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World record for leaving a high-five hanging: Sweet, got a mention on my friend’s blog for spotting poor Jeff Foster left hanging. Fans of How I Met Your Mother may recall a similar issue in season 4 episode I Heart NJ. Now to Google Analytics to watch the traffic spike!
Iraqi Refugees Find Michigan Is No Land Of Plenty [NPR; 2008-11-11]: I feel bad for these Iraqis - it seems like a terrible joke to plant these people in the only place in the US that might be worse than where they came from. Is it possible that they couldn’t infer enough about Detroit/Michigan from the failure of the US auto industry, RoboCop, the 0-9 Detroit Lions and the bowl-ineligible Michigan Wolverines?
Dear Gene Keady, thanks for winning the most games in the history of Purdue basketball and serving the school for 25 years. Unfortunately, Google Suggest thinks your legacy is this:

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A new feature on getBuckets.com, News and Notes. It consists of things that don’t qualify as a themed entry, but can’t go undocumented.

Came up with a new saying I can use: “I like my women the way I like my soup: hot and sour.” This is related to a coworker’s version, “I like my men the way I like my coffee: black and bitter.”
When a friend on the west coast informed me that he was going to be in New York, I demanded that he send a meeting request to my Google Calendar. “Smokey, this is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”