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Multi-link Monday

Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007 6:01 AM by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

Time for a new Multi-link Monday, because even the best employee needs a five-minute distraction or two.

• I just love Comics with Problems, a Web site rounding up those old Important Issue comic books from days gone by. Because really, you might not listen to your mother or your doctor about taking care of yourself while you're pregnant, but you'd certainly listen to that preachy and fictional Rex Morgan, M.D.

• There's a whole photo group on Flickr devoted to pictures people take of Gummi Bears in weird poses. My favorite: A scooter poses a problem for the Family Gummi. (Via Metafilter.)

• Yes, people do dumb things on game shows. But no one is this dumb. Snopes.com debunks an urban legend about a woman on "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" who supposedly didn't know which was larger: The moon, or an elephant.

• The first three "Star Wars" films slimmed down and turned into a silent movie. The Force is strong with this one.

• Enter the New Yorker cartoon caption contest online, or just flip through past winners or current suggestions, and vote for your favorite. When I read the winning captions it always seems so easy, but when I look at the uncaptioned new cartoon I draw a giant blank.

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The letters section on Comics With Problems are hilarious. I liked the ones from issue three on cigarettes. http://www.ep.tc/problems/three/letters.html

David, Plano TX (Sent Monday, February 12, 2007 2:40 PM)

Comics with Problems has to be one of the funniest sites I've seen in a while. I've been amused almost all day by the Invasion of Grenada and VD comics.

Lemur (Sent Monday, February 12, 2007 3:53 PM)

Every so often, just for laughs or my own personal edification, periodically I check my referral logs to see who's linking to me and what posts are being linked to. Most of the time, there's not much there worth commenting...

Respectful Insolence (Sent Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:15 AM)



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