McSweeney’s: This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a Bad Person
May 1, 2025 01:47 AMFirst, you must know that I got this car before Elon went evil billionaire. I recognize that its being a 2023 Tesla Model S does complicate that message, but you must also know that the only thing I hate more than what he’s doing to the American people is me being perceived as the bad guy.
Annie Mueller: How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner
Apr 22, 2025 03:53 PMHello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with Shoobababoo and occasionally kleptomitrons. I’ve gotten to work for Company doing Shoobaboo-ing code things and that’s what led me to the Snarfus. So, let’s dive in!
Since I posted about George Plimpton’s Sidd Finch hoax last week, the New York Mets were able to bring the real Sidd Finch (OK, the Illinois school teacher who portrayed him in the photos for the magazine story) to Citi Field for the first time.
Longtime Mets PR director/historian Jay Horwitz sat down with Joe Berton to re-live the role they both played in pulling off this elaborate April Fool’s Day joke 40 years ago.
Apr 10, 2025 01:35 PMI wrote myself a note intending to post a link to this on April 1. A classic April Fool’s joke turned 40 this week. In 1985, George Plimpton famously published “The Curious Case Of Sidd Finch” in Sports Illustrated, about a mysterious rookie pitcher with a 168 mile an hour fastball.
There’s also a delightful video about this hoax from PBS.
Apr 4, 2025 08:04 PMIn reply to In honor of Father’s Day… by starrwulfe.
I had a coupon for a haircut this weekend, but the barber only took about 10 percent off.
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