Author: gee

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Notes from Trivia 1/14/2015

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Rank: 3rd
Final score: 83 Points
Giveaway Question: Including the five episode series known as “The Hamster Decides,” the comedy group The Chaser has produced a number of specials satirizing the elections in what country?
Answer: Australia (J wins a hat.)
Our first 80+ score in quite a while, and it only merited a 3rd place finish.

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New On The Blinking Line Journal: The General Yermolov Cadet School


The General Yermolov Cadet School in the southern Russian city of Stavropol is a state-run institution that teaches military and patriotic classes in addition to a normal syllabus. The school allows its pupils to take part in field-training trips, during which they spend a night in a base and undergo physical drills and weapons training. The outings are seen as a treat for students, and those with bad grades are not allowed to go. The school is named after the Russian imperial general Alexei Yermolov and many of its students are from military backgrounds. Photographs by Eduard Korniyenko

The Walking Dead

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In keeping with my New Year’s resolution to read a book a week, I finally caught up on The Walking Dead…and by “caught up” I mean I devoured the 22 collections and the most recent issues like a fucking herd of zombies.

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From the Princeton Tiger, 1949

This is not very interesting
But if
You have read this far already
You will
Probably
Read as far as this:
And still
Not really accomplishing
Anything at all
You might
Even read on
Which brings you to
The line you are reading now
And after all that you are still
Probably dumb enough to keep
Right on making
A dope of yourself
By reading
As far down
The page as this.

– Anonymous