Category: Just Too Weird / Funny
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I got a good laugh out of this. Yesterday, driving around doing errands, I was trying to turn onto a busy street that was backed up due to traffic. I looked over at the car closest to me, a delivery vehicle for a local florist. Santa Claus was driving the car! I saw him, he…
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I looked at my "blogroll" recently and noticed that many of the people listed there do not post anymore. What happened to everybody who used to blog? Using my extraordinary powers of deduction, I guessed it has something to do with the recession, so I'm working on a solution. I am working on a proposal…
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I was watching a NOOMA video this morning and I made a startling discovery. Rob Bell is really Noah Bennett, ex-employee of The Company! He can change his hair, add a chin dimple and a few moles, but he can't fool me.
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We’ve been here in Xining this weekend celebrating Anna’s sixth birthday with her expat friends. (Photos and video will be up this week sometime.) Today we joined the expat community for a Christmas Celebration Service. It was nice to gather with 30-40 folks from all over the world–who now call Xining/Qinghai home–and sing Christmas carols…
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Do you know those annoying tags that clothes manufacturers feel they must put on every square inch of the pants, shirts, and jackets you buy? Well, for a connoisseur of Chinglish like myself, these can provide at least a few moments of entertainment over here. A friend recently passed this tag on to me. It…
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It started with my friend, Scott. We were middle-schoolers at the time, watching G.I. Joe or another after school good-gun-toting-mercenaries-save-the-world-from-evil-gun-toting-mercenaries type cartoon. His comment changed everything in an instant. With the profound insight only a 7th grader can aspire to, Scott asked me without preface, "How can they talk without moving their chins?" What?!? I…
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I liked this Dilbert comic about delegating…
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Christa was at a local market the other day and found these… Yeah, those stickers say Washington. I thought they had to be counterfeit, but Christa assures me that they are authentic (both stickers and apples). The apples even have a waxy sheen to them. (No, they aren’t made of wax! One has already been…
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This article is no a laughing matter: Students Urged to Laugh Out Loud (March 23, 2007, China Daily) Students at Fudan University are being invited to laugh away their cares and concerns by joining a new club set up by members of the faculty. The "Heartfelt Laughing Club", which opened earlier this month, was set…
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