I normally wouldn’t post two quizzes in one day, but hellfire! This just makes me look so damn good…although I’d have preferred a more flattering picture.
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Daily Archives: November 18, 2006
the wit and wisdom of the Simpsons
Parents are always complaining that there is nothing educational, life-affirming or decent in children’s television programming. Usually right before they fire up yet another round of Grand Theft Auto.
In any case, we here at the ol’ raincoaster blog beg to differ. There is, in fact, an excellent cartoon show which teaches kids the real life lessons that they will come to rely on as they learn to make their way in this crazy, mixed-up world we live in.
Lessons like “When adults hate their jobs they don’t quit. They just do them really, really half-assed.”
From West Egg via Fark:
Homer to Billy Corgan (of the Smashing Pumpkins): “Thanks to your gloomy, depressing music, my children no longer hope for the future I can not afford to give them.”
Corgan: “Yeah, we try to make a difference.”Homer: The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let’s see. [enumerates them on his fingers] Don’t tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you’re sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do. What else…
Lisa: [sigh] I’ve got to stop being so petty. I should be Alison’s friend, not her competitor. I mean…she is a wonderful person…
Bart: Way to go, Lis. I mean, why compete with someone who’s just going to kick your butt anyway?
Lisa: [pause] I prefer my phrasing.Homer: So, I realized that being with my family is more important than being cool.
Bart: Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool.
Homer: You know what the song says: “It’s hip to be square”.
Lisa: That song is so lame.
Homer: So lame that it’s… cool?
Bart+Lisa: No.
Marge: Am I cool, kids?
Bart+Lisa: No.
Marge: Good. I’m glad. And that’s what makes me cool, not caring, right?
Bart+Lisa: No.
Marge: Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we’ve tried everything here.
Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you’re truly cool, you don’t need to be told you’re cool.
Bart: Well, sure you do.
Lisa: How else would you know?
quiz: what classic movie are you?
Ya know, I should probably pretend this was a surprise…but no.
Stolen from Metro, who stole it from Nag on the Lake.
What Classic Movie Are You?
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alien goldfish!
In this crazy, mixed-up world, there are a few touchstones of normalcy that one turns to time and time again to clear away the aggro and alienation of interacting in our topsy-turvy civilization.
Puppies. Kittens. Babies. Clouds. The smell of bread baking. Cows grazing in a field.
Goldfish.
Until now.
pic o’ the day: Giant Jellyfish invasion
I wasn’t kidding when I said that Japan is being surrounded by hostile Giant Jellyfish. Check out this pic, from Pink Tentacle‘s coverage of the invasion; suddenly it makes more sense that the Japanese would strike back, powdering the slimy buggers. Of course, it still wouldn’t occur to a sane person (nor to a person who’d seen Attack of the Mushroom People) to make that powder into cookies and put it in her mouth, but there you go; we are talking about the Japanese, after all. They may be more plausible than the Romanians, but they’re just as wingnutty under those navy suits.
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