Serious Thinks Thought Here
"I could be the least quotable guy I know."
Reluctantly admits to being @davio1962 on Twitter
What the heck is that thing up there?
"I could be the least quotable guy I know."
Reluctantly admits to being @davio1962 on Twitter
What the heck is that thing up there?
First of all, let’s get one thing straight. I have never been ON an imaginary girlfriend, as the title would suggest. That is not to say I haven’t dated a few. It’s just that none would even let me get to second base, let alone get on top of them.
But I digress—and in a particularly disturbing way, I might add. But in any event, it seems that some All-American foosball player from Notre Dame Cook University is involved in a scandal concerning one imaginary girlfriend. Even more amazing is the fact that this kid was a candidate to win the Heisenberg Trophy (for excellence in physics, I imagine). Which begs the question…
Why would someone like this need to invent a girlfriend?
I mean, he obviously has both the jock and nerd categories pretty much locked up.
But do you want to know what is even sadder than that? How about the fact that his imaginary girlfriend was terminally ill? Where does one go to get treatment for THAT, I ask you? And before you say an imaginary oncologist, estimate just how many such programs might exist in the entire U.S. It can’t be more than 2 or 3 at the most. She was a goner from the moment she was first diagnosed, I say.
And so the question remains: How does a physicist-athlete, with more apostrophies in his name than letters, soldier on—both in the lab and over the foosball table—without his make-believe loved one cheering from the sidelines? He’s not, that’s how. No, he will likely leave the fields of science and competitive barroom games and eke out a measly living on the royalties from his autobiography and biopic.
Another American tragedy, that is.
Are you obsessed with the Mars rover? I am.
I lay awake at night thinking about how it’s tooling around the Mars landscape, all alone. Every so often, stopping to scratch or sniff (sorry) at the ground. Or maybe collect a souvenir or two for the white guys at NASA.
But mostly I think about just how darn cute the rover is. I mean look at it. It has six (six!), independently suspended wheels but no tires. THE MARS ROVER HAS NAKED FEET!
It also has a skinny arm. I have skinny arms. We’re kindred spirits, me and the Mars rover. And do you like big butts and cannot lie? Well, the rover has some real junk in the trunk, if you know what I mean. And by junk, I mean dust and soil samples and stuff. This was probably what Sir Mix-A-Lot was referring to as well, no doubt.
And lastly, I just love the name, ‘Rover’. “Here Rover. Here boy!” I can just see the Mars rover ambling to me now, wagging its cute little, cylindrical tail, waving its skinny, little arm, sniffing and scratchingAAARRRGGGHHH IT’S SCRATCHING MY FACE OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT—
Perhaps it’s better that this evil mecha-beast is on Mars. I should probably cancel my order with NASA.
Well this just pokes a big hole in my evolution bubble. If people and dinosaurs were not on the Earth at the same time, how did someone ever paint this?
I know. Mind blown.
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jstn:
Incredible “amateur” photo of the sun. Camera/telescope rig shown here.
This is completely insane.
AGGGHHH, I LOOKED DIRECTLY AT THIS AND I CAN NO LONGER SEE*
* - not really
So, my son informs me the other day that his project was not chosen for the school Science Fair.
I told him that while this was disappointing news, it was not the end of the world.
No. That would be next year’s project MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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