"Porn tourist"

Explained at Bild:

Wirklich ulkig, was passiert, wenn sich am großen Reisebus vom seriösen Familienunternehmen „Pommerntourist“ die hintere Tür öffnet. Es verschwinden die Buchstaben „m“, „m“ und „e“, übrig bleibt der zweifelhafte Name „Porntourist“.

BILD fragte bei Pommerntourist nach. Inhaberin Beatrice Springmann (38) lachend: „Ich weiß schon, warum sie anrufen! Wir haben das erst bemerkt, als uns Passagiere darauf aufmerksam machten. An diesem Bus kann man das leider gar nicht anders kleben, deshalb bleibt das erstmal so.“

A mathematical CAPTCHA

Geekosystem found the captcha above at the signup page for Quantum Random Bit Generator Service.  When I double-checked the source,  I found that not all of the questions are as easy as the one above.  To wit...

I'm going to need some help...

Wisconsin protestors carrying inflatable palm trees

They are doing so in response to this segment from Bill O'Reilly's program on FOX -

- which showed footage of unruly protestors in Sacramento, California (with palm trees in the background), while discussing the protests in Madison.

p.s. - several people have emailed me to ask me to blog the events in Madison.  I've assembled a bunch of links, but it will be a while before I can get everything (including my thoughts) organized.

Prank phone call

Found at Blogging via Typewriter.

"Zenga Zenga"

Noy Alooshe, an Israeli journalist/musician has remixed one of Muammar Qaddafi's ranting speeches to a hip-hop beat.  It has now gone viral on the internet in the Arabian world.  Further details at PRI's The World, the New York Times, and the Washington Times, which note that Alooshe has also redone the video without the dancing girl embeds so that it can be enjoyed by the more devout citizens of Libya.

"I am not young enough to know everything"

A wonderful quotation from Oscar Wilde, found at Born to be Wilde, where the byline is another great quote from Wilde:

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."

"Born to create drama"

That's the tag line for the Young Director's Awards. 2010 advertisement above; others can be searched at YouTube.  Here is one of their posters, via The Armchair Reader of Weird, Unusual, and Strange Stuff:

Land shark

Photo taken on an Adriatic beach by Nikos Golfis, via Titam et le Sirop d'Erable.

Lady Gaga is jealous

Via Reddit.

Lots of support for Harry Baals

The JournalGazette reported that a public building in Fort Wayne, Indiana needed to be named.  A request for suggestions from the public has resulted in an outpouring of support for the building to be named after former mayor Harry W. Baals.

"Baals – pronounced "balls" by the then-mayor but "bales" by some descendents – became the Republican nominee for mayor in 1934 and was elected for three successive terms. He returned to politics in 1951 by winning a fourth term but died in office in May 1954. His accomplishments include elevating the railroads in town and negotiating the contract with the Army to establish Baer Field as an air base."

At the latest tally, his name has garnered 18,000 votes.  "Thunder Dome" is a distant second with 1,354.

Photoshopped photo via CBS News.

End (some) tyranny

Via The Frustrated Teacher.

Best profession for a giraffe

Entitled "Born to be a librarian", by ILoveDoodle, via Librarianista.

"On second thought, I WILL have the garlic bread."

HA! (One of this week's 'toons at The New Yorker)

Absurdly filthy rich

You can access all the NonSequitur comics here.

Tweety's church

Photo found at Pixdaus; source unknown.

Gifting during the economic downturn

Selections from Dave Barry's "2010 Year in Review"

The scariest thing about the [Gulf oil] spill was, nobody in charge seemed to know what to do about it. Time and again, top political leaders personally flew down to the Gulf of Mexico to look at the situation firsthand and hold press availabilities. And yet somehow, despite these efforts, the oil continued to leak...

Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull (literally, "many syllables") volcano erupts, sending huge clouds of ash into the atmosphere and forcing airlines throughout northern Europe to ground flights. Greece, although not directly affected, announces it will take six months off, just in case; France, as an added precaution, surrenders...

On the terrorism front, New York police, alerted by Times Square street vendors, discover a smoking SUV packed with explosives... and a suspect is later captured at Kennedy Airport by sharp-eyed Transportation Security Administration workers trained to spot suspicious behavior. Ha, ha! Just kidding, of course. The suspect is captured by U.S. Customs agents at the last minute after boarding a Dubai-bound plane filled with passengers who, like the suspect, all had been carefully screened by the TSA to make sure they were not carrying more than three ounces of shampoo...

In other national news, Congress passes and Obama signs into law a financial-reform act designed to curb Wall Street excesses by mandating the death penalty for anybody caught wearing a watch costing more than a house. Having guaranteed that the financial community will behave in a responsible manner, Washington returns to the important work of running up the deficit...

In New York, the big issue is a proposal to build, two blocks from Ground Zero, a Muslim community center, which proponents claim will promote dialogue. Even in the purely conceptual phase, it promotes a huge amount of dialogue, to the point where National Guard troops may need to be called in...

... the elections turn out to be a bloodbath for the Democrats, who lose the House of Representatives, a bunch of Senate seats, some governorships, some state legislatures and all of the key student council races. Also, a number of long-term Democratic incumbents are urinated on by their own dogs. Obama immediately departs for a nine-day trip to Asia to see if anybody over there wants to hear about the benefits of health-care reform...

The full column is at the Washington Post, via The Pajama Pundit.

"How far do you expect that'll get you in life?"

Shampoo

There's some truth in this cartoon. Via Reddit.

Which do you want?

Found at Comically Vintage.