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<rss version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>I’m Ryan.
I’m a comedian.
Poke around.
Check my links.
Look at my friends’ pages.Ask me a question.</description><title>rYan does comedY</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @ryandoescomedy)</generator><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/</link><item><title>"What’s good about sad?
It’s happy for deep people."</title><description>“What’s good about sad?&lt;br/&gt;
It’s happy for deep people.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was on a bus for 12 hours yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now I’m watching Doctor Who (from which the above quote is derived).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I spend a lot of just time sitting around.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/435402272</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/435402272</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:37:51 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>suicideblonde:

Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake in...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyypdwswW81qz9qooo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://suicideblonde.tumblr.com/post/435345994/britney-spears-and-justin-timberlake-in-2001"&gt;suicideblonde&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake in 2001&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wait, wait, wait, they took this in 2001, and then tried to convince us they weren’t fucking?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Okay, based on his facial expression, maybe &lt;i&gt;he&lt;/i&gt; wasn’t fucking &lt;i&gt;her&lt;/i&gt;, but she was definitely fucking him.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/435350963</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/435350963</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:08:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>(via)
Is it just me, or is the not-highlighted one far more...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyw5ugBUmN1qzox4bo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.baconbabble.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/funny-newspaper-headline-6.jpg"&gt;via&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is it just me, or is the not-highlighted one far more interesting?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/431455938</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/431455938</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:03:52 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>I just saw “Crank 2” and that shit made absolutely...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyueuvtLbZ1qzox4bo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just saw “Crank 2” and that shit made absolutely no sense.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I mean, in the scene where Chelios goes outside after escaping the hospital he is behind a crate when a man sneaks up behind him with a Springfield Armory XD pistol. These pistols have a cocking pin indicator, as well as a round indicator on the top of the slide. In this scene the round indicator is down, meaning there is no round in the chamber. Chelios does a brass check after disarming the man, and does not rack a round in the chamber. In the following scene he shots two men with this weapon without a round chambered.*&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After that, I just couldn’t take the movie seriously.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;__&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*text stolen from Crank 2’s IMDB “Goofs” page.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/430321029</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/430321029</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:01:52 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>No, I pretty definitely pussied out in this instance.
Normally I...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyuckyxynp1qzox4bo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, I pretty definitely pussied out in this instance.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Normally I sit through my dumb tv shows with a steely gaze, but this adorable and quirky family has slipped past my emotional armor.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Plus I was a little drunk, so that might have been part of it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There’s no way of knowing.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/429454631</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/429454631</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:34:10 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Who would win in a race?
My guess is no one, ‘cus the Lion...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyubzsvbML1qzox4bo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Who would win in a race?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My guess is no one, ‘cus the Lion would probably eat most or all of them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That’s why I never let lions in my races. You can call me specist, but I know what I’ve seen and I’ve got a bottom line to watch out for.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/429431697</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/429431697</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:21:28 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Y’all, I totally cried at the end of the last episode of...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyu3k6kU9a1qzox4bo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Y’all, I totally cried at the end of the last episode of Modern Family. I don’t know what’s happening to me.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/429125373</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/429125373</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:19:18 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>But how will I know if it’s right for me???</title><description>&lt;img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kytrz4xBFn1qzox4bo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;But how will I know if it’s right for me???&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/428754949</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/428754949</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:09:06 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>(via adamdnewman)
A Robert plant.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyrynk2FDa1qzo8odo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://adamdnewman.tumblr.com/"&gt;adamdnewman&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A Robert plant.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/426803386</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/426803386</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:11:23 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>First LGBT Nursing Home to Open in Massachusetts</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.gomag.com/news/first_lgbt_nursing_home_t/ "&gt;First LGBT Nursing Home to Open in Massachusetts&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lemonlove.tumblr.com/post/426598670/first-lgbt-nursing-home-to-open-in-massachusetts"&gt;lemonlove&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://fuckyeahtrannies.tumblr.com/post/424869138/first-lgbt-nursing-home-to-open-in-massachusetts"&gt;fuckyeahtrannies&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://nanablog.tumblr.com/post/424112707/first-lgbt-nursing-home-to-open-in-massachusetts"&gt;nanablog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Retirement is looking a tad bit sweeter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;“&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Elsie Frank House, the nation’s first nursing home built specifically to assist lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender senior citizens, is set to open soon in Chelsea, MA. “&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;this is totally awesome!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;This is something I would never even have thought of. Nice job expanding my world view, society.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/426617449</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/426617449</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:56:22 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>I love that Lost eventually got to the point where they started...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kypqdjdUYc1qzox4bo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I love that Lost eventually got to the point where they started to run out of twists to put before commercial breaks. So instead, every other break they just have a random character walk into the room and they all stare at each other and act weirded out and the music goes eeeEEEEHHHH!!!!! Blackout.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And then when it comes back from commercial, they’re just like “oh, hey, what’s up?”“nothing.”“cool.” And then they go do something else.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I find that charming.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/424300905</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/424300905</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:44:07 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>funnyordie:

Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion
Starring: Will...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="256" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" id="ordie_player_f5a57185bd"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf" /&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="key=f5a57185bd" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;embed width="400" height="256" flashvars="key=f5a57185bd" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" src="http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf" name="ordie_player_f5a57185bd" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://funnyordie.tumblr.com/post/424274229/funny-or-dies-presidential-reunion-starring"&gt;funnyordie&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f5a57185bd/funny-or-die-s-presidential-reunion"&gt;Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Starring: Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey, Dana Carvey, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Darrell Hammond, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, and directed by Ron Howard.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Barack Obama gets a surprise visit in the night from ex-Presidents Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Clinton, Ford, Reagan and Carter to get a few pointers about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and why it’s so important.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This was pretty much the most exciting thing for me.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/424280773</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/424280773</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:27:53 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Chile earthquake: Shock effect on Earth's axis | World news | The Guardian</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/02/earthquake-chile-earth-axis"&gt;Chile earthquake: Shock effect on Earth's axis | World news | The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://schbank.tumblr.com/post/423884247/chile-earthquake-shock-effect-on-earths-axis-world"&gt;schbank&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday may have shifted the Earth’s axis and created shorter days, according to scientists at Nasa. Richard Gross, a geophysicist at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said the 8.8 magnitude quake could have moved the Earth’s axis by 2.7 milliarcseconds (about 8cm) – enough to shorten a day by about 1.26 microseconds.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Great. Now I’ve got even less time to finish this paper.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/423894118</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/423894118</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:30:05 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>February 26th was workout day. Check out how I works on my...</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9771729&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9771729&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9771729&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;February 26th was workout day. Check out how I works on my fitness.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/418236338</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/418236338</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:51:49 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"There’s an old joke. Two elderly women are at a Catskills mountain resort, and one of them says:..."</title><description>“&lt;p&gt;There’s an old joke. Two elderly women are at a Catskills mountain resort, and one of them says: “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know, and such small portions.”&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life. Full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.&lt;/p&gt;”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Woody Allen (via &lt;a href="http://unicornology.tumblr.com/"&gt;unicornology&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/417650164</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/417650164</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:01:50 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>A joke from The Dick Van Dyke Show:</title><description>&lt;p&gt;What’s yellow and seldom rings?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An unlisted banana.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/416045049</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/416045049</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:14:13 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>(via maeby)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyinygu1xR1qzteeco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://maeby.tumblr.com/"&gt;maeby&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/415933648</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/415933648</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:09:31 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>so what does a girl have to do to get your attention?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Getting my attention is easy. I can sense all girls in a 10 block area. Whatever else I’m thinking of, I’m also thinking of girls.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If on the other hand, you’re asking me what it takes to get me to notice and return a lady’s romantic/sexual advances, it takes kind of a lot, to be honest. It’s not that I have extremely high standards (or even above average standards). It’s that I’m extremely socially obtuse. I enjoy social situations and lively conversations, however, after years of social tyranny and sexual demoralization (read: high school) I conditioned myself to believe that the main reason a person would talk to me is if I was in their way.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’m doing better with that now, and I love going to parties and talking to people. I’m pretty good at it. I know a tiny bit about almost everything, plus, I can tell you the actress from that movie you were trying to think of. But even after a long conversation, there’s still that tiny voice that keeps going “oops, better get out of her way.” And so I usually end the conversation with something like “well, it was great meeting you! I’ll see you around!” And she’ll be confused and wondering why I didn’t ask or her number, and I’ll be walking away thinking “you know, someday, I just might have a shot with her! I hope I bump into her accidentally again someday!”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So to answer your question, the best way for a girl to let me know she’s interested in me is to wave flags or write it on my face. If a girl tries sending me subtle signals, I’ll probably just apologize and move.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Also, I hope this didn’t make me sound damaged. I was going for charming, light, and witty, but it’s just on the border of making sound broken and tragic. I promise I’m not.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here’s a picture of me smiling and interacting with a friend:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs261.ash1/18879_1236769443480_1356540698_31244673_4133488_n.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’m the drunk-looking one on the right.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Does some part of that answer your question?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks for asking!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ryan&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(If it takes me a while to answer your question, I apologize. It just means that your question forced me to think, which can take some time.)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/414282475</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/414282475</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:08:40 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Sometimes, I scare myself.
(WAH wah!)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kygpxbpzUe1qzox4bo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, I scare myself.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(WAH wah!)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/413688729</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/413688729</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:55:59 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>This comment has been made possible by “The...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyfbketa2X1qzox4bo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;This comment has been made possible by “The Internet.”&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/412131339</link><guid>http://ryanmerriam.com/post/412131339</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:48:14 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
