“Hi there energy eaters! I’m Smiling Joe Fission your atomic tour guide to the strange and exciting world of nuclear power!” – Smiling Joe Fission There is an absolutely awesome science video from 1953 (produced by General Electric!) about atomic power at boingboing. It features Dr. Atom (at left) in a number of different roles and watching it I couldn’t help but think of Smiling Joe Fission. Videos (or, more likely, film strips) like these used to be a dime a dozen in elementary schools and watching the original from 1953 was really neat in an over the top atomic…
Day: October 21, 2009
Synergy Resorts to Rote Retellings
Image grabbed from here. “Oh . . . a little sterile, no real insight. What do you think Miss Hoover?” – Principal Skinner “Enh.” – Miss Hoover IGN really phoned it in this week. There are six paragraphs in their review of that reprehensibly dull Halloween episode. There’s an opening full of generic praise, there’s a closing full of generic praise. The four middle paragraphs are dedicated, in order, to simply retelling the story of each of the four segments from the episode, including that tepid little opening. In addition to that, each contains the full title of the segment…
Quote of the Day
“No more questions. I work my butt off to feed you four kids and all you do is… what?” – Homer Simpson “Three. We have three kids, Homer.” – Marge Simpson “Yeah, three nosy kids. And you know what happens to nosy kids who ask too many questions?” – Homer Simpson “No, what happens does something to nosy kids who ask questions what happens tell us huh dad.” – Bart and Lisa Simpson, indistinct