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Oddities abound!
:: I would have figured that George Lucas’s personal study was on this list of 10 places you can never enter.
:: If Star Wars characters were on Facebook.
:: One of my favorite recurring memes in Calvin and Hobbes was the way Calvin would give voice to his dark imagination in the form of the construction of snowmen, often times snowmen acting in horrible, horrible ways. Some folks then build them in real life, These are hilarious.
More next week!
Oddities abound! But first, a bit of interesting (to me) and un-weird linkage.
:: Apparently the song “Same Old Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg has become a Christmas staple, even though the song doesn’t really have much at all to do with Christmas aside from the song’s setting at Christmas time, and the quote of “Auld Lang Syne” at the very end. The song tells the story of how the narrator (Fogelberg) ran into an old lover, purely by chance, in a convenience store one Christmas Eve, and then spent an hour or two with her, reminiscing on their time together, before parting again. I don’t recall hearing it much before this year’s Christmas season, when I heard it quite a bit. I think it’s a very fine song, wonderfully effective with poignant and poetic lyrics. Here’s the song:
What I found interesting about this song is that it’s true, and after Fogelberg’s death some years ago, the woman in the song came forward. It’s a fascinating story.
:: Yes, I do use some of these quotes in regular everyday conversation.
:: Oh, come on!
More next week, hopefully…yeah, probably. Sure, why not.
Oddities abound!
:: One of my Facebook friends posted this, and boy howdy, is it perfect Burst of Weirdness material! Behold the ninja…monkey.
:: You know, folks, just because you can make a Nativity scene out of just about anything doesn’t mean that you necessarily should make a Nativity scene out of just about anything.
:: I haven’t linked anything from Neatorama lately, so I’m just going to take a minute as the site loads in another tab, scroll down to the item I like best on their front page as of this writing, and link it accordingly. So hold on…
checking…
…dooby dooby doo…
Ah, here we go: a good old religious controversy involving a billboard that I, on my honor, found pretty funny.
:: I’m always pleased by a nice video of somebody receiving a pie in the face, so here’s a good one involving two ESPN managers, their mutual allegiances to the Yankees and Red Sox, and the bet between them. That’s how to lose a bet with grace!
More next week.
Oddities abound!
:: CBS needs to work on its public service announcements, I think. Wow, what a tone-deaf ad.
:: Other networks suck, too. I, like SamuraiFrog, noticed that something was amiss with this year’s ABC airing of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Little did I realize how much was amiss. Time to get a DVD and stop relying on ABC each year.
:: I recently had a few people on Facebook take me to task when I suggested that, despite its status as the Coolest Weapon Ever Conceived Whether It’s Fictional Or Not, the lightsaber may not actually be the best item with which to carve a turkey. (I think it would vaporize a cross-section of the meat equal to the thickness of the blade, as well as leaving behind a charred surface, instead of succulent and juicy turkey.) And obviously, real lightsaber chopsticks would be silly. But I still want the fake ones.
:: Ever wonder what to get that one friend of yours? You know, the one who’s a Jewish Star Trek fan? Wonder no more.
:: I sometimes thumb through Popular Mechanics at the library, and on that basis, I found this selection of some of the goofiest notions to ever grace their cover highly fascinating and amusing. I’m not sure if my favorite is the “skiers pulled by helicopter” one, or the “Nerd from Happy Days on his ocean-going bicycle” one.
:: Apropos of a continual subject of interest on this blog, it turns out that overalls are not good attire for surfing. I’d have never thought to even try it, but I’m glad someone did! If my occasional experiences with standing outside in overalls on a very windy day are any guide, I suppose that turbulent currents in and out of surfing waves and whatnot can yank one around a lot, especially when the bib fills with water. (Seriously — if it’s windy enough, you can angle yourself outside so that the bib of your overalls fills with air and yanks on you like a sail. It’s an odd feeling. I learned this years ago when I stopped to buy gas in Buffalo on a winter day…I stepped out of the car, without my coat, and almost got turned around in the wind. I am not making this up.)
All for this week. I loaded up a bit because I expect to be fairly busy and thus not doing much noodling about Teh Interwebs the next week. We’ll see.
Oddities abound!
:: Anyone who remembers the old text-adventure games of yore (as in, 1980s and before “yore”) will be amused by Revisiting old-school text adventures as a jaded modern gamer. I thought it was hysterical — I remember playing Colossal Cave for hours, eventually succumbing to the fact that I was 12 or 13 and typing in commands like “Kill Dragon with my butt”. (Of course, in that game, the solution to the killing-the-dragon puzzle was elegant and a groaner at the same time….)
:: An antiquarian bookseller relates tales of customer woe. A sample:
I have a first edition of the Gutenburg Bible, can you tell me how much it is worth?
Ma’am, what makes you think you have a Gutenburg?
Well, it’s German and dated 1880.
Oy….
All for this week. Enjoy, folks!
Oddities abound!
:: Having gone to college in northern Iowa, I interacted with more than a few Minnesotans, all of whom had elder relatives who insisted on trotting out lutefisk every year. This despite the fact that no one in their right mind could possibly want to eat the stuff. Here’s a description. I’d sooner eat haggis than that.
:: Don’t look at this article if you’re in any way squeamish! The 10 Most Horrifying Sports Injuries is just that. Faces pulverized by objects in flight, limbs bent in directions they’re not supposed to bend and in places they’re not supposed to be bendable, and one that longtime Buffalo Sabres fans will almost certainly remember.
I was actually watching the Monday Night Football game in which Napoleon McCallum destroyed his leg. I recall that it wasn’t clear what the injury was until ABC put up a replay, no one having any idea of what had happened — and all three guys in the booth (this was during the Al Michaels, Frank Gifford, and Dan Deirdorf) simultaneously going, “Ooooohhhh….” You can hear that moment in the YouTube vid over there. If you want. It’s pretty gross.
:: If ever we needed evidence that some folks out there have way too much time on their hands, I give you…shudder…a Seinfeld/Star Wars mash-up poster.
I feel dirtier just looking at that.
More next week!
Oddities abound!
I wasn’t on the Web much this past week, so I only have one thing to offer, but I found it pretty funny, so here you go: How to create a weapon that is devastating and unstoppable.
More next week, maybe.
Oddities abound….
:: Apparently a study was needed to confirm that cannabis is good for stress-relief.
:: The union of the sets “Happy” and “Sad”.
That’s about it, I guess. It was a pretty “Meh” week for weirdness in my usual haunts.
Oddities abound!
:: Jellyfish of unusual size? I don’t believe they exist.
:: Ever want to combine a dead-blow hammer with a mouse sander? No? Well, maybe they won’t make one, then. (They actually weren’t, anyhow.)
More next week!
Oddities abound!
:: After reading this, it seems to me that the candy companies are missing a prime marketing strategy, in which they would push candy that has twice the demon as the other leading brands!
:: Having lived in Western New York for more than 28 years, it bothers me that this video’s existence is necessary at all — but of course it is, because so many people have absolutely no idea how to do this. So here’s how to eat a chicken wing:
:: In honor of last night’s Halloween festivities, check out this amazing Cthulhu-lantern. Wow!
More next week.