Monday, March 03, 2003

Confessions Of A Homestar Runner Fan Once again, if you're struggling to understand the Strong Bad emails, or the whole Homestar Runner experience, maybe this will make you feel a little better.  Or if that doesn't work, maybe you can brush up on the color-coded terrorist alert system.  Remember, confession is good for the soul. Speaking of soul, Soul-Patrol seems to be down.  But they promise to return with "BOTH GUNS LOADED"!  That's comforting.  And how very PC of them. Speaking of PC, here's a PC Primer for those of you a little rusty on the whole concept. And speaking of Rusty, did you know he is a homosexual?  And speaking of homosexuals, I'm not so sure about that Homestar Runner guy.  Or the guy in the picture to the left.  Or you, for that matter.  Or myself.  Oh, the humanity! 9:23:42 PM     |

We Be Searching Just added a search engine to the site somewhere over --->  there.  On your right.  Beneath the calendar. So now if you want to find something I had on my site way back when, but you can't remember the date I posted it, just type in a few choice keywords and hopefully it'll pop up. 6:55:43 PM     |

A New Strong Bad Email This week's episode tackles the question that all of us have to deal with on some level:  what to do with all your excess email?  Strong Bad's best solution:  selling the email addresses to spammers at a quarter a pop.  Awesome. For those of you a little lost on the whole Strong Bad experience, take the time to see the past episodes.  Start with the first one and work your way up.  Just click "Back" at the end of the email to see the menu of prior Strong Bad emails.  Enjoy. 12:36:01 PM     |

I Bet The Kid's Parents Are Proud LONDON (Reuters) - An English essay written by a teenager in text messaging short-hand has reignited concern among teachers that literacy standards are under threat. The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Monday that the 13-year-old's teacher could not decipher what the youngster had written. "I could not believe what I was seeing. The page was riddled with hieroglyphics, many of which I simply could not translate," the teacher told the newspaper. The teenager's essay which caused the problem began: "My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :- kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc." In translation: "My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York. It's a great place." Judith Gillespie, of the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, told the newspaper a decline in grammar and written English was partly linked to the text messaging craze. "Pupils think orally and write phonetically," she said. 6:29:00 AM     |

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