Dude, Where's My Jar?

I. Want. Some. Of. This. Scotch.


Srsly.

Shackleton may have been a failure at that particular venture, and a few others, but aging whiskey he was not. Well Done, Shackleton, Well Done!

Quip:

Polar explorers of that era relied on their alcohol of choice to help them and their crews through the long Antarctic nights and insomnia-inducing days. And Shackleton knew a thing or two about being well prepared for an adventure. On a later trip to the continent he kept all 28 members of his crew alive during 15 harrowing months after their ship got marooned in and then slowly devoured by ice. So it's no surprise that he brought 25 crates of Scotch with him when he set off on an expedition to the South Pole in 1907.

The earlier trip didn't go well, either. Shackleton turned around 97 miles short of his destination, telling his wife, "I thought you’d rather have a live donkey than a dead lion." When the ship arrived in 1909 to pick the men up, they left their supplies behind in their hut, including reindeer sleeping bags, tins of boiled mutton and bottled gooseberries. And, as we now know, they also abandoned two cases of Charles Mackinlay & Co. whisky.

That man had a li'l Captain in Him.

And there was a comment on this article that said:

Oh Boy, I hate to throw water all over the place here - but I just HAVE to ask... what sort of person/people find themselves in Antartica these days without an ice axe - or a dozen? They couldn't dig out the crates? Surely they have a better excuse.

FOOL! And ruin 2 crates of 100-year-old Scotch?! Are you mad?!

Two more comments made me chortle:

Haven't they heard of global warming? Just wait a bit and there will be plenty Arizona State sorority girls tanning and oiling on the sunny shore of Antarctica during spring break to share the booze with.

Retort:

RonnieB, we've all heard about global warming...ad nauseum. It's been downgraded officially now to "climate change". Hadn't you heard ? and as climate change it is likely to mean cooler temperatures. Too cool for sorority girls.

Interw3bz. Huzzah!

Glueball Wormening!!1!!1

Ok.. so I'm bored enough to paruse motifake today, and find this gem

Bruce Wayne was a Communist!

Ha!

Smack from the Future

I LOVE this stuff! Especially when an actual scientist comes out and says it, not some Trekkie.

Quip:

Large Hadron Collider 'Being Sabotaged from the Future'

Monday, October 19, 2009

Scientists claim the giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being jinxed from the future to save the world.

In a bizarre sci-fi theory, Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan claim nature is trying to prevent the LHC from finding the elusive Higgs boson. Called the "God particle," the theoretical boson could explain the origins of mass in the universe — if physicists can find the darn thing.

The scientists say their math proves nature will "ripple backward through time" to stop the LHC before it can create the God particle, like a time traveller who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.

“One could even almost say that we have a model for God,” Dr Nielsen says in an unpublished essay. “He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.”

"While it is a paradox to go back in time and kill your grandfather, physicists agree there is no paradox if you go back in time and save him from being hit by a bus," Dannis Overbye wrote in the New York Times.

"In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus."

“It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr Nielsen told the New York Times.

Ha! Take THAT, death machine!

Anyhowl, I've been reading a lot of science this morning, and just happened to come across this, which struck me as amusing.

This. Is. SPART.. .. ... SAN FRANCISCO!

Hilariousness. I love Gerard Butler (hey, I'm Scottish, so sue me..) and his sense of humor. here's a clip from SNL (which I rarely find funny anymore, even at the best of times). And, excuse the 30 second ad.. I'd take it off if I could. :)

iPhone, ha!

BorePatch had a funny this morning, and it reminded me of my favorite Friday show (that I no longer watch because we cut the cable), the Soup.

Hilariousness.




And, of course, the original:

PWNED! Transvestites Fight Back! FAIL at 11!

Mountain Dew spewed from my nose when I read this tale of, well... Total Awesomeness.

Thugs attack two transvestites... who turn out to be cage fighters wearing fancy dress

 

Gardener and Fender were left dazed and seen staggering to their feet after their failed attack.

Go to the link and watch the video report... apparently these guys attack super heroes too, because after this FAIL they went after Spider Man.

I guess the two would-be muggers couldn't see the Adams Apples on their selected targets, nor could they see the biceps that were bigger than their fool heads.

And, you know what? Eddie Izzard is somewhere laughing his british arse off.