“The NFL has fined Titans owner Bud Adams $250,000 for making an obscene gesture at Buffalo fans while celebrating Tennessee’s victory over the Bills.”
For Chrissakes, he’s 86. He can give the finger any time he wants.
Category: Best Line of the Day
Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.
Most disgusting line of the day
“A septic tank pump truck just drove by my house with a sign on the side that said, ‘Yesterday’s meals on wheels!'”
Best line of the day, so far
“Some runners are actually running marathons barefoot and claim it’s more comfortable. We’ve been watching TV barefoot for years and agree completely.”
Best line of the day, so far
“After our main course, [the waitress] asked if she could bring anything else, and I suggested a nice pair of sweat pants with the restaurant’s logo would be appreciated. Wouldn’t that be great? I’ll bet restaurants would sell more desserts if they did that.”
Line of the day
“The last time the caldera in Yellowstone blew, the entire North American continent was under about a foot of ash. People who’ve gone diving in Yellowstone Lake say that there is a bulge in the floor that is now about 100 feet high and the whole thing is just sort of pulsing. From different people you get different answers, but it could go in another three to four thousand years or it could go on Thursday. No one knows.”
Best line of the day, so far
“Could Detroit pull a reverse Joni Mitchell — unpave its parking lots to put up a metro-agrarian paradise?”
Idea of the Day Blog – NYTimes.com
Detroit, the city “where a house can cost less than the TV you put inside.”
Best 'reality is so hard on Reagan' line of the day
“Sorry: there’s no measure I can think of by which the U.S. economy has done better since 1980 than it did over an equivalent time span before 1980. It may be something you’ve heard, it may be something you’d like to believe, but it just didn’t happen.”
Best line of the day, so far
“A U2 show marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall ran into controversy after organisers built a wall around the venue.”
Thanks to Avelino for the link.
Best caption line of the day
“We don’t like starting seasons too early any more than you do, but if this Beyonce pic doesn’t say, ‘Happy Holidays’ well, what does?”
[Update: Link fixed.]
Best line of the day, so far
“Democrats and Republicans are both claiming victory in this week’s series of elections because it’s been so long since either side just said truthful things in a straightforward way that they forgot how.”
Runner-up best lines from the same source:
“Michael Jordan’s kid insisted on wearing Nike Air Jordans when he played in the University of Central Florida’s opening basketball game, and it cost the school a $3 million dollar deal with Adidas. Fortunately, his dad had that much in his wallet.”
“Yankees win! That’s not a headline, just a general statement of fact, like ‘Megan Fox is hot’ or ‘Light beer sucks.'”
Best parenting has changed line of the day
“Now, If I had said this to my father when I was growing up, I wouldn’t be alive today.”
Best line of the day, so far
“I have great hopes for the Obama presidency, even in his first term, and especially if he could have two terms to realize the exciting new things he aspires to do in the White House. But I would rather see him a one-term president than have him pass on another unwinnable war to the person who will follow him in office.”
Best 'they're still jackasses' line of the day
“Next time you get cut off by a another driver, consider giving the offender a break: One-third of Americans might be genetically predisposed to crappy driving.”
Best line of the day, so far
“Southwest Airlines is launching a $25 fare sale. For an extra five bucks you get to ride inside the plane.”
Also good line:
“U2 will play a free concert in Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. Pink Floyd has responded, ‘Excuse us? Wall? That’s us, people!’ “
Best at last the truth line of the day
They’ve finally figured out what the deal was with the two pilots that overflew Minneapolis. According to Andy Borowitz the pilots weren’t actually on the plane. They were hiding in a box in the attic.
Best 'what else is there' line of the day
”We were not asleep; we were not having an argument; we were not having a fight.”
Pilot Richard Cole on what he and Captain Timothy B. Cheney weren’t doing when they overflew Minneapolis.
What does that leave? Oh, wait . . .
Best balloon boy line of the day, so far
[Sheriff] Alderden also said Richard Heene has only a high school education, dispelling the belief that he is some kind of a “nutty professor.”
“He may be nutty, but he’s not a professor,” Alderden said.
Best line of the day
“Knowing that you are watching our children gives us a level of comfort that is only matched by the extreme joy that we are not watching them.”
Byron in an email confirming an anniversary trip to Rome and Paris with Jill next month.
Top ten celebrity tweets about Balloon Boy
4. Diablo Cody, http://twitter.com/diablocody
When balloons and “hiding” intersect in my life, there’s usually pills involved. #Rectum
Best line of the morning
“I don’t know. I can only guess that after the 2 1/2-hour, heart-stopping flying-saucer flight over much of Weld County — an adventure in which little Balloon Boy turned into little Attic Boy — that we may never be sure again.”
Best line of the day
GOP.com, the new social networking site for Republicans, crashed hours after it was launched on Tuesday. What do you think?
Dave Nowak,
Campus Activities Director
“No site structure can possibly withstand that many people typing in all caps.”
Best line of the day
“My friends brother’s Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, She inquired about the name. He explained, ‘Cuz we beat you, and you hate us.’ ”
Funniest line of the day
WASHINGTON – Just moments after she broke with fellow Republicans and voted in favor of health care reform, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) came under fire from the GOP for allegedly lying about her nation of birth.
“This vote is going to raise suspicions, once again, that Sen. Snowe was born in Kenya,” said GOP Chairman Michael Steele. “We demand that she prove, once and for all, that she is definitely not Kenyan.”
Best line of the day
“He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he’s miserable and depressed.”
David Frost
Best foodie line of the day
“Here’s food for thought: a new study suggests that eating a Mediterranean-style diet may also protect against depression.”
They continue:
The Mediterranean diet has long been linked to a lower risk of heart and circulation problems. The diet, based on the style of eating in southern European countries such as Spain and Greece, features plenty of olive oil, more fish than meat, low amounts of dairy, and lots of vegetables, fruits, nuts, and legumes (such as lentils and beans). It also includes a moderate amount of alcohol, such as red wine.
I may just move to the Mediterranean.