Saturday, September 3, 2011

JUST FOR FUN

 

acecalhoun

funny-pics-08.03.2011-66

oW5E9lxRrpxyzl2lE8U5entgo1_500

please.dont.sit.on.crocodile

MORE SELF ANNIHILATING SENTENCES

 

Are you ever stuck for words or in need of a way out of a tricky conversation? Not any more – ‘Self-Annihilating Sentences‘ are the perfect get-out clause which will instantly put an end to any argumentative or stagnant discourse!

 

  • I gave you an unlimited budget, and you have already exceeded it!
  • He hasn't a single redeeming vice!
    ---Oscar Wilde
  • I can tell those twins apart only when they're together.
  • I am not contradicting you.
  • The discerning eye is a pain in the neck!
  • You'll live to regret this when I have you shot!
  • I'm never at my best.
  • Just tell me what you need, and I'll see to it that something ought to be done!
  • This subject is so important that I'd like to see it deserve considerable study.
  • This presents us with an insurmountable opportunity.

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • reindeer like bananas
  • rhinoceros have 3 toes on each foot
  • rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population
  • Rio de Janeiro translates to River of January
  • room temperature is defined as between 20 to 25°C (68 to 77°F)
  • roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks
  • rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated
  • scorpions glow under ultra violet light
  • Scotland has the most redheads
  • sea water is approximately 3.5% salt
  • Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'

COOL IMAGES

 

SONY DSC

blue86986986-

cool_0ais856

cool_0ais786754

19529582_MJc82vee_c

QUOTABLES

 

UU8sftjMcnl9imk61SUShx4Yo1_400

Friday, September 2, 2011

KING AND SPIELBERG TO JOIN FORCES

 

UNDER_THE_DOME

Stephen King and Steven Spielberg are at it again.

The duo who previously teamed on The Talisman are developing a drama series based on King’s 2009 novel Under the Dome.

The project, which will be produced by DreamWorks Television, revolves around locals a Maine locale who battle each other when a force field surrounds their town and cuts them off from the remainder of the world.

King will executive produce along with DreamWorks TV’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank. No writer is currently attached.

JUST FOR FUN

 

Liu-Bolin-the-Invisible-Man-talks-to-Yatzer-21

PP (3)

vVmbDWseNpjod6ptjsdPltu1o1_500

tumblr_ljrw6wVUco1qe3twro1_500

MORE EASY WAYS TO SAY NO

 

I'd love to, but...

  • I don't want to leave my comfort zone.
  • it's too close to the turn of the century.
  • I have some real hard words to look up in the dictionary.
  • my subconscious says no.
  • I'm giving nuisance lessons at a convenience store.
  • I left my body in my other clothes.
  • the last time I went, I never came back.
  • I've got a Friends of Rutabaga meeting.
  • I have to answer all of my "occupant" letters.
  • none of my socks match.

SNAPE TOPS HARRY IN POPULARITY POLL

Wlzc2

Sinister Severus Snape has beaten the celebrated teen wizard to be named the most popular character from the Harry Potter novels.

In a poll launched by publisher Bloomsbury earlier this year, fans voted the dark-eyed death eater and long-time nemesis of Potter their favourite.

The eponymous hero of the JK Rowling books finished in only fourth spot today, behind runner-up Hermione Granger and second-placed Sirius Black.

More than 70,000 votes were cast since the launch of the poll in May.

Professor Snape, the Hogwarts potions master and head of Slytherin, was chosen by a fifth of those who took part. In the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, his eyes were described as being "cold and empty and made you think of dark tunnels".

Evil Lord Voldemort took 17th place.

Rowling has said Potter is her personal favourite but conceded: "I believe I am unusual in this - Ron (Weasley) is generally more popular."

Weasley finished in fifth place.

iyDnc

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • Porsche also builds tractors
  • queen termites can live up to 50 years
  • rabbits like liquorice
  • rain contains vitamin B12
  • rainbows can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon (the sun needs to be less than 40° above the horizon)
  • raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun)
  • Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz
  • recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours
  • red blood cells are produced in bone marrow
  • red light has the highest wavelength
  • reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube

HOOKED ON CLASSIC MOVIES

 

Take a great piece of music like Hooked on Classics, then edit 170 movie clips to match and you have an entertaining video.

Enjoy!

The clips in sequence

 

From Here to Eternity (1953)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Fantasia (1940)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
An American in Paris (1951)
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
The Searchers (1956)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Gilda (1946)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Lifeboat (1944)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Rebecca (1940)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Rear Window (1954)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Bullitt (1968)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Laura (1944)
Breakfast At Tiffanys (1961)
Stormy Weather (1943)
The Yearling (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Graduate (1967)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Easter Parade (1948)
The Gangs All Here (1943)
Mary Poppins (1964)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
All About Eve (1950)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Queen Christina (1933)
The Heiress (1949)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
101 Dalmatians (1961)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Breathless (1959)
Rashomon (1951)
8 ½ (1963)
The Umbrellas of Cheroug (1963)
Wages of Fear (1952)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Spartacus (1960)
Ben Hur (1959)
They Shoot Horses, Dont They? (1969)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Gunga Din (1939)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Frankenstein (1931)
Dracula (1931)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Wolf Man (1941)
The Mummy (1932)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Eyes Without a Face (1959)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Tarantula (1955)
War of the Worlds (1953)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
2001: A Space Odessy (1968)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Road to Morocco (1942)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Duck Soup (1933)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Singin in the Rain (1952)
Adams Rib (1949)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1935)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Stagecoach (1939)
Shane (1953)
Annie Oakley (1935)
High Noon (1952)
Dark Victory (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
All the Kings Men (1949)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
The Member of the Wedding (1952)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Baby Doll (1956)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
The Hustler (1961)
Casablanca (1943)
The Garden of Allah (1936)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Now Voyager (1942)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Jezebel (1938)
Funny Face (1957)
The Red Balloon (1956)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Port of Shadows (1938)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
Children of Paradise (1945)
The Lovers (1958)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Nuns Story (1959)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Going My Way (1944)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Dead of Night (1945)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Pretty Poison (1968)
Psycho (1960)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
La Strada (1956)
Forbidden Games (1951)
Rules of the Game (1938)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Vertigo (1958)
The Birds (1963)
Psycho (1960)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
The Bandwagon (1953)
Small Town Girl (1953)
The King and I (1956)
Singin in the Rain (1952)
Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Cabaret (1972)
Funny Girl (1968)
King Kong (1933)
North By Northwest (1959)
White Heat (1949)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Royal Wedding (1951)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Dangerous When Wet (1953)
The Apartment (1960)
A Hard Days Night (1964)
The Nights of Cabiria (1957)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Swingtime (1936)

COOL IMAGES

 

ytpytp96p986-9

xq0gxRbjUpe43w42B7uUAjJpo1_500

018WTE5RER6

blue500x500

tumblr_lmu8tphK1D1qg8cf4o1_500

THIS WORLD … FOUNTAINS

 

5200426071_4b67d2e78f_b

1283751935841283

oW5E9lxRrnh5cspz5gdpsZS7o1_500

g3_3

39_Fountain,_Powis_Castle,_Wales

QUOTABLES

tumblr_llh3f9MFUY1qzr5ipo1_500

Thursday, September 1, 2011

“THE DOUBLE” TRAILER RELEASED

 

 

The-DoubleImage Entertainment has unleashed the first trailer for "The Double". Around two minutes long, the sneak peek at the upcoming thriller takes its focus on Richard Gere's retired CIA operative character Paul Shepherdson and his hunt for his nemesis, the legendary Soviet assassin Cassius.

Bearing the distinctive trademark of Cassius, a mysterious murder of a U.S. senator forces Shepherdson to team up with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary, to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing the assassin, the retired operative is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland.

Agent Geary, in the meantime, wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, and is certain that Cassius has resurfaced. As the two work their way through crimes both past and present, they discover that Cassius may not be the person they always thought him to be, forcing both to re-examine everything and everyone around them.

GLADITORIAL AMPITHEATRE DISCOVERED

 

Gladiators_from_the_Zliten_mosaic_3

Archaeologists have located and excavated the ruins of a massive amphitheatre used to train gladiators east of Vienna in what they call a "sensational discovery."

They say that the ruins, located through ground radar measurements, rival the Colosseum and the Ludus Magnus in Rome in their structure. The Ludus Magnus is the largest of the gladiatorial arenas in the Italian capital, while the Colosseum is the largest amphitheatre ever built in the Roman Empire.

A statement on Tuesday from the Carnuntum archaeological park gave no details when the find was located and excavated.

The park - part of a former Roman settlement - is about 60 kms east of Vienna.

3888807894_cdb2e98951

For more information about the Carnuntum Archaeological park Click

HERE

HERE

or HERE

JUST FOR FUN

 

innovative_onion_fest_01

funny-animals-part317-23

Funny-sign-fails-part2-10

tumblr_ljd2hkDe5Q1qerydvo1_500

MORE MURPHY’S LAWS

 

 

  • A man with one watch is certain about time. A man with two watches isn't.
  • The more knowledge you gained, the less certain you are of it.
  • If you think you understand science (or computers or women), you're clearly not an expert
  • Technicians are the only ones that don't trust technology
  • All impossible failures, will happen at the test site.
    Corollary: All impossible failures will happen on the clients desktop
  • The more you want to contact someone over an instant messenger is inversely proportional to the chances that they will be on-line.
  • The more important your email is, the worse your email client will screw it up.
  • The degree to which a device will function is directly proportional to the number of times it has been bashed and inversely to its cost.
  • A device having an indestructible component or is user serviceable is deemed unsafe until it's replaced by an expensive, unobtainable, inefficient component which needs constant servicing.
  • A failed 25¢ part cannot be replaced by a new 25¢ part, but by a sub-assembly whose cost is equal to or greater than that of the device in need of the part
  • The cost and availability of a replacement part are in inverse proportion to the cost of the whole system: a $1500 device will fail because of the burnout of a 25¢ capacitor. But the 25¢ capacitor is either
    • no longer manufactured
    • manufactured only by a company in Outer Mongolia with an 18-month backlog
    • available only as part of a $1450 sub-assembly

BEST 100 MOVIE LINES IN 200 SECONDS

 

Enjoy!

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • Perth is Australia's windiest city
  • Peru has more pyramids than Egypt
  • petrol has no specific freezing point (it can freezes at any temperature between -82 and -115°C (-180 and -240°F)
  • Pez was invented in 1927
  • Pinocchio is Italian for 'pine head'
  • plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970
  • polar bears are strictly carnivores
  • police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages (usually German or Hungarian)
  • pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians
  • porcupines float in water

VINTAGE PORTRAITS

 

These vintage portraits always start me wondering about the subjects. Who are they? Where did they live? What families did they have? What is their unique life story?

I love to look and ponder.

6283363-md

bbb1v

fvq90572

tt-03

tumblr_loq0enqBYf1qzx4bjo1_400

COOL IMAGES

 

tumblr_lmp0fkmz9D1qb62c4o1_500

tumblr_lo3nrsjLZT1qfupepo1_500tumblr_lmzv3hUArK1qgr7odo1_250

cool_jaha7654s

tumblr_lpqha6MKV21qaixbxo1_500

THE DANCE IN ART

 

Nicolas Lancret, La Camargo Dancing, 1730, Marie

K24i64AjIpqtgvf8hQqKYDsZo1_500

CIMG8051

tumblr_lg1bcl2Ze71qep93so1_500

tumblr_lml7vg1PWX1ql3umeo1_500

tumblr_lmj4n7clas1qb8vzto1_1280