Category: Mildly amusing

I thought it was amusing at the time.

Don’t you go there!

OK, you have been warned. You’re a busy person with much better things to do than read an endless series of things overheard in New York. As an intelligent person, you’d be too depressed by things like

It’s a Trap! Buy the Schopenhauer!

Guy: Hey, I’m lookin’ for a book.

Lady behind the counter: Um, okay. Did you have any particular one in mind?

Guy, laughing: No. Hell no. I don’t fuckin’ read. I’m just lookin’ for something I can take over to Central Park so I can get hit on by chicks who think I’m smart and shit.

Lady behind counter: Try Nietzsche.

–Barnes & Noble, Broadway between 82nd & 83rd

You know that you’ll waste a ton of time being exposed to the most inane sorts of human discourse (not to mention a lot of language your grandmother just wouldn’t approve of). The fact that the titles are truly hilarious does not make it worth your time.

So don’t go there.

Excuse me while I go change my pants – I think I wet myself laughing while I was reading some of that crazy stuff…

I blame DykstraNet for the pointer.

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That crazy first of April thing

Hallucinogenic horn
Sadly, the post about Turq was no April Fool’s, but there’s plenty of fine frivolity out there on the net for those so inclined. A few nifty ones that we’ve run across so far include:

  • Google’s spiffy new “Google Romance” search engine, which manages to be a pretty hilarious spoof of both people’s reliance on search engines and the whole (and, IMHO, strange) idea of on-line dating. Credit to WeatherGirl for finding this.
  • Slashdot has gone all pink and unicorn-y. Really. We can only hope there will never again be quite such a high density of “OMG”s and exclamation marks on their site in the near future.
  • In the much more subtle realm, those crazy kids at Flagrant Disregard have tweaked their nifty Flickr Scout (one of their excellent set of image toys) so that it reports that every one of your photos that’s made to Flickr’s Explore page is actually in the #1 spot! Go here to see a few of my shots at a vastly higher spot than they’re likely to ever see in real life. Credit to Montana Raven for pointing this one out.

You might want to check these out while you still can – I’m sure some sort of normalcy will likely return tomorrow… And I’m sure there are vast hordes of this kind of craziness out on that amazing IntarWeb, so keep an eye peeled.

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