The Day Before Saturday

1) Warning: If you watch this, you will want to take up surfing over the weekend. And may end up booking a flight to some place that has actual waves so you can do it.

http://youtu.be/cEndimAuu7Q

2) Because really, 33 Textbook Fails. (Or weird things in textbooks).

Oh yeah sure, Unicorn + Dragon = Rhino. Rockstar wants to know what happened to the wings.

*speechless*

Makes this next (from a German dictionary) look tame.

Speaking of which…..

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3) Lego Star Wars accused of racism.

Can I re-tell a funny RM story? I once covered a group of Taiwanese RMs (responsible also for teaching me that the “@” symbol in Chinese is called a “little mouse”) one of whom was a fairly senior guy:

RM: So… What race are you?

Me: Malaysian Chinese.

RM: Is that Chinese?

Me: Malaysian Chinese. I was born in Malaysia.

RM: Which means what?

Me: Uh…. That I’m…. Malaysian Chinese?

(Ordinarily I might also send a link about Straits Born/ Peranakans, but in this case…)

RM: <looking at my face seriously for awhile, then blurting out> I think someone in your family might have messed around because those really aren’t pure Chinese features.

(No, this does not offend me, nor was it meant to offend. So anyway I tell my mum, whose reaction is “Oh yeah. That’s right. <laughs>” My mum btw has also had some curiosity re her own features.)

OK next up:

4) 19 Texting Fails (not to be confused with autocorrects)

 

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5) You might like to know there are other things you could do with a good book, besides read it. Sculptures made from books.

You know, just if you happened to have an entire weekend of sitting around with a stack of books and carving tools handy and didn’t plan on sleeping…

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So have a good weekend, people. You Are Awesome:

http://youtu.be/A6XUVjK9W4o