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Hilarity ensues

Philipp pointed this out first, but it’s so good I just had to repost it.

George W. Bush invaded Iraq so that The Jews, big corporations, Republicans, and white men could oppress welfare recipients.

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Money, it’s a gas…

…grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
Pink Floyd

So the new $20 bills are coming out. Conspicuously, today is National Coming Out Day. Coincidence? I think the peach color says it all. But the orientation of currency is hardly my concern; it’s more the $53 million we’re spending to inform consumers that it exists. Put pictures in the newspaper; really annoying TV ads are a waste of tax money.

Why garbled words are still legible

Geeks and linguists are going nuts posting to their blogs a story that words are legible as long as they begin and end with the correct letter; the rset can be smcrabeld hwoeevr you plseae.

I fguierd I wulod jion the exctiemnet.

Aoccdrnig to rsereach at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteres are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Trhee is aslo a wrod scbralemr avlblaiae onnile.