The 86 Rules Of Boozing

1. If you owe someone money, always pay them back in a bar. Preferably during happy hour.

20. Drink one girly drink in public and you will forever be known as the guy who drinks girly drinks.

28. If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to drink in a bar. Go to the liquor store.

29. If you owe someone twenty dollars or less, you may pay them back in beer.

33. The only thing that tastes better than free liquor is stolen liquor.

35. Learn to appreciate hangovers. If it was all good times every jackass would be doing it.

The 86 rules of boozing at moderndrunkardmagazine.com

Regret

Via stumbleupon.com

LOL Trek

"Let’s talk about lolcats. Lolcats, or cat macros, are a subset of image macros. They’re pictures of cats with captions typed across them. In essence they’re the “Hang In There Baby” posters gone feral.

Anil Dash has a great post about them, in which he identifies a number of lolcat subclasses and discusses kitty pidgin, the mangled English used in many lolcat pictures. Kitty pidgin is surprisingly regular, which I suppose means, as Anil Dash puts it,

that cats can has regular
grammar.

A number of sites collect lolcat pictures, among them I Can Has Cheezburger and Meme Cats. If you browse through those sites, you’ll quickly get a feel for how lolcats work. If you’re inspired to make your own, remember: use Impact or Arial Black, and put a black outline around white letters.

While this is nice and all, I quickly realized that there are no long-form lolcat works. The closest is Spatch’s wonderful Cat Town, and it’s only a relative to lolcats.

That set my fevered brain to spinning: what would a lolcat story look like? What if lolcats had a TV channel? What kind of shows would be on it?

The answer is clear: they would show Star Trek."

The entire Tribble episode in LOL cat at granades.com

'General Lee' Auction Ends At Nearly 10 Million

"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If the bids are real - and the eBayMotors.com auction was stopped once for fake bidding - a modified 1969 Dodge Charger, painted to look like the General Lee from the TV Show "The Dukes of Hazzard," nearly became the most expensive car ever auctioned.

The auction closed at $9,900,500 at 1:00 pm Friday. That puts it just $1.1 million away from the $11 million paid for a 1931 Bugatti Type 41 Royale Sports Coupe sold by the auction house Christie's in 1987. To date, that is the highest price ever paid for a car at auction, according to Christie's.

The car was used in the show, which typically went through several cars per episode during its 6-year production run in the early 1980s. But this one is owned by John Schneider, who played Bo Duke in the series, a role that was only slightly less central than that of the car.

"I'm excited as I can be but I'm not going to believe it until my banker calls and says 'buy me a beer'," said Schneider after the auction ended."

More at money.cnn.com Link to ebay auction.

I'm not sure why the high bidder paid so much. It's not an original General Lee. The Plaque says:

From John Schneider's
Personal Collection
"Bo's General Lee"
Completed 12/97
#4 of 4
426 HEMI

Why You Don't Hear 'Happy Birthday To You' In Movies Or Restaurants

Copyright issues and public performances:

"Due to the copyright issue, filmmakers rarely show complete singalongs of "Happy Birthday" in films, either substituting the public-domain "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" or avoiding the song entirely.

One of the popular audience lines in The Rocky Horror Picture Show alludes to this. After Dr. Frank N. Furter has captured Brad, Janet and Dr. Scott, he hosts a dinner for them. At the beginning of an apparent birthday celebration, the audience calls out "Start to sing 'Happy Birthday' but don't finish it", and indeed, Dr. Furter cuts it short midway through the song."

More on wikipedia.com

Darth Vader Hot Air Balloon

" 'Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon,' proclaim the serene lyrics of that famous old song summing up the splendor of soaring high in a hot-air balloon.
But sing these charming words with the ferocious face of the most evil man in the galaxy hovering above your head and the experience takes on an altogether more sinister tone. "

More at dailymail.co.uk and starwars.com

The Swedish Chef

videos here.