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Thursday, July 29, 2004
I'd very much like this story to be true:
When Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" statement. before he re-entered the lander, he made the enigmatic remark "Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky."
Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet cosmonaut; however, upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian nor American space programs.
When he was a kid, Neil was playing baseball with his brother in the backyard. His brother hit a fly ball which landed in front of his neighbors' bedroom window. The neighbors were Mr and Mrs Gorsky. as he leaned down to pick up the ball, he heard Mrs Gorsky shouting at Mr Gorsky, "Oral sex? Oral sex you want? You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"
Seen on Bander.net
Sadly I've checked it out on Urban Legends - and it's a myth
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004
The Dairy Lama - home of Cheese Haikus ("Mooku")
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Monday, July 26, 2004
Die Wagenschenke - Das Partyzelt am Albanifest in Winterthur. - No, I don't know what the translation is either, but it's horribly, horribly addictive.
(Use you mouse to control the drunk and see how far you can go before he falls over)
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Sunday, July 25, 2004
A Fowl Canard - I am having a very odd weekend.
I was attending an outside broadcast of my favourite radio program last Wednesday. Without going into too much explanation, it occurred to me that their mascot (a decoy duck), was in dire need of a fan-run web site.
OK, maybe not dire but I was bored and, like Everest, it was there.
So I built the darn thing - mostly to see if I could and how long it would take. Having put it online, I sent a quick e-mail to the show's presenter to tell her about it, went to bed and din't give it much more thought.
I think she rather liked the site - in fact she spent about 10 minutes talking about as soon as the show started the next day. The vistitor counter rocketed and...
Well, you can see for yourself.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2004
C'mon Michael Moore - update your blog!!!
I actually have my own Michael Moore story - sit back, get comfortable 'cos I'm gonna tell it now, no matter what.
A few years ago, just as Phantom Menace was released in the US, I happened to be visiting friends in NYC. This was a fortunate coincidence (honest!). Since we all love Science Fiction, we decided to go see the film in a nice Manhatten theatre.
However, one member of our group is himself an actor and is quite well-known in Sci-Fi fandom (especially his voice). Therefore he was told to keep quiet while we were getting the tickets as otherwise there was a good chance he'd have to deal with fans and we would be delayed getting to our seats.
He dutifully showed up outside the theatre, his mouth virtually ziplocked shut, only to find that Michael Moore was also in the line for tickets and was being mobbed for autographs - by the very people who'd asked my friend to keep quiet so we'd have no delays getting in to see the film.
Oops!
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Monday, July 19, 2004
I may have done this before but....
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Saturday, July 17, 2004
From Michael Moore Breaking News!:
"Letterman's Top Ten List: Top Ten George W. Bush Complaints About 'Fahrenheit 9/11':
10. That actor who played the President was totally unconvincing
9. It oversimplified the way I stole the election
8. Too many of them fancy college-boy words
7. If Michael Moore had waited a few months, he could have included the part where I get him deported
6. Didn't have one of them hilarious monkeys who smoke cigarettes and gives people the finger
5. Of all Michael Moore's accusations, only 97% are true
4. Not sure - - I passed out after a piece of popcorn lodged in my windpipe
3. Where the hell was Spider-man?
2. Couldn't hear most of the movie over Cheney's foul mouth
1. I thought this was supposed to be about dodgeball "
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Friday, July 16, 2004
Michael Moore.com : Mike's Message : Blog - well the good news is that Michael Moore has finally started writing a blog. He kicked off very auspiciously on July 4th.
However the bad news is that it looks like he's been immediately stricken with the curse of all bloggers "ohshitI'vegottodoanupdate!!!". At the time of writing, his blog has one update posted July 6th and that's it - nada for almost 2 weeks.
Admittedly he's a busy man which might explain the silence. But it's not a good idea to kick off a new blog and then let it wither on the vine and die.
Fingers crossed.
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Thursday, July 15, 2004
Septimus Heap MAGYK - OK, this is a blatant plug since the author is the mother of my chum Laurie. However, this is a still a very nifty site; games with pet rocks, an interloping duck that meows - what more could you want?
Oh, and her book is good too.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Build your own Mercury probe - all it needs is some glue, some card and a coffee stirrer. Yeah, no UK home is complete without a packet of coffee stirrers....
Now where did I put that piece of sticky-back plastic....?
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
JeffBridges.com - Stuff - Periodically I check out websites which have been built for actors. I've got a few actor gallery pages on my own site and it's useful to keep up date. Sadly a lot of official sites are dire and look even worse when compared with the unofficial fan site for the same person.
( Shirley Jones - if you ever read this, I think you are great but, in my professional opinion, your official site is an embarrassment).
Having said all that, Jeff Bridges's site is very cool and suitably quirky. I don't know to what extent he was involved in its development but the impression you get is of a guy who is just having a lot of fun and being creative and it works. His stuff page is particularly weird, so naturally I loved it (just follow the link behind the doodle labeled "should have read the small print").
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Monday, July 12, 2004
Double-Tongued Word Wrester - anyone who has read this blog for a while will know that I'm tickled by words and language. I'm dead chuffed any time I learn a new word or find a site about them.
Run by an American lexicographer, this site "focuses upon slang, jargon, and other niche categories which include new, foreign, hybrid, archaic, obsolete, and rare words. Special attention is paid to the lending and borrowing of words between the various Englishes and other languages, even where a word is not a fully naturalized citizen in its new language."
Hmm, migrating 'asylum seeker' words....I like it.
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Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Sterlingtimes: A Virtual Scrapbook of British Nostalgia. - (try to overlook the webmaster's politics if you can).
If you know all the words to the Ovaltiney song, don't think that Muffin the Mule is a sexual offense and if "Flobbadobba" actually means something to you, this is a great place to wallow in memories of stuff you grew up with and had sucessfully managed to forget until now.
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Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Quote of the Day is from weatherman Michael Fish while announcing gale force winds and rain tomorrow [ you will not get this unless you were living in the UK in 1986]:
"I don't want to worry you but I've just had a phone call from a lady in Wales."
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Sunday, July 04, 2004
Designs on the White House "We have seen the future.
And it is a T-shirt."
Since Republican Comedy is a bit of an oxymoron you just know this site has to be pro-Kerry.
They've called on every American with a conscience, a mouse, and a good idea to submit designs for a better John Kerry 2004 Presidential Campaign T-shirt. The winners and some outstanding runners-up are shown here.
"Redefeat Bush in 2004"
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Thursday, July 01, 2004
You're The Mists of Avalon!
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
You're obsessed with Camelot in all its forms, from Arthurian legend
to the Kennedy administration. Your favorite movie from childhood was "The Sword in
the Stone". But more than tales of wizardry and Cuban missiles, you've focused on
women. You know that they truly hold all the power. You always wished you could meet
Jackie Kennedy.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
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