Birth Year + Next Age = WTF?

Another Reason the Internet Is Making Us Stupid

My father called me all excited the other day. Apparently it’s a meme floating around in FWDs, but I got it the old fashioned way. Through my cell phone.

“Got a pen and paper?” he said.

“I have a pen, but I’m walking–”

“That’s all. I don’t care if you write it on your hand. Take the year you were born, ’82, and then add your next age on your next birthday, 29.”

“Dad, my birth year is ’80, and I’ll be 31 next year.”

“It’s 111. It all adds up to 111. Isn’t that insane? Like ‘The Da Vinci Code’ or something. And anybody born this century they’ll get the number 11. And anybody over 100 will get 211.”

 

Tonya Harding Pregnant, Instantly Less Interesting

So it’s official. Tonya Harding does have a creature growing inside her that she has to feed daily. And it’s a baby! Who’d a’thunk?

[Okay, I know what you’re thinking. Tonya Harding has never looked this good. No, it’s not that pregnant glow. For the aesthetics of this blog, I pushed Tonya through drag superstar RuPaul’s Dragulator.]

How to Clear Your Brain

Occasionally here at Puzzled Daily, we like to answer questions rather than pose them. Today we thought we’d share a sure-fire way to clear your brain from all clutter. Seriously, busy minds, this works.

There’s an old Chinese saying we just made up, “To think of something, think of a bird. To think of nothing, think of a bird and cough syrup–at the same moment.”

When you try to think of two incompatible things at the same time, there is a kind of middle ground of nothingness that can really clear your head. Sure, if you get creative enough you can come with a reason why there’s a bird flying around with a bottle of cough syrup in its beak, but don’t. How easy is that! Here, let’s do an exercise.

Garrett Wang Goodness

Upon perusing “25 Awful Star Trek Tattoos,” I was reminded of how in 1997 Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim from TV’s Star Trek Voyager) was named one of People’s 50 Most Beautiful People .

"Chinaman, you look like Garrett Wang!"

The Anti-Gay Uganda Issue: For Dummies

Now this, this puzzles the living daylights out of me. Many of you might be seeing the following appeal popping up all over your favorite websites and blogs (from AllOut.com)

STAND WITH BRENDA

Brenda Namigadde, a Ugandan lesbian in the UK, faces deportation TODAY back to the life-threatening persecution she fled eight years ago.

We just found out that one of the leading figures in the LGBT movement in Uganda, David Kato, was murdered yesterday in his home. This awful tragedy makes clear what’s at stake for Brenda if she is forced to return.

Will you join more than 25,000 people in 85 countries and sign this urgent letter pressuring U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May to stop Brenda’s deportation?

Know why? Because those websites and blogs are awesome. Everybody should know that Uganda is fucking crazy when it comes to fighting back against the gay agenda. Oops, slip of the tongue. I meant, Uganda is fucking bananas when it comes to the issue of homosexuality.