Stray Hawkeye

Another political one, which is also a bit outdated. What can I say, I’ve been saving links for a while, which lead me to make this blog.

http://lolbama.com/

Baba O’Riley (Teenage Wasteland) done entirely using sounds from Windows.  A little slow, but still amusing.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs_EZuwbeZU

http://failblog.org/

Had a bad day?  Feel like you messed up big?  Someone did it worse.  A blog chronicling fails big and small.  Frequently not suitable for work.

I’ve mentioned this one to several people, so it’s time to post it.  A blog dedicated to listing things that are younger than the presumptive Republican nominee for President, John McCain:

http://www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com/

Some personal favorites: Alaska, Margaritas, Israel, The Golden Gate Bridge, Chocolate Chip Cookies (and one would have to assume then, the Cookie Monster), Mount Rushmore, The Czech Republic, and Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches.

I will say the the blog was more entertaining a couple months ago, when it was solely limited to listing things that are younger than John McCain.  However, I didn’t have a blog to use to link to it then, now did I?

Currently only about every third post are on the topic of things younger than McCain.  The rest are general politics / Republican bashing – which I think takes something from the charm.  It’s now more of an Obama blog with a funny title than one solely dedicated to listing thing younger than McCain (which would probably be more effective).

I was just about to say that I’d like to start another blog called “ThingsOlderThanObama” just to have a fair counter point, and I think it could be even funnier.  I checked the domain name about a month ago and it was free, but it looks like someone else got it and started a blog on July 15th.  Unfortunately, thus far it shows no promising signs of comedy.  If anything it looks even more ragingly partisan and close minded.  Too bad, more flies with honey and all.  Plus, we need something to laugh at in all of this.

So, in case you haven’t come across UrbanDictionary.com yet, it’s a really handy site for finding out what various slang terms and really localized language mean.  Think something like a Wikipedia for a dictionaries, but with a much heavier focus on items that may not find their way into an *ahem* more dignified/proper dictionary.  If you heard a high school kid / college student say it, and you weren’t sure if you should be offended, this is where to look (though when in doubt, if a high school kid or college says something you don’t understand, you should probably be offended).

People submit definitions for words, and then users can vote them up or down.  It’s also especially handy when the same word has a few different meanings, or if it can be applied in a variety of ways in different contexts.

I was recently reminded of the site when listening to “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by The Proclaimers (you know, the song they played at community pools over and over in the late 80′s because it was so repetitious even small, highly chlorinated children could remember the words, scream them, and sound vaguely like the lead singer), and more specifically a cover by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, which makes special point of the song’s use of the obscure word “haver” (the special point they make is noted in the second definition).  I was reminded that, despite the number of times I’ve heard this song, I still had no idea what “haver” means.  So, I checked UrbanDictionary.com, and found this.  Needless to say, the first two are the accepted meaning, but this post/link/explanation is mostly for my amusement at the third definition.

That was a really long set up for such a simple joke.  I’ll work on that in coming posts.

Hello all.  Just starting up the site and seeing what I can do with it.  Hopefully I’ll have a few more things up in the coming weeks.  Expect things to be changing and getting tweaked.  More soon.

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