FRIDAY FUNNIES

TODAY IN HISTORY

Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove premiered in 1964; arguably one of the best (nuclear)war satires ever filmed.

 And if that wasn't enough, in 1845 Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven was first published.

Seen it, read it...? If not, then do both...I mean right now...

HOLLOWLAND

By Amanda Hocking:

"This is the way the world ends - not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies

breaking down the back door."

SERIOUSLY?

Forty-two years after it was released, classic family film 

The Railway Children has

prompted its first complaint to the British Board of 

Film Classification.

"The correspondent was concerned that children

 may be encouraged to play on railway tracks as

a result of seeing the film," the BBFC's annual report

reveals.

(Yes, stupidity never ends, does it?)

FIRST CANNED BEER

Canned beer makes its debut on this day in 1935. In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Va. Ninety-one percent of the drinkers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green light to further production.

CANCELLED!

Well, that’s a bummer. Just found out the Cheech & Chong show for next month has been cancelled. And I bought my wife a pair of tickets for Xmas this year – 8^th row center no less. Don’t know why they cancelled, but since they didn’t call it ‘postponed’ I guess there’s no chance of seeing them in the future. And the other bit is I scheduled our 40^th wedding anniversary cruise for after the show! Sometimes you just can’t win; but as long as the ship doesn’t sink I guess we’ll be alright.

But still, how many chances do you get to see C & C in the 2010s? Especially in Central Florida…bummer…

ORBITAL-1 ANTARES LAUNCH

 
 I like this with the water tower, looks like the rocket is escaping the aliens from the original 'War of the Worlds' book.

MLK DAY

 Martin Luther King Day today; hope everyone who has the day off is either marching in a parade or standing out in the cold watching a parade – TV doesn’t count…

FRIDAY FUNNIES

SAINT ARNOLD OF SOISSONS ON BEER

“From man’s sweat and God’s love, beer came into the world.”

(And apparently he has his own brewery.)

HIPSTERS LOVE BEER

DOES NOT COMPUTE...

 If sci-fi fans knew that the code that reboots a space station in the movie Elysium is actually taken from an Intel processor manual, they might be less than impressed.
And Iron Man's exploits seem slightly disappointing when you know that code in his visor is for a Lego computer.
Producers take chunks of coding from manuals, websites and even Wikipedia, John Graham-Cumming told the BBC.
"I was watching Elysium and this guy had to write a programme," he said. "What appeared on screen was clearly the assembly language for an Intel x86 processor - basically any standard Intel chip."
(From BBCOnline)
Really, who's the technical advisor...Lego Man?

FRIDAY FUNNIES

THE CLOCK IS TICKING

SAY WHAT?

It was so cold (Monday) that even the polar bear at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo was kept indoors,

 CNN reports.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARYL DIXON

A/K/A Norman Reedus, who plays that character on The Walking Dead.

Norman was born 45 years ago today in Hollywood Florida.

Happy Birthday Norman, and many more!

THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE

By Max Brooks:

 ‘Use your head; cut off theirs.’

DID KIM JONG UN FEED HIS UNCLE TO DOGS?

“It sounds like something out of a Quentin Tarantino movie. Rumours are flying that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, and five aides executed by being stripped naked and placed in a cage with 120 attack dogs.”

 (From BBCOnline)

Which begs the question…how small were the dogs that they needed to use 120 of them!!