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Vivor at about three months.

5. After two and a half decades of exploration, aggressively experimenting with this, that, and the other, you’d think that the Edge would eventually find his look. He really oughtta choose one style that works, and then just roll with it. He’s become virtually unrecognizable year after year.

And speaking of U2, I realize that hindsight is 20/20. Call me speculative, but I truly believe that with proper marketing, this band really could’ve been quite popular. They may have even penetrated the mainstream.

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4. Congratulations to Kelly Clarkson. As if winning Survivor: Australian Outback wasn’t a big enough accomplishment, she went out and won a Grammy.

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3. There’s something to be said about a band who not only keeps things honest, but really shakes things up every album and completely outdoes themselves. I actually have the Coldplay record with “Clocks” and “The Scientist”, and enjoyed it for a couple years. I don’t have the new disk, but from what I’ve heard on the radio, I’m amazed at how a band can come out and do something totally new, pushing the envelope, exploring new musical territory. They don’t even sound like Coldplay anymore. I’m also happy to see that after a few years of success, none of it has gone to the singer’s head. Most guys in such a situation would develop a rock star complex and start thinking they were Bono.

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2. Speaking of Bono, it was refreshing to see him finally come out of his shell. After being out of the spotlight for the entire evening, the notoriously shy vocalist finally made a very brief appearance. If you blinked, you may have missed it.

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1. Well, he’s done it again. For those who haven’t heard, Sean Combs, aka “Puffy” Combs, aka “Puff Daddy”, aka “P. Diddy”, has changed his name again. He now goes by “Kanye West”.

A wealthy man is walking down the street when he sees a guy wearing the best looking suit he’s ever seen. He says, “I’d like to buy that suit off you. Money is no object.” The guy answers, “Sorry, it’s not for sale. But you can go talk the guy I bought it from. He’s got a clothing store down the street on the corner.”

So the man walks down the street to the said clothing store, walks inside, and is greeted by a salesman.

“Can I help you?” the salesman asks.

“Why, yes, you can. I saw the most beautiful suit on one of your customers just now and want one just like it. Money is no object.”

The salesman, getting a feel for the situation, replies, “We can take care of you, but, well, it’s going to be fairly expensive.”

“Money is no object,” replies the man.

“Yeah, well, you see, the special suit you saw is made from a very rare kind of silk. It comes from special breed of silkworm in Tibet. That’s like ten thousand dollars alone.”

“Money is no object,” assures the man.

“I see. Well, also, you should know that the lining of the suit is a very special linen, also produced from a rare type of precious silkworm. That’s another ten thousand dollars there.”

“Money is no object,” reminds the man.

The salesman continues, “This silkworm’s on the other side of the world, and it takes about nine months just to breed these silkworms. Just getting the silk from these silkworms for the shell and lining of the suit could take a year and a half. Then the buttons are a special type of rare ivory from an albino elephant in the remote jungles of Africa, which are extremely expensive, and can also take a year or two just to obtain. So by the time the suit is made, it’s going to cost about two or three hundred thousand dollars, due to the rare materials. Maybe, you know, four hundred thousand. A half million’s not unusual. Maybe more.”

“Money is no object,” says the man, taking out his checkbook.

“OK, well we can take care of it. The only caveat is that we’re currently out of materials, and would need to track down all the silk and buttons from scratch. We can take your order now, but we wouldn’t have your suit for you for, you know, two or three years. Maybe longer.”

“That’s too bad,” says the man, putting his checkbook away. “I needed this Saturday for my son’s bat mitzvah.”

The salesman says, “Oh, you’ll have it by then.”

In red sparkle, seen here with a set of Meinl cymbals. I must’ve played this thing for 20 minutes.

A guy with a big round bright orange head was walking down the street with his girlfriend, and ran into a friend he hadn’t seen in years.

The friend said, “Hey, it’s been a long time! What in the world happened to your head?”

The guy said, “Oh, that. A few years ago I found a genie bottle in an alley. I rubbed it and a genie came out, giving me three wishes. My first wish was to be independently wealthy, which I happily am. My second wish was to have the most beautiful woman in the world. And, well, that explains my beautiful girlfriend. My third wish — and this is where I think I may have gone horribly, horribly wrong — was to have a big round bright orange head.”

Source: The Amazing Johnathan

*Note: Johnathan cites this as his favorite joke, claiming that anybody who laughs at it is somebody worth palling around with. Use it as an early screener in group conversation.

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