link courtesy the always illustrious, however lazy, actor ...
WHY DIDNT YOU JUST PUT THIS UP HERE BEFORE !?
anyway
personal favorites are "crazy girl" team, the school girl/mama from "mama's family" as a clown/stoner team and cheeky clownz!
honorable mentions ... team honey waxx (i don't know that i'd like to be honey waxxed) and TEAMKEN! whose team consists of one guy ... presumably named ken ...
nice hustle out their ladies!
oh and a GIS for beauty girl dance competition linked me with this ... obviously
The Martian, Terrible to Behold! (from Edison's Conquest of Mars, c 1898)
no really, its a heart warmer of a tale ... as heart warming as america's fixation with "manifest destiny" at the turn of century was ... and yes thats the edison ... "genius of science" (pretty broad title) who discovered the way to defeat the martians!
but the text is full of very strange lines, that even when placed in a historical context (ie, examining american foreign relation circa 1898) seem strange ...
when edison invents whatever it is he invents to defeat the martians ...
"... a confidence had manifested itself in France, to a minor extent in England, and particularly in Russia, that the Americans might discover means to meet and master the invaders."
later while deciding what to do ...
"Let the Martians come," was the cry. "If necessary, we can quit the earth as the Athenians fled from Athens before the advancing host of Xerxes, and like them, take refuge upon our ships—these new ships of space, with which American inventiveness has furnished us."... but ... THIS IS ... SPARTA!!!!
"Hurrah!" cried one of the onlookers. "We have met the Martians and they are ours."seriously, no one says "hurrah", not even back in the day
ok, so now they have a weapon, they tested it on a ... crow ... obviously ... and first disintegrated its feathers, and then the actual bird, ahhhhh ... science! but of course edison doesnt just come up with a weapon, he has plans, big plans for a big spaceship to go to mars! see, bush musta read this book as a youngin
Negotiations were at once begun. The United States naturally took the lead, and their leadership was never for a moment questioned abroad.not even from those whiny french bastards!
so the story is pretty good, i was thinkin about writing commentary for at least most of it, but theres way too much to make fun of ... the kaiser of germany gets jealous that the americans are leading the talks, edison has a disintegrater gun on the floor of the senate chambers where the queen of england, emperor of china and president of the US are, the US contributes "a thousand million" dollars to the project, etc ... theres also an awful lot of paragraphs that start with something to the affect of "It is not necessary for me to describe the manner in which Mr. Edison performed his tremendous task." ... i think this was a device used alot back in the day to not bore the audience, but it when it happens every 3 paragraphs it seems weird ...
anyway .... if you got time, its kinda a funny read ... specially if yer into turn of the century literature ... totally stupid and nationalistic ... USA! USA! USA!
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