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I just thought of how cool it would be if the whole A-Team had like midget counterparts that showed up for exploitative cameos in every episode. You know, while they're building the big wooden things or something. They would toss hammers to Murdoch or there would be a fun music video of them accidentally
smashing their thumbs or getting their heads caught in things. And if there was ever an episode where they couldn't be slipped in, they could just wait until Hannibal goes, "I love it when a plan comes together." Then a little midget would run past the camera banging frying pans together. Following after him, Mr. T.(the real one, not the little one) would be screaming, "You better come back here with my frying pan, sucka!" But since the show was cancelled years ago, this could only be done with state-of-the-art digital effects or some sort of unwatchable reunion special. |
Military money goes for all kinds of strange things. I always thought
they should try to have more fun with it. Like maybe they could give out
tricky joke gifts when the men get promoted. The drill sargeant would
march out and get everyone lined up. Then he would start screaming at the top
of his lungs. "Men! You are the most highly trained! And deadly! Soldiers in the world! You! Are unmatched in combat efficiency! You can kill a man with your ass in five seconds! Now! You men have proven your worth to your God! And! To your country! Stand easy! And receive your can of pea-nuts!!! Now, men! They sound half full! That is due to settling during shipping! You men are trained to deal with this! Gentlemen! Open! Your! Cans!!!" Then, when the highly trained deadly soldiers open their (supposed) cans of peanuts, they are surprised to find out that instead of delicous nuts, the cans are bursting with springy snakes! "You men! Are very funny! You should! Have seen your faces! Ha! Ha! Those were not peanuts! But snakes! They were however! Nutty like peanuts! Ha! Ha!" |
If word got out that there were snakes in the peanut cans, they could switch
the prank to gum that turns their mouths blue, or cigars that explode.
And filming events like this would be a much more effective military recruitment
video than a bunch of sailors mopping aircraft carriers. It may sound stupid, but someone somewhere is pondering it right now. Now they're scratching their crotch. Now they're walking across the room. Now they're turning their head... Oh my god! They see me! |
I met some people the other day that managed to chain together
cliches for two straight hours without ever forming an original sentence of their
own. Like one would say, "That is more information
than I needed." And the other would reply, "Oh, don't even go there." The response to that,
of course, was "Whatever!" while sticking their palm in the other person's face. I thought that talking like that might save some time. Like, you wouldn't have to think anymore, you would have a small menu of responses you could pick from after everything you heard. As you get better, you can expand your menu of responses in upwards of five. This also works for jokes. Memorize as many old overtold jokes as you can and pretend you're clever when you insert them in the appropriate places. Example: when one person says, "That chick is a total slut," respond with "Yeah, man. She's like a doorknob. Everybody gets a turn [pause. wait for laughter]." You see, you didn't think it up or do anything remotely clever, but people think you're the funny one. This isn't right. Regurgitated quippy responses are for the comedy and thinking impaired. It seems pretty obvious, but you'd be surprised at how few people notice things like this. So go ahead and say stupid shit. If I'm not there, you'll probably look cool. Speaking of cliches, who came up with "the cat's pajamas?" I know it's just a stupid analogy that probably hasn't been used in decades except by old people commenting on the absorbancy of adult undergarments, but it still seems like it would be a dumb thing to say in almost every possible conversation since the birth of language. |
But listening to me is probably not wise. I'm only some guy who angers parents when their
children visit my home page. Sure, when bad words bother you, you deserve
to be bothered, but receiving hateful emails from angry christians prove that
I've done nothing to help the world other than piss off some people that
needed to get pissed off. So when I need a feeling of accomplishment, I feed some fish
and beat a Nintendo game. Fish don't say anything after you save their pathetic lives, but games
always thank you. That means the only feeling of self worth I've gotten comes from games that end like this:
Muramase Watanabe Enyi Oto Cool Iki Number 7 Joe Smith ... And you! Thankyou for plaeying! Congratulation! |
Who gives money to TV evangelists? What kind of concussion do you have
to suffer to fall for that? Every time I mention this, people say things like, "My grandma gave
20 thousand dollars to an evangalist." I think there is something that happens to the human mind after a certain age, because old people really shouldn't be as amazingly stupid as they are. It's fun to talk to them, though, since only the elderly use words like "negro" and "bastard" as scientific terms.
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Someone thought this message was worth reading in two languages. |
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I worked at a computer help desk for a couple of years helping the problem solving
impaired turn on the computers and "get on the net" or "surf the web." During my time there,
I realized that anyone over 30 has about as much chance of sending an email as a cat.
But in particular, there is one story that stands out in my mind as a time when I really
helped someone. Most of what follows is true:
A little Arab man (nobody in the library at a university is from an English speaking country) chases me down and demands that I stop a vicious crime. Communicating this took many hand gestures and unintelligible words and clicks. When I triumphantly stride with him over to stop the crime in progress, I realize that the thing that upset him so badly was another lab user looking at porn on the web. Some people try to be subtle about this in such a public place, but this guy's entire monitor was filled with crotch.
I don't agree with the anti-porn policy I was about to enforce, but this guy was ugly
and stupid looking enough that I didn't care kicking him out of my library. He looked at
least a little bit mentally handicapped, so instead of grabbing him by his ear and dragging
him out to the cement, I tapped him and said, That's the kind of thing I would do at work when I wasn't playing Mega Man. And, you know, when I wasn't writing haikus.
Tony Danza is tasty |
Super heroes automatically have a built in map of the world in their head.
That's how you can just run or fly in a straight line between Gotham and Beijing without getting
lost on the Atlantic Ocean, and I suppose, since you'll be dead in moments, I can let you know my
brilliant plan, Mr. Bond! People learn everything they know from television. That's why I'm saving money
to get my own network where all I show is suicidal rodeo clowns. That way, people
either start thinking for themselves, or die off in rapid numbers. Wait! Mr. Bond has escaped!
Find him, you fools!! I heard about this thing called country music. I'm still pretty sure that it's a big group of cowboys that are playing the world's largest practical joke since Mormonism. And some day, they're all gonna take off their cowboy hats and chaps and say, "Got you!! Ha ha! Oh man, you guys totally bought it!" |