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Things that remind people of me
Category: Personal • Weirdness
Posted on: September 22, 2006 10:18 AM, by PZ Myers
It's time for another edition of that popular game where I browse through the mailbag and see what peculiar images people have sent to me, prompted by my peculiar reputation. It's not all flabby, slimy squid this week!
Click on the images to go to the source.
Why would the plaintiff have brought suit in the first place?
Hubba hubba. Am I perverse for really wanting to see what's under that dress?
Giant cephalopod! Fighting zombies! in Dutch!
Much, much too young for me. But cute.
Martian seagulls? That's different and cool.
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I love the spinal injury comic. If you haven't checked out http://www.theillustrateddailyscribble.com/ it is by the same guy and includes a lot of funny anti-Bush/Rove/etc. stuff
Posted by: Toni Riga | September 22, 2006 10:40 AM
A couple of days ago, a wee baby girl was born unto me, and she's the loveliest thing to grace this planet, to be sure. Such a wonderful dress and handbag must indeed be perfect to set her on the right path in life. Any ideas where to find them, and do they come in size teeny-tiny?
Martin
Posted by: Martin Christensen | September 22, 2006 10:42 AM
Those aren't alien seagulls, they're Nyctosaurus pterodactyls, from what's now Kansas (that particular neighborhood has gone down the drain since they've been there).
Posted by: Stanton | September 22, 2006 10:46 AM
Martin,
Congratulations on the birth of your daughter!! :o)
Your comment about the dress and handbag reminded me of this:
http://www.babystyle.com/common/dProductDetail.asp?pmid=17956&dept=1
Samhain/Halloween is in just a few weeks...
Posted by: Shannon | September 22, 2006 11:02 AM
This song about a giant squid by Jonathan Coulton reminded me of you.
Posted by: Matt Arnold | September 22, 2006 12:26 PM
Does anybody besides me look at that second picture, and hope that maybe Tim Burton is back in form and planning something good? She does look like Christina Ricci, after all.
On the second picture, I'm confused: is a "huiveringwekkende" a couple of days spent fighting zombies with a vacuum cleaner?
Posted by: Apikoros | September 22, 2006 12:29 PM
This one definitely reminded me of you, but in a more-newsworthy, less-humorous sort of way:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/18/BAGF5L7LQS1.DTL&hw=longevity&sn=003&sc=501
Posted by: MikeM | September 22, 2006 1:26 PM
Found here: http://www.boingboing.net/
SquidSoap dispenser shows you when you're done scrubbing
Squid Soap's mission is to "train tomorrow's great hand washers." The pump-bottle is decorated with a plastic squid, and the top of the pump has an ink-stamper that leaves a ring on your hand when you pump your soap. Once you've scrubbed enough to remove the ink-stamp, you've also scrubbed enough to kill the germs on your hands.
Link http://www.squidsoap.com/
(via Collision Detection) http://collisiondetection.net/
Posted by: Hank Roberts | September 22, 2006 1:45 PM
Does anybody besides me look at that second picture, and hope that maybe Tim Burton is back in form and planning something good?
Actually, she reminds a bit of the classic Quiet, Please episode "The Thing on the Fourble Board."
Posted by: HP | September 22, 2006 2:49 PM
Posted by: SEF | September 22, 2006 3:03 PM
Actually, one of my favourite cartoons of all time is one by Rodriguez, from National Lampoon's collection.
Scene: There is a rumpled burlap bag sitting on a chair, and through the opening of the bag can be seen one eye in the darkness. The lawyer sitting across from the bag says. "I'd say we have a VERY good case! Now, when did this autopsy take place . . "
Posted by: Hairhead | September 22, 2006 3:35 PM
Thank you most humbly, Shannon. Okay, maybe second most humbly. :-)
Unfortunately, I can't see any picture of the costume that might appear on the page to which you link, but I can imagine from the description what we're dealing with.
Here in Denmark, however, we do not celebrate haloween. But come the end of February, we have 'fastelavn', the breaking of the traditional month of fast (I've never, ever heard of any non-Jewish ethnic Dane actually fasting in February), where the kids do dress up and have their equivalent of trick-or-treating. They also 'beat the cat in the barrel', which traditionally was done by putting a black cat (a bad luck omen, of course), stringing up the barrel and beating the crap out of the barrel with sticks. Today we put candy, small (durable!) trinkets and confetti in the barrel for the kids and - more humanely - simply decorate it with black cats. The one to beat the bottom out of the barrel is crowned Cat King, and the one to get the last remaining boards off the rope becomes Cat Queen, regardless of gender.
Just a bit of cultural trivia that some of you might find amusing.
Martin
Posted by: Martin Christensen | September 22, 2006 5:49 PM
"is a "huiveringwekkende" a couple of days spent fighting zombies with a vacuum cleaner?"
Hahahah... No, but I wish it were!
"Huiveringwekkende" means "horrible" in Dutch.
Posted by: Kseniya | September 22, 2006 6:01 PM
Maybe this direct link to a large image will work?
http://www.babystyle.com/images/product/17956_MID_l.jpg
Such cute little larval octopuses! ("If you eat all of your food, you'll grow up big and strong, just like the kraken, and pull ships apart!")
Posted by: Owlmirror | September 22, 2006 7:22 PM
The second picture is actually by Ray Ceasar He also has a myspace.
Posted by: Isaac | September 23, 2006 7:17 AM
Wonderful! :-) Thanks, Owlmirror.
Martin
Posted by: Martin Christensen | September 23, 2006 4:24 PM