Monthly Archives: May 2006

Superfriends explained in video

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The Superfriends. You thought you knew them. You grew up with them.

But you’ve never seen them like this!!!!!

Okay, you’ve seen them like that. Sue me, it’s still funny.

But you’ve never seen them like this: A Superfriends/The Office Mashup: This Place Sucks. What goes on when the Wonder Twins aren’t looking…

And you definitely don’t know the darkest secret of the Superfriends…harboring and abusing their illegal alien Filipina maid. Presenting: Maritess vs the Superfriends!

“Da Superman, he is looking through my clothes!”

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Operation Global Media Domination: Lost in Translation

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TIAWhen raincoaster checks the ol' raincoaster stats, she looks for many things: total hit count, most popular blog entry, signs of the coming Apocalypse…it's like necromancy, but you don't have to wash your hands afterwards unless you get very excited. Among the things that she looks for are links through which readers have clicked to arrive at raincoaster, the blog. And this one from yesterday particularly caught her eye.

It appears to be a Google translation of this post, a roundup of search engine terms that brought people to the blog. This is known as a feedback loop, and is sneakily effective in gaining new readers and hooking back the old ones, even if they were only looking for Narnia Mango Somali Porn.

Oops, I did it again!

Anywhoooo, the words on this page that were beyond Google's ability to translate were quite interesting. In the interests of creating a new, more selective feedback loop, and in the interest of confusing the Chinese, I will here list all terms in that raincoaster post found untranslatable by Google:

Narnia, Ian McKellen, Fatman, pervs, snotflower, creamer, ventibrevemocha, lattes, buggers, cholesteral, patchouli, eggnog latte, decaf, comin', Pablo, Sandford Tuey, raincoaster, voyeur, appy, tiaras, 9.11, WhiteSpot, Hogwarts, Deuel, Cates, vagina, spankin', Conference, shebeen, Wuthering, screencaps, jocari, Doktari, sumpin', slimin', spay, watchin'.

Did you ever do those assignments in school where you were supposed to use each of a whole snotload of words in a sentence? I was terribly literalminded, and always tried to get them all into one sentence, which drove my teachers nuts, but even I would have to admit defeat when faced with the above list.

FYI Here are today's search engine items that led here. I must say, we're getting better. Classier, weirder, and less Somali-porn-based. Some Somali trivia: You know Iman? When she left Somalia she took everything worth looking at with her.

beautiful agony, shit eating, dorks, eagle cam in Vancouver, Canada, Juvénal Habyarimana -site:africadatabas, Celebrity Censorship, jesus lego, birthday animation, cocaine corner, Giant Squid

Go Fuck Yersself! The Kid from Brooklyn Speaks!

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I knew he'd show up on Youtube sooner or later. Ladies and gentlemen may we present Podcaster of the Millennium, the Kid from Brooklyn!

New Yorker goes all “returning its own popcans”

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Eustace Tilley Hat?From Gawker:

There’s an interesting report today on a Columbia undergraduate publication’s punnily and speech-impedimently named blog, the Bwog, regarding an old trove of slush-pile submissions to The New Yorker’s poetry department:

[I]t was with much fanfare that the interns were told that they were finally going to throw out the box. But first wouldn’t they be so careful as to go through the submissions and remove all the self-addressed stamped envelopes? Why? To save the stamps, of course. Yes, the poetry editor of the New Yorker had her interns cut out each and every 37 cent stamp they could find, even though these stamps on their own were useless without a two cent supplement to compensate for the 2006 cost of postage.

Midway through their task she stopped them. Touched by the hand of reason? Of common human decency? “I just wanted to make sure… neither of you has a blog, right?”

Oh, silly poetry editor, everyone has a blog now.

Meter Money [Bwog]

Tourist Rage!!!

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Well okay, they're Canadians we're talking about here, so maybe it's more like tourist moderately-strongly-worded-emailing, but the tourists are ENRAGED AND OUT of CONTROL!!! however they're expressing it, and you would be too, if you'd ever had to fly Air Canada.

Passengers should be aware of their rights, Huot said, but they should also know their responsibilities, and that includes not putting live crustaceans in their suitcases.

Okay so Pepe is a prawn, not a lobster. He's still the ugliest Muppet you've ever seen!

That's right! If you're going to be flying with live Crustaceans, be sure to keep them in your pants, along with the monkeys. Learn from:

the example of one man whose luggage was lost while he was travelling from Halifax to Toronto. It was found four days later – but neither the bag nor the live lobsters it contained survived the delay.

"There's not a lot we can do about that, and that passenger will fall into the category of not being happy with the settlement."

As will everyone in the vicinity of the lost luggage, I would guess.

In another case, he said, "a passenger wanted two round-the-world tickets because the different melons all tasted the same in his fruit cup."

I'd be for it, but only halfway. Literally. And hang a sign around his neck so that the people in Sierra Leone or wherever he ends up will know that he's the melonhead who insisted on being deported because the airline meal tasted prefab.