From Page 120 of Going Rogue: "Some drunk guy walked in and announced, ‘Tony Knowles got jacked up!’" What’s even better is this apparently took place at a bar called Humpy’s.

Every year the New Oxford American Dictionary prepares for the holidays by releasing its "word of the year." Without further ado, the 2009 Word of the Year is: unfriend. As in … "His status updates were starting to creep me out, so I had to unfriend him." "Unfriend" is the …

Looking for a quick escape from work today? Check out unpopped collar . Written by a Georgetown grad student, unpopped collars has awesome photography and tracks the ridiculous tales of the author and his friends. The most recent update is a scavenger hunt from this past weekend that began at …

Cedric the Entertainer [the Park ] Holiday Cards [Dept. of Interior ] My darling [my soul mate ] Monetary [achievement ] Goodie Mob [PoloFlow ]

Words that work:  Twitter, funny, commentary, appropriate … Mindy Finn: Frank Luntz on the Today show talking about "What parents really need to know?" He’s not a parent! Jon Gosselin was booked.

A tipster sends the following invite to all FamousDC readers: What has become a wildly successful event in New York City and Boston is now taking DC by storm. If you love Judd Apatow movies, Freakonomics and all things random, you MUST attend Nerd Nite DC on Saturday, December 5th …

Obama’s Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

CNN’s Ed Henry proved he’s no slouch when it comes to flexing his math skills. From Twitter: President Obama has a 71-car motorcade from the Beijing airport, including Chinese greeting vehicles ! In our opinion 65 seems reasonable, 71 is a little over the top.

In four years, colleges will give out scholarships for this kind of thing — until then, we’re not calling this a sport.  [impressive though]

Lou Dobbs had eight million reasons to leave CNN. CNN was so sick of Lou Dobbs, it gave him an $8 million severance package to leave. [how many holograms does that buy?] In other words, if you combine the salaries of 50 members of Congress, that’s what CNN forked over. …

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, but this one from the Iowa GOP’s “Blogger Row” is only worth two: C’mon man! Now, we aren’t saying these Iowa GOPers are giving the rest of us bloggers a bad name, but next time you do an event, give us a …

Teenage Mutant Ninja [sweater ] Zandria [date ] Tip [Refugee ] Cat [bath ]

If you bought into the hype like we did, you too were under the impression that the Obama campaign invented Twitter. President Barack Obama, the source of one of the world’s most-followed Twitter account, said Monday he’s never used the microblogging service. [say it ain’t so] What’s next: The Easter …