Bart King's Blog, page 278
January 25, 2010
You Call THAT Book Dangerous?
I've just been informed that two balmy Brits wrote a book titled The Dangerous Book for Boys. If you know anyone who thinks that this vile volume is better than the incredibly tremendous The Big Book of Boy Stuff, use one of these specially designed British insults on them:
—Look! A chutney-bottomed ninnyroger!
—Have you got marmalade for brains?
—You, sir, are a milk-faced popinjay.
—Blimey! Only a troglodytic dullard would fancy that book.
—Bart King smart. Your book dumb.
(Of course...
I've Heard of a "Monkey on Your Back"...
...but I've never seen a cat with a cat on its back.
January 18, 2010
The Sincero-Mark and You: Partners in Earnestness
You may have heard that a company named SarcMark has trademarked a new punctuation mark intended to denote sarcasm. This new sarcasm symbol looks like a backwards ampersand (@), but since SarcMark is actually trying to sell the thing, I won't reproduce it here.
Although the free market dictates that SarcMark can charge what the market will bear, have we really come to the point where we sell each other punctuation marks? I had always been taught that are an infinite number of all the other...
Although the free market dictates that SarcMark can charge what the market will bear, have we really come to the point where we sell each other punctuation marks? I had always been taught that are an infinite number of all the other...
The Sincero-Mark and You: Emoticon Meets Master
You may have heard that a company named SarcMark has trademarked a new punctuation mark intended to denote sarcasm. This sarcasm symbol looks like a backwards ampersand; I'm reluctant to reproduce it because they're apparently actually trying to sell it.
Although the free market dictates that one can charge what the market can bear, I find it both unconscionable and crass that this punctuation mark can only be purchased. There are an infinite number of all the other punctuation marks out...
Although the free market dictates that one can charge what the market can bear, I find it both unconscionable and crass that this punctuation mark can only be purchased. There are an infinite number of all the other punctuation marks out...
Don't Leave Me Hanging Without a Good Book
A woman named Sally Trout built a bookcase in a stairwell. Yay! The only problem is that the titles are so inaccessible, the only way to access them is with a bosun's chair. Double yay! (Photo from Books Do Furnish a Room .)
January 13, 2010
Don't Leave Me Hanging!
Two guys who live in Toronto just set the record for the world's longest high-five. That is, they ran over three kilometers toward each other with their hands up… waiting to do the high-five… then they met.
And magic happened!
January 12, 2010
Now THAT'S a Big Watch (Get Two!)
The watch above is actually called the Bad-Ass Gunmetal Compass watch. As you can see, it's colossal. Now, most people don't even wear watches anymore, because their cellphones tell the time. So you might look a little silly if you wore this one. (Okay, a LOT silly.)
BUT if you wore a Bad-Ass Gunmetal Compass watch on BOTH OF YOUR WRISTS you would be the coolest person in your zipcode!
