Humor
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Jews-With-Trees
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A fun story of one couple embracing the secular side of Christmas… So as I browsed past velvet monogrammed stockings and quilted tree skirts and pine wreaths and silver-plated picture frames that doubled as stocking holders (genius!), I said to myself, as much as to my husband: “This is why I sometimes wish I celebrated…
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Curing the pattern disease
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Do you walk down the street and notice patterns all around you? If so, you might suffer from apophenia — a serious malady that goes undiagnosed for years in most people. Talk to your doctor to see if Metavor is right for you. Satire courtesy of Chris Baum.
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Parodies of office life
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I tried watching The Office but not only didn’t find it funny, it was a little painful. I mean, office life, particularly in big companies, is actually like that, why go home and watch more of it? On the other hand, I was happy to find Netflix carries The Newsroom, a parady that understands you…
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Mr. Tree
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HerIM: …the second thing is your IA findings focus on the intranet, which is a good suggestion…but what do you think about the Internet? MeIM: oh, that MeIM: that Internet thing MeIM: i’ll do more there HerIM: that would be cool. you can use 2 pages if you need to MeIM: but that would hurt…
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Mark Twain on the German Language
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I’m currently experiencing this pain, a sort of sadomasachism… There are ten parts of speech, and they are all troublesome. An average sentence, in a German newspaper, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech — not in regular order, but mixed;…
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Fear in Advertising
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Get Your Voltron On
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