Overlaid text said:

See our ad in Golf Digest.

Yeah – may want to distance yourself from that advertising campaign. Gives a whole new meaning to getting it in the hole.

Anyway:

Yes, I have more.

Classic funny.

I found it again this morning on a website I was not aware of, and just had to share. “Know Your Meme” gives you up-to-the-moment information on every known internet meme – those ubiquitous tongue-in-cheek sayings and devices that come into our daily routines on the internet.

OM NOM NOM NOM.

And his name is Harold.

You are his life, his love, his leader.

He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.

You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotions.

–UNKNOWN

OK, so most of you won’t appreciate this Fark Photoshop entry. I thought it was rather clever, considering the premise. The instructions were simple:

Photoshop something into this snowy background:

Aaannnnnnd my entry (yeah, I put it in the foreground. Sue me):

Vote whoring at its finest.

I’m currently “second” in the voting at 19 votes!

Sarcasm, Inc., is saying that we all need to insert a new piece of punctuation into our already wordy society to offset real, honest dialogue from biting, sarcastic language. How? By inserting a SarcMark, that’s how. Like that will work (insert SarcMark here).

Me, I don’t like being sarcastic. There are those in our world who really do take things in context, and don’t appreciate the unambiguous form of some speech. Myself included. But what I do have a tendency to use is the “other” side of sarcastic language: facetious.

Ask anyone who is around me on a daily basis, and they’ll tell you I never say “I’m being sarcastic”; rather, I’ll say “I’m being facetious”.

So after reading the article at UPI this morning, I did start wondering: am I using facetious language, or sarcastic? And am I using the two terms correctly?

A search for facetious vs. sarcastic brings up first a BlogRot¹ entry from 2007 with two examples that sum up the difference nicely:

Facetious: When he whistled at the girls on the street while leering from his convertible, it was easy to make a facetious comment that he was acting like a dog.

Sarcastic: When he whistled at the girls on the street while leering from his convertible, it was easy to make a sarcastic comment that he was acting like an angel.

In other words, the difference appears to be that facetious is a comment that is cute and not hurtful, while sarcasm is irony intended to taunt and hurt.

And what of the SarcMark? You need software to make it work. For only $1.99 you, too, can start using punctuation that half of those on the internet don’t know how to use in the first place. The image above is what it looks like. Me? I’ll stick with the more-common punctuation of a period.

¹ Blogrot refers to a blog which has died an untimely death. Or not. One that may indeed have useful information, but has not been updated for quite some time; as in the case of the one I got the facetious vs. sarcasm reference, it has not been updated since 2007.

Tomorrow, Earth will be sideswiped be visited by an object to within 76,000 miles of the Earth’s surface. Roughly a third of the distance to the Moon.

Discovered only on January 10th, the asteroid – or whatever it is – is about 10-15 meters in size.

Not to worry, of course. We’ve had all of three days to prepare. Besides – what could possibly go wro

No, I have no knowledge of that.

Still, these images at the Chandra X-ray Observatory from Harvard University are such examples.

Of note on that page is the classically-described, non-descriptive “G1.9+0.3″ supernova, which apparently happened just 140 years ago. The explanation as to why there were no accounts of it during the Civil Way are that it was deep in gaseous clouds of matter. Whatever.

What makes this a bit too creepy is that there are naysayers in the outer reaches of credibility that say the ejecta from this supernova is what will spell impending doom for the Earth.

Part of that ejecta is, according to some accounts, is a comet that will be coming our way in the not-too-distant future. When, is anybody’s guess.

Yeah, I thought of that, too.

2012?