What if??????

What if Hitler cheered for the Edmonton Oilers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss1JTK7JUts

Note, turn it down if you are at work.....

The Trocks

Click on the above to enlarge, and see what Brenda describes as some of the ugliest girls to ever put on a tutu.

Brenda has a subscription to the ballet. Specifically the National Arts Centre series of advanced booked shows which generally consist of ballets, though they DID include the Japanese "Kodo Drummers" and "Shakespeare's Dog". But without much complaint on my part, I accompany her and Elizabeth to various entertainments. I tend to avoid the highbrow entertainments, but I DO have to admit that a group of individuals working at entertaining me is usually better than shivering my ass off in the stands watching a group of bored overpaid individuals shoving a puck around on the ice. Sometimes. And don't forget I grew up in a family of dancers....albeit Ukrainian Cossack Dancers. So I can appreciate dance...no matter WHAT Brenda says. (I think she is right that I have little to no interest in a true "classical" ballet though. Why she doesn't want to come with me to watch the pole dancers in the club up the road and see some "good" dancing is just as inexplicable, but I digress.)

This time it was the Company of Trocaderos della Monte Carlo. I remember them playing along side Kermit and Miss Piggy as they performed "Swine Lake". The humour has only got raunchier and eathier since that memorable gig. The Trocks are an all male dance troupe who, in fine medieval tradition, play both the male and female roles during their performances. Of course, they pick performances which are really heavy weighted to traditional female roles...such as "Swan Lake", their signature piece, the "dying swan" and an abstract dance piece specfically choreographed for four divas of dance back in the 19th century. So the costumes are outrageously female...pink tutus and pointe shoes. So it was a choice between staying at home playing video games, going out and killing myself on the snowboard slopes, or watching a group of grown men prancing around in tutus and wigs. Since a train wreck was not one of the choices, I stayed to watch the Trocks.

http://www.trockadero.org/

From the Wikipedia....

The dancers portray both male and female (mainly female) roles in a humorous style that mixes send-ups of the clichés of ballet, posing, and physical comedy with "straighter" pieces intended to show off the performers' skill (but still with a certain amount of humour). Part of the comedy is seeing male dancers en travesti performing moves usually reserved to females, such as dancing en pointe.

Part of the humour is the phoney biographies of the actors. A couple are re-printed here, again, from the Wikipedia. They make amusing reading in the interval as you seat yourself and await the start of the show.

-----from the Wikipedia.
Robert Carter
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, USA; he joined the Trocks in November 1995. He portrays Yuri Smirnov and Olga Supphozova.
Yuri ran away from home and joined the Kirov Opera because he thought Borodin was a prescription barbiturate, but he soon discovered that he didn't know his arias from his elbow and decided to become a ballet star instead. Olga made her first public appearance in a KGB lineup under dubious circumstances and after a seven-year-to-life hiatus, she now returns to her adoring fans.
Edgar Cortes
Born in Santiago do Cacem, Portugal; he joined the Trocks in October 2000. He portrays Klaus Youssoupovtu and Maria Gertrudes Clubfoot.
Klaus soared into prominence as the first defector whose leave-taking was accomplished at the virtual insistence of the defectees. Maria (after ballerina Maria Tallchief) is the last one of the great Indian ballerinas, who began her training with the Wounded Knee Ballet but was subsequently banned for use of traditional Indian weaponry.

Here is a good site you might like to check out...it has clips of the actors.

Otherwise, I would say, "Get off the computer and get shoveling that snow!"

http://www.trockstour.co.uk/ (Brenda says this site shows some really ugly women!) Me, I just want to know how they did that web site because it is the best example of scripting I have ever seen!

Demotivational Mondays

What a weekend. I think I'll just decorate my office today. Note that all the posters below start with the word "in". I thought they might be appropriate for my new office decorative theme...which is "I'll do it IN the afternoon".

Only in America

click on the images to enlarge.
Here are some pics of the world famous Heart Attack Grill.
Justagirl...you should look away.
At least the waitresses are pretty. hmmm....if anything brought on MY heart attack, it would be one of these waitresses leaning over to serve me my supper.

A full service heart attack grill, sells cigarettes as well. And as you can see from the interior shots, we have a grill. And a refrigerator. Thats about it. Note the beer ad on far left.
From the menue. I note that the pic looks a bit different than the reality.

Yup...the smiles are real.
Crisis? We have a crisis? These guys look happy to me. But you could die from drinking that brand of beer! OMG, what ARE you thinking! You need a bock or a porter to go with red meat, not a pilsner!
A well fed individual, not long for the world.
And here we have the reality. Chips fried daily in pure lard.

Actually, as you look at it, this is just a standard little diner, and the food is actually not all that bad. No bacon, the chips are well drained and normally fried in lard anyway (unless they can find something cheaper like beef fat or sunflower oil) and the pile of meat is, well, intentionally over the top. But I have seen my buddies scarf back three or four MacDonald's quarter pounders after a day on the range.

And I bet the cute little waitresses were just hired for the photoshoot....it looks like all that is left of the skimpy outfit during the week is the cute little hat.

Damn...I wish I had thought of it! What a great "hook" for a sport's bar!

News of the weird.

What can I say that Chuck doesnt say better. His blog is at http://www.msnbc.com/comics/nw.asp

Here are some samples. Lots more at his web site, above. All well researched and verified. Guaranteed to make you shake your head!

There was yet another fight in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre this past Easter (celebrated in mid-April by Orthodox Christians).

This time, Armenians (one of the six Christian branches that share management of the holy site) believed that a Greek Orthodox priest had encroached on their part of the church and tried to eject him, leading to a brawl in which some in attendance used Palm Sunday fronds as weapons. It usually falls on Jerusalem's Muslim police officers to restore order. [Agence France-Presse, 4-20-08]

For Easter every year in Vrondados on the Greek island of Chios, villagers carry on a 19th-century tradition in which parishioners of two churches attack the other's building with homemade rockets during midnight Mass. Villagers spend the days before Easter boarding up windows in order to minimize damage, and the goal is to be first to hit the other church's bell tower. [WTAM (Cleveland)-Reuters, 4-27-08]