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Where would I be without the easy ones?

Huh. I guess the National Enquirer thinks Obama has worms*. I’m not sure. When I click the link, I get “The content of this website is not available in your area.” That happens with Saturday Night Live skits, too.

See? England isn’t all bad.

In other wormy news, did you see the Cheezburger Network got a major capital infusion?

I love the Cheezburger folks, but I don’t know how they’re getting away with this. They pretty much admit they don’t know where most of the photos come from and that’s totally, no-doubt-about-it, not even a little bit legal. You can’t do that. You can’t nick other people’s stuff; it doesn’t matter if they’re amateur snapshots of pussycats and you supply the captions.

I assumed they got away with it because there weren’t any deep pockets involved, but $30M is a respectable pocket. Well, long may they escape the roving bands of aggressive IP lawyers that scour the internet (and ruin my fun on Zazzle).

*idea swiped from Anthropocon.

Comments


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 19, 2011, 11:11 pm

Heh. Self-imposed irony alert. I nicked these two pictures, of course. But if my pockets were any shallower they would absorb light and emit x-rays.

No, I have no idea what that means.


Comment from David Gillies
Time: January 19, 2011, 11:33 pm

James Taranto has a section title on Best of the Web called Everything is Seemingly Spiralling Out of Control. Thirty million bucks and a hundred full time employees to run a website that posts pictures of cats. Sometimes I feel like I have to check out of the window to see if the sky has suddenly turned paisley.

I hope the antihelminthics are specific enough not to get rid of the big worm rather than all the little ones.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: January 20, 2011, 1:02 am

I’m sorry, were they saying that Obama HAS worms, or that he IS a worm?

I keep getting those two mixed up, it’s SO embarrasing….


Comment from Mitchell
Time: January 20, 2011, 1:35 am

The article basically says that he got the parasites on his trip to Hawaii and they’re trying to keep it very quiet. Michelle supposedly fears he’s on the edge of collapse. What are we gonna call this one? Wormgate?

Lord help us if he does become incapacitated. While I have almost no confidence in his abilities as president, I have exponentially less confidence in Biden’s.


Comment from Mark Matis
Time: January 20, 2011, 1:53 am

For Mitchell:
Biden might be able to screw things up, but he couldn’t INTENTIONALLY do it as thoroughly as The One.


Comment from porknbean
Time: January 20, 2011, 2:37 am

I’m sorry, were they saying that Obama HAS worms, or that he IS a worm?

Yes.
They’re keeping the pictures of him ass-scooting down the driveway under wraps.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: January 20, 2011, 3:37 am

LOL, PnB….

I want to see the vet pinch his nose shut and stick the dewormer down his throat……… 😉


Comment from David Gillies
Time: January 20, 2011, 5:15 am

Anyone remember that Sun headline, “Chirac est un ver” (Chirac is a worm)? How appropriate that the most French President since the Goober Farmer should be stuffed with ’em. It’s definitely a rallying cry: get President Wormy out of America’s alimentary tract.

Obscure thungumajig: wasn’t it Primo Levi who said that since tapeworms got their sustenance pre-digested by the host, uniquely among animals they possess no anus? Compare with BHO, who is nothing but asshole.


Comment from Mark Matis
Time: January 20, 2011, 2:14 pm

For Scubafreak:
It might work better if applied from the OTHER end.


Comment from Mike James
Time: January 20, 2011, 3:45 pm

Have you read the comment section for any given post on I Can Haz Cheezburger? Congress must act, and those twee bastards must be forcibly relocated and kept in some sort of camp.


Comment from Mitchell
Time: January 20, 2011, 8:28 pm

^o come on nao! U dun be like dat


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 20, 2011, 9:10 pm

No kidding, Mike. I ran across my moron big brother in a Cheezburger thread. Posting under his own real name.

Sooper genius.


Comment from Can’t hark my cry
Time: January 20, 2011, 11:59 pm

Oh, man, Mark–I took your dare, and now my stomach is REALLY upset! That was. . .ineffably vile!


Comment from Mark Matis
Time: January 21, 2011, 2:15 am

??? Which dare???


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: January 21, 2011, 11:22 am

I think she meant Mike’s Cheezburger dare. It’s pretty awful, wading through those comment threads.

I find properly rendered Cheezburger grammar pretty funny, but those threads devolve into an obscene mix of pidgin and babytalk.


Comment from Can’t hark my cry
Time: January 21, 2011, 12:09 pm

Ouch, sorry Mark–I was so nauseated I started mixing up names! Yup, I read the first 6 comments in a Cheezburger thread. Oy!

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