Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label irony. Show all posts

Friday, April 2, 2010

They serve sand, and seat you next to a warlord

I can respect how difficult it must be to translate Amharic, or whatever this script is, into English. But the mistranslation here is one of life's wonderful ironic confluences.

I'll take the geologic history of Addis Ababa for $200, Alex.

The restaurant-to-be is at the corner of Chamblee-Tucker and Henderson Mill roads in metro Atlanta.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Today's Lucid Idiocy

The general consensus is that this is not a real Amish Web site.
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Completely unrelated, but I think it's important to note that Soldier Boy's contributions to society reach their inevitable conclusion at the 59 second mark of this trailer:


Can you combine the Oscar with the Grammy?

Monday, June 11, 2007

Today's lucid idiocy

At lunch I saw a blind kid with his family. He was wearing a T-shirt that said:

Genius by birth
Lazy by choice