Something for the Weekend
Category Archives: amusements
Oddity of the Week: Password Security
Soheil Rezayazdi has suggested the following Nihilistic Password Security Questions:
- What is the name of your least favourite child?
- In what year did you abandon your dreams?
- What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress?
- At what age did your childhood pet run away?
- What was the name of your favourite unpaid internship?
- In what city did you first experience ennui?
- What is your ex-wife’s newest last name?
- What sports team do you fetishise to avoid meaningful discussion with others?
- What is the name of your favourite cancelled TV show?
- What was the middle name of your first rebound?
- On what street did you lose your childlike sense of wonder?
- When did you stop trying?
Lots stupidity in this vein over at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.
Oddity of the Week: Beards
The World Beard and Moustache Championships were held recently in Austria and attracted over 300 contestants. Here’s one particularly fine specimen …
Lots more images from the Guardian, the Washington Post and the Daily Mail.
Quote: Do not …
Something for the Weekend
Apologies for the radio silence over the last week; let’s try to get this show back on the road.
This will be appreciated by all those who provide staff services for cats …
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This week I thought we’d have another “Two Types” cartoon from WWII cartoonist Jon.
Oddity of the Week
Pope Francis is currently visiting Cuba and the USA. The followning was reported at the end of August by the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post and summarised by the Weird Universe blog:
Muslim clerics complain of the commercialization of the holy city of Mecca during the annual Hajj pilgrimages, but for Pope Francis’s visits to New York, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia in mid-September, shameless street vendors and entrepreneurs already appear to be eclipsing Mecca’s experience. Merchants said they’d be selling, among other tacky items, mozzarella cheese statuettes of the Pope ($20), a Pope Toaster to burnish Francis’s image on bread, a Philly-themed bobblehead associating the Pope with the boxer “Rocky”, local beers Papal Pleasure and YOPO (You Only Pope Once), and T-shirts (“Yo Pontiff!” and “The Pope Is My Homeboy”). The Wall Street Journal quoted a Philadelphia archdiocese spokesman admitting that “you kind of have to take it in stride”.
Muslim clerics complain of the commercialization of the holy city of Mecca during the annual Hajj pilgrimages, but for Pope Francis’s visits to New York, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia in mid-September, shameless street vendors and entrepreneurs already appear to be eclipsing Mecca’s experience. Merchants said they’d be selling, among other tacky items, mozzarella cheese statuettes of the Pope ($20), a Pope Toaster to burnish Francis’s image on bread, a Philly-themed bobblehead associating the Pope with the boxer “Rocky”, local beers Papal Pleasure and YOPO (You Only Pope Once), and T-shirts (“Yo Pontiff!” and “The Pope Is My Homeboy”). The Wall Street Journal quoted a Philadelphia archdiocese spokesman admitting that “you kind of have to take it in stride”.Something for the Weekend
Well yes, of course …
Oddity of the Week: Seaside Rock
It has just been brought to my attention that Blackpool (and one suspects other places) are now offering seaside rock in a variety of flavours other than the hitherto ubiquitous peppermint and occasional fruit flavours.
According to the Blackpool Gazette local vendors are now offering flavours such as cappuccino, peanut butter, gin & tonic, chicken tikka, cheese & tomato pizza and, rather oddly, fish & chips.
Cappuccino and gin & tonic might just work. I’m not convinced about the others.