Strangely Perfect

Today you left for good..  You made me laugh and fortunately moved on from the Forbidden Planet, where I also laughed, but not in the same way. And Shirley, I am being serious. Leslie Nielsen, RIP.

Much merriment is being made about the Spanish  presidency website being hacked and Mr Zapatero’s image being replaced by that of Mr Bean.  See Mr Bean replaces Spanish PM on EU presidency site However, the images also seem very similar to those of France’s President Sarkozy.  Are they all, in some way, related?

Arnold Stang Dies The voice of Top Cat, the excellent cartoon series of my childhood has died at a good old age. He’s also in one of my favourite bits from the film “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.”  About half-way through the clip below he’s one of the two gas station attendants who [...]

Actor Edward Woodward Dies I’m quite sad about today’s news, because the show Callan formed a key part of my life, in a way, when I was growing up. The dystopian genre owes a lot to the show.  Right from it’s haunting opening title sequence that had instant echoes of Orson Welles’ Third Man, to [...]

PreScript Advice If you think you’ve had your bank ‘cleaned out’ by any of a multitude of ‘life cleanse’ or ‘colon cleanse’ type internet scams, there is only one real remedy… Ask for a charge-back against the company through you credit card company. Your reason, when asked, is that the company has either: Not adhered [...]

Via TheP5 I spotted this amazing graphs site http://graphjam.com which is right up my street of pseudo-graphology!  Try it out, it’s infectious – or make your own! Try this one, for instance. or this one: Which neatly ties in with a Rocket Mole discovered graphic from a while back: Oh the huge manatee.  Funny as [...]

Sex Videos As time passes, we see the Buddhist concept of “karmic retribution” really coming into view with all the latest happenings with wacky backy Jacqui Smith, the (as I write this morning) current Home Secretary for HM Gov in the UK.  The continuing saga of her rule-bending expenses and her husband’s adult activities while [...]

In an amazing show of unity across the divide that still sometimes splits the two blocs of Northern Ireland, some people have demonstrated just how well two peoples can get on, if they try. As if in an Ealing comedy or an act from Spike Milligan’s Puckoon, they’ve been dodging the revenue men with tonnes [...]

It’s a Sad State of Affairs when You Make George W Bush Look Like an Informed Progressive! – Andy Parsons I watched “Mock the Week” (a satirical comedy show), on BBC2 last night and the Andy Parsons quote shows just how much the rest of the world suspects the true nature of Sarah Palin.  The [...]

After the recent evacuative pleasure I had after eating several serious amounts of short-grain brown rice, I was reminded of something I saved to my hard drive a while ago that I got from the web. So I  thought I’d share the anally comic missive below with everyone.  I don’t claim it’s a work of [...]

Quick! Everyone mock the dead! Oh the Humanity! Oh the Huge Manatee! Oh the Humanity! Oh the Huge Manatee!