Al Gore’s latest environmental panic-mongering: “the Dust Bowl is coming back, quickly, unless we act.”
Sure thing, Al. Just tell us what we need to sell to Al Jazeera to fix the problem.
Archive of entries posted on 9th March 2014
Link of the Day: Satire – Troops in Crimea Merely Fetching Stray Sochi Dogs
[High Praise! to ScrappleFace]
Troops in Crimea Merely Fetching Stray Sochi Dogs
[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]
lolbama! Part 175
Submit entries to lolterizt@gmail.com
Meanwhile, pass ’em around, spread the love, and if you make your own, don’t be shy about dropping a link to your pics in the comments. The more, the merrier.
From DamnCat:
From Kris:
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From Kris:
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From Veeshir:
From Smilin’ Jack:
From Travelwise42 of Wise Up:
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From walruskkkch:
My favorites from the submissions using last edition’s uncaptioned picture:
From C:
From Richard:
From Smilin’ Jack:
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From Travelwise42 of Wise Up:
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This week’s uncaptioned picture for you to play with:
Kris, who actually sat through enough Monty Python TV shows to see this bit (so many people begin & end with “Holy Grail”)
PRODUCTION NOTES:
#1: When creating lolbama! pictures, please caption with either black or white text, as colors like red and yellow tend to blur badly when I compress the images.
#2: Standard image size for these posts is 350px wide by whatever high. If you can have your images 350px wide before you caption them, I won’t end up shrinking your captions into illegibility when I re-size the images.
MAKE YOUR OWN: The free lolbuilder from I Can Has Cheezburger.
STYLE NOTE: Short captions are usually better. Your goal is 10 words or less, with humor value tending to increase exponentially as the number of words approaches 1.
IMAGE SOURCES: Lots of great Obama pics to be found at the White House Flickr page.
Send your submissions to lolterizt@gmail.com and – if they aren’t obscene (IMAO is a PG-13 site) and don’t suck too terribly bad – I’ll post them for you. Remember to include your name (and blog URL, if applicable) so I know who to thank.
Is It a Rom-Com?
Fox is planning to make a TV movie about Dennis Rodman’s visit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.
Am I the only one thinking this could be the best buddy-cop movie since “Turner & Hooch”?
Classic Doctor Who Season 11
I’ve been watching classic Doctor Who episodes. I began with the first season from 1963, and am now in the eleventh season from 1974 (mostly).
Season Eleven was 26 episodes comprising 5 serials. It featured a new opening sequence, highlighted by the classic Doctor Who diamond-shaped logo. It also introduced Sarah Jane Smith, who was with The Doctor for four seasons, the longest of any companion so far.
The first serial of the season, The Time Warrior (4 episodes), introduced the Sontarans, and featured another appearance by Boba Fett. Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original Star Wars movies, made his second Doctor Who appearance. He had previously appeared in The Space Museum from Season Two. The serial also gives The Doctor’s home planet a name: Gallifrey.
The second serial, Invasion of the Dinosaurs (6 episodes), had an interesting idea in that dinosaurs were brought forward in time to the present day (1970s) and then returned, wreaking havoc in between. I think they stole this idea from Primeval
A little shame should also be heaped upon the special effects department for that serial. The dinosaur effects made Godzilla (1954) look like Jurassic Park. Barney is a more convincing dinosaur than what was done for that serial. And, in a change of recent storyline pattern, the eco-warriors were the bad guys, intent on destroying life on Earth. They did excuse them as misguided, with their hearts in the right place, though. Those wacky Brits.
A couple of old villains appeared in Season 11. The Daleks made an appearance in Death to the Daleks (4 episodes). That serial was unusual in that, for some of the time, there was an uneasy truce between The Doctor and the Daleks as they combined forces to restore power to their respective ships. At the end, of course, the Daleks are the bad guys, and as usual, are defeated. The other return villains, the Ice Warriors appear in The Monster of Peladon (6 episodes).
The season ended with the 6-episode Planet of the Spiders. I don’t like spiders. The second episode of the serial could have been called “Who. Doctor Who.” because of the extended chase scene involving a car, a hover craft, a flying car, a helicopter, and a speed boat. I could almost hear Paul McCartney playing Live and Let Die during it.
The spider effects were actually pretty good. Well, not bad. Certainly better than the dinosaurs. But some of the other effects in the serial were pretty bad. 1980 Flash Gordon
The main event in the serial, apart from saving the universe again, is the death of The Doctor. He was regenerated — the first time it was called that; the transition from the First Doctor to the Second Doctor was called “renewal” — into the Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker.
The Tom Baker episodes were the first Doctor Who episodes I ever saw, on PBS back in the 1970s. And, now I’m caught up to then. Well, nearly.
Season 12 looms large. To the TARDIS, to land on Earth in 1974!
Send This to Someone Who’s Stoned Right Now
Guaranteed to make them scream “get out of my head!”
[New Marijuana Study Confirms Everyone Knows You’re High And You Will Be Stoned Forever] (Viewer #636,228)
Kids, don’t smoke pot. It makes responsible adults want to mess with your brain, because they all know that you’re stoned right now.