Day: June 18, 2012

The McBournie Minute: Hot dogs — the food of rebellion

Many of my female friends (yes, I know some girls) wonder why guys are so complicated, and why, in their eyes, guys are so hard to understand, or get to commit to anything, or any other stereotype. Some of my friends have even wondered why their boyfriends haven’t yet proposed to them. When they ask me these questions, I do my best not to look at them as if they are drooling, because it’s pretty simple. Guys like being single, even though we’re pretty bad at it.

Guys like to be able to do what they want when they want, and they see it anything involving commitment as limiting themselves. I’m in a stable, long-term relationship, and we’re not past the point where we miss seeing each other. However, we enjoy the small amount of personal freedom. Suddenly, we can do whatever we want and not worry about anyone coming up with other plans.

Me? I’m on my own for the next few days, and damn it, I’m eating hot dogs. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Hot dogs — the food of rebellion

If only there were a way to quickly convey a message on transportation …

The Arizona Department of Transportation has a problem: a population that lacks haboob awareness. They want to encourage drivers to pull over and let the infamous dust storms (What did you think a haboob is?) pass.

Fortunately, Arizona knows the secret to learning and retaining new facts: haikus. You know, like when you had to remember the order of the planets and your teacher taught you the Planet Order Haiku?

Mercury, Venus,
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Neptune and Pluto.

See? Way easier to remember than the individual names of the planets and their position in the solar system.

Take THAT, Louis Le Prince

Movies, if they’re of any quality (I’m calling you out The Asylum), usually take a bit of time to create. I’m not talking two weeks to a month, I’m talking multiple months to a year for just the basic films (if it’s Quentin Tarantino, it could be up to the week before the picture comes out).

So, can you imagine just how long it took cavemen to potentially create the world’s first movies? That’s a lot of dark mud and giant sloth blood.

Marc Azéma has discovered that movies were actually first created by Stone Age artists using torches for the “film effect,” essentially animating the pictures made on cave walls. It hasn’t been revealed yet if the movies (which are actually more like GIF files) consist of anything other than animals. That said, I think it’s safe to assume that no, they’re not porn. Okay McBournie?

Baring more than teeth

Jenny McCarthy is a model parent, but even the best make mistakes sometimes. We’re not talking about refusing to get your kids vaccinated.

She accidentally sent a nude photo to her son’s dentist, probably making the old man’s day. Her son woke up with something weird on his gums, and the dentist asked her to send a picture. She sent a picture, it was just the wrong one. Her son’s next appointment will likely be on the house.