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Windows Open to Hackers: Microsoft says nearly every version of popular software has serious flaw.

– Associated Press

Thanks, we already knew that. But before you rush out for a new Mac...

Gore Joins Apple Computer's Board

Reuters
Wednesday, March 19, 2003; 5:20 PM

Consider upgrading your abacus instead.

Skottie, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 22:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Libertarians Join Liberals in Opposing Sodomy Law
NYT 19 March 2003

I guess this isn't really news either--I misread it at first as "Librarians and Liberals..." Now, he thought, we're on to something.

Skottie, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 22:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Honey, There's a Lego in My Martini
NYT, 20 March 2003

Well, yeah.

Skottie, Thursday, 20 March 2003 06:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

Honey, There's a Martini in My Lego

d'oh! (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 March 2003 06:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

There's a martian in my leg? Nah, I guess not...

Skottie, Thursday, 20 March 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

Keep festive spirit in moderation currently top headline on BBC Scotland. "Offering his annual tips on staying healthy over the holidays, Dr Burns also suggested people should check on elderly neighbours living on their own"

People with a talent for sewing are asked to make bags to help lost puffin chicks on a remote Scottish island is in third place

Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 December 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link

Well, if you don't ask...

Mark G, Monday, 22 December 2008 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Britain's job 'bloodbath'

In the Indy today. Way to make things worse.

Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 22 December 2008 12:35 (fifteen years ago) link

I read that as

People with a talent for sewage are asked to make bags to help lost puffin chicks

nabisco inferno (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 22 December 2008 12:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Oh, come on (not so much the headline itself, rather what the hell kind of Christmas story is this?!)

Ismael Klata, Thursday, 25 December 2008 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link

dudes

baby got bahn (country matters), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link

check this

baby got bahn (country matters), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7803047.stm

baby got bahn (country matters), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link

Why bother running a headline where the first half of the headline is truncated by ellipses and then you have to click on the thing to get the goods? Can you imagine if a proper newspaper did that?

VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT FINDS...(see page B2 for rest of headline)

Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link

but seriously now

baby got bahn (country matters), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link

A Dubai sex man walks into a bar, and says "Just put the drink on my bill."

Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link

He's like a superhero, Dubai Sex Man

nabisco, Monday, 29 December 2008 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link

Does this spell the end for ... Dubai Sex Man?

nabisco, Monday, 29 December 2008 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link

It's actually the "faces massive bill" that I find flat-out amazing. The Dubai Sex Man has graced our headlines for a good long while now. It's been a sterling effort by our Dubai Sex Man.

baby got bahn (country matters), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link

Does whatever a Sex Man can
Faces Bills, any size
He had sex
in Dubai
Look out! Here comes Dubai Sex Man.

Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link

He stopped being a Dubai Sex Boy and finally became a Dubai Sex Man

Roni Size Queen (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link

So who wants to hack the website and replace the image with a drawing of Dubai Sex Man staring down an enormous duck supervillain?

nabisco, Monday, 29 December 2008 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link

By the way, I'm bothered by the coyness in this, the whole "it's not what we in the west consider sex" thing -- so fine, no penetration, but how about some details on what was happening, just in case any of us feel like going to Dubai? I mean, clearly if you're being that coy about it, you were doing something significant, or else you'd just say "this is insane, we were only kissing" or something.

nabisco, Monday, 29 December 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link

It's the whole "now you're back we expect you to outline everything that happened, from how you embarrassed yourself with a drunken screw with a stranger to the minutiae of your defence, and failing your divulgence of this we will instead report on how six months fighting a high-profile legal case which you eventually won thanks to lawyer shenanigans has cost you a packet" thing that really gets me.

You do know there's a Dubai Sex Woman as well?

baby got bahn (country matters), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link

Of course the Dubai Sex Patriarchy wouldn't consider her worthy of the history books.

Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm just really looking for an excuse to feel morally superior, because basically I'm not dropping my pants in public in any foreign nation whatsoever, and I'm tempted to feel that anyone who does so in Dubai is just asking for trouble in the first place

nabisco, Monday, 29 December 2008 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link

(I mean, maybe I would, if there were a good reason for it and I were among loads of trusted citizens who were assuring me that it was cool, but definitely not to get with some chick on a beach during a work weekend in Dubai)

nabisco, Monday, 29 December 2008 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Hacking the BBC website would be lolz, but would have to be done by the right person, with the right pranks in mind, otherwise Britain would actually malfunction.

I heard the dude's interview on Radio 5 myself earlier, and without seeming too self-pitying he did remark that in Dubai the locals "drank as much as the ex-pats" and got up to all sorts of Western-style mischief under the passive eye of the law. Trouble is, there's a way of dodging, and I highly doubt that this fella got it right. Nabisco otm, don't drop trou in a 'hardline' state unless you're absolutely sure nobody's watching.

baby got bahn (country matters), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link

"Maybe I was naive" was a line he used, and a dead giveaway at that. Non-cryptic code for "we were fucking soused, and I got caught with my cock out by someone in no position to turn a blind eye"

baby got bahn (country matters), Monday, 29 December 2008 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link

DUBAI SEX BILL FACES MASSIVE MAN

claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link

DUBAI BILL MAN FACES MASSIVE SEX

claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link

Sex Faces Bill, Massive Dubai Man

Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link

MASSIVE FACES BILL DUBAI SEX MAN

claudestock carpentinieri (country matters), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 02:16 (fifteen years ago) link

DUBAI SEX MAN

what U cry 4 (jim), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 02:21 (fifteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

Really hate the headline/article format of "CONTROVERSIAL-SOUNDING THING UNCOVERED" where the article then goes on to tell you that the thing is most likely insignificant, but still it "could" be significant.

"Trump Repeats Lie..."

It goes on from there, but why bother?

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/us/politics/donald-trump-congress-democrats.html?_r=0

clemenza, Thursday, 25 May 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link


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