Belgian farting pig cartoon

I can't ask any more from life than this.

This borders on the perfect, I tell ya.

Aw, bless!

When I was young, I had a knitted digestive system, made by my mother. She also made me a heterosexual. Anyway, I never thought I'd see one again - until today. Ladies and gentlemen - a knitted digestive system.*


*The factuality of this post may be at odds with the written content.

Piiiiiiiiigs iiiiiiiin Spaaaaaaaaace!

Well, this is the prototype version. Want to know whether mammals can take extreme G-forces? Well this Flickr photoset shows how the Soviets went about it - and it's simple.

Just get a pig drunk.

Put it in a cannon.

Boom!

Pig comes back on parachute.

That's it. The pig lives.

Look at all the lovely flying pig photos here.

Product Endorsement Hell

While we're hanging at YouTube, here's a bit of an oddity.

The Rolling Stones - they'll do anything for money! Here, the supposed "bad boys of pop" troop into a studio and record a jingle for Kellogg's Rice Krispies.

To be fair, the result isn't all that bad: but really.

And what was the budget for this, pray?

Woah. Rupert Murdoch may well be union-breaking scum, but he knows how to calm me down with magic.

For our transatlantic cousins, a word of explanation. Over here, we have Sky TV. It's our satellite service. Yes. Our only satellite service. We had two, but one was hounded to its premature death by Rupert Murdoch.

Rupe's formula for getting viewers (especially principled scum like me) is simple. Chuck bucketloads of money at it. Either

a) buy the rights to it (anything with a ball or anything cool…)
or
b) give it a budget roughly similar to Switzerland's GNP

This is a bit of both. Sky have the rights to The Simpsons, and to advertise the new season (yeah, like you need to have The Simpsons advertised) they remade the title sequence in live action. It's pretty amazing.

Look for the detail. It's there.

Bad Taste Alert!!!

I don't like Bohemian Rhapsody. A song that takes that long just to tell me "nothing really matters..." can't be good. Oh, no.

On the other hand, a similar song with lyrics by the semilegendary DogHorse called Bulimian Rhapsody is pure genius. It has kazoos, too. Lots of them.

Kazoos are good. You know that. I've told you so.

The lyrics can be accessed here. Read them and sing along. Tell your friends some bloke on the internet said it was OK.