Tag: humor

Beaker from the Muppets sings Beethoven

The Muppets seem to be popular, from glancing at the search terms that bring people here.  And I happened across another video of Beaker (actually, Beakers, plural) that you Muppets fans may enjoy.  Actually, anyone can probably enjoy this, unless you like being serious all the time and have forgotten how to laugh heartily.  Which, if that’s the case, you should watch this to try to get free of that.

Anyway, here’s the clip, of Beaker getting inspired to sing Ode to Joy, from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.  He joins in with himself to sing harmony and play instruments, and then, well, you probably already know what will happen because it’s Beaker — things will go wrong somehow.  🙂

caption contest, synchronized swimming

Are you ready for another caption contest?  (You’d better be!)  The past two weeks I’ve been using Olympic-themed pictures, and even though the Beijing Olympics have finished, I’m going to continue that trend.  Although, this one is quite a stretch to picture in the Olympics.  There is synchronized swimming, but this is not quite what it normally looks like.  But write whatever you want about it, whether Olympics-themed or not.  And have fun!

(To see the other caption contests, click on the “Say What?” category in the sidebar.)

methane contributes to global warming

There are companies now selling “carbon credits”, making billions of dollars.  But carbon is not the only element contributing to global warming.  Researchers say methane is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere.  As we discussed in the last post, cows contribute significantly to global warming via the methane they produce with their flatulence.  But I’m willing to overlook that, because they play an important role in my diet.

However, there are some people who produce an undue amount of methane, way more than normal.  These people are not only polluting the immediate atmosphere, but they are contributing to global warming.  Of course, some of them might get offended if I told them they had to quit passing gas and belching so much, and you could argue that I would be infringing on their rights.  So I’ve found a good solution.  Effective immediately, I will be selling methane credits.  That’s right, for a small fee (paid to me), you can pass gas all you want, and I will plant trees to offset your personal pollution.  (I will also give you plenty of personal space!)

Earth’s dominance in the Miss Universe pageant

I don’t keep up with beauty pageants and such foolishness, but I recently saw a headline about it.  A woman from Earth won yet again in the Miss Universe pageant.  That’s 56 straight years an earthling has won.  That’s complete dominance.  But it makes me wonder if people / aliens in the other parts of the universe are even invited to that competition.  If not, it should be renamed.

In semi-related news, Miss USA tripped in the evening gown competition, for the second year in a row.  I’m not going to poke fun at that, though.  I know, it’s easy to laugh because that makes her look clumsy and it’s certainly not going to help her score.  But look at it from her perspective.  There’s all that pressure of walking in front of people, and these models surely have to do a lot of preparation for walking in a dress and high heels.  I have no idea how difficult that is.  Surely it must be tough, if she’s going to trip and fall down a couple of times…

For next year’s competitions, one of the requirements in preliminary competitions might be that you can walk in front of people without tripping.  Considering how difficult it obviously must be in those circumstances, maybe she could do that in the talent part of the competition.  “Here is Miss USA, walking across the stage without falling down.”