Mark: yo so whats this?
Mark: SELECT garnish FROM recipe WHERE drink = 'manhattan';
Mark: ?
: haha
: Well, that's obviously a maraschino cherry
: On the outside edge, an orange slice.
Mark: yeah, heh. but actually its a maraschino query
groans.
: How long did you work on that one?
Mark: been saving it for a rainy day
Be glad they're into [...]
As some of you may have already noticed, Valleywag is my new favorite source for chuckles about the celebrity A-list side of what I suppose is “my industry”. I'd been a Ditherati subscriber for quite a while, so when Paul and now Owen moved over to the Gawker (no link necessary, I assume) monolith and [...]
This happened to me again (I think maybe their QC's gone down hill as their subscriber count has gone up), sending me Apocalypto instead of Swordfish, so I went through the motions to say “that's not what I asked for, you goons”.
Back then, suggested, 'I suspect that we both selected what is meant [...]
This is how you fucking do that thing you think you're doing.
(Hey look, not even Valleywag can find anything about it to make fun of!)
Scott Adams fails to live up to third-party captions. But, you know, he's actually got editors and such.
Note: linked OP is well aware of the irony. I'm essentially quoting his observation here, though he expends more words (he's German, cut him some slack) on it. I'm not making fun of him (if I were going to do that, I'd start talking about trying to push start '93 VWs in private college parking [...]