Friday, June 19, 2015

Have You Licked a Small Creature's Behind Lately?

In Bones episode "The Mystery in the Meat," Brennan says "Cat urine could be a natural flavor." Excretions from beaver behinds can make vanilla extra vanilla-y. Or how about 5 Horrifying Food Additives You've Probably Eaten Today?

Now every time I see natural flavors on an ingredient list, I can't help wondering who's licking so poor creature's ass? They must find this stuff out somehow. Some poor food scientist: "Yes, my job is to test animal secretions for use as flavoring in consumer food products."

Friday, June 5, 2015

Fleischer Superman Cartoons, part 2: Boy Scout Breaks Laws of Common Sense & Physics

  • The Arctic Giant: That ice melted like there were heat lamps on it instead of just the refrigeration breaking down.
  • The Magnetic Telescope: Clark could gotten there faster as Superman but he takes a taxi instead. So much for rushing to save the world.
  • Showdown: Why is Superman suddenly so slow and weak? Climbing takes forever the that desk seems amazingly heavy.
  • The Mummy Strikes: All hail King Tush! That "damning" evidence seems pretty circumstantial to me.
  • Jungle Drums: Nazi's aren't supermen regardless of their belief in Übermensch. Why's Supes having such a hard time fighting a pair of them?
  • The Underground World: Those bird people had a statue of a guy who looked a lot like Henderson. Doesn't that mean he held some importance for them? Maybe they wanted to replace their old statue with a brand new one? Or they thought he was an imposter?