weekend conversation starters

July 23rd, 2010

Any fun plans this weekend? With a couple thunderstorms looming, you may be stuck indoors for a few hours. Luckily, the NY Times has suggested some witty conversation starters.

The 10 Things to Talk About This Weekend

By HENRY ALFORD

Published: July 21, 2010

1. La Guardia and J.F.K. to get full-body scanners. Metropolitan area starts practicing sucking in stomach.

2. Sarah Palin uses word “refudiate,” then likens her word-coining ways to Shakespeare’s. If Sarah is the new Shakespeare, then Bristol and Levi are Beatrice and Benedick.

3. Amy Adams has been cast in a film as Janis Joplin. And Calista Flockhart is Mama Cass.

4. Saying “Shut the front door!” as an exclamation of disbelief, as Mark Ruffalo does in “The Kids Are All Right.” The most fun interjection since Liz Lemon’s “Spit take!”

5. Cast of “Jersey Shore” goes on strike in bid for a raise. Demands include workers’ compensation for fist-pumping-related carpal tunnel.

6. BP caught Photoshopping images of its crisis command center. The pictures of the Eiffel Tower and the LOL cats were the tip-off.

7. Listening to the Mel tapes. The Marriage Ref meets Linda Blair.

8. Senator Robert Byrd’s hottie 36-year-old replacement, Carte Goodwin, sworn in; minutes later helps pass unemployment-benefits extension. Your cute government at work!

9. Deceptively edited video makes U.S.D.A.’s Shirley Sherrod look racist. More sleight-of-hand than an episode of “Lost.”

10. June was the hottest month on record worldwide. God: “My bad. I left the oven on.”

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