Assorted Thoughts 23: Resumption of Attempted Funny Edition

• I would like to judge a wet manatee shirt contest.
• Does it strike anyone else as ironic that there's a country singer whose last name is Urban?
• I've spent so much time packing things into cars lately that I start humming the Tetris theme any time I have to put stuff away.
• It gets a lot easier to listen to the nonsense the Republicans are spouting if you just treat it as if they were from an alternate history novel.
• I realized I needed to work on cleaning up my language when I noticed that I swore more like an old sailor than did the actual old sailors I worked with.
• A round of Angry Birds is like a rousing game of 9/11.
• I think I'm nostalgic for the future.  At least in the sense of feeling a longing for the past when the future was a bright, shiny place full of appliances to make life easier and space stations and exploration of the unknown, not a grim place filled with tyrannical governments, malevolent AIs, and terrorists trying to kill everything that ever was.
• Betting odds on the genre of the future:
• Tom Swift 1,000,000,000:1
• Star Trek 100,000,000:1
• Deus Ex 3:1
• Blade Runner 2:1
• Cockroach Paradise 1:1
• Well, shit.
• Flipping through channels late at night recently, I came across a show entitled "Fitness Beauties."  The only description on the channel guide info page?  "Footage of women working out."  Full stop, end of story.  How, uh, intriguing.  The next show in line on whatever godsforsaken channel that was: "Bikini All-Stars."  Classy.
• Restaurant name idea: The Panicking Crab.  Seafood, naturally.