3 posts tagged “french”

I used to play a game with a couple of my friends that went by the name of 'the most useless superhero power.'  The rules to the game were simple - you just try to come up with the most inane superhero power possible which is then one-upped by someone else with a superhero power that happens to be even more useless.  An example:

W: the most useless superhero power ever would be the ability to shoot cotton balls out of your wrists at bad guys.
Pal: no, the most useless superhero power ever would be the ability to speak French fluently, but only when in the company of the deaf.

The game always started out ok, but would gradually degrade into sexual references and flatulence-related powers.  As you can imagine, my friends and I weren't exactly the most popular kids to sit with in the cafeteria.

Well, it looks like I've found some kindred spirits in a couple of artistically inclined fellows named Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter.  They've started a quirky little blog by the name of the Superest that involves a similar competition to the one that my friends and I used to engage in.  Theirs, of course, involves a little more taste and talent than did anything that my friends and I could have dreamed up.  Instead, at the Superest blog, each artist draws a cartoon of a superhero that has a superpower that would completely negate the power of the one preceding them.  Sound interesting to you?  If not, you must be retarded.  I find the concept highly entertaining and the artwork to be clever in it's delivery.

I mean, how many cartoonists do you know that could put a face to a superhero by the name of 'the Taste Burglar' - an unhappy individual who happens to be able to steal your taste buds in the night?

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Maybe I'm beating a dead horse here, but I rather enjoyed reading this post over at Independent Sources regarding the Iranians and their distaste for the film '300':

In related news, France announced a plan to freeze-dry a corps of attorneys, who will awaken 2,500 years from now to file defamation suits against anyone describing that country as insufferable or self-important.

Experts say the likely reaction in 4500 will be surprise that western Switzerland was once an independent nation.

No word on whether the cryo-lawyers will be equipped with French-Mandarin dictionaries.

In response to my newest neighbor, Jesse: yes, there are some turntable fans in the crowd tonight.