We’re Knights of the Round Table We Laugh Whenever Able …

I just had to add a link to this comic from Socks and Barney by Steve Conley because it is just a great laugh especially if you are a Monty Python fan and are watching the Democratic Nomination race. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

The only thing I think would make his comic better is if he had the characters calling each other “twit” more often. Don’t know what it is about that word but I really like it.

Persian Gulf – Arabic Gulf What’s so Damned Important About a Name?

Since my company does a lot of work in THE Gulf region (you know the one where the US is always meddling in), I wanted to make sure I got the names correct of the countries that we do most of our business with. So I did a search for the Arabic Gulf since that is what most of the countries on the Arabic Peninsula call it and I find this mock 404 page. Which basically says that the Arabic Gulf doesn’t exist and that you should try looking for the Persian Gulf, as well as suggesting that you really need to read history books. There is also a link to a site called Legofish (which makes me wonder if a certain toy company in Denmark will be very happy to know that this guy uses their trademark), which apparently discusses that the mock 404 page was created as a Google Bomb because Iranian bloggers weren’t happy with National Geographic using the name Arabic Gulf instead of Persian Gulf. So it makes me wonder what is so damned important about a name?

Here’s my reasoning on this and not in any particular order:

1. Everyone on the other side of this body of water usually prefer to refer to it as the Arabic Gulf.
2. Although at one time the Persians were a very powerful people in the area around this body of water, how many people living in the area are still Persian.
3. If my history is correct the Persians were led by the Shah who was ousted when the people of Iran decided to follow the religion of the Arabic people.

Since no one can really decide which is the proper name for this body of water I have a suggestion that should please everyone. How about we call it the “Black Gold Gulf” or “Oil Gulf” or “Gulf of Oil Tankers”.

Hillary Clinton During Explosive Decompression

Have you ever seen the movie Total Recall? A couple of times in the movie they attempt to show explosive decompression with people’s eyes popping out of their heads and tongues swelling out of their mouths.

Well when I woke up this morning and checked to see the winners of the New Hampshire Primary I saw this picture on CNN:

I’m pretty sure it comes from being excited but I keep expecting her head to burst like an over stretched balloon. I think if I were running for president I really wouldn’t want the world to see this picture.

“I’m more of a Philip K. Dick guy.” Red Meat Comic that I Found Funny

I don’t read “Red Meat” often. It’s not that I don’t get their jokes it’s because I have so many other web comics to read. I did however find this one to be quite funny and so I’m going to share the link to it here (However you might want to know that this link will eventually expire).

Red Meat

Google’s Malware Warning and Bloom County.

I’m a big fan of Berkeley Breathed, the author of such great comic strips as Bloom County, Outland, and Opus. He has a great satire and I’ve always enjoyed reading his comics as far back as my childhood (of course now that I’m an adult his jokes make more sense). So out of curiosity I decided to take a look online for where they might be posting old Outland comics (Yahoo and GoComics are posting Bloom County Reruns, and Comics.com posts Opus on Sundays). So of course I turn to trusty Google. So I run a search for “Outland Comic” and the second listing is Berkeley Breathed’s website, and it is marked as “This site may harm your computer“. Now I’m not too sure I understand how that happened but I can say that I’m pretty sure that Berkeley Breathed would not have a site that has some sort of hazard seeing he’s probably trying to sell his books.

Strange thing this Google Malware Warning stuff. I hope they get it figured out soon. In the mean time does anyone know where I someone is syndicating the Outland comic?

Happy New Year and All That Stuff

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year.

If you want to see a funny video that is shown every year in Germany on New Years Eve called “Dinner for One” (Yep it’s in English go figure).

iPod Nano Video Vs. Kaleidescope

So there’s a new commercial on German TV for the iPod Nano now with video. My wife had a wonderful comment about it, “A kaleidescope is cheaper and is basically the same thing, dancing colored dots”.

I can agree with that I guess.

Interior Decoration From the 70’s gone MAD!

 My wife and I are planning on eventually buying a house, once we get enough money for such an undertaking. We were looking last night at a website that posts property for sale here in Germany. There were some nice houses and some that weren’t as nice but this one stood out and had us almost in tears when we saw the interior decoration.

The outside of the house doesn’t look too bad, sadly the housing agent didn’t use this as the first picture instead they used this one.

This is where we started laughing. We have referred to this as the Red Room and is a place where you could film 70’s style porn. The red satin wall paper really does it for me as well as the 70’s era television on a stick sitting in the corner. Now if you think that this is all and that the rest of the house is better you should just keep reading.

This next picture is the reverse of the last. I’m not quite sure what the lady on the left hand side standing in the window thinks she is doing. Escaping most likely. The arch really is something though I’m not quite sure why the rest of the wall is black. At least it isn’t as red as the rest of the room.

The Red Room also has an annoying little corner that leads to … even more hideous red satin wall paper.

Now if you think that is funny let us take a look at the rest of this color coordinated house. Following the Red Room we come across the Blue Room or Maybe it should be Sapphire I’m not sure but it is definitely blue.

Follow the blue room with the Green Room. And what a disgusting shade of green too. I’m pretty sure that the previous owners were either 1. Very proud of how uniquely decorated their house was, 2. Extremely old, or 3. Blind

The bathroom left me completely speechless. My wife giggling over my shoulder and I couldn’t say anything my mind was lost in the thought that someone would mix sand brown with black in such a terrible way. It kind of put me in the mind of a Hundertwasser house.

This is probably the least eye injuring room in the house. The thing is I’m not sure what it was suppose to be used for.

Here is an example of the entry way. The mixture of red brick and green was again really hard on my eyes. It kind of looks like a waiting room in some old doctors office or worse.

The saving grace for this house (cough) is that it comes with its own little swimming pool.

I’m not sure what to make of this house other than I would not spend 218,000 Euros on it. EEEK

Top 10 … err ok only 4 Ugliest People of 2007

I asked and you have spoken here is the list of the Top 10 Ugliest People of 2007:

1. Blackwater: They’re nothing but Mercenaries. The United States has enough soldiers we don’t need to use Mercenaries.
2. 12 member all white jury in the Martin Lee Anderson trial: Although there was overwhelming evidence they still found the guards not guilty.
3. Anne Coulter: Uber-conservative who’s mind is as closed as a book that has been glued together.
4. Michael Moore: The complete opposite of Anne Coulter except for the closed mind part in which case they could be twins.

Well folks that is really all that I got that really fit the bill, there were nominations for Nancy Pelosi, Cindy Sheehan, and Hillary Clinton. However, the person apparently only nominated them because he was a far right-winger. Some of you might wonder where the illustrious leaders of our country are? Well, that would be too easy wouldn’t it. Maybe next year I’ll nominate them for the life time achievement award.

I figure the problem with this years was because I just didn’t give you enough time to give me entries. So for next year I’ll start taking nominations starting today!

Last Week to Get Your Votes In!

Ok everyone this is your last week to get your votes/nominations in for the Top 10 Ugliest People.

If I don’t get enough votes/nominations for this year’s vote I’m going to create the list as I see it. If you want to have a say in the list then YOU need to get posting. Otherwise, well we’ll just have to go with MY opinions.