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attraction, yes.  love, no.  the first is as sweet as ice cream.  and could just melt soon after.  the second is like good wine.  it ought to take time.

kinsa man dinhi ang gusto ug lima ang bana?

malacanang gyod na.  daghang ulyanin didto.

Sean Connery
And he still had it when he got older.  He not only kept it.  He got MORE of it. / SF



Steve McQueen
Thirty years after his death, there's nothing about this man that has dated. Even his haircut. / SF

http://www.sfgate.com/

Miles Davis
Not only cool -- he wrote the book on cool. / SF



Robert Mitchum
Makes everybody else on screen look like they're having a nervous breakdown. / SF

Marlon Brando
He started out cool and stayed so weird that he never had a chance to be un-cool. / SF



Mick Jagger
By contrast, it was the young Mick --lordly, decadent, ambisexual, threatening, the Platonic ideal of rock star -- that captured the public mind in the late sixties and early seventies. / SF

Malcolm X
Totally unfazeable, the man Ossie Davis called "our living, black manhood" became an icon for coolness and commitment a quarter century after his death. / SF



Marcello Mastroianni
He was one of the defining images of masculinity in the 20th century -- handsome but fallible, doubting, lost, questing -- virility with an element of the ridiculous -- and always self-knowing. / SF

Johnny Cash
By popular demand -- what an omission. Johnny Cash was so cool he made country music cool, which is almost impossible. / SF



Keith Richards
This is the cool Keith Richards.  The old guy.  He was probably cool for decades, but it's the over-40 Keith, the survivor Keith -- the oh, wait, he's not an idiot, is he?  Keith -- that has connected with the public imagination. / 2007 Getty Images

John Lennon
He was so smart, funny and resolutely himself that he could make a complete fool of himself without it ever diminishing him. / SF



Johnny Carson
Oh, yes.  Urbane, well-dressed, confident, amusing -- and always with just a suggestion that he could turn mean, that there was something hidden he wasn't showing us. / SF

JFK
Half movie star in the collective mind, he was a study in courage and grace and had just about everything a man could want . . . except good health. / SF



Jimi Hendrix
By popular demand -- Hendrix.  Made being the best guitarist in the world look effortless, like it was an extension of his body. / SF

Humphrey Bogart
The face of dignity, conscience, inner struggle, American stoicism -- of American skepticism and commitment -- of dark humor that knows the world -- singular and irreplaceable. / Mirror Syndication International



James Dean
Is it possible to be cool AND a complete mess?  Dean WAS the 1950s, but he also heralded the Sixties man. / SF

Desi Arnaz
OK, I laughed at first.  But this guy has been on TV for 60 years.  And he was even cool as an old guy on Saturday Night Live. / SF



Frank Sinatra
Touchy, mean-spirited and status conscious, too worried about being cool to be innately cool, he somehow was cool anyway.  Something to do with Ava Gardner, maybe.  Or with the voice. / SF

David Bowie
The thin white Duke has never given it away.  We can see him, but he never spills over. / SF



Dean Martin
No, I don't like his singing, but Dean was even cooler than Frank, because Dean didn't care and Frank only pretended not to care. / SF

Clark Gable
He has been dead for over 50 years and remains the standard against which all leading men are judged. / SF



Clint Eastwood
He parodied cool but was cool all the same -- and he's done nothing in the years since to blow it. / SF

Bob Dylan
Actually, I find the Dylan schtick creepy and phony, but the talent was real, and he gets credit for not cracking a smile for 50 years. / SF



Cary Grant
Who would not want to be like Cary Grant?  Even Cary Grant wanted to be like Cary Grant. / SF

Cool Hall of Fame

SFGate
San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, November 12, 2012


Paul McCartney
The Cute One was the coolest Beatle in 1968, after his partner went off the deep end.  And while he almost lost it with silly love songs years later, he has always held a part of himself at a remove. / SF



Bing Crosby
We forget this, but circa 1930 Bing was all about cool, and his early film appearances demonstrate that it was all real. / SF

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 13, 2012, 10:10:42 PM
But isn't pampering our bodies (which yoga does, bodyguarded with a mumbo-jumbo religious stance to boot)intrinsically adversarial to our faith?

is ballet body pampering?

is ballet (yoga) and its music (mumbo-jumbo) adversarial to our faith?

oh, we take food supplements to keep our bodies and minds healthy, which yoga does.  why must we take the former, which makes a pharmacy out of our stomachs, as fine with religion while the latter, which is just a form of discipline, is contrary?  we're giving yoga too much credit.   

Pepsi Introduces Fat-Blocking Soda

By Akiko Fujita | ABC News Blogs
13 November 2012



Soda and healthy aren't exactly synonymous, but Pepsi-Cola in Japan is trying to change that with a new fiber-infused drink.

Dubbed the "Pepsi Special," the soft drink set to go on sale Tuesday contains dextrin, a fiber that distributor Suntory claims helps reduce fat levels in the body.

Eager to appeal to young, health-conscious men, Pepsi has put out a comical ad on its website showing a businessman trying to chose between a woman dressed in a pizza costume and another in a burger outfit. The message - you don't have to give up either, if you drink the Pepsi Special.

Odd-flavored drinks are not unique in Japan's $48 billion a year soft-drink market. Past Pepsi flavors include strawberry and milk, salty watermelon, and yogurt, to name a few.

This is Pepsi's first venture into the healthy cola market. Rival Kirin, better known for its beer, released its own sugar-free, dextrin soda this summer: the "Mets" cola.

http://gma.yahoo.com/

yoga, in fact, may even enhance one's religion for some people.  it could help one's mind get more focused when one prays.  there are even those who can attest that they can pray more sincerely, more meditatively, after they learned yoga. 

it is when one replaces one's religion with yoga, or when it becomes one's religion, that the context of the practice is changed.  bodybuilders just can't make religion out of bodybuilding, right?

it is not.  yoga in its simplest context is nothing but a stress-relieving exercise.  its "unnecessary offshoots" (i.e., the philosophies mouthed by gurus, yogis, transcendental meditators, new-age advocates, etc.)are the ones that open the practice to being misunderstood as a threat to religion.  it's like saying that being a gym rat or an olympian is going against religion because these emphasize only physical development and victories.

sleeping on the job.  (he could be a member of a dynasty who will run for election come 2013. )

http://www.asiaone.com/

they, the animals

we, the people

Taiwanese artist Ting Cheng has been shooting a series of photographs involving people sleeping in peculiar positions.

The series, entitled ‘Thought I Was Awake,’ seems to escape reality.

Girls, be careful, or you may end up like this girl who got so drunk, she couldn't stop a guy from groping her in public.

"It went on for quite a while until we called the bouncers to stop their obscene behaviour," said a witness.

"When the bouncers came over, they shone a light at the guy, but he continued what he was doing. When the bouncers eventually escorted the guy and girl out of the club, the girl was so drunk, she couldn't even walk properly."

STOMPer tattoolover spotted this man sleeping outside the Sultan Plaza food court, clad in just his underwear.

"Many passers-by were laughing at him and no one woke him up."


Two drunk men made it into the news when they caused a disturbance at Pioneer MRT Station.

One man passed out on the floor and the other tried to attack SMRT staff.


Responding to a media enquiry, the police said were notified of the drunkards at about 7.05pm. Upon arrival, they encountered a 36-year-old man who was "behaving aggressively and tried to attack SMRT staff". The man was arrested for disorderly behaviour.


The other man, who was in his mid-40s, had passed out due to excessive alcohol consumption, and was conveyed to a hospital.

This guy was apparently passed out drunk on a grass patch along Dunearn Road.

He was even mistaken for a dog by a taxi driver. He was later woken up but was found to have continued his slumber on the next patch of grass a few hours later.


This girl's friends were apparently pouring water all over her to make her wake up. But it only served to "piss her off".


It must have been a frustrating night for this woman when her partner passed out drunk in the middle of a road divider at Tampines Avenue 7.

The woman was seen standing beside the drunk man and looking helplessly around and sending SMSes.

This passenger was spotted peeing in an MRT train before passing out and leaving a trail of pee on the floor.


A drunk guy was seen hanging from the MRT train handles and scaring other passengers.


He later vomited and splashed the vomit on to some passengers in front of him. 

This man was apparently spotted drunk and sleeping at in a condominium lift lobby.

A passerby was shocked to see a boy take off his pants and defecate outside club Rebel before passing out.


   

According to Stomp user sc50, it was about 6am. "He suddenly got up and took off his belt. I was so shocked when he starting passing motion."

"He passed out after that. An uncle tried shouting at him to wake him up. He eventually got into a cab after."

Strange things Singaporeans do when they are drunk

Ever passed out from drinking too much and woken up in a strange environment - sometimes with a strange outfit and in an even stranger position? These people have.

From defecating outside clubs to falling asleep on toilet seats with their pants down, Singaporeans get up to all sorts of hilarious antics when they are drunk.

The humilation may run deep in these people, but the consolation is that they won't know it until they have awoken from their drunken stupors.

Star Wars




http://geektyrant.com/

Titanic

Lord of the Rings

Jurassic Park

Godzilla

Alien


"Meet Bolaji Badejo, the man inside the suit of the original 1979 Alien. According to IMDB's trivia section, he stands at 7' 2", and was not originally an actor, but a design student who was discovered at a bar.  Ridley Scott wanted someone unusually tall so as to make the suspension of disbelief more natural, and Badejo fit the bill. Of note, is that this role seems to have been Badejo's only real stint in the acting world, and there is little to no information about his life after Alien (save for rumor) to be found on the internet."

Ghostbusters


The set photo for this is actually creepier than the actual scene in the movie!

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Set Photos that will Change How You See Movies

by Joey Paur

Here's a very cool collection of set photos from various different movies we love that will change the way you see these scenes.  I will warn you, these photos kind of do take the magic out of the movies, but it's still interesting to see how they filmed some of these shots!

And in 2007, when the Queen asked for their help in setting up voicemail on her cellphone, Prince William and Prince Harry prankishly recorded, “Wassup! This is Liz. Sorry I’m away from the throne.  For a hotline to Philip, press one. For Charles, press two. And for the corgis, press three.”  Her Majesty is said to have been a good sport when she learned what the young royals had done.  (“Prince Albert in a can” jokes probably wouldn’t have gone over quite so well).

The British monarch does have what historian Robert Lacey calls a “dry and slightly mordant sense of humor,” and has in recent years developed a stock line for whenever the cellphone of a visitor goes off: "You'd better answer that.  It might be someone important."

Ouch. My advice is, next time you’re invited to Buck House for tea and crumpets, mute your phone.  Or better yet, just leave it at home.

â€" SDSTAFF Elendil’s Heir

http://www.straightdope.com/

A bit formal, but appropriate for the occasion.  Still, it must be said that the Royal Family has had some fun with phones over the years.

King George V, Elizabeth II’s grandfather, and his younger sister Princess Victoria often spoke by telephone.  She once began the conversation with “Hello, you old fool,” only to be interrupted by the operator: “Beg pardon, Your Royal Highness; His Majesty is not yet on the line.”

Many years later, “When the Queen placed a call to her mother,” biographer Sally Bedell Smith writes, “the Palace operator said to her mother, ‘Good morning, Your Majesty, Her Majesty is on the line for Your Majesty,’ which became a standing joke among friends and courtiers.”

Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine, tells me that, at most other times, “When the Queen answers her phone she says 'Yes' to the caller, who will be a member of the Royal Household or a telephonist wanting to put through a member of her family or a friend.”

In 1958, the Queen made the first British long-distance telephone call without the assistance of an operator.  She began her call to Edinburgh by saying, "This is the Queen speaking from Bristol.  Good afternoon, my Lord Provost."


Helen Mirren as The Queen

Or thinks she does, at least.  In October 1995, Montreal comedian and radio personality Pierre Brassard managed to get past the royal switchboard by pretending to be then-Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.  When the Queen came on the line, she simply said, “Hi, Prime Minister!”  After beginning the conversation in English, Brassard asked if they might speak in French.  The Queen immediately agreed (“Oui, bon”), and spoke in “impeccable” French for several more minutes about an upcoming referendum on Quebec independence.  Although her courtiers were not amused, when she spoke to the actual â€" and very apologetic â€" Chrétien a few days later, she joked, "I thought your voice sounded slightly different, but I thought it might just have been because you were drunk."

SDSTAFF Elendil’s Heir replies:

You’d hardly expect her to say “This is Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of my other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith speaking” every time she picks up, would you?  The poor woman would never get anything done.

Instead, as you might expect, the Queen (now celebrating her 60th year on the British throne) answers the telephone in different ways at different times.  You’re right that she typically has calls put through, and knows to whom she’ll be speaking beforehand.

How does the Queen answer the phone?[/b]

October 30, 2012

Dear Straight Dope:

A friend and I once tried to figure out how Queen Elizabeth II answers her phone.  Now, obviously, someone else answers it first and they patch the caller through to Her Majesty if appropriate.  But!  She has to announce her presence once she picks up, no?  She can't just lift the receiver to her ear and remain silent.  So what does she say?

â€" Kimmy_Gibbler

kuyawa diay sa inyo, piks.  kay gustong magpakamatay, pugngan.  putlan na lang nila ug liog aron motagam.

why man puro defensive ang mga lalaking nanubag so far?

hahaha!  morag gi-set-up man tawon ni siya.  wa man tingaliy hubog nga di makatumba anang mga botelyaha.  klarong gituyo ug laray ang mga botelya sa iyang barkada nga di pa tantong bangog aron mapiktyuran for posterity.  karon nahimo nang universally popular kay niabot na sa tubagbohol. 

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 12, 2012, 09:50:24 PM

Siging paod2x samtang gadokdok nga nagpanilap? Way lain--malong na lang hang kulang sa madlongon...

wa tawon na mapaod uy.  di lang gyod siya ganahan mag-ipok.

Lorenz


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Bolbuhol


Pikoy


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Bugsay


Islander


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Lollapalooza


Sir Balong and friends Lakandula, Zanggo, etc.


Hubag Bohol

happy birthday good, kind sir!

from your loving friend pikoy

The pope’s German citizenship has prompted some questions of whether he would be subject to German law, or whether he enjoys diplomatic immunity as the head of a foreign state.

http://www.cathnewsusa.com/

The unnamed plaintiff, from Dortmund, argues that the pope was seen several times during the visit without a seat belt.  The complaint offers several eyewitnesses, including the archbishop of Freiburg, the head of the German Conference of Bishops and the premier of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, where Freiburg sits.

The complaint refers to a “Mr. Joseph Ratzinger” â€" the German-born pope’s given name â€" and sightings of him on Sept. 24 and 25 riding in a vehicle without a seat belt “for more than an hour.”

Sundermann’s office has also entered a YouTube clip of the visit, which shows Benedict touring in a German-made Mercedes-Benz popemobile without a seat belt, as possible evidence.

Pope Benedict XVI slapped with charges for not wearing seat belt

By editor on November 29, 2011

Just because the pope gets to ride in the popemobile doesn’t give him license not to wear a seat belt.

So says an unnamed German man who filed charges against Pope Benedict XVI for allegedly failing to use a seat belt while touring Germany on an official visit in September.

Attorney Christian Sundermann confirmed that the complaint was filed with authorities in Freiburg, the southern German city that was Benedict’s last stop during his German visit, according to the newspaper Der Westen.

whaddaya mean?  wa na ko ka-gets.  way gid ko kaila ni sakiyos gawas sa iyang pagka-empleyado ug mga ninuno sa BIR.

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 12, 2012, 04:44:26 PM
Nahadlok ka nga naay mailad? Di pa ka ana nga di ra ikaw ang nasayop?

wa tawon ko masayop kay poor pa man siya tan-awon sa una...

obyus sa imong tattoo.

daghanang natingkagol because of money and power.

abi nakog iro ray mobahag ug ikog, hasta man diay philippine government.  unsa man tawoy labot sa china kun unsay atong buhaton o paliton.  bisag mopalit pa tag pila ka squadron nga vampires, it's none of their business. 

maayo gani kay wa matepok ug apil ang inyong nakamahuan sa iyang pagpanaw.

bahag ang ikog kay adoring look man nang iyang stance.

after shouting for the doctor, the next thing i knew was that i was holding prayer booklets for the dying, shaking and praying all i can by the bedside. 

i'm still amazed over why it had to be me who had to close my father's eyes with my own hands.  he must have heard my prayer offering, and i am glad.

i wish i didn't have to go through that, but i did.  and i was alone as a family member. 

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 12, 2012, 04:04:32 PM
Kakyut sa dogi. Morag si Sakiyos...

who dat?  did you mean zacchaeus, the tax collector?

Quote from: taga tigbao on November 12, 2012, 03:30:09 PM
NAhadlok ba ning iro?

wa, kay hawod god siya.  nangayo lang siyag blessing, pagkahuman gusto pa gyod nga iyaon ang cardinal's red zucchetto.

Quote from: hubag bohol on November 12, 2012, 03:58:37 PM
Kakyut sa dangki. Morag si Platero...

oh, no.  you unwittingly reminded me of THAT book.  pwerting hilak tawon nako aning gabasa.

A dog runs through a parade route after the Popemobile passed in Guanajuato, Mexico, on March 24, 2012.  Pope Benedict XVI was on a visit to Mexico at the time. (Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images)

well, someone simply thought of interviewing the donkey popemobile instead of the popemobile itself.

The residents of Otuma, Mexico decorate a donkey as a Popemobile.

All Popemobile registration plates read “SCV 1″.  “SCV” abbreviates both “Stato della Città del Vaticano” and “Status Civitatis Vaticanae”, the Italian and Latin names for the Vatican City.

this was the popemobile before there was a popemobile.

mag-dream ko nga makaanhi ko dinhi.  pilay pad...

mirisi tuod.  naa pa gyod sa education.  ang faet lang kay may pagka-small time.  kadtong mga minilyon wa gyod tawon matarog.

“Everyone was agreed that it deserved an award,” said Wojciech Druszcz, who presided over the jury.

“It has everything you need in a press photograph,” he said, “and the photo reporter revealed that he has a sense of humour, which is also important.”

Poland's Press Photo of the Year (2011) was organised by the Press Photography Club, itself affiliated to the Association of Polish Journalists (SDP). (nh/pg)

http://www.thenews.pl/

“On that day the cardinal was surrounded by journalists and photographers,” Lasyk revealed in an interview with the Polish Press Agency.

“I didn't want them in the frame, so I overtook the cardinal,” he said.

“When I saw the dog, I decided to wait and integrate it into the photograph."

The jury itself immediately warmed to the picture.

Cardinal and dog triumph in Polish Press Photo Awards

08.03.2012

A photograph of Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz doffing his skullcap to a nervous dog has won first prize in the Polish Press Photo of the Year contest.

The image was taken by Marek Lasyk from the Reporter Agency on 9 October, 2011, the day of Poland's general elections.

Cardinal Dziwisz, who was secretary to the late Pope John Paul II, and is currently Archbishop of Krakow, was returning from a polling station when the photograph was taken.

PAP - Marek Lasyk

the sarao-made popemobile as used in baguio city:


(i wonder who's driving; it musn't be the future senator panfilo lacson!)


(jaime cardinal sin was a seated passenger!  note: if i got it right, the one standing next to this beloved of popes is a close-in security blackbelter cardinal... i don't know how true.  it's a story of my older brother who's fond of inventing great stories...)

Sarao Motors is a Jeepney assembly plant that produced the customized popemobile used by Pope John Paul II in 1981.

that is true, until one pope stopped the practice. 

1981 Popemobile, Philippines

The Filipino Popemobile



The Popemobile, is an informal name for the specially and certainly the most eminent vehicle in the world.  It transports the Pope to his numerous destinations and outdoor appearances.

Uncovered Popemobiles are most frequently used for events inside Saint Peter’s Square.  The vehicles are designed to protect the Pope at the same time as allowing him to be visible to the crowds.

The Philippines automobile manufacturer Francisco Motors produced the custom Popemobile for the 1995 Papal visit.  It was paid for by voluntary contributions from the private sector, and as with the Irish vehicle had bulletproof windows, bombproof parts, and it was inspected by the Swiss Guards.

http://santocristodebungadparish.org/

The Popemobile surrounded by Men In Black at St. Peter's Square.  The Pope regularly addresses huge crowds from different countries, and blesses them in their native language (French, Italian, English, German, Portuguese).

Left, another view of the current Popemobile for in-house use; right, the clunky GMC Sierra used for the Corpus Domini processions since 1984.  It was first used for John Paul II's travels during a visit to Canada in 1984.

http://freeforumzone.leonardo.it/

2007 MERCEDES-BENZ G500


That Fiat didn't have a terribly long run, as it was supplanted by a far more stylish Merecedes G500 at the end of 2007.  This one is the first that can be converted from open-air duty to enclosed bullet-proof class as well.

In 2007, the Vatican unveiled the open-top Mercedes-Benz G-Class for papal use in St. Peter's Square.  It was created over a two-year development period in close consultation with the Vatican for fine-weather use.

It is equipped with a folding windscreen and hand-rails, and like its predecessors it is painted in 'Vaticanmystic white'.  The interior is white, and is accessed via steps lined in red at the rear.

2004 FIAT CAMPAGNOLA


In his last years, John Paul II used a Fiat open-top SUV for transit within Vatican City, primarily during events at St. Peter's Square, usually accompanied by a phalanx of burly security guards.

1999 MEXICO BUS; 2002 MERCEDES ML430


In a visit to Mexico during 1999, JPII rode in a glassed-up bus through unprecedented crowds of onlookers.  Following his death in 2005, this Popemobile was put on permanent display in Mexico City at the Basilica of Guadalupe, where the faithful made pilgrimages to pay respect in lieu of a trip to Vatican City.

The thoroughly modern Mercedes ML 430 Popequarium has been the standard bearer until recently.  The fully enclosed, bullet-proof, air-conditioned, platformed car served major duty during the last years of John Paul II.

1982 LEYLAND 4-TON; 1985 MERCEDES 500 SEL; 1997 MERCEDES S500 LWB


This most massive of Popemobiles was built by Leyland Truck for the Pope's visit to Scotland as well as additional travels around the UK in 1982.  The 24-ton monster has a cool glass room at the top of the vehicle and logged 11,000 miles during its services.  Our personal favorite of the Popemobiles was donated to the British Commercial Vehicle Museum, in Leyland, Lancashire in 1988, but was sold at auction in 2006 for the bargain price of $70,000.

The Vatican’s fleet of limo-style Popemobiles grew in 1985 with the inclusion of the first fully armored car, a Mercedes-Benz 500 SEL.  Just because it was armored doesn't mean it wasn't crowd-friendly.  The sunroof opened, a windscreen elevated, and the floor lifted to a platform position below to allow the Pontiff to do his crowd-waving thing.  This car is actually still in use and ferries Pope Benedict XVI during official outings.

In 1997, a new papal limousine was a thoroughly updated Landaulet Mercedes S500 LWB, complete with electro-hydraulic top, two rear-facing occasional seats, and a center-mounted throne which can power-elevate half a meter when the top is down.

1982 SEAT; 1982 RANGE ROVER


The Spanish Papamóvil in 1982 was an all-open-air Seat designed with a grab handle in front so El Papa could stand and greet the crowds.  This may also be the smallest Popemobile ever.

The first bullet-proof Popemobile was built following the first assassination attempt on John Paul II in 1981.  A Range Rover 230G was adapted, with the cabin enclosed in bulletproof glass for a visit to the UK in 1982.