February 2012
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Charlie Chaplin on comedy
The playwright Charles MacArthur had been brought to Hollywood to do a screenplay, but was finding it difficult to write visual jokes. “What’s the problem?” asked Chaplin. “How, for example, could I make a fat lady, walking down Fifth Avenue, slip on a banana peel and still get a laugh? It’s been done a million times,” said MacArthur. “What’s the...
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Subway's (on 7th Ave between 37th & 38th) reason...
Last week my friend asked one of the employees at that location why parmesan melts were no longer on the menu. His answer:
”..because too many Black people were asking for it.”
Yep, you read that correctly. Out of the Subway employee’s mouth and into my friend’s ears (he happens to be caucasian).
And as it turns out their manager is not just racist but also a cheap...
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“The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t.”
– Warrior
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Starving
…for the Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather debate to end. I swear every time I hear someone vehemently defend Mayweather and his classless antics I get irritated. It’s usually from a friend/friendly acquaintance of mine too. Whenever I hear them call Pacquiao a coward or undermine/outright insult his skill I have a primal instinct to want to fight whoever said it, even if it is my...
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“A wise old owl sat in an oak,
The more he heard the less he spoke;
The less he...”
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“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26...”
– Michael Jordan - G.O.A.T.
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Jeremy Lin fun fact:
Lin scored 27 pts (12 in the 4th quarter), had 11 assists, 2 rebounds, a steal and 8 turnovers. That means he was 2 turnovers short of a triple double! :P
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I wish my grandfather was alive to see this. He’d be so proud to see a young, Asian-American come out of nowhere and rejuvenate the Knicks, light up Madison Square Garden, and capture the imagination NBA fans and people around the world. An avid sports fan, he would have loved to see an underdog player put up unprecedented statistics in a 6-game stretch. If we didn’t lose him ten years...