chimping
  n :
the act of constantly using the display on the back of a digital camera to review the photos one is taking. Named for the sounds made by its practitioners, for example, “Oh oh oh ooh ooh ooh look at this one!”

A joke. Funny only to audio geeks. And even then, only maybe.

Paul Klipsch is walking down the street and sees Amar Bose. Mr. Klipsch puts his hands to his mouth in a horn shape and yells to him, “Hello, Amar!”.

Amar turns away, cups his hands together a few inches and slightly angled away from his mouth, and yells back, “Hello, Paul!”.

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“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.”

— Henry Louis Mencken

“A year from now I’d be surprised if there’s not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush.”

— Richard Perle, September 22, 2003

“It’s the soup that animates the noodles.”

2004 is the seventh year of Yoplait’s annual “Save Lids to Save Lives” campaign.

Their slogan for this year: “Together, we can lick breast cancer.”

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One thousand American soldiers dead in Iraq.

How many Iraqi civilians dead?

Even the most conservative estimates claim that number to be greater than the number of civilians killed in the United States on September 11, 2001; most estimates are around three or four times that number.