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1:45 pm EDT, Jul 28, 2007 |
CARTOON: Popeye
LESSON: Spinach is good for you.
Sure, it doesn’t taste as good as candy, ice cream or opium, but it’s full of essential vitamins and minerals that’ll make your muscles explode like battleship cannons. If you want to triumph over the bullying Blutos of the world and win the affections of your own lovely, leggy Olive Oyl, pound a can of spinach at least once a day. Or put it in your corncob pipe and smoke it, like everybody’s favorite ornery, mumbling sailorman. Toot toot!
How it affected us as adults: You only need to look at the steroid scandal rocking Major League Baseball to see that Popeye raised a generation that is willing to use performance enhancers. Also, it should be pointed out that Olive Oyl was the first anorexic sex symbol.
LMFAO!~ CRACKED.com - 8 Important Lessons Learned from '80s Cartoons |
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7:12 am EDT, Jul 24, 2007 |
There are those moments when you look at something, try a few different solutions and watch them fail, then think of something truly perverted to solve the problem. Like using xcopy in a DOS window on Windows XP under Parallels on a Mac to copy files from an NTFS USB hard drive to a Samba share mounted in Finder to a UNIX mount point by Mac OSX... and it works. And doesn't crash after five seconds. And I say to myself: "My god, I am a pervert." Those moments |
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