Chayota or Chaota

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Chayota or Chaota: http://bit.ly/bkNWRX The unfortunate conflation of Chaos and Toyota (Motors)...The Japanese art of suicide by automobile...  With regards to the current media circus surrounding Toyota and its record number of (mainly safety-related) recalls and Congressional Hearings with Henry Waxman and Akio Toyoda and tearful testimonies such as that of Rhonda Smith...and Oy Vey!  Not to mention that the Toyota Scientific and Engineering and Maintenance Departments being in total chaos - every garage and every bay and every laboratory available is probably in 24/7 use right now ripping the sh*t out of the millions of vehicles in question.  *Japanese engineers and other employees once famous for being overworked probably now seriously contemplating seppuku during this massive fiasco.  Chaos.

Actually, speaking from experience from the working side of American automotive companies, we have genuine sympathy and empathy for the hell that the poor b*st*rds at Toyota are going through right now as we witness and write about this.  If we could, we'd be working right there with them, side-by-side.  It is just that awful. This is the Haiti and Tsunami 2004 of industry combined...even worse, figuratively of course...  Well, at least James Lentz and his colleagues haven't taken to leaping out of the highest floor of the Toyota HQ - at least not just yet...

*Actually, we're going to speculate on the real root cause of this issue - the layoff or non-hiring of the necessary engineers and scientists...sorry to say...

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FOM: NBC's Link to Live Coverage of the Toyota Hearings

Revised/Updated: Friday, February 26, 2010



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Mojobama?

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Mojobama?



The unfortunate conflation of Mojo and Obama. Did one of these GOpr*cks say our Main Man lost his Mojo? Oh no they dinna! Once you go Barack, you never go back! The last man to admit losing his Mojo wasn’t even American and fictional – too boot (pun intended) – Austin Powers. Did Tiger admit losing his Mojo? Uh-Uh. Don’t think so…

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Room 237 Redux or Room 237 Hit

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Room 237 Redux or Room 237 Hit: From a room number in the Rotana Hotel (Dubai) and the Overlook Hotel we found disturbing similarities of life-almost-imitating-art in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhoub.  Ridiculous and chilling all at the same time, we found echoes from The Shining, the hilarious Oktoberfest hit scene in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Keystone Cops and numerous episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.  Were these killers all fans?

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FOM: UK 'outrage' over passports in Dubai hit, Dubai near certain Mossad behind Hamas killing: report (REUTERS), Chronology of the hit team (The National) and Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

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Tiger Apology

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Tiger Apology: So, Tiger will be making a public apology today.  No questions please!  Looks like he'll finally be exercising a little ball control.  Should have kept his eye on that ball...  OW!  Giggity!  All right...

What does he have in common with Sarah Palin?  Well, he'll be using his hands a lot and controlling the media...  OW!

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FOM: Tiger Woods set to break silence, Repentant Woods sorry for affairs and Save The Tiger (Blog Post not the film...)

Revised/Updated: Friday, February 19, 2010



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Paradix or Dickundrum

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Paradix or Dickundrum: The unfortunate conflations of Dick Cheney with paradox and conundrum.  Any politico apparently openly confessing to the application of extrajudicial and (therefore) illogical measures to any alleged war criminal or terrorist or other similar persons.  The obvious corollary being that application of same disproves the very argument presented by said proponent by virtue of implication of similar war crimes or other extrajudicial measure.  QED.

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FOM: Cheney's Costly Boast, It Came from the Veep and Cheney Conundrum



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Snappies (?)

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Snappies (?): A portable/offensive snack food container?  What, are you kidding us?  Shades of Andrew Dice Clay!  "Yo!  Sn*pp*h**d"!

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Slowzer or Endzer

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Slowzer or Endzer: The unfortunate conflation of slow or "End Now" with browser.  What happens to your online experience when IE decides to take a nap or gives you the infamous "End Now Program Not Responding" BS panel.  Of course, MS has issued one of their infamous "patches" but that doesn't seem to work...  Yes, yes we know we should go with FireFox but thats not our choice to make...

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Lithium Tantalate or LiTaO3

Lithium Tantalate or LiTaO3: Not a new term, chemical or material.  But exciting piezoelectric useful for freezing water via heating or producing a beam of neutrons.  Weapons potential?  Unknown as yet...

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FOM: Scientists Freeze Water With Heat, Fusion Seen In Table Top Experiment  and Lithium Tantalate

Hugo: Look for this blog to suddenly and mysteriously disap...

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602 or Captain 602

602 or Captain 602: Suggested citizen code* for anything having to do with being against the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, LBGT and/or Racism.  From the controversy revolving around Captain America Issue 602.

*Police Code 602 = Deliquent.

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FOM: Marvel Comics' depiction of anti-tax protesters inspires anger, apology and Captain America and The Falcon



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Inagural or Inaugural 2013

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Inagural or Inaugural 2013: Unfortunate conflation of Inauguration and the epithet "Nag".  The predicted misspelling (See our posting: What Was Really Written On Sarah's Hand?) or "respelling" of Inaugural in the event of a Palin win...God help us...

FOM: Palin Hand Crib Notes Attract Scrutiny , Palin Fails to Bring Ideas , The Sound of Palin's Hand Clapping (both from MSNBC Countdown), Sarah Palin's 'helping hand' of crib notes for speech (BBC NEWS) ,Gidget Goes Rogue, Phlegmodium and The Fantastic Ms/Mrs Fox

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