A Crossroads of Pop Culture and Tomfoolery

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Cuppabits January 30th

Posted by Walt Published in Cuppabits

I didn’t install Vista. I’m officially out of date. I feel so … so … last century.

Bill Gates on The Daily Show [YouTube]

Not much on the Bill Gates interview that’s really fun or funny. Stewart asks Gates about what Gates’ pets names were (as in “What’s your password”) but before that,
Stewart asked Bill if Microsoft was working on developing JetPacks.

Could you see a Microsoft branded JetPack?

Where the Blue Screen Of Death on the JetPack
would mean the Red Street Of Death…

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The best selling gaming console in America over the holiday shopping season was…

The Playstation 2 [link]

Sony loses by winning.

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What about those Wii consoles?

Check your local Target from your computer:

Replace this zip code in the link with your own

http://crayz.org/target_wii.php?zip=90210&asin=B0009VXBAQ

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BBC is reporting that researchers have found remnants of the houses used by the builders of Stonehenge.

Apparently, Stonehenge was one of the local party sites for raves in 2,500 B.C.

“The animal bones are being thrown away half-eaten. It’s what we call a feasting assemblage. This is where they went to party - you could say it was the first free festival.”
[BBC]

Kind of like the Burning Man festival, only with more fog and grog.

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Whomever wrote last night’s STUDIO 60 needs to be fired.

Daytime soap operas like THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS have better plot devices than what showed up on this show.

The good news is, the haters of the show can’t hate it any worse.

The bad news is, what we’re seeing now are the episodes written AFTER the show got saved from an early cancellation. Fiction novelists may sell a book based on the first three chapters, get the contract only to be stuck on Chapter 4 and just end up mailing the stuff in.

This is what we saw last night. A crappy show — and I’m a fan of STUDIO 60

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Subject: Castro’s eminent death

Stolen Humor:
When Castro dies, Miami Will Party Like It’s 1959

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Every year around Valentine’s Day, the romance publisher Harlequin comes out with their “State of the Romance World” report, or whatever they call it.

Slick and filled with glossy pictures and all sorts of Cosmo like logic about love, Harlequin tells us how women feel about love and romance today.

DearAuthor.com has a snarky critique

There is a list of Harlequin�s Coolest Women. Sheryl Crow is number 1. Harlequin�s Coolest Men. George Clooney is Number 1. There is a list of Romantic destinations. How to say I love you in different languages. You know, so you will be a well armed traveler. Saying �I love you� to the cabbie is just as good as leaving a tip.

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In the former Yugoslavia…

An angry husband who threw old clothes from his wardrobe in the garden and set fire to them because he could not find his clean underpants accidentally burnt his home down.

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THERE YOU GO AGAIN…

Republican candidates for President in 2008 will attempt to make people forget what a doofus the current president is by invoking the most famous Republican that still gets a nod of respect:
Ronald Reagan.

The ghost of the gipper is alive and more powerful than you think

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Munchies: What you get when you smoke pot

Someone has finally decided to figure out why you get the munchies and make a drug that does the opposite.

Frito-Lay, the maker of Cheetos is none too happy about this development

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Someone recut parts of Fight Club to be a movie about homosexual love.

JoBlo.com has the article and the link to the YouTube vid that… if you liked Fight Club, you gotta watch. [JoBlo.com]

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If you go to the SuperBowl and you’re under a doctor’s care for things like prostrate cancer, chances are you’ll need a note from the doc to get in to see the game.

They’re going to be testing for radioactive spectators. [AP via Yahoo]

Since there’s no testing on weird guys, the halftime entertainment, Prince, will probably be let in the gates.

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I never needed to fight in a bar fight, but if I did, I’d want to know the secrets from the Ultimate Fighting Champion who shows you all the little things you can shove into the face or groin area of your opponent [YouTube]

I’ll never go to a bar without a protective cup in my pants again…

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The prettiest comet pic you’ll see all day