{"id":280,"date":"2004-01-26T03:14:32","date_gmt":"2004-01-26T11:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery\/"},"modified":"2004-01-26T03:14:32","modified_gmt":"2004-01-26T11:14:32","slug":"imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery\/","title":{"rendered":"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m just parroting stuff from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.com\">BoingBoing<\/a>, but these are just too damn funny.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnftiu.cc\/mnftiu.cc\/war31.html\">What would the comedy world do without GW?<\/a> If I wasn&#8217;t laughing so much, I might cry.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea-usa.com\/\">IKEA<\/a> is opening a Dallas location in 2005 (Frisco, actually). Mary&#8217;s made a few pilgrimages to the Houston location and pressed me into service when I had a business trip there last year. Having been there once and being a gamer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/how_to\/the_nonexpert_ikea.php\">this<\/a> had me on the floor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both grandmas were in town this weekend. Be on the lookout later tonight for new pictures of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Also, to be a complete jerk and annoy all of you northeasterners buried in snow and freezing your asses off, it was in the 70&#8217;s and sunny today here. The current weatherpixie reading is 73. I wore shorts all day today and we took the kids to two different parks in addition to eating lunch outside at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.currasgrill.citysearch.com\/\">Curra&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>EDIT:<\/b> New pictures are up. Note that The Boy is wearing shorts and a t-shirt and there isn&#8217;t a cloud in the sky. Man, do I love Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m just parroting stuff from BoingBoing, but these are just too damn funny. What would the comedy world do without GW? If I wasn&#8217;t laughing so much, I might cry. IKEA is opening a Dallas location in 2005 (Frisco, actually). Mary&#8217;s made a few pilgrimages to the Houston location and pressed me into <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-8-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-4w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}