Including members of the casts of Scrubs, West Wing, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, and Law & Order, and Jim Carrey!
Natalie Portman’s favorite curse word below…
Category: Humor
To honor the patron saint of Ireland, I offer you this off-color joke that was voted best joke in Ireland in 2006:
John O’Reilly hoisted his beer and said, “Here’s to spending the rest of me life, between the legs of me wife!” That won him the top prize at the pub for the best toast of the night!
He went home and told his wife, Mary, “I won the prize for the Best toast of the night”
She said, “Aye, did ye now. And what was your toast?”
John said, “Here’s to spending the rest of me life, sitting in church beside me wife.”
“Oh, that is very nice indeed, John!” Mary said.
The next day, Mary ran into one of John’s drinking buddies on the street corner.
The man chuckled leeringly and said, “John won the prize the other night at the pub with a toast about you, Mary”.
She said, “Aye, he told me, and I was a bit surprised myself.”
“You know, he’s only been there twice in the last four years. Once he fell asleep, and the other time I had to pull him by the ears to make him come.”
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Geldof and Bush
Irish rocker Bob Geldof has written a reflective piece on the time he spent with Mr. Bush in Africa this past week.
[Mr. Bush] is also, I feel, an emotional man. But sometimes he’s a sentimentalist, and that’s different. He is in love with America. Not the idea of America, but rather an inchoate notion of a space — a glorious metaphysical entity. But it is clear that since its mendacious beginnings, this war has thrown up a series of abuses that disgrace the U.S.’s central proposition. In the need to find morally neutralizing euphemisms to describe torture and abuse, the language itself became tortured and abused. Rendition, waterboarding, Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib — all are codes for what America is not. America has mortally compromised its own essential values of civil liberty while imposing its own idea of freedom on others who may not want it. The Bush regime has been divisive — but not in Africa. I read it has been incompetent — but not in Africa. It has created bitterness — but not here in Africa. Here, his administration has saved millions of lives.
From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.
Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
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Local color
At this point, close followers of the Clinton-Obama race will have noticed that Ms. (“Texas has a primary and a caucus?”) Clinton doesn’t seem to have invested much in either of the states she is now counting upon to save her campaign on March 4 – Texas or Ohio. The New York Times plays into this with their headline “Pieces of Texas Turn Primary Into a Puzzle.” Certainly, Ms. Clinton, along with most pundits, has been heard to publicly puzzle over the Texas system in the past few weeks. While Senator Barack Obama’s campaign seems to have planned for this from the start. Presuming that I’ve already made the point about how arrogant and unprepared Ms. Clinton has been in this campaign, I direct your attention to this juicy bit of local color from the Times‘s piece on the Texas primary:
Ben Kerr, 66, a medical clinic administrator in Waco who was eating lunch there Friday at a venerable old diner that serves Tater Tots, shakes and dripping burgers but is incongruously called the Health Camp. Mr. Kerr described living for many years east of Houston in Port Arthur, which he said many people considered the true capital of Louisiana because of its Cajun population. But he now considers himself a man of Central Texas, and as part of a smaller area around Waco with a deeply independent bent.
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Conan’s Greatest Guest Moments
This has apparently been around the interets for quite a while, but I haven’t laughed this hard in a while:
I appreciate Senator John McCain’s frankness. Especially in contrast to the political styles of Senator Hillary Clinton and President George W. Bush.
Wish I had been there for this:
On a less serious note, check out this site a friend of mine is running, Empty Beanie. It just launched a few days ago – and I like the concept.
A clip from Judd Apatow’s new film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story with John C. O’Reilly and Tim Meadows.[reddit-me] A spoof of Walk the Line, the film has cameos from Jack White as Elvis, Paul Rudd as John Lennon, Frankie Muniz as Buddy Holly.