"Anachronistic Antidisestablishmentarianism: A Case Study"
I noticed a pattern. It always happened in Yahoo Mail, in the subject line. So I googled this strange phenomenon (after googling Anachronistic Antidisestablishmentarianism: A Case Study and turning up a Wordpress blog post about a teen searching for Jesus) and guess what!!!
This has to be my favorite easter egg ever. Yes, even more favorite than the one in the last post. I then proceeded to go through them all. I love them. I am SO using some of these phrases for posts in the future.
Disclaimer: No fluffy warm creatures were maimed, dismembered, tortured, deplumed, discarded, deflowered, dropped, twisted, wrung out, extended, respliced, broken, humiliated, irradiated, brow beaten, pickled, deluded, duped, detained, mishandled, desiccated, bronzed, belittled, coddled, expelled, deported, imbibed, elected, marginalized, placated, misrepresented, overworked, underpaid, underappreciated, overly petted, genetically altered, or cloned during the making of this product. Except, of course, for Bunny and Bear. Nuff Said."
- from the notorious WCEE Credits Easter Egg in all versions of IE. This cracked me up! (I've added punctuation and got rid of errant capitalization and spaces for better readability. And better grammar *coughGrammar Nazicough*) The Bunny and Bear were famous Microsoft in-jokes that you can read all about in Wikipedia if you feel the need to.
A: The Emergency Flasher Button B: The Hazard Light Button C: Pizza for everyone! D: Iunno but it looks muy importante. E: THE PANIC BUTTON!!!!!!1!!!!!eleventy-one!!!!!
The correct answer is E. Okay, technically it's A. But I think it's E. Various people have corrected me, but I refuse to think otherwise. Because it's funny. It makes me picture people hitting the button and then running around the car waving their arms and screaming. And because such a button, all big and red and centered and dangerous-looking, just looks like, I don't know, a panic button should look. (Because when I see triangles, I think panic!)
Paradox, that is. Listen closely and you shall see...
Sesquipedalian. Now here is a word that just does not make much sense. It means using long words. Now, just using the word sesquipedalian would indicate that you were sesquipedalian. Which would make the use of the word sesquipedalian just a formality, as it had already been shown that you use long words. *brain fries*
It's a free download that makes it ridiculously easy to draw and animate little stick creatures. Here's one I just made. You can click on it to seem him in full-size animated glory. Yes, his name is Howard. PS: If you get a song with the right beat just right, it will look like he's dancing to it. This was highly amusing at 11:30 pm. (I recommend Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.)
So the song Log got stuck in my head today. You know, from Ren & Stimpy. The video completely cracks me up, and of course I'm most obliged to share the earworm so you can enjoy it too.
I wonder who came up with the term earworm? I mean, it's not a nice term. It's slightly strange, actually. It makes me think of some fat white writhing beast, a little like a maggot, that crawls across your pillow at night, enters your ear, latches onto your brain with its mouth thing like on a tapeworm, sucks it out during the night, and turns you into a zombie. (Feel free to hold me responsible for putting that lovely image into your head.) They should call it ear-itch, or repeater, or something like that.
And speaking of which, did you know there's a science to earworms? Nobody knows exactly why they happen. Apparently, though, it is because they cause some sort of cognitive itch, and the only way to get it to go away is to scratch it. And the only way to scratch it is by playing the song in your head... over and over and over again... until you want to scream. And repetitive songs or songs with sudden twists seem to be more likely to cause these cognitive itches. So, you learned something new today.
This is what is being blasted through my headphones right now. I wonder when it changed to this song. It just occurred to me to wonder why I'm listening to this.
This week's random link/music video is completely awesome. It's a flash video for Geeks in Love by Lemon Demon. The more you watch it the more you notice, and if you're a geek you'll find plenty of it completely hilarious. I love it. There are so many little jokes and things I could point out about this video, but I'll let you find them for yourself.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
Here's mine: And for him it was different- the more he won, the unhappier he became. But though he sometimes missed questions whose answers he knew, he still won the contests easily, gaining admission to bigger contests with bigger prizes, until at last his parents were perfectly dazzled at the prospect of fortune, and Sticky was perfectly exhausted. Despite complaining and even begging, however, he couldn't persuade them to let him stop. - The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
I did the The Band Meme, not because I was tagged, but because I wanted to. (Miracle of miracles, I actually wanted a meme!) Here's what you do: 1. Go here. The first article title on the page is the name of your band. 2. Them click this. The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album. 3. Finally go to this link. The third picture is your album cover. 4. Use your graphics program of choice to put them together into a respectable album cover and you’re finished.
Presenting, for the first time ever, my new-release album cover: Band Name: Boulge* Album Title: know where things are.** Picture: the shoes with the happy faces drawn on them, titled happy feet by the taker, which is very cute.
I, being the curious music geek I am, wonder what you all think my music off this album would sound like. I'd like to hear your ideas before I tell you what I imagine "know where things are." to sound like.
*a hamlet in England, in case you were wondering. Yeah, like Bulge, but with an O. That's important. ** I went all minimalist and didn't capitalize anything. This is an ironic title for me to get, because I typically don't. ---------------- Now playing: Ladytron-- Seventeen that was me again, hehe.
(enjoy the craptastic alien abduction concert corny fighting plus crappy animation video for this song)
I feel the need to announce this. You know that wildly popular (kind of carppy, now that I hear it again) song, Blue by Eiffel 65? I misheard some lyrics in it. I had never looked up the lyrics to it, ever, and I got a shock when I did. You know that little rap part in the middle? This part: I have a blue house with a blue window. Blue is the color of all that I wear. Blue are the streets and all the trees are too. I have a girlfriend and she is so blue. Blue are the people here that walk around, Blue like my corvette, it's standing outside. Blue are the words I say and what I think. Blue are the feelings that live inside me.
Well, prepare yourself for my version-until-five-minutes-ago. I have a blue house with a blue window. Blue is the color I vomit and I wear it. (Ew, yuck, blarg, gee-ross!) Blue are the streets and now the trees are blue. (minor mix-up here) I have a girlfriend and she is so blue. Blue are the people here that walk around. Blue is my corvette, its engine on fire (YOW! Lay off on the starter fluid, buddy.) Blue are the words I sing when I think. (If singing helps you think, I guess...) Blue are the feelings that live inside me.
---------------- Now playing: Of Montreal - Lysergic Bliss (That was actually me, I changed it to what I'm listening to on internet radio since it doesn't work with that)
I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! Oh, and a Happy Hannukah, too, if you celebrate that!
I probably won't be posting again until next year, which actually isn't as long as it sounds. Until then, I'd like to give you this link to get you out of those incredibly boring holiday parties that we have all faced at some point in our lives:
Presenting the next part of Bee's meme at long last! This is the random one. It actually wasn't that hard, seeing how good I am at random things and all. Blame me for procrastinating it.
7 random things about me!!
1. I have an irrational fear of a certain song by The Decemberists.
2. Everyone says this music-blasting light up tree the people across the street bought and have in their front yard is annoying, and I agree, but I secretly like it and hate it that whenever the husband comes home he shuts the music off.
3. I am currently watching a fat guy in a red shirt and a jean skirt ride a bull on TV.
4. I had a crush on a cartoon character at 4.
5. I cannot make a decent rhyme- one that isn't like "thread" and "bread"- to save my life.
6. I can say the phrase "I sit and stare at nothing for hours on end" (je rest assis et je regarde fixement dans le vide pendant des heures) in French, but not much else.
7. I wiggle my ears when I'm trying to hear something, like it will actually help.
Bee was kind enough to tag me for not one, but two tag game meme things. I'm a little late with them. Here's the embarrassing one, as promised. Expect the random one soon.
8 (oh, okay... 4) EMBARRASSING THINGS
1. When I was in a play in, I don't know, 1st grade, I had the opening lines, and I went out to speak, in front of everyone in my whole entire family and the school, when the big piece of background scenery came crashing down on me from behind. I didn't even notice until it hit me. And it was caught on film. I have never truly recovered from that.
2. I have an unfortunate way of staring at any objects headed my way until they hit me. Call it Deer-In-Headlights Syndrome. When playing basketball once, someone threw the ball at me. Instead of catching it, I stared at it until it bounced off my upturned face. And it went into the basket! One in a million.
3. I slipped on ice on the top step after a nasty ice storm, once. It was a really comical Chaplin special, with one foot coming flying out from under me almost 90 degrees after planting it, and me landing flat on my butt. I bumped down all three stairs, and absolutely flew all the way down the path- on my butt, remember, with both legs and both arms flailing wildly- until I finally managed to skid to a stop where the paved little path bends. It must have looked hilarious. And I know a few people who were out at the right moment saw. Not to mention I had a bruise almost the length of my thigh that lasted more than a week. Owie.
4. I ripped my shorts one day this summer- a great big split, right down the back seam- and went around all day with it on. In the mall, with everyone and their uncle in it. I honestly did not notice until I took them off. How bad can that get??
5. No more, I've already humiliated myself enough...
