Category: odd

just in case you didn’t already know it, today is international talk like a pirate day.

here’s the telemarketing counterscript that i mentioned during the church welcome at today’s early worship service. this wonderful idea was thought up by the great people at egbg.

today i watched a crazy woman carry on a violent conversation with a burger king sign. i stood in the order line and watched as she shouted, pointed, and responded to this sign for awhile. at least i think she did because as i watched her i suddenly became aware that she might be having a conversation with someone via an ear piece hooked up to a cell phone. that’s the problem with those stupid little ear peices … you can’t tell if you are looking at a crazy person or someone who really loves their cell phone (maybe the are both the same).

now i have to confess that i use an ear piece with my cell phone if i am driving. i definitely feel safer with both hands on my steering wheel. i’m okay with people using cell phone headsets while they are driving – probably because i do it and therefore i somehow few it as acceptable. i still get a little freaked out trying to determine if someone talking while they are driving is a) singing to music, b) arguing with talk radio, c) talking with someone on a cell phone, or d) crazy. yet this is not as bad as the random stranger walking around either talking to their cell phone or to the voices that reside within them that only they can hear. i generally make it a policy to avoid people who are on the side of the road screaming at invisible combatants.

so that’s why i was so intrigued by the lady at burger king. i had to figure out if the lady was crazy or merely in the midst of a heated phone call. the two situations make for very different stories. nobody wants to hear a story about someone talking on a cell phone but a crazy woman screaming at a burger king sign is an entirely different matter. who doesn’t love a good “crazy woman shouting a fast food logo” story? nobody i know. so i searched with my eyes as hard as i could to determine if i was witnessing schizophrenia or clear cell reception. i looked for any sign that there might be an electronic device involved in her conversation but i couldn’t find any. so i’m assuming she was shouting at the voices in her head that she apparently thought were residing within the burger king sign. of course, who can really blame her? every knows that burger king signs are evil.

this is an moldy oldy but i figure many of your have never seen it and thus i need to complete your internet education and introduce you to the infamous exploding whale. this video shows the “removal” of a 45 ton gray whale that washed up dead on the shores of florence, oregon. things didn’t really go as planned and that’s where the humor comes in. imagine about 20 tons of blubber being blown into the air. a fatty death rained down from the skies. if you have never seen this video you really need to watch it.

this is an amazingly cool video. it’s a giant octopus taking down a 4 foot long shark. maybe this is the answer to the shark attacks within the gulf?

more bouncy balls

Originally uploaded by sem.

how cool is this? sony was making a commercial and for it they “shot” 100,000 bouncy balls out of a large cannon down a street in san francisco. i have no idea what it is for but i do think it is cool.

another example of bouncy ball throwing can be found in the pascack high school senior prank. the seniors released over 2,000 bouncy balls within their school hall. of course, the prank went seriously wrong when other students released rats, mice, and crickets and the principal had a heart attack.

here’s the afi’s list of 100 greatest movie quotes yet. it’s quite interesting.

here are some of my favorites:

12. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” “Apocalypse Now,” 1979.

21. “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” 1991.

24. “I am big! It’s the pictures that got small,” “Sunset Blvd.,” 1950.

53. “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know,” “Animal Crackers,” 1930.

64. “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”, “Dr. Strangelove,” 1964.

79. Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious.” Rumack: “I am serious … and don’t call me Shirley,” “Airplane!”, 1980.

98. “Nobody puts Baby in a corner,” “Dirty Dancing,” 1987.

what are yours? which quotes do you think should have been on the list and weren’t?

this is incredibly freaky and yet mesmerizing. it’s a shockwave flash animation of a woman falling through the air into these bubble-type things. you can then “click” on her and drop her in different areas. pam, the boys, and i have been watching it for quite some time.

click here to view the animation and be disturbed.

Going Under

Originally uploaded by DYFL.

this is for all those who consistently have automobile accidents. you can’t feel too bad until you drive for a living and do this with your vehicle. until you reach this level of accident you can always rest assured that there is at least one driver in the world who is worse than you.

of course, once you “top” this accident you have reached an entirely new level of terrible driving.

friday i had to drive from coosa county, alabama to kiln, mississippi to be with adam during the parent night of the boy scout camp he had been on. along the way i decided to stop and get a diet coke. i stopped in a really small area of mississippi. one that had a real “deliverance” feel to it. i stopped at a convenience store and walked in to get my desired drink.

have you ever noticed how sometimes you can just sense that something is a little different a person? you may not have had any conversation or interaction with a person and yet for some reason you know that that person is going to be interesting in a weird sort of way. i love those people. you always get the best stories out of them.

well the 20-something year old cashier at this store was full of that “interesting person” vibe. i knew the second i saw her that should would be an odd person to be around. i grabbed my diet coke and walk up to her and made a little small talk. she calculated what i owed for the drink and told me the price. i paid her and started to turn to leave. that when she said to me “now go be a good puppy.”

i guess some of y’all may have had this statement made to you but i haven’t. i’ve never really be trained in my life to know what the correct response to such a statement is. so i did the only thing i knew to do. i stopped, turned around, and stared at her in complete confusion. i guess i figured by looking at her i would be able to determine what in the world she meant. i couldn’t. so i just kept on staring. the cashier apparently noticed my confusion and thought that i had merely not heard her. so she started to say the statement again but this time she waved the back of her hand at me like she was shooing something away. she waved her hand and once again said, “now go be a good puppy.”

i still didn’t know what to do. in fact, at this moment i still can’t figure out what the correct response to such a statement is. at that time i just turned back around and walked out of the store figuring maybe she was reminding me not to pee on the floor. all i know is that i’m trying to be “a good puppy.” whatever that means.