that old intergenerational tension

I can relate...

Misunderstood Explanation of Benefits

2009 Eustace Tilley Contest

Not quite as storied as the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (Literally, Literally), here is the 2009 Eustace Tilly Contest. The above entry should win.

Ho ho ho

"Why can't you be more like little Hester Prynne? She's getting straight A's"

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[stolen from]

Been awhile

New Yorker Cartoon of the Day

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Tom Cheney: "There's someone I'd like you to meet."

That son of a bee

The economy is just really tough now

... is the business version of I think we should just be friends.

"Well, thanks anyway for sharing your financial plight with us."

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Stolen, in bulk, from here.

Playing Chicken with the MetroRail

I agree, the Wagner is an inspired choice on this bit of stupid driving youtube ha ha. And speaking of: You call that Wagner?

Ever So Tangentially Related

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"I couldn't disagree with you more. I think yours is greener."

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Nipped from here.

PS, this one totally cracked me up too.

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The most realistic cartoon about science, ever . [stolen from]*

*also scientific.

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[from here, of course]

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“The love ballad I’m about to sing will pose a lot of uncomfortable questions about gender identity and class-based issues. I hope you can handle it.” (Female rock singer announces a song.)

My Country Right or Wrong

NYCotD: "Jason, I'd like to let you play, but soccer is a girls' game."

Occasionally, New Yorkers remember whose side they are on.

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"Please, Al. You know the backstroke scares the children."

Sports

Well, that was a good game. Mariners win 3-0 on a 1 hit shut out. Here is a not really related cartoon which somehow captures the moment.

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The odd thing about baseball and sports in general, is that the outcome of a completely insane-when-you-think-about-it game played by guys I know not at all personally makes me feel good or bad. I guess the ultimate expression of this is the Olympics, where I'm supposed to root for semi-pro ice curlers based on the flag design of their unitard. And the rules for sports are bizarre, arcane, arbitrary, and mostly incomprehensible. It is a great metaphor for life, which is mostly absurd and mostly hilarious*.

I have worked in a mostly European group in the past and have only marginally defended baseball (and only marginally made fun of soccer; except when the French lost. That was great). Anyway, you either get baseball or you don't, in which case you have bad taste in sports and you should feel bad.

* "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
George Bernard Shaw