Joggers told to mind manners around palace | The Japan Times

It's also a good idea not to throw the Emperor into a hamper of used sumo thongs. Ask Homer and Bart Simpson how well that worked for them.

Anyways, the Imperial Palace grounds are saner than the Stanley Park seawall. (It's mostly rollerbladers and cyclists who are etiquette-challenged

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So someone painted a picture of Stephen Harper in the nude. (WARNING: this picture is nasty, even nastier than the snakehead fish that was supposedly sighted in Burnaby this week. )

I was immediately reminded of the "Simpsons" episode "Brush With Greatness." Mean Monty Burns commissions Marge to paint his portrait. Marge paints Mean Monty in the ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, there was a story in the Smithsonian magazine in which Matt Groening supposedly revealed the answer to the long-asked question: Where is Springfield? Or so the stories claimed. Matt said that Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon, but he never said that Springfield was Springfield, Oregon ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Bart (yes, Bart!) was having an existential crisis. He was pondering how all his days seemed to be uniformly horrible, marked by bullies, boring school days, non-quality time around Homer, and mindless television. While watching yet another mindless TV show, he came across the answer to his problems: go on a Royalty Cruise. So, ( Read more... )

The Tyee - Ten Things Never to Say to the Sedins

(The Sedin twins play for the Vancouver Canucks, Vancouver's NHL franchise.)

I thought that this line was funny, if only because it was sort of cribbed from "The Simpsons:"

5. Which is the evil one?

Lisa Kudrow's character in the "Lard of the Dance" episode said that to Sherri and Terri, who are both ( Read more... )

The 7 Most Irritating Superbowl Halftime Performers of All Time | | AlterNet

The BEST Super Bowl halftime performance was the one that Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders collaborated on. It was about Noah's Ark. Santa's Little Helper as the Dove of Peace was just precious. (Also, Michelle Kwan was in it - she helped move the ark. In skates.)

There was a new "Simpsons" episode tonight. Yay! (Fox also broadcasts the World Series, so there weren't any new "Simpsons" episodes during that time.) And it was actually funny.

The Diving Bell and the Butterball: Homer was paralyzed by a spider bite. While reading The Brothers Karamazov to him, Lisa discovered that Homer could communicate with ( Read more... )

Sadly, once again life imitates "The Simpsons." A three-eyed fish was caught in a reservoir fed by an Argentine nuclear power station. (NOTE: NSBE - Not Safe Before Eating - this fish is UGLY. At least Blinky was cute.)

I hope that Marge Simpson fed it to the nuclear power plant's owner.

There was a "Simpsons" double-header tonight; I missed the first one. Fat Tony (who moonlights as BAU representative David Rossi on "Criminal Minds," ironically) was in it. He married Marge's sister Selma, but it turned out that the vows were for goombahs and goomahs ( Read more... )