I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she’s filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I’m collating so I don’t see why I should have [Continue]
We all have REM sleep (not to be confused with REM the band). However, some of us are accused of saying bizarre things while asleep. A woman in England recently decided to collect her husband’s nocturnal expletives in a blog. The Sleep Talkin’ Man can be quite amusing. One of The [Continue]
Bumping into this research really made my day. Enjoy. Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments Justin Kruger and David Dunning Department of Psychology Cornell University Abstract People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and [Continue]
Some things are so unusual, they just have to be seen to be believed. The International Jurassic Park Erotic Fan Fiction Writers Association is one of them. They themselves make the joke, but this is eroticism 65 million years in the making. I’m not at all sure what else to say about [Continue]
Now, we here at The Greatest Website of All are as much fans of ‘outdoor chic’ as much as anybody, but we really just wear the clothes. In reality, we’re sort of lazy (hence, why we’re bloggers and not, say, mountain climbers). So, maybe, just maybe, The South Butt is more our speed. [Continue]
This “Two Gentlemen of Lebowski” has been making the Facebook rounds over the past couple of days. It purports to adapt the Coen Bards’ Tale (The Big Lebowski) in the style of Shakespeare himself. An excerpt: THE KNAVE Sir, prithee nay! BLANCHE Now thou seest what happens, Lebowski, when the agreements of honourable business [Continue]
I hate the fact that quotation marks have recently become the new boldface or other form of emphasis. It’s really silly, and tacky. Fortunately, the folks at the Blog of Unnecessary Quotations agree with me. Keep abusing punctuation, America! [Continue]
Wow, this is amazing if it is real. If it isn’t, it is still amazing but for different reasons. [Continue]
Of course, Craigslist needs no advertising here. Everyone knows about it these days, or at least some horror story that results from the anonymity of Craigslist. What doesn’t grab most folks’ attention is the humor, intentional or otherwise, that results from the ability of anybody, to post anything, for free, with the ability to [Continue]
