Overheard in New York

People contribute the stuff that they've overheard around town to a often hilarious listing...

Will the American Harry Potter please stand up?

Read about state-side Harry Potters who, of course, are all muggles.

clean, complex, dark

sounds like me.... except for the part where it thinks I like the office - i kinda find it a bit too painful to watch (in an un-therapeutic sort of a way)...

the Wit(60% dark, 26% spontaneous, 27% vulgar)
your humor style:
CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK
You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean you're pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat.

I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor takes the most effort to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my opinion.

Also, you probably loved the Office. If you don't know what I'm
talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/.
PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais



the 3 variable funny test

The WWWA network...

June 11 (Bloomberg) — In a surprise move expected to send shockwaves through the world of TV journalism, CNN, the orginal cable news network, and NBC, which owns cable channels MSNBC and CNBC, announced a deal to consolidate their news organizations into a single giant news network. By pooling their journalistic resources, the organizations will be able to offer deeper coverage of the most important stories of the day, and will be better equipped to complete with current cable news champion FOX News. The new network - to be called Where the White Women At?, or WWWA - is set to debut this week. Society has changed, and the business of journalism has changed with it. These days, with the increased opportunities available to white women, we as a nation are losing track of even the prettiest white women. White women are dissappearing in Aruba, from their jobs as Washington interns, and even right before their own weddings. And while we do our best to give the public all the necessary information about missing white women, the job is just too large for any one cable network to handle. And it is not just the number of white women who are going missing that is the problem. There are also white women who aren’t missing, but whose location and situation demands public attention. There are white women on trial for drowning their kids, white women who are dead but nobody knows who killed them, and even some white women who are on spring break and drunkenly flashing their breasts. Clearly, the sheer volume of white women stories is beyond anything journalists have ever had to deal with before.

Great satire... (for more information about the where the white women at network visit thepoorman.net)

Personal trainer or a gigolo?

• He only ever wears shorts or sleeveless mesh sports jerseys (even during February).
  
• He looks like he's on steroids (ginormous arms).
  
• He has a year round tan (which sometimes looks orange).
  
• He is almost always in the company of a number of thin semi-attractive older women who drive ridiculously expensive cars (>$100k).
  
• They are always loading or unloading luggage from said car.
  
• At the gym, he gives pep talks over the cell phone about making decisions and the difficulties of owning one's own business.
  
• He is around at all times of day (i.e. he'll be at the gym on said phone during regular business hours).
  
• He gives relationship advice to women that he is in the company of.
  
• He lives on the fifth floor (i.e. if he was independently wealthy he wouldn't live in my apartment building).
  
• One of my neighbors jokes with him about the fact that he's a gigolo.
  
  people passing in the hallway, he is rushing down the stairs
  Her: ahh, the busy life of a gigolo
  Him: you *wink* know it
• He winks a lot.

stewart and her frenchie

a bunch of the breeders of frenchies are all in a tizzy about Martha Stewart showing off the frenchie on the cover of Vanity Fair - they despise the fact that people are going to go out and get a frenchie to be like Martha. apparently the phones at a number of people who are breeders or work with frenchie rescue networks are ringing off the hook (from midnight calls to six am calls). sample quote: To say I was horrified to see Martha with a Frenchie is putting it mildly..Our wonderful breed is under such pressure already; now add the publicity that this will [bring] to it...The puppymillers; byb's and importers are probably counting the profits already.... for more opinions go here and here is a link to why you should not buy from puppy brokers.

writing

I discover that I have little less than three weeks to write my masters paper before I go and give a plenary talk at a conference happening this August in Chicago. While I don't plan to beat myself into a bloody pulp, writing has been a daunting task as I don't every really feel like I know what I am talking about, much less able to shape my inchoate thoughts into a viable argument. (image via uffish)

Gone to the Dogs

Considering how little I've posted this summer, it's remarkable how little time I've spent outdoors enjoying the weather... I was recently sent this fun quiz Gone to the Dogs (it's under the game section). I'm apparently an Irish Terrier.