You’ve probably seen pictures of two-headed or two-tailed snakes, lizards, and other reptiles before.
Such creatures are always curios. One reader, knowing my interest in science, sent me this link, where you can view a number of interesting pictures of them.
The page title says “Nature’s Special Creatures,” but I think the URL of the page gives a more direct insight into what you’ll find there:
This cat looks bigger than this bunny, right? Well, appearances can be deceiving. In fact, if you saw the bunny next to the cat in real life, it would be apparent that the bunny is much, MUCH larger than the cat.
In fact, the bunny is nine times larger than the cat!
The bunny is a two-year old Continental Giant rabbit from Holland that already weighs 27 pounds and may grow larger yet. It is believed to be the world’s largest bunny.
The cat, by contrast, is believed to be the world’s smallest cat. It is already full-grown and weighs only 3 pounds. The vets who own it say that they think it has a genetic defect. (Some might prefer to say it is “differently gened.”)
So, despite the fact that cats normally prey on bunnies, in this case the cat had better not let his predator instincts get the best of him. In the resulting dust-up, it would be Bambi Meets Godzilla.
No, not the leader of the Transformers, but someone who admires him a whole heck of a lot.
This Optimus Prime is a member of Ohio’s 5694th National Guard Unit. According to the story,
He legally changed his name on his 30th birthday and now it’s on everything from his driver’s license, to his military ID, to his uniform.
“They razzed me for three months to no end,” said Prime. “They really dug into me about it.”
Prime says the toy actually filled a void in his life when it came out.
“My dad passed away the year before and I didn’t have anybody really around, so I really latched onto him when I was a kid,” he said.
No word as to whether Optimus has shought baptism since his name change.
There’s a scene in Babylon 5 where Captain Sheridan confronts a mysterious man named Justin, who is part of the Shadows’ conspiracy. When Sheridan first meets Jusin, he quizzes him on his identity (quoting from memory, so this won’t be exact):
“Who are you?”
“Now that’s really not important.”
“Who are you?”
“Who decides that the workday will be from 9 to 5 instead of 10 to 4? That the hemlines will be shorter this year, longer the next? Who defines the borders? The political boundaries? Who makes the thousands of decisions that happen invisibly all around us?”
“I don’t know.”
“Ah. I’m . . . with them. Same group. Different department. Think of me as a sort of ‘middle man.'”
Well, it seems that Mr. Justin is with the Color Marketing Group, a group that remains totally hidden to most of us. It was founded in 1962 (NOTE: The year before the Kennedy Assassination!), and now there are allegations that it is the center of a sinister conspiracy to . . . Dum! Dum! Dum! . . . CONTROL THE COLORS OF THE OBJECTS IN OUR LIVES, EVEN THE VERY CLOTHES WE PUT ON OUR BODIES!!!
Dragging this conspiracy into the light is this blog, which reveals the following shocking details:
I’ve known people who think official color reassignments are a conspiracy theory. The short answer is that they are a conspiracy, but they aren’t theoretical. I submit as evidence the assigned colors for 2004, 2003 and 2002. And here are some recent specimens of the new range, to give you a better idea of what they look like when in use.
Who does this to us? An outfit, founded in 1962, called the Color Marketing Group. These are the people who wished avocado green and harvest gold kitchen appliances on America, and put the 1980s into those mauve-pink shades that looked so peculiarly horrible on so many of us.
Basically, the CMG is a trade organization, with 1,500 members drawn from a bunch of different industries. Twice a year they get together in Alexandria, VA, to come up with long-term and short-term color predictions. The long-term prediction is a set of sixteen colors that will be profitably marketable two years hence. That is, the 2003 palette was distributed to manufacturers in 2001. The short-term prediction is a palette of colors declared to be currently the thing.
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nobody’s obliged to follow CMG’s lead; but a manufacturer who ignores them is likely to find that all his competitors’ products are in fashionably compatible colors, while his own clash.
READ MORE AND LEARN WHAT SINISTER PLANS THE CONSIRACY HAS IN STORE FOR US!
FIGHT THE FUTURE!
There’s a scene in Babylon 5 where Captain Sheridan confronts a mysterious man named Justin, who is part of the Shadows’ conspiracy. When Sheridan first meets Jusin, he quizzes him on his identity (quoting from memory, so this won’t be exact):
“Who are you?”
“Now that’s really not important.”
“Who are you?”
“Who decides that the workday will be from 9 to 5 instead of 10 to 4? That the hemlines will be shorter this year, longer the next? Who defines the borders? The political boundaries? Who makes the thousands of decisions that happen invisibly all around us?”
“I don’t know.”
“Ah. I’m . . . with them. Same group. Different department. Think of me as a sort of ‘middle man.'”
Well, it seems that Mr. Justin is with the Color Marketing Group, a group that remains totally hidden to most of us. It was founded in 1962 (NOTE: The year before the Kennedy Assassination!), and now there are allegations that it is the center of a sinister conspiracy to . . . Dum! Dum! Dum! . . . CONTROL THE COLORS OF THE OBJECTS IN OUR LIVES, EVEN THE VERY CLOTHES WE PUT ON OUR BODIES!!!
Dragging this conspiracy into the light is this blog, which reveals the following shocking details:
I’ve known people who think official color reassignments are a conspiracy theory. The short answer is that they are a conspiracy, but they aren’t theoretical. I submit as evidence the assigned colors for 2004, 2003 and 2002. And here are some recent specimens of the new range, to give you a better idea of what they look like when in use.
Who does this to us? An outfit, founded in 1962, called the Color Marketing Group. These are the people who wished avocado green and harvest gold kitchen appliances on America, and put the 1980s into those mauve-pink shades that looked so peculiarly horrible on so many of us.
Basically, the CMG is a trade organization, with 1,500 members drawn from a bunch of different industries. Twice a year they get together in Alexandria, VA, to come up with long-term and short-term color predictions. The long-term prediction is a set of sixteen colors that will be profitably marketable two years hence. That is, the 2003 palette was distributed to manufacturers in 2001. The short-term prediction is a palette of colors declared to be currently the thing.
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Nobody’s obliged to follow CMG’s lead; but a manufacturer who ignores them is likely to find that all his competitors’ products are in fashionably compatible colors, while his own clash.
READ MORE AND LEARN WHAT SINISTER PLANS THE CONSIRACY HAS IN STORE FOR US!
FIGHT THE FUTURE!
For some time Hollywood has been abuzz about a mysterious blogger known only as “Rance,” who claims to be a well-known male actor blogging under a pen name–to keep his reputation from being destroyed by all the juicy gossip he dishes up on his blog (WARNING: Rance lives on a different moral planet than most readers of this blog; in particular: He lives on planet Hollywood.) Speculations include that Rance is George Clooney, Jim Carrey, Owen Wilson, Ben Affleck, and others.
Now Rance has some competition, from the star of one of last year’s summer blockbusters, and he doesn’t care in the slightest if his reputation gets destroyed. In fact, he’s rather fond of destruction. Yes, that’s right, the Incredible Hulk has a blog! (Or, “diary,” as he insists on calling it.)
It’s a real hoot to read. Here are a few entries:
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Why Hulk Likes The Food Court, By Hulk:
1. Hulk can get any kind of food Hulk wants! It is like travelling whole world when only making a few steps!
2. FREE SAMPLES. Sometimes puny humans at Chinese Panda place say “ONLY ONE!” but then Hulk says he could smash whole place up and they hand Hulk tray. Hulk not like threatening nice Chinese Panda people but they need to make free samples bigger!
C. ORANGE JULIUS. OH, HULK LOVES ORANGE JULIUS. THEY HAVE HOT DOGS AND ORANGE DRINK. OH IT IS GOOD HAVE YOU HAD IT??!?!?!?
4. ARCADE is right next to it! Hulk can play games like SMASH A MOLE. They always have new machines every time Hulk comes by, though. Hulk wonder why.
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Thursday, June 24, 2004
HULK AT LIBRARY USING COMPUTER.
SHHHH.
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Sunday, July 04, 2004
Hulk saw movie about bug-man and it was good but needed more smashing.
AND HULK DID NOT GET SNIFFLY DURING ROMANTIC SCENES SO IF YOU HEAR IRON MAN OR THOR TALKING ABOUT IT THEY ARE LIARS.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Hulk not allowed at library anymore.
Hulk just wanted to help library woman keep place quiet!
Now if the Infraggable Krunk would just get a blog.
Okay, having properly congratulated the Japanese people on their National Day (whenver that may be), I can now tell you what I was doing on that Japanese newspaper’s web site: I was looking at a photoessay on bizarre Japanese ice creams. The flavors covered were:
If you go to the site, you can see pictures of these ice creams (well, of their containers, anyway) and read reviews of what they taste like. (The reviews contain English puns and seem to reflect an English-speaker’s viewpoint).
COMMENTS-BOX POLL!
What is your reaction to these ice creams: Which sounds most awful? Which sounds most possibly not-awful? Which would you be most interested to try? Click the comments box to see my answers and add your own!
I recently had occasion to stop by LarkNews.Com and glance at their headlines.
FUNNY!
Though I find they sometimes cross the line (“Humor is such a subject thing,” Emperor Cartagia said), much of the time they manage to poke fun at Christian sensibilities in an amusing way. Consider these recent stories:
* Cleveland-Area Revival Attributed to Woman’s Scripture Checks
Also check out Lark News’s custom “404 File Not Found” message (unless they’ve fixed it).
Finally, there is this really funny Q & A about the “40 Days of Purpose”® fad sweeping Evangelical churches and its overly litigious use of the ® symbol.
Catholic circles aren’t immune to this. Someone or other (who has poked fun at me in print before) used to put a trademark symbol next to the phrase Bringing Christ To The World™, though I see the symbol has been dropped–no doubt in the spirit of Christian charity. Otherwise the Vatican itself might be legally barred from bringing Christ to the world! So, fortunately, we now live in a world where you can Speak Your Mind™ freely, without worrying about such things.
Excerpt:
The right suit can make a guy feel invincible – especially if it’s bulletproof. Colombian fashion designer Miguel Caballero specializes in Euro-style men’s ready-to-wear that’s light, elegant, and can stop a 9-millimeter slug. “Colombia is an ideal place for this business,” Caballero says. “First, because of the high quality of its leather, and second, because of its high index of violence.”
I think that the second reason is actually the first.
Now if Caballero would just come out with a line of western wear. . . . (Heck,his name even means “horseman”)
Excerpt:
The right suit can make a guy feel invincible – especially if it’s bulletproof. Colombian fashion designer Miguel Caballero specializes in Euro-style men’s ready-to-wear that’s light, elegant, and can stop a 9-millimeter slug. “Colombia is an ideal place for this business,” Caballero says. “First, because of the high quality of its leather, and second, because of its high index of violence.”
I think that the second reason is actually the first.
Now if Caballero would just come out with a line of western wear. . . . (Heck,his name even means “horseman”)
