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Jesuit jokes! (you don’t have to be Catholic to get them)

As someone who went to a Jesuit college (for two years, at least) and who went to a high school with a fierce and unyielding rivalry with a Jesuit one, some of these are very dear to my heart.

Curtsy: Wheat & Weeds.

Upside-Down-Ternet

My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun.

Friggin’ brilliant. Click for explanation and pics. Peter heard about this ages ago but forgot to tell me, so some of you may have seen it. Still, friggin brilliant.

Bubblehead - The New West Coast Music Scene

Brilliant.

Electro Plankton - History Of Social Blogging

click to enlarge so its impact isn’t diminished

I actually found this yesterday, but was too tired to post it. But so hilarious is it that I’m comfortable boxing myself in this early in the day.

The Times - Kentucky shows off its racy side to the royals

It isn’t difficult to tell the difference between Royal Ascot and the Kentucky Derby, although behaviour in the Silver Ring at the former these days is beginning to blur the distinction.

At one they play the National Anthem, at the other the entire crowd belts out My Old Kentucky Home, ending with a sky-rending cheer. One has grass, the other dirt. One has a dress code of sorts, the other is a sartorial free-for-all. At the Berkshire meet they drink overpriced champagne; at Louisville the rank profiteering is by the itinerant vendors, trays around their necks like old-style cinema usherettes, doing big business in mint juleps at $9 (£4.50) a shot.

In the warmth of an English June you are unlikely to encounter a middle-aged man in pale blue seersucker saying to his red-trouser-suited wife: “You wanna snack, honey, you just go right ahead and holler.” To which honey’s instant response is a painful dilemma between a six-inch gourmet pretzel and a flame-grilled burger the size of a small cartwheel.

That was the really funny part, though the rest is pretty good too.

But the defining characteristic of Churchill Downs Race-course in Louisville is that it has no royal enclosure and certainly no royal box. When the Queen fulfilled the ambition of a lifetime on Saturday to watch the 133rd Kentucky Derby, the best known race in America, she found herself sharing her patch of balcony , known as Millionaire Row, with Ivana Trump, the President of Latvia and a well-dressed but unknown woman who had to be restrained by detectives from taking close-up pictures of the visiting monarch. …

When the royal party first appeared on the balcony Mrs Farish [horse breeder, royal weekend host, and wife of former US ambassador to London] offered binoculars but the Queen declined. This may have been just as well, as she might then have seen the infield. This is the area in the centre of the oval track that hosts an annual bacchanalia of drink, drugs and other riotous behaviour, but from where it is all but impossible to see the race because of the thick forest of beer and hot-dog marquees.

The Times ventured in before the big race, struggling to make progress through an obstacle course of beer bellies. “This ain’t about racing over here,” one man, wearing more tattoos than clothes, said. “This is about drinking beer.” It was said with great affability, even courtesy. It is another difference between Kentucky and Ascot; no one, not even the course stewards and the policemen, are anything but polite and helpful. Even the drunks don’t, on the whole, cause offence.

Meanwhile, it’s a slow news day. I’m mostly just waiting for the White House to put up their pictures of the Queen’s reception.

Fark - Panicky 9/11 truth nutjobs debate Oakland gas tanker incident, see their WTC conspiracy theories collapse as quickly as that highway did

First five:

dSdeW11 2007-04-30 11:48:16 AM
Bwahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaahaha

crunchyfist 2007-04-30 11:53:12 AM
I like the theory that there was water trapped in the concrete and when heated, it expanded and made the highway fall apart.

HansensDisease 2007-04-30 12:01:42 PM
Obviously the CIA was waiting under the overpass with thermite bombs solely for the purpose of ending speculation about how Bush and the Joos took down the WTC!!!11!1one1one!

/DNRTA

Mordant 2007-04-30 12:03:10 PM
I’ve always been amazed at how few differences there are between a highway overpass and two 110 story buildings.

labman 2007-04-30 12:09:35 PM
Mordant: I’ve always been amazed at how few differences there are between a highway overpass and two 110 story buildings.

No kidding. Without the weight of those 100+ floors on them, I’m surprised the roadbed didn’t just float away after the metal holding it down was melted.

And then there’s the photoshops.

I’m going to enjoy this.