STUPID: If your selected numbers are 23, 91, 10, 45, and 77, then you seem to be playing some sort of lottery game I was unaware of. The ol’ switcheroo. WORDPLAY: I stand by my assertion that the most painful punctuation combination is the colon slash. I felt very clever when this occurred to me. [...]
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Viewer Mail #27: Boink!
“Boink” is an onomatopoeia. Some pervert writes: “Boink”? Yeah, it’s onomatopoeia for sexual activity! Dear Pervert: WRONG. Sexual activity does not sound like that… I mean, it does if you do it right, but few are that skilled. Boink is the sound of getting hit on the head with an animated object of some kind [...]
Viewer Mail #7: Pee and Poo
A reader from my own city of The City, California writes: I have a question for you: Why is pee and poo spelled with an “ee” and “oo”? Why can’t it just be one “o” and one “e”? Like me. It’s the same sound. I understand to and too, but come on….I just don’t get [...]