Tag: humor

Snew

I ruined someone’s joke today.

I was walking back from the Spectrum, waiting for a walk signal while munching on one of those muffins they have at Jamba Juice, when a car pulled up in the turn lane. A girl, probably in her late teens, rolled down the passenger-side window.

“Sir? Do you have any updog?”

Updog? I thought. What the hell is that, some kind of code word for something? Since my mouth was full, I just kind of shook my head and shrugged my shoulders.

“Are you sure? You don’t have any updog?”

Same thing. The light changed, and the car turned into the parking lot.

And then I realized: she had been expecting me to ask what it was. As in, “What’s updog?”

A Brooksfilms production

After attending a screening of Young Frankenstein this week, alenxa and I started talking about her theory that everyone has a particular Mel Brooks film among their favorites. (Obviously, this wouldn’t apply to people who don’t like his movies in the first place.) In order to test this theory, I’m collecting data:

Which Mel Brooks film is your favorite?

  • The Producers (remake)
  • Dracula: Dead and Loving It
  • Robin Hood: Men in Tights – 2
  • Life Stinks
  • Spaceballs – 1
  • History of the World: Part I
  • High Anxiety
  • Silent Movie
  • Young Frankenstein – 2
  • Blazing Saddles – 2
  • The Twelve Chairs
  • The Producers (original)

Hint taken

This morning I looked at the vine that I’ve routed along the top of my cubicle wall and thought it was just getting long enough to warrant a new paper clip to hold it in place. (I have clips at two to three-foot intervals.) Just now it flopped down off the wall to hang in front of my calendar.

Hint taken, plant! New clips are in place.

Googolplex: a virtual reality movie theater

Here’s an interesting idea: Googolplex Theaters creates a virtual reality movie theater so that, effectively, everyone gets their own screen.

Of course, once you simulate a screen in VR, why stop there? You’ve already got 3-D in the display, and between the backlog of 3-D movies and a decade or so of computer animation, there are a lot of possibilities.