Things To Do While Waiting For Death... 2006

[Canadian Paul 97]

Search the web for obits so that I can be the first to post them on DL.

 

Are you iain's alterego?

 

Oh wait, you said search the web, not wikipedia. Never mind.

[Boudicca 702]

Drive yourself mad with this optical illusion.

 

 

Square A and Square B are the same colour.

 

Explanation

 

Animated Video

 

Open it in Photoshop or Paint, cut out a chunk of square B and slide it up to square A...

 

After about 5 minutes of sliding that little section back & forth, I was finally convinced.

 

Alternatively, get twisted drunk and cross-eyed. All will become clear!

 

Give it a go, Mr. Brimley.

[Tempus Fugit 214]

How to win an argument.

 

One sure way to have the last word in an argument, is to cut your wife's head off.

 

Hamburg police spokeswoman Ulrike Sweden said the man seemed "a bit crazy"

 

Just a bit crazy, you don't say. There's no fooling those German Police.

[Lady Die 63]

Sit on this chair

[Six 23]

Post your weird and wacky links and fun things to do, to while away the time between DL hits.

 

Counseling Centre

Take a look at the 'Additional Preventative Techniques.' You just never know when you might need this stuff.

[Magere Hein 1,400]

Sit on this chair

 

regards,

Hein

[Six 23]

Anyone fancy a game of #Film Club? It's a good way to pass the time whilst waiting for death!

 

( I have conveniently stolen the idea from the BBC Radio4 show 'I'm Sorry I haven't A Clue'. For those who don't know, you substitute the # for an occupation, eg, bakers (?), and then continue to amaze everyone by creating relevant film titles, eg, The Hand That Bakes the Bagel [instead of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle] or Fry Hard starring Sprouts Willis ) I hope that makes some sense.

 

So... any ideas for film clubs and titles?????

[Canadian Paul 97]

Female or Shemale?

 

Speaking of fun with sex, Larry Wachowski of Matrix fame is now living as Lana Wachowski.

 

Seems like more than an unsubstantiated rumour this time... how famous are The Matrix movies over in Britain?

[M Busby Airlines 7]

Listen to BBC local radio.

Like a quiz?

 

Scousers live radio quiz.

[Six 23]

Anyone fancy a game of #Film Club? ...So... any ideas for film clubs and titles?????

 

That's a no then.

 

Ok, how about titles for the NHS Film Club to watch...

 

Citizen Pain

From Here To Maternity

Bedpans and Broomsticks

 

oh, and the Matrix films were pretty huge here, Canadian Paul.

[Slave to the Grave 26]

OK six, I'll play. Howabout a fruit stall film club (does a fruit stall holder have a special name, like greengrocer - fruitier?).

 

You could have:

 

Star fruit wars - Revenge of the pith

Captain Corelli's mandarin

Planet of the grapes

Lord of the pineapple rings

Silence of the yams

The grape escape

 

I could go on, but perhaps I'd better not.

[honez 79]

Silence of the yams

I think you'll find a Yam is a vegetable.

So if it's green grocer films you're after...

 

Attack of the killer potatoes

The king Edward and I

Citizen Kale

Dr Who and the turnips

Blade Runnerbean

The Gourdfather

The Germinator (?)

Broken Marrow

 

and books...

War and Peas

Tomato a mockingbird

[Slave to the Grave 26]

Silence of the yams

I think you'll find a Yam is a vegetable.

So if it's green grocer films you're after...

 

Attack of the killer potatoes

The king Edward and I

Citizen Kale

Dr Who and the turnips

Blade Runnerbean

The Gourdfather

The Germinator (?)

Broken Marrow

 

and books...

War and Peas

Tomato a mockingbird

 

Damn, I thought I could slip that one in without anyone noticing . Should've know better. By the way I think you'll find that, botanically speaking, a tomato is a fruit.

[Six 23]

Wow, STG and Honez, you are so much better at this than me!

[Godot 149]

Doctor Hoe (producer Cubby Broccoli),

A Night At The Okra

My Little Chickpea

The Battleship Potato

When Harry met Celery

A Town Called Lettuce

[Godot 149]

Meanwhile, waiting for death you could play for the kitty:

 

 

http://www.richsalter.btinternet.co.uk/cks1/index.html

[Captain Oates 21]

According to this site, I look like:

 

Richard Gere, Cary Grant, Elvis Presley, Sean Connery, Robbie Coltrane, Telly Savalas, Alan Rickman, Ingmar Bergman, Arnie Schwarzenegger, Jeb Bush, George W Bush, George H W Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Ralph Nader, Ariel Sharon, Helmut Schmidt, Arthur Miller, Henry James, Franz Lehar, Pierre Boulez, Isaac Stern, John Cage, Jackie Stewart, Bobby Charlton, Sugar Ray Leonard, Field-Marshall Rommell and a few others whose names I don't recognise. (Including Ayn Rand, Grazia Deledda and Romy Schneider, of the feminine persuasion.)

 

OK, I wear my hair short - but I may need a fair bit of psychological counselling to get over that lot!

 

Who(m) do you look like? Requires a log-in to get the results but that part is painless.

[in eternum+ 22]

OK, I wear my hair short - but I may need a fair bit of psychological counselling to get over that lot!

 

Who(m) do you look like? Requires a log-in to get the results but that part is painless.

 

Well.

 

I put in one photo and was told I resemble the following:

 

Laura Dern, Jesse McCarthey, Chaim Herzog ( ), Jacques Derrida, Bae Yong-jun, George H.W. Bush ( ), Daniel Day-Lewis ( ), Desmond Tutu ( ), Maggie Cheung, and Mary J Blige ( ).

 

So then I submitted another photo, taken roughly at the same time as the first, just to see... and was presented with the following list:

 

Jake Gyllehaal, Monica Seles, k.d. lang, Zinedine Zidane ( ), Greg Lemond, Fridrich Engels (must be the beard ), Veronica Ferres, Elfrieda Jelinek ( ), Anne Frank ( ), and Sheryl Crow ( ).

 

Kinda doubting the technology at this point...

[Tempus Fugit 214]

According to this site, I look like:

Who(m) do you look like? Requires a log-in to get the results but that part is painless.

 

I only got six recognition hits; Bobby Fischer, Kenneth Branagh, Ronaldo, Michael Keaton, Adam Ant and Patricia Arquette.

[Captain Oates 21]

According to this site, I look like:

Who(m) do you look like? Requires a log-in to get the results but that part is painless.

 

I only got six recognition hits; Bobby Fischer, Kenneth Branagh, Ronaldo, Michael Keaton, Adam Ant and Patricia Arquette.

 

I was so horrified at the thought of looking like Ariel Sharon that I tried several different pics to get so many results. Sharon came up twice and so did John Cage.

 

Brutal honesty forces me to admit that I may possibly have some resemblance to Richard Gere and Alan Rickman, ...but Elvis??????

[TLC 9]

I only got six recognition hits; Bobby Fischer, Kenneth Branagh, Ronaldo, Michael Keaton, Adam Ant and Patricia Arquette.

I used the photo in my member profile on DL, and my full list is: -

• Patricia Arquette (is she sponsored?) 64% match
  
• Luis Figo 61%
  
• Christopher Lee 59%
  
• Will 'Wiccy wiccy wild wild west' Smith 58%
  
• Yoko Ono 57%
  
• Paul Dukas 57%
  
• Antonin Artaud 55%
  
• Dennis Quaid 54%
  
• Ashton Kutcher 52%
  
• And L Ron Hubbard at 51%
  

So me & TF both look like Patricia Arquette, and I look like men, women, and people of african, chinese and european descent. Considering I'm white & fairly typically British looking (except trimmer of course) I think there's still work to be done with the software.

 

Although saying that, I reckon there's a few police forces out there who've been using it for some time already!

 

OK, I wear my hair short - but I may need a fair bit of psychological counselling to get over that lot!

Especially Bobby Charlton, most of his head has only distant memories of hair residing on it, and most of that was a comb over visit from around his ears! Maybe I'll PM you some recommended councillors.

 

Has anyone got any close matches? My best, as said above, is 64%, but has anyone got an 80 or 90% match up?

[TLC 9]

This chap had enough time to make a website based on what most of us old enough to have had 8-bit computers like the Commodore 64, Spectrum 48K etc. used to do..... go there via this link; be warned, lots of very bad language, although that is the point after all.

 

Have fun, in an incredibly grown up way of course.

[Windsor 2,233]

According to this site, I look like:

Who(m) do you look like? Requires a log-in to get the results but that part is painless.

 

I only got six recognition hits; Bobby Fischer, Kenneth Branagh, Ronaldo, Michael Keaton, Adam Ant and Patricia Arquette.

 

I'm supposed to look like:

Chad Michael Murray (Actor)

Aaron Kwok (Hong Kong singer and actor)

Lars von Trier (Director)

Rod Stewart (Ageing Rocker)

Liam Aiken (Child Actor (b.1990))

Ashton Kutcher (Actor)

John Williams (Composer)

Benjamin McKenzie (form the OC)

Tom Welling (from Smallville)

Ewen McGregor (Actor)

[Six 23]

Who(m) do you look like?

 

I apparently look like:

Lucille Ball 72%

Gina Lollobrigida (?) 64%

Halle Berry 64%

Margaret Cho 63%

Madonna 61%

Pat Benetar 61%

Sinead O'Connor 60%

Megumi Hayashibara (?) 60%

Paris Hilton 60%

Chandrika Kumaratunga (!) 60%

Hmmm.

[Canadian Paul 97]

Who(m) do you look like? Requires a log-in to get the results but that part is painless.

 

Jochen Rindt (62%)

Isabella Rossellini (50%)

Charlize Theron (50%)

John Peel (The Broadcaster) (46%)

Jackie Chan (46%)

Danny Devito (46%)

Sania Mirza (46%)

Hugh Hefer (46%)

Hugh Grant (45%)

 

Fair enough I'd say.