Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)

[Tarasoriku]

cactus = desert = HAWT

Semantic shift: it's what's waiting for you at home.

[zompist]

It turns out there's a commercial too.

http://www.dailymotion.com/related/3061 ... angina_ads

Watch for the... no. You'll just have to discover it yourself.

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That commercial... oh my God... I'm crying with laughter...

Touring the other side of the French national character for a moment, a French court ponders the reasonable size for a bull's testicles.

This excellent article on the origins of Islam brought over from Makerowner's thread in Ephemera.

BBC upgrades Flap to Row, but have not ruled out the possibility of a "total f*cking pagger."

[Tarasoriku]

That commercial is wrong on...okay maybe only one level, but it's a big one.

Okay, this is an old video clip of something everyone has probably seen before. But I found it cleaning out old bookmarks and it made me laugh as if I'd never seen it so here is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog versus Attack of the Clones Nerds.

[Dewrad]

BBC upgrades Flap to Row, but have not ruled out the possibility of a "total f*cking pagger."

What is it that has convinced most Americans that British slang consists solely of cockney rhyming slang? It doesn't. Most people never use it, and there is strong evidence to suggest that the whole thing was made up for the benefit of tourists. However, kudos to the article for using the term "have an eppy".

[Gremlins]

Me are not understand this britslang....

[Salmoneus]

What the hell is any of that meant to mean?

It starts off bizarely, mixing together slang terms from half a dozen dialects and registers and time periods. Then it just goes weird and incomprehensible. I'm guessing that's 'rhyming slang' that some American's thought up to put in brouchures. [is that spelled right? i don't know, but it took me four tries to get that far. I started with 'broachers']. The only people who really speak rhyming slang are a couple of dozen cockneys sometime in the 1960s.

It's hard to overestimate how completely stupid that article is. To borrow a paraphrase of Pratchett's analogy, it's the verbal equivalent of turning up in the court of saint james weating a bowler hat, a doublet, a kilt, cricket pads, sandals, bomber jacket, smart tie and rugby socks, with a shaved head and nazi tattoos. And a burbury baseball cap over the bowler. Possibly with flying goggles and a fur stole.

[Risla]

What the hell is any of that meant to mean?

It starts off bizarely, mixing together slang terms from half a dozen dialects and registers and time periods. Then it just goes weird and incomprehensible. I'm guessing that's 'rhyming slang' that some American's thought up to put in brouchures. [is that spelled right? i don't know, but it took me four tries to get that far. I started with 'broachers']. The only people who really speak rhyming slang are a couple of dozen cockneys sometime in the 1960s.

It's hard to overestimate how completely stupid that article is. To borrow a paraphrase of Pratchett's analogy, it's the verbal equivalent of turning up in the court of saint james weating a bowler hat, a doublet, a kilt, cricket pads, sandals, bomber jacket, smart tie and rugby socks, with a shaved head and nazi tattoos. And a burbury baseball cap over the bowler. Possibly with flying goggles and a fur stole.

I get the impression that they're not making fun of the British but rather are making fun of stupid British stereotypes.

[Radius Solis]

Orangina has scarred me for life.

There's a longer version of the commercial here.

[NakedCelt]

It's hard to overestimate how completely stupid that article is. To borrow a paraphrase of Pratchett's analogy, it's the verbal equivalent of turning up in the court of saint james weating a bowler hat, a doublet, a kilt, cricket pads, sandals, bomber jacket, smart tie and rugby socks, with a shaved head and nazi tattoos. And a burbury baseball cap over the bowler. Possibly with flying goggles and a fur stole.

How do you tell they've got a shaved head if they're wearing a bowler hat?

[Salmoneus]

They wear it cocked at a rakish angle.

[Seriously though, you could tell anyway. Bowler's mostly just sit on the head, so there's normally plenty of hair visible.]

[bi]

Going back from France and Britain to Hollywood, here are 3 spoofs of Tim Kring's Heroes:

Zeroes, created by NBC marketer Vince Manze (independently of Kring, so he says);

The Office Heroes, which is what happens when you cross Kring with Gervais and Merchant;

and an untitled spoof by EOTM, whoever that is.

[Ketumak]

Oh, yes! I like the original - but these are still good.

I guess we've all left the occasional sarky note on a communal fridge addressed to "Whoever stole my milk" and asking "if in future they would kindly ... " etc. Well, this site collects examples like that from all over the English-speaking world. The link follows below, but best wipe your feet before entering the site. Thank you

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/

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Unfortunately, no-one can be told about the most surreal toy advertisement ever; you have to see it for yourself.

[makvas]

Unfortunately, no-one can be told about the most surreal toy advertisement ever; you have to see it for yourself.

I don't know whether to scream in abject terror... or....

I couldn't even watch the whole thing. It hurt. argh.

[Tarasoriku]

Unfortunately, no-one can be told about the most surreal toy advertisement ever; you have to see it for yourself.

We don't know who struck first, the Japanese or the French. But we do know it was Japanese that scorched our minds.

[Risla]

Oh yes, I've seen that before, before I joined the board.

The Japanese are just crazy when it comes to toilets, I suppose.

And other things involving nudity.

And life in general.

[Risla]

Santas saying "ho ho ho" is considered offensive to women.

[linguoboy]

Santas saying "ho ho ho" is considered offensive to women.

This morning on the radio, they followed that report with the song "Santa Lost a Ho" from the Christmas Jug Band.

[Risla]

Stripper visits school in booking mix-up.

God, that's funny.

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Stripper visits school in booking mix-up.

Best mom ever!

Teen arrested for virtual burglary.

The recent death of controversial American novelist Norman Mailer occasioned plenty of obits and retrospectives, but one of the most fascinating trips back in time featured this bizarre throwdown between Mailer and a young Rip Torn (which may or may not have been deliberately staged).

In one of our little donnybrooks about Peak Oil, I once said that I thought the maximal doom-and-gloomers on the subject were not reckoning with new technologies, in particular nanotechnology. This sort of thing is what I had in mind.

[Delthayre]

Stripper visits school in booking mix-up.

Best mom ever!

Worst, yet sexiest cable television news network ever!

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Stripper visits school in booking mix-up.

Best mom ever!

Worst, yet sexiest cable television news network ever!

Awesome.

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Doping scandal rocks poetry.

[Ketumak]

Unfortunately, no-one can be told about the most surreal toy advertisement ever; you have to see it for yourself.

If you had told us, we'd never have believed it! I watched it, and I'm still not sure it happened ...