Assorted Thoughts 46: Poor Sad Cubbies Edition

• This is the saddest ad I have ever seen, and I'm not afraid to say, I got something stuck in my eye while watching it.
• Vladimir Lennon: the only member of the Beatles less appreciated than Pete Best.
• Runners up: Paul McCarthy, Mandingo Starr, and George Harrison Bergeron.
• This joke got by with a little help from my friends.
• I think part of the comprehensive exams before a school lets you graduate with a degree in biology should be a test where you have to prove your worth.  You have to pet or otherwise touch three out of five harmless, but possibly gross, organisms to show you've mastered your fears of the natural world.
• "When you can touch the millipede in my hand, it will be time for you to leave, grasshopper."
• You know how if you run up a bill in a restaurant that you can't pay, you might be able to wash dishes to work it off?  Well, what happens if you're in Vegas and you can't pay at the brothel?
• Old robotics engineers don't die, they just become obsolete.
• How are the Ghostbusters like vampires?  Neither will cross the streams!
• Closed captioning for the mythologically impaired.