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Best of Facebook (the early days) – VII. The Pet Peeve

In: Mirth

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Jason

pet peeve: The creepily subservient, alienating, and unhelpful ways in which large companies (banks, utilities, credit card, tech companies, etc) require their customer service people to speak. They sound like automatons, w/o intuitive conversational sense or rapport, forced to ask inane questions and make inane statements no one ever responds to affirmatively. At the very end of the conversation, after every issue has (or, more often, has not) been addressed, always: “Is there anything else I can help you with today?” – ‘No, clearly not’ – “Okay, sir. Thank you for your time today, sir. Motorcola and the Motorcola family has been serving the community for years and is proud of your continued patronage.” – Would anyone speak like this in person? – As Jerry Seinfeld would say: “Who are these people?”

 

Ben

I figured it out: you’re Andy Rooney and Larry David’s love child.

 

Jason

You just figured it out today? It’s common knowledge.

Larry and Andy were deeply in love. It was the height of the roaring sixties. Leicester Sqaure. The MODS. The Beatles had just returned from Sri Lanka. It was love at fourth sight. But it wasn’t meant to be. Not the right time; not their time. Strangers in the night… I knew I would get flak for that one

 

Jason

I just misspelled “square”

 

Michelle

there’s something missing from this story… andy kaufman as gestational carrier maybe

 

Jason

I’ve heard strange rumors about Andy Kaufman. Strange forebodings, and whispers in the night. But I’ve never myself seen the man.

 

Jason

Next on ’60 Minutes’!

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Cat Dyed Pink

In: the Absurd, Endearing, & Startling

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cat dyed pink‘Sick Prank’ Leaves Cat Dyed Pink – BBC News

The owner of a cat which has had its fur dyed pink and was then thrown over a garden fence in Swindon is being sought by the RSPCA.

 

 

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Money Just a Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion…

In: Articles of Note

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money an illusionU.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money
Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion  –  The Onion

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct.

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Loving monkey adopts kitten… Kitten grows up to be mafia boss

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macque monkeyA long tailed macaque monkey adopts a kitten in the forests of Bali, Indonesia – Telegraph UK

A long tailed macaque adopts a kitten in the forests of Bali.

 

 

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Talking like Marlena Dietrich and dancing like Zizi Jeanmaire

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