A little short on the budget?

My Dad and I were talking about old movies when he brought up 3 Days of the Condor. It's one of his favs. So anyways, we're looking at the VHS tape cover and it says in the credits, I quote:

DINO DE LAURENTIIS PRESENTS A STANLEY SCHNIEDER RODUCTION
ROBERT REDFORD FAYE DUNAWAY CLIFF ROBERTSON MAX VON SYDOW and JOHN HOUSEMAN in A SYDNEY POLLACK FILM "3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR" Music by DAVID GRUSIN Director of Photography OWEN ROIZMAN, A.S.C. Based on the Novel "SIX DAYS OF THE CONDOR" by JAMES GRADY Screenplay by LORENZO SEMPLE, JR. and DAVID RAYFIEL
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What? They didn't have enough money in the budget to do all 6 days so they trimmed it to 3?!

Mini-size me!

Too cool! http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=111577.0:

Killing corsets helps war effort

On a complete whim I was looking up the history of the modern bra and came across an About.com article which said:

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• In 1893, a woman named Marie Tucek patented the 'breast supporter’; the device included separate pockets for the breasts and straps that went over the shoulder, fastened by hook-and-eye closures.
• In 1889, corset-maker Herminie Cadolle invented the 'Well-Being' or 'Bien-être', a bra-like device sold as a health aid. The corset's support for the breasts squeezed up from below. Cadolle changed breast support to the shoulders down.
• World War I dealt the corset a fatal blow when the U.S. War Industries Board called on women to stop buying corsets in 1917.  It freed up some 28,000 tons of metal!

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haha...!

If you want to know more about Mary Phelps Jacob you can read about her invention.

Priceless: a bearsuit freaking an oblivious woman!

This was taken yesterday that the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco! You should have seen the bear go at it! ... and the woman never turned around ...

Cute videos promoting safe sex!

Bansky art

While I was in England I was introduced to some of the things that Banksy, the "art terrorist", has done. I just found this on Banksy's page:


I'd love it if a stencil for this was available at Walmart.

Men being ... men?

I guess they're trying to bump up the image of light beer so it's not totally wussy beer:

http://www.milbestlight.com/downloads.aspx

Think of the real message here: you're fat, we know, so we'll make light beer to help you look less fat so you'll think you might have a chance with a hot girl. Truth be told you're probably too old anyways. Cheers.

It would happen, wouldn't it?

Ghost riding the whip is stupid. I mean, seriously. There's enough distractions in driving to keep your car on the road but to purposely leave your car while it's moving is insane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag370nHDZis

Serves him right. :P

There's a man outside my window...

There's nothing like coming home from a long vacation travel weary and not being able to open your front gate. Apparently while I was gone a painting company has set up its scaffold right in front of my building. While I'm happy that our little building is getting a needed facelift, a beam on the scaffold actually blocked the front gate from opening all the way. I managed to shove my suitcase through, then my backpack, then me.

Then when I walked into my room I noticed the scaffolding went up all the way past my window. I live on the third floor of our building---that's a really high scaffold! Unfortunately that also means that that someone can look through my windows...

The next day I woke up to the sound of someone power-spraying and heavy boots clanking. I looked through my drapes to notice a guy in a plaid shirt working outside my window. Oh, oops. Well it's a good thing I have those drapes! But in our living room we only have shutters. So all day long I kept those closed. But still you can see them walking back and forth outside the window!

It kinda makes you feel weird having someone right outside your window.