Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Flying Penguins?

I have to admit that my ideas about penguins have shifted radically in the last few years. Yes, I used to think of them as short, waddling & cuddly, something to curl up next to on a chilly Antarctic evening but all that has changed.

My world was first rocked when I discovered that some of the are gay! [+ see: The Reverend Rod Robinson on The Gay Penguin Conspiracy]. Now, those penguin waddles appear a bit more mincing (put a handbag on one of their flippers and give him a pearl necklace and you'll see what I mean!) and all thought of cuddling up with them has...flown out the window!

Speaking of flying, then comes this startling video from the BBC - fronted by former Monty Python member, Terry Jones - that, can you believe it? - captures penguins flying!




Now I shall have to go to sleep tonight fearing that hordes of homosexual penguins may fly through my window and throw a debauched shindig in my bedroom - scary stuff, I think you'll agree!

Zzzzzz.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Gandalf Goes To The World Cup

N.B.: This post has been relocated from another of my web "properties".

If you're a soccer fan of any kind, anywhere in the world, you're probably painfully aware that while the soccer was mostly crap, the real star of the 2010 World Cup in South African was the vuvuzela. It echoed around every ground like a swarm of angry bees, irrespective of the action at ear-damage levels.

In this wonderful parody video, Gandalf Goes To The 2010 World Cup, the vuvuzela invades Middle Earth and perhaps even the brave hobbits can't stand in its evil way.

Gandalf Goes To The World Cup



"I think I almost fell off my chair because I laughed so hard."  
Youtube member RedPaperBlossom

"It's so funny how everyone hates vuvuzelas."  
Youtube member duuvix

"What's next, The Return Of The Two Vuvuzelas?"  
Youtube member ksvg1989

Friday, August 27, 2010

Weird Contests: # 1 - The Thai Screaming Contest

Dedicated to only bringing you news that's fit to remember, I proudly present the Thai Screaming Contest. I wish there was something I could say about it other than:

"A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-h!!!!!!!!"



Weird Contests: # 1 - The Thai Screaming Contest

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Future Shock: The Horny Dumb Burglars

As regular readers are well aware, I'm always on the lookout for important news and today's Horny Dumb Burglars story from the Sydney Daily Telegraph is no exception.

However, the really exciting Future Shock is that soon, such pieces of news - in which no real-life footage exists - will be created by animation.(N.B. I'm the only person in the world who has DIGG-ed this story!)

O.K., the Horny Dumb Burglars may not be on free-to-air but in the future, on some channel, you'll see it. Imagine planning the sound design!

"Lucky they heard the neighbour coming."
Daily Telegraph reader Two Dogs

"What a great way to screw up an escape plan!"
Daily Telegraph reader Josh King

"Reminds me of how I met my wife
..."
Daily Telegraph reader Scott Bailey

"Happened to me once. "
Daily Telegraph reader Mark of Sydney


Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Hooters Brunette Proves That Exercise Is Also Good For The Mind

Despite skyrocketing Obesity rates, everybody knows that exercise is good for you, so I'm publishing this video as an encouragement for one and all.

In it, Christine, an employee of the fine entertainment establishment, Hooters, demonstrates an exercise that obviously needs a lot of concentration - pouring beer, while "riding" an upside down bar-stool - The Infamous Hooter Girl Rodeo Bar Stool trick! It's all part of a telethon for American TV station WGN9 - presumably for a good cause.

N.B.: In case viewers miss all that's going on - for one reason or another - they should replay the video, at least once, for:
  1. 0.15 "I think my mother tried this, once!"
  2. 0.17 - 0.44 - nonchalant guy in purple in the background
  3. 0.26 Christine The Hooter Girl's triumph
  4. 0.32 "Is that legal?"
  5. 0.35 "Can we teach the kids how to do this?" "No!"
  6. 0. 41 Christine winks - Yow! 
And why I think that The Infamous Hooter Girl Rodeo Bar Stool trick is good for the mind is that it certainly made me concentrate!
    Hooters Brunette Proves That Exercise Is Also Good For The Mind


    "What a sweet piece of ass!"
    youtube member TakeNoGuff

    "Mommy, can I have one!"
    youtube member paintbawl

    "Thumbs up if u were staring at her ass the whole time :)"

    youtube member Supermushiman

    "This obviously isn't her first rodeo."
    youtube member blitheringFool

    "God bless America."

    youtube member Broncosfan06

    Tuesday, August 24, 2010

    The Coledale Coast Walk, NSW, Australia: People

    I've published the second of my Coledale autobiographical pieces over at Qondio, entitled:


    The Coledale Coast Walk, NSW, Australia: People

    The piece is atmospheric - at the very least - and the community's comments have been pretty appreciative, which has been great for my ego!

    Saturday, August 21, 2010

    Gay Vicar Weds Nigerian Toyboy

    Only the Sun can serve me up with just the right sort of Trash on a Sunday morning. Yes, it seems that a gay vicar (Anglican priest) is set to "marry" his Nigerian toyboy!

    This type of story sets all my lights buzzing:

    The vicar's a "he" and the model's a "he" - Homophobia
    The vicar's "white" and the model's "black" - Racism
    The vicar's 65 and the model's 25 - Ageism
    The model would probably have immigration requirements waived - incendiary Politics

    And while romantics and non-homophobes are undoubtedly singing "Love Is In the Air", Stephen Green, of lobbying group Christian Voice, said:

    "Mr Coward is an emotionally disturbed man trying to inflict his predilections on the rest of the church. I fail to recognize him as a Christian."

     Now do you see why it's made my day?




    "What did he model, shoes?"
    The Sun reader whatthehell

    "I don't see how It is possible to post a comment on this unless you agree with it - any other opinion would be classed as Homophobia."
    The Sun reader Kisma

    "How does one make sense of all this?"
    The Sun reader Felyx

    Ooh Girl - The Realistic R'n'B Love Song

    I've got to admit, I almost fell off my chair laughing, when I caught this song, Ooh Girl, yesterday. With over 8 million plays, I may be a bit distant from the cutting edge...but at least I found it! 

    Ooh Girl was created by comedian Mike Polk, who turns the R'n'B macho stud pose on its head with this wimpish, honky hoot.




    Mike Polk
    Ooh Girl


    Oh yeah baby. Barry White, eat your deceased heart out!


    "One word: What
    Two words: What The
    Three words: What The F*CK!!!"
    youtube member FulhamFan2

    "Maybe this is supposed to be a joke but [it's] way too close to reality for too many of us"  
    youtube member Just4myis


    "The radio station in my town plays this is every Wednesday as the Hump Day song."
    youtube member pn300czr 

    Thursday, August 19, 2010

    McNuggets Rap

    Well, it's no secret that I'm not the biggest fan of multinational fast food giants but I've got to admit that this rap by Fernando & Thomas is pretty cool. The original was posted on Youtube and recut (or reshot) for an on-air ad. It's true viral marketing and very effective.




    Fernando &Thomas
    McNuggets recut ad


    "wow... that was a waste of 45 sec. of my time..."
    xxghost93xx

    "...haha! i was singing this during cheerleadin'! lol we made a dance of it!"
    girliegurl10112

    "...can someone be kind enough to tell me how to make this a ring tone?"
    chunkylover1138

    Wednesday, August 18, 2010

    Introducing Antoine Dodson

    It took me 3 weeks to discover Antoine Dodson - the world's latest viral sensation. In a not very funny situation, he's hilarious!


    However, it's the groovy R'n'B song that's followed it that knocks my socks off. Created by The Gregory Brothers and unashamedly commercial, the video is even better - a true piece of post-modernist art.

    Dig it!

    STOP PRESS:  




    The Gregory Brothers & Antoine Dodson: Bed Intruder Song

    Antoine Dodson - a hero for his 15 minutes of fame, homeboy.


    "I can't stop singing this! I SING IT IN THE SHOWER! Everyone is getting annoyed!"
    youtube member antiheroo26



    "I hid my husband, wife and kids, I think I'm safe. Thank God."  
    youtube member Ir3pulsive


    "Antoine Dodson = National hero."
    youtube member b1moulto


    See also:

    Tuesday, August 17, 2010

    The Coledale Caravan Park, NSW, Australia

    In a concerted effort to spread my writings around a little more, I posted a slice of biography that I would previously have posted here on Qondio - a writing site that few people have heard of. However, I think I can make it work for me, so if you're interested in it, head on over to:

    Monday, August 16, 2010

    Who Is Coming To This Blog?

    Six months into the web visitors' year, this is what you lot look like!

    Click on image for a larger view

    A big hello to all my readers in Indonesia, the Republic of Korea & Iran - I can't imagine what you're doing here but welcome!


    United States (US) 2,401
    Australia (AU) 380
    Canada (CA) 364
    United Kingdom (GB) 362
    India (IN) 255
    Germany (DE) 164
    Netherlands (NL) 81
    South Africa (ZA) 79
    France (FR) 71
    United Arab Emirates (AE) 59
    Sweden (SE) 45
    Italy (IT) 42
    Indonesia (ID) 41
    Brazil (BR) 40
    Malaysia (MY) 40
    Mexico (MX) 39
    Philippines (PH) 36
    Poland (PL) 33
    Saudi Arabia (SA) 33
    Ireland (IE) 33
    Denmark (DK) 32
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    Belgium (BE) 26
    Turkey (TR) 24
    Spain (ES) 24
    Pakistan (PK) 22
    Kuwait (KW) 20
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    Thailand (TH) 19
    New Zealand (NZ) 19
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    Switzerland (CH) 17
    Czech Republic (CZ) 17
    Finland (FI) 16
    Portugal (PT) 16
    Greece (GR) 16
    Serbia (RS) 15
    Singapore (SG) 15
    Japan (JP) 14
    Austria (AT) 14
    Israel (IL) 13
    Europe (EU) 12
    Argentina (AR) 12
    Slovakia (SK) 11
    Croatia (HR) 11
    Bahrain (BH) 10
    Korea, Republic of (KR) 10
    Bangladesh (BD) 10
    Romania (RO) 10
    Maldives (MV) 10
    Lithuania (LT) 9
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    As a special present to all of you readers, here's an early Christmas present - an outsourced Santa.

    Merry Christmas!

    Saturday, August 14, 2010

    Shit My Dad Says

    I spent yesterday making a new Squidoo lens for Shit My Dad Says.

    It's an incredible story that goes:
    • partly-employed comedy writer breaks up with longtime girlfriend & goes back home to live with his Mom & Dad
    • August 2009, son starts Twittering Dad's outrageous sayings
    • September 2009 later son has 1 million Twitter followers and an agent
    • October 2009 he has a book deal
    • November 2009 CBS say they're taking an option to make a sitcom based on the Twitterings
    • June 2010 Sit My Dad Says the book is released and becomes a best-seller
    • $#*! My Dad Says sitcom to be premiered in September 2010
    Does that give you any ideas? Check it out!

    Thursday, August 12, 2010

    Dexter Is Back

    Commercial time!

    The new season of Dexter is on its way. Hooray! Looks like Michael C. Hall has recovered from Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is great news.

    Mind you, I haven't even seen season 4 yet but things are looking up for my blood-thirsty-viewing.

    Wednesday, August 11, 2010

    Who Are You Going To Vote For?

    My favorite tabloid, The Sun, reports today on wannabe politician, Robert Hull, who, having lost in the recent British general election has now decided that he wants to have a sex change. Mr. Hull has, apparently, now changed his name "to Rianna Humble [and] proudly wears a red bobbed wig and fake boobs."

    While not as good as being able to vote for Michael Organ, the Greens candidate, who I voted for in 2002 - primarily because of his name - Mr. Hull would probably get my vote this time, as even an unattractive transvestite is more interesting to me than most politicians lining up for our upcoming federal election, here in Australia.

    Democracy - it takes all kinds!

     *****

    Joke from an English transvestite site - I Googled it!

    Q: What do you call a bear who has a flat in Brighton [British gay capital] and another one in San Francisco?
    A: Winnie the Poof.


    Tuesday, August 10, 2010

    Where Is Dick?

    N.B. I was asked by my teenage son, Jamie, to mention his friends:
    • Nathan
    • Sam
    • Tom
    • Harry
    • Ranga
    • Ellott &
    • Bunyip
    in a blog post, so I took half an hour off to improvise some near-automatic writing silliness for them. It appears that they are occasional readers of this blog, so, as they say in the ancient Lithuanian language of Scorpat - now generally in disuse -"Incharo Kampateni Scrofals Shink", which roughly translates as "Hello, guys".

    Normal service will be resumed next post!

    *****
    "Where Is Dick?" is not some mutter gay-bar heart flutter. No, "Where Is Dick?" may be the clue to the solving of some grueling murders here on the South coast of Australia! The answer lies, surprisingly, in the web stats for this unassuming, always-modest blog.

    You see, my spies at Google - what, you didn't know that I have close ties with the Chinese Government and the Russian Mob? - have alerted me that two of the regular readers to this blog are:
    • Tom a.k.a Hellman, a grommet, whose ambition is to eventually Hang 10 (or Hang 1010 in binary) but whose real claim-to-fame is running a burger-to-beach service catering to portly Aussie lasses who're munching out on Chiko Rolls, Sausage Rolls, Lump-of-lard Rolls while their "blokes" carve out and stuff  &
    • Harry - who, as you might imagine - could easily be confused with King Harold of England who was killed in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings by an arrow through the eye fighting vainly to repel the Norman Invasion

    • Harry {cont'd) or even Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry, known for the phrase "Make my day!"

    • (Harry cont'd) but who is, in fact, Japanese Android H.A.R.R.Y (Human Android Really Really Yannoying) - I know it's a spelling mistake but they are Japanese - no wonder they lost the war! Harry's purpose - presently appears to be solely to promote the careers of Stanwell Park duo Benson & Baden, a pop-folk duo, whose new album includes sickeningly saccharine tracks like My Heart Is Bigger Than The Both Of Us (anatomically interesting, at least!)  Spitting At Me Only Shows How Much You Need Me (B-a-y-b-a-y) It appears that H.A.R.R.Y is plastering their pathetic faces on posters from here to Dapto (nobody ever goes south of Dapto) telling everyone how great they are
    So, it's obvious, while this blog is now read by every Tom, Dick & H.A.R.R.Y, there's no Dick!  

    What could have happened to this blog's Dick? 

    I'll tell you what's happened to this blog's Dick - he's been murdered!

    Sound F/X: Big Dramatic Chord

    Once I was alerted to this Dick-less problem, it rapidly became my contention that poor Dick has been murdered by...

    Sound F/X: Another Dramatic Chord

    ...another reader of this blog, The Artist Formerly Known As Elliott (see: The artist formerly known as Prince). Once a normal, functioning member of Australian society, Elliott suddenly changed his name by deed poll to Cadaver King - indeed, he tried, unsuccessfully, to launch a fat food outlet by the same name but it didn't catch on - but has, in his bitterness, now changed his name to The Artist Formerly Known As Elliott and launched himself as the world's first Cadaver Artist.

    His most famous work was named Sam At McDonald's, in which his pet sheep, Sam, was dressed as Christ and crucified on a Ronald McDonald while Hamburglar (dressed as a Roman centurion) thrust a lance into Sam's side, from which a half digested Happy Meal tumbled - with Sam pathetically holding the free toy in his hoof.

    Why I'm so sure that Dick has been murdered by The Artist Formerly Known As Elliott is that it's obvious that "Dick" would be associate with male "animal nature" and recent evidence provide by Inspector Nathan of the Wollongong Constabulary proves that The Artist Formerly Known As Elliott has killed, spectacularly, at least twice, recently - and both were readers of this blog with "animal" connections!
    1. In July, "Ranga" (Australian slang - Orangutan - Ranga - given to anyone with red hair) was found floating above W.I.N. Stadium in Wollongong (What do they call it when we lose?) during a recent rugby league match, pumped up to 12 times his size with helium and a note saying "He said he wanted some air!"
    2. Just yesterday, the lifeless body of "Bunyip" (Australian mythology - a large Australian swamp-dwelling mammal) was found, BBQ-d alive and strapped to a Weber BBQ and that had been hurtled through the front window of Woolworth in Wollongong, again with a note, this time saying "Woolworths? I'll show you fresh food people!"
    Captain Nathan (not to be confused with Nathan, son of King Solomon and Bathsheba or the suburb of Brisbane, Queensland) assures me that forensics are on the trail of The Artist Formerly Known As Elliott and that "We should have him within half a dozen more victims, or so."

    "Or So"?

    How many blog readers does he think I have?

    Sunday, August 08, 2010

    5 Great Office Quotes

    Here are 5 great office quotes, discovered at the marvelous www.Overheard In The Office.com


    Employee sitting at lunch table:  Dude, this pepper shaker does not fuck around. It is amazing.

    Portland, Oregon


    Ski instructor: Well, at least it's snowing today. Yesterday we had rain.
    First time skier: Oh, so this is snow, is it? Not rain?
    Ski instructor: Well, yeah...
    First time skier: So what does rain look like up here?

    Smiggin Holes, Australia


    Young male coworker: Do remember that time you ran around naked?
    Younger female coworker: I wasn't naked, I just didn't have any clothes on.

    Oklahoma City, Oklahoma


    65-something delivery man to 30-something female receptionist, as she bends over to lift printer: Oh, wait, let me do that. I don't want you to hurt your ovaries. 

    Denver, Colorado


    Sales Rep: I'm rich today because I decided not to pay my car payment this month. Suck it, bank!

    St. Paul, Minnesota




    Saturday, August 07, 2010

    Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch - The Truth Revealed!

    The BBC reported in November 2008 that the ancestor to Monty Python's famous Dead Parrot sketch had been unearthed - almost literally! Dead Parrot sketch ancestor found.

    In Philogelos: The Laugh Addict (FREE download) - which has recently been translated from the Ancient Greek (4th Century A.D.) manuscripts - there is a joke in which, like in the parrot sketch, a man complains that a slave that he has recently been sold has died.

    Vendor "When he was with me, he never did any such thing!"


    Monty Python: The Parrot Sketch

    There are also many other jokes in Philogelos: The Laugh Addict, which appear very modern - or at least from the 20th Century - like the following, in which someone needles a well-known wit:

    "I had your wife, without paying a penny."

    The wit replies:

    "It's my duty as a husband to couple with such a monstrosity - what made you do it?"

    Philogelos: The Laugh Addict comes in e-reader form and includes a really interesting introduction about the contemporary Greek society and several videos, in which veteran English comic, Jim Bowen, talks about the material and even performs some of it.

    My verdict: Well worth catching!

    Friday, August 06, 2010

    The Alien / UFO Thing

    I've just somehow spent over a week on my Alien Intrusion Squidoo lens, an intro to the whole Aliens / UFO "thing". Irrespective of your stand on the subject, I invite you to have a peek at it as it does contain some interesting info, in particular:
    1. how the build-up of the Cold War played an integral part in UFO hysteria
    2. quotes by astronauts who're convinced that UFOs are real & since this is frequently a pop music blog
    3. how - and this is not to be missed! - ex-Van Halen lead singer, Sammy Hagar, claims his brain was downloaded by aliens!
    Beam me up, Scotty or as I say on Alpha Centauri

    "Klaatu, Barada, Nikto."

    Sunday, August 01, 2010

    John Lennon: I Saw A UFO In New York!

    My favorite loony of all time, Mr. John Lennon, is recorded during a radio interview to hype Walls & Bridges, talking about seeing a UFO in New York in the summer of 1974!


    Did somebody mention "acid flashback"?

    Then again, there's always his song from 1980, Nobody Told Me (released on Milk & Honey)

    Everybody's smoking and no one's getting high
    Everybody's flying and never touch the sky
    There's a UFO over New York and I ain't too surprised
    Nobody told me there'd be days like these

    However, apparently "five other calls [were made] that night from the same area to NYC PD reporting UFO sightings/encounters" youtube member linclink

    Mr. Creepo goes into Lennon's UFO story (via an interview with Lennon's then-girlfriend, May Pang), in more detail, hilariously recounting the story with cute, primitive graphics.