Jason Kottke has assembled a nice little list of odd economic indicators, from the number of classified romance ads placed by married people looking for affairs to the number of filming permits filed for the LA 2nd Street Tunnel to the reinstatement of a blouse-and-underwear allowance at a swank lawfirm in London:
Inevitably dubbed the "90 nicker knicker allowance", this may or may not be the most reliable indicator yet that the credit crunch is over. (Business is apparently so hectic that the firm has also installed sleeping pods.)
The baked bean index and other economic indicators
A "Devil's Triangle" is a widely used term for an act of sexual congress between two men and a woman; but during his hearing, Brett Kavanaugh nonsensically insisted that this was some sort of drinking game.
“Something about the pen and paper / I can look at all my ideas / And I can see them” (Super Deluxe, thanks UPSO!)
Cat vs. Lazy Susan. What in the heck is this bamboozle.
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