One of the things I noticed is that Biden’s voice and speaking pattern seems to have a natural rhythm to it. And the whole thing is just damn funny:
Archive for May, 2009
Post Office Refuses to Make Left Hand Turns
I swear this isn’t a story from the Onion:
YORK, Maine — Residents of Ocean Avenue Extension ante up their complaints over the town’s decision to make the street one-way, as the York Village Post Office now refuses to deliver their mail.
The post office will no longer deliver mail to Ocean Avenue Extension, said York Village Postmaster William Monagle, because to do so would require the driver to make a left-hand turn. Monagle said the U.S. Postal Service has a policy not to create new left-hand turns on its routes.
Mortal Enemy of Mail Men Everywhere
What a fucking riot! I guess working for the post service really does have its benefits. Lucky bastards.
Douche Bag Doctor Bulldozes Beach
What a fuck head!
There is no point owning a £750,000 detached beachfront home if your view of the sea is obscured.
So surgeon Dr Brian Newman decided to take action against a 50ft-high sand dune standing between his house and the beach.
He hired a JCB digger and removed the obstruction – enabling him to gaze out over the Irish Sea while having his breakfast.
But Dr Newman’s actions were condemned by conservationists who claim the gaping hole he has left in the dunes has wrecked the beauty spot at St Anne’s, near Blackpool.
Dr Newman is one of several householders on the resort’s seafront who each own a section of the sand dunes which separate the properties from the beach.
Here’s what he did:
This guy thinks he can do whatever he wants just because he’s a doctor and has money:
Hi, I'm the shit head surgeon that fucked up the coastline and now my house will probably get flooded next storm.
This shit pisses me off. The rich fucks that live in Rye Beach, NH try this stuff all the time too. The guy that used to be governor of NH bulldozed a bunch of sand near his house on the public beach just cause he fuckin felt like it, twice.
The State Employees Association and Seacoast environmental groups, among others, protested the transfer of Dori Wiggins as supervisor of the Department of Environmental Services Wetlands Division in Portsmouth to the DES headquarters in Concord as an example of a “political payback” on the part of the Benson administration. The Seacoast DES, which was supervised by Wiggins at the time, leveled fines against Benson in 1998 and 2003 for excavating beach sand at his Rye beachfront home without a permit. Benson denied that he had anything to do with the transfer of Wiggins
HELLO FUCK HEADS, YOU DONT OWN THE BEACH!!!!
Remember that little storm called Katrina? No? Maybe Rita? You start fucking with the coastlines and wetlands, bad things happen.
“There are almost open water conditions around New Orleans now,” Marmillion said. “Because of wetland loss some areas of Louisiana are no longer protected at all.”
Wetlands act as a “speed bump,” slowing down storms almost like dry land does, said Kip Patrick, spokesman for America’s Wetland. “They take some of the brunt of the force of the hurricane, weakens the storm like any land mass would.”
Beaches can act that same way. Good luck with that next storm douche bag. You deserve everything that happens to you.
Movie Fun – Popeye
Here’s a classic from the 80′s everyone needs to see (my kids haven’t watched it yet, but I know they’ll love it).
Here’s a few tidbits and goodies:
- The set for the town of Sweethaven was built at Anchor Bay on the Mediterranean island of Malta. After filming it became a popular tourist attraction.
- Robin Williams’s film debut.
- Shelley Duvall sang all of her own songs.
- Most of Robin Williams’s muttered Popeye voice was discovered to be inaudible once filming wrapped, and he had to re-dub much of the dialogue
- At one point, Lily Tomlin was signed to play Olive Oyl.
- During filming of the scene at the end where Ray Walston throws Robin Williams the can of spinach, Ray hit Robin in the head so hard that he required several stitches in his scalp. This delayed filming for several weeks.
- The parts of Popeye and Olive Oyl were originally intended for Dustin Hoffman and Gilda Radner. Hoffman left over a disagreement in the hiring of Jules Feiffer as the scriptwriter and, although Radner was the preferred choice of the studio, Robert Altman held out for Shelley Duvall.
- The film earned $49,823,037 at the United States box office, more than double the film’s budget.
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Hudson River Is Disgusting
This is pretty gross.
Secrets of the Deep
What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? For starters, a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms.
Basically the point of that article is that there’s so much junk down there they have no idea how to clean it up or even keep track of everything. I think it’s pretty safe to say that if you fall into the water there, the first thing you want to do is hit the emergency room and have them blast you full of anti-biotics. Then maybe, just maybe you may NOT get the plague.
Oh, and don’t mind the concrete eating worms:
And Limnoria tripunctata, a.k.a. “gribbles,” are bugs about the size of a pencil dot that look like tiny armadillos, and eat not only wood but also concrete. Speregen says he’s seen fifteen-inch-diameter columns that have been gnawed down, hourglass style, to three inches.
Here’s a picture of this cute little fella:
(Found on NY Magazine)
Update:
It’s come to my attention that the header in the article from the NY mag site is a little misleading. The worms that are 4 feet long are actually the wood gnawing kind. The concrete eaters are tiny.
Either way still creepy.
Unfortunate CNN Headline
Every word just seems so dirty:
Unfortunate CNN Headline
Link to article here.
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Twilight Sequel Found In Trash
Sounds about right to me:
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis beauty salon owner accidentally happened upon one of the hottest Hollywood scripts — the pages from an upcoming “Twilight” sequel — in a trash bin.
Casey Ray found two scripts, one for the vampire sequel “New Moon” and one for a different movie titled “Memoirs.” She decided to return them to the studio making the films. In return, she was invited to attend the movies’ premieres, her lawyer said.
Wow thanks. In return for not “leaking” these I get to attend your crappy movies for free on the first night? Hot Dog!!
GOP Gitmo Video
This is just sad.
There’s a certain Republican staff on Capitol Hill that deserves a pay raise. Last week, the Senate GOP released one of the best internet videos I’ve seen in a long time (and I follow this for a living) on a topic that deserves attention and all the marketing the GOP can muster: the potential release of Guantanamo Bay terrorists into the United States.
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It’s encouraging to see the GOP — often accused of poor communication with voters and being behind the times — turn out such a dynamic project, especially on a quick turnaround. Red or blue, you’ve got to admit the video is clever and effective. Let’s hope the GOP continues to take advantage of the communications talent clearly present in its own ranks. The White House doesn’t have a monopoly on effective political strategy, and this video is a prime example.
First off: this is not that great of a video. My 8 year old could do this with iMovie on my computer in a night.
Second: What’s the big deal? They’re getting moved from one detention facility to another one. It’s not like we’re opening the gate and pushing them out the door with a new suit and cab fare.
If this is the GOP’s idea of how they’re gonna “get” the Dems and retake the majority, they need to be prepared to sit on the sidelines for a very long time.
Cool Card Trick
Any idea how it’s done? Seems to me there’s some sort of strings attached. Still kinda cool anyway:
