Those jokes all kind of made me laugh. I just tried to google this "gesture debate" joke I knew in high school, and not only would it be impossible to describe in text, it was ungooglable using those terms. Ah well.

It seems like the lesson of this election cycle is: "Polling numbers have bollocks to do with actual results."

I LOVE the mac pictures. How great is he? I love the end one, with him asleep.

I'm organizing stuff for a stuffswap tomorrow and for a consignment sale. Then I check meetup and the stuffswap is cancelled. CRAP.

Feh. Are they going to reschedule at all?

Hey, did you guys like the cheese puffs?

Thing is, the guys who sign up are almost to a man smaller than Amir, Brent, and Jon. They're certainly smaller than Bas. So having those guys represent us does us a disservice just about every time.

My theory, which may be completely sexist, is that guys who want to be tough look at what tough guys do.

A less simple explanation may be that it's simply visually hard to show talented tough guys who are little.

Re the funniest joke. I would argue that the joke that appeals to the most people is not the only way to determine the "funniest" joke. I mean, look at Dane Cook. Enormously successful and YET does not seem to know what jokes are. Or at least how to write his own. I have been watching Comedy Central all weekend and laughing at the commercials for his special b/c: those are not jokes! Those are yelled observations! That are not interesting! (And also my sense of humor is totes objective).

Feh. Are they going to reschedule at all?

Yep. March. Which is whatever. I mean, I have to sort this stuff anyway and get it entered into a system and get it all processed, so it's not big. But seriously? I didn't need to do it tonight.

Also, I watched 4 hours of Miss America Reality Check and now that the finale is on, I could watch it. But after all of this, "remake the pageant" bullshit, they winner is someone who looks JUST LIKE last year's winner.

Though, true confession, I found the contestants way more personable and charming after watching the reality check show. unfortunately the ones I found most charming (Alaska, Utah, Washington....) didn't win .

Cutiehead mac!!

I don't know what it is about the bookstore that gets my moods swinging. While I'm there, I love it and feel like I'm a pretty good worker, but when I'm home and thinking about it, I feel like a complete failure. I've got my little niche at the register, selling membership cards, and given my druthers, that's what I prefer. But, then I feel like I'm not being flexible enough and working at other locations in the store (they're into cross-training, but I've never been trained in either the cafe or the music department, and haven't worked the info desk in months).

So, I sometimes feel like I should volunteer to work another department, but I like the register, and my card sales are the best in the store, so I think that's where they'd prefer me to stay. IOW, my mind's all messed up and I should just keep my mouth shut and not feel compelled to volunteer.

When I was talking to a co-worker today who was working the register next to me, I mentioned these mental gymnastics, but she told me she has similar misgivings, except she's now the children's dept. backup. So, we're all screwed up there!! She did say that she doesn't know how I get the card sales I do, so that's a nice reaffirmation of my skills there.

Also, the manager came up to me before we opened and offered me a bribe. If I managed to meet my usual goal of one card sale per hour on the register, he'd get me anything I want at the cafe next week. Well, that's always my personal target (they never have set goals for employees, just always urging us to sellsellsell the cards), so I didn't really need the incentive/bribe, but like I said, I'll take it if he's handing it out! Sure enough, I got card #7 with 30 minutes to spare. (The most we've sold this week was 7 cards total on each of the last three days, all of which were deader than dead in number of customers.)

it's simply visually hard to show talented tough guys who are little.

Being 190 of muscle and 6' isn't little. And Hollywood shows smaller tough guys all the time.

I was hunting around youtube to see if there's any of "us" on it and found this which cracks me up. I am in love with the main guy in it. In love in a way that no way threatens his wife--I just love his spirit. He got to quit a desk job to open up his own krav school in the valley and he immediately became a new person. With a blue mohawk. Fuck The Man!

The ad that will run during Fight Science.

Kathy , unless you are planning a career in retail books I wouldn't worry about it. My understanding is that you are doing this for the extra dollars. All the big book stores talk about cross training, but in all honesty - if yo9u have someone that knows SciFi , or is good at registrar sales, that's where you want to use them. Most of the independent book stores expect everyone to have a general knowledge, but really use their employees specialty knowledge.

Oh, speaking of jokes, the way I rank jokes puts this one at the top:

What did Jeffrey Dahmer say to Lorena Bobbit? "Are you done with that?"

I like brevity.

My poor brain blanked on Jeffrey's name, so I had to google it back in. For the record, "serial killer eat boys prison broom" does it just fine.