Anything can be a euphemism if you try hard enough…
Yoga instructor, Mohd Abdullah likes short shorts, but his students aren’t so thrilled. According to Clint Andersen, sport development supervisor with the City of Kamloops, British Columbia, there have been “a series of attire-related complaints” lodged against Abdullah’s brief briefs.
He has been warned twice by officials [...]
The name isn’t helping…
In English her name is Gluttonous Baby, or possibly–according to Google Language Tools–Baby Wolverine. Wait, what? Hold on a sec. Google’s translation has really thrown me for a loop so I’m going to have to consult our resident Spanish Language Expert. (We have an expert for everything here at Thundersquee!) OK, our [...]
We love you Eddie, but your balls are going to fall off
Eddie Izzard is a charitably minded man (one of the many reasons he’s been a Bale), and he enjoys setting challenges for himself to raise awareness and money for charity, but this time he may have gone too far–about 1,100 miles too far. This [...]
And possibly a bag of doosh
During a debate yesterday on “Pay-As-You-Go” rules, Tennessee’s 7th District Congresswoman, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R) was urging Congress to agree that PAYGO enforcement was necessary when this gem popped out of her mouth: “Let’s agree that we’re going to have PAYGO enforcement. That we’re not going to cry ‘emergency’ [...]
I will refrain from describing the bottom notes
Under the guidance of her dad Mitch, Amy Winehouse is set to become the latest celebrity to launch her own perfume range. According to the Daily Star:
“Mitch is keen to license Amy’s name to a perfume house. He has been in talks with manufacturers and contacted PR [...]
You’re going to get us all killed
Look, Australia, we know you’ve had it rough. It can’t be easy having New Zealand hanging out in the wings, taunting you with its awe inspiring landscape, relatively mild climate, 16 species of penguins, laid back citizenry and a rugby team that has a history of stomping your asses [...]
Madoff Given Maximum Sentence
He’s going to prison, the big house, the pokey, the pen, the can, jail, up the river, the hoosegow! Applause broke out in the crowded Manhattan courtroom after U.S. District Judge Denny Chin issued the maximum sentence to Bernard Madoff, thief of billions and fleecer of masses. Madoff was sentenced to 150 [...]
If the dogs don’t get them first
Is there anything left that doesn’t want to feast on the facial flesh of our children? Last night I was working away on a dog-proof suit when an IM containing a link came my way. Imagine my surprise when I clicked the link and found that computers want to [...]
Tetris Turned 25
We normally don’t post on weekends, but yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the release of Tetris and I couldn’t let a friend’s birthday go by without recognition, especially one with whom I’ve been friends since they were born.
I’ve spent a significant portion of the last 25 years creating rows out of falling [...]
Who ya gonna call, McG?
Director Joseph McGinty Nichol, or as he refers to himself, McG, is a notoriously stressful director to work for. After all, our own Mr. Squee lost his shit on the set Terminator Salvation over something the director should have taken care of long before it got to melting point for President [...]
Will Smith was right, yet wrong
Many parents don’t seem to understand, but what they don’t understand is how to be a parent. Here’s a knee slapper of an example. Newly unemployed Phoenix mom, Cynthia Roberson was broke and out of ideas–until, seemingly, she took a look at her last name and noticed it held the [...]
Do you know where your towel is?
For those in the U.S. it’s Memorial Day, true, but a holiday with a broader scope is upon us. It’s Towel Day, an annual, global celebration of the life and works of the late author Douglas Adams. Why a towel? Because, in the Hitchhiker’s universe a towel is not [...]
And so do dogs
Usually when it’s a slow news day you get “Dog Bites Man” type stories, but one Knoxville news source seems to be confused about the placement of that “s.” In what one can only hope was the result of an attempt at running the most inane story ever to have existed, or [...]
Language peeves, pet and otherwise
There are words that make me want to punch puppies and kick cupcakes. Most of these words are either new usages of old words or portmanteaus (words created by melding two other words together). Don’t get me wrong, plenty of these words have quietly made themselves at home in our lexicon. [...]
It’s not enough that New Zealand is a geographically diverse and beautiful country filled with hospitable people, home to sheep whose only apparent jobs are sitting around adding to the ambience, and has the highest life satisfaction rate among its people in the world. Those assholes have to rub our faces in it by having [...]
–almost
Most fans and followers of Industrial Design agree that there’s been a drought in technology design innovation, of late. It almost feels as if the design world has relegated itself to sitting back and seeing Jonathan Ive is going to do next rather than forging any new technologies or form factors of their own. However, [...]
She says as she disseminates it
According to a CNN article published today, last year England’s heir apparent, Prince William possibly made a beginner’s mistake during a naval training exercise that grounded the plane in which he was training. For those less news savvy than CNN, this would appear to be non-news. After all, it happened [...]
Learn to spell, Mormon
This is why relying on a spellchecker’s auto-correct function is a bad idea. 18,500 copies of The Daily Universe, the student newspaper for Brigham Young University, a Mormon university, had to be recalled Monday after it went to print with a potentially embarrassing error. It seems a student journalist mistyped the word [...]
He hates every ape he sees…
As much as we like to think of chimpanzees as adorable creatures in diapers who know sign language and can play flight sims better than Ferris Bueller, the truth is they have always been a little more on the assholish side. They certainly shouldn’t be pets, and whether or not [...]
Happy St. David’s Day! (for those who don’t understand Welsh)
What the hell am I talking about, you ask? It’s simple, really. St. David’s day is the Welsh equivalent of St. Patrick’s Day. The difference being that the festivities don’t take place in Boston, Chicago or Ireland; they take place in Wales. For those of you [...]