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- The Adventures of Bus Ryder and the Busonic Woman!
Apparently this was a 1976 comic book to promote the then-new county bus system with campy knock-off superheroes (and really wonky perspective). I mean, Bus Ryder looks suspiciously like Superman, and there’s no question where the Busonic Woman got her name. Photo courtesy Orange County Archives.
- 2020: Overachiever (The Monoliths)
November 23: Helicopter pilot finds “strange” monolith in remote part of Utah. November 25: Using Google Earth to look for the Utah monolith site. One candidate that matches the landscape seems to have something vertical that appeared between the 2015 and 2016 images. No coordinates in the article. Attempt no landings there. December 7: After […]
- Snakes on a Bus
A Manchester (UK) man boarded a bus wearing a snake wrapped around his neck and mouth. Officials’ comments on what constitutes a suitable face covering: “While there is a small degree of interpretation that can be applied to this, we do not believe it extends to the use of snakeskin – especially when still attached […]
- Talk About an Understatement!
Several local cities will send out SMS notices for emergencies and “avoid this area due to collision/police activity/etc.” All weekend they kept sending reports about an intersection being closed due to a “traffic collision” Saturday morning. One alert mentioned a vehicle had crashed into a building. What all of the alerts failed to mention, and […]
- Recursive Crap
Not sure if I’m more appalled by the idea of smiling plastic poop that poops smiling candy poop, or amused by the shelf placement.
- The Ants Go Marching…to Strange Places
Some of the stranger things that we’ve found ants going after, including medication, laundry, and something we’d forgotten for a decade.
- National Park Service vs. Robots From Space
If you went out to the movies in the US during 2009, there’s a good chance you saw a turn-off-your-phone PSA in which a movie about “robots from space” tries to negotiate blowing up Mount Rushmore. In a case of life imitating art, the National Park Service is currently battling Transformers 3 — a movie […]
- LOST Commercials Explained
Theory on LOST’s weird commercials: They figure anyone still watching doesn’t need to be convinced, so they might as well have fun.
- Car-Parts Predator and Soldier
Odd statues made out of old car parts, in front of an auto shop.
- WTF Reindeer Lady
A female mannequin with a reindeer’s head, wearing what appears to be a corset, a tutu, full-length gloves and a white beehive.
- Tori Amos vs. the Hulk
I never thought I’d see Tori Amos show up in a Marvel Comics comedy video starring M.O.D.O.K. — or that when someone started singing Christmas songs, it would be the Hulk. From the M.O.D.O.K. Holiday Special.
- Comic-Con Sellout
Crazy: 9 months ahead, full-event Comic-Con 2010 tickets are already sold out. 1-day tickets haven’t gone on sale yet.
- Thoughts on #AmazonFail (or is that #SorryAmazon?)
Even if it was unintentional, Amazon screwed up responding to the PR disaster.
- I Read it for the Articles!
There’s something odd about this offer for magazine subscriptions. They just don’t seem like a good fit for a student and teacher discount. Newsweek maybe, but…Maxim? Cosmo? Playboy?
- The Singing Fly
The latest newsletter for the Center Theatre Group includes a mention of The Fly: The Opera. Yes, The Fly, based on the sci-fi film about a scientist who gets combined with a housefly in a teleportation accident. And its remake. As an opera. 😯 Plácido Domingo conducts the U.S. premiere of the LA Opera-commissioned opera […]
- Free Gas with your Spam List!
Wow… you know gas is expensive when the spammers start hawking gas cards. Our support contact address received a message touting “Finest List of Nurses Including Email Addresses – Free $50 Gas Card” I had to wonder what the heck it was, so I took a look at the message. They were trying to sell […]
- There’s a convention for everything
Here’s a weird one. it turns out that ROFLCon, dedicated to all those Internet fads, was held at MIT this past weekend.
- Skiffy Links
Comic-Con 2008 hotel post-mortem at The Beat, the Seven Habits of Highly Effective Starship Captains at IO9, and Computer Love Day from Mandriva.
- Jumping the Gun
Today’s “Super Tuesday,” on which a whole bunch of states hold their primary elections. We still have have Democrats running against other Democrats and Republicans running against other Republicans, hoping to get their parties’ nominations for this fall’s Presidential election. So it was weird last night to see an ad for Republican Mitt Romney contrasting […]
- Double-Decker Truck
Spotted this several months ago, and recently found it in my photo archive.
- New Age Drinks?
Okay, maybe I’ve missed a memo or something, but can someone tell me: what exactly is a new age drink? Nothing in the aisle stood out as being particularly new-agey.
- Not a problem
Ordinarily, there wouldn’t be anything odd about this sign. But look at the placement. Why do they need a No Parking sign in the middle of the lawn? It’s a new sign, too—they just redid the entire lawn last year. Seriously, I don’t think they’re going to have much of a problem with people parking […]
- Pro-whaaat?
A piece of spam came across the abuse desk the other day hawking something called “Viagra Professional.” Just as some songs aren’t suited for elevator music, some products aren’t suited for Microsoft-style naming schemes. Think about it: Outside the pharmaceutical industry, what *ahem* profession would have a use for Viagra?
- What people look for
It’s always interesting to see what people are searching for when they find this site. It’s even more interesting to look at the bottom of the list, the long tail full of one-off searches, some of which… can be really strange. “what to do with tumbleweeds” — Hmm. Mash ’em, boil ’em, put ’em in […]
- Enhance your… mortgage?
I suppose it was only a matter of time before these two genres of spam collided. Today I received a spam advertising body-part enlargement products, with a link to a site called bmsMUNGEDcommercialmortgage.info (without the MUNGED). Apparently, getting a new mortgage is supposed to increase my ability to handle huge tracts of land.
- Eat here—we have no taste!
I’m not sure what annoys me more about this ad: the fact that the joke is tasteless (which is an oddly appropriate phrase, considering it’s about food), or the fact that it’s equating something they serve (the mustard) with urine. “Come here, our mustard tastes like piss!” Yeah, that’s encouraging. Spotted on September 10.
- Professional…Building?
Don’t trust your office to some amateur building! Hire a professional! Of course, what I’m really concerned about is what it does on its day off…
- Irritable Liquid?
Found on the side of an AM-PM convenience store today: That’s one cranky glass of water. Or maybe Odo? My best guess is that they were trying to say something like “inflammable,” decided it wouldn’t fit, and misused a thesaurus.
- Cheese!
This just looks like something out of a Wallace and Gromit movie. I mean, seriously. “Cheese Information Center?” “The Ultimate Cheese Guide?” (Found at an Albertson’s grocery store.)
- Dancing Liberty
Add this to the list of jobs I don’t want: Dancing Statue of Liberty mascot. This poor guy was dancing around in front of a tax preparer’s office last weekend. Faces have been blurred to protect the innocent. Update January 2009: Someone hit this post after searching for “dancing tax preparer.” Is it really that […]
- Red Wolf Riding Hood?
We went to see Scott Shaw’s show, Oddball Comics last night. Maybe a block away from the Acme Comedy Theatre, we saw this billboard: It’s hard to see in the photo, but they’re touching their index fingers together. There’s nothing else in the center of the billboard, just empty space. As near as I can […]
- Commies From Mars!
The Grand Comics Database* is a project to index the titles, dates, credits, covers, and character appearances in every comic book ever published. A sidebar on the home page shows the latest cover scan contributed. A couple of days ago, that cover scan was this: The image links to the GCD entry, which is still […]
- Caught in the act
This sort of thing just goes to prove that no one has quite the same college experience, even at the same college. (In this case, the UCI School of Humanities, where I spent two years before coming to my senses and switching to a major I actually liked.) It’s probably just as well. The best […]
- Online Organleggers
Here’s the WTF?!?!?!!!! moment of the day. Actual spam received over the weekend: Sell Your Organs Online! Reply to this message if your interested in selling your organs! Seriously, what the hell? Forget the fact that selling organs is illegal in the US. And I’m sure mailing them across state lines would be a felony. […]
- What does it smell like?
Another discovery at the mall on Saturday: “The Essence of Adventure.” I honestly cannot figure out what the target audience is for this. I mean, a Hummer fragrance? Does it make you smell like you’ve been driving in mud all day? Is it a bottle of engine oil? Is it supposed to give you that […]
- Not so comforting
We had some free time before seeing Serenity again on Saturday, so we wandered into Hot Topic. (Katie finds T-shirts there from time to time, and it’s always interesting to just look at the slogans you wouldn’t think of actually wearing.) Well, they’ve had a line of Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise for a while, so […]