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Passing On The Craziness – Moon Landing Hoaxes
One surefire method to ensure that your child grows up to be a lunatic is to expose them to conspiracy theories at a young age.
Children are impressionable. Combine that natural openness with the idea that “Dad is a figure of a Godlike knowledge” and bingo! They’ll believe what you tell them.
Now, we know this is not entirely true. When one of the first couples in my circle of friends had a son, I kept trying to tell him at a barbecue that there were aliens on the roof. He just looked at me and said, “No. You’re wrong,” with a big dopey grin on his face.
Luckily, the Internet offers “proof” of numerous crackpot theories. One the crackpottiest is the idea that the 1969 moon landing was faked.
One piece of “proof” is the “fact” that the flag the astronauts planted on the moon was blowing in the wind. But! There is no wind on the moon! And here is video “proof”!
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJGZte-k4G0]
Here is “We Never Went To The Moon” by UFOetry, or as I like to call it, “Moon Hoax Music You Can Dance To.”
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn6WZf_eOvE]
This is all, of course, a load of crap. In the interest of equal time, here is a clip from the show Mythbusters debunking the flag waving business.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCPIchZDSr4]
There’s lots more from both sides, of course. For anti-hoax material, check out the moontrue channel on YouTube. But what fun is that? Wouldn’t it be much better to have your son or daughter grow up just like Realitysurfer, who actually took the time to confront Buzz Aldrin and ask him: why should we believe that you were on the moon? Where is your proof, sir?
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9pQ1gWzs40]
So if you want your kid to grow up to be a crazy person, try showing them all of this “proof.” That way you can support them financially forever! Won’t that be fun?
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Famous Folks With Bad Boy Names
According to a report by “Shippensburg University professor David Kalist”, certain names for boys can lead to a rough life for the lad. (The name of the school sounds pretty suspect to me, frankly.) Names that are “unpopular, uncommon or feminine.”
Well.
Here’s a selected list of the offending male monikers. Let’s see if there are any famous people with these names, shall we?
Alec: Baldwin. A little kooky but a great actor. And Guinness. Not so kooky (as far as I know) and a great actor. Neither one seems like a nancy boy. And Baldwin is damn funny on 30 Rock:
Ivan: um, The Terrible? Hello?
Kareem: Abdul Jabar. ‘Nuff said.
Luke: Fictional characters include Skywalker, and Luke Spencer, of Luke and Laura fame. Neither one is terribly studly. So this one, maybe.
Malcolm: X. Malcolm freakin’ X.
Walter: Payton. Football player. Many people feel he was the greatest running back of all time. (I’d go with Jim Brown myself, but Payton isn’t exactly Reggie Bush or some other marginal player.) Here’s a video:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBk9YaTBo10]
Walter Payton died in 1999, but his coach, Mike Ditka, is still around. You tell him Walter is a “feminine” name. I dare you.
Source: Babble
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Weekly Stack – 5/6/09
Managed to resist a few things this week, including a new New Mutants series. And some of these are one-shots, so at least I won’t feel a need to pick up issue #2. Hence the term “one-shot.” Read more »
Surcharge on Bigger Bras is Wrong
Those Brits. Always making trouble. This time it’s the famous department store Marks & Spencer. They’re charging extra money for DD+ bras.
Mother’s Day Deals At Amazon.com
Mother’s Day. You cannot ignore it. Well, if you don’t have a mother to buy something for, OK. But if you do, even if you’re mad at her, you have to buy her something. Read more »
Sanitizing the Children
Now that we are in the midst of a swine flu panic, I’ve been sanitizing the kids’ hands with au naturale sanitizer, CleanWell. Read more »
Weekly Stack – 4-29-09
Creeping back up to a larger stack this week. Need to get some of the crud off of the pull list. Read more »
