{"id":220,"date":"2006-05-17T19:54:32","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T02:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/17\/the-dork-report-for-may-17-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:27:00","slug":"the-dork-report-for-may-17-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-may-17-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for May 17, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As if there was any doubt, King Tut was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all man<\/span> (no longer online: timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2165774,00.html). Let loose the inevitable torrent of puns: Penis jerky. Penis rinds. Bagel with schmear &amp; cox. Pop Cox. (spotted on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080828022214\/http:\/\/www.forteantimes.com\/breaking_news\/breaking_news.shtml\">Fortean Times<\/a>; featuring reporting by Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cower before Ars Technica&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/staff\/fatbits.ars\/2006\/5\/16\/4004\">rant<\/a> on the new \u201cGlossbook.\u201d (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if there was any doubt, King Tut was all man (no longer online: timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2165774,00.html). Let loose the inevitable torrent of puns: Penis jerky. Penis rinds. Bagel with schmear &amp; cox. Pop Cox. (spotted on Fortean Times; featuring reporting by Dave) Cower before Ars Technica&#8217;s rant on the new \u201cGlossbook.\u201d (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-mini","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dork-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-3y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-april-3-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":220,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for April 3, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"April 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Careful, Doctor, you might sprain that eyebrow. 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