants in the study, so there can’t be a...
Where should I share the MP3 of the Fight Song?
I want to put it up where people can download it for free, but where I can track how many times it’s been downloaded. Where’s the best place to do that?
Watchliedownchicagobears:
Video of the song recorded by Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune. Has the song in order, start to finish.
Here’s the video. In particular I love my friend Sam hamming it up in the back row.
Thanks also to my wife for handling the cue cards, without which this wouldn’t have been possible. Otherwise half of us would have defaulted to saying “Bear Down”...
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My favorite line from the Bears Fight Song taping...
Rex Huppke, looking for a quote: So what do you think will happen once the song gets out there?
Joe Schmitt: I hope it will turn all those Bear fan frowns upside down.
Rex: ...
Joe: Is that too corny?
Rex: You just recorded a parody of a fight song. I wouldn't worry about corny.
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@indefensible is a genius!
indefensible:
OK HERE IS WHY.
Whenever culture throws up a Zooey or a Natalie Portman in Garden State or some other magical ingenue, it presents men with a picture of the woman as ‘the other’, a fantastical and impossible creature whom we are invited to look at as being in some way intrinsically different to men.
This ‘otherness’ is not so different to the perception of women as ‘others’ which...
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“Why are we celebrating someone’s birthday who only achieved a measly 12...”
– @FussySaffa, Tweet of the Day, December 16, 2009 And check out the complete list of picks for Tweet of the Day
Missing Bush email #247631:
Date: August 17, 2005 10:32 AM From: W To: Turdblossom Subject: Where is it?
Karl,
Where in the hell is my singing fish? The guys from State said I could put it back up after Putin left. It is my only joy since the Secret Service took away my pretzels.
W
Google Voice vs. DeVry University
rachelskirts:
I missed a lot of phone calls from DeVry University Online when I was on vacation in November. This is what happens when Google Voice tries to transcribe DeVry, DeVry University, or DeVry University Online.
Hey Rachel, This is Donna over at the right.
Hey Rachel, it’s, Donald over at the rice.
Hello Rachel, This is Chris for Crawford on the System Director ...
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The 12 Days of Glenn Beck
rexhuppke:
On the first day of Christmas, Glenn Beck gave to me, a big bucket full of crazy.
On the second day of Christmas, Glenn Beck gave to me, two Palin T-shirts and a big bucket full of crazy.
On the third day of Christmas, Glenn Beck gave to me, three Freedom Fries, two Palin T-shirts and a big bucket full of crazy.
On the fourth day of Christmas, Glenn Beck gave to me, four screaming...
Q: How many zen monks does it take to change a...
A: Two, one to change it and the other to clap with one hand when he’s done.
If I move to Iowa, will my Farmville be subsidized?
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Have I talked @joesmithreally into taking just a...
Sometimes I don’t know my own strength.
OK, I caved. Ask away.
http://www.formspring.me/joeschmitt
I’m making no promises about when I’ll answer or how seriously I’ll take it.
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Point of clarification
In Canada they are called elitiusts.
And they are sorry.
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Why the "Favrd Crowd" might appear to be elitist...
This is a really interesting read, and I agree with the dynamics he describes 100%.
On the other hand there are some elitists, and certainly there are some in that group, however you want to define it. But it’s unfair to generalize that the whole group— whoever that is decided to be— is elitist. I could name 5-10 who are elitists easily, though I suppose we could argue semantics...
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I assume no one wants me answering a bunch of...
I mean, what could you possibly want to know?
Plus you know I wouldn’t take them seriously.
America By The Numbers
mnik:
adamisacson:
Percentage of Americans who believe in angels: 55
Percentage of Americans who believe in evolution: 39
Percentage of Americans who believe in anthropogenic global warming: 36
Percentage of Americans who believe in ghosts: 34
Percentage of Americans who believe in UFOs: 34
- Blake Hounshell at Foreign Policy.
You guys left one out:
Percentage of Americans who believe...
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I Have Faith
“ye of little faith”? I have faith. I have faith in my humidifier even though it hasn’t once given a believable explanation of what it does with all that water I feed it every day.
Should we roast or steam the asparagus?
Just throw it out and save me the trouble of pushing it around on my plate, before I hide it in my napkin.
I still accept stars when you like one of my...
When I see my Favstar page, I imagine all those people laughing.
I also accept:
follows
retweets
pimping
even if it brings disapproving tut-tuts from some people who don’t even follow me.
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“I hope Favrd comes out of retirement like that football...”
– @MODAT, on the end of Favrd. (give him some stars on Favstar)
This is my favorite tweet about Favrd shutting down. I first heard about Favrd in August and September of 2008, and thought people were just mistyping Brett Favre’s name, as he was in the news every day coming out of retirement and...
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The End of Favrd on Read, Write, Web →
A good article, and not just because @rww mentions me.
So I heard about the end of Favrd and my first...
indefensible:
How’s @nick going to research his next book?
