Monday, February 27, 2012
The First Appearance of Cookie Monster
The Muppet that became Cookie Monster was created in 1966, when he was introduced as the Wheel Stealer in this unaired demo ad. Not long afterward, he lost all his teeth -except for his sweet tooth! If the company had aired this spot, the products may have survived longer. (via Everlasting Blort)
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Miss Cellania's Links
Even more interesting, the annual Razzie Awards were bestowed on the worst films of 2011. The film that won the night was so bad, it got 12 nominations in ten categories.
Harvey Weinstein made the documentary Bully in hopes that it would be used as an educational tool in schools. So of course the MPAA gave it an R rating.
Trying to legally buy a TV show.
How the Biblical view of abortion has changed over the last 30 years. (via Metafilter)
Fanfare is a simple but cute online toy in which you can turn each instrument on and off with just a click. (via the Presurfer)
Everybody panic!
The 5 Weirdest Reasons We Have Sex (According to Science).
What will happen if the state takes control of human reproduction? The world of science fiction can give us some frightening scenarios. (via Boing Boing)
Teller Reveals His Secrets. Magicians use their knowledge of perception, attention, and human nature to create illusions, but that doesn't ruin the magic.
Siberia's Altai Mountains are beautiful and wild and hard to live in. So instead, you can look at some fascinating photos.
Gatonovela
A soap opera starring cats! In this episode, a Mexican drug cartel throws its weight around. (via Buzzfeed)
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How to Avoid the Flu
1. Eat right! Make sure you get your daily dose of fruits and veggies.2. Take your vitamins and bump up your vitamin c.
3. Get plenty of exercise because exercise helps build your immune system.
4. Walk for at least hour a day, go for a swim, take the stairs instead of the elevator, etc.
5. Wash your hands often. If you can’t wash them, keep a bottle of antibacterial stuff around.
6. Get lots of fresh air. Open windows whenever possible.
7. Get plenty of rest.
8. Try to eliminate as much stress from your life as you can.
OR …. You can take the doctor’s office approach. Think about it, when you go for a shot, what do they do first? Clean your arm with alcohol.. Why? Because alcohol kills germs. So, I walk to the liquor store (exercise), I put lime in my Corona (fruit), celery in my Bloody Mary (veggies), drink on the bar patio (fresh air), get drunk, tell jokes, and laugh (eliminate stress) and then pass out (rest). The way I see it, if you keep your alcohol levels up flu germs can’t get you!!!!
Sunday, February 26, 2012
We Will Rock You on the Pipes
The Badpiper performed at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh last year. No flames in this particular video, but he's got the crowd rockin'! (via Neatorama)
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Landscape with Duck
For some reason, this duck doesn't fly, but he still has to migrate with his flock. This hand-drawn cartoon by Patrick Neary has a classic retro feel to it. (via the Presurfer)
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English, a Most Curious Language
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;But the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.
Let's face it,
English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger;
Neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.
We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes,
We find that quicksand can work slowly,
Boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea, nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
Grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends,
But not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends
And get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught,
Why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
What does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes, I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down; in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.
Where did this strange language come from and why do we speak it?
'Cause we don't know another, I guess...
Fort Steuben Bridge Demolition
The Fort Steuben Bridge connecting Ohio and West Virginia was decommissioned in just seconds on Tuesday. They did not skimp on the explosives! Luckily, its final performance was caught on high-speed video so we can see it go out in a blaze of glory. (via BroBible)
The Toddler Diet
Day One
* Breakfast: One scrambled egg, one piece of toast with grape jelly. Eat 2 bites of egg, using your fingers; dump the rest on the floor. Take 1 bite of toast, then smear the jelly over your face and clothes.
* Lunch: Four crayons (any color), a handful of potato chips, and a glass of milk (3 sips only, then spill the rest).
* Dinner: A dry stick, two pennies and a nickel, 4 sips of flat Pepsi.
* Bedtime snack: Throw a piece of toast on the kitchen floor.
Day Two
* Breakfast: Pick up stale toast from kitchen floor and eat it. Drink half bottle of vanilla extract or one vial of vegetable dye.
* Lunch: Half tube of "Pulsating Pink" lipstick and a handful of Purina Dog Chow (any flavor).One ice cube, if desired.
* Afternoon snack: Lick an all-day sucker until sticky, take outside, drop in dirt. Retrieve and continue slurping until it is clean again. Then bring inside and drop on rug.
* Dinner: A rock or an uncooked bean, which should be thrust up your left nostril. Pour Grape Kool-Aid over mashed potatoes; eat with spoon.
Day Three
* Breakfast: Two pancakes with plenty of syrup, eat one with fingers, rub in hair. Glass of milk; drink half, stuff other pancake in glass. After breakfast, pick up yesterdays sucker from rug, lick off fuzz, put it on the cushion of best chair.
* Lunch: Three matches, peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Spit several bites onto the floor. Pour glass of milk on table and slurp up
* Dinner: Dish of ice cream, handful of potato chips, some red punch. Try to laugh some punch through your nose, if possible.
Final Day
* Breakfast: A quarter tube of toothpaste (any flavor), bit of soap, an olive. Pour a glass of milk over bowl of cornflakes, add half a cup of sugar. Once cereal is soggy, drink milk and feed cereal to dog.
* Lunch: Eat bread crumbs off kitchen floor and dining room carpet. Find that sucker and finish eating it.
* Dinner: A glass of spaghetti and chocolate milk. Leave meatball on plate. Stick of mascara for dessert.
Start over wih day one.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Would You Do This?
The Nordic insurance company Tryg aired this ad with the tagline "When you have peace of mind, you can give peace of mind to others".
In case you are wondering about the dog used in this ad, his name is Matisse, and there's a video about him just ahead. In English.
I'm Glad You're Here!
Yeah, the site was down most of the day while I redirected my domain. It's still not exactly the way I want it, but I reckon you get what you pay for. And I'm not paying nearly as much now. The thing about domains is that every source uses different language to tell you what to do, so you end up guessing a lot. Then they warn you that any changes may take a couple of hours, so you have to wait to find out that the latest thing you tried did not work before you can try something else. Sigh.
Meanwhile, I wasted some time trying out a free Wordpress blog, which I was supposed to b able to import files to. In fact, Wordpress told me my files imported just fine, but they are nowhere to be found. They certainly didn't publish or even get drafted.
Things will settle down here sooner or later, but please bear with me while I make changes and updates. Hey, if you ever have trouble finding this site again, you can check my Facebook page and I will try to post updates and news there.
Hotness
A magazine ad from Levi's says, "Hotness comes in all shapes and sizes." The illustration makes that very clear. These women come in, uh, well, they seem to be all the same model size, but if you look really, really close, you can see they are very slightly different in shape ...or who are they kidding? They are all model-shaped.
Bastard the Cat
I've had a few cats like this. In fact, most cats share at least some of Bastard the Cat's attributes. (via reddit)
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