The climatic duel between Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi is performed on this Pepsi can featured by BevReview's post, "Can Holiday: Star Wars Day – May 4." The clashing of lightsabers. The intense stare. The competitive dance. The obscure language.
Is this some sort of Star Wars language on Pepsi cans? Oh wait. It's Russian. It's that the Jedi second language? Russian? You know it is. Where else do the Jedis learn their mad-crazy moves but from the Soviet military academy. (youtube video)
Can you imagine? As part of the Jedi training, they visit the third planet from the Sun and have dance-offs. Jedis and Russian dancers. An obvious connection has just been unveiled.
Hey, if you like this can, check out other Star Wars soda cans on Bevreview.
The reason for the rise in the Yahoo stock price is because they are focusing on their core products. Which basically means they delete Matt Maldre's questions on Yahoo Answers. They've deleted 27% of my questions. Up goes the stock price!
To think back in Yahoo's acquisition days, I was considering buying Yahoo stock. They bought three of my favorite services: flickr my favorite photo service upcoming.org my favorite events site, and delicious my favorite bookmarking site. Those are three core parts of my life. Photos, events, and website links. Yahoo bought all three in the same year!
I thought Yahoo was gonna be the best company ever!
The price of the Yahoo stock during each acquisition:
$31.62 March 20, 2005 flickr
$33.57 October 4, 2005 upcoming.org
$40.08 December 12, 2005 delicious
By December 2005 their stock rose up to $40. But it has slowly dropped and has never seen $40 since. Thankfully I did not buy. But who knows, maybe if Yahoo keeps deleting more of my questions, their stock price will continue to rise.
Is the United States Post Office trying to say something by crossing out "forever" on the American flag stamp? I know it's standard to cross out the price (or in this case the "forever") from the stamp, so people don't reproduce it. But here it seems a bit ironic to have images of the American flag with "forever" crossed out next it. It feels rather wrong to me.
Maybe the Post Office is really upset about how the government is cutting their budget, so they are making a political statement about the state of America. You can imagine a postal employee saying, "You are cutting our budget!? If our services are cut, then America won't stand to last."
Please note, I do firmly stand behind America. I am American and I would like to see America prosper. Anything said here is a joke. We should not cross out "forever" in our stamps, ever! Long live America and its stamps!
Have you ever gone to ask.com? Ever? I never have.
Amazingly, ask.com is the 30th most visited website on the internet! That's right. Alexa ranks ask.com at #30. ask.com is ranked higher than tumblr at #32. Really? More people go to ask.com than tumblr?
Other sites that ask.com beats in traffic:
#39 pinterest.com
#44 craigslist.org
#57 instagram.com
#66 go.com (which is really ESPN)
Ask.com must have great rankings in google. Where else would they be getting all this traffic?
What happens with the tooth fairy misses an appointment? Mark Bazer covers the ridiculousness of the tooth fairy's existence in "The day the Tooth Fairy didn't come."
Ridiculous things are great. I want to make up new characters for particular situations. Like if you get a cut on your finger, then... oh wait. That's Dracula. When it snows, those are actually… oh wait, we know that one already. Snowflakes are actually aliens.
How about this one. Every year when the tulips open, it's because the Magical Artist Ewok has visited to bring more color to our world.
Many questions arise from the image featured on IKEA's Page not found 404 error." If that person is painting with red paint, why is there white paint on the jeans? Very perplexing.
That person didn't paint that floor. Someone else did. And cornered that person with the white-painted jeans. The white-painted jeans person just stood and watched while being cornered.
But then, where is the person who painted the red paint?
And why is there no broom handle for the paint roller? If you are painting your floor, wouldn't you want to use a longer handle?
The Chicago Cubs and the Rickets released a photo mockup of how Wrigley Field will look like with the Jumbotron and additional ads. However, they didn't put real ads in their mockup. They put cute "Wrigley Field" logos in there. That's now how it's gonna look! In reality there's gonna be ads plastered all over the outfield.
Many comic strips start off with a good joke, but then a disgruntled reaction is tacked on in the last last panel. This disgruntled reaction is most times completely unnecessary.
Let the comic genius of the goofy character do their thing. If a character wants to say something funny, let that joke stand on its own. We don't need to see the judgmental reaction of another character.
The judgement only serves to belittle the creative minds of the world. Let the creative minds be free. Let them live. Let them prosper. We don't need the typical, boring person giving their judgement on something that's funny. Narrow-minded opinions don't provide a foil to improve the joke, instead they kill the joke.
(original Calvin & Hobbes comic strip from Gocomics on 4/26/2013)
In this case we have Calvin developing a great idea. Reversing the order of how milk comes out of your nose when you laugh. What a genius! Instead this comic is ruined by Susie's rejection of Calvin's idea. This comic is no longer about a fun idea. This comic now becomes about how the world rejects the fun and creative ideas.
Let's improve this comic by eliminating Susie's judgmental response in the last frame.
Ahh much better. What do you think? Is the revised comic better than the original?
(Image from Gocomics. The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn, April 22, 2013)
I love me some Transformer gags, however, Optimus Prime would never be caught dead saying those lines. One could argue that having the morally pure Optimus Prime say these lines makes it more funny, but as a hard-core Transformers fan, I would have to say that I get the feeling that the artist doesn't have a clue about Transformers and is just playing the gag line.
Which Transformer is most likely to be a flirt?
Since the comic has car puns, our options are limited to Transformers whose alt modes are cars. The most obvious choice is Sunstreaker. Alt mode: yellow 1974 Lamborghini.
Obsessed with personal appearance. Often retorts with lines like "Hey, that's a new paint job!" His motto is "They can't beat the best." He was described as the ultimate egotist, being notoriously difficult to work with and pair up with anyone else besides Sideswipe, and described himself as the most beautiful thing ever and Cybertron's greatest warrior.
Which Transformer would be most likely to hit on someone in a bar?
What do you think? Is Sunstreaker the biggest flirt? You can answer on Quora, Twitter, Facebook, or in the comments on this blog post. I’ll copy your answer and post it on this list:
The Transformer most likely to be a flirt is Sunstreaker. (from Matt of spudart.org)
The Transformer most likely to be a flirt is Optimus Prime. (from Scott Hilburn of Gocomics)
The Transformer most likely to be a flirt is Ratchet. (from Robert of Yahoo Answers)
The Transformer most likely to be a flirt is Tracks or Rodimus Prime. I really want to say Tracks, becuase he's about as flamboyant as a robot can get. But to be honest, he'd probably rather expect everyone else to fawn over him.
If you go by the comics (which are far richer in terms of characterization), it would have to be Hot Rod/Rodimus from the current IDW comics. He simply has no problem with self-aggrandizement and expecting people to agree with him due to his overwhelming charisma. His leadership style (if you can even call it that) is mostly confidence and insistence that you will really like his idea... eventually.
Isn't that exactly what you want in a robot pick-up artist? (from Kavinay Kishor of Quora)
The Transformer most likely to be a flirt is ____________.
The Transformer most likely to be a flirt is ____________.
The Transformer most likely to be a flirt is ____________.
Yahoo Answers is like the Wild West for questions. You can ask anything; and the general public answers your questions. With the general public giving answers, you get a range of helpful answers to completely stupid youtube-like responses. It's a mixed bag, and that's what partly makes it fun. Anything can happen.
Yet, Yahoo will delete questions. This is the Wild West, man. Don't delete questions! Is this Yahoo trying to be all intellectual? I got news for you, Yahoo. You ain't intellectual.
Yahoo, you are the Youtube of search engines. Yahoo is like Sears. All utility. No style. Yahoo is the White Sox fan of search engines.
Here are six questions I submitted that Yahoo has deleted:
Are there any web development agencies in Chicago that do Drupal work?
-- Why did Yahoo delete this question? It seems like it would be really helpful.
Are there any artists who made artwork with other famous artist's signatures?
-- Yes, this is an obtuse question, but obtuse questions expand the spectrum of types of questions that can be imagined and asked.
If you found a magic stick, what would you do with it?
-- Only a person with cold, hardened heart would delete this question.
Is there one screen to see if any of my friends made any new playlists in Spotify?
-- Another specific question that would be a help. Maybe too specific?
What American cities have the most parks?
-- Now this seems to be the type of question that Yahoo would totally want. My mind cannot comprehend why this question was deleted.
Yahoo deleted my question, "Why do ewoks like croquet?"
Everyone knows that ewoks love to play the game of croquet. They are woodland creatures, croquet only makes sense for them to play in their habitat. Ewoks are also extremely playful. They would play croquet all day long.
Perhaps Yahoo think that Ewoks don't like croquet. And since when is Yahoo an expert on Ewoks? Answer: They aren't. Yahoo is an Ewok hater. Deleting fun questions about ewoks. Actually, I should post a few more questions about Ewoks to see if Yahoo deletes them before coming to the conclusion that Yahoo hates Ewoks. Maybe they hate croquet. But who can possibly hate croquet? Or Ewoks?
Here's who hates Ewoks:
People born before May 25, 1973 hate Ewoks. This chart is surprisingly accurate, because I know people just two years older than me that hate Ewoks. (I'm born in 1975). All my life I've had a much easier time relating to people younger than me. The Ewok Line now explains why. Thank you Ewok Line.
It would seem that the Yahoo Answers editor who deleted this delightful Ewok question would be born before May 25, 1973.
A peculiar thing was happening just before the Chicago bridges were raised. Being the first time in 2013 that the Michigan Avenue bridge was raised during the week, there was a little bit of a delay.
My back was facing the window while talking with one our editors, Leigh Hanlon. He stared at window confused by the traffic patterns happening around the bridge.
"What's happening out there?"
The road was blocked off and an ambulance was trying to come through. Just before the bridge was being raised an ambulanced needed to quickly dart across the bridge. It made a safe journey across, as did all the pedestrians, and then the bridge was raised for the waiting boats.
Then I hopped up on my desk to take this HDR photo with my iPhone. An annual tradition.
Can you do this in Instagram? Put notes on top of other people's photos? No. You cannot do that in Instagram. But you can do it in Flickr. There's many different ways you can ask your fans to leave notes.
Wow! Chicago. City of the future! Only if Chicago's subway still looked like that. Well, actually, it does. Maybe they should replace a chunk of State Street with large sheets of glass, so we can get this perpective. You can get this Vintage postcard of the Red Line in Chicago's CTA subway on eBay.
Front of card:
Card #210
Cut-away view of Chicago Subway
Back of card:
Cut-away view of Chicago's subway in the central business district.
Shown are the main tubes; the downtown center platform, which is 3500 feet long; the two-way escalators to the mezzanines with store connections; and the State St. surface level. Features of the subway are ventilation, illumination, escalators, safety, comfort.
Have some fun and carry a sheet of gold stars in your wallet. They come in so handy to spontaneously award people for something good.
At work: Someone suggest a good idea? Give him/her a gold star!
At home: Someone loaded the dishwasher? Give him/her a gold star!
On the train: Have a good commute? Give the train condutor a gold star!
Too shy to give gold stars in person? You can quietly place a gold star on the train conductor's window and walk away. Put a gold star on someone's toothbrush. Put a gold star on someone's phone at work.
Gold stars are so handy. Go head and get a sheet from the craft store and then cut it so it fits nice and tidy in your wallet. Then let me know how you used your gold stars!
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