AdamSmith

What, all that effort wasted?

hito dresses for his date...

Should I even say it?

Mlle Puff! Welcome, and LOL. Pics from the article that I couldn't post yesterday from the iPhone... Colin Furze with the 'Fart Machine' he aimed at France The machine, which Furze will house in a pair of specially constructed buttocks, is a giant pulse valveless jet engine as used in Nazi V-1 bombs during the Second World War that creates a plume of fire to go along with its deafening roar. Furze hopes to mount the contraption on the cliffs of Dover on July 24, between 6 and 7pm.

Very cool. http://the-toast.net/2014/03/28/deep-space-nine-gayest-star-trek/view-all/

This looks great.

Think it was eventually said to have been Photoshopped, although not sure that was definitively settled.

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time. -- Robert Schumann, quoted in: H Gall, Johannes Brahms Wagner's art recognises only superlatives, and a superlative has no future. It is an end, and not a beginning. -- Edward Hanslick, in: Pleasants, ed., Hanslick's Music Criticism Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches -- he has made music sick. I postulate this viewpoint: Wagner's art is diseased. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Der Fall Wagner Of all the bête, clumsy, blundering, boggling, baboon-bloodied stuff that I ever saw on a human stage, that last night beat -- as far as the story and acting went -- all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrabble-pipiest-tongs, and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternity of nothing was the deadliest -- as far as the sound went. -- John Ruskin, letter, referring to a performance of Die Meistersinger Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. -- Gioacchino Rossini, in a letter to Emile Naumann I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. -- Mark Twain, Autobiography Not until the turn of the century did the outlines of the new world discovered in Tristan begin to take shape. Music reacted to it as a human body to an injected serum, which it at first strives to exclude as a poison, and only afterwards learns to accept as necessary and even wholesome. -- Paul Hindemith, The Craft of Musical Compositions It would kill a cat and turn rocks into scrambled eggs. -- Richard Strauss, German composer, writing of Wagner's opera Siegfried in a letter to Ludwig Thuille I love Wagner, but the music that I prefer is that of a cat hung by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. -- Charles Baudelaire That kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours you look at your watch and it says 6.20. -- David Randolph on Wagner's opera Parzifal (Parsifal) Wagner was a monster. He was anti-Semitic on Mondays and vegetarian on Tuesdays. On Wednesday he was in favour of annexing Newfoundland, Thursday he wanted to sink Venice, and Friday he wanted to blow up the pope. -- Tony Palmer One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time. -- Gioacchino Rossini The prelude to Tristan und Isolde reminds us of one of the old Italian paintings of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on to a reel. Eduard Hanslick, German Bohemian music critic, on Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says. -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

That is to say, the music of Wagner.

Generally seems the safest working assumption to proceed as if they are.

You remind me that the name Valéry Giscard d'Estaing always sounded to me like a good curse.

ROFL

British inventor builds giant 'fart machine' to fire at France Colin Furze with the 'Fart Machine' he aimed at France [see link below for pics] By Telegraph Reporters 10:55AM BST 25 Jul 2014 Colin Furze's huge valveless jet engine, housed in a specially constructed pair of buttocks, was placed in Dover and aimed in the general direction of France. Colin Furze, a plumber and inventor from Stamford, Lincolnshire, has begun building the biggest fart machine ever, which he plans to place on top of the cliffs of Dover and aim across the Channel towards France. His hope is that the French, 21 miles away, will hear the blast. The machine, which Furze will house in a pair of specially constructed buttocks, is a giant pulse valveless jet engine as used in Nazi V-1 bombs during the Second World War that creates a plume of fire to go along with its deafening roar. Furze hopes to mount the contraption on the cliffs of Dover on July 24, between 6 and 7pm. Furze's previous homemade inventions include a pair of pneumatic 'Wolverine' claws, magnetic 'Magneto' shoes, hand-mounted 'Pyro' flame-throwers (all inspired by the X-Men films), a 50 mph baby pram, and a fire-spurting mobility scooter. All can be seen in action on his YouTube channel. In his own words, Furze has been "turning the internet up to 11 since 2006". UPDATE: The fart machine was aimed at France at 6pm on July 24. Furze tweeted that a faint rumble was audible over the Channel, with video footage due to be uploaded soon: Photo: Twitter - @colin_furze http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/10985111/British-inventor-builds-giant-fart-machine-to-fire-at-France.html

...John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), said on Thursday that the bomb did not detonate because Abdulmutallab had been wearing the same underwear for more than two weeks. "He had it with him for over two weeks," Mr Pistole said at the Aspen Security Forum. Asked by his interviewer whether the bomb's fuse had become "damp" from two weeks of wear, Mr Pistole said: "Let's say it was degraded. We're getting kind of personal now."... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/10989843/Underwear-bomber-plot-failed-because-he-wore-same-pants-for-two-weeks.html

Bait & switch!

And the beat goes on. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/us-terrorism-watchlist-work-no-fly-list