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He was also Gale Sayers in Brian's Song. Just watched it again the other night for the first time since I was about 12 years old. Cried my eyes out again. Edit: Meant to quote Grawk re: Billy Dee Williams

The Killers - Don't Shoot Me Santa ...and the obligatory dancing Santa gif http://brokentripod.tumblr.com/post/12443559410/for-all-your-crazy-eyed-dancing-santa-gif-needs

I wish! My knees are way too gone for that, and I don't think I could have done those moves as a teenager. My beard is gone as well, although it's slowly growing back. Will take years to get to that length.

Happy birthday, Nate!

You mean the US version of Top Gear? They don't have British humor on their side either. Clarkson and company know how to act and deliver lines.

Boy, some of the shit these guy come up with at my Santa forum! Today this guy starts a thread to ask: "How does one properly measure the length of their beard ie. from what point on the chin or lip is your starting point?" I wanted to answer: It's kind of like measuring your cock. If you have to ask where the starting point is, it's probably too short!

I chuckled... http://www.youtube.com/embed/OWo8fLl0r08?rel=0

How baseballs are made:

Ok, 475hp was probably the V8 Atom. They wanted to call it the "Atom 500" but it didn't end up putting that much power down at the wheel, so the official name became the V8 Atom. I agree, that was kind of cool when they would tease you was to where to place the new time on the board.

Have a good one, Craig!

Saved any whales lately? http://www.flixxy.com/humpback-whale-gives-show-after-being-saved.htm

Canon Speedlight 600EX-RT is also out now, for $629. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/indepth/canon/announcements/new-canon-600ex-rt-speedlite-flash-powerhouse

How much of what you're seeing in a movie is real? Computer graphics has become a big business! http://player.vimeo.com/video/34678075?title=0&

Boo! I'm laughing. I shouldn't be, but I am.

I just saw this posted on Facebook by one of the Atom guys. Apparently, the Atom was on the show last night, and there's a new leader in town! I don't follow Top Gear, but I presume this would be the American version of the show? I've Googled it and can't find anything. Just curious as to which iteration of the Atom this was? Did anyone see the show? Was is a standard Atom 3 or a 500 V8?

Sad news today... http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/29/10540912-monkees-star-davy-jones-dies-at-66 Thanks for the memories, Davy! I absolutely loved the Monkees TV show. It was part of what made the late 60s such a special time for little kids.

The other one I can't seem to post says, "Never make eye contact while eating a banana."

Yes, like Macallan 18 single malt intoxicating.

^ One of my friends who I met along the road when I was passing through New Hampshire in my motorhome is trying to build something like this (based on the last picture above). He had linked me to this exact same builder's website several months ago, and asked: "Out of everything you see, what do you think is the coolest?" When I wrote back, picking out that same vehicle (based on an old pickup truck), he said "Exactly!!!" That's essentially what he wants to build. So his next step was to buy this massive old fire truck for something like $1,500. I've just emailed him to see if he can resend those pics. It's an old truck but the engine has very low miles, so that's what he's going to use along with the frame from some old (50s) pickup truck. I'll post pics when he resends them to me. He's done some amazing metal fabrication projects (motorcycles and such), so he's got the skill sets to pull it off. He's become a good email buddy of mine. We met when I had a need for some welding on the back of my trailer as I was passing through the White Mountains region. He and his wife took me in like a family member, and I ended up spending 3 nights parked on their property. He owns a place called "Bumper to Bumper" which I think is aptly described. He can do pretty much anything, mechanically speaking, plus towing (and now putting out fires).

Chris Rock's take on animation, in case anyone missed it: http://oscar.go.com/blogs/real-time/20

Saw blade that can stop in 1/1000th of a second to avoid cutting your finger off... http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=E3mzhvMgrLE&NR=1

Happy birthday!!!

I hesitated to post because there were so many, but very few are groaners.

As puns go, some of these are not too bad... 1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. 3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still. 4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of math disruption. 5. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery. 6. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering. 7. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart. 8. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie. 9. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it. 10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. 11. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. 12. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other: 'You stay here; I'll go on a head.' 13. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me. 14. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.' 15. The midget fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large. 16. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran. 17. A backward poet writes inverse. 18. In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes. 19. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion. 20. If you jumped off the bridge in Paris, you'd be in Seine. 21. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, 'I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.' 22. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. One turns to the other and says 'Dam!' 23. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too. 24. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, 'I've lost my electron.' The other says 'Are you sure?' The first replies, 'Yes, I'm positive.' 25. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication. 26. There was the person who sent ten puns to friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.