Dr Wingnut

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  • Gay Pride Weekend

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    My son arrived home from Purdue yesterday and told me about this T-Shirt site, Threadless T-Shirts, and as I was perusing the site I came across a couple of designs that I thought would be good to post for this weekend’s Gay Pride Festival in Minneapolis.  Enjoy!Making MythologyGay Pride

  • Daniel came to visit

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    Jill took this picture of the boys who were geeking together when Daniel came to visit for a week.  The picture isn’t the greatest quality since she took it with my iPhone, and it doesn’t have a flash.

  • Mrs. Marv Mendenhall

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    Back when David Letterman had a daytime show (Jun-Nov 1980), he had a regular character named Mrs. Marv Mendenhall played by Edie McClurg.  This segment always cracked me up, so I did a search for Mrs. Marv on YouTube, and the Late show sites to see if I could find a clip, but none of…

  • Do they get dumber when they go to college?

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    I’m not sure for sure; but I did have the following SMS conversation with Daniel last Saturday, 7 June, 2008 at 17:22.Daniel: How much is 1/4 cup…8 ounces?Me: More like 2oz – 8oz in a cup.Maybe he got the recessive “lost keys” gene that my mother had, but it affects his ability to remember English…

  • Lost keys

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    There’s a new commercial for Aricept, a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, that shows a husband looking through the house to help his wife look for her lost car keys.  He says, “Did you look in the bathroom where you left them last time.”  Eventually he finds them behind a pint of half-and-half…

  • Drug ads

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    Every single drug ad on television spends time telling you about all the negative side effects which may accompany the use of the drug, and all the reasons why you shouldn’t take the drug.Don’t doctors talk to their patients any more, or are patients supposed to diagnose their problems in advance and only talk to…

  • Bush’s final to do list

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    Help Jenna with Thank You NotesReward telecom companies for playing along with illegal spying by giving them immunity.Ask Cheney who I need to pardon.Schedule my appearance on the Daily Show.Badger Congress into approving vast new presidential spying powers.via email from Caroline Fredrickson, Director ACLU Washington Legislative Office, Tue, 13 May 2008 12:40:41 -0700