Primarily a Post about Air Quotes

Following up on my little brother's comments below: there is an amusing entry in Wikipedia for Air Quotes. I find it funny for three reasons:

"One." The detailed, scholarly-toned description of how to do air quotes;

"Two." The dubious-sounding assertion that Germans do one inverted air quote mark, and that Frenchpeople do air guillemets;

"Three." The illustration, which is just this random dude doing air quotes.

This sort of thing represents Wikipedia's real advantage over traditional reference sources, I think.

If the humor there's too subtle, you can check out the blog Cake Wrecks (self-explanatory subtitle: "When Professional Cakes Go Horribly, Hilariously Wrong"). Don't miss this awesomely inappropriate cake made for a workplace anti-sexual-harassment seminar. Or the ("Olympics Rings").

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Speaking of the Olympics, kind of, and again following up on my little brother's comments below: if you're really jonesing to relive the excitement of IBM's early-1980s Decathlon game, you can download Dosbox (here) and the game (here) and follow some simple directions (here), and in no time you'll be failing the pole vault like you were six years old again.

Pete and I did go head-to-head on this when he was visiting earlier this summer (living the dream of representing, respectively, West Germany and East Germany), proving a basic law of video games: It doesn't matter how old a game is or how good a game is; as long as you can beat your little brother at it, it's good.

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Also, happy belated birthday, Pete!