There are currently rumblings on Twitter that Fidel Castro has died — go to http://hashtags.org/castro to see them — however it is also believed this may be a hoax to spread a virus via email. So if you get an email saying Castro has died with a link, or, worse yet, an attachment, I would STRONGLY advise you NOT TO CLICK ON IT. I will follow this and post if Castro has actually died. If you see no post from me, assume it is simply a virus. This happened a few months ago, the exact same scenario…
Archive for the ‘bizarre’ Category
Castro’s Death Probably E-mail Virus Hoax…
Monday, January 2nd, 2012Partial Transcript of Stephen Colbert’s “super-PAC” press conference
Friday, July 1st, 2011Okay, guys, I’m still looking around for a full transcript of this, but this is the best I can do for now. Anyway, these are a few highlights from Stephen Colbert’s press conference yesterday after the government green-lighted his “super-PAC”.
Excerpts follow…
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COLBERT: “One way to get a lot of cash is with a political action committee or PAC, a private group of like-minded citizens formed to promote a candidate or an issue. … Some maybe candidates out there, already have exposure because they’re on TV — like Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, and Sarah Palin, who are on Fox News. … I thought, why not me? So I decided to form ColbertPAC.”
COLBERT: “[Our intent is]…to poke fun at lax campaign finance laws that treat corporations as people whose feelings will be hurt if they cannot express themselves freely, generally by donating large amounts of money to political candidates.”
COLBERT: “I hate my parent company! they never let me do anything. [Laughter] Everyone else’s parent company let them do it. Karl Rove is a paid employee of Fox News and he gets to talk about his SuperPAC American Crossroads all the time.”
COLBERT: (Responding to a question about what he would do with the money: “‘…I don’t know. Give it to me and let’s find out.’”
COLBERT: “I believe in the American Dream. And that dream is simple: That anyone, no matter who they are, if they are determined, if they are willing to work hard enough, someday they can grow up to create a legal entity which can then receive unlimited campaign funds which can be used to influence elections.
Watson Beaten by Congressman
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011This story is a few days old but I figured I’d get it in there. Watson was beaten one-on-one recently:
Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ) beat Watson $8600 to $6200. Holt is a nuclear physicist and a 5 time Jeopardy champion.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/01/rush-holt-jeopardy-watson-_n_829672.html
(apologies for linking to the Huffington Post *grin*)
Watson’s Jeopardy Transcript
Monday, February 21st, 2011I don’t have the time to copy and paste everything from the J! Archive, which archives all Jeopardy games, but I can at least give you links to every single question and answer in the IBM Jeopardy Challenge. You’ll see every question, every answer, who got which ones correct, and the wagers on Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy. Roll over the dollar amounts posted on the questions to see the answer and who got what. Also roll over Final Jeopardy for the answer. In addition, the numbers in the top right corner of each question box indicate when that question was selected (1 for the first clue picked, 2 for the second clue picked, etc.)
Here ya go:
Watson Game 1 (Jeopardy round only)
Watson Game 2 (Double Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy)
The La Quinta dubbed sci-fi movie ad
Sunday, August 8th, 2010In miscellany, I was wondering why the La Quinta ad which features two guys in a rocket extolling the virtues of La Quinta rooms seemed so familiar. Finally I got it. The movie is The Phantom Planet, and was lampooned on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (the link is to Bill Corbett’s take on the episode).
The specific scene you’re watching is right when the dark-haired guy (Maconnen) speaks the excruciatingly cheesy phrase, “You know, Captain, every year of my life, I grow more and more convinced that the wisest and best is to fix our attention on the good and the beautiful…”.
Luckily, shortly after the scene, the dark-haired guy is flushed out into space and dies. 
What the F**K is this ad about?!?!
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
What the F**K?
Okay. I just ran across this ad while surfing around on IMDB.com. Now, will you please tell me, what does an age-progressed picture of Nick Nolte have to do with refinancing your mortgage? Can someone please explain this to me? Why is this guy in the ad? It looks like Michael Palin running up to the camera on a beach at the beginning of a Monty Python episode.
If anybody can tell me why Methuselah is selling refis, please explain…
The return of Beavis and Butthead
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Beavis & Butthead return...
Yep, you heard me. Beavis and Butthead are returning to MTV with 30 new episodes. Or so the “confirmed” rumor goes.
I might actually turn MTV on for the first time in thirteen years or so…
You can read more about it here.
The “P.S. Your vagina’s in the sink” Joke
Monday, May 17th, 2010I’m posting this for all the Family Guy viewers who watched “The Splendid Source” last night and are wondering what the hell the punchline to the dirty joke Quagmire tells is from.
The joke goes:
A bride-to-be is stressing out over the fact that she’s not a virgin, but she’s told her future husband she is. She has no idea what to do and is talking to her friends about it, when one of the friends pipes up and says, “Here’s what you do — buy some liver, stick it up there, and everything will be nice and tight and your husband will never know.”
So, the bride-to-be follows the advice, and on the wedding night, the newlywed couple has crazy sex all over the place. On the kitchen counter, on the living room floor, all over the house. But when she wakes up in the morning, her new husband is gone, and all she finds is a note pinned to the pillow, which reads:
“Dearest, I’m sorry, but I’ve thought things over and I just don’t think things will work out between us. I had a wonderful time, but I’m sorry, I’ve thought about it, and we just weren’t meant to be. P.S. — Your vagina is in the sink.”
There.
Flooded…
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Well, the rain has finally let up, but before it did, our whole backyard got flooded along with our basement. Here, check it out:
Somebody build a boat…(click to enlarge)
Dirk Greineder takes executive post in “murderer’s club”
Monday, March 15th, 2010This story makes my stomach turn.
A brief excerpt of the beginning of the linked article:
Convicted wife-killer Dirk Greineder has been named an officer of the only social club for murderers recognized by the commonwealth – even as he presses the state’s highest court to grant him a new trial.
Now, I actually knew the Greineder family. Colin was my class valedictorian, I had a terrible crush on the middle sister Britt, and I once made snow-cones with real snow with May Greineder, whose head Doctor Dirk bashed in before he slit her throat.
Last I saw, the kids were still asserting their father’s innocence. Guys, if you happen to read this, please accept reality. Your father is a murderer. Just accept it and try to move on with your lives. You deserve better than to be fighting for this asshole’s release. It doesn’t mean you can’t love him; of course you’ll still love him on some level, he’s your father. But what about your mother? She deserves love as well, and to love her, you’ve got to accept that your dad killed her. I’m sorry. It’s terrible. I don’t know what I’d do if I were you guys. But I so desperately want you to be able to accept the fact and start dealing with it…
Ah, hell, I don’t know. The whole thing just makes me sick to my stomach.
