Monday, January 14, 2013

Now YOUR child can be a Nobel Peace Prize winner

The Maesto die-cast toy company of Fontana, California, is marketing a toy Predator drone for children age three and up. The posting on Amazon sparked a collection of hilarious costumer reviews, like this one...

"My son is very interested in joining the Imperial forces when he grows up. ... He just loves flying his drone around the house, droping Hellfire missiles on Scruffy, our dog. He kept saying that Scruffy was a terror suspect and needed to be taken out. I asked him if Scruffy should get a trial first, and he quoted Lindsay Graham, Imperial Senator: 'Shut up Scruffy, you don't get a trial!' I was so proud..."

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Grantland.com on Jodie Foster's acceptance speech and public "coming out" at the Golden Globes: "The contradictions are all Foster knows. This is a woman who comes out by Windexing the glass of her closet, then gradually lowering the shade."

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I've now seen "Django Unchained" twice. It's maybe the most discourse-inspiring film I have ever seen-- and enjoyable as hell. Funnier than five Judd Apatow movies.

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During the 1980s, there was a trend in basketball for about three weeks where every game at every level of the sport had to be stopped for five minutes so that a player could search for a lost contact lens on the floor. Does anybody else remember this?

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