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Monthly Archives: November 2007

because YOU asked for it

November 30, 2007 – 2:49 am

Well, not in so many words. But you were clearly employing what the experts know as “reverse sickology” and we at the ol’ raincoaster blog have no choice but to obey. The following is yet another Workplace Safety PSA, albeit one from the Eisenhower Era, enhanced with MST3K’s finest snark. Click to enjoy over twenty [...]

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Your Unicorn Chaser for Today

November 29, 2007 – 11:02 pm

Let no man, woman, child or fingerling claim that we here at the ol’ raincoaster blog are unfeeling, unresponsive megalomaniacs. We are, but we prefer to hush it up when we can.
But it seems that our last post, the clearly-labeled Most Gruesome Workplace Safety Video of All Time, was a bit too much, even for [...]

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The Greatest (and Grossest) Workplace Safety Video of All Time!

November 28, 2007 – 9:35 pm

Ohhhhhh, we know some bloggers who’ll be so jealous! But no, we at the ol’ raincoaster blog got it first!!!

via Deadspin
If you think it’s too gross to be shown on tv, just realize that this PSA aired during Hockey Night in Canada; anyone who watches that is totally jaded, violence-wise already.
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The first annoying vegan

November 27, 2007 – 10:32 pm

’nuff said. From The Joy of Tech, passed along by MistressCowfish.
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Please mind the gap … in your employment

November 26, 2007 – 11:38 pm

In the latest example of inadvertently star-making sense of humour failure on the part of an organization, Emma Clarke, smooth-voiced announcer for the London Underground system, has been “de-accessioned” for recording spoof announcements and posting them on her personal website.
“London Underground is sorry to have to announce that further contracts for Miss Clarke are experiencing [...]

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Lolrus sushi: all ur wasabi r b-long 2 us

November 26, 2007 – 8:07 pm

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As our devoted stalkers are aware, some time ago the ol’ raincoaster, through no fault of her own, joined the ranks of the gainfully employed. It was a Teeny disruption, which, like so many an apparently-minor event, began a slide down a slippery slope; she may even end up respectable one day!
In the course of [...]

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Blogger’s Union Strike!

November 23, 2007 – 11:24 pm

If it can happen to the WGA, it could happen here. Thinkaboudit. WWMD?

via Matt

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the blogger’s desiderata

November 22, 2007 – 11:55 pm

All I have to say is that I wish I’d written this. Go. Now. Read the whole thing.
Stumble aimlessly amid the trolls and waste, but remember what peace there be in staring at your toes for a couple of weeks. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all readers. Publish your [...]

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travel tips with Alan Cumming

November 22, 2007 – 10:45 pm

As the dreaded holiday season approacheth, more and more of us will be taking to the skies in a desperate attempt to put in brownie point-garnering facetime with relatives whose very existence is the bane of ours. Just die already and leave me the pearls and the cottage, dammit!
Naturally, airplanes stuffed with hundreds of passengers [...]

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who says dogs can’t talk?

November 22, 2007 – 7:56 pm

This one can. That is one freaky whippet/Martian cross. I think I’d rather let the baby cry and shut the dog up…who’s with me?

Cross-posted to TeenyManolo, yo.

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