Great Headline

From WaPo Express comes this classic:

And, of course, the all time greatest, undefeated champion headline is HERE.

Found at The Volokh Conspiracy.

And how was your day

From the Want China Times:

A slurry tanker containing human waste suddenly burst spraying innocent bystanders and nearby shops in Hechi in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Saturday, according to a Chinese internet user named Han Lu.

Three photos posted by the netizen on a popular social networking website showed several bystanders and the sidewalk beside several shops in the city's Jichengjiang district covered in feces while shop signs were slathered in foul slurry.

The netizen and local government sources have not elaborated on what happened to cause the tank to burst.

I think mine was pretty good by comparison.

Some Science Humor

The first one has been around for a while, and I enjoy the word-play of the second.  But both should bring a smile to your Monday.

Back from the wilds

Well....Mr. Bear had a few problems in the forest which kept him away from this blog.  Hopefully we can get it back in shape and bring you some fun and interesting "stuff" down the road.

Let's start with a simple one.  It really hit home because I see this so damned often.  Being "unique", being "special"....such warm buzz-words but so empty.

So this sums up "unique":

Actually, it's a good thing if it really IS unique.....because then there isn't another one that I'll have to deal with later.  Over with and done.

Titanic

More proof that American education isn't what it used to be.

Life imitates art.

From the Associated Press comes news that should warm the cockles of Sacha Baron Cohen's heart.  It's too good to paraphrase, so here it is in its entirety.

MOSCOW -- Kazakhstan has called the playing of a spoof of its national anthem at an international sporting event "a scandal" and demanded an investigation of the incident. 

Maria Dmitrienko won a gold medal for Kazakhstan on Thursday at the Arab Shooting Championships in Kuwait, but during the award ceremony the public address system broadcast the spoof anthem from the 2006 movie "Borat," which offended many Kazakhs by portraying the country as backward and degenerate.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ilyas Omarov told the ITAR-Tass news agency the incident "is, of course, a scandal and demands a thorough investigation, which we intend to conduct."

ITAR-Tass quoted shooting team member Oksana Stavitskaya as saying that Asian Shooting Federation president Sheikh Salman al-Sabah had apologized to the team.

"Sheikh Salman personally apologized to us. He recognized that the use of the music from the scandalous film in place of the anthem of Kazakhstan was completely a mistake of the organizers. He explained that the awards ceremony was conducted by a firm under contract," Stavitskaya said.

The Kazakh news agency Tengri quoted team coach Anvar Yunusmetov as saying tournament organizers had downloaded various countries' national anthems from the Internet.

Later on Saturday, the event's organizers in Kuwait also apologized to the Kazakh delegation regarding the "unintentional" mistake of playing the "wrong national anthem" during the awards ceremony, according to the statement published on the state-owned Kuwait News Agency.

The organizing committee, in a statement, said the mistake was corrected and the national anthem of Kazakhstan was replayed afterward. The committee expressed "deep sorrow" for the mistake and reaffirmed that ties between the sporting communities of the two countries remained strong.

Somedays the real news reads like The Onion.

Hat tip to The Volokh Conspiracy.

Photo without comment

A campaign bus in Canada (likely Alberta):

Well done commercial

I happen to like it.  Now, if only my friends were as quick thinking.

Oh, those Europeans

Steven Hayward nails it, so I'll just quote him:

Today’s comedy segment comes courtesy of the madcaps at the European Union. Picking on the Europeans has become cliché, especially when they hand you such lame material, like the EU-produced video below that is supposed to convey . . . what, exactly?  Moviegoers may think it a slightly wacky homage to Tarantino’s Kill Bill, showing that Europeans are so much more civilized because they’d sit down and charm their opponents rather than slice them up.

But the real punch line is that the European Union has withdrawn the video because it is—wait for it—racist!  As Denis Boyles comments over on NRO’s Corner, “And for all we know, this isn’t a propaganda film so much as a security breach: It clearly reveals the E.U.’s defense strategy, which is based on stern disapproval.”

So let me get this straight....the EU, which is having problems with its current fringe members, makes a video about how we get better when we get bigger.  And we can all come together by just....well, whatever.

But the use of "non-European" characters is now "racist".  How fitting for the drones in Brussels.

A woman's place??

This label is from the inside of a pair of pants from the British clothing firm Madhouse:

I wonder what Mrs. Bear might have to say about that.

Hat tip to I Own the World.

Sensitivity gone amok?

The UK bookmaking firm Paddy Power has run afoul of the Advertising Standards Authority for an ad that is "offensive" to transgendered individuals.  From the Guardian:

The advertising regulator is to investigate a TV ad by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power that asks viewers to spot the "transgendered ladies" among a crowd of racing fans at the Cheltenham festival. 

Paddy Power and broadcaster BSkyB were accused of inciting transphobia with the campaign, which promised to make the festival's Ladies' Day "even more exciting by adding some beautiful transgendered ladies: Spot the stallions from the mares".

I think it was creative. You be the judge.



Hat tip to Moonbattery.

Tech problems at work

A bit of a laugh for this Tuesday:

Clint's Super Bowl Ad Redux

The great Iowahawk skewers the Chrysler ad.  A sample:

Both teams are in their locker rooms discussing what they can do to win this game in the second half. Diagramming plays. Texting their agents and German supermodel wives. Reviewing Belichick's aerial spy photos. 

It’s halftime in America, too. People are hurting, and it isn't because of towel snapping and the ol' Kramergesic-in-the-jockstrap prank. They’re beat up and bruised, and wondering what they’re going to do to make a comeback. We’re all scared, because this isn’t a game. And because we're up against the Dragons and their all-Asia linebacker Hong Kong Chong with his crazy 'roid rage chopsockey chop-blocks. 

The people of Detroit know a little something about this. Okay, yeah, so this isn't Detroit, it's actually New Orleans. So sue me. We were supposed to film this in Detroit, but GM rented it out to film their Chevy Truck Apocalypse ad. But imagine this really was Detroit, with all its gritty inspiring he-man decay. When the chips were down we all pulled together, hosed down the streets, and turned up the dramatic shadow lighting. Now Motor City is fighting again - as the world's cheapest location shoot for zombie movies.

Read the whole thing HERE.

Some relatives??

Captured by US Geological Survey remote cameras.  The cameras are motion-sensor activated.


I like getting my back scratched as well.

The homeless man

A man was walking down the street when he was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked him for a couple of dollars for dinner.

The man took out his wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked, "If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of dinner?"

"No, I had to stop drinking years ago," the homeless man replied.

"Will you use it to go fishing instead of buying food?" the man asked.

"No, I don't waste time fishing," the homeless man said. "I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive."

"Will you spend this on hunting stuff instead of food?" the man asked.

"Are you NUTS!" replied the homeless man. "I haven't hunted in 20 years!"

"Well," said the man, "I'm not going to give you money. Instead, I'm going to take you home for a shower and a terrific dinner cooked by my wife."

The homeless man was astounded. "Won't your wife be furious with you for doing that? The man replied, "That's okay. It's important for her to see what a man looks like after he has given up drinking, fishing and hunting ."

Pipeline thoughts

Most all but the Greens would agree.

A motivator for you