He likes it! Hey Mike E.!


One of my co-workers spilled a bit of coffee this morning. As it turns out, I was looking at ThinkGeek last night and they have a gadget that prevents spills. It is a cradle with a flexible handle that balances the various forces acting on the liquid in the cup, preventing it from sloshing around. Naturally, when trying to explain this with talking, I started to stammer. I got out that it was a gadget that prevents spills.
The response: "A lid?"

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Still waiting for Watson to compare Holmes to Miss Marple.

"Overheard in the office, from the chatty guy with the loud, obnoxious voice: "If you ever hear Portuguese, it sounds like Sarcan employees trying to speak Spanish".

"Reading project docs is typically pretty boring, but you sometimes find gems like this: "The purpose of this document is to elaborate and document the project work
that produces the product of the project."

"Boo. The mayor is a bad row boat. Sink him."
(on the Mayor of Detroit vetoing a Robocop statue)

"I do suspect that World's Worst Cook is actually a thinly veiled World's Greatest Assassin."

"Da-shiong bao-jah-shr duh la-doo-tze. Now I'm sorry I missed it."

"I suspect that the guys who showed up with masks, gasoline and weapons might not have had completely honourable intentions. But maybe I'm too jaded."
on the Vancouver riots

"Apropos of very little, an intern at CERN did a rap about the LHC. Filmed on site, with actual scientists "dancing" (and I mean dancing in the loosest terms possible) in the background. It is hilariously bad. And awesome, because it's the LHC. The thing that will not only destroy us, but prevent us from ever having existed at all."

"That's the bizarre, random, casual racism that I expect from my father. Not from other people."

"Now that I like. If you are going to insult someone, pick on personal failings. Picking on race/gender/orientation is just boring."

"I wish my job let me confiscate cupcakes."

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