March 2011
47 posts
“Dear friend, please accept my insincere congratulations on the occasion of the...”
– via @hotaction
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Tax on Distilled Spirits
Federal excise tax is $13.50 per gallon on liquor.
Wow.
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“Mortgage applications. They are way below historical norms. All cash buyers in...”
– Olick: Why Housing Is Going Through a Double Dip — CNBC.com Real Estate News
This is true and bad.
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“I’m done with Sergio. He treat me like a rag doll.”
– Jane
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I’d like an app to manage all the forgotten to-do lists from all the task-management apps I’ve signed up for. Bonus points if it auto-completes the to-do list items and gives itself a high-five.
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Eggs Benedict origin →
Like most famous recipes, the origin is unclear.
“What’s worse, that I thought this movie was called Lincoln Logs or that I...”
– via @valdez
“Imagine the first time the inventor of the bagpipe showed it to his friends?...”
– via @taliapulver
“Trying to figure out a place I can go today that will be free of drunk Irishmen....”
– via @lizzwinstead
“Variations in the idiom of the spelling from London Church Registers include:...”
– Quirk Last Name Origin
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“I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also...”
– W.C. Fields
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tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
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Follow the money
If you want to know why someone does something that seems crazy, backwards, and destructive to themselves or society, chances are that if you find who is making the most money in the chain of events that led to that behavior, you’ll find the reason it happened in the first place.
I used to think my Dad was overly cynical when he answered a majority of my “why is this like this?”...
“Thanks, BBC News. Now I know how screwed up the world is. I’m American;...”
– via @elbeard
“oh no, I have had 21 people unfollow me last week. I guess they unfollowed me...”
– via @dltq
“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
– Charles Bukowski (via theopie)
NOT NECESSARILY EXCLUSIVE
(via mediation)
“I’m now the proud owner of a gold tooth. Its a bonus that after the...”
– via @jaydedman
“SNOOP ARE U SERIOUS”
– via @mecredis
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White Lincoln
I realized that the world could be conquered. But only from within a white Lincoln. I traded our excellent car in for a slightly more expensive and much less reliable 1992 Lincoln Towncar, white inside and out.
I replaced the back seat with a secretary’s desk with a bolted-down typewriter, put a ball joint under the driver’s seat so I can spin around and type when the traffic lulls. I put a...
