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Category Archives: tulipomania

HOW I FELL DOWN THE SWEEPSTAKES LAW RABBIT HOLE

Check out this strange language I spotted in the fine print for a contest that Esquire magazine is running:
Canadian winners will be required to correctly answer a mathematical testing question as a condition of receiving a prize.
Some googling shows the same line in the legalese for a contest on Redbook’s website, which suggests it’s part [...]

PLAN DENTAL

Why the internet exists:

FYI, the Spanish one has ~200,000 more views.

THUG MOTIVATION 2.0

So, remember how my dad got a Smart Car?
He has upped the adorable ante again and a. joined a Houston-area auto club and social-networking site for Smart Car owners, and b. taken some tasteful photographs of the tiny car basking in the sun in a roadside field of wild bluebonnets, as does every doting Texan [...]

THUG MOTIVATION

Please enjoy this image of my dad with his new Smart Car.

WE ARE ONLY BROKE ON MONEY

At some point in the distant past, probably as a result of RSVPing for some free SXSW party that I didn’t even attend, I ended up in the address book of Dateline Iceland, a monthly email dispatch from Iceland’s official tourism board. My interest always momentarily piqued when it appeared in my inbox, but my [...]