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Postcards from The Pug Bus

Lifting a satirical leg on pop culture since 2004

Persons in the Ether

Question of the Week

Pasta or rice?

Judith Mercer, 64, retired dental-office receptionist

Allegedly twirling responsibly at 28 Rotini Lane, Scranton, PA

Pasta. Rice is perfectly respectable, but nobody has ever brought out a steaming bowl of rice and made me feel that the evening had suddenly improved. Pasta has occasion to it. Rice feels like somebody remembered we needed a side dish.

Raymond Givens, 57, commercial awning estimator

Allegedly measuring portions at 311 Long Grain Road, Tulsa, OK

Rice. It knows its job and doesn't make a production out of it. You put something on rice, and rice gets out of the way. Pasta wants sauce, cheese, garlic bread and everybody's attention. I already have relatives like that.

Brenda Kessler, 46, assistant manager at a self-storage facility

Allegedly keeping both options available at 9 Starch Crossing, Peoria, IL

Pasta on weekdays, rice on weekends. I realize most people would do that the other way around, but most people have never successfully managed three hundred and twelve storage units. Systems matter. Once you start improvising with carbohydrates, other standards begin to slip.

"Pizza always tastes better the next day."

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Book of Daze Eat Over the Sink Day

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Today we celebrate the art of eating like the feral kitchen cryptid you were always meant to be. Book of Daze Eat Over the Sink… Read More

"Is 'ragrets' spelled right?"

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Book of Daze Regret That Tattoo Day

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Observed annually by anyone who’s ever wept in a bathroom stall over a Chinese character that actually means “dishwasher.” Origin Story of Book of Daze… Read More

"Who’ll give me five, five, five? I got five now. Ten, ten, ten? Do I hear fifteen, fifteen? Sold, sold to the man in plaid suspenders!"

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Book of Daze Talk Like an Auctioneer Day

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Book of Daze Talk Like an Auctioneer Day was born in the back room of a livestock barn in New Holland, Pennsylvania, when somebody decided… Read More

A woman staring at a computer screen on National Google Your Symptoms Day.

“When WebMD skips ‘dehydrated’ and jumps straight to ‘already dead.’”

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Book of Daze Google Your Symptoms Day

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Today we honor the great digital oracle: the search bar, which makes the Oracle at Delphi look like a palm reader in a seedy strip… Read More

On National Retail Therapy Day a woman sitting on a chaise lounge that is collapsing beneath her.

"Holy fucking merde!"

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Book of Daze Retail Therapy Day

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The birth of Book of Daze Retail Therapy Day occurred in 1987, when Janet “Maxed-Out” McCallister of Paramus, NJ, tried to cure a bad breakup… Read More

"Go away, you bastards."

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Book of Daze Do Not Disturb Day

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(“If it’s urgent, it probably isn’t.”) The origins of Book of Daze Do Not Disturb Day can be traced to 1996, when introverted dental hygienist… Read More

Clark Gable saying, "Frankly, my dear,I don't give a damn."

"And that's the name of that tune."

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Book of Daze Have a Conversation Entirely in Movie Quotes Day

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On Book of Daze Have a Conversation Entirely in Movie Quotes Day, language is not spoken, it’s sampled. Communication is cobbled together from decades of… Read More

"Look under your seats, quick."

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Book of Daze Start a Project You’ll Never Finish Day

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On Book of Daze Start a Project You’ll Never Finish Day we salute the birth of a thousand never-to-be-finished projects, begun with fervid ambition and… Read More