Quick Hits for June 19, 2014

Missing the mark

Miss USA Nia Sanchez was accused of carpetbagging to qualify for the Miss USA competition after she blanked on the name of the capital of Nevada, her home state, in a radio interview. We’ll give her the benefit of the doubt. She’s only lived in Nevada since 2012, and we’d never heard of Carson City either.

LMAO FBI, WTF?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s internal manual of Twitter acronyms was released under the Freedom of Information Act. There is a 99 percent chance they made this up. BTDTGTTSAWIO — been there, done that, got the t-shirt and wore it out — has never been used naturally by anyone, ever.

Air Force Old

George H. W. Bush celebrated his 90th birthday last Thursday by going skydiving. Unfortunately, the sight of the 41st president descending from the sky could have been better used to scare the crap out of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIL. The guy cleaned up in the Gulf War. Why not again?

Jet lag

Delta Air Lines sent out a tweet Monday to congratulate the United States on its victory over Ghana in the World Cup. It showed the game’s score with the Statue of Liberty to represent the U.S. and a giraffe to represent Ghana. Just one problem. There are no giraffes in Ghana. And the Statue of Liberty was made in France.