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They say that imitation is the sincerest form of somebody having too much time on their hands. That’s probably true. I ran across a site parodying The Strategic Retreat the other day and I thought I’d share. It’s funny to me and possibly to my dozens of loyal readers, maybe not so much to the bulk of my traffic but that’s not really my problem.

This Haircut Is Going To Pay For Itself

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hairRecently I decided to grow up. Despite being 28 I have been, up until very recently, a child. That’s not to say I haven’t been supporting myself, voting, being rad, etc. What I haven’t been doing is planning for the future, developing my career, saving money, buying property that kind of thing. That’s all changing, and it all started at Bishops.
Bishops is where I get the ol hairs cut. It’s close to my house, seems to only employ hot tattooed ladies and they give you a High Life or three while you wait. I enjoy Bishops.
I… Read the rest

Throwdown: Britney v. Michael

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Britney V. Michael

It’s the age old question, who would you rather have babysit your children; Michael Jackson or Britney Spears? Unlike the Chicken v. Egg debate (Egg clearly wins) this question presents me with a bit of a problem, for the first time in my life I’m not immediately sure of an answer. I will present the facts, as I see them, and let you decide.

Will they drop your kid?

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Brit: Not only does she not know how to hold a kid, she doesn’t notice/care that he’s falling.
MJ: He made one mistake in this regard, he… Read the rest

Exercise, The Slow Killer

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For the past month or so I’ve been going to the gym. I lift on Monday and Friday, with 30 minutes on the elliptical Tuesday-Thursday. On the way home from the gym yesterday I got to thinking; I bet this is a waste of time. I’m now going to do the math to either confirm of disprove my hypotheses of “working out is for suckers.”

To begin my experiment I googled “exercise live longer“. The first article spoke of generalities so I moved on to Read the rest