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“I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.”
—Paul Simon (via simonandgarfunkel)
Hmm, dilemma.
How do you go about apologizing to people when your email account gets hacked? It’s not exactly my fault but it’s still pretty hawkward. I have this Hotmail account that I haven’t used in eons, and apparently it’s been sending out loads of spam to the contacts I had in high school, including teachers. Ugh. But since I don’t use that email anymore, I didn’t know about the hack-age until someone told me. So I’m not really sure what to do. Ignore it and assume everyone knows what junk mail is by now? Send out a mass clarification email? Post something on Facebook (last resort)? I guess a message could go something like this:
Dear AP History class of 2006-2007,
I’m really sorry that my hacked Hotmail account tried to sell you penis pills. I never use that account anymore so I had no idea. Sorry. I’m sure all of your penises are just fine. Maybe they’re even bigger now! Who knows? What about that James Buchanan, huh?
Happy new year and many happy returns,
Me
Yahoo! Politics!: Understanding Iowa: 'These are the people who would call the police on your illegal chickens.' →
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I’m told the reason it remains illegal to raise chickens in Iowa City, where I live, is because Iowans moved to our relatively cosmopolitan college town to get away from the country people and, by extension, their chickens. Twentysomethings from bigger cities, where it is fashionable to raise your own chicks and harvest fresh eggs and place them decorously on gingham dish towels, come to Iowa thinking they will live the country life for a little while, only to find their neighbors shutting them down. I mention this by way of explaining my first impression of the 400 people who came to see Mitt Romney in a hotel in Davenport, Iowa, on Tuesday night: These are the people who would call the police on your illegal chickens.
Psst, pass it on. Don't drink and drive.
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This is GREAT, you guys!
Wuthering Heights
“Nelly, I am Heathcliff — he’s always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being…”
Wuthering Heights is one of very few novels that I can read over and over, and it makes me lose my breath every time without fail.
“I’ve just kind of stopped doing everything. I never change the channel in my trailer. I just watch reruns of House of Payne and Two and a Half Men. I love Cops, I think it’s my favorite TV show. God, I sound like such a loser.”
—Robert Pattinson (via rpattztalks)
