The McBournie Minute: History That Happened in the Past (1990-1999)
Posted on October 5, 2009
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For the U.S. the 1990s was a time of relative peace. To borrow from Dickens, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was a time of oral sex in executive buildings and clear colas. It was a time of grunge and it was a time of Hanson. It was a time of the wild west Internet and it was a time of Y2K fears.
History looks back on the 1990s as yet another decade of self-indulgence. It marked for many the hastening of corporations to catch on to and exploit new trends with the youth, and it was also when gold rimmed glasses were in fashion (I should know). In comparison to the troubles found before and after it, the 1990s seem almost like a party–a party where you have to wear your pants baggy.
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Written by Bryan McBournieIt’s like you don’t even read this
Posted on October 5, 2009
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Look, we’ve warned you since 2006 of the building and always present animal threat. But, then we read stories like these and start to lose hope for our species.
Dogs routinely frame humans
Dogs have conditioned us to believe that they are our closest allies. They help us hunt other animals, eat our homework when we need a night off and even keep dying businesses like newspapers going by carrying them inside. This was all a ruse.
It was through these means that dogs pretended to find criminals by sense of smell, and we actually believed them! It turns out that, like Texans, they just like frying people and any human will do.
He bearly loves you
Do not bring bears into your home. If they approach your door, it is only to get revenge on Goldilocks, and we all look the same to them.
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Posted on October 5, 2009
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And he’s not even old enough to drink yet. Which, honestly, is still par for the course.
Colton Harris-Moore, a young man just old enough to legally smoke, is suspected of stealing a Cessna 182, flying the plane and then crashing the plane. For someone not enlisted in the Air Force to do that, that’s fairly impressive.
It’s not all bad thoughts, though. Pam Kohler, mother of Colton, has provided us with two hilariously awesome quotes:
“I just wish he would wear a parachute,” Pam Kohler said.
and
“Now every plane that gets stolen is going to be blamed on him,” she said.
Safety and stereotyping. Those are two bastions of every mother’s handbook for caring.
Written by Chris "Chugs" TaylorVive le gullible
Posted on October 5, 2009
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This may come as something of a surprise, but those images you see in advertising? They’ve been retouched. Same goes for the models you see on magazine covers who seem to be able to hide their nipples so well.
French people don’t know this. They think their baguettes are really that long. They also think that French President Nicholas Sarkozy is really that skinny. Tre naive. It’s become so much of a problem that some French lawmakers want to require a note on any altered image so the public is not deceived.
Say, is that a picture of Sarkozy storming the Bastille?
Written by Bryan McBournie