And Now, Your Moment of Zen

Courtesy, as it often is, of the Brits and a formerly pay TV channel going free and rounding up Celebrities to make them do absurd things:



The video is titled "Ewan McGregor as a Tomato," but I was far more surprised and amused at the costume with which they managed to saddle Dame Judi Dench.

Thanks to Tomato Nation.

Edited to add: And, Ewan-as-tomato gets kicked in the crotch:

British Frog Gives A Whole New Meaning...

...to one of my favorite expletive phrases, fuck a duck.

Courtesy Dave Barry's Blog.

Sarcastic British Geeks = Hilarity

My cousin Mark, who enjoys the Halo series very much, sent me the following video, which he said captured his feelings about Halo 3 very well.

I'm not a gamer much beyond Tetris and desperately trying to find a Wii (and then finding it at the one point I couldn't afford it) for the last few months, but I thought this review by a Brit for an Aussie magazine was hysterical:



Now every time someone says the words "Easy Street" I'm going to picture a little sign below it that says "We've got hookers!"

On a separate but related note, I was listening to one of my BBC podcasts and I heard a member of Parliament (a Conservative who was chairing some committee related to finance) describe the missing data fiasco I wrote about the other day as "a major cock-up."

It still sounded more dignified than anything anyone in Congress has said in some time.

Oops!

If you thought the incidents where various American companies lost laptops with 300,000 or 400,000 people's financial information were bad, then be very thankful you don't live in Britain.