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I have weird friends

Try to follow along here.

I was going through some stuff online, and saw a link to Penn’s new video thingy called Penn Says, where he posts short diatribes about stuff that irritates him (meaning everything). The site, Crackle.com, allows viewers to leave follow-up videos, which is extremely cool and I love it. The follow-ups are loaded below the Penn video, and you can see still frames from them.

So I look at the still frames and I see one from Iszi, a woman I met in England when I was there last month. She is totally awesome, a comedian and skeptic and she’s also very tall and has hawesome hair and is also maybe pretty hawt, not that I notice such things.

So I watched a few of her replies to Penn’s comments, and well, you can see why I’m posting this particular one here..

From Crackle: thoughts from abroad 13

Iszi and meWell, just a correction: I’m not doing the Skepdude calendar this year. I thought about it, but figure I’ll never top the one I did last time… though a suggestion was made to me for a future picture that I am contemplating very seriously. But anyway, I did get to meet Iszi at the pub meetup in London, and I really enjoyed talking with her, and I guess I’m glad that she got to meet Randi even if she dumped me for him. Sigh. What is it about older men…?

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May 26th, 2008 10:45 AM by Phil Plait in About this blog, Humor | 9 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

9 Responses to “I have weird friends”

  1. 1.   Quiet Desperation Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    What is it about older menâ?¦?

    I hear the Viagra makes it work even better than the factory settings.

  2. 2.   Jolly Bloger Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 10:57 am

    To be fair, Penn often talks about things that interest, excite, and humble him.

  3. 3.   John VanOphem Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 11:09 am

    I watched the video and the first thing I thought was: “She’d be great to have on Doctor Who”

    Hullo BBC Wales, are you listening?

  4. 4.   Ibeechu Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 11:50 am

    Just as an aside, the Drugs and Suicide episode of Penn Says was in response to a question I asked him. So I’m pretty much Penn’s best friend now :P

    I just needed to boost my ego for a second. Carry on :)

  5. 5.   Utakata Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 11:54 am

    Um…does she even swing that way?

    Oops…/turns gaydar off.

  6. 6.   JKH Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    I know Penn rubs SOME people the wrong way (not me – I love the man!), but even if that is the case, you need to watch Iszi’s Penn Says contributions. Find the “tea bag” one, it’s a classsic.

  7. 7.   iszi Says:
    May 28th, 2008 at 3:25 am

    Weird?! I’m not weird.

    Was a fun evening. And no, I didn’t run off with Randi… *sigh*

    (Although I did hug both Phil and Randi, which means I now have them both in my overall ranking system. I shan’t give the results here. But they both beat Christian Slater in both hugability and scratchyness.)

  8. 8.   The Bad Astronomer Says:
    May 28th, 2008 at 8:48 am

    Woohoo!

  9. 9.   Christopher Ambler Says:
    June 12th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    Why don’t you do your own calendar?

    Hell, I’d fly out to your part of the country and shoot it ;)

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