March 7, 2004
Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs...
It's BUY ONE GET ONE FREE NIGHT here at Tara's House of the Apocalypse.
First, Michael Feldman (whom I had the distinct pleasure of meeting last week) posts about a three-headed frog found in a British nursery school.
And if you decide not to click on the link and visit Michael's Dowbrigade to see the photo, let me clue you in on something. This frog isn't three headed the way that some upstart intern at Lucasfilm would make a three-headed frog; a froggy body with three heads jostling for position in the neck area. No. This looks like someone was playing frog baseball (shout out to Beavis and Butthead) and three frogs collided over second base and... well, stuck together.
Or like the frogs merged in some sort of Philadelphia Experiment gone horribly wrong. (Frankly, when doesn't a time travel experiment go horribly wrong?)
Anyway, back to this particular three-headed frog. Apparently he croaked out, "Prepare for the coming of Gozer," to the preschoolers, then spontaneuously combusted (Or hopped into the woods, depending on whose version you believe. Honestly, I wouldn't rely on the memories of five-year-olds. Trust me, I have one). Inexplicably Oscar-neglected Bill Murray offered this understated comment: "So be good, for goodness sake! Whoa, somebody's coming."
And the second sign of the imminent extinction of the planet is this wacky documercial from Volvo about 32 people in a tiny Swedish town who coincidentally bought the same make and model car on the same day. (via MeFi)
I'm not sure that this is a sign of the End Times, as much as a sign that the town was securely located in Sweden.
But if the story is true, and not a Blair Witch-inspired piece of hypaganda, it means (as I have said in the past*) that the universe's random number generator is on the fritz. Somebody start a trouble ticket at support@theuniverse.org.
* That was the point at which I intended to link you to my Very Old Post about a South American town in which winning lottery numbers matched the license plate numbers of cars used in recent suicide bombings. But it's gone. Eaten in the "This is why Dave is the hardware guy and Tara is the software girl" Debacle of 2002**. Oh what, you didn't notice the 18 month gap in posts? We weren't on walkabout, let me tell you that.
**Hopefully, Dave will let me get away with blaming him for the lost year because I'm just so darn cute. I'm counting on it, because the hostility portrayed in the cartoon above is faithfully reproduced from the original.
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more on that volvo ad campaign here: http://ad-rag.com/109135.php