Larry Hnetka Goes HMmmm

My niece Melanie is quoted among some of the finest journalists, judges and even US presidents in bloopers of the media kind.

Accordion Guy garnered national media attention in The Globe and Mail about his recent engagement.
Why did their engagement generate such a buzz?
Here’s an excerpt from the Globe and Mail article of two great bloggers finding love in the great blogsphere of life:
“A week ago [...]

Which File Extension are You?
Took the file extension quiz. How boring. I’m just a lowly .doc - why, oh why couldn’t I be an .exe, or even a lonely .pdf?
Try it and see what extension you are.

Michael Sam Hnetka. It’s your BIRTHDAY today!

Today is my sister-in-law Shirley’s birthday.

Just in time for Hallow e’en, the retroCRUSH website offers The 100 Scariest Movie Scenes of All Time!
From the retroCrush website:
This has been a great labour of love and truly one of the most fun articles I’ve ever had the pleasure of putting up on retroCRUSH.
It’s easy to talk about scary movies, [...]

The Chuck Tissue Chewage Disaster: read the saga here.
A great thanks to her readers but also a great “back off monkey boy” response.
Internet, I really like you, I do, but… please stop sending me advice about my dog. Or my daughter. Or my constipation, for that matter. [...]

This article in The Register tells all about being chav. Lots of links to other chav sites as well.
Now it starts to make sense.
Just suppose you were naming a new baby. The chaviest (?) girl’s name is Crystal Keeley.
Chavs are also known Neds, Townies, Kevs, Charvers, Steeks, Spides, Bazzas, [...]

CHAV is the word for 2004!
Larpers and Shroomers: the Language Report by Susie Dent was released today. Dent’s research suggests that every year one word is born into the English language which says something about the preoccupations of the time.
In 1920 the post-war buzzword was demob; in 1958 [...]

Hey look at this! ( (( ((( Spectropolis 2004 ))) )) ) Press
My HMmmm post must have shown up on a search engine someplace. Sometimes I think I’m all alone in my tidy little [...]