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Does anyone care about Anna Nicole? Alive or dead? I have yet to meet anyone who cares.

Yet every day for the past two weeks, some crap about her or some guy she screwed makes the “news.”

I think I am the only dude who is not claiming to have knocked her up. The rest of you guys should get checked out for the herp; the HPV; Hepatitis B, C, D, E, F, and G; the polio; and the scurvy.

So she’s dead. It is not so great for her family and friends. But please, get it off the news. Someone tried to kill the Vice President today and still we have a glut of “BREAKING NEWS: HERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT SEX AS PERTAINING TO A DEAD BLONDE GIRL WHO WAS OSTENSIBLY HOT-LOOKING TO SOME AMERICANS PRIOR TO HER DEATH” stories.

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Just in case you were wondering, Merrill Lynch sucks. Don’t give them your money.

I moved 13 months ago. I tried changing my address online many times but always get a message like “durr we are new to computers and this doesn’t work.” I have tried by phone to get them to change the address on my account four times in the past year. By speaking to a human being who is acting like they are actually doing something. Still, when I go online, my address is still listed as my old apartment.

Latest thing: I have had my taxes completely done for a couple weeks, but am waiting on the 1099 from Guess Who. I can’t wait on the paper to arrive in the mail, because they are sending it to my old address if they are sending it anywhere at all. The web site said on Feb 8 that “online end of year statements will be available on February 9.” On the 9th it said the 10th. On the 10th it said 11th. It still says 11th. I called about it on the 13th and they gave me some jive about “some accounts aren’t ready yet, it will be at latest the 3rd week of February.”

Which, when translated, means:

“Yeah, we’re a bunch of idiots. We hope you are too. Get off our back for a week. We are going to do some meth and shoot at imaginary deer in our office building for a few days. When it’s not ready next week, call us back and we’ll tell you to wait again.”

HEY TONY YOU DOLT, IF THEY SUCK, WHY DON’T YOU JUST PUT YOUR MONEY ELSEWHERE?

I do want to transfer my money to another company. Guess what that involves?

Getting them to mail me a form.

I hate them so much.

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NCSU 83, #3 UNC-CH 79

Yeah the game was pretty awesome, I’ll write more about it ASAP, but in the meantime. . .

Hansbrough and Beaker look so goddamned the same.

I laughed for about 5 minutes when I first saw this.

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I subscribe to Justin’s opinion on country-folk nomenclature: hicks are wily and intelligent, rednecks are ignorant. With that in mind, I present some fine Hickly NC Engineering.

WRAL has their usual gallery of “weather photos” submitted by viewers online today, on account of the snow/slush/rain event. Along with the usual dog-in-a-sweater and Props to the Fish photos, one stood out to me in particular.

It’s from Nashville, NC.

A real freaking sleigh made of what appears to be a shipping pallet, some skis, vinyl siding for the decking, a doormat for the part where your feet go, and a beach chair fastened to some 2×4s. Look at that craftsmanship! All whitewashed and everything! You can’t see what it’s being pulled by, but judging by the tracks. . . I just want to mention that Nothing Runs Like a Deere. The girl seems to be having a great time, and I would be too.

This impressed me. It would probably win awards on Senior Design day here at State.

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