July 25: TJI (XAW, Day 9)
<p>Day 9 is Sunday, and that means it's time for <i>This Just In</i>! Today's issue is notable for two reasons: it's the first normal issue of TJI since '06 (since then it's been Briefs and whatnot), and it marks the long-awaited return of IJD GAF. With breaking news straight outta San Diego Comic-Con 2010 -- or was it 1865? -- here's IJD with <a href="../thisjustin/51.html">TJI #51: Abrams' Lincoln shot by Joan Wilkes, booth babe</a>.
<p>No ten connection, you say? Take note of the time of "impact". And then be here for Day 10 (which won't take as long as Day 9; this week was my most exhausting math camp ever, and I really had no time for anything else). |
Quote:
Hilarious from start to finish, IJD! The puns were superb. Is Gerardo's Ford a reference to Ford theater? |
Funny stuff, IJD. :D
|
Quote:
nice job. :) |
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
IJD, there are enough atrocious puns in there that I'm seriously considering flying to California, working out exactly who and where you are and visiting grievous bodily harm upon you with an assortment of novelty inflatable hammers. |
Duh. Gerald Ford. Never mind.
|
Also ten-jentially related:
-the number of letters in "This Just In" -The number of years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (in a roundabout way). Thanks for the comments, one and all! |
Not often that a title of a work is enough to make me laugh.
Quote:
By the way, I like the new member titles, Zeke. Although I suddenly feel a strange urge to insult everyone I know. In alphabetical order. Are you bovvered? |
Well that was pretty funny.
Also, red matter, fech. |
Erm, Day 10?
|
Right, sorry. It's coming. I hit a patch of inertia there.
|
I live in fear of the atrocious Day Ten/datin' pun you're about to inflict on us.
|
Of course, if you're counting in binary, it's only Day 2...
|
You know what they say, there are only two kinds of people in the world... and I'm not either of them.
|
Quote:
|
Cough.
|
<--hands Nate a cough drop
|
Cough drops are awful. I prefer hot liquids. Cider and Tang particularly.
|
Fuming sulphuric acid? You'll never have a sore throat again.
(It's hard to feel pain when your pain receptors have dissolved) |
The Question: Okay, bored now. Good-bye.
Moving on... |
Does anyone have a Newton's Cradle that I can watch swing back and forth?
|
Is <i>that</i> what it's called? wow, I never knew. I mean, how do you Google that? "swinging balls on strings perpetual motion machine"?
...ooh, actually, that does give you the name. 8) Google rocks! Well, okay, <i>The Straight Dope</i> rocks. I actually found TSD via their books, which my best friend lent me in college, and was delighted to find the column on the web. It's a little like TVTropes for trivia buffs. Speaking of TVTropes, why isn't there one for The Wacky Aunt, aka Auntie Mame? Or am I looking under the wrong keywords? I'm up to S3 of Eureka, and Carter's wacky sister just came to town. She reminds me a lot of Jess's flaky mom from Gilmore Girls, and they're not a big leap from Lwaxana Troi (whose portrayer, Majel, noted that she deliberately played her as "Auntie Mame in space"). Doesn't the crazy aunt/goofy uncle have a trope name? |
I'm not sure where I first saw the name "Newton's Cradle," but it was probably in a store.
If you want to see one being microwaved, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWZhNsuqGvM |
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
Time keeps on slippin' (slippin', slippin') into the future...
|
Steve Miller Band! Okay, my turn:
<i>An' I would walk five hundred miles, an' I would walk five hundred more, just to be the man who walks a thousand miles to fall down at your door.</i> Name the band! |
The Scottish Twits!
Well, that's what Dad called them. They call themselves the Proclaimers, and boy are they fugly-looking dudes. |
Quote:
|
Isn't it nice being in a black hole where one day feels like three months?
|
I bet you get a <i>lot</i> of chores done. I wouldn't mind a few extra hours in a day myself, frankly...
|
All times are GMT. The time now is 02:09 AM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.2
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.