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Riddle Time

Read this quickly one time, and try to answer the question that follows:

Dexter's father's son is his brother and his uncle.  How?

The answer appears below the video.

Riddle Answer: 

Dexter is Catholic. His Pastor (AKA father) is his grandfather.  His uncle was in his fraternity, so they are frat brothers. Oh, come on. It’s not that far-fetched!

“Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible "noble purpose," but to plain, naked human evil.”

Riddle Time

Read this quickly one time, and try to answer the question that follows:

Jake and his 8 friends go down to the subway and take the 4 train to Murphy’s bakery.  After looking at the 12 types of cookies, they decide to get a box of chocolate chocolate chip.  If 72 come in a box, how many cookies do each of the friends get?

The answer appears below the video.

Riddle Answer: 8 (There are 9 friends, including Jake)

What does Brian Eno think of Brian Eno? 

GPS’s should show the speed limit of the road you are driving on.

The “close” buttons in elevators only work with a key.

For the most part, every event in a work of fiction contributes directly to either plot or character development.  This makes sense, but is somewhat unrealistic.

The average yawn lasts about six seconds.

Is “aquaria” the plural form of “aquarium?”

Drinking Laws

There should be an iPod feature that allows listeners to pause a playlist, listen to a different song, and go back to the playlist where it was left off.

Practically every insurance company claims that “people who switched saved an average of ___ hundred dollars.”  Keep in mind that almost everyone that makes an educated decision to switch from one insurance company to another is doing so to save money.  Nobody switches to lose money.

Did you yawn at all yet?  I put in a yawn picture and a yawn fact to try to induce yawning.

Kathy Bates and Andrew from MGMT went to the same high school.

Puma and Adidas were created by brothers Rudolph and Adi Dassler, respectively.  They were both members of the Nazi Party. 

Why is the west coast hotter than the east coast? 

The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666.

If you didn't yawn already, have you yawned by now?  Did you yawn twice?  If not, try to get someone to yawn by yawning loudly near them.  Or get a job.

The Strokes cover Marvin Gaye

Collective Effervescence

This is my 50th blog post!  Well, technically it's my 51st, but one of the earlier ones was more of a Facebook post than a blog post.  Either way, I am still surprised that I had the patience and commitment (and had nothing better to do) to make this possible.

Little did I know that when I was bored one afternoon on The Ocho, I would create something that I would still be working on months later.  On the same day, my friend, Jon, created thelifesaverblog.blogspot.com.  Clearly, SITP is much better, but I still give him credit for trying.

My point here is that, well, ... I guess I don't really have a point.  I just wanted to brag that I've now wasted several hours of my life on something as meaningless as a website filled with musings and pictures I stole from the internet.

So, in conclusion, I'm glad that I've come this far and I look forward to bragging about my 100th post (or 101st on a technicality).

Why aren’t there rippled barbeque chips?

“Two words… or maybe five.”

If you answer three questions incorrectly on “Cash Cab”, you are forced to get out of the taxi, regardless of where it is with respect to your destination.  There are some episodes that are filmed at night.  It would be funny if during one of these episodes, a contestant gets kicked out of the cab in the middle of the ghetto.

Andy Warhol was shot two days before Roger F. Kennedy was assassinated.

It would save all of the companies in any given field a lot of money if they made an agreement not to advertise.

How do cracker taste-testers cleanse their palates?

The Peter Principle

There is a big difference between being self-conscious and self-aware.

Sometimes I watch TV shows that I’m not supposed to, according to my demographic, just to fool the advertisers.

Why are there green arrows on traffic lights at 1 o’clock in the morning?  It would be more efficient to just have green lights.  (If you are trying to drive straight through the intersection, you are stuck with a red light until the green arrow on the opposing side is through.  Most of the time, there won’t be any cars turning left, creating time wasted at an intersection.)

If I was an astronaut that walked on the moon, I would leave a note to future moon-dwellers.

How is that long-term project going for you?  You didn’t start it, did you?  If you did, by now, you could have accomplished something pretty cool.  You should actually start one now.  I’ll check in with you later.

Put the toilet paper rolls higher up.  People use toilet paper while standing, not while they are sitting on the toilet.

My "Wouldn't It Be Nice Cover"

Rebel without Applause; The Copenhagen Situation

If I was playing in the World Series of Poker, I would wear clothing with a bunch of advertisements on it, so that the other players think that I’m really good.

Create numbered plastic cups so everyone knows which is theirs, without having to bust out the Sharpie.

Free speech is expensive.

Why do baseball catchers bother wearing a baseball cap in the first place?  For the other players, it shields sun from their eyes.  The catcher wears his hat backwards, rendering it about as important as a broken wristwatch.

I saw a doctor spit recently.  It was a little uncomfortable.

Sometimes when I’m in an awkward situation (like passing someone in a long corridor where you can see them coming from far away), I start solving math equations in my head.  Figuring out the square root of 256 is easier than deciding how much- if any- eye contact to make with someone that I’m walking by.

Think of something else.

Are mailmen allowed to smoke in their trucks?  I’ve never seen it happen.

Kelsey Grammer, the actor who plays Frasier, was the original voice of the Geico gecko.

Make concert earplugs that blend into your ears (and aren’t fluorescent).  Wearing earplugs isn’t something that people generally want to flaunt.

There is no need to pay a fee to use an ATM.  You can go to a Wal-mart, buy a pack of gum, and get up to $100 cash back.

 “A horse is not a home.”

“My tolerance is pretty high now.  No pun intended.”

“Maybe you’ll find direction where it’s been waiting to meet you.”

“How would you feel… if you parked in a blind person’s spot?”

“Our past is pear-shaped.”

“Maybe for you paper should be more of a hobby.”