Random Silly Grins

Well at least the Archies performed their own music!

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True, though they got better. :wink:

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Like bill and ted?

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As an engineer, Iā€™m not sure why the OCR programs donā€™t use n-grams, word frequency analysis, etc to smooth everything over. For example, why in Godā€™s name would anyone or anything think ā€œpauiEjqo aq jou pjnoqs juauiAolua jEnxas 3ApsaĀ§ip aqj jo ajnjEu uappiqjoj puEā€ means anything except ā€œoh shit, the book is upside down, I should fix this post hasteā€?

But the perpetual 12-year-old in me is glad that we have such poor OCR technology, because otherwise, we wouldnā€™t have:

ā€¦ without speaking, knelt down by his bed-side, and took him in her anus .

And:

Lizzie took him in her anus , and sat down to hush him.

And:

Jimmy stopped, recognized her, and broke into piteous sobs, crying for sheer joy, as she took him in her anus .

And basically every time anyone takes anyone else in their anus.

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I wonder if the reverse mistake ever happens? :thinking:

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ā€¦And here we have the planet Yur Arms.

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Well, I, for one, like these new versions. You may say itā€™s not as romantic, buttā€¦

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Just so long as we donā€™t need to hear about the weird things coming out of (or going into) your arms, itā€™s fine.

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And as she took him in her arms, she gasped at the strange and new feelings it produced inside her.

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That was my first thought. I completely missed how accomplished she was with sphincter control until I read the context.

A good copy editor could have tightened that up a bit.
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Unlike her anus.

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And while we are talking romance novelsā€¦

Original tweet when the unroll disappears.

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unsecured portal of an electronic voting source code

All right, I now know how many tech advisers they employed to help write this novelā€¦

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I donā€™t even need to read the rest. Itā€™s obvious that the secret is that President Daniel Carlson took said chief of staff* deep into his arms every night.

*actually an old nickname dating back to fraternity days, and not the presidentā€™s real chief of staff

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Just because I have an earworm now, the rest of you need one too:

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The sample is whatā€™s relevant in the above post.
nobody recognizes it?

not only could you have a hit with only one or two members of the band who could actually play instruments, you could also have a hit with none of the members able to play instruments.

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Still true today. Maybe even more so now that electronic music has taken off.

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of course, i must add that, in he right hands, the sampler becomes an instrument.
DJ Shadowā€™s Endtroducing is the poster child for that type of thing, also The Bomb Squad who produced Public Enemy. but even in the realm of earlier hip hop DJ Premier and Eric Sermon and Dre were doing pretty advanced stuff. Sometimes, anyway.

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Iā€™d even argue that Beastie Boyā€™s Paulā€™s Boutique is a triumph of sampling. The sampler can be, unequivocally, an instrument. And, Iā€™d argue, so can the turntable (witness, for example, nearly any of Kid Koalaā€™s work).

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No, I think David Cassidy could play guitar (not great, but acceptable), and of course he and his mother could sing.

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