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Month: January 2003

Game: Evil Care Bears

[Evil Care Bears]Those lovable 1980’s fluffy Care Bears have turned evil in Care-a-Lot and have descended to earth in their Cloudmobile to extract revenge!

It’s your job to shoot as many of those obnoxious care bears as possible – yep, shoot away at Funshine Bear, Love a lot bear, Grumpy Bear and the gang. However, they do shoot back and their weapons do get stronger as each level progresses.

Can you save the earth or will it fall to the evil?

30 care bears to a level and I managed to kill 116 of the critters getting a total of 3235 points.

Joke: Square balls

[Squareball]A little old lady went into the Natwest Bank one day carrying a bag of money. She insists that she must speak with the manager of the bank to open a savings account because it’s a lot of money.

They finally get her into the managers office and he asks her how much she would like to deposit. She says she has £100,000 and then dumps it out of the bag onto his desk. The manager was surprised and of course curious as to how she came by all this cash, so he asks her. The old lady says, “I make bets”.

The manager replies, “Bets? What kind of bets?” and she says, “for example, I’ll bet you £5,000 that your balls are square”. “Ha!” says the manager, “That’s a stupid bet, you can never win that kind of bet”.

The old lady says,”So, would you like to take my bet?” “Sure,” says the manager, “I’ll bet £5,000 that my balls are not square!” The little old lady says “OK, but since there is a lot of money involved is it OK with you if I bring my lawyer with me tomorrow at 10:00 AM to witness?” “Sure” says the manager.

That night the manager got very nervous about the bet and spent a long time in front of a mirror checking his balls, turning from side to side, again and again, thoroughly checking them out until he was sure that there is no way his balls are square and that he will win the bet.

The next morning at 10 AM the little old lady appears with her lawyer at the manager’s office. She introduces the lawyer to the manager and repeats the bet, that £5,000 says the manager’s balls are square. The manager agrees with the bet again and the old lady asks him to drop his trousers and underwear so they can see. The manager does this. The little old lady looks closely at his balls and then asks if she can feel them. “Well, OK” says the manager, £5,000 is a lot of money, so I guess you should be absolutely sure”.

Then he notices that the lawyer is quietly banging his head against the wall and he asks the old lady, “What is wrong with your lawyer?”

She replies, “Nothing, except I bet him £15,000 that by 10 AM today I’d have Natwest banks manager’s balls in my hands!”

Guess That Movie: IV: Scary Movie 2

[Guess That Movie Part IV]It’s not fair! The last Guess That Movie screenshot was indeed taken from Bring It On [Order from Amazon.co.uk]andersja managed to guess it in a record 5 minutes! *sob*

I could say that it was guessed that quickly because it is a memorable image of the film if you’ve ever seen it… But what about this one? I’m not giving any clues away at this point, so you’ll have to guess just based on the image.

If you are new to this “Guess That Movie” quiz, the rules are quite simple: Look at the image with the post (no, you can’t enlarge it). Which movie or TV series was that image taken from? What do you win if you are the first to get it right? A virtual “pat on the back” and well done from me. When’s the closing date? Probably the same time next week. How do you enter? Leave me a comment with this post (do the same if you have any questions). Good luck!

A: Scary Movie 2. Correctly guessed by LD.

Guess That Movie: III: Bring It On

[Guess That Movie Part III]Yes, we have a winner! The last Guess That Movie image was taken from Ghostbusters! [Order from Amazon.co.uk]

See how well you do with this picture though…

Same rules apply: Look at the image with the post (no, you can’t enlarge it). Which movie or TV series was that image taken from? (hint: It’s was a great hit in the USA, but not so good this side of the Atlantic: mainly because of its subject matter) What do you win if you are the first to get it right? A virtual “pat on the back” and well done from me. When’s the closing date? Probably the same time next week. How do you enter? Leave me a comment with this post (do the same if you have any questions). Good luck!

A: Bring It On. Correctly guessed by andersja.

Fun: Optical Illusions

[Optical Illusion]I came across this collection of optical illusions via A Girl’s Gotta Blog and have had a little bit of fun with them.

They’ve got (in the little flash presentation) the “count the black dots” illusion: there aren’t any black dots (only white ones) on the grid, but the eye is confused by the grey bars and the black squares, a picture of a face with the word “LIAR” hidden on it, a many legged elephant, the musician and the face illusion, the spiral confusion one and many others.

Take a look and have some fun. I warn you know, they can cause you to see things that aren’t necessarily there (like the black dots…)