Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[HorrorRetro]

A friend of mine was in Seattle this week and managed to find this guy demonstrating for his cause. 

[Bart Ell]

Why do people insist on watermarking their pictures with their big ole heads? Just take a picture of the subject, no need to turn your back to the action to fit your big ole head in the picture.

[Bart Ell]

I need to stop taking hotel pens.

[UnscreenedCaller]

A friend of mine was in Seattle this week and managed to find this guy demonstrating for his cause. 

Best photobomb ever. I wonder if he wants his bits back?

[McPhallus]

I would expect nothing less of the land which brought us INXS, Men at Work, and that Jocko guy from those Energizer commercials.

More music funnies.

Australia Bought Less Than 54 Copies Of Robin Thicke’s New Album

Australians are just not that interested in Robin Thicke‘s ploy to get his estranged wife, Paula Patton, back. His latest album, a self-described declaration of love to his betrothed titled Paula, reportedly sold less than 54 copies here.

According to News.com.au, Paula failed to crack the ARIA top 500 in its debut week. The album at number 500, a Blondie compilation, sold only 54 copies last week, meaning that Thicke’s attempt to rhythmically woo his ex-wife must have sold even less.

[zeebo]

There is a conundrum I just realized.  How is it, that cars have only been around for less than 150 years, but there is something in the male DNA which causes us, when our car breaks down, especially in the presence of any female of our species, to open up the hood and "have a look" even if we haven't the faintest idea how cars work?

[UnscreenedCaller]

There is a conundrum I just realized.  How is it, that cars have only been around for less than 150 years, but there is something in the male DNA which causes us, when our car breaks down, especially in the presence of any female of our species, to open up the hood and "have a look" even if we haven't the faintest idea how cars work?

Whatever it is, I'm not knocking it because it's the same impulse that's prompted some really kind guys to push my various clunkers out of traffic and on to a safe spot. Way back when, I guess it was easy to see your horse threw a shoe, but to fix it required expert help from the smithy. The AAA crack team are modern smithies. I look under the hood, too, but unless the car's overheated or a battery cable is loose, I don't have a clue.

[HorrorRetro]

Best photobomb ever. I wonder if he wants his bits back?

There was this little gem too. I think someone needs to brush up on their anatomy. She missed taking a pic of the "Honk if you love foreskin" sign.   

[UnscreenedCaller]

There was this little gem too. I think someone needs to brush up on their anatomy. She missed taking a pic of the "Honk if you love foreskin" sign.   

LOL. I think an anatomy lesson's called for, too.  Just sayin'.

[Camazotz Automat]

There is a conundrum I just realized.  How is it, that cars have only been around for less than 150 years, but there is something in the male DNA which causes us, when our car breaks down, especially in the presence of any female of our species, to open up the hood and "have a look" even if we haven't the faintest idea how cars work?

I want to know why we don't have transparent car hoods by now so I can quit automatically having to open the son of a bitch to diagnose a problem.

I spent too much time as a child assembling the Renwal Visible kits:  man, woman, horse, dog, V-8, Wankel, pigeon, etc. Some kits were ~geared~ toward a blue collar career instead of the medical field/serial killer path. (Shades of Cronenberg's Dead Ringers.)

While there was a Visible Horse, there was no Visible Noory, i.e., Visible Jackass. It was just too soon.

One day I casually remarked to my parents as to if there might be any chance of the existence of a Visible Last Supper kit (shades of Eddie Coyle.) I was grounded for one hundred days.

I built models for the duration. Hardly punishment. I was truly punished on the 101st day by being told I had to "go out and play" because my father said I looked like a souvenir from Carlsbad Caverns, something about "blind albino salamander boy." Mother cried.

Note to Members of the Church of the SubGenius: Check out "Bob" in the V-8 kit.

[UnscreenedCaller]

I just found a goldmine of potential Gabcast material. All of these people's lives could have been improved by the judicious use of a Taintco product. Let this be a warning to everyone out there: Don't let this happen to you.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kaylayandoli/hurbly-grblies

[b_dubb]

I just found a goldmine of potential Gabcast material. All of these people's lives could have been improved by the judicious use of a Taintco product. Let this be a warning to everyone out there: Don't let this happen to you.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kaylayandoli/hurbly-grblies

I believe the GabCast has found OUR PRODUCER!

Here's our offer: you'll work long hours making us look good and put money in our pockets. You'll be paid in imaginary bags of imaginary peanuts. No dental. No health.No paid vacation. We will however provide you with a cardboard box. My neighbor just bought a new fridge.

Start Monday.

[UnscreenedCaller]

I'm mulling this offer over. The refrigerator box is quite a big step up from the box I'm currently using, which is an old Costco box with three sides. My current employer believes in holding down expenses.

[b_dubb]

I'm mulling this offer over. The refrigerator box is quite a big step up from the box I'm currently using, which is an old Costco box with three sides. My current employer believes in holding down expenses.

Welcome aboard!!!

[jazmunda]

I just found a goldmine of potential Gabcast material. All of these people's lives could have been improved by the judicious use of a Taintco product. Let this be a warning to everyone out there: Don't let this happen to you.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kaylayandoli/hurbly-grblies

These need to be read in Jazmunda's sexy voice.

[jazmunda]

I believe the GabCast has found OUR PRODUCER!

Here's our offer: you'll work long hours making us look good and put money in our pockets. You'll be paid in imaginary bags of imaginary peanuts. No dental. No health.No paid vacation. We will however provide you with a cardboard box. My neighbor just bought a new fridge.

Start Monday.

I can't believe you were going to give away our imaginery peanuts.

[Tarbaby]

Camazotz Automat: that was good! (Above)
See? I finally learned your name.

[Camazotz Automat]

Camazotz Automat: that was good! (Above)
See? I finally learned your name.

Thanks, Tarbaby.

And just so you'll know and can visualize, I supplied a picture beneath the post.  I wanted to jog anyone's memories who had seen these Renwal model kits so many years ago.  I put the woman, the airplane engine, the man, the Wankel engine, two different artwork versions of the V-8 engine, the full sized human head, the pigeon, and the dog. 

I made the old box covers look somewhat postage stamp sized and placed all on a black background.  I don't know if you've heard of the Church of the Subgenius, but their mascot or parody god, so to speak, is a generic 1950s clean cut guy with a long stem smoking pipe in his mouth.  He is called "Bob."  He has a sort of classic early Dick van Dyke appearance.

On one of the V-8 pictures, it shows a boy looking at the transparent V-8 engine block with his father behind him, smoking one of those long stem pipes, and it somewhat evokes Bob.

When I was a boy, I distinctly remember incorrectly calling the kits
"invisible," instead of "visible." It made more sense to me because the skin of the animals and the outer surface of the engines were transparent plastic, and thus invisible. The fact that the parts or organs inside the models were visible was just a given. I was focused on labeling the transparency aspect.  ha ha ha.

Glad you dig my scribbling, Tar.

Camazotz Automat

or Cam,

or as Bart Ell and a couple of others have been known to reference me, "the Automat." 

I'm like Captain Howdy from the Exorcist. Doesn't matter much what you call me. Just call.

[eddie dean]

Thanks, Tarbaby.

And just so you'll know and can visualize, I supplied a picture beneath the post.  I wanted to jog anyone's memories who had seen these Renwal model kits so many years ago.  I put the woman, the airplane engine, the man, the Wankel engine, two different artwork versions of the V-8 engine, the full sized human head, the pigeon, and the dog. 

I made the old box covers look somewhat postage stamp sized and placed all on a black background.  I don't know if you've heard of the Church of the Subgenius, but their mascot or parody god, so to speak, is a generic 1950s clean cut guy with a long stem smoking pipe in his mouth.  He is called "Bob."  He has a sort of classic early Dick van Dyke appearance.

On one of the V-8 pictures, it shows a boy looking at the transparent V-8 engine block with his father behind him, smoking one of those long stem pipes, and it somewhat evokes Bob.

When I was a boy, I distinctly remember incorrectly calling the kits
"invisible," instead of "visible." It made more sense to me because the skin of the animals and the outer surface of the engines were transparent plastic, and thus invisible. The fact that the parts or organs inside the models were visible was just a given. I was focused on labeling the transparency aspect.  ha ha ha.

Glad you dig my scribbling, Tar.

Camazotz Automat

or Cam,

or as Bart Ell and a couple of others have been known to reference me, "the Automat." 

I'm like Captain Howdy from the Exorcist. Doesn't matter much what you call me. Just call.

I was going through some old boxes and found my Visible V-8 I put together as a kid. It wasn't complete or functioning any longer and some of the plastic parts were melted! I think I set it on fire with lighter fluid after I got bored with it.
I'm sure I inhaled some toxic fumes, which, now that I think about it, explains some of my deficiencies.

I forgot how cool that thing was. It had a electric starter motor that spun the fly wheel to simulate how the internal parts worked together. It even had red lights for spark plugs. The wires were connected to the rotor cap &  flashed on when the piston was in the correct position. Good times!

[Yorkshire pud]

I'm mulling this offer over. The refrigerator box is quite a big step up from the box I'm currently using, which is an old Costco box with three sides. My current employer believes in holding down expenses.

Just make sure you get it legally binding UC. You can't afford to just jump from one three sides box into another that may or may not be better..How sure are you the cardboard is as thick? Will any logos etc printed on the side invite ridicule or worse darts being thrown at you while you're sleeping? You need to make sure too that no-one outside BG knows you're producing for GC, it would end your career, however short lived. 

[Treading Water]

I'm mulling this offer over. The refrigerator box is quite a big step up from the box I'm currently using, which is an old Costco box with three sides. My current employer believes in holding down expenses.

DON'T let them make you sign a non-compete!!!!  Read the WHOLE contract....     

[UnscreenedCaller]

DON'T let them make you sign a non-compete!!!!  Read the WHOLE contract....     

It's kind of tough seeing as how the contract comes in little perforated squares wrapped around a cardboard tube. But I ain't signing nothin' until I talk to my attorney, Skeeter.

Just make sure you get it legally binding UC. You can't afford to just jump from one three sides box into another that may or may not be better..How sure are you the cardboard is as thick? Will any logos etc printed on the side invite ridicule or worse darts being thrown at you while you're sleeping? You need to make sure too that no-one outside BG knows you're producing for GC, it would end your career, however short lived. 

Well, a Westinghouse refrigerator box may be a step up from a Kirkland Baby Wipes box, but then you never know. Certainly more spacious,  like a cardboard penthouse.

As my contract is written on perforated tissue, I'd say my career is already in the toilet. We can only go up from here. Or down like a dead goldfish. 

[Yorkshire pud]

It's kind of tough seeing as how the contract comes in little perforated squares wrapped around a cardboard tube. But I ain't signing nothin' until I talk to my attorney, Skeeter.

Well, a Westinghouse refrigerator box may be a step up from a Kirkland Baby Wipes box, but then you never know. Certainly more spacious,  like a cardboard penthouse.

As my contract is written on perforated tissue, I'd say my career is already in the toilet. We can only go up from here. Or down like a dead goldfish. 

make sure Onan uses his best wax crayons to sign it. Jaz can't write unless he draws around shapes. Eddie and B Dubb will only make the contract too complicated to understand...Oh and don't walk out of the signing with the end of the contract  tucked down your knickers. Not a good look for a producer.

[UnscreenedCaller]

..Oh and don't walk out of the signing with the end of the contract  tucked down your knickers. Not a good look for a producer.

T'wouldn't be the first time, either.

[eddie dean]

Prey for "Gotze"
Mario Gotze scores the winning goal for Germany in the World Cup final!

[jazmunda]

Prey for "Gotze"
Mario Gotze scores the winning goal for Germany to win the World Cup!

I would hate to see his victory dance.

[Tarbaby]

Robin Thicke was married to Paula Poundstone?
jaz: I was listening to a quiz show the other day and the question was "what country is the happiest"?

(Everyone can guess. I'll be back tomorrow with the answer… Unless I forget to come back)

and, the answer is: Australia!

[jazmunda]

and, the answer is: Australia!

That comes as a surprise to me as I would have thought that one of the Scandinavian countries would have that honor.

Edit: I was right.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/20/travel/happiest-countries-to-visit/

[Tarbaby]

Feldman claims he gets his material from various reliable sources. I'm not so sure. The quiz I was listening to was "whatya yo know" with Michael Feldman on NPR. Somebody actually guessed Sweden or Denmark and he said no, it's Australia. But I had to wonder what criteria they were going by and how did they find out who was the happiest  countries.

[jazmunda]

Drugs are fucking beautiful ..... under a microscope