Guide to Asian Emoticons
When I was a child and one wanted to send a wireless text message to a friend, our messages and emoticons used to look something like this: TNBE153 RS=TORONTO ONT 2= AGENT CNX=WK: MAYOR FOSTER PARODY...
View ArticleLearn to Dance: Lady Gaga—Bad Romance
Your correspondent was blessed by Nature with the rhythm and raw dancing talent of a blindfolded, epileptic bull in a china shop. But I can nonetheless appreciate the grace and skill required for...
View ArticleLearn to Dance: Riverdance
I was never a big fan of “Irish dancing”, but I am little awestruck by Fintan Maher’s raw talent in an art form he has never previously studied. Here he demonstrates how a talented amateur can pull...
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Nerddom and aging
You know you’re getting old when the intersection of décolletage and geekery produces an “ewww”, not a “wow”. For me, a woman dressed as Darth Vader is the opposite of sexy. No offense to Evening...
View ArticleCat business trip
An ad for Japanese travel booking website Jalan, featuring spokes-cat Nyalan. I would rather see this guy than the overplayed Travelocity gnome any day of the week. FYI, the fish-shaped card he’s...
View ArticleKyle Franklin’s drunken pilot act
Your correspondent can’t decide whether Mr. Kyle Franklin (of Franklin’s Flying Circus) is a daredevil barnstormer in the tradition of the Golden Age, or just a dangerous lunatic who should have his...
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The price of greatness is responsibility
One cannot help but chuckle all the way through this post by Chris Manno (a.k.a. Jethead). Yeah, it’s all about the four stripes. A lot of stuff changes the day you put them on. Sure, there’s the...
View ArticleExtreme sledding
Probably seems like an excellent idea after a couple of beers in the O-Club, but might turn out to be less entertaining after your squadron safety officer (or heaven forbid, the CO) gets wind of it.
View ArticleDinosaur terrorises school children
Maybe I’m a bad person, but I find this video all kinds of hilarious. That job probably doesn’t pay top dollar, but it’s ten times as entertaining as anything you or I are doing sitting behind a desk.
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Meanwhile, in Russia…
Yup, that’s a nekkid woman swimming in below-freezing seawater. The rationale: Braving sub-zero temperatures, she has thrown caution — and her clothes — to the wind to tame two beluga whales in a...
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