March 15 Links 2008

This week I’ve been under a spam attack. Some bot is posting references to each and every post on this site multiple times for multiple products. It may go on a long time, since a machine can’t be told that the stuff will never ever actually be published on this site. But it wastes my time deleting email announcements for every incident, and cleaning out my spamcatcher daily. But it was a decent week altogether. The best meme I’ve ever been tagged with comes from Saskboy. I’ll make up my own rules and say it’s allowed for me to skip this one. If Kentucky goes communist, well, I live close to a border. I skip memes a lot, although I shouldn’t, because I once responded to a meme and got a job out of it.

Sweet Home Alabama (via Cynical-C)

The Leningrad Cowboys (from Finland) and the Red Army Choir perform Sweet Home Alabama. It’s a small world after all.

Acrobats and contortionists from the Great Chinese State Circus perform Swan Lake. You’ve never seen ballet like this!

Despite the sci-fi pedestal he is often elevated to, Patrick Stewart is just like most mortal men.

A fart sets off a chain reaction in this ad parody.

Top Eleven Things Geeks Do For Spring Break.

Super Colon! Coming to a town near you.

Satan’s Ice Cream Truck has the creepiest ice cream music ever. I thought I liked it, til it was stuck in my head all day long! (via Boing Boing)

Which was the best dinosaur? (Thanks, Bill!)

Definitions

(via Old Horsetail Snake)
Airstrip -To pretend to take off your clothes.

Blunderbuss -To French-kiss the boss's wife at the office Christmas party.

Coliseum -Lassie finds Timmy.

Electrons -Supporters of Rep. Paul.

Endow -To sit on a tack.

Exorbitant -A former astronaut.

Footstool -Dog doo that's stuck on your shoe.

Harlot -Someone who will laugh on and on at any stupid joke the boss makes. Ho ho har de har har.

Smells Stronger. Nirvana mashed with Daft Punk.

Powerbocks are spring-loaded stilts that enable you to leap like lemurs! Is it coincidence, or is technology imitating mother nature?

Instructables has a photo essay on the process of shipping a tiger to Canada. According to someone who does this a lot, the hard part is getting the tiger into the box. The author had a little trouble actually finding a tiger, due to their camouflaging stripes, but he got the job done.

16 Sweet (and Scary) Building Demolition Videos. They range from the highly entertaining to the downright inept.

Eight Museums You won’t be Bored By. Why look at art when you can look at ...mustard?

Joel Haas and his brothers staged a play for their folks when they were kids. Now, my daughters do this sort of thing all the time, but they’ve never tackled MacBeth!

Things That Are (Almost) Impossible To Do With Your Body. I can do the ringer-finger thing, but I’ll never try sneezing with my eyes open!

The weirdest news stories of the week. 

MA AND PA

(Thanks, Rich!)
There was a romantic full harvest moon rising on the eastern horizon. Ma and Pa, both in their seventies, were enjoying the beautiful autumn evening together, sitting on their front porch swing, rocking gently.

Suddenly, Pa turned his head and said to Ma, "Screw you, Ma!"

A minute or two went by. Then Ma turned her head toward Pa and calmly replied, "Screw you, Pa."

Again, another minute passed, and Pa said to Ma, "Screw you, Ma."

Another minute went by, and Ma said to Pa, "Screw you, Pa."

Yet another minute elapsed, and Pa responded to Ma, "Screw you, Ma."

A minute later, Ma said to Pa, "Screw you, Pa."

There was no reply - just complete silence for several minutes.

Then, Pa turned to Ma and said, "I don't know about you Ma, but I really don't get too much out of this oral sex!"

Love Client #9 (via Simply Left Behind)

Thought for today: Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

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Comments

[Saskboy]

The best part about my meme, is that you've completed it successfully. You don't even have to tag anyone, although some might say that is a flaw, since it won't reproduce very well and will probably be crushed by the next Britney Spears oriented meme on the web.

[OmegaMom]

It isn't personal, Miss C., because my blog, too, has been targeted by fifty-kazillion spams.

[Saskboy]

I'm getting what I think is excessive Trackpack spam every day. I end up having to moderate or remove at least 10.

[Miss Cellania]

Ten or so a day would be a good day! This week, it's been several hundred every day!

What's funny is that today's post also showed up in some spam blogs. With machine translations.

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[Saskboy]

Yeah, splogs suck. I don't know why my Spam Karma2 doesn't know the format for them yet and kill them in the filter. It's almost always "Random NAME WROTE an interesting post over on Topic of the Day blah quote".