I’ve lived here for 7 years, and while admittedly I haven’t taken much of an interest in baseball, I’ve always tried to keep up with excretory juvenility. So why, oh why, did nobody tell me about Albert Pujols? I quote: “Pronounced: POO-holes”.
POO-holes, people! Emphasis on the POO, not the holes. POO-holes. Seriously.
Now normally even I would feel bad about mocking a guy just for his name, but I quote further: “2006 Salary: $14,000,000”.
So who’s the POO-hole now?
Imagine you’re standing in an elevator, listening to a podcast that uses the word ‘outlaws’. You wonder idly why the opposite of ‘outlaws’ isn’t ‘in-laws’. Or maybe it is, and you should put it on a poster with a cute kitten dangling from a wire or something and sell it on mindlessplatitudes.com.
Well just don’t, OK?
“Zimbabwe’s prices rise 900%, turning staples into luxuries”
…white-collar workers across the country forced by economic circumstances into using paperclips for all their loose-leaf retention needs.
Read the story, btw – despite the accidental headline comedy, it isn’t funny.
I love this post from No More Mister Nice Blog, documenting 6 instances in less than three years where we’ve had ‘a turning point’ in Iraq according to the President. Assuming these were all right turns, that means we’re now heading back where we started from. I’ll let you decide if that’s a good thing.
And now, for your viewing pleasure, a fractal lake.
Tastefully named, I should also point out.