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Day 129

(From: Little Shop of Horrors)

When I was young and just a bad little kid.
My mama noticed funny things I did.
Like shooting puppies with a BB gun.
I'd poison guppies, and when I was done,
I'd find a pussycat and bash in it's head,
Thats when my mama said

(Backup Singers) What did she say?

She said, my boy I think some day,
will find a way,
To make your natural tendencies pay.

(Chorus)
You'll be a dentist. (You'll be a dentist)
You have a talent for causing great pain.
Son, be a dentist. (Son, be a dentist)
People will pay you to be inhumane. (Inhumane)
Your temperment's wrong for the priesthood.

Son, be a dentist, you'll be a success.

(Backup Singer)
Here he is, folks, the leader of the plaque,
Watch him suck up that gas, oh, my God.
He's a dentist and he'll never ever be any good.

(patient)Oh, that hurts! Wait, I'm not numb.

Ah shut up, open wide, here I come.

I am your dentist,
and I enjoy the career that I picked. (Love it)
I'm your dentist, and I get off on the pain I inflict. (Really love it)
I thrill when I drill a bicuspid (Bicuspid)
and swell when they tell me I'm mal-adjusted. (dentist)
And though it may cause my patients to stress. (To stress)
Somewhere, somewhere in heaven above me, I know, I know that my mama's proud of me.
(Spoken)"Oh, mama"
'Cause I'm a dentist, and a success.

(Spoken)
Say AHHHH!
"(AHHHH)"
Say AHHHHH!!
"(AHHHHH)"
SAY AHHHHHHHH!
"(AHHHHHHHH)"

Now Spit!

Go on without me!

Day 128.75
Army men, or plastic soldiers, are simple toy soldiers that are about 5 cm (2 inches) tall and most commonly molded from green or other colored relatively unbreakable plastic. Unlike the more expensive toy soldiers available in hobby shops, army men are sold at low prices in discount stores, supermarkets, and dollar stores. Also unlike many toy soldiers, army men are sold unpainted and almost always dressed in modern military uniforms and armed with 20th Century weapons.

Army men regained popularity thanks to the 1995 film Toy Story. To appeal to a wider demographic, army men have been produced to reflect sequences in popular war films, such as Tora Tora Tora, Hamburger Hill and Platoon.

What...no toothpick?

Day 128.5

The term "Swiss Army knife" was coined by US soldiers after World War II, presumably because they had trouble pronouncing its original name, "Offiziersmesser".


A Swiss Army knife is a type of multi-function pocket knife or multi-tool. It originated in Schwyz, Switzerland in 1897. Generally speaking, a Swiss Army knife has a blade as well as various tools, such as screwdrivers and can openers. These attachments are stowed inside the handle of the knife through a pivot point mechanism.

A ninja or shinobi was a covert agent or mercenary of feudal Japan specializing in unorthodox arts of war. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, as well as open combat in certain situations. The ninja, using covert methods of waging war, were contrasted with the samurai, who had strict rules about honor and combat.

The most feared Ninja are supplied exclusively with Swiss made weaponry.

I wish...

Day 128

Jinn or genies are supernatural creatures in Arab folklore and Islamic teachings which occupy a parallel world to that of mankind. According to the Qur’an, there are two creations that have free will: humans and jinn. Religious sources say barely anything about them; however, the Qur’an mentions that jinn are made of smokeless flame or "scorching fire". Like human beings, the jinn can also be good, evil, or neutrally benevolent.

In the Disney adaptation “Aladdin”, while trying to read an inscription on the lamp, Aladdin rubs it, unleashing the Genie, who reveals he will grant Aladdin three wishes—with the exception of killing anyone, making anyone fall in love, or bringing back the dead.

If life were a Mel Brooks movie....

There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

Day 95.5

Rumack: Captain, how soon can you land?
Captain Oveur: I can't tell.
Rumack: You can tell me. I'm a doctor.
Captain Oveur: No. I mean I'm just not sure.
Rumack: Well, can't you take a guess?
Captain Oveur: Well, not for another two hours.
Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?

Captain Oveur: Alright, give me a Hamm on five, hold the Mayo.

Ted Striker: What?

Rumack: Well, I don't have anything to say, you've done the best you could. You really have, the best you could. You can't expect to win em all. But, I want to tell you something I've kept to myself through these years. I was in the war myself, medical corps. I was on late duty one night when they brought in a badly wounded pilot from one of the raids. He could barely talk. He looked at me and said, "The odds were against us up there, but we went in anyway, I'm glad the Captain made the right decision." The pilot's name was George Zip.
Ted Striker: George Zip said that?
Rumack: The last thing he said to me, "Doc," he said, "some time when the crew is up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to get out there and give it all they got and win just one for the Zipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Doc," he said, "but I won't smell too good, that's for sure."
Ted Striker: Excuse me doc, I got a plane to land.

Elaine Dickinson: Ted, the altitude! We're falling, Ted! We're falling! *The mountains, Ted! The mountains!
Ted Striker: What *mountains?* We're over IOWA!
Elaine Dickinson: The... THE CORNFIELDS, TED! THE CORNFIELDS!

Ted Striker: Mayday! Mayday!
Steve McCroskey: What the heck is that?
Johnny: Why, that's the Russian New Year. We can have a parade and serve hot hors d'oeuvres...

You say potato, I say potato...

Day 95

Mr. Potato Head was born on May 1, 1952. The original toy cost $0.98, and contained hands, feet, ears, two mouths, two pairs of eyes, four noses, three hats, eyeglasses, a pipe, and eight felt pieces resembling facial hair. The original Mr. Potato Head kit did not come with a "Potato Body", so parents had to supply their own potatoes for face-changing fun. Shortly after the toy's initial release, an order form for 50 additional pieces was enclosed in every kit.

In the 1960s, government regulations forced the Potato Head parts to be less sharp, leaving them unable to puncture vegetables easily. By 1964, the company was therefore forced to include a plastic potato "body" in its kit. Little children were choking on the small pieces and cutting themselves with the sharp pieces.

In 1986, Mr. Potato Head became "Spokespud" for the annual Great American Smokeout and surrendered his pipe to Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in Washington, D.C.

In 2006, Hasbro also began selling sets of pieces without bodies for customers to add to their collections. Some of these themed sets included Mermaid, Rockstar, Pirate King Princess, Firefighter, Construction Worker, Halloween, Santa Claus, Chef, and Police Officer. In the same year, Hasbro introduced a line called "Sports Spuds" with a generic plastic potato (smaller than the standard size) customized to a wide variety of professional and collegiate teams.

Recently, In 2011, Mr. Potato Head got his first new look in nearly 30 years...

Talk about preciousssss!

Day 94

One does not simply walk into Mordor. It's best if one skips. Holding hands and singing showtunes, preferably. Imagine a montage of all the cuteness that's to be had when you visit Mordor. There's little Gollum waving hello or goodbye or something to The One Ring. Isn't it preciousssss? A big ol' snuggledy battle troll waits patiently to give out "Free Hugs," and an Uruk-hai says "o hai!" over his shoulder. In the distance, there's Mount Doom with its explosion of lava and happy, puffy clouds of vog. Through the sky flies a friendly Nazgul on his Fell Beast (rawr!). The whole scene is watched over by the big, blinky eye of Sauron perched between the pinnacles of Barad-dûr.

Face it.... It's Mordorable.