Found via George Takei — it’s one of the winning entries from his “Caption This!” contest.
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Author: Joey deVilla
The folks at Official Comedy — the high-larious people who brought you such gems as the infamous and hotly-debated Millennials in the Workplace video — have a new, Thanksgiving-themed video for you. It’s a supercut of people from movies and TV shows, from Homer Simpson to Kenny Powers, using that classic phrase: jive turkey.
In the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and his new turkey-deep-frying safety video , Eat, Fry, Love, William Shatner has to contend with powerful cylindrical technologies capable of both great creation and great destruction. In the former, the cylindrical technology is the Genesis Device:
The Genesis Device generated an energy wave capable of terraforming planets from cold, lifeless rocks in space into lush, life-supporting worlds. Here’s the relevant scene from The Wrath of Khan:
Yeah, I know, someone made this by shooting a video of their TV. It’s the best clip I could find.
A deep-turkey fryer is a similar in concept, generating oily heat capable of turkeyforming cold, frozen turkeys into hot, delicious deep-fried Thanksgiving goodness. The video starts out with Shatner purchasing his turkey fryer and reading the instructions. However, in a fit of carelessness, he ignores those instructions and throws safety concerns out the window.
Here’s Shatner having a turkey vision. Now the world knows what his “O-face” looks like:
Here’s that turkey vision. It looks like the Sacred Heart of Jesus rising from a pot of boiling oil:
The above scene is also oddly reminiscent of that scene in The Wrath of Khan where Khan activates the Genesis Device:
In both films, the activation of the cylindrical devices threatens to kill Shatner. But only in Eat, Fry, Love is he set alight:
Gotta love those CGI flames:
In both films, Shatner has a primal scream moment:
And in both films, Shatner has to dispose of someone he cares about greatly. In The Wrath of Khan, it’s Spock:
And in Eat, Fry, Love, it’s the turkey fryer:
“Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels…
…the turkey fryer’s was the most…(choke, sob)…delicious!”
For his experience with a potentially deadly piece of cylindrical technology, Shatner got off rather lightly…
…after all, Khan wasn’t as fortunate:
Of course, you should watch Eat, Fry, Love for yourself:
Be safe this Thanksgiving!
We’re now in the “electronics” portion of The Great Declutter Sale, in which I’m letting go of stuff that I don’t use anymore at low, low prices. I’m also posting these to Craigslist Toronto, but I figure that my blog reaches a rather different audience, and it also lets me format things a little bit better.
This posting is about a strange bit of electronics call the Sony SLV-AV100, an odd creature that seems to have been designed specifically Japanese apartments, where space is the most precious resource:
The SLV-AV100 is a combination amplifier, AM/FM/TV receiver, and VCR. This sort of frankendevice is necessary when you’re dealing with an apartment that would be considered a walk-in closet in suburban North America. I bought it when I lived in a condo in downtown Toronto, not because the place was tiny, but because having all these goodies in one package was rather convenient, and because I like the oddball configuration of a product that wasn’t designed with the North American market in mind.
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You can read the full SLV-AV100 spec on this page (someone’s posted the entire user manual online), or here’s a quick list of the main points:
- It drives 2 front, 2 rear, and 1 center channel at 70W each
- 3 video inputs: video 1, video 2, and TV
- 6 stereo audio inputs: video 1, video 2, TV, CD, tape, line in
- Dimensions (W * H * D): 430mm * 157mm * 430mm (17″ * 6.25″ * 17″)
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In the age of digital cable and Netflix, perhaps its TV tuner and VCR capabilities aren’t as useful as they once were, but if you’ve got a collection of home movies shot on VHS, or if you just can’t bear to part with your lovingly recorded episodes of Degrassi Jr. High, this is the device for you! And of course, its amplifier and terrestrial radio features work just fine. Here’s a live demo of the SLV-AV100’s audio in action:
Want it? I’m letting it go for $100. If you’re interested, drop me a line!
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That’s a headline in today’s Toronto Sun, who in turn got the story from celebrity gossip site TMZ:
The question that comes to mind is:
According to the TMZ article:
Vivid star Brandy Aniston says she came up with the idea … and wants to co-star in the flick because she thinks “He’s kinda cute, in a big, teddy bear kind of way.”
I’m always one to look at the silver lining in this situation, and in this case, this news should be a ray of hope for all you single guys out there who are having trouble finding someone, whether for the long term or for a hook-up. If a sweaty, Chris Farley-like, 330-pound one-man episode of Cops can catch the eye of a porn star, there’s hope for the rest of us.
TMZ reports that in the meantime, there’s already a Rob Ford parody porn flick created by a “Woodrocket.com” (heh). It stars one “Peter O’Toole” as the mayor, and “Gaia”:
I will be greatly disappointed if they don’t work the “plenty to eat at home” line into the movie.
DJ Rio’s blog has a collection of photos of 1980s new wave music stars, showing what they look like these days. Here’s a sample of those photos, paired with one of their old videos…
The Great Declutter Sale continues! I need to unload a fair bit of my stuff, so this is your chance to get it, and at a fraction of the original cost! So far, it’s been small stuff: books (and there are more), Zunes (sold out), and the drill (snapped up), but I’ve also got well-cared-for furniture that could be yours, too!
In this installment of the Great Declutter Sale, I’m putting up two staples of my living area that you may have seen at one of my social events: the LURVEseat and the Comfy Couch.
The LURVEseat
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This cream-coloured mini-couch was too cool to simply be called a loveseat. I had to call it the LURVEseat, after the way the late great booty-soul singer Barry White pronounced the word “love” in conversation (“C’mon baby, it’s time for us to make luuurrrve!“).
(Cue Barry White music!)
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The LURVEseat has strange powers of arousal. Many a romance, and many more short-lived-but-steamy dalliances have been kindle by its ample, fluffy cushions. It seats two comfortably, and from all reports, it feels as if it were designed specifically for the facilitation of make-outs.
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The LURVEseat did not come from a down-market purveyor or vendor of semi-disposable Swedish particle board, but from Barrymore. It’s about a dozen years old, it gets professionally steam-cleaned yearly, and it’s been Scotchgard-treated.
Here’s a close-up detail of the LURVEseat’s upholstery:
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The LURVEseat can be bought separately, or perhaps you might want to pair it up with the Comfy Couch:
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The Comfy Couch matches the LURVEseat. It’s been used more often than the LURVEseat, so its cushions aren’t as fluffy, but it’s still very comfortable, and I’ve fallen asleep in it many, many times.
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Like the LURVEseat, the Comfy Couch came from Barrymore, is professionally steam-cleaned annually, and is Scotchgard-treated.
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The LURVEseat and Comfy Couch are going for $200 each. If you want the two together, I’m sure we can make a deal. Want either or both? Drop me a line!