Category: Langniappe

One day I will start a site called “Worst of Craigslist.” Until then, it will just have to be a recurring post here. All that aside, check this ad for someone named “aloofgypsy” pedaling their “edditing and videogropher” wares… No you need an Edditor or Videogropher? (tv/film) Reply to: aloofgypsy@XXXXXXXX.com Date: 2008-07-08, 3:31PM CDT If…

Hey CNN! Varg here! Hey, now that oil is the highest it has ever been, you don’t have to continue writing stories about it reaching “a new high.” See, after it eclipses the highest it has ever been, each increment after that is a “new high.” So please spare us the inevitable “Oil reaches $143…

In honor of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson’s glorious homage to himself in the lobby of HUD’s headquarters (h/t Jeffrey), I would like to take this moment to also display myself participating in glorious acts of vast importance with some of my greatly revered and esteemed cronies. We always serve our country,…

…replaced some instances of the words, “Britney Spears” in this article with the words, “Clint Maedgen.” And then suddenly, I didn’t have to rip my own throat out and cry for America. Ever get the feeling somebody is making a whole lot of money off Clint Maedgen besides Clint Maedgen? Portfolio magazine estimates the annual…

I stumbled across this quote in the Novemeber issue of RollingStone yesterday: “In Louisiana, they have a long tradition of corruption — a Huey Long tradition,” says Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. The 10 Worst Congressmen: #4. THE BRIBE TAKER That got me to thinking how many other…

It has come to the attention of The Chicory that one of our two finalists in the “Official Harry of New Orleans” contest was born under the name, Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr., and thereafter performed under the name “Harry Connick Jr.” Though it was an agonizing decision in light of Mr. Connick’s numerous contributions…

Morials I thought I had seen it all in regards to search phrases that have led to The Chicory but this one had me in stitches. Someone actually entered this in a search engine and found my site… “where to find people that has respect and morials” And the answer is: No where! I got…

I had this dream last night that there were these heavy rains being forecast for the area which would raise the river to dangerous levels. Some neighbors and I must have been on top of the World Trade Center or something because I could see the flooding start to engulf houses building on the other…

Excerpts from several recent Times-Picayune story quotes if they had been uttered with the same colorful language employed by Vieux Carre Commission chairman Ralph Lupin: Edit: Out of consideration for those who were satirically misquoted in this post, I am changing the whole names in the Lupinized versions. I don’t want foul language popping up…