But damn it’s funny!
Local TV always seems to have the most bizarre ads, and for good reason: small budgets. Thus, clearly the only way to drum up business is being loud and weird. Exactly how Forever Leather is going to sell stuff with *that* commercial, however, is anyones guess. For an example of how to do such things properly, check this out:
And who can ever forget this masterpiece:
Ah, that takes me back to the ’80’s… sigh…
And then this:
From Fox News:
Saddened by the wickedness of man, God directs the righteous Noah to build an ark for his family and two of each species of animal.
Together, they ride the ark through 40 days and 40 nights of torrential rains that God unleashes upon the Earth. And when the waters subside, Noah and the animals return to land.
“That seems almost like a fairy story,” said archaeologist Randall Price, who is director of Liberty University’s new Center for Judaic Studies. “But we believe it was an actual event.”
Teh stoooopid… it burns! What in Odin’s name keeps people believing in such rubbish in this day and age?
“Keep your ear to the road, so to speak, this summer,” he said. “Because there will be discovery. The only thing that’s holding us back is to finance the machinery that we need.”
Ah. There it is. Money.
Issue V2N2 is now essentially done. I need to spend a day or two going through it to make sure I haven’t forgotten something or made too many slepping erorrs, but it is for all intents and purposes complete. The original Word document was split in two parts due to the sheer filesize… about 200 meg. But when converted to PDF, it turned out to be a remarkably economical 22 meg. Tops out at 153 pages, by far the longest APR to date.
I expect it to be up and running before the weekend, perhaps as early as Wednesday evening.
A note right up front: I despise the very notion of aristocracy. To me, “regicide” is not a criminal action, more of a praisworthy public service. Anyone who would claim that he or she should have the right to rule others merely due to heredity needs to be taken out back, given a good thumping and dumped in the nearest canal. But hey, I’m an American, not a Brit, so the Brits can have any system they like, no skin off my nose.
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Still, reading this story and watching the related video makes me wonder just what the hell’s in the water over there in Britainland. (Note: I’m not sure, but I’m thinking that this might not be the most reliable and dignified of news sources).
OK, so Prince Harry, third in line to the throne, must’ve said something *really* insane, yes?
The soldier prince pours shame on the Royal Family as he calls an Asian squaddie “our little Paki friend” and tells another officer cadet jokingly wearing a camouflage veil off duty: “F*** me, you look like a raghead”—an offensive term for an Arab.
Errr…. what?
Last night Clarence House issued an APOLOGY for his behaviour in the shocking video diary—in which Harry is often behind the camera giving a foul-mouthed commentary.
And the Ministry of Defence said last night: “This sort of language is not acceptable in a modern army.”
Errrr….. ummmm…. WHAT??
And, of course, the usual pack of braying jackasses come out of the woodwork:
THE Equality and Human Rights Commission last night demanded a formal inquiry into Prince Harry’s jibes, as Muslim groups and leading MPs slammed the Prince.
Oh, no! A soldier said “raghead!” The horror! The horror!
If Britain is to have any future as a nation of respect, power and dignity, it needs to respond to this sort of invented outrage not with wailing over “how can he have said such a horrible thing,” but with a “yeah, so frakin’ what?”
You don’t lead a successful nation into the future by wailing over every perceived verbal slight. You don’t charge into the future with an attitude of “let’s not offend anyone.” You lead it with an attitude more along the lines of “Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!” If you allow the professionally offended to successfully make a case out of every piddling little offhanded remark, they will tear your country down.
So, here I’m a little torn. I’m actually coming down on the side of having the jug-earred, knock-kneed inbred “prince” not totally wussing out, and instead saying what needs to be said.
Thinking that I was done with the Orion article, I went to bed. Whereupon I suddenly realized that I had left the inboard profile view of the battleship unfinished… the propulsion module was a blank space in the drawing. So I stayed up past 4 AM finishing this up. Feh.
I had planned on getting up relatively early to go for a drive and take some photos. instead, I think I might as well stay up till the sun comes up, then crash.
I put the last bit of text into the Orion article tonight, adjusted the last images. I need to add a few things to the References section at the end, and add Figure #s, but other than that… it appears that the Orion article is done. And beyond that, all that’s left to do is a half page or so on the “North American Aviation atomic rockets and ramjets from ’47” article, and I think that’ll be that. Currently looking at 152 pages in length, twice what I was shooting for. And this was after yanking a fair amount out. Hopefully V2N3 will go quicker.
Here’s a screenshot of one of the 11X17 pages featuring all of the Orions from this article.
With Luna in the background.
