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...Carrey is maybe two years from becoming a punch line. But he's cool with that. "Everyone gets to be the big joke for a year. That's this business," he says. "Last year it was Tom Cruise. I could be the next Kathie Lee Gifford. But you have to say to yourself, 'Wait a minute, dude, that...
...copy editors. Just that morning, The New York Post had spelled "Obama" as "Osama" in a major headline. Although the world's most popular search site did goof on its German Web address recently - briefly forgetting to renew the domain name - it turned out that "Googe" was neither a joke nor an error. It was artistic license, Google-style...
...Valentine's Day logo on Wednesday that seemed to read "Googe.com" - featuring a chocolate-covered strawberry for the "g" - bloggers thought it was just a bizarre bungling of the holiday Google "doodles" that decorate the site's logo throughout the year. Or perhaps it was a quirky romance-laced joke? The Puget News blog noted that 'Googe' might be a subtle reference to the 16th century romantic poet Barnabe Googe, famous for the line, "I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die." Or maybe it was a secret shout out to Debbie Googe...
...issuing the disclaimer that she fulfilled her college science requirement by taking earth science, and then squinting into the teleprompter, Gyllenhaal said, "I suspect this is kind of a joke you SciTech guys like to play on an unassuming actress." In handing over the 15 awards, she also had to contend with a fair number of male recipients who seemed so awed by the presence of a live woman outside of an Internet chat room that they had difficulty forming complete sentences...
Getting to know Menomena can take time. The emerging Portland, Ore. trio’s name is playfully enigmatic, like an inside joke to which you’re not privy. A Muppets allusion, perhaps? The music doesn’t make the band’s intent much clearer. Their third release, “Friend and Foe,” opens with the richly layered “Muscle ’n Flo.” Its dynamic rhythm and slide guitar give way first to a shifting piano melody and then again to an organ surging...