Have you ever wanted your own dinosaur and a man-servant? If you do, and you happen to own an extra house in Vancouver, today just might be your lucky day. A man in Vancouver is offering up his services as a pet dinosaur (the species is your choice) and a maid/nanny for one full year in exchange for his own Vancouver home at the end of his servitude. A few choice excerpts:
Do you own more than one property? Do you have so many rental homes with no mortgage payments, yet you still feel unfulfilled? Tired of your illegal tenants whining that there are rats in the walls? Have you always wanted your own dinosaur? Now is your chance my friend.
In exchange for one of your properties, I will be your personal dinosaur for one year. I will be at your beck and call, 24 hours a day, wearing a dinosaur costume. The type of dinosaur is negotiable. I can babysit your children (references upon request), scare the mailman, wash dishes, entertain and impress your guests, and much more.
When you think about it, Winnie the Pooh makes a lot more sense when you consider all of the characters simply live inside of a mental institution. Dan Meth hit the nail on the head with this great medication chart. Link via Laughing Squid
What happens when you invite a bunch of shallow reality tv show stars to a geek wedding complete with Gollum from the Lord of the Rings? If you're one of the girls on tv, you'll be disgusted. If you're a geek who likes off-beat weddings though, you'll enjoy the pure hilarity of their responses.
Michael Moore is best known for his documentaries, in fact, only one of his movies doesn't fall under the title. Any ideas as to what movie that is?
If you said Canadian Bacon, you know your movies. I saw this yesterday when Zeon and I were watching the comedy and I have to say I was surprised to see that. He even makes a cameo in the movie as a red neck who is eager to go to war with the Canadians.
It got me thinking, do you guys know of any other movies who were directed or written by someone totally unexpected?
Artist Jason Freeny isn't content with viewing the exterior of some of our favorite toy characters, he wants to know what the insides of Care Bears and My Little Ponies look like. His depictions of the creation's innards are delightful for biology-loving geeks and terrifying for children.
It might not be the sexiest lingerie around, but it just might be the geekiest. Of course, this might just be dangerous for the ladies out there, as one of your breasts are likely to start attacking the other at any given time.
What happens when one bored office starts posting 8 bit characters on their windows with Post It Notes and the office across the street starts competing with their designs? A delightful art war, that's what. Be sure to click the link and enjoy all of the great pictures.
Oddee has a great article featuring the World's Youngest record holders for a variety of titles. While they range from shocking (the world's youngest grandmother) to fascinating (the world's youngest CEO). Perhaps the cutest though is the world's youngest surfer:
Jaylan Amor is only two years old, but is already surfing the waves outside of Brisbane, Australia, and has secured multiple endorsements from surf shops. To catch a wave, his dad paddles him out to sea, then the two year old hops and rides the waves back into shore. Mr Amor isn't worried if Jaylan falls, as the tike just swims back to his board and waits for daddy to help him back up.
Stunt men always have had dangerous jobs, but back in the silent era of films, their jobs were incredibly risky. Mental Floss has an incredible list of some of the most famous stunts from the period and how they were performed. For the most part, even the ones with some safety techniques built in were still very dangerous and many ended up in disaster.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm a big fan of weird new niche blogs, which is why I love it when Miss C posts her niche blog posts over at Mental Floss. My favorite blog from this roundup is most certainly Black and WTF, which features weird and delightful black and white photos.
Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday is this Saturday and while I’m sure many of you are fans of the I Love Lucy show, many of our geek readers should also have an appreciation for the iconic red head for her pivotal role in helping to launch the Star Trek series. Here’s how it all came to happen.
A Little Background On Lucy
Lucy’s first foray into the acting world occurred when she was only twelve and her Shriner stepfather encouraged her to participate in the chorus line of the group’s next show. Shortly after, her mother enrolled her into the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in New York City, where she studied alongside Bette Davis. While Davis excelled in the program, Ball didn’t and she was sent home only a few weeks later when one of her drama coaches told her she "had no future at all as a performer." Determined to prove her instructors wrong, Ball returned to New York when she turned 18 and started working as a fashion model. Eventually, she decided to move to Los Angeles and start working in the movie industry. She appeared in a number of small movies throughout the 30s and 40s, eventually garnering the title “Queen B,” referencing her exceeding number of appearances in B movies.
Launching A Media Empire
In 1940, Lucy met Desi Arnaz while filming Too Many Girls. At their first introduction, Desi was not impressed, but when they met again later the same day, he quickly became smitten. The two eloped later that year. Unfortunately, while the two were passionately in love, there was always turbulence in their relationship. Only four years after the couple married, Lucy filed for divorce. Before things were finalized though, the couple reconciled.
Aside from working on B films, Lucy kept herself busy by performing on radio shows. In 1948, she was cast as Liz Cugat in the program My Favorite Husband for CBS Radio. The program was a hit and it wasn’t long before CBS approached her about reworking the show for television. While Lucy agreed, she insisted that the station cast Arnaz as her husband. Desi and Lucy quickly started their own production company, Desilu Productions, and produced a pilot episode for CBS. CBS wasn’t sure the public was ready for a white woman and Cuban man to portray a married couple on television and after filming the pilot episode, they declined to pick up the show. Undeterred, Lucy and Desi took the act on the road, performing a vaudeville act starring Lucy as a zany housewife who wanted to work in her husband’s entertainment show. The tour was a hit and CBS quickly agreed to put I Love Lucy on their television lineup.
If I didn't have a purse and wasn't careful to always put my keys back in it every time, I'd always lose my keys. For those of you with the same problem, but without a purse system, you can now keep track of your keys by sticking them on your light switch plate every time you come home. Sounds like a great idea to me!
http://shop.thefancy.com/product/magnetic-switch-cover Via GeekOSystem
Environmental Graffiti has a great list of crazy tools inmates used in their escape attempts. My personal favorite is the shotgun above.
This was more than just ingenious; it worked as well! A shotgun made of iron bedposts. The charge came from lead in curtain tape and was set off by AA batteries. Prisoners took a hostage, fired at a pane of glass and broke out into a waiting car on May 21, 1984.
The Jaws poster was so iconic that is has become ripe for parodies and being as how it's Shark Week right now, there's no time like the present to appreciate these great spoofs on the original movie artwork.
Apparently Two and A Half Men will soon be killing off Charlie Sheen's character in order to make room for Ashton Kutcher. In honor of the characters demise, Mental floss has a great article reflecting on 11 other shows who killed off characters in memorable manners. My personal favorite was Susan's death in Seinfeld. While I knew the story line, the article still has other great bits about the episode that I didn't know -like the fact that the show was temporarily pulled from syndication after the anthrax attacks of 2001.
