These guys spent a little too much time down at the Korova Milk Bar.

OK, my nominations to the list. Sorry, no video links -- I can't justify the time spent searching for them.

"Age of Aquarius" - 5th Dimension
"In My Beautiful Balloon" - who the hell knows
"I Write the Songs" - Barry Manilow

In fact, let's just create a blanket Barry Manilow addition, and call it a day.

Despite the well-documented dangers, about all my 13-year-old brain could think of (other than sex and naked women) was owning Stormbringer or Mournblade. Then those bullies at school would pay -- oh yes, they would pay.

I don't know about you guys, but my olfactory senses don't nap when I do. How this guy can sleep in an enclosed booth less than 18 inches above a large container of urine and feces (and who knows what else) is beyond me.

Agree with #6, though -- why he was arrested for assaulting his own nostrils is beyond me.

Kudos to the instructor on his/her choice of music.

Death to the Pixies!!

After reading the headline (but before reading the article) my first thought was of the King Missile song, "Detachable Penis." And now people are running around stealing them.

"Thing" comes out of retirement.

My co-workers give me strange looks for walking around the office in my sock feet, but dammit, I hate wearing shoes. The only time I put them on at the office is to go to the restroom. Otherwise, they'll just have to deal with my sock feet.

Al Czervik: "Hey, Wang! What's with the pictures?
It's a parking lot! Come on."

Ming's floating assistant?

"Mommy's tummy is saggy because Mommy carried you around in it for nine months, and ate a lot during that time and got big and fat. So you see, Dearest, it's all your fault."

Lard*: "Drug Raid at 4AM"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UuQEkh6m6c

"Whoops, sorry -- wrong house."

*Lard = Ministry + Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra

Not too many other uses for a Hello Kitty gravestone than to mark the graves of children. I find this incredibly sad to consider.

@9: Cousin It stopped by for a visit.

The thumbnail versions even work well as desktop wallpaper. Set to "tile" and enjoy! The metallics don't work very well due to the gradient, but the others look swell. My desktop is now set to "Island Turquoise."

@4 JEFF: Forget bee-sized drones. Let's have big scary-assed floating drones like Ming's assistant from the 1980 version of Flash Gordon -- fully armed, of course, like the original.

Dammit, #2 beat me to the punch.

"My grandfather's work was DOO-DOO!"

Hey VCs - send all the money you want my way.

@13: I was thinking perhaps Theodore Geisel had a hand in the copy-writing...

Now that we've covered this one, how about the next logical step: earliest sign-ons followed by farm reports, morning devotionals, and daily tide info?

I totally want that picture - my kids would love it.

Yup, methinks BCW20 and HankWham are one and the same, and a troll at that.

Saw this on Crooks & Liars, citing Countdown's "Worst Person in the World" from last night:

"Thursday’s Worst Person in the World on Countdown included Wal-Mart for the second day in a row. The retail giant took the bronze for unforgivably suing Deborah Shank, who was severely brain damaged after a car accident, for pretty much every penny she had. As it turns out, Shank’s son died in Iraq a week after losing the law suit and because of her severe memory lapses, she doesn’t remember that he’s dead — which means that every time she asks about him it’s as if she’s hearing it for the first time, EVERY TIME."

@BCW20: Mal-wart's shabby treatment of their employees is well-documented. And of course you're not going to hear them talk about the Debbie Shank case. But since you don't seem to know about it, here's the story on CNN:

http://tinyurl.com/2orlne

For the truly paranoid among us.

Par for the course for the Bush mis-administration.

Here in the states, food packaging almost always includes the legend "Serving suggestion" or "Enlarged to show texture" or a similar disclaimer.

I'm reminded of the jellyfish, etc. from "Sphere"...

@22: nah, I think those are bottle-fight scars.

This one's my favorite as much for the Ozzy overdub as anything else: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JBzWZq4fXg

One too many instances of the phrase "vastly increased" in the commentary above...

I saw the same story on CNN.com ...

Truly the turrists have already won.

@4: You mean "zoetrope" ...

namecheap.com does pretty well by me, and their prices are more or less comparable to GoDaddy's. Plus they don't kill you with a thousand come-ons for their other products when all you want to do is register a damned domain name. And, they throw in WhoisGuard privacy protection free with each domain purchased.

I've been moving my domains over to them from GoDaddy for a while now. As each comes due for renewal, I transfer them instead. So far, so good.

Oh come on - like you people have never gotten in a hurry to get the hell out of Dodge, and locked someone in solitary confinement and forgotten you did it (and forgot to tell anyone on the way the hell out of Dodge...)

Buuuut seriously, folks... he, no doubt, will be slapped on the wrist, put on desk duty for a month or so, and then returned to active duty. The city will settle with the plaintiff, and little more will ever be heard of this again.

@15: Dena, if she's living in those conditions, you may need to consider an intervention. You stated yourself that your 40-year-old doll house is consumed by mold. Imagine what else is contaminated by mold, spores, and other organisms? For the sake of your mother's health, you need to do something about this. That house is a biohazard, and she's living in it.

@45: Now all we need is a Hitler or Nazi reference, and Godwin's Law will have once again been proven.

Oh, wait...

*sigh* one more place to boycott for silly jingoism. First, Johnny Rockets for their "American fries" and now a "Hooray for the USA!" section on "It's a Small World." It's been a long time since I last rode it, but isn't there already a "USA" section to go along with all the other countries anyway?

The sky is not actually blue. It only appears to be blue because that is the name we've given that color.

My friend Frank and I used to play D&D in the back of Mrs. Parker's 10th grade English class. She was a bit slow on delivery and would spend an entire week on a single subject. (Can you imagine an entire week spent reviewing gerunds?) Frank and I would take notes on Monday, then while she reviewed the same information Tuesday-Thursday, we quietly explored castles, caves, and forests, routing evil and plundering loot. Then on Friday, we would ace the weekly test, much to Mrs. Parker's chagrin.

Interestingly, she never complained to us, never made us stop, and never understood how we could "goof off" all week and still ace the tests...

Everyone misses their saving throw sooner or later. Godspeed, Gary.

@13: I thought that as well, judging from the (a) runny mascara or (b) shiner that she's sporting under her left eye.

What a muhfuggin' moron.

Your Senate at work: putting the comfort of telecom corporations over and above the privacy of its own citizens.

Oh, 'an aerotrain'. Oh, I say, we are grand, aren't we? Oh, oh, no more buttered scones for me, mater. I'm off to play the grand piano. Pardon me while I ride my aerotrain.

I flew out of ATL to LGA a couple weeks ago; no big deal. Laptop in one bin, bag in another, shoes/phone, etc. in a third. Shuffle through, beep-beep, show them the change in my pocket, gather my stuff as quickly as possible, shuffle over to one of the unused sorting tables to reassemble, on to my gate for coffee. I was pleasantly surprised how quickly things moved, especially during evening rush hour at LGA.

Of course, these requirements you guys are describing could have been enacted in the meantime. It *has* been a couple weeks, after all.

"If it's not Scottish, it's CRRRRRAP!"

"In 1632, Joannis Scultetus, who was one of the most accomplished seventeenth century surgeons, described an instrument called a trioploides, which he used for raising depressed skull fractures."

For some reason, upon reading this sentence, I immediately thought of this: http://tinyurl.com/2ttnfh

Now it's time to defeat the telecom immunity bill in the US Congress. Senator Chris Dodd (former Democratic presidential candidate) has promised to filibuster, but he needs all the support he can get.

I don't have links and numbers handy, unfortunately - I'm on my Blackberry. Just putting this out there, though. Anyone else have links/numbers/etc. and can post them, that would be great!

All I can think of is the scorpion scene from one of those Golan-Globus movies - can't remember if it was one of the Sinbad movies or Clash of the Titans (I'm leaning towards the latter) where the giant stop-motion scorpions attack the puny humans.