William Tell Overture played on wine bottles, Game of Thrones theme on wine glasses and pans

Rossini would be proud - the finale of the William Tell Overture (AKA the Lone Ranger theme music): "34 bottles, 120 hours of recording, over 4,000 cuts."



Also by Dan Newbie, the Game Of Thrones Theme Song On Wine Glasses, Pans and a Water Jug:

Related: here's Billie Jean played on beer bottles:

via Bits and Pieces.

Penis Nicknames From TV and Movies (NSFW - language) Bonus compilation about people talking about butts

Please note that each of these videos are NSFW due to language.

This compilation is titled "All The Penis Nicknames..." - obviously it can't be all, but it is a lot of them, and the it's pretty funny.

And here's Ass-jective: A Word Or Phrase Used To Describe The Human Buttocks:

via HuffPo.

Son Surprises Dad With a '57 Chevy on His 57th Birthday (fulfilling a promise made when he was 8 years old)

This is great - there's lots more information in the comments at Reddit.

Growing up my dad always dreamed of owning a 57 chevy bel-air. He grew up poor in a family of 7 children. He never thought he would be able to own his dream vehicle but would talk about it all the time.

When I was 8 years old I promised him that on his 57th birthday I would buy him a 57 bel-air. I never forgot and was able to fulfill my promise.

Here is his reaction.

By the way, offspring who promised to invent cold fusion, make millions of dollars and buy me a Winnebago (you know who you are) - I'm still waiting.

Cool - Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Returns to the Comics Page (Briefly)

Bill Watterson, 1986 file photo

First, some background - Bill Watterson, who ended the Calvin and Hobbes (wiki) cartoon strip on December 31, 1995 (see the ambiguous final panel near the bottom of this post), is notoriously publicity-shy. There is only one publicly available photo of him in existence. In fact, legend has it that when Steven Spielberg called to see if he wanted to make a movie, Bill wouldn’t even take the call. 

Recently he did an audio-only interview for a documentary about newspaper comics entitled Stripped, and provided artwork for a poster (left).

So, back to our story. Stephan Pastis, creator of the Pearls Before Swine comic strip (and author of Pearls Falls Fast), had an exchange with the reclusive Watterson in which he (Watterson) offered to draw three panels for Pearls, with the caveat that he (Pastis) not reveal Watterson's involvement until all three of his strips had run, which they did last week:

He said he knew that in my strip, I frequently make fun of my own art skills. And that he thought it would be funny to have me get hit on the head or something and suddenly be able to draw. Then he’d step in and draw my comic strip for a few days.

Pastis, of course, jumped at the idea, with this counter-proposal:

The idea I proposed was that instead of having me get hit on the head, I would pretend that Pearls was being drawn by a precocious second grader who thought my art was crap. I named her “Libby,” which I then shorted to “Lib.” (Hint, hint: It’s almost “Bill” backwards.)

Read Pastis' whole story here. The results of the collaboration are below:

Calvin and Hobbes final strip:

Here's a trailer for a recent tribute film, Dear Mr. Watterson:

More Calvin and Hobbes comic strips are here, and a Mental Floss interview with Watterson is here. via Fark.

Friday links

D-Day plus 25,567: quotes (Shakespeare, Eisenhower, Churchill, more), videos (footage, FDR's and Reagan's speeches, more), lots of links.

How large would a flock of birds need to be before it collapsed under the weight of its own gravity?

How Many Fictional Planets Do You Know? Take the test - it's more difficult than I thought it would be.

For $20K, Game of Thrones Author Will Write You Into Future Novel Then Kill You Off In A Grisly Manner.

Gimmicks designed to disguise lack of demand and customer sales: Where the World's Unsold Cars Go To Die. (Update: per commenters here and at The Corner, this has been somewhat debunked by Snopes)

Pool Guy Saves Drowning Squirrel’s Life With CPR.

ICYMI, Thursday's links are here, including crab-castrating parasites, the thermodynamics and chemistry of barbecue, and Mozart's scatological humor.