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10/23/2009

You know you’re a redneck when…

Filed under: American Scene, Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 1:00 pm

You get charged with a DUI in a motorized La-Z-Boy.

A Proctor man driving a motorized La-Z-Boy lounge chair hit a parked vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

There’s a picture at the link.

Anderson claimed he was driving the chair fine until a woman jumped on it and knocked the chair off course. He has one prior DWI conviction. He couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday.

Proctor Deputy Police Chief Troy Foucault said the chair was powered by a converted lawnmower with a Briggs & Stratton engine. It has a stereo, cup holders and other custom options, including different power levels.

Happy Friday, folks. I have a twin b’nai mitzvah to attend tonight and tomorrow. My ex-students are all growing up. Hopefully, none of them will grow up into anything like this guy.

10/22/2009

Two funny bits

Filed under: Bloggers, Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 8:16 pm

First, Darth Vader plays golf.

Next, if you have children who believe in Santa, do not click this link until after they’re asleep. It’s rather traumatizing for the little ‘uns, but funny as hell for the rest of us.

Both via Sarah, the woman who has the privilege of listening to me bitch when I’m really, really, really crabby due to flu and sinusitus and menopause and HulkMS all thrown into one week. I should probably link to Dogs in Elk for her, as it’s something you need to read at least once a year.

10/09/2009

Gaddafi Jewish too now? Oh boy…

Filed under: Humor, Israel Derangement Syndrome — SnoopyTheGoon @ 8:00 am

The ink on the latest “revelations” about Mahmoud the Mad’s Jewish roots has barely dried and evaporated (after all it was a canard, created, most probably, by his political rivals). And here we are on the brink of another scandal: the Maariv article (in Hebrew) tells a story about the Jewish mom who produced Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, that unique, albeit a bit deranged, offspring.


Maariv received a corroboration by one of the female relatives that Qadaffi’s mother’s name was Rosella (Rosalla?) Tamas. When Rosella was 18, she acquainted and married a Muslim man. One of the offsprings of the marriage was Muammar.

The article goes into further details of the genealogy of Tamas family. Suffice to say that, according to it, Muammar has quite a few close relatives in Ramat Gan, where he will be warmly received, no doubt.

Well, I am not sure the King of Kings is considering repatriation at the moment, but the story clears up at least one of the question marks: the uncertainty about his name: Gaddafi, Qadaffi, Gadhaffi, etc. etc.

And, of course, Elders have lost a valuable agent, once his true identity was revealed, but his usefulness was in doubt lately anyway…

Jet lag my foot…

Cross-posted on SimplyJews.

10/03/2009

Once again on Mahmoud the Mad’s Jewish roots

Filed under: Humor, Iran — SnoopyTheGoon @ 1:44 pm

The story is not, strictly speaking, new. The Jewish roots of so called Mr Ahmadinejad (Saburjian really) have been already discussed earlier this year. Of course, when The Telegraph gets on the subject, the waves are much higher than when it’s only Radio Free Europe. No matter, it’s all for the best. And there is no arguing with this suggestion:

Experts last night suggested Mr Ahmadinejad’s track record for hate-filled attacks on Jews could be an overcompensation to hide his past.

So, here’s looking at Mahmoud the Mad: we already know what he is so mad about, and the only thing to clear up is whether he is really Mahmoud.

Moshe would be my bet. But who knows…

Otherwise, some of the younger but aspiring candidates to the Elders’ outfit clamor for immediate acceptance of Moshe ( temporary name) Saburjian to the Elders’ HQ ranks. Which is a tall order. Usually we require one of the following achievements prior to signing up a candidate:

  • taking a leading role in some major political mayhem in country of residence
  • several disastrous anti-Semitic speeches in public forums
  • being such a major pain in the arse that even one’s allies get a turn-off
  • destroying economy of a Zionism-opposing nation
  • becoming so hated by own people that they may prefer embracing…

What, all of the above? Including… yes… yes… you don’t say… oh boy…

OK, Moishe Saburjian:

You are accepted, congratulations. Please apply to the local branch of the Elders for your orders as soon as the holidays are over. Meanwhile continue with your current activities. Yes, doing real good.

At ease, Elder.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

09/25/2009

Iran letter to the IAEA revealed!

Filed under: Humor, Iran — Tags: — Meryl Yourish @ 12:30 pm

I have received a copy of Iran’s letter to the IAEA, revealing the existence of a heretofore undisclosed (don’t you love the word “heretofore”?) nuclear plant that is only a year away from operation. Just remember, even Drudge doesn’t have this scoop!

Dear suckers esteemed inspectors of the IAEA,

Like, we forgot to tell you something on your last visit here. Remember when you asked us if we had anything more to declare, and, we were like, “No way!” and you were like, “Way!” and we were like, “Dudes, no way, and if you don’t stop messin’ with us we’re gonna call the Basij dudes on their bikes and they’re really pissed today ’cause all the hot protest babes are on the other side,” and you were like, “Whoa, Basij, not necessary, bro,” and then you, like, ran to the airport and forgot to give us going-away presents?

Well, like, we kinda forgot to tell you that, uh, yeah, there’s this one more little nuke plant, and it’s, like, near Qom, and it’s like, about a year away from being able to make a bomb, uh, I mean, to power up the holy dudes’ mosques so they can get their mad on at the Zionist Entity every Friday like always. Oh, wait—my buddy Mahmoud just told me to tell you to tell them that it’s just a pilot enrichment program, and it’s barely big enough to make a single—uh, pilot. And anyway, like, we’re only going to enrich it to five percent, and everyone knows that you need to enrich it more to make bombs, and the Islamic Republic of Iran is peaceful, and we don’t want to hurt anyone, except for all you infidels and Zionists and idolators and atheists. And dogs. We really hate dogs, dude.

So, like, this is to let you know that we, like, uh, forgot to tell you—oh, wait, I already said that. Dude. Um, okay, well, then, that’s about it, except, like, death to America and death to Israel, dudes. And we hope you’re not mad that we, like, forgot.

InSincerely,

The dudes in Iran who are going to nuke your asses, uh, I mean, be your best friends.

09/04/2009

Joke / no joke

Filed under: Humor, Israel — Soccerdad @ 7:00 am

I remember a joke from my youth. It probably goes back about 40 years.

Two Arabs planned to assassinate Moshe Dayan. They started tracking his movements and discovered that he ate lunch at the same cafe every day at 12:30. This happens once, twice.

After three weeks of tracking Dayan, the would be assassins get to the cafe early. 12:30 comes and goes. 12:45. 13:00 …

One Arab turns to the other and says “Gee, I hope nothing happened to him.”

No joke.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

07/29/2009

A conversation on unspeakable things

Filed under: Humor, Juvenile Scorn, Television — Meryl Yourish @ 10:48 pm

A phone conversation a few minutes ago:

Meryl: I just saw the most bizarre news report I’ve ever seen.
Sarah: Yes?
Meryl: I’m watching Fox News, and they have a segment on a guy who’s been arrested for a bizarre sex crime. He was caught in the act with a horse.
Sarah: Ewwww.
Meryl: And then they show a picture of the horse!
Sarah: I thought they’re not supposed to show pictures of the victim.
[Pause for long, loud laughter.]
Meryl: And there were two horses! One was grey and one was brown. Maybe it was file footage.
Sarah: Probably stock footage.
Meryl: Then again, they did say it wasn’t his first offense.
Sarah: They were showing all of his victims! They’re not supposed to do that!

Yeah, that’s why I call Sarah. To wonder why on earth Fox News found this an appropriate news story, even in the ten o’clock slot. And to mock it.

Is it sweeps week or something? And really—did they have to show pictures of horses? Because, it’s not like we don’t know what a horse is, or anything.

Good Lord. Our culture really has defined deviancy down.

07/22/2009

The Which Quiz-Taker Are You? Quiz

Filed under: Facebook, Humor, Juvenile Scorn — Tags: — Meryl Yourish @ 5:00 pm

Meryl Yourish completed the quiz, “Which Quiz Taker Are You?”

You are a person who usually finds these quizzes an utter waste of time. When you do find one that you want to take, you wind up thinking, “Well, that was stupid!” when you get the result you didn’t expect or, more likely, “What an effing piece of crap quiz!”

You find yourself always just a little out of step with other quiz-takers, and wonder why so many people devote so much time to so little outcome. But then, you also watch cooking infomercials, so you really have no reason to feel superior to the quiz-takers. You also realize that if you were in your tweens or twenties, you’d probably take every quiz that comes your way. But because you’re now old and crabby, you want to suck the joy out of everyone else who thinks that taking quizzes is a fun way to blow five or ten minutes.

Famous quiz takers who got your results: H.L. Mencken, P.T. Barnum, Mark Twain, the crabby old lady who lives on the corner, and your father.

07/20/2009

Monday night bedtime story

Filed under: Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 10:56 pm

Once upon a time, there was a blogger who drove from Richmond to NorVA on Mondays.

She got tired and went to bed.

The end.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know—don’t give up my day job.

Admit it. Some of you snickered.

07/17/2009

Beware of the Blob

Filed under: Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 1:00 pm
Beware of the blob (in the Arctic)

Beware of the blob (in the Arctic)

Beware of The Blob, it creeps
And leaps and glides and slides
Across the floor
Right through the door
And all around the wall
A splotch, a blotch
Be careful of The Blob

Update: It’s algae. Put down the CO2 extinguishers.

06/25/2009

Your Friday funny, on Thursday

Filed under: Humor, Television — Tags: — Meryl Yourish @ 10:43 pm

Sarah sent me what may be the world’s longest elephant joke. Do not be drinking if you watch this.

Boy, I miss the Carol Burnett Show.

05/30/2009

Saturday funny

Filed under: Humor, Music — Meryl Yourish @ 4:51 pm

Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was one of my absolute favorite songs from the eighties. The video is one of the all-time worst. And it’s just been hosed, big-time. H/T: Allah.

If you remember the video, this is your spit-monitor warning. If you never saw it, this is your spit-monitor warning. This is effing hilarious.

04/21/2009

Jedi coppers, Wookie soldiers

Filed under: Humor, Iran — Tags: , — Soccerdad @ 10:00 am

Who would have thunk it?

In Britain a growing number of people are declaring themselves to be adherents of the Jedi faith.

About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland the figure was a reported 14,000.

This made news because eight Scottish police officers declared themselves to be Jedi.

I don’t know if this makes it an organized religion.

Last year, brothers Barney and Daniel Jones founded the UK Church of the Jedi – which offered sermons on the Force, light sabre training, and meditation techniques.

“Light sabre training?” Sign me up.

Not to be outdone, the nation of Iran is apparently raising an army of Wookies.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

04/13/2009

Little-known facts about the White House Seder

Filed under: Holidays, Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 12:00 pm

The Weekly World News, as always, got the dish on what really happened at the White House Seder:

A team of Rabbis, Jewish Scholars, and Project Runway winner Christian Siriano were brought in to design the event.

At the beginning of the service a plate of traditional and symbolic foods will be at the head of the table. Fresh organic horseradish root will provide the bitter herbs symbolizing the bitterness of slavery, handmade adzuki paste will symbolize the mortar slaves worked with, along with three matzos symbolizing “slaves bread” made by Mario Battali and each costing $400.

To represent the tears of the Jewish slaves, there will be glasses of actual tears collected in Jerusalem from widows watching Yentl.

The Haggedah, the story of the Jewish exodus from slavery, will be read aloud by the President while behind him it is projected on a screen in a CGI animation designed by George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic studio and presented in 3-D. All necessary 3-D glasses have been blessed by a Rabbi and deemed kosher.

Here’s my favorite part:

For added effect, a 4 square foot section of the Wailing Wall has been brought in from Israel. Guests will pour small amounts of Manischewitz at its base in remembrance of those who have died along the way, while the Washington Men’s choir sings a Hebrew translation of the Bone Thugs ‘n Harmony song Crossroads.

I love the Weekly World News. It’s gotta go on my sidebar.

03/20/2009

“Yes! There will be growth in the spring! “

Filed under: Humor, Politics, Pop Culture — Tags: — Soccerdad @ 11:00 am

The First Family will have a garden (via memeorandum):

On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut.

(Hmm. Will beets be the new broccoli?)

Is it, as the NYT reports, that the garden will be a lesson about nutrition and other socially responsible behaviors? Or is there an economic lesson to be gleaned?

President “Bobby”: Mr. Gardner, do you agree with Ben, or do you think that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives?
[Long pause]
Chance the Gardener: As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.
President “Bobby”: In the garden.
Chance the Gardener: Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.

If that Geithner guy doesn’t work out, there’s always Chauncey Gardner!

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

03/17/2009

Funniest missile ad ever

Filed under: Humor, Israel, Media — Meryl Yourish @ 12:00 pm

An Israeli defense company is selling its missiles to India via a Bollywood campaign.

I think it has top 40 potential. But then, I’ve had a soft spot for these music videos ever since I first discovered them. I think they’re all silly and fun.

Of course, the usual anti-Israel venom is in the comments, but let’s stop and think about relative death tolls of wars and terror attacks by Islamic nations, and wars by Israel. I do believe the death toll of Islamic nations utterly dwarfs the death tolls of sixty years of war with Palestinians and Israel’s neighbors. But that’s a post for another time.

03/15/2009

Great moments in bureacracy

Filed under: Humor, Juvenile Scorn — Meryl Yourish @ 1:28 pm

David C. put me on to this extremely funny report of what happens when a bureacrat with no scientific background (and apparently no scientific knowledge whatsoever) is the person who gets to approve the safety features of your highly scientific vacuum chamber.

Now I have to explain the absolute Greatest Moment in Wacked Out Real Science.

Couple years ago, some people I worked with finally completed a long-delayed project to build a very large vacuum chamber for testing plasma thrusters and other advanced spacecraft propulsion systems. Not the biggest in the business, but maybe top ten nationwide. Big enough to walk around inside, at any rate, which is the important point.

Important, because in order to go operational it needed the approval of the local Safety Nazis. You know the type. They have a checklist, nay, a whole handbook of checklists, one of which involves Confined Spaces. Big enough to walk around in? Check. Airtight? Check. Can be filled with asphyxiant gas? Well, the MSDS for “Vacuum” apparently lists it as an “asphyxiant”, so check. It’s a Confined Space, and so the Confined Space checklist must be implemented.

Issue the first: How do they make certain nobody can accidentally walk in while the chamber is full of that deadly asphyxiant, “vacuum”? No, the fifty *tons* of force holding the door closed, is not an acceptable answer.

Issue the second: When the chamber is vented back to full atmospheric pressure, where does the vacuum go? If the chamber were accidentally vented by opening the door (see above, and note exact Safety Nazi quote, “OK, say if you were Superman and you opened the door”), where would the vacuum go?

Issue the third: What assurance is there, that when the chamber is vented back to full atmosphere, there is an adequate percentage of oxygen in the chamber? Hint: It is a big, big, big mistake here to acknowledge here that the laws of statistical gas dynamics allow for one chance in 10^10^17 (no typo) that the chamber will spontaneously refill with a sufficiently oxygen-poor atmosphere to preclude respiration.

Issue the forth, and so help me God I am not making this up, again an exact Safety Nazi quote, “How can you be sure there won’t be vacuum pockets left in the chamber, that someone could accidentally stick their head into?”

And, coupled with issue #2, there could be deadly vacuum pockets floating around the lab! Aieeee!!!! Run for your lives!

It only took three weeks to find someone with the common sense and the real authority to overrule the Safety Nazis on this one, and the SNs still take offense if anyone brings it up in their presence.

Vacuum pockets.

While recounting this to a friend, it occurred to us that we have finally found what cats are really staring at when you see them getting ready to attack those unseen things. They have obviously discovered deadly vacuum pockets floating around your home, and are ready to leap on them and bat them out of the way before they can kill you.

03/05/2009

The heck with Little Green Footballs

Filed under: Bloggers, Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 9:06 pm

I have determined that it is all the rage to attack Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs.

So I’m going to post about Charles, too.

Did you know he rides bicycles? Like, for fun? Not because he’s trying to lose weight or anything. Because he wants to. And then he watches the Tour de France, which is at least slightly more interesting than televised golf, but not by much.

Charles also takes photographs and posts them on his blog. Can you believe it? And what’s with the theme behind this one? An angel? An angel? How does that fit in with his Darwinism?

I’m telling you, there’s something wrong with that man. As for his blog, well, gee, definitely stay away from one of the most popular places in the blogosphere. Cut all ties with it. Why would you want to be friends with a guy who’s been exposing the jihadists’ agenda since 2001? Why not get into stupid, useless fights? Hell, I’m going to do my best to make Charles hate me, too.

You got that, Charles? In your face, buddy. It’s ON.

02/10/2009

A note to cats and dogs

Filed under: Cats, Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 6:08 pm

Reader (and my firearms instructor) Stretch sent me this, which I present for your amusement.

The following was found posted very low on a refrigerator door.

Dear Dogs and Cats:

The dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food.
Placing a paw print in the middle of my plate and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Racing me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn’t
help because I fall faster than you can run.

I cannot buy anything bigger than a king sized bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue sleeping on the couch to ensure your comfort, however. Dogs and cats can actually curl up in a ball when they sleep. I know this for a fact; it is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other, stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out on the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.

For the last time, there is no secret exit from the bathroom! If, by some miracle, I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob or get your paw under the edge in an attempt to open the door. I must exit through the same door I entered. Also, I have been using the bathroom for years – canine/feline attendance is neither required nor appreciated.

The proper order for kissing is: Kiss me first, then go smell the other dog or cat’s butt. I cannot stress this enough.

02/03/2009

Is that a pigeon in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?

Filed under: Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 11:30 am

Of course I had to title this post that way.

An Australian traveler was caught with two live pigeons stuffed in his pants following a trip to the Middle East, customs officials said Tuesday.

The 23-year-old man was searched after authorities discovered two eggs in a vitamin container in his luggage, said Richard Janeczko, national investigations manager for the Customs Service

They found the pigeons wrapped in padded envelopes and held to each of the man’s legs with a pair of tights, according to a statement released by the agency. Officials also seized seeds in his money belt and an undeclared eggplant.

You know, it’s the undeclared eggplant that will get you every time.

01/24/2009

Stimulus envy

Filed under: Evil Meryl, Humor, The One — Tags: — Meryl Yourish @ 9:07 am

It’s a direct quote about Obama:

“You know, I’m concerned about the size of the package.”

—House GOP Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).

01/19/2009

A laugh before bed

Filed under: Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 11:20 pm

Sometimes, a spam header just cracks me up. This is one of them.

Get your organisms functions under your own rule.

Right. Gotta work on those organisms functions.

The other one that piqued my interest almost enough to click:

Off the lights and take out your light saber.

Almost. Not quite. Light saber, eh? So that’s what the kids are calling it these days?

[snicker]

01/03/2009

Some observations

Filed under: Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 7:25 pm

Can we please stop running and rerunning and rerunning the same damn footage of the fuel depot getting hit, over and over again? Yes, I’m talking to you, Fox News.

On that same note, can you kindly stop showing flares being fired and having to keep correcting yourself every time you call them mortars?

Aaron David Miller, CNN analyst and former adviser to the State Dept.: The combover is fooling no one. Really. No one.

Crap. There are two episodes of How It’s Made on. They’re like crack, I tellya! Crack! I can’t stop myself. Resin figures! How they make resin figures! Help! Help! I can’t turn away! (Oh, so that’s how they make that tacky crap you can buy at the gas station shops.) Look! It’s wearing a six-pointed star. Joooooos! Zionists control everything, even making tacky figurines. “Her fine brushwork is what brings this figurine to life.” Uh-huh. Sure. Nothing says “lifelike” more than eight-inch high tacky resin figurines.

Yes! Another tacky commercial on Fox. It’s the Snuggie! The blanket with sleeves! And only $19.95! Call right now!

We are using far too many exclamation points in this post. But then, you know, we could all use a break from the grim.

All right. I think it’s dinnertime for me. Talk among yourselves.

01/01/2009

Chris Muir on disproportionate response

Filed under: Hamas, Humor, Israel — Meryl Yourish @ 2:39 pm

Ever spot on:

12/31/2008

And now, a humor break

Filed under: Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 3:30 pm

Every so often, I get an absolutely hilarious spam mail title.

The following is the latest:

Tired of your little friend staring at the floor?

Got any funny spam email titles to share with us?

12/24/2008

To all my atheist readers

Filed under: Holidays, Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 4:44 pm

You have no excuse not to add comments to posts tonight and tomorrow.

12/22/2008

Funniest video of 2008

Filed under: Conspiracies, Humor — Meryl Yourish @ 11:11 pm

Go here.

Do not be eating or drinking.

And then, thank Allah for the video.

Seriously.

11/25/2008

Montana vs. the lighthouse

Filed under: Humor — Tags: — Soccerdad @ 12:00 pm

I love this story. It starts …

ACTUAL transcript of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. This radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on 10-10-95.

What I didn’t know (until last week), that it had been made into a video!

As great as it is, the story is not true!. And the Navy even has a page devoted to its debunking.

I don’t care, it’s still a riot.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

11/07/2008

What’s she been smoking?

Filed under: Humor — Tags: — Soccerdad @ 1:00 am

Every once in a while Secretary Rice does or says something that makes me wonder, “What’s she been smoking?” It looks like I have my answer (via screenshot from Bloglines):

(Click to expand.)

In case you can’t read that it says:

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice holds a joint …

By (AP)

photo(AP)
- United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice holds a joint press
conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, not seen, at the
U.S. ambassador to Israel’s residence in Herzliya, Israel, Thursday,
Nov. 6, 2008. The Bush administration conceded Thursday that an
Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by a year-end deadline is no longer
possible.(AP Photo/Pavel Wolberg, Pool)

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.

11/05/2008

The real reason Obama won

Filed under: Humor, Politics — Meryl Yourish @ 5:58 pm

People forgot all about this valuable voting segment. It put Obama over the top.


In The Know: Candidates Compete For Vital Idgit Vote

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