An unhygienic method for cooking bad stew

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TIMOTHY McSWEENEY'S METHOD FOR COOKING STEW IS UNHYGIENIC AND PRODUCES BAD-TASTING STEW AKA McSweeney's Internet Tendency, is fast turning into one of my favorite web sites. It's a low-brow/high-brow literary site chockfull of short stories, poems and other whimsical ephemera. The reader-contributed lists are mostly funny, some gut-busting hilarious, while others elicit a head nod and smile. A few lists make me smirk and snortle chimp-like. Those I try to avoid. Here are a some samples:

FREE ZINGERS FOR GEORGE W. BUSH TO USE DURING HIS DEBATES WITH JOHN KERRY

My vice president has withstood four heart attacks. What's Senator Edwards ever withstanded?

John and John, sittin' in a tree,
G-A-Y-M-A-R-R-I-A-G-E.

The last time I saw Senator Kerry that slippery, we were Crisco-wrestling in the basement of Skull and Bones.

POSSIBLE FOLLOW-UP SONGS FOR ONE-HIT WONDERS

How Are We Going to Get These Dogs Back In?

The Morning That the Lights Came Back On in Georgia

867-5309 extension 2

IF CHARLES BUKOWSKI HAD WRITTEN CHILDREN’S BOOKS

The Whore Who Snored

Love Turns to Crap Like a Sandwich

The Park Bench Where You Eat Your Lunch Will Be Your Bed Someday

Other cheeky lists include:

REPLACING BUNNIES WITH BASTARDS
POPULAR SONG TITLES WHICH HAVE BEEN ALTERED SO AS NOT TO OFFEND THE VERY PRUDISH
WASPLOITATION FILMS
EIGHTEEN VERY EARLY AND OFT-FORGOTTEN JAMES BOND FILMS
EROTIC PRESIDENTIAL NAMES
PLAYGROUND TOYS UNSUITABLE FOR CHILDREN

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[Copyright © 2004 Tim McSweeney's Internet Tendency.]

[Thanks to Maureen of N. California.]