Latest fad: haikus
Why are they so popular?
Look, it’s a haiku!
A Haiku Pondering the Modern Popularity of a Japanese Style of Poetry
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Lowest form of communication
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Antichrist, and she’s from Iowa.
Conservatives don’t realize Colbert is joking
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Was baseball more fun in the 1980s?
Sure it turned out that they were all a bunch of drug addicts, but watching the Mets of the 80s shaped the way I think about baseball. For example, I thought lighting someone’s shoe on fire was a normal thing to do in a dugout.
The best we have now is a guy who can spin his bat around in mid-air.
This week in vanity plates
DRPASTA – Italian restaurant owner?
BOYLROY – This was accompanied by an Elroy Jetson decal. Apparently this SUV is owned by an 8 year old from the ’60s.
LIFGOSN – No, there was no Corky decal.
CAR2D2 – This is the second clever plate I’ve seen on a green VW Beetle. “KARMIT” in El Cerrito is the other.
KHAKI – Proof that I am prescient when it comes to the stupidity of humanity. Ok, so I said “BEIGE,” but I’m going to take credit anyway.
OBAMA – The bumper sticker wasn’t enough I guess.
S8TANIC – Maybe I could understand a skulled VW Bug having this plate, but not a White Audi A4.
THHRBO – I mentioned this in my other vanity plate post. I saw the vehicle again and realized that it’s a Chevy HHR. I’m not sure why you would want to draw attention to the fact that you’re driving the ugliest car on the road.
I don’t know who flies American Airlines
American Airlines advertises during A’s radio broadcasts designed to make you think American understands you. You’re not really a business person traveling because you have to. You’re a die hard sports fan! The ad explains, “You might forget your toothbrush, but you’ll never forget the lucky socks you wear on gameday!” Toward the end of the spot, they say something like, “We know that you’ve spent an entire flight talking to the person next to you about the pros and cons of free agency and collective bargaining.”
Free agency, well, maybe I could see that conversation coming up, but I think that in 2009 everyone basically accepts that free agency is the norm and isn’t going anywhere, so we might as well accept it. But collective bargaining? Who the hell is discussing the pros and cons of collective bargaining? Am I sitting next to Marvin Miller on the plane or what? Some descendant of Robert F Wagner?
My point is that if I ever fly American again, I’m going to ask the person next to me what they think of the right of professional athletes to join together and present a unified front against the tyranny of the ownership. I’m sure it will be enlightening.
Gov. Perry floats secession
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I nominate Joe Biden to call this bluff…
Now you can pretend you’re at summer camp from your own backyard!
It’s common to see a basketball hoop above the garage, but I’ve never seen one of these in the driveway before:
International School Bus (Ocean Beach)
![[International Schoolbus]](https://realmofthewombat.com/images/cars/intlschoolbus.jpg)
With respect to art cars, a wise man once told me that San Francisco was like a whole ‘nother city. I’ve had luck in SF before, and with other artwork in the neighborhood, I thought art cars in Sunset would be as copious as in Berkeley. But Bear’s Trading Post here is the only one I’ve seen down here.
Doesn’t Hammurabi’s Code apply over there?
Maybe if Muntadar al-Zaidi would have knocked out George Bush’s eye, a three year sentence would have been necessary. Al-Zaidi took his best shot with the shoes, and Bush proved that, if nothing else, he is an agile man.
But there is something else about Bush! He’s not easily rattled, shrugging off the incident, according to the BBC report. I wonder what he would be concerned with?