Owner: The Stinker URL:http://jeffreyellis.org/stinker/ Join Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:13:11 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: All about satire, parody, irreverent humor, flights of insanity, incoherent ramblings, and whatever else the author cares to blog about Site statistics:Click here
Apropos of Nothing: Some Random Observations 2008-06-11 08:14:59 I have but a few miscellaneous things to report on today. For the really funny stuff, you’d better go here.
I was driving up I-675 to work the other day and I passed a “Dayton Adult Daycare Service” van. It was going 50 mph with its left blinker stuck on. Dunno why, I just thought it [...] Read more:Nothing
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Why Daddy Is A Libertarian 2008-06-12 09:13:34 Have you heard about the children’s book called Why Mommy Is A Democrat, and its companion book, Why Daddy
Is A Democrat? The author, Jeremy Zilber, claims on his web site that the books “bring to life the core values of the Democratic party in ways that young children will easily understand and thoroughly enjoy. [...] Read more:Libertarian
This Day in History (June 17) 2008-06-17 06:56:03 On this day in history, June 17th…
1775: The Battle of Archie Bunker Hill was fought during the Revolutionary War. Colonel Prescott allegedly issued the famous order: “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes,” not long before the tension of waiting became too unbearable and he was heard to utter, “Ah jeez, I [...] Read more:History
Guest Post: Chief Engineer of Stinker Industries 2008-06-18 08:11:32 How. (That is Native American way of saying “Oh, hai.”)
Me Chief
Engineer of Stinker Industries
. Guest
poster for today because paleface CEO too busy trying to find new humor muse. Tells me guest posting falls under category of “other duties as assigned.” Typical white man trick.
Chief Engineer. Get it? Ha! I slay-um myself, big heap.
Real [...]
Apropos of Nothing: Random Observations for the Week of June 23, 2008 2008-06-24 07:33:37 In this post I mentioned that the Stinkermobile was closing in on 200,000 miles. Well, yesterday was the day. w00t! w00t! The Stinkermobile broke 200,000 miles on the way home from work! The Stinkermobile is a tricked-out ‘94 Honda Accord, the 4-door LX model. And by “tricked-out,” I mean it has a variety of special [...] Read more:Nothing
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Little House In Da Big Hood 2008-06-20 07:01:27 “Little House
In Da Big Hood”
by Laronda Ingalls Wilder
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Big News for The Stinker 2008-07-08 15:22:41 I have accepted a job offer from a company in Houston, Texas. Starting on July 28th, I’ll be working at Johnson Space Center on the Constellation program. (For those of you who are unaware, the Constellation program is NASA’s project to develop a next generation of spacecraft that will replace the Space Shuttle and also [...]
Palau Citizenship Ritual 2008-07-08 05:58:43 For those of you who have grown bored with my whole Palau adventure, you can go here instead. Otherwise, just sit right back and you’ll hear the tale…
What a long and strange day this has been. The interview was actually pretty uneventful. Piece of cake, really. I am a rocket scientist, after all. [...] Read more:Ritual
Greetings from Palau 2008-07-07 07:09:15 Thanks to the encouragement many of you sent via email, I decided to go ahead and interview for the position of Administrator of the Palau Indigenous Space Service (PISS) — Palau’s equivalent of NASA — as I talked about here. I’m actually posting this from my hotel room in the fledgling little island nation of [...] Read more:Greetings
Chief Engineer: We Try-Um To Fit In 2008-07-03 08:11:52 How. (That is Native American way of saying “Hey, y’all.”)
Me Chief
Engineer of Stinker Industries. (”Chief Engineer,” get it? Ha! I slay-um myself, big heap.) Guest poster for today because paleface CEO too busy to post. He just return from travel, now has over 200 emails waiting for him to answer. Tells me guest posting [...]
The Stinker Needs Some Advice 2008-07-01 20:23:17 Dear Blogosphere,
I could really use your advice.
The government of Palau just contacted me about an opportunity to lead their fledgling space program. They want to interview me for the position of Administrator of the Palau Indigenous Space Service (PISS) — Palau’s equivalent of NASA. They are a pretty ambitious bunch of people for a country [...] Read more:Needs
Yet Another Brief Hiatus… 2008-07-01 04:44:01 I’m on travel for work, so probably no posts for a couple of days. In the mean time, go here for funny stuff. Read more:Brief
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Stymied By Technology 2008-06-27 07:13:55 Dear Blogosphere,
Well, poopy-doo. I can’t figure out how to make a web widget for my new Blogway™ idea. All this “Web 2.0″ crap just baffles me. Ask me to write some FORTRAN or C++ code and I’m off to the races, but a web programmer I’m not.
Really, I’m sick to death of the whole concept [...] Read more:Technology
Brent Diggs Recorded My Song Parody! 2008-06-26 07:09:39 Many weeks ago, BrentDiggs
(of The Ominous Comma fame) offered to record one of my song parodies. And now he’s done it! In spite of having to cope with the recent loss of Dr. Toboggans, Brent managed to find time to finish the recording this week!
Click here to listen to Brent’s rendition of “Extreme [...]
Comment Problems 2008-06-25 21:20:01 My apologies, faithful readers and commenters. It appears that Wordpress has stopped sending me automated email notifications when comments are posted by a first-time poster on The Stinker. Consequently, several pending comments have been languishing in my “waiting for moderation” queue, unbeknownst to me until just a while ago. (Non-first-time posters get their comments posted [...] Read more:Comment
A quick update 2008-07-22 21:00:13 My posting will be pretty light for the next week or so. Tomorrow we’ll be spending the whole day packing up, and then Thursday we’re leaving for Houston. An 18 hour drive, not including stops. I start my new gig at Johnson Space Center on Monday. (Or more accurately, I start new employee orientation, training, [...]
Song Parody: Spin Doctor’s “Two Princes” 2008-07-21 11:19:18 The challenge: Write a song parody in less than an hour.
The results: See below.
Normally when I do a song parody the idea needs to gestate for several days before it all comes together, so it was pretty tough for me to put it all down this quickly.
If you like it, give me a smiley on [...] Read more:Doctor
, Princes
Best of The Stinker: Motivational Parody Posters, LOLs, &tc. 2008-07-18 07:21:28 In a blatant and shameless attempt to boost my stats on humor-blogs.com, I hereby give you a re-posting of my very best motivators, LOL’s, and other funny pictures. Just so this isn’t a total rehash, I’ll also include a few new ones at the end. If you like any of these, please click here and [...] Read more:Motivational
, Posters
Guest Post: Krystal Rae McElroy, Administrative Assistant 2008-07-17 07:40:22 Hey, y’all.
I’m yer guest poster for today. The boss man is off again to that island somewhere in the Pacific. He wouldn’t say what it is except some possible contract with their space program, but I bet the dickweed’s lookin’ for a new job. Saw his resume sittin’ on the printer the other day. [...] Read more:Administrative
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Guest Post: Beer (mmmmm….) 2008-07-16 07:26:57 Yep, it’s me again! And this time I’m here in a special incarnation, as one of the top-rated beers in the world. So this post is for beer lovers only. And when I say “beer lovers,” I’m not talking about you Bud- swilling trailer trash. That stuff you drink is just bland beer-flavored water designed [...] Read more:Guest
Not That I’m A Stats Whore Or Anything… 2008-07-15 06:55:41 … but look at this:
My traffic has continued to rise steadily since The Stinker’s inception in December of 2007. With a really big jump this past month in returning visitors — i.e., regular readers. So thank you to all my regular readers!
And I recently hit the #10 spot in the rankings at humor-blogs.com, too! That’s [...] Read more:Stats
, Whore
GPS Receivers 2008-07-14 09:07:26 For my Father’s Day / birthday present this year, I got a GPS
receiver. Specifically, a Garmin nuvi, like this one:
For someone as navigationally-challenged as I am (I’ve gotten lost in parking lots before), this thing is a life saver. You just punch in the address you want to go to, and it tells you [...] Read more:Receivers
Google Knows 2008-07-13 23:21:25 Sometimes when I’m bored I do experiments with Google
. Because Google knows.
(click to biggify)
Here are just a couple experiments I performed recently:
Experiment #1. Democrats vs. Republicans
Google hits for…
“democrats outraged” — 22,200
“republicans outraged” — 2,430
Google hits for…
“I hate republicans” — 22,000
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Best of The Stinker: First Draft of Poe’s “The Raven” Found 2008-07-09 07:27:28 If Diesel can re-post his best stuff, then I can too. I am nothing if not derivative and repetitive. (Would that make me a second derivative?)
This is something I posted in the earlier days of The Stinker, so many of you may not have seen it. If you like it, please click on this link [...] Read more:Draft
, First
In The Line Of Fire 2008-08-04 21:37:35 Since I’m off work right now (Johnson Space Center has closed until Wednesday due to the impending storm), I have some free time, so I thought I’d put up a quick post. And double bonus points since I was able to use the title to my very favorite Clint Eastwood movie evar, of all time, [...]
The Stinker Is In Suspended Animation 2008-07-31 15:44:25 There’s just too much going on with learning a new job, learning a new city, getting a new house built, getting the old house sold, moving our household goods, finding a new bank, doctor, mechanic, etc., etc., etc., to realistically leave me with sufficient time to do justice to the astronomically high standards of [...] Read more:Animation
Greetings from Houston 2008-07-28 23:14:00 I have blisters/callouses from the steering wheel of the Stinkermobile after 18+ hours of driving time, but we arrived safely early Saturday afternoon. It was 102 deg-F as we unloaded the cars at the new apartment. Nice.
No time for a real post now, just wanted to let the blogosphere know we made it okay and [...] Read more:Greetings
, Houston
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