Do not laser-shark me, oh my darling: isn’t everything better with rayguns?
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April 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Do not laser-shark me, oh my darling: isn’t everything better with rayguns?Men In Tights
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You heard it here first:* Moby Dick is awesome! (*No, you didn’t.)Au Clair de la Lune
Feast your ears on the oldest known sound recording–from 17 years before Edison’s phonograph. (Via Corn Chips & Pie.)The Pickle King of Islamistan
Khalid (née Bertram) Sheldrake, the “power hungry, toothbrush mustachioed, British ninny” who somehow failed to convert western China to Islam. Some Of Our Corky Chums
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Traveling and exhuming the extraordinary past. - History 444E
Course website for my senior U.S. History seminar. - Uncovering Information Labor
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1 Rob // Apr 21, 2008 at 12:53 pm
laser-shark (v): To combine two things that are cool on their own, usually creating something somehow overdone and stupid.
See also: dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they open their mouths, they shoot bees at you.
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