Tag: greatness
Astonishing African Animals: Giraffes

Giraffes… tallest of all animals, yet notoriously poor basketball players. Horn-headed, yet anointed by Pope Benedict The Giraffe-Lover as the ‘least Hellbound’ of all God’s creatures. Fans of U2, yet dismissive of The Joshua Tree album. Is there any animal more paradoxical than the giraffe (Venezualan Paradox Beetle notwithstanding)?
The male giraffe has an average height [...]
Posted: April 5th, 2006 under african animals.
Tags: acrobatics, erich von daniken, geneva convention, giggle fits, greatness, paradoxes, u2, unstoppable squadrons
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Genius Cricket
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One of the most anticipated fictional contests is finally here. The greatest mathematical geniuses of all time and their literary counterparts have agreed to settle their fundamental differences in the most appropriate manner possible – namely, a five day cricket match. Team selection has been riddled with controversy with some [...]
Posted: April 3rd, 2006 under p800.
Tags: axioms, carl gauss, chaucer, counterparts, euclid, fundamental differences, greatness, heisenberg, james joyce, khayyam, kurt godel, mathematicians, probability theory, team selection, unpredictability, william wordsworth
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Necessity’s Children
Over the course of history, there have been many great inventions that have changed forever the lives of mankind. The wheel. An accurate system of counting. Thigh boots. To name just two. But perhaps the biggest breakthrough invention was the development of the alphabet – a set of symbols that when correctly combined would allow [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2005 under thoughts.
Tags: generations, great inventions, greatness, thigh boots, wheels
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‘Twas The Night Before Star Wars

‘Twas the night before Star Wars, and geeks queued round the world
Counting the hours ’til the new flick was unfurled
The TIE fighters were hung atop the cinema with care
In hopes that Lord Vader soon would be there
The action figures were nestled home snug in their ship
With light sabre clutched tight in Skywalker’s grip
The Yoda masks [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2005 under miscellany.
Tags: attack of the clones, beards, breasts, clones, darth maul, ewoks, geeks, greatness, jawas, lava, lord vader, protocol droid, samuel l jackson, superiors, twin moons, wookiees
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2.20 Porthos And TIAC Up A Tree… K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2004 under smallville.
Tags: dramatic tension, exposition, greatness, green lantern, lameness, outskirts of town, puppeteers, robert redford, silliness, smallville season two, super-ventriloquism
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6.15 Paceman And Ah Joey… Tomb Raiders of K-Mart

Starring Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek) as Kid Flash/Mr Tosser/Dunstan, Joey Potter (Katie Holmes) as Ah Joey, Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams) as Chipmunk Face, Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson) as The Paceman, Jack McPhee (Kerr Smith) as Gay Jack, Andie McPhee (Meredith Monroe) as Crazy Andy and Grams (Mary Beth Peil) as herself. For more [...]
Posted: January 2nd, 2004 under dawsons creek.
Tags: chipmunks, condoms, dawsons creek season six, dimples, flirting, goatees, greatness, k mart, terry gilliam, triumphs, whispering, wild things
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6.14 Party Time!

Starring Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek) as Kid Flash/Mr Tosser/Dunstan, Joey Potter (Katie Holmes) as Ah Joey, Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams) as Chipmunk Face, Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson) as The Paceman, Jack McPhee (Kerr Smith) as Gay Jack, Andie McPhee (Meredith Monroe) as Crazy Andy and Grams (Mary Beth Peil) as herself. For more [...]
Posted: January 1st, 2004 under dawsons creek.
Tags: boys are back in town, chipmunks, dawsons creek season six, dimples, greatness, invincible iron man, party atmosphere, stereotypes, studmuffins, wrinkles
Comments: 1
The Oscars
Watched The Oscars last night. I think my favourite part of the ceremony each year is when they go through the list of people who died during the year, showing little clips of their careers. And, most of the people are not particularly famous and get polite applause – as you know, people rarely boo [...]
Posted: April 10th, 2000 under television.
Tags: adam sandler, followers, greatness, loud applause, nerds, revenge of the nerds 2
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Death Stare
I once knew a man who had the ability to stare insects and small rodents to death… Actually, this is not true but it is a great conversation starter.
Posted: November 2nd, 1998 under thoughts.
Tags: conversation starters, greatness, small rodents
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