The Legend of ... The Double!

The Legend:
I'd heard about it before.  KFC likes to advertise this as a low-carb burger.  When they realised they weren't fooling anyone about any supposed health benefits they just made it a challenge.  Are you man enough?

 

That's right baby, two chicken fillets surrounding two slices of cheese and delicious greasy bacon.  With sauce of course.  There's no better way to clog your arteries.  (Except maybe a Big Mac from Texas)

Of course as soon as we saw this advertisement in a bus shelter we absolutely had to prove that we were all man enough.  So a few days seven of us set forth on a mission to man-up.  Actually, six of us set forth on a mission to man-up, and one air crew tagged along because "he had coupons." Typical.  He didn't even order The Double Burger.



The Reality:
Exactly as advertised.
Two chicken fillets, cheese, bacon and tasty sauce.  Poor Melanie couldn't make it all the way through hers.  I wish I had realised - I would have finished it off for her.

It was just as well we walked the 700m to get there, cos we needed the walk back just to get our blood flowing through our veins again.   MMMmmmm.  Manly-Double-Burger.



But... what does it mean?

Bikes Around - Issue 03

Ducati (help me out, someone?)

Perth

HTC Touch Pro2 Smartphone

Ducati 999

Perth

HTC Touch Pro2 Smartphone

Honda RCV (?)

Perth

HTC Touch Pro2 Smartphone

Harley Davidson V-Rod - Thanks Doug!

Perth

HTC Touch Pro2 Smartphone
(possibly not a real Harley)

Super Mamika

Sacha Goldberger decided to cheer up his sad and lonely grandma by dressing her up and creating a photo shoot for her. She's now a hit sensation with thousands of online followers. Read more about it (and see heaps of kick-arse photos) here.

The Count

One for Wayne

You know what it means...

Image by Blalkov, DeviantArt.com

The Call of Cthulhu... Dice

Cthulhu.
Monstrous, unknown, beyond evil, mind-shattering, tentacled madness wrapped in warped insanity.
The Last King Has Come.

Image from www.blackgate.com

I haven't read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, but I've read enough to want to read more.  Preferably in the middle of the day.  With people around.  Sane ones.  With tranquilizers.  The Call of Cthulhu - read it.  (For the unbelievably low price of just your sanity.)

And now, and in colour, Cthulhu Dice!

"Cthulhu Dice lets you drive your rivals mad . . . very, very quickly. Players take turns rolling the big, beautiful, custom 12-sided die, embossed with tentacles, Elder Signs, and more. Destroy your opponents' sanity! Better yet, steal it. But watch out for Cthulhu – when he comes up, he takes sanity from everyone! 18 glass Sanity marbles are included. Lose all your marbles and you're mad. The last sane cultist wins . . . unless everyone goes mad together. Then Cthulhu wins!"

www.sjgames.com

Yay!

Although Cthulhu (and Lovecraft in general) is all mind-shattering, terrifying concepts & stories, the games we play with them are actually light-hearted and fun.  We enjoy an evening of CoC as a break from the stronger, more serious games which we play, and if anyone is interested I can arrange an evening of Munchkin - Call of Cthulhu which adds another dynamic and a lot more fun. 

(It's a card game.)

Common Sense

Keep off the grass and... oh yeah, Please Close Gate!

Taken by the wonderful Rob, aka HentaiMaster over at Deviant Art.  Apparently this was taken in the Blenheim Palace grounds, UK.

Steampunk Spidey

Look at this little guy I found on Deviant Art, isn't it fantastic?

Ferdinand

When my sisters and I were still children we read or had read to us many many books.  One of these books was The Story of Ferdinand - the Spanish bull who would rather smell the flowers than butt heads, snort and pant and generally succumb to the social norm.

One thing we found distinctive about Ferdinand, is that he was often drawn sitting back on his haunches under a tree:

Although neither Ju nor myself have spent the majority of our lives on farms or farming, Mel has.  Farming and livestock are her bread and butter.  She has worked extensively with sheep, deer and cattle yet has never in her life seen anything like Ferdinand.  She always assumed it was a quirk of the children's tale - an image which illustrated how very different Ferdinand is to all the other bulls.

And then... one day, while I was staying with Mel and her fiance Al, we were driving back from town and we saw a real-life Ferdinand.  Al turned the car around and we went back for another look - and photographic evidence.

What a pity there were no roses there for him to smell.

100 Photos - 100. Relaxation