Bet the river sharks are well fed.

Well, maybe the river sharks read the incorrect story and flocked (schooled?) to Baralaba. Then they were all, "Wait, there's only 30 pigs? WTF?"

The classic dibs-object is a chair, but Chicago Dibs gives us a curbside view of every piece of random crap imaginable. From the logical (bicycles) to the unconventional (vaccuum cleaners) to the just plain trashy (um, bags of trash), it's all there. Chicagoans, we feel for you, but this "dibs" phenomenon is pretty funny. At least it puts a humorous spin on all that blizzardy gloom.

It's humorous until you come home and there six empty spots on the block but all of them blocked off.

I'm sorry, I just find this so enraging. You dug your car out in order to use it, not as some sort of public service. It does not then confer ownership of public property.

I dug mine out to go away for the weekend. You know what I did not do? Block off that spot for an entire weekend so no one else could use it. Because I'm not an asshole.

What I am though, is screwed when I get home.

/t not rational

This reminded me of my favorite New York Times correction of all time: [link]

An article in The Times Magazine last Sunday about Ivana Trump and her spending habits misstated the number of bras she buys. It is two dozen black, two dozen beige and two dozen white, not two thousand of each.

What Baralaba piggery-owner Sid Everingham actually said was “30 sows and pigs”, not “30,000 pigs”

This reminds me of the Kenny Rogers song Lucille, which, as a child, I thought was about the guy and his four hundred children!

This reminds me of the Kenny Rogers song Lucille, which, as a child, I thought was about the guy and his four hundred children!

When that song came out, my brother and I changed the lyrics a bit:

You picked a fine time to let a juicy fart.
Four hungry children and a pot full of beans.

Vendors! Whyfor are you not where I need you to be doing what I need you to do? Production issues, you say? Fie on you!

Male and female narwhals have evolved different flukes.

Jim Henson teaching you how to make a puppet.

There was a correction in the Washingtonian magazine several years ago, something along the lines of "The two women in the photograph in last month's issue identified as Playboy bunnies are actually Congressional aids."

What is wrong with people?

And 74 House Democrats have asked Supreme Court Justice Thomas to recuse himself from any deliberations on the constitutionality of the national health care overhaul, arguing that his wife's work as a lobbyist creates "the appearance of a conflict of interest."