Funny how the voice-over guy mispronounces “Lamborghini” – and the only way that the otherwise-impressive Lamborghini Miura would hit 190 mph is if you dropped it out of a plane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtFZv8MVQ4k

Simpler than my beloved North Jersey Onionburger:

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After offending anyone with a conscience by paying respect to a series of slightly manipulated My Little Pony clips, we now seek penance by offering an entirely manipulated Jonny Quest opening — now in glorious stop-motion!

It’s been awhile since we listened to the theme music, and we had completely forgotten how completely fucking bitchin’ it is — courtesy of composer Hoyt Curtin, also responsible for The Flintstones and The Jetsons.

What we didn’t know is that like The Flintstones and The Jetsons, Jonny Quest started as a prime-time series — which might explain the extra care taken with the theme.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with today’s Great National Holiday. Then again, neither does anything else.

Jonny Quest Fan Page [via Comics Alliance]

Title: “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir”

Author: Dick Cheney

Rank: 3

Blurb: “In his unmistakable voice and with an insider’s eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power.”

Review: “To those just here to grind axes against Cheney, give it a rest. If you haven’t read the book and you’re presuming to review it then you’re as dishonest, and as one reviewer called Mr. Cheney ‘vindictive,’ as you accuse him of being — based on nothing other than the comic book version of Cheney you’ve been spoon-fed by Democratic boogeymen merchants who always need a boogeyman to keep the Democratic base whipped up — whether it’s Cheney, Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, the Tea Party, the Koch Brothers and laughably now even John Boehner and Paul Ryan, and on and on.”

Customers Also Bought: “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far”, by Bristol Palin

Footnote: Not to be confused with “In My Time” by Yanni.

In My Time [Fuck Amazon]

The news came out earlier this week that in July an iPhone 5 prototype was allegedly “lost” at a San Francisco tequila bar in the Mission District.  While the more cynical among us may have figured the story was a publicity stunt pulled by Apple, the story has now taken a rather disturbing turn.

SF Weekly, one of the alternative weekly papers here, broke the news yesterday that indicates Steve Jobs may have left at a good time, because the company has stepped in to a big pile of dog shit, and has pulled the San Francisco Police Department into the poo.

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It’s Nice To Be Important, But It’s More Important To Be Nice from Manifesto NYC on Vimeo.

We probably have a detail wrong, but as we recall it, we were at the babysitter’s after school one afternoon, when her teenage daughter suddenly jumped from the couch:

“Did you hear that?! They just bleeped Merv Griffin!”

At this late date, we should explain that Merv Griffin had an afternoon talk show, featuring trumpeter Jack Sheldon, whose popular claim to fame is singing “I’m just a bill.” We should also explain that in the 1960s, bleeping was extremely rare — this was only a few years after Jack Paar walked off the Tonight Show because NBC censored a “water closet” joke.

So that’s our historical baseline: Bleeping is naughty. Bleeping is so naughty, it’s good for shits & giggles by its very nature. And to our arcane taste, the Daily Show and South Park are more amusing when they’re bleeped — and more interesting on those special occasions when they’re not.

As proof of concept, we present scenes from an execrable cartoon that’s suddenly hilarious when just a smidgen of audio spice is added.

[via Know Your Meme]