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Bob Kraft — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:35:06 +0000

Friday Fun

Bob Kraft — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:06:59 +0000

The Web site NeverLikedItAnyway is a clever one. It’s basically a resale site, where people list items of jewelry or clothing, among other things, and visitors can buy those items directly from the sellers. The clever part is that the items are gifts from former spouses or significant others. After the relationship breaks up, the sellers put up funny little notes about why they decided to sell the products. Here’s one example:

The Product:

Adrienne Vittadini Black Leather “Jeff” Boot
Size 8.5
Back zip boot
Low heel
New in the box

The Story:

His name was Jeff. He turned into a heel. Cannot wear the boot knowing that it’s name is Jeff… although every step I take if I did keep them would make me feel like I was stepping on his head…. hmmmm…. maybe I could keep them. No. Someone else should stomp him. Please take them off my hands.

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Bob Kraft — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:04:29 +0000

How many of you are there? No, not how many readers of this blog, but how many of YOU? How many people in the United States have your name? I can tell you there are 394 guys named Robert Kraft, and to me that’s 393 too many. I wish I were like my friend Conrad Saam. He swears he is the only person in the world with that name, because the last one died in Australia 100 years ago. So if you do a Google search for Conrad Saam, it’s him.

I have to share the spotlight with the owner of the New England Patriots, a prominent professor of religion, a musician, and 390 other fellows.

So check it out, and find out how many of you there are. Just go to HowManyOfMe.

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Bob Kraft — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:27:32 +0000

My wife is one of the world’s great bakers. I can’t even cook toast. But if all recipes were presented in stop-motion video as this one is, I think even I could learn to bake.

Stop-Motion Biscuit Cake from Alan Travers on Vimeo.

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Bob Kraft — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:36:42 +0000

This short video of birds flocking is fascinating. It looks choreographed.

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

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Bob Kraft — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:28:08 +0000

Athletic ability such as this is simply beyond my comprehension:

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Bob Kraft — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:28:36 +0000

Hallelujah, written by Leonard Cohen, is not a religious song, but Christmastime gives me an excuse to mention one of my favorite singer/songwriters. I’ve been a fan of his writing even before his first album was released in 1967. Turn up your speakers to enjoy this beautiful rendition of Hallelujah:

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Bob Kraft — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:28:20 +0000

If you don’t like harmonica music, don’t click on this. If you do enjoy it, here’s four minutes of great playing:

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Bob Kraft — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:56:42 +0000

It’s been a few weeks now since this news came out, but I still think it’s funny enough to mention. Or funny to us, at least. If you live in Pakistan, in addition to the military miseries in that country, you now might have to put up with an absurd censorship attempt aimed at text messages. the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) released a list of 1695 words and phrases that cannot be used in messages, but then deferred enforcement of the new rule.

The funny part, as headlined on DeadSpin.com, is that the “List Of Words You Can’t Text In Pakistan Is Actually The List Of Things You Can’t Put On NFL Jerseys.” Yes, apparently the PTA simply took a list generated by the National Football League and added other, almost random, words to it. Here are a couple of paragraphs from DeadSpin:

Out of curiosity, we pulled up the infamous list (warning — “R” rated) of the more than 1,100 words that the NFL Shop once banned from use on personalized jerseys, and lo: It’s exactly the same as the list that’s been passed around for Pakistan’s censorship.

But actually, we are sad to report, the list you may have seen is not exactly the list the PTA might eventually use. Newsweek reports that there is one out there that contains “1‚695 terms‚ issued in English and Urdu” and contains “‘monkey crotch‚’ ‘athlete’s foot,’ ‘diot’ and ‘damn‚’ as well as ‘deeper‚’ ‘four twenty,’ ‘go to hell‚’ ‘harder,’ ‘looser’ and ‘no sex.’” Plenty of those words appear on the NFL list, so it’s possible that the PTA simply incorporated some of the league’s naughty words in their quest “to find out whether it was possible to filter obscene messages.” It would certainly make for a good starting point.

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Bob Kraft — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:48:52 +0000

This fake DWI test is totally unrealistic, but I still think it’s funny to watch.