A Black Hole of Happiness

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I went to the Kwik-E-Mart in Times Square last week to check out the Krusty-Os Cereal, Buzz Cola, and Squishees. It may be because I'm easily amused, but I was amused.

Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart
Now here's the tricky part
Oh, won't you rhyme with me
Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart
Her floors are sticky-mart
Let's throw a bricky-mart
The Kwik-E-Mart is really... d'oh!
Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart
I do!!!

[patentparanyc]

NFH last week was looking for a cite on Rachel Ray and John Cusimano's impending divorce. Page Six.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07092007...__pagesix_.htm

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick

Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart
I do!!!

At a location near you

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
At a location near you

Apu: There she is: the world's first convenience store! [points at
store on top of mountain]

Homer: This isn't very convenient.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
At a location near you

Sadly, there was no Duff beer.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by John Phoenix
That blows. Same holds true with cassette tapes in a really crappy old car that you become saddled with via your spouse when you are living in a city center. I would have preferred them to take the entire car, but no. Instead, a huge mess to clean up, no more mix tapes from the college era, but still left with the car and the awful tapes that my wife had in the car but the thief rightly regarded as bad enough to not steal.

The Coalition of CD Stealing Bastards went slumming?

[SlaveNoMore]

John Phoenix
That blows. Same holds true with cassette tapes in a really crappy old car that you become saddled with via your spouse when you are living in a city center. I would have preferred them to take the entire car, but no. Instead, a huge mess to clean up, no more mix tapes from the college era, but still left with the car and the awful tapes that my wife had in the car but the thief rightly regarded as bad enough to not steal.

YOUNGER COP:
And was there anything of value in the car?

DUDE:
Huh? Oh. Yeah. Tape deck. Couple of Creedence tapes. And there was a, uh. . . my briefcase.

YOUNGER COP:
In the briefcase?

DUDE:
Papers. Just papers. You know, papers. My papers. Business papers.

YOUNGER COP:
And what do you do, sir?

DUDE:
I'm unemployed.

***

DUDE:
You find them much? Stolen cars?

YOUNGER COP:
Sometimes. I wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck though.

OLDER COP:
Or the Creedence.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
If you came to live in communist D.C., you would get fireworks set to the 1812 overture. Yes, the piece celebrating a Russian victory over the french. What's next, standing for the cannon fire?

My mother went into labor with me listening to the 1812 Overture.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My mother went into labor with me listening to the 1812 Overture.

Wait, this would be before ipods. How did you do this, exactly?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Wait, this would be before ipods. How did you do this, exactly?

Truth be told, I don't remember it very well.

[John Phoenix]

Originally posted by taxwonk
The Coalition of CD Stealing Bastards went slumming?

You wouldn't call it slumming if you heard the driving mixes. Those were some good tapes.

[John Phoenix]

Originally posted by John Phoenix
You wouldn't call it slumming if you heard the driving mixes. Those were some good tapes.

Good enough to break the board, in fact.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by John Phoenix
You wouldn't call it slumming if you heard the driving mixes. Those were some good tapes.

Mine were all stolen in 1999. I used to have a ritual of making a tape mix before I started studying for finals and the night before a big road trip, and I think that there were probably a good 40 or so mixes. Assholes broke my window, took the tapes and a pair of $20 roller blades.

[NotFromHere]

OK, so straight out of Desperate Housewives...

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Police detained a man in eastern Belgium after a dinner guest found the bodies of the host's wife and stepson in a freezer, authorities said Thursday.

The female guest opened the freezer while helping to clear up after a dinner with a group of friends Tuesday at the man's home in the city of Verviers, 78 miles east of Brussels, said Christine Wilwerth of the city prosecutor's office.

"It was a lady who at the end of the meal at a friend's house, and after washing the dishes ... decided to take the leftovers of the meal down to the basement to store in the deep freeze," Wilwerth said. "Once she opened the deep freeze, she discovered the bodies."

Guests alerted police, who identified the bodies of the man's wife and her 12-year-old son. The bodies appeared to have been kept in the deep freeze for several weeks.

Well, I guess that'll teach for not cleaning up his own leftovers. But ew, that would be creepy to find bodies in the freezer.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

I bought an iphone. I could not wait until the next generation. And let me tell you something: I'm glad I didn't.

It really is a great product. Everything is seamless and intuitive. It's sleek, small, light, easy to use and beautiful. I have very few complaints. The internet is very slow if you're not in a wifi spot, but if you are, it's awesome. Email is easy and great, although it doesn't come in in real time (but we know they'll fix that and put blackberry out of business). Typing on the screen takes some getting used to, but once you trust their correction software, you can just type away and not worry about it. The camera works well. The ipod is better than any ipod on the market. I watched a movie on it and the definition is great. I put a bunch of photos on it and scrolling through them is lots of fun. The thing really has very few weaknesses and I can't imagine that, once the price drops, people won't replace their phone the first opportunity they get.

TM