Don’t get sucked in… pass it on
Actually no, it hasn’t, but you’d be amazed at the amount of people that have responded “Really?” to that verbal statement over the years. A cheap and nasty joke I admit, but good enough entertainment nonetheless.
You’d be amazed at the amount of emails I receive weekly informing me that…
… I need to send money to fund little Maria’s cancer treatment or else she will die,
… I apparently have long lost Nigerian relatives who want to give me millions of dollars,
… I must protest against the movie being made portraying Jesus as a homosexual,
… I need to pass this on to ten people or else something bad will happen to me,
… I need to pass this on to ten people and Microsoft will give me a free laptop,
… I need to have more than 8.1 children or else the Muslims will take over the world,
… I just witnessed authentic video footage of two New Zealanders getting attacked by Bigfoot,
Yadda yadda yadda
Quite frankly, responding to well-meaning (but gullible) people gets a little tiring at times.
So, let me give you the great advice I give them…
1. Don’t believe everything you read.
2. Wikipedia and Youtube do occasionally tell lies.
3. Learn that www.snopes.com is your friend.
In conclusion, if you share this post this on Facebook, all your wildest dreams will come true 
Save the fluffy bunny!
Now a couple of decades later, at approx 8:01pm I stumbled upon a fluffy bunny in desperate need of life-saving surgery… with only a minute to operate.
Talk about pressure.
The story has a happy ending (after three attempts). House would have been proud.
Click here to operate on fluffy bunny too
The Mair Park Bigfoot pays off
Many moons ago while surfing Amazon’s Listmanias I came across an author by the name of Jeremy Robinson. To cut a long story short, he was running a viral video contest to promote his new book, Pulse. I bribed my good buddy Lesmondj into spending a Saturday afternoon in the bush and what eventuated was two versions of the now infamous Bigfoot attack video (over 10,000 hits now on Metacafe and YouTube).
We won by a landslide, the closest (and only) opponent trailing by 9000ish hits (but who’s counting) and I was delighted to recieve the promised books last week.
A massive THANKYOU to Jeremy Robinson for the very generous prize (and for forking out mega moolah for the postage). Please check out his site here.
And for all those dying to know how the movie magic was created, here is some Bigfoot Attack Footage trivia…
1. No, the Bigfoot wasn’t real. There was more than one concerned person thinking the footage was authentic. Lesmondj and I must have the mean acting skills (and girls dig guys who have skills…).
2. The entire attack scene was done on the first take… with an imagined Bigfoot, yes imagined, not real.
3. Jon Dylan used his computer hacking skills to overlay the Bigfoot sound effects (purchased from Itunes for $1.79).
4. Apparently, the Bigfoot growls sound identical to a real Bigfoot, as one reader commented (as she deals with them on a daily basis – seriously).
5. The Mair Park Ghost legend is mostly true.
6. On the short version, Yes, the blood was real… from my nose. Don’t ask.
7. The rotting bone at the cave’s entrance (tedious version) was stolen from my dog.
8. Lesmondj spent the majority of the attack scene voluntarily lying in a puddle of water. The mark of a true friend.
9. There was no script.
View the short (and exhilirating) version below:
Footage of Bigfoot Attack? – Click here for more blooper videos
View the long (but informative) version below:
…like I change my underwear
My wife says I change my mind like I change my underwear. I disagree… I change my undies everyday (sometimes twice). She wonders why I keep changing a perfectly good-looking blog. I guess I get bored easily… seeing the same layout everyday (sometimes twice). Besides, I enjoy the process of upgrading, learning new stuff, change etc.
Problem is, you can’t please everyone, and I have already received conflicting comments. For example… “Great layout!” and “Blue looks cheap, I liked your old one better”. Hmmmmm.
So, I put it out to you, my blog friends, to decide. Please post a comment and let me know if you like it or not, and why.
I may be tempted to change my mind… like I change my underwear.
What’s really lurking down the plughole
I had to unblock the bathroom sink the other evening… joy. With the help of a crochet hook borrowed from PaisleyJade (yes, they really are good for something), I was able to pull out what I can only describe as a greeny, slimy, smelly, hairy, stringy goop that had to be seen to be believed. What caused it? Who knows… who wants to know? Which got me thinking…They are saying that the monster is nothing more than masses of Tubifex worms… but I say that is very debatable. If you watch the monster closely, you will notice that it has what looks like a membrane enveloping it, unlike worms, and it is above the water, unlike worms, and it retreats from light as one organism, unlike worms (see clip below).
To conclude, I wonder if what I pulled up out of the plughole was a decomposing ‘sewer monster’? My advice is don’t get too close to the plughole next time you brush your teeth.
(Why am I thinking about the facehugger from Alien right now?)
The world’s fastest Indian Murray
Welcome to the third and hopefully final installment of the Murray lawn tractor trilogy.
If you have been following my posts, you would have, by now, been educated in the finer points of Murray lawn tractors, specifically Racer-Murray and Monster-Murray.
And now, let me introduce you to… Speed-Demon Murray.
If you have ever wondered, as I have, how fast a lawn tractor can go (with stock engine… the record is a whopping 130 km/h!
I could mow my lawn in less than a minute
Meet Murray’s BIG brother
Continuing on with my current ‘Murray the retro lawn tractor” theme… I stumbled across the above pic of a pimped Monster Murray. Alriiiiight.
There is something to be said about yanks and their obsession with taking anything with a piston and souping it up… even if it is the humble lawnmower.
