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Mindy Kaling’s imaginary family, from the NYT via Pop Culture Junk Mail. I’m not opposed to people asking questions. Not at all. For example “Does the sushi place next to McDonald’s have decent fish rolls?” is not a bad question when asked of a person who regularly visits that particular shop. ”Does the 109 go down Victoria Street?” is also a reasonable question to ask if you know that somebody in the office is a user of public transport. Also “What do you feel like for lunch?”. Perfectly sensible question. It’s just that there are people who ask questions when they should be pretty confident that the answer is not going to be common knowledge and that the person they have asked will have to do some research in order to provide an answer. There are scenarios in which this type of question is acceptable, however a lot of the time these questions are asked by people who are either
This is where www.lmgtfy.com comes in handy. Here’s how it works. Somebody emails you/tweets/facebooks (is that even a thing? Let’s assume it is) a question such as “Where do lemurs come from?”. Now, the querier is clearly hoping that somebody reading the question will provide the answer. Don’t do it! Go to Let me google that for you and type in a the query where do lemurs come from. Then copy the link that is generated. Have a look at the comments on this brief David Sedaris article to see how it can work for you, even when dealing with complete strangers…
This is why I was excited when @melbournebitter tweeted a link to Daily Drop Cap. Instant post, and a gorgeous resource! Something to lift an otherwise bleagh Wednesday: Fuschia Dunlop’s books on the food of Sichuan and Hunan are go-to books in this house. The recipes we’ve tried from them have always worked, and she writes so well – even of things I normally dislike – that I’ve even been tempted to try the exploding pig kidneys. Tempted. But not that tempted. Given how reliable her recipes are, I’m not sure what prompted the cook to search for an alternative recipe for a hotpot stock, but I’m glad he did. It’s the most I’ve laughed in ages. … and when in time is Stephen Colbert going to be in the Persian Gulf?” The particularly catchy jingle that goes with these words has been stuck in my head over the past few weeks, so it’s good to get the following answers from the New York Times: Iraq and now. The Miss Universe Organisation has removed Dayana Mendoza’s rhapsody about Guantanamo Bay. Fortunately, Dayana has her necklace to remember her “wonderful time” there. The rest of us only have incomplete quotes and dead links. Oh, and this:
Edit: fortunately the BBC grabbed a lot more from the initial blog than I did and it’s here. Misses USA and Universe 2008 (Crystle Stewart and Dayana Mendoza, respectively) have returned from a trip to Guantanamo Bay. Were they there to draw further attention to the plight of detainees? No, according to the NY Times, they were there to “to visit troops as part of a U.S.O./Armed Forces Entertainment tour”. Dayana reports that they had “a wonderful time” and “a loooot of fun!”. In fact, it was “soooo beautiful” and such “an incredible experience” that Dayana “bought a necklace … that will remind me off Guantanamo Bay
They didn’t completely ignore the detainees:
Dayana doesn’t say whether they remain at Gitmo because they heart it so much they don’t want to leave… Jon Stewart used this clip on the show the other day – even ‘though it’s a very short snippet, looped over and over, I still can’t get over how funny it is. It’s a chimp! Washing a cat! (A very patient cat…) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9wAqNN-Dic] This is fabulous. Discovered via a tweet. Twitter is, therefore, more than mere blateration – it educates! http://www.savethewords.org/ Improve the web with Nofollow Reciprocity. |
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