Y! did I write all of that?

I recently (accidentally) installed a yahoo toolbar on my computer and now random Y! symbols keep popping up all over the place when I'm typing and doing other computer related tasks. I just highlighted that first sentence of this post, in preparation for deleting it- as exciting of a tidbit as my recent toolbar installation is, I figured I might be able to produce something slightly juicier to entice visitors to read on- but then a drop down menu appeared which gave me the option of translating the selected text into English. I figure that Yahoo! is so predisposed to excitement and fun- as evidenced by the company name and choice of punctuation- that they don't understand boring stuff like lame blog introductory sentences, and therefore assume them to be another language.

In the unlikely event that you were able to follow that idiotic paragraph through the maze of run-on sentences you may be wondering aloud "Why would Yahoo! think a sentence in which you discuss their new toolbar is lame?" First of all, don't talk to yourself when you read my blog, I don't want any crazies believing the hyphen. Secondly, I wrote that I accidentally installed the Y!-bar and as soon as I disrespected the 'hoo! like that, I was totally dead to them.

And to think, I only wanted to mention the toolbar as a means to segue into the joke that I'm about to write. Talk about a waste of all of our time-particularly mine.

So speaking of Yahoo! They are sponsoring a time capsule project that will attempt to communicate with extraterrestrials. From now until October 25th "enthusiasts" are invited to send text images, videos and sounds that reflect human nature to Teotihuacan, Mexico where the materials will be digitized and beamed with a laser into space. We won't necessarily find out if there's intelligent life out there, just life that gets a kick out of the Fat Kid on Bungee Ride clip.

For enduring that miserable preamble about the Y! toolbar you've earned one more joke. Congratulations.

This is a really awful story. A 27 year old mother in Erie, PA recently swung and hit her boyfriend with the couple's 4 week old baby during a fight. The mother, who had been drinking, says she was throwing all sorts of objects at her boyfriend and insists she didn't realize she had picked up her son by the legs and struck her boyfriend with the baby's head until after it happened. And I believe her, because let's face it, at 4 weeks a baby's skull is still way too soft to make a decent weapon.

Well, on that take-your-breath-away-offensive joke I will bid you all farewell.