The Bun is in Your Mind

The schedule posted on adultswim.com indicates that at 10 PM tomorrow night, they will be playing the world premiere of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters. This, of course, will be the first time a movie has been premiered on television before it's theatrical release. If, perhaps, you ask why they would do this, look to the commercials they've been playing on adultswim that clearly state, "because we're ****ing crazy."

Good enough for me.

Yesterday afternoon, I was plugging that date into my PDA (laugh it up) and noticed something peculiar. Tomorrow, the very date that this unprecented premeire is supposed to take place, is April 1, April Fool's Day.

I think adultswim just spit on my cupcake and called it frosting.

In any case, I'll be watching at 10 pm just to see what they'll be playing, maybe it'll be funny as hell.

I also found the very first appearance of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, on an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast that never aired. Master Shake sounds strangely like Ignignot and Frylock (who has funny curly fry legs) sounds a good deal like Err. Meatwad looks and sounds pretty much the same, except he keeps asking Moltar to kill him.

Okay, SOMEONE has to have a comment on this one...

...least of all because the woman's name is Raper.

Mother sues Planned Parenthood over failed abortion of baby girl

by Tom Strode—BP News

WASHINGTON — Jennifer Raper did not want a baby, and she underwent an abortion to make sure she would not give birth to one. She has a 2-year-old daughter now, and she wants Planned Parenthood to pay for the child-rearing expenses of the little girl the abortion clinic failed to kill.

Raper, 45, of suburban Boston, Mass., filed a lawsuit recently seeking damages from the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, the physician who performed the unsuccessful abortion at the clinic and another doctor who failed to recognize she was still pregnant three months later, according to The Boston Globe.

Raper’s suit does not claim her daughter has any health problems.

In her medical malpractice suit, Raper said she underwent what she thought was a successful abortion at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Boston in April 2004, according to The Globe. She chose to have an abortion for financial reasons, the newspaper reported.

In July, she had a pelvic exam, but the doctor at Boston Medical Center failed to recognize she was 20 weeks pregnant. Only when she went to a hospital emergency room for pelvic pain in late September was she told she was pregnant, according to Raper’s suit, The Globe reported. Her daughter was born Dec. 7, 2004.

Raper’s suit alleges Planned Parenthood and its doctor were negligent for not aborting her child and the other physician was negligent for failing to notice she was pregnant.

Raper’s so-called “wrongful birth” suit will have to undergo review by a panel consisting of a judge, lawyer and doctor to decide if it can go to trial, according to the Globe.

“That the phrase ‘wrongful birth’ exists and a mother would ever conceive of making a legal case out of wishing her kid was never born does always seem to me a clear sign the end is nigh and Judgment Day won’t be merciful to our national soul,” National Review Online Editor Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote about Raper’s suit on a weblog.

How Much Is Your Dignity Worth?

Here are your choices:

1. She has no self-respect and she's trying to cash in.
2. She really did eat dog food, and is simply seeking restitution for her pain and suffering.
3. She's been eating dog food for years and made up this story to try to pretend this is not the case, but really did finally get sick.
4. In addition to a regular dog food consumer, she routinely devours light bulbs, silverware and small pieces of doll furniture for a living on a pornographic website.
5. Other (please explain)

Whatever the case may be, she clearly knew that in order to make a claim for damages resulting from the tainted pet food, she would have to admit to actually eating it. Regardless of what the reason may be, that's fucked. Of course, in high school, a guy named Chris and I drank most of a bottle of coconut rum we found in some couch cushions and probably half a box of dog biscuits. Then again, this lady isn't even claiming she was drunk.

Woman sick after eating tainted pet food
CanWest News Service
Sunday, March 25, 2007

An Ottawa woman is recovering after becoming violently ill after eating some of her dog's food, in a case likely related to the tainted pet food that has killed several dogs and cats and sickened dozens more across North America.

In this case, a canine and its master wound up in hospital — Missy at the Alta Vista Animal Hospital and Elaine Larabie at an after-hours emergency room.

[...]

After adopting one-year-old Missy six weeks ago, Ms. Larabie discovered the little dog refused to eat anything but table scraps.

"I was trying to get her to eat," Ms. Larabie said, but Missy’s protest continued. Desperate, Ms. Larabie tried "just a little bite" of the Iams dog food to make the terrier think it was people food, then gave Missy the rest.

"I said, 'It’s not going to kill me to take a little bite' ... but I guess it could have," said Ms. Larabie, who notes the trick worked.

"When I would take a bite, she’d eat it," Ms. Larabie said.

The mealtime routine continued for about two weeks, until both dog and master became sick on March 17.

Check out the rest of the article here.

My Back Hurts!

From the desk for the Society and Culture editor here at OTR, I wanted to bring to your attention a bold new ad campaign from the makers of Hot Pockets (tm) brand laxatives.



You gotta check out the website too. I fucking hate Hot Pockets, but that Hot Pockets Master dude is kind of funny. Check out the e-cards. The best is "2007 is year of pig. 2007 remined me of you!"