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A roundup of news snippets

Posted at 5:02 PM on 26 Mar 2008

• Americans cut back on driving in 2007 for the first time in 20 years.

• Merrill Lynch launches a global carbon index.

• London Mayor Ken Livingstone gets jiggy with greenness in his reelection campaign.

• Canada's annual seal hunt starts Friday.

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These snippets are cool...

But they desperately need a joke or two.

Seriously, we keep coming back because you make us laugh while you're making us cry.

The "gets jiggy" line is a start. Props to whoever thought of that.

Mostly because while you're using expressions like "to get jiggy," it only makes sense to respond with an expression like "props."

by Pathos at 11:02 PM on 26 Mar 2008

"props"

"Props" gives me the willies every time it pops up, so once again I had to search for a definition plus etymology:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=props.

I have no idea why anyone should want to give anyone else "props" for "sleepig with Venessa" [sic], even if Ms. Redgrave is momentarily flattered. But I very much like the lyrical reference in the third offering.

As for "getting jiggy," that has only now swum into my ken.

And as for the Grist editors, they show due restraint in avoiding getting us laughing too side-splittingly over the imminent seal slaughter.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

by caniscandida at 11:23 PM on 26 Mar 2008

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