Good Clean Wholesome Fun On A Rainy Sunday

Leafing through the Good Clean Wholesome Fun¹ cyber-scrapbook on a rainy Sunday (at least here in Northern Illinois) makes for a pleasant diversion. I’ve listed a handful of examples of what you’re missing if you aren’t following the miniblog companion to Heck of a Guy.

As usual, the links in this list go directly to the single item described. All these entries as well as the posts that preceded them and any posts added since this list was compiled can be accessed in a single sequence at GoodCleanWholesome Fun.

A Few Recent GoodCleanWholesome Fun Posts

Ad: Hitler vs. Chaplin - It must be the hat.²

Disregarding doctors’ orders
One of the best takes on patient compliance plus my new favorite quote on the subject: “Getting people to do the things they need to do to keep themselves healthy is tricky.”

The world’s 10 most disgusting beers
A must-read for those who appreciate a good brew - and caustic humor directed at equally caustic beer.

The Kaibo Zonshinzu anatomy scrolls
The orientation of the above illustration may be confusing - one doesn’t typically gaze into the neck of a decapitated body.

Footnotes

1. GoodCleanWholesome Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger tumblelog sibling of DrHGuy’s jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog. For details, see Try Some GoodCleanWholesomeFun ~back~
2. This is, readers may recall, the second recent pro-hat post in the Heck of a Guy-Good Clean Wholesome Fun universe. For comparison, check out Leonard Cohen Is The Cat In The Hat ~back~

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It’s Good, Clean, & Wholesome, But Most Of All, It’s Fun

Below you’ll find a few recently posted selections from the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog.¹ As usual, the links in this list go directly to the single item described. All these entries as well as the posts that preceded them and any posts added since this list was compiled can be accessed in a single sequence at GoodCleanWholesome Fun.

And, GoodCleanWholesome Fun is now comment-capable. Once I added a few snippets of code from a company that does nothing but handle comments to the GCWF template, those comment dialog boxes appeared like magic.

The GoodCleanWholesome Fun Posts

• Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now: Vignettes drawn from the poetry of A.E. Housman (also shown are “To an Athlete Dying Young” and “Yonder See the Morning Blink”) displayed in Legos. Is that cool or what?




• America’s Top Dog. The Wall Street Journal sends a reporter across the continental US looking for the best hot dog.
  The search for the best US hot dog. (Click on image to expand)






• Top Secret Recipes Recipes for famous foods from commercial establishments. The recipe featured on this date is the perfect complement to the best hot dog from the previous post - the burger referenced in the radio commercial, “In-N-Out, In-N-Out, that’s what a hamburger’s all about.”




• Yeah, but he’ll never be as popular as his sister, Debbie Does Dallas Deep Throat Devil in Miss Jones … The “15 Craziest Personal Names” opens with “James Dr No From Russia with Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die The Man with the Golden Gun The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View to a Kill The Living Daylights Licence to Kill Golden Eye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough Die Another Day Casino Royale Bond,” the name chosen by a “James Bond fanatic” (lucky guess).




• Hubble Space Shots - The European Edition. The photo below is “The Sombrero Galaxy,” one of the literally 100’s of awe-inspiring shots housed at the European Homepage of NASA/Hubble Space Telescope.
  
  Sombrero Galaxy (Click on image to expand)




• “[The sonnet is] a small vessel capable of plundering tremendous depth.” From WSJ’s book review of The Making of a Sonnet




• Skeptic’s Anthem. YouTube rendition by singer/songwriter Bob Carroll of The Skeptic’s Dictionary, who has set Dylanesque lyrics to the music of Leonard Cohen’s Tower of Song to form the titular “Skeptic’s Anthem.”




• “Sexual promiscuity is rampant throughout nature, and true faithfulness a fond fantasy.” From New York Times article, In Most Species, Faithfulness Is a Fantasy.




• “Poor Leonard Cohen, he had a tippy tummy.” James Reaney writes about Leonard Cohen’s participation, as a young man, in a panel of poets, including his queasy stomach.




• Bad Baby Names - A Boy Named Sue, and a Theory of Names




• If Celebrities lived in Missouri…

Footnotes

1. GoodCleanWholesome Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger tumblelog sibling of DrHGuy’s jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog. For details, see Try Some GoodCleanWholesomeFun ~back~

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Sunday Is (Good Clean Wholesome) Fun Day

Once again there are interesting new posts to explore at the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog,¹ one or another of which may be exactly the thing to pique the interest of the sophisticated reader - like you, for example.²

• Life with fewer market norms and more social norms would be more satisfying, creative, fulfilling and fun Quote from Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, reviewed in New York Times “Obviously, this sly and lucid book is not about your grandfather’s dismal science. Ariely’s trade is behavioral economics, which is the study, by experiments, of what people actually do when they buy, sell, change jobs, marry and make other real-life decisions.”

• Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’ by David Mamet Articulate election season essay dealing with Mamet’s own surrender of selective political idealism for a less convenient, realistic perspective on government.









• World’s Most Creative Buildings A list which includes the cleverly designed facade of the Kansas City Library shown above.

• May Pang - Instamatic Karma (New York Times) Photographs from 1973-75 of May Pang and John and Julian Lennon, along with Harry Nilsson.

• Time Multimedia show about The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2008 Outstanding multimedia show about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees of 2008. Great pix with insightful and sardonic commentary









• Dancers in the Crowd Bring Back ‘Thriller’ - New York Times “In Britain, Sony BMG executives videotaped professional dancers in everyday settings — like the Tube and a Tesco supermarket.” “From their seats on the rumbling London Underground, a group of stony-faced passengers rose at random and burst into the jerky slide kick of a zombie dance before melting away without a word. The response of British passengers — stiff gazes, nervous silence and tepid applause — was, naturally, videotaped and posted online, and it quickly spun off into zombie dance sequels at the central Copenhagen train station, in Chinatown in London and on the street outside the Sydney Opera House.”

• Jason Castro on American Idol - Hallelujah

• There really isn’t an ‘easy’ entry into the world of Cohen Maybe, maybe not. In any case I offer my suggestions.

• “It’s not ‘The Thong Song,’ is what we’re saying”David Hinckley characterizing Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne

• Cover Lay Down: Single Song Sunday: Leonard Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat

• A Man’s 6-Pack Can Serve as His Castle

• Foodsel provides visual equivalents of your food

• Studies found that people who thought they were drinking alcohol behaved exactly as aggressively, or as affectionately, or as merrily as they expected to when drunk. ‘No significant difference between those who got alcohol and those who didn’t. Their behavior was totally determined by their expectations of how they would behave.’ ”









• Springsteen: I was 24 when I wrote ‘We ain’t that young anymore’ [in the song Thunder Road]

• “You can be graceful and beautiful and well-poised and skin a muskrat”

Footnotes

1. GoodCleanWholesome Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger tumblelog sibling of DrHGuy’s jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog. For details, see Try Some GoodCleanWholesomeFun ~back~
2. As usual, the links in this list go directly to the single item described. All these entries as well as the posts that preceded them and any posts added since this list was compiled can be accessed in a single sequence at GoodCleanWholesome Fun ~back~

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Found It

I’ve changed the arrangement of WhereTheHeck, the Google-powered search engine for the Heck of a Guy Blog and, now, for the GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog.¹

Clicking on the sidebar link, either WhereTheHeck Search on the sidebar under “Search Options” between “Archives” and “My Other Sites,” or the WhereTheHeck tab at the top right of every page, now whisks the browser to a site that looks and operates like the model displayed beneath the horizontal bar at the end of this explanation.²

The significant operational change is that the WhereTheHeck Search Engine now offers the choices of searching the Heck Of A Guy Blog, the GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog, or both simultaneously.

Regardless of which search box is used, the search results are now shown on Here It Is, which is a HeckOfAGuy Blog page instead of a Google-hosted page as before.

Graphic of the “Here It Is” search results page

As indicated, the Here It Is page includes links back to the index pages of the Heck Of A Guy Blog and the GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog and a reminder that using the “Back” button will return the browser to the user’s original page as well as the results of the search, which will be displayed below the “Results” heading.

The Here It Is page will also show context-related ads placed by Google in exchange for use of the Google search technology. Other than the use of the Google search process, Heck Of A Guy and GoodCleanWholesome Fun receive no compensation from the ads.

Check out the WhereTheHeck Search below.

Where The Heck Is It?

Search The Heck of a Guy Blog³

Search The GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog

Search BOTH The Heck of a Guy Blog AND The GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog

To go …

• Back to the previous web page, use your browser’s “Back” key or click Go Back
• To the Heck Of A Guy blog’s front page, click Heck of a Guy
• To the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog’s front page, click GCW Fun

Footnotes

1. Because this search engine is Google-dependent, only those pages of the Heck Of A Guy Blog and the GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog that are indexed by Google show up in the search results. As it turns out, Google does index the overwhelming majority of pages at these sites (on the day this was originally written, for example, the Heck Of A Guy blog has 967 Total URLs, 943 or which were indexed), some may be missing and some newly published sites may not be immediately indexed. ~back~
2. There is also a search box near the top of the GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog that operates in a manner identical to the “Search The GoodCleanWholesome Fun Tumblelog” box. ~back~
3. The Wordpress search for the Heck Of A Guy Blog is also available in the sidebar of every page. ~back~

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A (Good Clean Wholesome) Fun Friday

As always there are a batch of new posts at the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog,¹ that may pique ones interest.²

• The 50 Most Memorable (Boys’) Bedroom Pin-ups Ever
  
  
  

  #50. Shakira, shown here, is on site - as are 49 higher rated specimens

• Victoria’s Secret “Too Sexy” According To CEO
  Gosh, I know just how they feel

• And another Photoshopped photo is outed … in China

  

• Leonard Cohen Supper
  At least it’s not advertised as the Cohen’s Last Supper - I checked

  “[The Cohen Supper follows] your basic Burns Supper template, but with a completely different poet, and tea and oranges (‘Suzanne’’s sustenance of choice), rather than a haggis, piped in.”

• Music As Catalyst For Community - Conspiracy of Beards
  Conspiracy of Beards is a men’s singing group in San Francisco that performs only songs of Leonard Cohen - Cockle-warming story about the group and, at another post, video of a performance

• SNL’s take on Direct To Consumer pharmaceutical ads, this video spoof mimics an actual campaign for a real birth control pill.
  One of the best SNL presentations since the Chevy Chase-Jim Belushi days IMHO

• Reason Codes (Credit Reports Diagnostic Risk Factor Reason Codes)
  Break the codes that indicate why your credit score makes the Loan Officer first giggle and then reject your application

• “It is up to friends and relatives to rescue the elderly from standard medical care”

• The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors
  More about the reasons humans make dumb decisions

• Competing on Calls That Aren’t Just Elk to Elk
  Just another elk-calling for kids story

• From ‘Anschluss’ to ‘Zyklon B’: New Dictionary Highlights Nazi Words to Avoid
  Avoiding Nazi words turns out to be more difficult than one might suspect

• Digg, Wikipedia, And The Myth Of Web 2.0 Democracy
  Article reveals that elite are in charge - remember to act surprised so we don’t hurt author’s feelings

• 7 Incredibly Specific Dating Site
  I think this one is specifically for jerks:

  “Sick of dating websites filled with ugly, unattractive, desperate fatsos? We are. Attractive people are at a disadvantage on normal internet dating sites. They have to wade through a plethora of ugly people and ugly people pretending to be attractive in order to find someone who matches their own attractiveness. Our strict rules and natural selection process makes Darwin Dating the perfect medium for attractive people to find other people of their own kind.”

Footnotes

1. GoodCleanWholesome Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger tumblelog sibling of DrHGuy’s jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog. For details, see Try Some GoodCleanWholesomeFun ~back~
2. As usual, the links in this list go directly to the single item described. All these entries as well as the posts that preceded them and any posts added since this list was compiled can be accessed in a single sequence at GoodCleanWholesome Fun ~back~

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Good Clean Wholesome Fun - A Tumbling Tumbling Tumblelog

If it’s been a while since you’ve checked the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog,¹ well, what the heck is going on? Look at what you’re missing.²

Left: Camouflaged Cuttlefish. See Revealed: Secrets of the Camouflage Masters
Right: Uncamouflaged Brides. See The Bride Wore Very Little

A Sampling Of Recent Good Clean Wholesome Fun Posts

• Revealed: Secrets of the Camouflage Masters (New York Times)
  Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus, squid, and the like) mimic rocks, diverse patterns, ripples in the water, and more. Must be (barely) seen to be believed.

• The Bride Wore Very Little (New York Times)
  Brides (your wife, the girl next door, your daughter, and the like) mimic burlesque shows. Must be (barely) seen to be believed.³

• It is what it is, a sports cliché for our times (Slate)
  “It is what it is” is the pervasive sports cliché of the day but given that it fits every occasion, can anything stop its spread to every aspect of our conversations?

• Taking Play Seriously (New York Times)
  A cogent essay presents potential role of play in childhood development and implications for parents and schools.

• Bug off: Steer clear of the top sources for germs
  Which bathroom stall is least contaminated? Which elevator buttons are be be avoided? And even more.

• Love Mattress lets couples cuddle comfortably (Iconoculture)
  Do you wake up from spending a night with your sweetie with an appendage numb (no, not that appendage)? This might be the fix.

• Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location (New York Times)
  Subway semicolons set sentence syntax straight.

• The Best Food Movie Ever Made
  Prize awarded by chef; seconded by Lady Lawanda.

• Most Expensive Cars In The World: Top 10 List 2007-2008 - Super Cars
  If your kid is attending one of the (previously posted) World’s Most Expensive Universities, now he can drive there in one of the World’s Most Expensive Cars.

Footnotes

1. GoodCleanWholesome Fun is the quick-witted, energetic, happy go lucky younger tumblelog sibling of DrHGuy’s jocose but prolix, sometimes abstruse Heck of a Guy blog. For details, see Try Some GoodCleanWholesomeFun ~back~
2. As usual, the links in this list go directly to the single item described. All these entries as well as the posts that preceded them and any posts added since this list was compiled can be accessed in a single sequence at GoodCleanWholesome Fun ~back~
3. An aside to Very Very Good Girl: Even before this feature on revealing bridal gowns appeared, I had come up with the idea that, as Avuncle of the Bride, I could assist your fulfillment of the traditional “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something salacious, … ” checklist by popping for an artist to paint temporary, tastefully trashy tattoos for the bridal party and the parents of the bride and groom. I thought it would give a little edge to the ceremony if, for example, your dad had a cobra head tattoo on the side of his face as he gave you away. And why carry a bridal bouquet when your mom could wear an ink version of one? I hadn’t suggested it to you yet because I had broached the notion to Lady Lawanda, who was surprisingly resistant, but once she sees this article and the potential excitement a well placed tattoo of, say, mating panthers on your back framed by the folds of your gown, she’s sure to come around. Given the amount of ink on almost every basketball player on TV this year, it’s clear that this is a must for fans, so for SportsBizPro, I’m thinking a sports theme would be ideal, e.g., maybe the emblems of all his favorite teams surrounding a stadium view of a soccer game being played. Or something with snakes. ~back~

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2 Rather Impressive & Altogether Worthwhile Posts at GoodCleanWholesome Fun

I just ran across both of these items while wandering through the Onion site and think they are too good to delay posting here as well as at GoodCleanWholesome Fun:

John Cleese A.V. Club Interview
Includes Cleese on why The Life Of Brian is a better film than The Holy Grail, his disappointing lunch with Peter Ustinov, and the roles he turned down but shouldn’t have.

The knights who say “nerd”: 20 pop-cultural obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
What more does one need to know? It’s a must see.

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Leonard Cohen on an Etch-A-Sketch IS Good Clean Wholesome Fun

And, as if Leonard Cohen on an Etch-A-Sketch weren’t enough, recent Good Clean Wholesome Fun¹ posts offer still more delights

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• Discover the real reason SportsBizPro & Very Very Good Girl may not get any sleep on their wedding night, Which Famous Modern American Poet You Are, the outcome of the