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skepticsbookoflists, 17 days ago to random

$4.25 for a bag of mostly air. Funny.

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#Cheetos

skepticsbookoflists, 25 days ago to random

I still have my copy.

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#LindaFrum

skepticsbookoflists, 27 days ago to SEOUL

To live in a city where they run out of primary colors to code their subway lines. Even better, they have to resort to shades and multiple colors.

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#Seoul
#Subways

skepticsbookoflists, 1 month ago to random

Bank: We pay 4% interest on your accounts! A $5,000 deposit gets you $200 a year!

Me to bank: Inflation is running at 5% You're asking me to lose $50 a year with you so you can loan it out and make a big profit. What's in it for me exactly?

skepticsbookoflists, 1 month ago to random

If ever I had lost my passport and I needed to get back into Canada, I always had the lyrics to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" memorized in my mind's left hip pocket. I figured I could cite those to the Canadian border agent as proof I was Canadian. I imagined maybe finishing it up with a little jig sure to impress the customs official.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy…

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#GordonLightfoot

skepticsbookoflists, 1 month ago to random

Guy: The debt is a fiction! We should just cancel the debt!

Me: So you just cancel the $2 trillion Americans have invested in savings bonds and the government debt their pension funds have invested in?

Guy: Yeah. We do that by giving them cash for their bonds.

Me: So what you're saying is the government just repays its debt...

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#Debt

skepticsbookoflists, 1 month ago to random

Watching Cirque du Soleil is the only time in my life I think "the only thing that could save this is a donkey show."

skepticsbookoflists, 2 months ago to random

Dear Ask a Chef

Whenever I see a picture of a chef, she/he always has her/his arms crossed. Is this the chef equivalent of a taekwondo ready stance?

skepticsbookoflists, 2 months ago to random

Tax time! I grossed $439.69 in royalties and earned $346.76 after expenses (ordering promo copies of the books). That paid for pretty much 2 oil changes! Woo hoo! Over to you @idoubtit

skepticsbookoflists, 2 months ago to random

The right has one main tool. Make voters afraid of something and then let them think they're the only party that can protect them. Many likely know what they're saying is 100% BS. These people may not be educated but they have ivy league staffers that advise them that do. All that matters is their low information voters become even more terrified and rush to the polls to ensure MTG, Trump, etc. will protect them.

skepticsbookoflists, 2 months ago to random

8% of men surveyed think they could beat a lion in a fist fight. This suggests to me that 8% of men enjoy doing surveys drunk.

skepticsbookoflists, 2 months ago to random

I'm still anticipating a sequel to Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park.

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#KissArmy

skepticsbookoflists, 2 months ago to iPod

Found this cheap at resale. It didn't come with the cable. Being a man of a certain age, I have a milk crate full of old cables. And, well, that came in handy. So, wives. Scoff. Scoff all you want!

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#iPod
#iPodNano
#Resale
#FirstWorldProblems

skepticsbookoflists, 2 months ago to random

Remind me never to sell a Skip the Dishes insulated pizza bag ever again on FB marketplace. Most people want $30-$50 for the bag. I found it for $5 and put it up for $10. I'm not a "charge what the market will bear" guy. If I can 2x my money and get something useful into someone's hands for less than what others want, I'm okay with that deal. But, man, must have had 14 people "Is this available?" "Yes" then silence. Had one guy "yup, going to pick it up! Coming !" Finally told him "You need to come before 9 pm". "Yup coming!" 9 pm came and he didn't show up. Messaged him and told him "no sale".

Anyway, finally got a guy to go through with the deal. Lot of answering pointless messages for $5. Oi.

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#FacebookMarketPlace

skepticsbookoflists, 3 months ago to detroit

I could never figure out if Dave Stewart was channelling The Ghoul or The Ghoul was channelling Dave Stewart.

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#Detroit
#ItsADetroitThing

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skepticsbookoflists, 3 months ago to random

We are living in an era that lacks even one celebrity ventriloquist.

skepticsbookoflists, 3 months ago to random

If a coworker presses the elevator up button at the same time I press the elevator down button and the up elevator comes first, I always say to the coworker "well, I guess god loves you more."

skepticsbookoflists, 4 months ago to random

Thank you, MAGA, for making me suddenly care about the success of a pop music diva? Where were you during the Madonna days?

skepticsbookoflists, 4 months ago to random

Obsessing about a woman's dating past is like not reading a book because you fear someone might have enjoyed the book more than you.

skepticsbookoflists, 4 months ago to random

There are no pants like snow pants
(to the tune of "There's no business like show business")

There are no pants like snow pants
Like no pants that I know
Everything about them is unappealing
They're everything you need to run the snow plow
Wearing them gives you an uncomfortable feeling
But remember that it's freezing
So just ignore them for now
There's no sadder people like cold people
It hurts to smile when it's 20 below
It's a cold night and your wife left with the car
And your friends are down at the bar
In jeans you won't get very far
So get those pants even if you don't know where they are
And then get out there in the snow!

skepticsbookoflists, 4 months ago to random

Edison, Bell, and Ford. Sure, but where the hell is the everlasting fame for the guy who invented this?

skepticsbookoflists, 4 months ago to random

|| Didn't need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days. ||

Archie Bunker in the early 1970s sung about how great the 1940s were for Americans and how terrible the 1970s were. Curiously, it's become fashionable in the last couple decades to claim North America was at some kind of cultural and economic peak in the 1970s.

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#ArchieBunker
#AllInTheFamily
#TheSeventies

skepticsbookoflists, 4 months ago to random

Before 2016: Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government…

After 2016: Hold on, now.

skepticsbookoflists, 4 months ago to random

95 days after the 200 day no complaint award went up I'd be like to the manager "Give me $10 or I file a complaint and ruin your your 300 days sign award!"

skepticsbookoflists, 5 months ago to random

I found this 2001-ish obelisk-ish vending machine in a Wal Mart men's room. There is no sign as to what it vends other than "$1.00 Quarters Only". Does it vend out a dollar in return for 4 quarters? Is its long shaft-like shape intended to suggest what it vends? I'm guessing hockey cards?