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England World Cup

World Cup Preview - England

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

England shocked the footballing world today by announcing it was limiting its World Cup 2022 roster to “Lads named Ian. ” Still surfing the nationalistic Brexit wave, FA President Ian Gregor said the rebranding is intended to “Really, really, really accentuate the Englishness of English football. ” “There’s plenty of darn, fine Ians running about the island,” said Gregor. “We can certainly field a competitive side whilst not running away from our proud heritage of Engliocity. ” Displaced Tottenham striker Harry Kane took the news in stride, stating, “To be fair, Ians are [...] more

A Good Pencil

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Before Facebook and YouTube, if something went viral, it went there via email – like the ten ways to amuse yourself in an elevator (passing out name-tags was my favorite); or the Darwin Awards, which recognized people who had removed themselves from the gene pool with acts of terminal stupidity; or this one: When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on [...] more