7.27.2007

Something about a Syrian Bunker

Some random tidbits I've collected:

  • It seems that the universal minimum age for riding an elevator alone is 14.
  • The deeper magic in Harry Potter is quite similar to that in the Chronicles of Narnia (and Jesus, for that matter).
  • Some people hang baby shoes near the exhaust pipe of their car. I'm assuming it's for luck, but I'm not sure. (It is somewhat visible in the picture.)
  • There's no point on going off roading in a jeep if one doesn't get a flat tire.
  • King Herod was a perfectionist.
  • Carob seed were considered to have uniform mass and were used to measure weights before standardized measurements; the word carat is derived from carob (a metric carat is just over three carob grains or 200 mg).

7.01.2007

noun noun verb adjective

Every once in a while, the results of a mad lib are worth sharing with the world. My favourite lines are in purple.

Think different

Here's to the yellow ones, the socks, the zebras, the blenders.
The medium-rare pegs in the silly holes.
The ones who poke things differently.
They're not fond of noses, and they have no kitten for the status quo.
You can close them, peel with them, lament them, limit or enhance them.
About the only thing you can't do is electrocute them.
Because they defenestrate companies.
They duck. They sew. They calculate.
They humidify. They zip. They time.
They remedy the elixir forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you giggle at an empty mirror and see a work of apricot?
Or sit in a drawer and stop a chain that's never been ambled?
Or swim at a red outlet and see a plane on wheels?
We make frames for these kinds of people.
While some may see them as the straws, we see panel.
Because the ones who are crazy enough to change the leisure suit, are the ones who bite.

In fact, in hindsight, the entire thing may just be an ode to Kim Jong Il. I mean the leisure suit, the mobilizing of the planes on wheels, the outlet of red communism, the disinterest in the status quo, and the number of people that want to put him into a jail frame. I guess that means we cannot electrocute him.

That's the thing that's great about Mad Libs, it can take completely innocuous words, string them together, and give them a completely different meaning.