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Bada-Bing dodges Five-O on way to Gay-Friendly Oxford Dictionary

Oxford Dictionary recently added over 1000 new words to their comprehensive online dictionary. Some of the words are stupid, some are fun and some are incredibly hard to pronounce, but now they’re all officially words.

Amung the list of over 1000 words added to the Oxford English Dictionary are:

  • Bada-bing
  • Five-O
  • Gay-Friendly
  • Carpet Bombing
  • Islamophobia
  • Hard-Ass
  • Disneyfication
  • Wi-Fi

I’ve yet to decide what is more frightening: the fact that “words” like Bada-Bing and Five-O are now in the dictionary or the fact that the short little list above reflects incredibly well the general state of affairs in North America in only a few words.

My suggestion to you all, go through the list of over 1000 brand spankin’ new words and do the best you can to integrate a few new ones into your conversations everyday. I’ve already got a few nice ones picked out myself, though they’re going to be awfully hard to drop into everyday conversations:

  • Pneumatomachi, n. – post-classical Latin Pneumatomachi, plural of Pneumatomachos adversary of the Holy Spirit (6th cent.)
  • Polyyne, n. – Any of a class of organic compounds containing two or more carbon-carbon triple bonds, esp. in a chain of conjugated single and triple bonds.
  • Polyadenylation, n. – The attachment of a polyadenylate moiety to a molecule (esp. messenger RNA).

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Oxford Dictionary New Words List

Martin Scorsese + Jack Nicholson + A Dildo = Must See Movie

Yup, you read the title right. Jack Nicholson, which just happens to be one of my all time favorite actors, is working on a new Martin Scorsese directed movie entitled “The Departed”.

Jack Nicholson plays a homicidal mobster with a sexual complex. The catch is, it was Jack’s idea for his character to have a sexual complex. Looks like Jacky boy is getting twisted in his old age, good man! All the more reason to like him.

Jack Nicholson told Rolling Stone Magazine:

“I thought it would be more frightening if my character had a sexual component … so I called Marty up and said, ‘Look, I just thought of what would be an interesting scene of [my character] having wild sex. And in this scene with two girls, one of the girls is wearing a strap-on’ … This was my idea and improvisational, and Marty went for it.”

All I have to say is: Jack, you’re my hero. I want to grow up to be just like you!

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Stupid People: Panda Bites Man, Man Bites Back

Wow, it’s only 8:15am and I’m already handing out the Stupid Person Of The Day Award. That’s got to be some kind of record, but this guy is obviously very deserving of such a prestigious title.

A drunk chinese migrant worker (those are the best kind) decided to get a close look at the cuddly little panda bears and jump the fence into the panda bear enclosure. Well, as cute and cuddly as panda bears look, they’re really not all that friendly, and they’re pretty damn big. So naturally, big Mr. panda doesn’t take to friendly to his new alcohol saturated roomate and decides to take a big ole’ bite out of him. Naturally, in retaliation, the drunken fence jumper decided the best thing to do would be to bite the panda back!

Zhang Xinyan of central Henan had apparently drank for jugs (Jugs?) of beer at a near by restaraunt before heading for the Beijing Zoo, where “He felt a sudden urge to touch the panda with his hand.” The best part of this all, is that the panda was asleep! What do you think is going to happen if you jump into a wild animals cage and try to pet it while it’s sleeping? Maybe it’ll wake up and take a big ass bite out of you, just a guess though.

Oh man, it just keeps getting better. Apparently the panda got startled and bite Zhang Xinyan’s leg and, of course, he wasn’t having none of that and started to kick the panda with his other leg, in turn, the panda swung around and bit his other leg, lol!

“No one ever said they would bite people,” Zhang said. “I just wanted to touch it. I was so dizzy from the beer. I don’t remember much.” Well, it happens to the best of us. Most of us just don’t decide to get up close and friendly with Pandas!

Ya Mingxia, a spokeswoman for Beijing Zoo said “We’re not considering punishing him now, he’s suffered quite a bit of shock.” Really? Ya think? Maybe next time he gets drunk and decides to get cuddly with an animal he’s choose something friendly, like a crocodile.

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Vancouver: Flea Market and Bo Kong


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My lovely wife and I went to the Vancouver Flea Market for the first time with some friends this weekend and I have to admit, I wasn’t very impressed. It’s big, there are tons of booths and a whole crap load of stuff, but none of it was really any good. Only a few booths had things that sparked my interest and a lot of the booths will still closed when we got there (around 10am).We had a great time rummaging around through everything and our friends picked up some cool little trinkets, but we left with a $1 pack of AAA batteries. I do have to admit though, the Vancouver Flea Market is a great place to get batteries for really cheap.The best booth of the entire place was a guy selling a ton of records, all lot of which are pretty hard to find. He had a great selection of old school punk records and a copy of the original broadcasting of Orson Welles War of the Worlds for $12, which was a great price and super tempting, but for whatever reason, I decided not to pick it up.

The Vancouver Flea Market is a pretty interesting place to check out and is a great way to spend soem time rummaging around on the weekend, but for all the cool goodies and yummy food I think I’ll stick to the Richmond Night Market.

After we all got done digging through the Vancouver Flea Market we headed to a fantastic Vegan chinese restaurant called Bo Kong. Bo Kong is located at 3068 Main St. and serves up a fantastic assortment of all Vegan chinese food and Dim Sum on the weekends. We’d been there once before with the same friends and loved the place, though neither of us have ever had Dim Sum so we decided to give that shot this time. I have to say, it was pretty damn fantastic. We ended up walking out of Bo Kong with super full tummies and a measly $50 bill (including tip) for all four of us. I highly recommend giving Bo Kong a go and, while you’re there, you HAVE to try the Deep Fried Bean Curd Skin Rolls in Black Bean Sauce. We’ve had the dish both times we’ve gone and it is absolutely delicious!

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Vancouver: CIBC Run For The Cure

The CIBC Run For The Cure is fast approaching, and though I won’t be participating myself, another Vancouver Blogger will be and I urge you to offer her any support you can.

Rebecca of Miss604.com and her husband John of Audihertz.net are both going to be running in the event where all money raised will be donated to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, a very good cause.

Technically, in order to run as a full sponsored participant, which Rebecca is hoping to run as, she will need to raise at least $150. So if you have any spare change sitting around, help out the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation and the CIBC Run For The Cure by going to Miss604.com and sponsoring her via the link in the right hand sidebar.

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Reality TV: Supernova Now Rock Star Supernova

Even before CBS’ hit reality TV series Rock Star Supernova came to an end, the band received their very first, of which there are sure to be many, lawsuit. A band from California known as Supernova, known only for their song “Chewbacca”, which was featured in Clerks, filed the lawsuit against Supernova to prevent the band from taking their name, and rightfully so, they won.

This put Rock Star Supernova winner Lukas Rossi in a bit of a hard spot as he joined Tommy Lee, Jason Newstead and Gilby Clarke in a then nameless band. However, it didn’t take long for the lightbulbs to go off and the band decided to go on using the name Rock Star: Supernova, how original. I am surprised and not surprised all at once at the fact that CBS would let them use said name, as surely CBS has a copyright and TM on the Rock Star: Supernova, or at the very least, Rock Star tag.

According to Reuters, Rock Star: Supernova is planning to drop their debut album, featuring Canadian contest winner Lukas Rossi, on November 21st. In the hopes of pumping the album up a little more the band has decided to release two singles already, “It’s All Love” and “Be Yourself & 5 Other Cliches” on Yahoo! Music.

Rest assured, I will be about as likely to pick up a copy of this, what is certain to be steaming pile of crap, of an album as I am going to pick up Ryan Star’s new album.

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Reality TV: Rock Star Supernova Loser Ryan Star Releases Album

Rock Star Supernova reject Ryan Star has seen quite a bit of press since his “controversial” elimination from the show. Personally, I never really cared for his stuff and didn’t think he was all that great. But apparently a lot of people disagree with me on that matter.

Stone Crow/KOCH Records is trying to piggy back of the press and attention generate by the hugely popular Rock Star Supernova series by picking up Ryan Star and putting a rush-release on his debut album, Songs From the Eye of an Elephant. The album is set for a rush-release date of today and will feature stripped down outtakes and demos highlighting Ryan’s “pure talent.” So much for titling your debut album “Darkhorse”, like you said during Rock Star Supernova, eh Ryan? How quickly we forget.

Ryan Star also managed to snag the featured artist spot on MySpace for the month of March and was written up in Billboard Magazine as “absolutely incredible” and “a shining presence awaiting his close-up.”

One thing is for sure, I’m not going to be buying this piece of crap, the only album coming out I’m even interested in right now is Monument to the Masses by Ima Robot.

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