Stop wasting our time:

Actual question posed to Chicago Manual of Style:

Most people no longer use a typewriter and carbon paper when making a copy of a letter. Does that mean that “cc” should now be just “c”?

No, cc should now be just "Ctl-A-Ctl-C-Ctl-V"

India, may I help you?

I met a woman from India yesterday and I'll be honest:
it was weird talking to her without first listening to "Hold music" for an hour and a half.

common decency

As far as common decency goes, I'd rather act common than decent.

Daylight Savings Fool

Here's good thing about having Daylight Savings the same day as April Fool's Day.

You can tell foreigners to turn their clocks back an hour to teach them about DST and April Fool's at the same time.

My upcoming book series

Idea for a book series:

"Foie Gras Parfait, Sauteed Lobster and a Parsnip Confit...for the Soul"

Be my guest

B ush's new policy for immigration is called the "guest worker" program.

Which suggests if you're ever invited as a guest to the W hite H ouse, bring a leaf blower.

Quote from Tim:
"I don't want to bore you with those details so I'll bore you with other details."

A phrase you stop using when you get older:

"I never said that."

Skin Deep.

My skin doctor told me that I have sun damage that's pre-cancerous.
So of course, I'm pre-bummed out about it.

Great joke. Google the setup.

Punchline: "They gave me a chihuahua?"