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Once again it's time to dump a bunch of links I've been collecting:
Someone got 830 points in a game of Scrabble (via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bestofboardgame). This is actually not terribly impressive: he got two triple-triples, and it's unlikely that a better opponent would have left those opportunities. Also, he dumped tiles several times in order to get the perfect draw, which is not really a winning strategy in an ordinary situation. Still, it's kind of neat to see. Sort of like a run & shoot offense in the NFL or run-and-gun in the NBA.
That psychedelic Sesame Street video that we were looking for (viaahkond).
you are so amazing (via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
explodingdogrss). I feel like this a lot. People are always impressed by the wrong things.
Live-action Katamari Damacy down the streets of San Francisco (viajtemperance).
"Oh my god, shoes!" (viarosminah).
"A zebra mussel is a living water filter" that's cleaning up Lake Michigan... but that's a bad thing (viathestraightdope).
CDs are getting louder and louder... but that's a bad thing (via chugchanga-l).
White rap spoofs from Weird Al and Smirnoff (viaxartofnothingx). I don't know why but I found these a lot funnier than I was expecting.
Love songs from "The Venture Brothers" (via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
venturebrothers). For fans only, probably, but they're pretty awesome. (These are actual songs from the actual people who make the show, not just fan filk or whatever.)
Battlestar Galactica mash-up (new vs. old). I forgot where I found this, sorry.
"The Awful German Language", by Mark Twain. "[I]n a German newspaper they put their verb away over on the next page; and I have heard that sometimes after stringing along the exciting preliminaries and parentheses for a column or two, they get in a hurry and have to go to press without getting to the verb at all."
Some academic papers on modern speech habits: "Like: The Discourse Particle and Semantics" and "Dude". Unfortunately the full text is only available for purchase, but the abstracts are still pretty entertaining.
Someone got 830 points in a game of Scrabble (via
bestofboardgame). This is actually not terribly impressive: he got two triple-triples, and it's unlikely that a better opponent would have left those opportunities. Also, he dumped tiles several times in order to get the perfect draw, which is not really a winning strategy in an ordinary situation. Still, it's kind of neat to see. Sort of like a run & shoot offense in the NFL or run-and-gun in the NBA.That psychedelic Sesame Street video that we were looking for (via
ahkond).you are so amazing (via
explodingdogrss). I feel like this a lot. People are always impressed by the wrong things.Live-action Katamari Damacy down the streets of San Francisco (via
jtemperance)."Oh my god, shoes!" (via
rosminah)."A zebra mussel is a living water filter" that's cleaning up Lake Michigan... but that's a bad thing (via
thestraightdope).CDs are getting louder and louder... but that's a bad thing (via chugchanga-l).
White rap spoofs from Weird Al and Smirnoff (via
xartofnothingx). I don't know why but I found these a lot funnier than I was expecting.Love songs from "The Venture Brothers" (via
venturebrothers). For fans only, probably, but they're pretty awesome. (These are actual songs from the actual people who make the show, not just fan filk or whatever.)Battlestar Galactica mash-up (new vs. old). I forgot where I found this, sorry.
"The Awful German Language", by Mark Twain. "[I]n a German newspaper they put their verb away over on the next page; and I have heard that sometimes after stringing along the exciting preliminaries and parentheses for a column or two, they get in a hurry and have to go to press without getting to the verb at all."
Some academic papers on modern speech habits: "Like: The Discourse Particle and Semantics" and "Dude". Unfortunately the full text is only available for purchase, but the abstracts are still pretty entertaining.
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Dude, What Was I Talking About? A New Sociolinguistic Framework for Marijuana-Intoxicated Speech. (The PDF that used to be available is now offline, but Google preserved the text.)
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