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Your favorite posts for August were…
Blog Guy, our family keeps a list of our favorite postings in your blog. We read them over and over, and laugh until root beer comes out of our noses. We were just wondering if other readers have favorites, too? The Johnsons
Okay, nobody believes for a moment that there’s a Johnson family that rereads this junk, but I am able to tell you the most popular posts.
Through the wonders of programs that, you know, count stuff, here are the most visited posts for August. You can make sure you didn’t miss any, so those Johnson kids won’t get ahead of your kids:
Are Victorias Secret models turning shy? Not so fast, grasshopper! Duct tape crime – can they make it stick? Quick, Robin! To the gyrocopter! Yes, Im a bikini major, minoring in poise
Guess we need to call Ghostbusters again, for Mom
Quick quiz: this model’s hair…
a) was styled by the Dairy Queen Frozen Custard All Night Hair Salon b) helped make her Europe’s number one Marie Antoinette tribute artist c) was swirled into this shape by the updraft from a passing gyrocopter d) was the result of being sucked into a cotton candy machine at the Indiana State Fair
Tonight on NOVA
Anne Boleyn; a Portrait in Unsuccessful Strategies.
And Finally: Jump Chad, Jump!
Of course, our TV presenter Chad Ruble already has a stunt double, who steps in for risky tasks like toasting Chad’s breakfast bagel and turning in his expenses.
But now, we’ve sent Chad himself to a real school for stunt people, and you can look forward to a lot more thrills and spills in his weekly offering of odd video clips.
For today’s presentation, Chad milks a boat race for laughs, portrays life for the tragically disoriented, and of course, shows how he justified a spiffy new yellow jumpsuit. Here’s Chad:
Hit me with a shovel – seriously, go ahead!
New college classes are starting now, and if your course load looks like this…
…then you must be a freshman at the “Hollywood Stunts” academy, I guess with a minor in math. If these sound like the sort of activities you’ve been doing for free all your life, you may want to attend the academy and turn them into a glamorous, if painful, career. Have a look at our photo slideshow:
Was this photo taken at the farmers market in Santa Monica?
Kids, it’s time to show you the ropes…
If you like heights as much as I do, this photo is already making you queasy. Suddenly, riding in a gyrocopter and getting married on a high ledge don’t look quite so bad.
Welcome to a remote Russian village where “public transportation” means stepping onto a tightrope at one end and getting off at the other. Unscheduled stops aren’t recommended.
By an odd quirk of history, nearly everybody here can walk the high wire. Learning is a family affair, and don’t expect to hear parents saying “You kids come down from that tightrope, it’s dangerous.”
In the words of one boy, My mother was a tightrope walker, and I will be too. James Kilner tells the story, and Helen Long has a video report, and here is a photo slideshow:
And I thought the guy in the gyrocopter was an idiot.
You say tomato, I say backstroke…
Quick quiz: the guy in this photo is…
a) another guy confused by those Heinz Ketchup upside-down squeeze bottles b) a dude who ran with the bulls in Pamplona, but not quite fast enough c) some below average med student’s first surgery – the one that doesn’t go on their permanent record d) Tony Soprano, if that scene had gone on just a little longer
For the correct answer, see the slideshow and the video:
Extreme way of getting rid of skunk juice, huh?
Sweetie, let’s take the big plunge!
Well, here’s one of my recurring nightmares. Not getting married – that was great – but standing out on the ledge of a tall building. I’d rather ride in a gyrocopter, or visit that new Grand Canyon skywalk.
Anyway, these two people both work as exterior cleaners of tall buildings, so they decided to incorporate rappelling into their ceremony, because like they don’t get enough of that on regular days. You’ll note in the caption below we’re careful to mention that the groom is the one on the right, just in case you’re confused about which is which.
Anyway, I’ve avoided using most of the tempting references – marriage is a big step, they don’t rappel each other, and so on, so feel free to use those in your comments.
Okay, Physics 101 class, settle down. Let’s assuming the terminal velocity of a bridal bouquet is 64 miles per hour. The air being impacted at 64 miles per hour is exerting equal force to the boquet, which we will assume weighs 2 pounds, so we know that the air exerts 2 pounds of force upward on the boquet. Using e=1/2mv^2, we know that at 32 miles per hour the boquet exerts, not 1 pound of force, but 1/2 pound of force.
Please write the integral equation that demonstrates velocity versus time and solve for:
1) the time at which the boquet reaches terminal velocity
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2) whether boquet, dropped from an initial height of 135 feet and assuming all girls have a height of exactly 5 ft, whether the head wound resulting from a missed catch should be expected to cause no harm, injury or sudden death.
Show your work.
What color brown M&Ms do you like?
Hey, Blog Guy, I’ve been thinking about a vacation in North Korea, but I’ve heard it’s kind of bleak there. Is that true?
Well, as this television screen grab from a North Korean candy commercial shows, their M&Ms seem to come in a very limited array of colors, which is kind of a bummer for the kids.
Actually, maybe that’s not what’s going on here. According to the caption for this photo, these are North Koreans dressed as eggs, performing in something called “My Prosperous Country.”
Since I have no clue about the content of this show, I’m going to guess it features catchy tunes like “Bring the Gang to Pyongyang,” and “TLC on the DMZ.” Or, you know, maybe not. Your guesses are welcome via Post a Comment.
You know the situation in North Korea is dire when owning five eggs means you’re prosperous.
You winsome, you lose some…
Regular readers know that occasionally, we suspend our obsession with the absurd, the ironic and the stupid, and devote space to the just plain adorable.
Judging from the traffic reports, even our jaded readers have a soft spot for cute animals, and if you missed last week’s Buster the Tiger slideshow, go have a look.
Today’s offering is a one-month-old leopard cub at Jordan Zoo, near Amman, photographed yesterday. As usual, a word of advice: if you don’t know anybody you can share this with, you’re hanging out with a bad element. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed
what does it mean when you can share it with all of them? and they like it more than you do?
Hey, kids! Big axe, not Big Macs!
Now and then we post items about groups around the world that get together with armor, lances and flintlocks, to reenact battles the way they were fought back when war was fun. But we seldom shed light on why people participate in this activity, at least until now.
In a Reuters video story about a huge gathering of reenactment groups in Russia, we hear from a guy dressed sort of like Fred Flintstone, explaining they do it for the young people, to show them “something national, to turn them away from McDonald’s and Coca-Cola.”
I see. So, watching shabily-dressed folks beating the poop out of each other with broadswords and battle-axes, while cooking dubious bits of gray “meat” on a spit, is going to empty the fast food places in Russia as teens race to embrace the 13th century?
Well, Pal, maybe. But in the immortal line from Dr. Strangelove, “You’re gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.” Benet Allen reports.
Well in the live version he owned up immedately and refunded Cleese.
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I liked the post about the gyrocopters!