Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXV
RC2, in the comments:
a British Air ad I used to love when I was a kid. It ended with Robert Morley saying, “Come back! All is forgiven!”
Hahahaha
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXIV
One of my favourite movie moments ever:
Thank you CDR Salamander!
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CDR Salamander Says:
November 2nd, 2006 at 12:35 pmYou’re welcome! I studied Latin two years. Still pondering it all.
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXIII
When you’ve gotten a taste for what’s going on, skip to 4.15.
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Brett_McS Says:
October 14th, 2006 at 3:17 amThat’s awesome. I’d vote for the guy. Nice bow-tie. Nice elephant!
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ninme Says:
October 14th, 2006 at 10:11 amApparently he was on The Apprentice. He’s from Philly. It fits.
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXII
I won’t give anything away.
Very SFW.
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXI
Tim Blair - MAO, CHE, NADER, AND QUEERS
I saw a lefty idiot at the bus stop today. He had a Mao t-shirt and a “Free Tibet” badge. He’s a living breathing oxymoron.
Reminds me of the countless people who wear Che Guavera t-shirts at peace rallies.
I lived in Berkeley, Ca for several years, and I once saw a Chevy Corvair with a Nader for President bumper sticker.
My favourite would have to be “Queers for Palestine”.
I included the third one, even though I don’t get it. One of you more knowledgeable in cars might fill me in. Further in the comments, from Dave S:
This may not exactly qualify, but in a global-warming argument that broke out on a motorcycle message board, one of the believers wrote:
“While I was in Alaska I saw, over a period of 4 years, glaciers that had been there for 10,000 years (they say) disappear. It sure seemed like big changes in a short period of time. The Native Alaskans have a LONG memory in this area and without exception told me they had seen things that they had never heard of happening before.”
I replied:
“Apparently their memories aren’t THAT long, when you consider how they got to Alaska in the first place.”
Ahhh. And, from Dave Surls:
I like the left loon position on gun control:
Amerikkka is a fascist dictatorship.
Only the government and its agents should be allowed to have firearms.
On a slightly related note, on my walk today I saw a Mike McGavick sign in one of the big houses’ front yard right at the top of Queen Anne. I felt strengthened by its presence, really I did.
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Brett_McS Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 1:07 amNader was catapulted to stardom with his book “Unsafe at any speed” which based on his (spurious) claim that the Chevy Corvair, from design to inception, was a safety disaster area.
That bumper sticker was probably the only thing holding the car together.
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HalfEmpty Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 4:22 amThe only thing particularly dangerous about the Corvair were the drivers.
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Rueful Red Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 8:38 amWho like Mrs Red were unsafe at any speed.
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RC2 Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 8:43 amI saw a car with three stickers: “Visualize world peace,” “Bush scares me,” and “Shred Ollie” (as in Ollie North, one-time candidate for Senate in VA.)
Speaking of unsafe drivers, I’m just back from a jaunt to visit my grandmother in Alabammy. They gave me a racy little red thing at the rental place in Atlanta. I-85 between Atlanta & Montgomery is all but deserted, and you can fly– don’t tell my hubby I drove 90mph the whole way. Felt young and carefree again –for 2 hours, anyway.
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ninme Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 9:17 amAh, 90. It’s been a while since I’ve done that. Haven’t driven in heavy traffic at home for some months.
(Hah!)
So THAT’s the Chevy Corvair… Huh. What was the one they made the move about, the Yugo or whatever? And there was some town that was used as a test market and they all drove them… Was that Drowning Mona or am I mixing movies together…
(Yes! I was right! I even spelt Yugo right!)
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Rueful Red Says:
October 12th, 2006 at 1:44 amIn the days when I had my fast VW we were late getting away one evenig on a trip down to Yorkshire, so I let Mrs Red drive (she’s the world’s worst passenger when I drive quickly). We were on a straight bit of motorway in County Durham when I looked over at the speedo.
“Darling, we’re doing 125mph”. “Oops, I thought I was only doing 90″.
The speed limit is of course 70.
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HalfEmpty Says:
October 12th, 2006 at 4:51 am“Darling, we’re doing 125mph”. “It misses at 130″.
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RC2 Says:
October 12th, 2006 at 6:03 amIn my defense, I had a small child in the back seat — couldn’t quite in conscience bump ‘er up to 120. But 90 is still very freeing when you’re used to traffic keeping you below the speed limit. One thing you’ll never find in DC or Atlanta is open road. Montgomery is a ghost town by comparison, and fun to about therefore.
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RC2 Says:
October 12th, 2006 at 6:07 am“Drive” is the missing word above.
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Rueful Red Says:
October 12th, 2006 at 7:38 amYour roads are so much broader and straighter, they’re great fun to drive on. Mrs Red drove for days on our Cincinnati-Gatlinburg-Asheville-Mars Hill-Appomattox-Newport News-Chincoteague-Gettysburg-Cincinnati peregrination some years back. She got into shades early on, and then she discovered that cup-holders are for slurpees. Natural born ‘merican is Mrs Red, somehow from Scotland. I tried to explain Barbara Frietchie to her as we went past Frederick. Don’t think any of it stuck somehow.
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ninme Says:
October 12th, 2006 at 9:53 amHey you know what Andrew Carnegie said. That “America was Scotland realized beyond the seas.” We just realized the slurpies first.
Everyone thinks Californians are bad drivers, but only because we’ve managed to drive in heavy traffic without randomly braking and turning the wheel sharply to the left (as everyone seems to do here) (”augh, another car! crash“) (”look, a crashed car!” slow) (me, sixty miles away “what the f— is going on?!?!?!”). In fact, I’ve found I’m more likely to drive in excess of 90 in heavy traffic than when I’m moseying along the freeway by myself.
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HalfEmpty Says:
October 13th, 2006 at 4:53 amMars Hill? A Wolfe thing?
Alt.History.Conflict.American.Civil Shoot if you mus BANG!
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Rueful Red Says:
October 13th, 2006 at 6:40 amTeeheeheehee! Chum went to school there. Questa Wolfe?
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HalfEmpty Says:
October 13th, 2006 at 9:54 amHe freely used Mars Hill to sub for Asheville and Chapel Hill depending on the book.
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Rueful Red Says:
October 15th, 2006 at 2:46 amThe one about modern student life?
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Absolutely the Funnies– Wait No It Isn’t
Kofi Annan is deeply concerned. And has been for ten years.
(He is not, however, very decisively active.)
Now, I know there’s a lot of twists and turns in foreign policy and those who hold the strings know more about what they’re doing than we know about what they’re doing, but still. I’ve basically completely given up on my generation being allowed to do anything really great this century. I’m feeling very low about things, and the feeling isn’t going away.
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXI
(Personally I think the second one is the best one, but there are laws of three in comedy.)
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,5MT Says:
October 8th, 2006 at 12:37 amWhat a depresser.
My best dawg Hatfield is gone deaf as doorknob. Ferrari just lost the world title. I seem to have misplaced by retirement account and I got 5 stitches in me leg for a truly bad bike move.
Damn! I mean can you believe it? The Shoe leading with 12 laps and the Ferrari engine go BOOM!
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Brett_McS Says:
October 8th, 2006 at 2:07 amDamn it, Half! I was going to watch that tonight (delayed telecast here, because we had the famous Bathurst 1000 race today).
Anyway, bummer! Would have been fitting for Shoemy to go out on a high - he has been a tribute to the sport. None of the big-headedness so common in F1 - a genuine good bloke. (Do you know I sat behind him on a plane from Europe? He was in the last row of 1st class, I was in the first row of business class. Unfortunately I didn’t know it until everyone got up to leave the plane in Sydney. Didn’t even get an autograph).
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,5MT Says:
October 8th, 2006 at 4:51 amOh no! I am so sorry. No excuse. Rats. Ima feel so low I’d need a parachute to jump off a dime.
When crying stung by bee.
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Brett_McS Says:
October 8th, 2006 at 5:12 amNo worries. I usually don’t manage to stay awake for more than the first few laps anyway.
The Bathurst 1000 was a bit of a demolition derby. A third of the starts crashed out. It is a vicious mountain circuit which is scary even at normal speeds. Touring cars, a bit like your Nascars. Only two car types, a Ford and a Holden (GMH). V8 Chevy engines, 6 speed Hollinger gearboxes (local product). Get to 300 kph on the straight section, but it’s the mountain top where most of the accidents happen: Forest Elbow, the corkscrew etc.
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,5MT Says:
October 8th, 2006 at 7:48 amNo worries. I usually don’t manage to stay awake for more than the first few laps anyway.
Ha! I kinda figured, else you would have watched it live regardless of time. 1:00 a.m. local. Jeez. Holdens! I gotta find a tape of this.
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ninme Says:
October 8th, 2006 at 1:27 pmWhat use are the first few laps? What you should do is go have a leisurely dinner and come back for the last two.
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXIX
If I could find a comic for every political hypocrisy story (read: every political story), I think I’d link to a lot more of it here.
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Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXVIII
Left by reader Brett McS in the comments for the post with his wildlife pictures:
Spiked Humor - Austin Tayshus - Australiana
It’s an audio file, SFW, unless your coworkers have no sense of humour.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:09 am
Well it is!! And bring that nice General Marshall and his cheque book with you!
October 27th, 2006 at 4:20 am
Try and swap Gorgeous George for General George.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:22 am
Nice idea! General George is the name of a carpet warehouse chain here. I once wrote a radio advertisement for them - to the tune of We Three Kings of Orient Are (it was their Christmas promotion). It was dire. Nothing gorgeous about Galloway, is there?@
October 27th, 2006 at 4:32 am
I’m betting it would be an improvement over the carpet advertisements we get here.
No, I always assumed that Gorgeous was meant ironically. Like El Guapo (the handsome one) in The Three Amigos.
October 27th, 2006 at 8:31 am
No, Galloway doesn’t do irony when he’s talking about himself.
October 27th, 2006 at 9:30 am
I think the Gorgeous is a boxing-cockney-Guy-Ritchie-movie-London thing. Because he’s so ugly.
October 28th, 2006 at 4:57 am
I once wrote a radio advertisement for them - to the tune of We Three Kings of Orient Are (it was their Christmas promotion).
I knows a Google challenge when I read one.
October 28th, 2006 at 10:15 am
Ooh!
Keep us apprised, Half!
(Apprise. That’s a word I was trying to think of yesterday. Bugger.)