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I came across this video while doing my daily rounds and had to post it on here.
I’m not a star wars fan by any means, but I got a kick out of this video where a guy dressed up in full Jedi attire walks into a car lot looking to buy a car. The best part of the video is that the salesman is so desperate to make the sale he’s hardly even phased when Darth Vader makes an apperance and the two do battle, baguette style.
Source: SalesAllStars.com
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:
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:
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.
I remember seeing this video over and over when I was a little kid watching TV and I always liked it. Every kid that grew up anywhere in Canada with a TV before the 90’s will have to recognize this piece of canadian heritage and will most likely love it. So, without further adieu, I present to you, the Log Drivers Waltz by Wade Hemsworth and the National Film Board of Canada:
[Um… What? Sorry, did I read that right?]
Airforce Secretary Michael Wynne wants to see “non-lethal” weapons like microwave powered devices tested against American citizens (see also Anti-War Protesters) before they are used in the battlefield.
Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns, said Secretary Michael Wynne.
[Um… Yeah, who cares about the safety of dirty hippy protesters, as long as we don’t hurt the enemy. Riiiiiight, makes sense to me?]
”If we’re not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation,” said Wynne. ”(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press.”
[Where as is you injured a protester no one but the protesters and sympathizers would care, and they don’t support the war anyways, so who cares about them. Great line of reasoning.]
[I love when government and military officials say stupid things like this. I guess ole’ Georgie boy has been able to get away with say things a hell of a lot worse, so why not everyone else, right? Oh well, it’s pretty safe to say the entire system is screwed anyhow, what difference is another crackpot wanting to make protesters into guinea pigs going to make, not much.]
Read more @ Ny Times
You know the world is in a sad state of affairs when even Colin Powell is saying President George Bush is going to far.
Though the US Senate (I believe?) just recently passed a bill with the goal of further protecting prisoners of war and terrorists from cruel and unusual “interrogation” tactics, the good ole’ boy Mr. George Bush is trying to force a bill through that would achieve the complete opposite.
The bill which President Bush is trying to push through would see the rights of US interogators protected substantially more so then those of the people being interogated. Colin Powell stated that Bush’s proposed changes to the War Crimes Act would “liberalize the definition of what is torture” and would allow US interogators to use “hypothermia, threats of violence to the detainee and his family, stress positions, ‘long-time standing’, prolonged sleep deprivation, and possibly waterboarding” without any fear of being prosecuted at a later time.
Colin Powell made his thoughts on the matter quite clear and finally disagreed with how far President Bush is going, stating that “The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. To redefine Common Article 3 would add to those doubts. Furthermore, it would put our own troops at risk.â€
I’m glad at least one person in that big white building and weird pentagon shaped building has finally managed to pull their head at least 1/4 of the way out of their ass. It’s things like this that make me utterly discusted with Bush. It really amazes me that he can even get away with trying to push things like this through, how absurd.
Read more @ Think Progress
I’m getting sleepy and don’t really feel like being on the computer anymore, so I’m going to dump everything of interest I wanted to blog about into a Quick Hits entry. Check it out!
And that’s that. Now I can go watch TV and get ready for bed, yay! 🙂
A corporate pilot out of Georgia has come up with a fantastic idea to make a few extra bucks with his plane.
Bob Smith has outfitted the back of his Piper Cherokee 6 with a large bed and is offering to take frisky couples over 5,280 feet straight up to join the infamous Mile High Club, and all for the low low price of $299. That’s even cheaper then most local flights. And one thing is for sure, the bed would have to be a lot more comfortable then trying to bust a move in the cramped bathroom of a 747.
Smith says that he’s had customers fly in from all over the US to join the illusive Mile High Club. He offers hour long flights out of Carrollton, GA and has serviced couples from as young as 18 to as old as 60. In the past five years he’s taken roughly 75 – 100 couples to the heights of their pleasure. He even throws in a bottle of champagne, an official Mile High Club certificate and the sheets from the bed. “Everybody gets brand new sheets.” says Smith.
Check out the MileHighAtlanta website for more information and get your tickets quick!
Read More @ USA Today