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Today’s ultra-scary BLONDIE comic strip
io9 features sci-fi inspired political ads. Take a wild guess which one made the list…
Behold the 8 Weirdest Real-Life Science Fiction Political Ads as assembled by popular geeky/techy website io9.
And yes, that school board commercial of mine from 2006 is on the list.
But check out this ad – also inspired by Star Wars – that West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin aired when he successfully ran for re-election two years ago…
Hey, Manchin shot a TIE Fighter out of the sky with a rifle! That’s a hella lot better shootin’ than the Imperial Stormtroopers ever did.
But John Waite of Spokane, Washington blows away everybody with what he did when he ran for city council. The comic book store owner campaigned while wearing a full set of space marine armor from the StarCraft computer game series! Nevermind Spokane City Council: we should send Waite to Washington D.C.: that whole town is overrun with worse than the Zerg ever were.
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Burger King hassles customers at McDonald’s in Rome, Georgia
Police in Rome, Georgia (a town that I have some firsthand knowledge of) are on the lookout for none other than the Burger King himself, who allegedly stood outside the McDonald’s restaurant there and commenced to handing out free hamburgers.
From the CBS News story…
...Police were called to a local McDonald’s in relation to a disturbance caused by a man dressed as the Burger King.
In a police report provided to the Rome News-Tribune, officers indicated that they were summoned to the fast-food restaurant around 1 p.m. on Monday, in response to a call about a suspicious person on the premises.
The person was allegedly resplendent in full Burger King regalia.
Police stated that, upon his arrival, the Burger King mascot reportedly began to hand out free hamburgers to customers, and stopped to take pictures with several children.
Officers were additionally told that one child ran away from
Unintentionally hilarious children’s test answers
This might be the most gut-bustingly funny link that I have ever directed this blog’s readers to! Kristen and I enjoyed looking at these last night and we literally could not stop laughing! One of them in particular (feel free to guess which one) had me so hysterical that I was nearly keeled-over on the floor. If you are sitting at a desk with a drink, it is HIGHLY advised that you set the beverage safely down before clicking on to this page at HappyPlace featuring inadvertently hilarious test answers from children. And if you’re a teacher or otherwise involved in education you’ll especially get a giggle out of these 🙂...
At #5 on Cracked.com’s list of The 6 Most Baffling Political Ads Ever Aired…
…it’s… me!
That was almost six years ago. I really am never gonna live this down, am I?
Well, it was a lot of fun running for school board. The entire experience, I mean! One that I would never trade for anything. I learned a great deal more about election laws and running for office than I had ever known before. I didn’t win a seat but that’s okay: it was a great run, I campaigned my own way and kept it positive, upbeat, and I wanted to present my beliefs in an enlightening and entertaining fashion. I wanted just ten people to vote for me, and wound up getting nearly forty-seven hundred.
But I didn’t for once believe that this commercial was going to grab any attention beyond Rockingham County… and much less still be going strong more than half a decade later!
Well anyhoo, Cracked.com has my Star ...
For everyone caught up in the Chick-fil-A controversy…
…here is a cautionary tale from 1987. Written by none other than legendary screen and comics scribe J. Michael Straczynski, it’s The Real Ghostbusters episode “Chicken, He Clucked”!
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY lip sync!
A little over a week ago I was in a rented SUV thingy riding up to Mount Hood in Oregon along with m’lady Kristen, her brother and his wife. And it just so happened that “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen came on the radio.
Well as many people know I can’t help but perform along whenever that song gets played. So much so that I’ve developed a little “act” over the years. But Melissa had a bit of a headache so Kristen quickly asked me to “tone it down” a tad.
As you can tell, I did indeed maintain some decorum… though I couldn’t help but cut loose a bit 🙂
You may have to turn up your speakers to hear the radio.
Thanks to Kristen for posting this (and I’d totally forgotten that she recorded it 🙂...
This song won’t get out of my head!!
I told y’all that I’ve been quite busy lately. So much so that I’m sadly lacking in recent pop culture.
Take f’rinstance, “Red Solo Cup” by Toby Keith: a song that I did not know anything about the existence of until a few nights ago when Dad and I were driving back from dinner in Greensboro. I had to turn the volume up to make sure I was really hearing what I thought I was hearing. Before very long, Dad and I were both cracking up laughing!
Except now… this song is stuck in my brain and it refuses to leave!!
Maybe if I post the music video for it, that will help to exorcise this particular demon. So here it is: “Red Solo Cup”…
Classic SESAME STREET: “What time is it?”
Been a few months since I posted a classic clip from Sesame Street. I figure it’s time for another great Bert and Ernie sketch 🙂
This one is definitely from way back. For one thing you can hear Mr. Hooper (the actor who played him passed away in 1982) and for another, there’s no way that a sketch like this would be broadcast on Sesame Street today. Ahhh those were the days…
So here is Bert and Ernie in “What Time Is It?”
5secondfilms presents… COOKING WITH CRAZY!!!
In a perfect world, this would be a real TV show: