Brad Collins » humor http://bradcollins.com Religion, Politics, Tech, Language, Life Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:28:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © Brad Collins 2011 brad@collins.name (Brad Collins) brad@collins.name (Brad Collins) http://bradcollins.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Brad Collins http://bradcollins.com 144 144 Religion, Politics, Tech, Language, Life Brad Collins Brad Collins brad@collins.name no no Rupert And Rock & Roll Numbers http://bradcollins.com/2012/01/07/rupert-and-rock-roll-numbers/ http://bradcollins.com/2012/01/07/rupert-and-rock-roll-numbers/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:24:21 +0000 Brad http://bradcollins.com/?p=225 Continue reading →]]> I love humor with depth. I’ve lately been enjoying some metahumor—humor that alludes to a detail related to the work, not the story of the work itself:

In Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince, Professor Slughorn never can quite remember the name of Harry’s friend Ron Weasley. Slughorn tells Harry that he has “a house-elf taste every bottle after what happened to your poor friend Rupert.”

Rowling is clearly nodding to the fact that the actor who portrays Ron in the movies is a fellow by the name Rupert Grint. [chuckle]

In a recent episode of Phineas & Ferb, Lawrence (Ferb’s father) is watching television. (We don’t see what he’s watching, just the flickering of light on his face.) Finally he pipes, “This isn’t much of a horror movie! Where are all the rock & roll numbers?”

Now that’s pretty funny by itself in a Monty Python-esque non sequitur sort of way. But it’s bloomin’ hilarious if you realize that the guy who voices Lawrence Fletcher is Richard O’Brien, the man behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a musical “horror” film. Brilliant! (Rocky Horror is not exactly a film I recommend, by the way, but I must confess that I have seen it.)

Also in a recent Phineas & Ferb (perhaps the same episode), they did a takeoff of one of the Twilight movies (which they called something like “Almost Dark”—heh, heh). The werewolf character is voiced by none other than Michael J. Fox, the original ’80s Teen Wolf. Genius!

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Eight birds (which I hypothesize must be African swallows) attempting to lift a whale with a net

The Notorious Twitter Fail Whale

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When you die, if in the place you go after you die, you see anything like the Bill of Rights, you know you’re in Hell. Because a Bill of Rights in Heaven would be an affront to God; it would imply that He is untrustworthy. —Dr. Walter E. Williams, Rush Limbaugh Program, September 4, 2009

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]]> http://bradcollins.com/2009/08/06/fortran-programming-ii/feed/ 1 Sugar Scrub http://bradcollins.com/2009/05/26/sugar-scrub/ http://bradcollins.com/2009/05/26/sugar-scrub/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 12:21:34 +0000 Brad http://bradcollins.com/?p=123 Continue reading →]]> I am reading Andy Clarke’s Transcending CSS, and in it he encourages looking for Web design inspiration in places other than the Web: cereal boxes, newspapers, magazines, buildings, to name a few. (This is something I’ve done for some time now, but I’ve been making a more conscious effort of late, given his advice.)

This morning I picked up a tube of my wife’s facial scrub. I looked for anything interesting in the design on the front. Then I looked at the back, which contains, among other things, an ingredient list. I wasn’t scanning the ingredient list as much as my eyes just happened to fall on one word:

Saliva.

Saliva! They put saliva in facial scrub? I looked again.

Salvia.

Salvia officinalis (sage) leaf extract. Ah, helps to keep reading past the line break.

]]> http://bradcollins.com/2009/05/26/sugar-scrub/feed/ 0 Arden, Hannah, Whatever http://bradcollins.com/2009/05/26/arden-hannah-whatever/ http://bradcollins.com/2009/05/26/arden-hannah-whatever/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 12:00:23 +0000 Brad http://bradcollins.com/?p=95 Continue reading →]]> Our two-year-old has finally begun to talk and build a vocabulary. Folks who know about this kind of thing tell me that the American English R is one of the most difficult sounds for kids to learn to enunciate.

As you can imagine then, Whitby has a difficult time pronouncing his older sister’s name, Arden. So he pronounces it “Hannah.” A natural and logical approximation, I’m sure you’ll agree.

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He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the Lord. —Proverbs 18:22 (NKJV)

Hmm. Never says that about husbands. Coincidence?

]]> http://bradcollins.com/2009/04/29/a-good-thing/feed/ 0 Blood Of The New Covenant For Your Refreshment http://bradcollins.com/2009/02/24/blood-of-the-new-covenant-for-your-refreshment/ http://bradcollins.com/2009/02/24/blood-of-the-new-covenant-for-your-refreshment/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:42:56 +0000 Brad http://bradcollins.com/?p=92 Continue reading →]]> Around the house, our nearly-two-year-old will sip from a cup and follow it with a gratified, “Ahhh.” Sunday during the fruit of the vine portion of the Lord’s Supper, after I sipped the juice from my cup, Whitby followed up with a quite audible, “Ahhh.”

I guess we need to work on that reverence thing.

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]]> http://bradcollins.com/2009/02/16/fortran-programming/feed/ 1 Madoff With(out) The Cash http://bradcollins.com/2008/12/23/madoff-without-the-cash/ http://bradcollins.com/2008/12/23/madoff-without-the-cash/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:27:40 +0000 Brad http://bradcollins.com/?p=55 Am I the only one who finds it humorous that the guy who ran a 25-year, $50 billion Ponzi scheme pronounces his last name “made off?”

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