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Janusz Liberkowski: Immigrant American Inventor by dan

Janusz Liberkowski, the Polish immigrant, just won the million dollar prize on American Inventor. Janusz invented the “spherical safety seat,” a ball-like child seat. There’s a ton of uproar over this, as people say the “invention” already exists. You can check out the previously existing invention here. But that’s not really where Copycat Lebowski got the idea from. First, let’s look at his “spherical safety seat.”

The suit matches his ball

Now, do you really think Bukowski would be so brave as to just copy that safety egg design? Hell no. Look at the man, he wouldn’t flat out plagerize an existing product. That’s career suicide…. But what if the product doesn’t exist in our world? What if it previously only existed in the hearts and minds of Japanese gamers? Behold, Leboyganowski’s true inspiration:

Super Monkey Ball

Now, I’ve never been one to kick a millionaire pollack in the nads, but I’m not gonna mince words and hesitate to call the man a bit schiesty. Join me after the jump to witness Liberkowski’s moment of inspiration!

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posted on 10:46 pm 05/18/2006
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“Aquaman” TV Trailer by amit

If you can count your friends on one finger and enjoy comic book character telelvision based shows, then WB’s “Aquaman” may be the show for you. The series appears to be a mix of “The O.C.” and “Smallville,” but I could be wrong, I don’t watch either. Ving Rhames (Lilo & Stitch voice) stars with a bunch of unknowns in what the WB hopes to replace “Smallville” once the Superman movie franchise is underway. No word on when the show debuts, but when it does, call your friend.

View the trailer here.

Episode 4: “The Mysterious Phallus”

posted on 2:00 pm 05/18/2006
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“Lost” Has Gone Crazy by dan

Okay. First of all, last night’s episode featured a fake commerical. This fake commercial featured a phone number 1-877-HANSORG. If you called this number, you got the Hanso Foundation’s answering machine. You can check out what that sounds like here. Next, they added a book to their website (and amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com and every other book site in the world). This book, “Bad Twin,” is the latest piece of fiction from author, Gary Troup… who was aboard Oceanic Flight 815. Prehaps you remember Sawyer reading the manuscript to “Bad Twin” in last night’s episode. Troup’s previous “non-fiction” works include, “The Valenzetti Equation” which is summarized as follows:

What if a mathematical equation could predict the apocalypse? Using recently-declassified material and hundreds of hours of interviews with former employees of the United Nations and prominent members of the defense and academic establishment, best-selling author Gary Troup turns his finely honed sense of mystery toward one of the most vexing mathematical riddles of our time.

Booyakasha. Read more about Gary Troup and his book here.

And finally, the real reason “Lost” has gone crazy. They murdered the two people that got DUIs last December (Ana Lucia + Hurley’s crush). That’s right. JJ Abrams kills people who get DUIs. So let this be a lesson to everyone: Don’t drink and drive and work in TV.

“Goodbye Fame. I liked liquor more.”

posted on 3:48 am 05/04/2006
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Lumberjack Comedian Joins “The View” by dan

Matt Lauer just called: Rosie O’Donnell has signed on to replace Meredith Viera on television’s “The View.” This isn’t the first time Rosie’s made it to C&V. Perhaps you remember “Great Moments In Acting: Rosie O’Donnell” or “Colon Blow,” two pieces chronicling the life and times of the makeup-hating, man-woman comedian. Now, Rosie O, or as we call her “Holy Shit! Look at that! It’s coming right for us!” is in a tricky position. Let C&V explain.

Starting from left to right, let’s go through “The View’s” typecasting.

1) Barbara Walters - the token old hag
2) Meredith Viera - the soccer mom
3) Star Jones - the minority
4) Joy Behar - the liberal
5) Elisabeth Hasselbeck - the conservative

So what happens when you replace “the soccer mom” with “the lesbian in need of a shave?” The balance gets all out of whack. “The View,” as we know it, could go under. The daytime oasis of fun and cat-fights could dissolve into a seething half-hour of worthless female prattle that no one cares about.

But don’t worry. Rosie has tackled the subject, in poem form, on her blog. I’ve cut and paste the poem below:

My “View” Dilemma

Thought Cancer
Eating at my brain
will I ruin
the View

I think other thoughts
Cheerios, Oreos, Mallowmars,
but ever and always
will I ruin
the View

I eat whip cream
straight from the tub
and fake a crush
on Tom Cruise.

but ever and always
will I ruin
the View

“We need a butch,
someone with lots of anger”
I cough up sawdust
from a day at the mill.

Time to stop moaning
I’m going to buy
a McFlurry
and watch Idol

The captions are: “Two large fries” and “Wicked Gas”

And now, an old photo Amit photoshopped of the lesbo-tron.

posted on 4:32 pm 04/28/2006
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Lost’s Door Decoded!! by dan

Curious as to what the hell all that writing was on that door last night on Lost??? Well, here is a high-def screen cap that’s fully decoded. Click on the pic for the full details.

Note how “CV” is scrawled all over the map. Coincidence? I think not.

posted on 4:52 pm 03/30/2006
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