22 thoughts on “Arthur C. Clarke, Cephalopodcaster”

1. Yeah, but I’m still waiting for his prediction of international phone rates coming down to local rates to come true.

   I remembered this even before I clicked the clip. Discovery was such a cool channel back then . . . .

2. If you have an expensive enough cellphone service, it already IS true.

   Which reminds me about my cable bill. Shaw Cable is charging me $29 per month, PLUS $20 per month for every month that I have an amount left over on the account. So, this month I had $50 and paid it to them and they charged me $49 anyway. They even charged me $20 each for October and November when my internet was entirely cut off! One blog post coming up…I’m majorly steamed about this; no WONDER I can’t get this goddam bill paid off.

3. Good point. Arthur C. Clarke is either a tool of the telecommunications industry or merely an astute observer of the robber-baron continuum.

   For cable and the broadband that the family still needs for work and school, I’m paying $119 a month. God love Comcast – somebody has to, I suppose.

4. The even more horrible aspect of this clip – th epetty officer describing the Stein’s strange encounter is wearing the uniform that temporarily replaced the ‘cracker jack’ uniform for sailors in the mid-to-late 70’s. The running joke was that the Navy was the largest formation of bus drivers and chaffeurs in the world.

   (Insert favorite theremin score here)

5. You’ve got a good point there. I had a hard time resisting the urge to yell “home, James!”

6. I think this film was written and produced by the Dharma Institute.

7. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

   I heart this video. It demonstrates just why I find the whole thing so exciting!

8. Her Grace la Marchionesse RegenKuester de W under B della Z

   Your Grace

   ScHocking … this is an Educational Blogge read by discriminating Ladies & Children

   Do we detect Monsieur AerChie’s deplorably Humorous Influence – he is vell-known as a ruthless exploiter of the infamous counter-revolutionary socialist Mesonychoteuthis Hamiltoni for information & entertainment purposes und enjoyment

   “…. Professor Cloudsley-Thompson …. This was in the Mess … Cold Waters of the Labrador Channel [seething with Retrievers going woof, woof] ….”

   Was this Klip ein Joke !!

   If not (which is not admitted), it may explain why no Mummified Faerie Remains have been found in AustrAAAlia

   — Economic Migrant Faeries ( …. errrr Political Asylum Seekers) did not survive the swim across the Timor Sea to escape the Eurasian LandMass’s sub-prime Krisis, due to the unInvited und unWelcome Attentions of these Giant Crustaceans, intent on re-distribution of the World’s Fresh-Meat Supplies AND this was BEFORE they would have met Greedy Flocks of M AerChie’s famous Long-Donkeys, eager to vary a Dreary Vegetarian Diet of Eucalyptus Leaves

   Es macht man denken, nee
   Das ist es, doch
   [Harrumppphissimus]

   and an interesting use of Englisch – where “It must be” means “It may be” …. I suppose this is what passes in Evolutionary Circles as “rigorous pScientific Proof”

   Again, your Grace, I say :

   Harrrumphissimus

   AND can one expect Sartorial Elegance in the Uniforms of the World’s Largest but 2nd-best Navy – can FFE assure us that they do NOT pass the Port to the Right …

   Ainnatirb Elur

   Your Grace’s obedt servant etc

   G Eagle

9. I can assure M. Eagle that most of our sailors still can differentiate between the blue-green light and the red light.

   And the ‘cracker jack’ uniform finally resumed its rightful place.

10. @Herr Harrrumphissimus, It is well known that American Republicans and many modern Tories have begun passing the Port to the Right, such is their hatred of the Left.

    @Rain, I had intended a spot of canoeing today – – –

11. The Navy has endured decades of rightists, Know-Nothings, Mugwumps, Manifest Destinists and neo-cons and will manage to pass through channels and straits correctly despite all of them

12. Well, where do you THINK Labrador Retrievers come from? We also have the Nova Scotia Duck Toller, which is caught in nets in the Bay of Fundy at the turn of the tide. Where do you get YOUR dogs from? A pet store?

13. My friend LK (as we sit here drinking vodka and admiring your wit) says you forgot to add “Boy Lover” to your tags!

14. Well who isn’t one, really?

15. Hey, just because Arthur C. Clarke lives in Ceylon (oops, my imperialism is showing) and is accused of having his way with the local male adolescents doesn’t make him a pedera . . . . uh, never mind.

16. Have you seen the Celonese adolescents? No, no, I’ve said too much…

17. You haven’t said enough….

    R.E.M. right?

18. No comment. NOOOOOO COMMENT!

19. Shiny happy people, I always say . . .

20. Do those people look shiny? I ASK YOU!

21. Not really, but Kate Pierson looked hawt in that miniskirt and knee socks . . . .

22. Different tastes. Michael Stipe’s chemo chic never did anything for me.

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