Conceived above a saloon, delivered into this world by a masked man identified by his heavily sedated mother as Captain Video,
raised by a kindly West Virginian woman, a mild-mannered former reporter with modest delusions of grandeur and no tolerance
of idiots and the intellectually dishonest.
network solutions made me a child pornographer!
The sordid details...
Requiem for a fictional Scotsman
Oh my God! They killed Library!! Those bastards!!!
A Pittsburgher in the Really Big City
At least the rivers freeze in Pittsburgh
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Humor on a green scale
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If you're enamored of Psalm 109...
Don't forget to check out verses 2 and 3.
Update:
And by the way, "Real Christian"... thanks for the e-mail. Please note for future reference, however, that Jesus didn't say "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." That was actually the eponymous Antonio, in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice:
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
No Fear Shakespeare's translation is:
The devil can quote Scripture for his own use. An evil soul using a holy story is like a criminal who smiles at you. He looks like a good apple but he's rotten at the core. Oh, liars can look so honest!
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
A call for a Christian jihad?
The Christians are coming to get you. And they are not pleasant people.-George Carlin
As a Christian, I sometimes wonder why it's always Old Testament scripture that's invoked in political activities, never the philosophies of Jesus. Borrowing from the Pittsburgh dialect, I call these folks "Yunz"... Christians without Christ.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
It all started here...
On November 18, 1963, the first telephone in the US with push buttons instead of a rotary dial was placed in commercial service in Carnegie and Greensburg, Pa. This was a Touch-Tone telephone with 10 push buttons, manufactured by the Western Electric Manufacturing and supply Unit of the Bell System. The optional service was offered for an extra charge. Some previous marketing trials had taken place in Ohio and Pennsylvania. A 10 button dial was inserted into an adapter taking the place of the rotary dial. The use of 12 Button dials with * and # keys for special services came out rather quickly after the introduction of Touch Tone Service in 1963, and the 10 button dial was discontinued.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
It's a sign. I'm going to lie down for a while now.
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The next media circus and GOP flip-flop
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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The good stuff starts about five and a half minutes in.
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E-mail of the day...
Cindy and I recently became fans of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, primarily because in order to see the end of Letterman, which runs past 12:35 am, you have to watch what the DVR thinks is the beginning of Ferguson's program.
One of the nightly segments is viewer e-mail. Cindy told me last week that I should send one in. I've learned it's always a good idea to do what she says, so I did:
Hi Craig,
Have you considered throwing your considerable influence behind the development of inertial electrostatic confinement fusion technology?
If not, could you do more musical stuff with puppets?
Regards,
KGB
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Kevin G. Barkes
Fayette City, Pennsylvania
To which he replied, "I'd put my money on puppets, Kevin."
I thought it was interesting that he had no trouble saying "inertial electrostatic confinement fusion technology" but mispronounced "Fayette." Must be the Star Trek/Scotty effect.
Speaking of which, the hi-def download of J.J. Abram's Star Trek from the iTunes Store just completed.
Duty calls...
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Quote of the day
Facebook is a clocksucker.
-Elayne Boosler
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Quote of the day
Hitting the delete key and changing the channel are satisfying but ineffective methods of denying reality.
-Kevin G. Barkes
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Violators will be prosecuted.
So there.
The kgb@kgb.com e-mail address is now something other than kgb@kgb.com saga.
kgbreport.com used to be kgb.com until December, 2007 when the domain name broker
Trout Zimmer made an offer I couldn't refuse.
Giving up kgb.com and adopting kgbreport.com created a significant problem, however.
I had acquired the kgb.com domain name in 1993,
and had since that time used kgb@kgb.com as my sole e-mail address. How to let people know
that kgb@kgb.com was no longer kgb@kgb.com but
rather kgbarkes@gmail.com which is longer than kgb@kgb.com and more letters to
type than kgb@kgb.com and somehow less aesthetically
pleasing than kgb@kgb.com but actually just as functional as kgb@kgb.com? I sent e-mails from the kgb@kgb.com address to just about
everybody I knew who had used kgb@kgb.com in the past decade and a half but noticed that some people just didn't seem to get the word
about the kgb@kgb.com change. So it occurred to me that if I were generate some literate, valid text in which kgb@kgb.com was repeated
numerous times and posted it on a bunch of different pages- say, a blog indexed by Google- that someone looking for kgb@kgb.com would
notice this paragraph repeated in hundreds of locations, would read it, and figure out that kgb@kgb.com no longer is the kgb@kgb.com
they thought it was. That's the theory, anyway. kgb@kgb.com. Ok, I'm done. Move along. Nothing to see here...
(as a matter of fact, i AM the boss of you.)
It's here!
440 pages, over 11,000 quotations!
Eff the Ineffable, Scrute the Inscrutable
get kgb krap!