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Who Wants to Write a Haiku?
Write a Biden Health Reform Haiku: [simple] Haiku, as you may know, is a 5-7-5 form of poetry: five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. Biden’s r-rated health reform headline from yesterday happens to contain seven syllables: Biden speaking to the President: “This is a big —-ing deal.” So we want …
It’s Not What It Seems [Photo]
Was there a wedding we weren’t invited to? [congrats] h/t BA
Bush Uses Clinton as Towel
It’s likely not what really happened, but it’s funny. Former President’s George W. Bush and Bill Clinton made their first joint visit to Haiti this week, touring and helping out in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital city devastated by the January earthquake. It’s an admirable visit, but something else happened while …
Free Wedding Contest
Setting: a beautiful wedding ceremony, surrounded by your closest friends and family, on a luxury yacht set against the charming scenery of the Chesapeake Bay. Does this sound like your dream wedding? Well you are in luck, because Watermark Cruises is giving away a free wedding, worth over $20,000, on …
Recess Is Back March 27th
On March 27th Host-DC and Host-NYC invite you to be a kid again and to experience Recess, the DC area’s first game night and ice cream social for adults mixed with a party atmosphere! Relive some of your youth as attendees will be able to enjoy games, drinks, discounted rooms, …
Famously Quoteworthy: Which Baldwin is This?
We’re unclear as to what makes Stephen Baldwin an expert on health care: “[I]t’s official today, Barack Obama is the greatest gangster to ever come out of Chicago,” then followed with “Mr. Obama’s a liar.” [smooth quote] We did love him in “8 Seconds.”
Public Service Annoucement
Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize 165 days ago. [our t-shirt just arrived in the mail]
Fire Pelosi Tee
We’re not quite sure what to think of this, but we do wonder if it comes in polka dots? And please define “extended sizes.”
Famously Quoteworthy: We Posted This Because We Like Dentistry
Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com had a root canal yesterday. Just got home from an unplanned root canal. Still a bit numb … but not numb enough. 🙁 We wish Ed a speedy recovery.
How Not to Keep It Classy
Dear People That Make Terrible Decisions After Historic Congressional Votes, This kind of thing doesn’t help prove your point. Democratic offices in at least three states have reported instances of vandalism that party members say possibly were tied to Sunday’s historic vote on health care reform. Early Monday morning, a …
Metro’s Chronic Escalator Outages
Metro’s chronic escalator outages — including 68 as of this week — has riders up in arms. For anyone familiar with the DC Metro escalators, this comes as no surprise. Matter of fact, we’d be surprised if the damn things worked. According to data from Metro, the problem appears to …
Top 10 Reasons Why We’re Not Doing a #FDC Twitter Bracket Challenge
1. Gagnon dropped the ball on organizing. As outgoing champ, it was his job. We just forgot to tell him. 2. We came in an inch of our lives last year because some folks didn’t like the results. 3. We think people should spend more time with their families instead …
Closing Bell: NRCC Video Guy Keeps It Real
We’ve got to give it up to the NRCC once again — they’re straight killing it with the videos. There’s a lot of quick humor throughout the entire video [:47, 1:05]