Trivia

The calendar maker of the GOP has got to be rounded up and ... ahem ... dealt with. He or she must have missed the memo that no one at the GOP wants the party to be associated with George Bush.

Yet here we are with a calendar in which his face appears 23 times, five of those with his wife and her Joker lips. Condoleezza, Alberto and Karl are conspicuously absent.

The most interesting inclusion, and proof that the calendar maker hates the GOP, is Dick Cheney. The Lord of Darkness makes an appearance in October, the month known for the cryptopagan American celebration of spooks, goblins and demons.

Now that is snark.

The photograph is hilarious and creepy at the same time. Who knew Dick Cheney's face --not him-- had the ability to smile. What is he smiling about or at, we don't know. It can't be the heavens --we know puppies died in the making of that smirk.

A smirk that is hilarious because ... I don't know why but this Dick Cheney kind of reminds me of Bill Gates, the Prince of Darkness. The L. O. D. is looking a little geeky, in a Silicon Valley meets Redmond sort of way.

Apologies to all the hackers hurt in the making of that comparison. I do think it's what makes that picture creepily funny.

H/T to Matt Ortega.

I have no idea how I got to this meme during my travels through "the internets". Still, I think it's awfully cute and timely : many of the kids born at the end of the 1980's, beginning of the 1990s will be voting in 2008.

So this little meme-post is kind of a bit of demographics research. Enjoy!

You remember watching Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Pinky and the Brain, and Two Stupid Dogs.

AAAAAAAH real monsters.

You've ever ended a sentence with the word "SIKE!"

You just cant resist finishing this... "Iiiiiiin west philladelphia born and raised..."

You remember TGIF on ABC. Step by Step, Family Matters, Dinosaurs, and Boy Meets World.

You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.

You remember reading "Goosebumps."

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...The word

"WHAT"....didn't meen u wanted to know what someone said, just ment u had to say it to make a friend mad and so others would laugh!

Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?

Captain Planet. He's a Hero.

"You remember watching The Magic School Bus, Wishbone, and Reading Rainbow on PBS.

You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell"

You haven't always had a computer...and u lived without the internet.

Source:

[via Taller people are smarter: study - Yahoo! News]:

"As adults, taller individuals are more likely to select into higher paying occupations that require more advanced verbal and numerical skills and greater intelligence, for which they earn handsome returns," they wrote.

For both men and women in the United States and the United Kingdom, a height advantage of four inches equated with a 10 percent increase in wages on average.

I saw a documentary about Howard Zinn the other day and noticed how freakishly tall the man is. If he's supposed to be smarter than the rest, why isn't he, like, the president or sometin' ...

And if 5 inches above the average American (I had no idea gringos were so short ... 5'4"?!?), why is it that I am not a millionaire? And why am I missing $10.

I don't know ... I feel ... short-changed.