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Monthly archives: May 2004
Gettin' Hotter
Bob and Harvey Weinstein have bought the distribution rights to Fahrenheit 9/11 and it may still be released mid-summer (I think it was originally planned for July 4th).
via Monitor Duty
Nostalgia time
They’ve released Ulysses-31 on DVD! For those of you who weren’t kids in the early eighties it was a bizarre Japanese animated series loosely based on Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ (but probably closer to the original than Troy). At the time it was shown I never saw the first episode. Tonight that will be remedied.
F.U.B.A.R.
I was just in the queue at the local convenience store and the woman in front of me bought �100 in lucky dips on tonight’s lottery. It’s 13.98 million to 1 odds. Truly F.U.B.A.R.
Plunder
Legitimate licences to remove scrap, such as destroyed tanks, from Iraq are being used to cover the looting of new and valuable items.
Kill Nutkin
Oh, okay, Squirrel Nutkin was a red, and this is actually about putting a bounty on the tails of grey squirrels to encourage a cull. But I couldn’t help myself.
Call Dr. X
We are all mutants, though, as the article points out, some are more mutant than others.
100 sites for men
Does exactly what it says on the tin. 100 sites rated for men on a scale of 1 to 5.
1. Your girlfriend might like a peek
2. A boy scout’s playground
3. Manly, but with a sensitive side
4. A five pint evening with a whisky chaser
5. You’re surfing the net with Vinnie Jones!
Thanks to Duncan
More Perfect?
Variation on a theme. I was going to do a whole list of features, but I think this one’s enough.
Edit Now available on a long sleeved T shirt. I’m going to use comments as a poll. This logo can be made available on the Raglan, and either can be put on one of the other tops. Get voting.
Balbo
Italo Balbo and the Savoia Marchetti S 55 flying boats he used to form squadrons that travelled the world in the 1920s and 30s.
Perfect Ladies
I managed to get the Perfect Sex Toy logo transferred. For now it exists on the “Jr. Raglan” for the laydeez. It’s also available in pink/white and black/white.
I can and will resize the logo for any of the other Cafe Press products (except the dog T-shirt or any of the kiddie items). Putting it on an extra large T shirt for “sleeping” in has already been suggested, so I might sort that out later today. I’m not a premium member, but anyone ordering the T shirt in those colours is never going to get a chance to prove the claim. I think I’m also restricted to one version of each product, so the white T, baby doll, boxers and thong may be out of the question as well.
End Times!
The sky is falling! Or, at least, the birds are falling from the sky. In China 10,000 bramble finches fell to the earth, most were dead before they hit the ground. In New Zealand, it was gulls (streaming audio).
Still in Kiwi-land, a 25 metre tall geyser erupted in a back garden as boiling water was forced out of a borehole used to supply the house’s hot pool.
Costly
The Cost of Sex calculator. This version’s calibrated for girlfriends. There’s another for Women You Pick Up and the cost for sex with a wife will be available eventually.
Not in itself NSFW, but it does have a prominent ad for a device called the Fleshlight, which is scary, disgusting and probably NSFW.
Maybe it's Darwinian
The Ford F150 is probably called an “urban pickup” or somesuch. It’s for middle class suburban folks who want to pretend they’re macho rural white trash. There’ll never be anything in the back, but the tougher suspension might be necessary to shift their fat arses around. It’s one of, if not the, most popular cars in America and the trend, along with faux off roaders/ SUVs, is heading over here.
Owners will tell you they feel safe perched up there, but anyone with half a brain can see that they’re talking crap. And the photos at the top of this post prove it. In identical crash tests the Mini Cooper’s driver’s compartment stayed intact whilst the F150’s folded in on itself like bad origami. There’s a whole load of stats to back it up as well.
Scroll down to the comments and watch the poor SUV drivers bleat as they try to defend their penis extensions.
Having said all that, I’d still like to own a Land Rover. Though I’d have more sense than to use it about town every day. And I know that these vehicles are built like brick shithouses. I once walked away from an accident where a Landy drove into a dry stone wall (at an angle, not head on) at 20-30 mph. I’d been in the back, without a seat belt on. Admittedly the vehicle rolled onto it’s side and I suddenly found myself standing on the windows, and it was written off, but all three of us who had been in the vehicle got out with little more than bruising.
I’ll be buying a second hand Land Rover, so even if I could afford it, there’s nothing I could do about the company’s current problems.
Afloat Lab
The Office of Naval Research has been showing off some of its gadgets.
Technorati tag: Military
Dear, dear Harry
The kid who plays Harry Potter, sounding awfully mature for his age, has predicted that the character could die at the end of the seventh book.
Big Brother?
“We are doing the public a favour by speeding reality television to its ultimate destination.
“After watching paint dry, where can you go next? Although, who knows, it may be very popular.”
Haunted Ratings
The Royal Navy is allowing a team of “ghostbusters” into the Devonport Naval Base in Plymouth, Devon, to investigate possible paranormal events.
Catch 22
Much of the behaviour and command around the Abu Ghraib scandal was on the level of Joseph Heller’s black comedy.