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Man Stabbed With Pen At Comic-Con. Is That All You Got?

July 28, 2010 By Godfather Leave a Comment

What? Is that all you got?

Forget what caused the battle in the first place (an argument over whether one was sitting too close to the other). One thing led to another and well, one guy stabs the other guy with a pen and is hauled off by police.

What a missed opportunity!

I mean this could have been a great reenactment of the bar scene in Star Wars!

No lightsaber or photon death ray? What about some vaporizer you have been working on in your mother’s basement for the last 10 years as kids threw snowballs at you – always knowing one day you would have your revenge?

You could have stabbed him with some “hi-tech” pen only found in Bruce Wayne’s cave. Or an invisible pen that you developed as a recluse on some island prison somewhere.

Sheesh, center stage at the big comic convention with Stan Lee probably ready to write a comic about you…and this is what you come with?

Damn, it was probably just a free hotel pen as well.

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BP Offshore Oil Strike Game from 1970

July 6, 2010 By Godfather 1 Comment

Funny that the BP Offshore Oil Strike game never really made it to the United States – well, at least in game form.

Two to Four Players compete at exploring for oil and building platforms. Players must avoid the “hazard cards” which read such set-backs as, “Blow-out! Rig Damaged,” and “Oil Clean Up Cost. Pay $1 Million.”

$1 Million? BP wishes it was only that much.

The rest of the info on the game is even more sketchy than the actual disaster. Supposedly endorsed by BP and other oil companies the game was produced around 1970 with little sales (wow, there is a surprise).

I suspect this game will now emerge from dark closets across Europe and start selling on eBay along with Connect Four Hurricanes and Chutes and Failed Car Companies.

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Missing Cat

July 3, 2010 By Godfather 1 Comment

“OK. So you’ll need to be in the right frame of mind to enjoy this one (it’s a joke, folks!) from David Thorne. But if you are, it’s pretty darned funny. This is a supposed email exchange between co-workers, one of whom (David) is a designer. Shannon is a distraught cat owner who makes the mistake of asking David’s pro bono assistance in creating a Lost Cat flyer.”

Go HERE to view the post…(trust me, it is worth it).

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Seriously, You Can’t Stop Your Two-Year-Old From Smoking?

June 3, 2010 By Godfather 2 Comments

Two-year-old Aldi has a problem…his mother is an idiot. Oh yea, and he smokes.

Sure this could turn into some long drawn out Godfather rant about the evils of cigarettes, parental control, and the pressures of society – blah, blah, blah.

The mother, Diana, complains that her two-year-old son cries and wants a cigarette. So, of course, she does what any other good mother would do, she gives it to him (about 40 a day).

The mother is not sure how to get him to quit.

Really?

Now, I am no expert, but I am pretty sure that little Aldi is not walking down to the local smoke shop, slapping down some cash, and buying a pack of smokes himself. So here is my little parental tip…

Are you ready?

Better write this one down Diana.

Maybe even record it as well.

Here we go…

“Stop giving him cigarettes!”

Man people are stupid.

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Seriously? Ed Hardy Condoms?

May 26, 2010 By Godfather 3 Comments

Ed Hardy is making condoms now? Fine by me. I think we can all agree that anybody who buys one probably shouldn’t breed.

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Natural Color Oil Spill Photo

May 3, 2010 By Godfather Leave a Comment

You may have seen plenty of “grey scale” shots of the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – currently still pumping 5,000 barrels of oil into the water per day.

This shot is a “natural color, 60 centimeter high-resolution DigitalGlobe QuickBird satellite image” – which you can view in full size here, is the most revealing I’ve seen yet.

If you look very close around the top left, you will see an airplane flying over. That should put it into perspective.

As of this post, the underwater robots had failed to stop the oil flow. (Click “More” to the coverage area). [Read more...]

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Arizona Immigration Law – What Next?

April 28, 2010 By Godfather 5 Comments

Arizona’s recent immigration law has me in a quandary.

First off, I don’t see how anyone can be FOR illegal immigration; I don’t see how you can protect your country if illegal immigration is out of control.

The affects of illegal immigration eventually catch up with you (This is still my favorite example). However…

I really don’t think the Arizona Law is the way to go.

It is one thing to shut down or “protect” the boarders; it is another thing to require police to verify citizenship (and immigration paperwork) each time the encounter an individual.

No matter how you cut it, you can’t help but bite into the rights of [actual] U.S. Citizens. Sure, some people say that is just the “price of cracking down.”

But I also highly suspect the people that don’t have a problem with the law either…

a) don’t live in AZ or

b) are pretty much safe in not being mistaken for any racial profiling (can you say fairly light skinned?).

Think about it for a minute. You will be required to show identification (proof of citizenship). Will this stop at illegal immigration?

Sure, we need to address illegal immigration, but not at such a great expense to our innate freedoms.

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