Tag: inappropriate

Wouldn’t have had much fun in Stalingrad

vanmojo alerted me to something very special about this year’s Rose Parade. For those outside the US, the Rose Parade is a huge New Year’s Day event connected with the Rose Bowl college football game. Corporations make giant floats, high school bands march, and it goes on forever.

Because 2007 will be the 30th anniversary of Star Wars, George Lucas will be the grand marshal. And also because of this, the 501st Legion will be marching in the parade.

charity stormtroopersHaving a lot of Star Wars stuff in the parade sounds cool. Maybe some of the actors from the original movie, or a bunch of wookies. But no. This will be a large gathering of the Imperial Stormtroopers marching by in review.

The 501st has a long and hilarious history of charity appearances, each of which is more like an Onion article than the others. And they’re just costumed nerds, I know.

So I guess it’s perfectly fine to have the brutal, oppressive cannon fodder minions of the dark Empire marching proudly in our parade. You know, the ones who kill and burn Luke’s family at the beginning of the original movie. And it’s totally cool also to have a group named after the Nazi murderers who slaughtered millions of innocents in a horrific war of aggression, carrying out the most notorious genocide in the history of mankind. In fact, it should be awesome!

No wait, it’s that other thing: shockingly ignorant and offensive!

Someone please tell me this is a long drawn-out prank by Mel Brooks. Please.

Edit:Lucas’ extensive ripoffs from The Triumph of the Will just aren’t helping here either. Pasadena is the new Nuremberg.

o/~ ‘Cause heeee loooooves traaaaaaaash o/~

This was sent to me by jonpants who then couldn’t take his own medicine:

jonpants: he killed snuffy.
substitute: And made a Snuffy Film of it, no doubt.
jonpants: oh man that was just bad.

Woman’s Body Found On Big Bird Actor’s Conn. Property

POSTED: 8:23 pm EST December 13, 2005
UPDATED: 8:27 pm EST December 13, 2005

WOODSTOCK, Conn. — The body of a woman who disappeared while jogging was found Tuesday on property owned by the performer who plays Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on the popular children’s television show “Sesame Street,” a town official said.

Woodstock First Selectwoman Delpha Mae Very cautioned against drawing conclusions, saying the property owned by Caroll Spinney is a very large tract of remote wooded land.

State police did not release information on any suspects. A message seeking comment was left at Spinney’s home.

The body of Judith Nilan, 44, was found in a storage building on the Massachusetts border at about 10:30 a.m. during a search by state police, tracking dogs, volunteers and a helicopter. State police said her death was a homicide.

“You just don’t think of those type of things happening in Woodstock,” Very said. “We consider it extremely safe.”

Woodstock, home to about 8,000 people, is about 40 miles northeast of Hartford and about 30 miles southwest of Worcester, Mass.

Nilan, a middle school social worker, was reported missing Monday night by her husband, who said she went jogging about 4:30 p.m. and never returned.

Her husband, Jon Baker, told police he searched his wife’s normal jogging route after she failed to return to their Woodstock home three hours after going out for her daily run. He called police after failing to find her, said Sgt. J. Paul Vance, a state police spokesman.

Vance said he didn’t know if the storage building, which is about 6 miles from Nilan’s home, was near her jogging route. He would not say what led police to the body.

“There were leads and evidence that was discovered by investigators that were significant in moving this case ahead on a continuous basis late last night and early this morning,” he said.

No suspects were in custody Tuesday afternoon, but police had solid leads, Vance said.

“I don’t want to tell people not to lock their doors or anything, but I’ll say we’ve made some very good headway on this investigation and leave it at that,” he said.

The storage building is located off the road and straddles the state line.

Connecticut and Massachusetts authorities were working jointly on the investigation, Vance said.

The crime scene was still being processed and authorities had not determined which state’s medical examiner would perform the autopsy, Vance said.