This is some happy stuff

I saw and heard some funny stuff in the past day or two.

Method Man and Redman did a commercial for Powerstripe deodorant.  It’s not "ha, ha" funny, but sad-funny.

Saw a Navy commercial that said, "Life. Liberty. And the pursuit of all who threaten it."  Very cool.  It even had decent music.

On David Letterman last night, the Top Ten list was "Top ten ways Kim Jong-Il [the murderous North Korean dictator] can improve his image."  One of the ways was "Goodbye weapons of mass destruction; hello cookies of mass tastiness."

On All Things Considered Wednesday, there was a commentary by Andrei Codrescu about a talking fish recently reported in the New York Times.

I don’t subscribe to cult news letters, so I have no idea if signs and miracles have been multiplying out there.  So when a Hebrew talking carp made the New York Times front page, I paid attention.

The carp was about to be chopped up by two fish-mongers, a Ecuadorian and a Jew, when it started spouting prophecies.  The Ecuadorian heard it first, and couldn’t understand what it was saying so he thought it was Satan.  But then his Jewish colleague listened, and it was saying Biblical things.

Despite their differences as to the import of the voice, they chopped up the talking carp anyway and sold it.  I can understand the Ecuadorian getting a little spooked because the carp wasn’t talking Latin or Spanish, the two main languages of non-human miracle messengers.  But what’s with the Jew?  He knew both what the carp was saying, and what a talking carp might be worth whole.

The New York Times report was kind of jocular too, and I didn’t like that.  Catholics have been receiving messages via tortillas, trees, and sheep for years, so the Jews get one turn through a fish, and the world laughs?

What gets me is that unaware people ate the carp.  I mean, there are people out there now with a piece of talking Gefilte fish in their bellies.  Everybody listens when their stomach rumbles.  But now they’ve got to listen extra carefully because the message, which was apocalyptic as I understand it, has gotten scrambled like a Dada poem and it’s all bits and pieces among the gurgles and growls.

The Jews say that thirty-six just men keep the world going.  Now there are thirty-six bellies out there, each one holding part of the message, and it’s a matter of some urgency that they be found, sat next to one another, interviewed by Rabbis, put in the right order, deciphered, and translated, first into Latin, then into English.  The Jews don’t have a Pope that can certify the message, but we can put it to a vote, and then have Joe Lieberman introduce it to the world.

Joseph recently pointed me to radioU.com which, unlike most internet (and other) radio stations, is actually pretty good.  But the best thing about it so far is that they have 2 interviews with the brothers Chaps, creators of HomestarRunner.com.  (If you’ve never been there to see Strong Bad emails, your life is not complete.)  And these interviews are stinking hilarious.  Here’s the page they’re on, and here are direct links to the first interview and the second one.

Finally, Protesting the Protesters is really funny too.  My favorite answer to the "real reasons for the war" question was that it’s for the control of water in the middle east.  Ahh, of course, how sinister!