Electric Josh

So it seems the Nazis invented the phrase "sharpened interrogation techniques" (Verschärfte Vernehmung) to refer to Guantanamo-style "enhanced interrogation techniques," which are obviously totally different than the "sharpened" variety that got some Nazis sentenced to death at Nuremberg. A question: do you still have to acknowledge Godwin's Law when talking about politicians who actually quote the Gestapo?
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Kids, if you are ever scared in bed late at night and have started entertaining notions of asking to sleep in your parents' bed with them, just remember the story of the girl whose daddy's bed was pounced on by a flippin leopard! in the middle of the night:

Du Mosch's pet cat was in the bed with him at the time, along with his young daughter who had been frightened by a mosquito in her own room.

The older kid trotted out an old classic this morning as I was eating my cereal: "Hey Dad, do you want a beer?" She also offered one to her mom. (We both politely declined.)
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Measuring stock prices in units other than dollars shows that they aren't as valuable as a naive look at the numbers would suggest.
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I am unbelievably glad to have stumbled across this book of prose and verse written in the Anguish Languish. By way of examples, a celebratory song:

Fur hazy jelly gut furlough
Fur hazy jelly gut furlough
Fur hazy jelly gut furlough
Witch nor bawdy candor nigh

Sinker sucker socks pants
Apocryphal awry
Foreign turnkey blank boards
Bagged inner pyre.
Whinny pious orphaned
Door boards bay-gander sink.
Worsen dizzy jelly ditch
Toe setter furry kink?
Door kink worse inner conning horse
Conning otters moaning.
Door coin worse inner panda
Aiding burden honing.
Door mate worse inner gardening
Hankering ardor cloys.
A lung camel blank board
An sniffed offer noise!

It's good to know that I'm not the only one that has trouble remembering names. Squirm, you name forgetter!
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Magic fruit extract makes sour foods taste sweet, but apparently, and I don't know why I'm a little bit glad about this fact, it does nothing to the taste of Diet Dr. Pepper.
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