While trying to figure out the name of the nameless toy mentioned in my previous post (still no luck with that), I discovered that Hasbro has done an incredible favor for nostalgia freaks, retro-toy enthusiasts (and anthropologists? :) It has placed many (I’m not going to claim all) of its manuals to board games, electr(on)ic toys, etc. online. I’ve seen some going back to the 1940s. This is fabulous!
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Hasbro has many (most? all?) of its toy manuals online
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005Just imagine what the revelries must be like over at Wa-wa-wachusett…
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005The other day I got a brochure from the Nashoba Valley Ski Area.
One of the pages in the brochure was plugging a “ski-and-stay” package. At a Marriot Residence Inn two miles from the “ski area”. For a “ski area” all of 25 miles from Boston. With a max vertical drop of a couple hundred feet or so.
What’s next? A “ski-and-stay” package at a by-the-hour motel a few miles from the Blue Hill Ski Area?
Which of these things is not like the other?
Monday, October 10th, 2005Great disclaimer in the insurance that NAR (no typo) offers its members:
NAR insurance does not cover any activities which involve use of alcoholic beverages, criminal assaults and batteries, nuclear accidents, or sexual abuse.
Hey mister! Throw me some beads…and a generator!
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005The Girls Gone Wild producers are donating the proceeds of their New Orleans tapes to Katrina relief.
(via BuzzMachine)
If FEMA had existed during the Revolution
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005It would probably go something like this…
Imagine FEMA commanding the Battle of Lexington and Concord:
You there, Danvers militia! You haven’t reported to us yet! Stop that firing right now! Take your Minutemen to the Respect Thy Neighbors’ Papist Faith Seminar and await further orders. … Menotomy Minutemen! Where do you think you’re going? Who authorized you to defend that village against Redcoats? It’s not even on the map. It says here “Arlington.” You haven’t even filled out a Sparsely Populated Urban Warfare AQ-207-1 form!!! Get back to the stonewall!
(via HubBlog)
Great summary of Day 2 of the hearings
Thursday, September 15th, 2005From a comment over at Althouse’s blog. Snarky, but oh, so true. And these hearings are prima facie evidence for repealing the 17th Amendment.
Specter: Do you agree, as I do, that you will refuse to say anything meaningful about Roe V. Wade?
Roberts: I would just like to say, stare decisis, precedents, stare decisis and precendents, precendents and stare decisis, and in closing, Casey.
Leahy: Is the president EVIL or just evil? And why you hate sick children?
Roberts: Could you at least pretend to have paid attention to what I wrote? And just so we’re clear, every time I say “with all due respect…” what I really mean is “Could you be any more of a d*ckhead?”
Hatch: I’ve been in Congress a very long time and I know stuff.
Roberts: I believe judges should be thoughtful and pay attention to all issues under review.
Kennedy: We all know you hate black people so get it over with and say somethng insulting.
Roberts: Reagan was right, you were wrong, the Supreme Court agreed with us, get over it.
Grassley: I like flowers. Do you like flowers? I think flowers are pretty.
Roberts: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to bring the issue of precedents to the table. Also, sometimes the court has to decide hard cases and they should do so in a thoughtful manner. cough Precedents cough
Biden: I would like to use my time to read these overly clever questions my staff wrote for me: baseball, baseball, baseball, Ginsburg, Ginsburg, Ginsburg….and now my Sam Kinison impression, SAY IT SAY IT AH AH AH AHHHHH!!!!!!!
Roberts: Once again, the Supreme Court concluded that it was a correct reading of the law, so talk to the hand, analogy boy.