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Sunday Burst of Weirdness

Oddities abound!

But not quite as much this week, and I was busy for most of today, so just a couple of strange things, one of which wasn’t even something I saw online, but…ach, let’s just get on with it:

:: Some guy on CNN had a guest on, discussing politics and whatnot, and the CNN guy asked his guest if President Obama was “trying to brazenly deceive the American people”. Who was the guest of whom this question was asked? Dick Cheney. Well, he oughta know, huh? I mean, if you want to talk about someone brazenly deceiving the American people, you can’t do much worse than Bush’s VP….

:: One reason I didn’t post much today was that I was catching up on my episodes of 24, since I was three behind and didn’t want to fall four behind after tomorrow night’s ep. At the beginning of the last of the three episodes I had to watch, the obligatory guest star listing was scrolling by as the show began, and one name caught my eye. It looks like Jack Bauer might be joined by the other great anti-terrorist crusader of our time! Woo-hoo!

Can’t you see those two working together? “Yippee-ki-yay, motherf–” “We’re running out of time!!!”

That’s about it. More next week. Unidentified Earth will return next week as well.

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Sunday Burst of Weirdness

Oddities abound!

:: The Buffalo Bills signed Terrell Owens.

:: OK, this is something quite odd. Last night I was flipping through the AOL.com homepage just to see what was up, and I came across this screen, whereupon I immediately said, “Wait, what?”

Here’s the relevant portion of that screen:

See it? Not the thing about the super-expensive flower arrangement. Something smaller.

“Dora the Explorer’s sexy new look”.

Read that again: DORA THE EXPLORER‘s sexy new look. Now, I figured this was something written to get me to click through, so click through I did, into an article on various retail companies changing the looks of their major brands. I figured “OK, they’re making Dora look different, but they’re not really making her ‘sexy’, right? I mean, we are still talking about kids here, yes?”

Well, Dora’s the first thing featured, and here’s the copy offered there:

Trying to hold onto preschool fans as they age, Dora the Explorer’s parent companies, Nickelodeon and Mattel, are giving her a sexy new look as a tween with a curvy body and wavy long hair. The full design won’t be unveiled until fall.

Here’s a preview of Sexy Tween Dora, in silhouette, beside her current incarnation:

Not that I’m a prude or anything, but, well…really?

:: The Buffalo Bills have added Terrell Owens to their receiving corps.

:: Perfume and cologne based on Star Trek. Does the “Red Shirt” scent smell like embalming fluid? (via Lynn, who always has fun links and who has some particularly fun ones in this post)

:: Terrell Owens is a Buffalo Bill.

:: Some horrifying tools from medical science past. The first of this made me wince in a bad way. Not work-safe, possibly. Especially if you work in the medical field. (via)

:: Opponents of the Buffalo Bills next season will have to gameplan against Terrell Owens.

:: To recap: Terrell Owens is now a member of the Buffalo Bills.

We’ll return with more weirdness next week.

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Sunday Burst of Weirdness

Oddities abound!

:: It hadn’t occurred to me until I saw the notion voiced by James Nicoll, but I’ll bet there’s some terrific hilarity being voiced over on Conservapedia these days. Check out the very opening of their article on President Obama:

Barack Hussein Obama II (allegedly born in Honolulu Aug. 4, 1961)….

It gets funnier from there. There’s an entire section headed “Obama is likely the first Muslim President”. Hee hee!

:: My old high school friend Kerry, who now lives in Portland, OR, went on a drive last week or so, where she took photos of the Portland area’s stunning scenery…and some local girls re-enacting scenes from Twilight. What a bunch of losers!

(Now, if I ever found myself in Tunisia, surely I wouldn’t be tempted to find the location of the Skywalker farm…nope, not me.)

:: Not really “weird”, per se, but Sheila gives Jaws II more thought than most. I’ve never really disliked Jaws II, although it’s definitely a grimmer exercise and far less believable than the classic first film. But still, “Open up, say AHHHHH!” is definitely one of my favorite “What the good guy says before dispatching the bad guy once and for all” lines ever.

More weirdness next week!

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Oddities abound!

:: Check out this mini golf hole:

Wow.

:: Here’s a fascinatingly exhaustive article on Pac-man. And I mean, exhaustive. So if you’re looking to improve your game, here you go.

:: Baconmania is dead. Or, so says some guy. I sure wish I could get paid money to loftily pronounce that something is over! “Bacon is back where it belongs: at breakfast,” he says. Huh?! No bacon at lunch or dinner? No turkey-bacon melt sandwiches? No more starting a beef stew by crisping up three or four cut-up strips of bacon? And bacon on pizza is just terrific: Italian sausage, bacon, and jalapeno peppers make a great pizza.

Bacon “belongs” at breakfast. What a damnably stupid thing to say.

More weirdness next week!

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Oddities abound!!!

:: Want a good, solid Republican solution to all your problems? Just type them in here, and it’ll tell you. And if you don’t believe them, then click the “That doesn’t make sense” button. It’s like having Eric Cantor right in your living room! (Alan linked this on Facebook.)

:: Via MeFi I see a group of photos on Flickr of two twin sisters, named Maurine and Noreene. Later, the sister were identified. This caught my eye because when I was in high school, there was a family of four sisters (none twins, though, all different ages) named Colleen, Maureen, Noreen, and Aileen. I guess you had to be there — but this is a pretty interesting tale of genealogical detective work.

:: Er…what? (Maybe not safe for work. Via Warren Ellis. Hey, if you want to believe that this particular activity is wrong, great, but if I see someone wearing one of these, I’m going to be awfully tempted to ask something like, “So how ‘ex’ are you? Because I’m gonna need to know that before I shake your hand.”)

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I didn’t see a whole lot of weirdness this week, for obvious reasons, but some stuff did catch my eye:

:: Alan reports on a somewhat questionable marketing strategy by a Buffalo website. There was also a follow-up that I find not entirely convincing.

:: Over at Back of the Cereal Bus, Drew Mackie regularly reports on odd search strings that bring people to his blog. In the latest edition of this, I saw one that almost made me spit green tea all over my keyboard:

Jane seymour open heart looks like a butt

I laughed and laughed, because the first time The Wife and I were watching teevee and saw a commercial with Ms. Seymour displaying her “Open Heart” design, which looks like this:

…we both laughed, and I can’t remember which of us actually noted that it does, in fact, look partially like a human arse. I was then reminded of one of the funnier episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond, in which Marie (Raymond’s overbearing mother) takes a sculpture class and makes a giant sculpture that everybody but her sees as strongly resembling, well, a certain part of the female anatomy. (Clip here, although a plug-in download might be necessary to watch.)

That’s about it for this week.

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Some oddities and wonderments:

:: This is terrific: a guy who has been making mock-ups of the covers to novelizations of popular movies, but with the art in a 1960s style. I love it! There are more throughout his Flickr stream.

(via)

:: Did you ever wonder what things might have been like if John Denver had had a slightly more off-kilter song-writing style? Well, me either, but still….

:: Every kid wants to play Airport Security!

(via)

More next week.

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This week’s oddities:

:: This has already been all over the place, but it’s completely hilarious: the story of the original Star Wars trilogy told by someone who hasn’t really seen it. The animation is great.

:: Related to the above item: in the MeFi thread where they linked it over there, somebody accuses Star Wars of having an incoherent plot, and then says this:

Give me Star Trek, a science fiction show containing science.

Wait, what?!

(And geez, can’t Fixing the Prequels ever get a little love from Geek Blogistan? Ye Gods!)

:: Letterman’s Great Moments in Presidential Speeches, the final edition.

:: For some reason, this morning I suddenly remembered that when we lived in Portland years ago, a constant source of amusement was the TV advertising for Ranier Beer. Well, wouldn’t you know it: there’s a YouTube channel with nothing but old spots for Ranier Beer. Check ’em out: Beer Crossing, Raniers in the Fog, and of course, a 1978 spot clearly based on the Star Wars cantina scene, featuring Buster Crabbe as “Fresh Gordon”!

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Things of oddness:

:: Some guy willingly got a combover. Heavens, why?!

:: Lest anyone feel, since he’s leaving office soon, any need to moderate their negative feelings about George W. Bush, let there be no doubt: he really is a son-of-a-bitch.

:: Via MeFi, I find a guy who writes lots of reviews of movies for IMDb, and he seems to viscerally loathe everything he sees. Either that or he’s keeping silent on the ones he likes. One wonders why he watches so many movies, then; if my rate of return on time spent on a hobby versus the actual pleasure I derive from said hobby is this low, you know what I do? I get myself another hobby.

:: Here’s a stunning collection of photos of people around the world celebrating the end of Christmas. I didn’t know that there was a beastie known as a “Krampus”, who supposedly travels around with St. Nicholas to punish the bad children. Wow.

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