The only thing this is missing is a cat. But come on, what more do you need, there’s a gigantic Nazi robot! (Attacking Pearl Harbour for some reason.) I especially like it when one of the pilots of the Mustang has a truck thrown at him. (That’s definitely on the list of things they don’t train you to dodge in flight school.)
Kudos to Ellison for finding this.
We found this clip of the Fab Four doing a little Shakespeare, the hilarious presentation of Pyramus and Thisbe as performed by the Mechanicals in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Those guys could not only make fun of themselves, they could get a larf or two. (And Paul actually had a pretty good take on Pryamus.)
I like this meme, which asks you to name your favourite cartoons (found at Blog D’Ellison, and started elsewhere).
I now recognize that perhaps Mr. Peabody may have had an alarming affect on my mind. Certainly my view of history is more pliable because of it. This clip may remind you of the Jay Ward cartoon, which was part of the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. (I saw it in reruns when I was a kid.)
For those unfortunates who’ve never heard of himt, Mr. Peabody was a genius dog, who invented the WABAC (“wayback”) machine, a universal translator, and who “adopted” the boy Sherman. According to the Wikipedia entry, Dreamworks is developing it into a film. I just hope it’s better than Boris and Natasha.
So what’s your cartoon poison?
This is somewhat distasteful news on the erectile dysfunction front:
Singapore’s Society for Men’s Health and a pharmaceutical firm are proposing a four-point scale for erectile dysfunction, allowing men to rate their own hardness with four categories: cucumber, unpeeled banana, peeled banana and tofu (bean curd).
My question is this: how fresh is that cucumber, and is it an English cucumber, Chinese or — God forbid — a gherkin?
Luckily, this veggie-fruit inspired scale has yet to be adopted by any (reputable) medical body, though I suspect the folks at veggielovers.com are excited by this news.
More gory details here.
How can you not be interested in The Carnival of Medical Surrealism, featuring some Grandfigia and this gem, which has many imaginative deaths reminiscent of Sean Cullen’s “And the Food of Your Choice Will End Your Life Tonight.”
An excellent Carnival of the Insanities