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I just re-discovered a wonderful term I hadn't heard in many years: yak shaving. Seth Godin has a great description of the concept:

Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occurs when you find something you need to do. "I want to wax the car today."

"Oops, the hose is still broken from the winter. I'll need to buy a new one at Home Depot."

"But Home Depot is on the other side of the Tappan Zee bridge and getting there without my EZPass is miserable because of the tolls."

"But, wait! I could borrow my neighbor's EZPass..."

"Bob won't lend me his EZPass until I return the mooshi pillow my son borrowed, though."

"And we haven't returned it because some of the stuffing fell out and we need to get some yak hair to restuff it."

And the next thing you know, you're at the zoo, shaving a yak, all so you can wax your car.

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Pushy Guy

Sir, would you like to join the caving society?

Acquiescent Guy

No, thank you.

Pushy Guy

Come on, it'll be fun!

Acquiescent Guy

Okay…

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Offered without comment, except that there are worse ways for you to spend a few minutes than to watch this montage. Safe for work, despite the title and the unfortunate still-frame.

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A great Muppet classic:

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I've been following the Fail Blog for some time without mentioning it here, but today's post was just too wonderful to keep to myself.

How many people had a hand in designing and manufacturing this monstrosity (I mean the switch, not the religion)? From the positioning I assume that it's turned on.

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From Not Always Right:

(The phone rings at around 6-ish.)
Me: “Hello, this is D-…”
(I hear loud crying in the background.)
Man: “Hello, Disney World? I’m just calling to say that if my children don’t finish their vegetables in the next five minutes, we won’t be visiting you this year.”
Me: “I… er… what?”
Man (whispering): “Thank you.”
*click*

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From the 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time (which presumably and hopefully means all time so far), the Pre-Taped Call-In Show sketch from Mr Show:

It's short (less than four minutes) but great. Have a look.

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It's finally over:

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What does it say about me when I'm being made the victim of an Internet prank by a machine learning algorithm? I was recently rickrolled by iTunes.

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From xkcd.

Those two results for "died in a blogging accident" both point to this MySpace post, which will no doubt make the poster in question very confused indeed about his new-found popularity.

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