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Happy Palindrome Day(Yad Emordnilap Yppah)
I’ve always been a fan of anagrams and palindromes. So has University of Portland Prof Aziz Inan (pictured above).
Handy Manny promotes running with saws!

In a recent episode of Handy Manny titled “Home Sweet Home,” a neighborhood child plays a dangerous game of duck, duck, goose called “nut, nut, bolt” with the tools (click on the episode title, watch or skip intro, and then click the scroll bar to -03:22 to see the abhorrent scene).
Baby Channels Sea Star Powers. (Mep Report #116)
Hey, Hey, The Gang’s All Here, Krull and Kelp Kollide, Russ Goes Back to School, Immortality Is/Is Not Overrated, Baby Sea Cucumbers, Rack-O is Whack-O, Cash for Coal, and NAFTA Bartenders.
Mep Report 116–Russ Gets His Graduate Degree
Part two of our video highlight series. In this extended clip, Russ desperately tries to explain why anyone should take a Universal Life Church degree seriously.
Russ Gets his Graduate Degree (Mep Report 116 Highlight) from Laserfalcon on Vimeo.
Ve have vays of making you a Ph.D.

Come on, it beats a dissertation!
100 German Professors Suspected of Ph.D. Bribes.
Honestly, if I knew it was this easy I would have bailed out halfway through my doctoral program and headed to Cologne. And I would have had to get my doctorate there at that point, cause I have a sneaking suspicion Brandeis wouldn’t have welcomed me with open arms on my return.
The Doctor is In
Last week, I earned a Doctorate of Immortality from the Universal Life Church. Already an ordained minister of the church at the fertile age of 21 (one of the few tens of millions), I decided to take the plunge and focus my studies on the infinite. Though happy to have returned to the corporeal world with my degree, I assure you that the trials of an Immortalist are not to be taken lightly.
“He-cession?”

Reihan Salam, in last week’s Foreign Policy, argued that this recession represents “The Death of Macho.” She cites an unemployment rate that is hitting male workers much more severely than female, and criticizes a culture of high risk, high leverage tactics which she associates with the macho business culture.
Leet Speak 101
All this talk about our soon-to-be-dead-language reminded me of the “1337 sp3ak” phenomenon.
Here’s your first lesson:



