Uncategorized | SlyPost - Part 5

Vax as a computer trademark and vax as a vacuum cleaner trademark both exist. Who will they grant vax.com to? Nothing sucks like a vax. -Gordon Irlam

August 24, 2015

Why isn’t “palindrome” spelled “palindromeemordnilap”?

August 24, 2015

Just remember: you’re not a “dummy,” no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who, though technically expert, couldn’t design hardware and software that’s usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it. -Walter Mossberg

August 24, 2015

What sort of baldfaced nonsequitor is this? The only thing a cat and tea have in common is that one dislikes being immersed in the other. Clearly, your marketing skills are equivalent to your prowess at teamaking, which is probably on level with the cat’s. -Mike Shapiro

August 24, 2015

No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats – approximately one billion Chinese couldn’t care less. -Lazlo’s Chinese Relativity Axiom

August 23, 2015

Feet Smell? Nose Run? Hey, you’re upside down

August 23, 2015

There’s no movie that sucks so much that you can’t find good parts to enjoy, and there’s no movie so good that you can’t find sucky parts to resent. You go to a movie, and it’s this big complicated detailed work, and you’re the one who gets to pick your focus. You can bitch about the plot holes or rave about the music; the quality of your experience is in your own hands, and no experience is more objectively real than another one. -Greg Plesur

August 23, 2015

In the arcade, fun was something you paid for. In the family entertainment centers’ redemption scheme, fun is your job, or rather, an unpaid internship that you take at your own expense so that you can EARN all those fabulous plush prizes. Basically, the redemption arcade is a giant, overpriced toy store housed in a high-tech, neo-Victorian circus, complete with putt-putt courses, downsized indoor Ferris wheels, and merry-go-rounds manufactured by Chance Rides, Inc., of Wichita, Kansas, which has supplied over a hundred North American malls with quarter-million dollar carousels. -J.C. Herz

August 23, 2015

Marriage is a good way to spend the winter. -Trouble with Harry

August 23, 2015

I need several mistresses; if I had only one, she’d be dead inside eight days. -Alexandre Dumas

August 23, 2015