Sat 20 Oct 2007
This week on Bob’s Yer Uncle!:
•swearing at work to boost productivity versus wanking at work to boost productivity.
• Plus a special Smut Report review, thanks to Auke at Love Chess.
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October 21st, 2007 at 11:05 pm
I’ll have to point my friend to The Exersaucer Edition. The thing looks like it came from Dr. Seuss.
I think liquor at work fosters more work camaraderie then swearing. Can you tell I work in the newspaper trade?
Being tourism director of Sierra Leone must be rough.
I had Battle Chess on my Amiga too!
I think in Love Chess, one piece takes the other sexually and then doesn’t return their phone calls.
Amateur CS… I think Oliver Sacks has a new book coming out with disorders related to music. Sounds intriguing.
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:29 am
206 350-UNCO
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 am
The electoral college is extremely convoluted, and a lot of Americans don’t like it either. Actually, you are voting for which person you want to cast your vote for the president. But the ballots still say the presidential candidates’ names. Once a winner in that state has been determined, the electors will cast their votes to that candidate. Which is another strange thing. Each state has a different number of electors! It’s based on the population of the state, divided by 500,000 (how we determine our # of representatives) plus 2 for each state’s two senators. So since California has 50-some votes, there has to be an actual person behind each of those votes. It’s completely ridiculous.
I can’t think of an instance where the elector hasn’t cast their vote the way the people of the state intended. The electors identities are unknown, and I think the position is basically ceremonial. But according to Wikipedia, some have decided to spite the voters. They’re called “faithless electors.” Usually, this is done to make some kind of political statement. Sometimes the candidate whom they pledged to vote for died before the election.
In one incident in 2004, John Edwards won the Democratic primary in Minnesota, and one elector accidentally cast his vote for “John Ewards.” I wonder if any real John Ewards piped up and said that was an honor just to be nominated.
Since the electoral college includes the # of senators for each state, it skews slightly more power into those states with the fewest residents, like Wyoming and Montana, so that those states’ needs don’t get completely trampled by the majority. The unfortunate thing is that the winner of the popular vote has lost the election because of things like this, four times in the last 200 years. Like in 2000.
In short, we can probably blame all our country’s woes on the electoral college.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:53 am
Also, the discussion of the hot Australian chess player reminded me of something I saw on Digg…
http://www.chesspics.com/rating.php?r=1
There are hot female chess players all over the world!
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Coincidentally, the hottest chess player in the group is from Slovenia, and her name is Jana!
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Speaking of wanking at work, there was a segment in a show like HBO’s “Real Sex” about 10 years ago. A 20ish Frenchman had a job at a magazine (fashion or men’s, probably men’s) where he sat at a desk at the office, looked at pictures given to him by his employers, and had a nice wank all day long. This supposedly gave him a better grasp of which pictures stood up to the standards of the magazine, and which did not.
So he sat, unzipped, with cock in hand, as he talked to the cameras in French about the varying quality of his wanking materials. I can only remember he had a standard desk and chair, in a rather large office. Every flat surface was piled with pictures of women. I don’t think he was in a cubicle, but he wasn’t isolated either.
Unfortunately, Googling this didn’t turn up any reference to the show. I found lots of other sexual sites, as you might imagine. It’s mind boggling what some people masturbate to.
-V
October 25th, 2007 at 3:26 am
Cooking with Poo!
If huffing fermented sewage isn’t bizarre enough, there’s… oh, wait.
Sorry, that’s Cooking with Pooh, available at finer bookstores everywhere.
-V
October 25th, 2007 at 8:41 am
And now I know what to give my nephew for Christmas! Thanks, Vibeeen!
Here’s some interesting arguing about the active ingredient of Jenkem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jenkem
October 27th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Australian barmaids trying to help increase tourism? http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071024/od_nm/cans_dc
October 29th, 2007 at 8:26 am
I’ll send a voicemail soon. My life has been rather hectic since I moved to your hemisphere. Hey, when do I get a “Welcome to the Hemisphere” party?
October 30th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Tvindy you traitor! How dare you leave our hemisphere? Sure, the polar ice caps melt a little and he goes running south! Well, I hope you and your wacky Australian friends, Zan and Jana, enjoy all your toilets and pools of water draining in the wrong direction and having to read all your maps upside down!!
October 30th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
I’m afraid the southern hemisphere is a pretty crappy hemisphere. Australian companies are always trying to take advantage of this for the purposes of self-aggrandisement. For example, they opened a new Ikea store in Melbourne recently and proudly proclaimed it ‘the biggest Ikea store in the southern hemisphere’. I thought, What, even bigger than the one in Papua New Guinea?
Is Swedish furniture big in Latin America?
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:37 am
Yeah, what Kevbo said! And their Moon is upside-down, too!!
November 9th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
I just read that jenkem is being used here in the US. Or not, depending on who you believe. Anyway, drug enforcement agencies are sending out the word.
Here’s the article.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Hey, if this BYU drought lasts any longer, they’ll probably start banning Santas from saying “Ho, Ho, Ho!” in Sydney or something like that.
November 16th, 2007 at 7:49 am
Don’t be crazy, Kevbo! I’m sure BYU will be back before Sydney pulls something that stupid.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Uh oh.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Sorry, guys. We took a raincheck the weekend before last because I hadn’t finished preparing our segment, but then the Muffintot got sick and made me sick as well. I spent the weekend lying in bed, moaning and clutching my head and popping sinus tablets. I’m starting to feel better, now, so hopefully we’ll be back next weekend.
November 28th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Kevbo, actually that thing about water flushing in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere is a myth:
http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp
Zan, I haven’t knowingly seen any Swedish furniture in Latin America.