Archive for December 20th, 2011

By way of Jay G.

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Our first thought was “Dead rats? Not dead gophers?

Our second thought was, “Is the gopher even indigenous to Massachusetts?”

(Hattip. Dead gophers explained here.)

On the first day of Christmas, the TSA gave to me…

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

But Tuesday, the TSA Chorus made hearts light at Terminal 4’s American Airlines gates as they performed for passengers caught up in the extra madness of holiday travel at Los Angeles International Airport.

So. Many. Jokes. So. Little. Time.

Edited to add: You know, I think I’m going to crowdsource this. Can you, my faithful and cheerful readers, come up with appropriate lyrics for TSA Christmas Carols? Leave them in comments. Just to make this fun, best lyrics submitted before December 31st (as determined by a committee consisting of myself, Lawrence, and Mike the Musicologist, pending the agreement of the latter two) wins a crappy prize, probably something I have duplicates of.

Edited to add 2: It doesn’t have to be set to “The 12 Days Of Christmas”, by the way. You can use any Christmas tune, up to and including “Fairytale of New York“. But unless you think we’ll immediately recognize the tune from your lyrics, please do make a note of it in the comments.

TMQ watch: December 20, 2011.

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Oh, look! TMQ got us a Christmas present. To quote John Gruber (who is actually quoting Norm MacDonald): “Happy birthday, Jesus. Hope you like crap.”

After the jump, what we’ve been dreading all year…

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