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Best spam from my work inbox today:

Why wait to lose those unnecessary pounds. amputate

Why not? It’s an easy way to lose weight! You don’t need that leg anyway, it adds an extra couple of pounds.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Glenda and I were having a conversation not too long ago about names, and which ones seemed to be popular amongst our other ‘cousins’…

Me:I don’t think I know any other glendas
Glenda: yeah, i wasn’t aware glenda was a popular filipino name?
Glenda: then there is also glynnis
Me: glynnis? never heard that one
Glenda: me neither!
Me: huh, namefinder thingies say it’s Celtic
Glenda: glenda is also celtic.
Me: yeah
Glenda: no. hrm. actually welsh.
Glenda: glenda is welsh.
Me: actually another site says Welsh for Glynnis too
Me: “Either a variant of GLENYS or an elaboration of the Welsh word glyn meaning “valley”.”
Me: and “Glenys” is “Elaboration of the Welsh word glan meaning “pure” or “holy”.”
Me: oh, fack. hahahah
Me: Courtney: From a surname which was derived either from a French place name meaning “domain of CURTIS” or else from a French nickname meaning “short nose”.
Glenda: i like your name. your name is the jam.
Me: SHORT NOSE?
Me: the filipino nose!
Glenda: LOL

So even though my name is French, there is a logical reason why I have that name. Filipinos have short noses, yeah.

Damn.

I just really like today’s Word of the Day. It’s appropriate for this time of year. That, and it sounds cool to say it.

voluptuary \vuh-LUHP-choo-er-ee\, noun:
A person devoted to luxury and the gratification of sensual appetites; a sensualist.

adjective:
Voluptuous; luxurious.

Colette used to begin her day’s writing by first picking fleas from her cat, and it’s not hard to imagine how the methodical stroking and probing into fur might have focused such a voluptuary’s mind.

–Diane Ackerman, “O Muse! You Do Make Things Difficult!” New York Times, November 12, 1989

Though depicted as a decadent voluptuary, she remained celibate for more than half of her adult life.

–Michiko Kakutani, “Cleopatra Behind Her Magic Mirror,” New York Times, June 5, 1990

Voluptuary derives from Latin voluptarius, “devoted to pleasure,” from voluptas, “pleasure.”

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for voluptuary

There was a recent influx of comments on an entry from January. Help me out here. How should I respond to such eloquent troll attempts as these?

Macs are so cool, 2 buttons in the pc is way to confusing.
Macs are the gooder!!!111
posted by Mega (link)

When upgrading a pc i had to open that metal box and stick stuff in and it was way to hard with my mac i just throw it away and go buy a new one
posted by jerry sprignger (link)

When buying games for the mac its so easy. For the PC theres like 100 games, for the mac theres just 6. when telling kids about my mac they were worshipping me, they were like, wow dude your the biggest noob ever. I was so proud.
posted by Jim T Bone (link)

macs go grate with my voltswagon beatle and all my other homosexual apperal that i put in my house,(my parents basement) yea im 40 and i live with my parents, thats why macs are for me because i suck at life and so do macs, teh colors are soo c00l
posted by MacsAre4newbs .com (link)

macintosh is 1337 hardcore , linux whats that?, all i know is that macs have a FRUIT as there logo so apparently they are FRUITY which is why i like them
posted by adsf (link)

Looks like some kids using RoadRunner over in Columbus, Ohio (sorry, Mike) need a good lesson in grammar and punctuation. They made me laugh, not with them, but at them. Tsk.

This is a somewhat onimous commercial clip of our governor-elect. Is this what the future brings?

Oh, and this one is just plain weird.

This has been your moment of zen.

(psst… more here)