Cats as fonts
Cats as fonts. With pictures.
Tag: comedy
Monty Python – Lumberjack Song
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Dilbert – The Knack
An evening pause: “Can he lead a normal life?” “No. He’ll be an engineer.”
Pigeon: Impossible
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The Producers
An evening pause: From Mel Brooks’ classic film, The Producers (1968), a good description of how our modern government functions.
John Cleese on The Muppets Show
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Private-sector experience? Oh, no!
Private-sector experience? Oh, no!
People have started to learn some disturbing facts about likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: He once worked for Bain Capital — which is what’s known as a private-sector business. Harmless as the term sounds, it’s much scarier once you understand how such outfits operate.
A private-sector business doesn’t even pretend to make decisions based on how to best help people or what creates the most jobs or even on what will most equally distribute income. It makes decisions based only on what creates a profit.
Yes, it’s frightening to think that something so mercenary even exists — even worse that someone who worked for something like that could actually become president. Of course, the only people who should lead our country and manage our economy are those who remain unsullied by the private sector’s for-profit mentality: career politicians.
Read the whole thing. Once again, Frank Fleming hits the nail on the head.
Panda escape
An evening pause: Freedom: even this panda thinks it’s a good idea.
Man charged after baby was found abandoned in an Occupy DC tent
Man charged after a baby was found abandoned in an Occupy DC tent.
Which immediately makes me think of this video comedy sketch:
Jib Jab – 2011, Buh-Bye!
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Fired employee goes on rampage
An evening pause: I think this is staged, but it’s worth sticking around for the punchline at the end.
Lurie and Atkinson – writing Shakespeare
An evening pause: Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson show how Shakespeare really did it.
Santa Claus Arrested Following Joint Investigation by IRS, INS, and FWS
Satire? Santa Claus arrested following a joint investigation by the IRS, INS, and FWS.
The United States Department of Immigration and the Internal Revenue Service have also had their eyes on Mr. Claus. An immigration official who also attended the raid said that they were able to obtain several dozen passports. He said, “It seems that this Santa Claus character has a different name in every country–his EU passport says, ‘Father Christmas’ and his Canadian passport says, ‘Père Noël’. We have, however, determined with certainty that Santa Claus is a United States citizen.”
Apparently Claus worked in Hollywood during the 1940s and 50s making autobiographical films, such as Miracle on 34th Street. During that time he applied for and received U.S. citizenship.
Read the whole thing. The scandal is shocking!
Update: In related news, the Occupied Wall Street movement is now targeting Santa as well.
Bugs Bunny – Racketeer Rabbit
An evening pause: The proper way to treat gangstas.
Festive Mechanized Holiday Cat Accessories
An evening pause: Some advice from engineers on how to prepare for the holidays.
Hey, they still let us drive
Frank Fleming: “Hey, they still let us drive.”
Driving is basically a grandfathered freedom from back when people cared less about pollution and danger and valued progress and liberty over safety. They had different equations related to human life then: We could lose 10,000 men in a single battle in a war and call it a victory.
We’re talking foolhardy people who eventually sent men to the moon strapped to a giant rocket that had less computational power than it takes to calculate the trajectory of an Angry Bird. Their kids dangled from jungle gyms over pavement. [emphasis in original]
Phobos-Grunt: what’s in a name?
Some English commentary from Russia: Phobos-Grunt: what’s in a name?
And this is the part when I point out that Russia’s unmanned Mars missions, which have not been successful so far, have a name problem that goes beyond Phobos-Grunt.
Mars-94? M1 No. 520? Seriously? What is this dour nonsense? Soyuz-Fregat was an improvement, but still, considering the consistent failure rate of the Mars missions, it’s time to get serious about breaking that curse. Take a page out of the Americans’ book, just this once, and inject some optimism into your space program. The Americans give their *successful* spacecraft names like Phoenix! And Spirit! And Opportunity! So name your spacecraft a variation on the word Hope! Throw caution to the wind and name it Kickass! Certainly don’t name it after terror, even if the satellite you plan on exploring is already stuck with that unfortunate name.
Will it blend? – cyalume sticks
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NORAD is ready to track Santa’s flight
Important! NORAD is ready to track Santa’s flight.