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Category Archives: Weird
Mighty Orbots???
I somehow missed these gems of ’80s cartoon shows:
There really was a show called Dinosaucers. Somehow, history has mostly forgotten the show…can’t imagine why.
I actually remember M.A.S.K., a little bit.
Basically, though, it would appear that everything is a derivative of Battle of the Planets, Transformers, Gobots, and Speed Racer, or some combination thereof. I’m especially amazed they were able to attach a plot to Pole Position.
I’m leaving Jem out on purpose, by the way.
While we’re at it, enjoy some ’80s commercials as well:
Where do people get these from? VHS tapes generally don’t survive that long.
One final question: wouldn’t being hit by a giant piece of fruit provoke some reaction other than laughter? I guess I just don’t get Bonkers.
This one is just painful to watch…poor George.
A new low in creepiness
A Republican Florida state legislator apparently offered oral sex to a large black man in a public park bathroom because he was scared of him and figured that would make him go away. Also, he was only in the bathroom to get out of some bad weather (why he was on foot in a park is not directly explained.) Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast has the money quote:
Scared of black men. Scared of the weather. Scared of their own shadows. That’s your tough-guy Republican party for you.
Slow news day?
Two by two they went…
From Bloomberg (via HuffPo), there is a story about a trend among billionaires to buy their own personal submarines:
The ocean floor is the final spending frontier for the world’s richest people. Journeying to see what’s on the bottom aboard a personal submersible is a wretched excess guaranteed to trump the average mogul’s stable of vintage Bugattis or a $38 million round-trip ticket to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket.
Luxury-submarine makers and salesmen from the Pacific Ocean to the Persian Gulf say fantasy and secrecy are the foundations of this nautical niche industry built on madcap multibillionaires.
“Everyone down there is a wealthy eccentric,” says Jean- Claude Carme, vice president of marketing for U.S. Submarines Inc., a Portland, Oregon-based bespoke submarine builder. “They’re all intensely secretive.”
Who owns the estimated 100 luxury subs carousing the Seven Seas mostly remains a mystery.
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft Corp., warned his boat builder that loose lips sink ships.
Perhaps I am being paranoid, but there may be a trend that it quite troubling here. We have heard about the disappearing frogs and honeybees, but now our billionaires are retreating to the bottom of the ocean…
What do the billionaires know that the rest of us do not? Be afraid…
Amazing time waster!
This is how I spent several hours of my 4th of July holiday. Kind of sad.
Today’s inexplicably e-mailed video
Received this today via e-mail, for reasons unknown.
On a lighter note
Here’s a good way to totally screw with your children’s minds (be thankful I haven’t polluted the gene pool):
Gay flamingos????
There’s just something…surreal about this:
LONDON (AFP) – A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conservation organisation said Monday.
Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family, even chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge near Bristol.
Does this even require comment from me? Nah.
Be a good neighbor
Imagine making your first visit to the house you just bought in a foreclosure sale, only to find the mummified remains of the former owner, which had been sitting on the couch for around five years…
I think the moral here is to get to know your neighbors well enough that they’ll look for you at least every five years or so.