Why Arnold Schwarzenegger is Brilliant

Arnie has been no stranger to making a funny having appeared in several hilarious films including Christmas comedy classic Jingle All The Way. But now, the Terminator star is pulling pranks on a governmental scale. Obviously being bored of vetoing bills that don't fit in with his way of thinking, he's making his own fun in the form of this acrostic letter:

Now, if you missed that (or don't want to read the Wiki link), an acrostic form of writing is where, essentially, the first letters of each sentence spell out a word. A classic example of this is Ian Brown's seminal masterpiece F.E.A.R. So with this knowledge, re-read the letter paying close attention to the words spelled out by the first letters of each setence. Here's what is revealed:

When asked by the Bay Guardian, an American newspaper, if the message was intentional, Schwarzenegger’s spokesman said: “What a strange coincidence.” Brilliantly, the newspaper went on to state in their article that the spokesman was “clearly being sarcastic.”

The World Famous Travelling BBC Circus (Otherwise known as Question Time)

Well, the historic edition of Question Time aired last night where, for the first time, the British National Party were allowed on to answer questions from the public. Anyone with half an ounce of intelligence could see this was not going to end well and this would be proved right when protests kicked off before the edition of the show was filmed. What followed was perhaps more shocking.

Yes, Griffin said some utterly baffling and stupid things (denying the holocaust and militant gays?) but there was an abhorrent air of hypocrisy on the show. They were more than happy to talk about freedom of speech when it came to the Jan Moir article being published in the Daily Fail but they never allowed Nick Griffin to get a word in edgeways without being jeered by members of the panel. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not a supporter of the BNP and never will be - I feel it's important to highlight that I despise racism and racists - but when you invite someone onto a program and just berate them - rightly or wrongly - it's a laughable excuse of a debate. I was rather looking forward to hearing how Griffin defended the actions of the Party and its members but we never got to hear any of that as members of the audience were too busy thinking of "witty" names to shout at the head of the BNP (Dick Griffin... Really? The best you could come up with was that?).

Dimbleby never really had control throughout the show

Also, the other politicians (and Bonnie Greer - still don't know what a playwright was doing on a politics show...) were revelling in being, for once, the least hated people in the entire room, and were using it as a vehicle for berating the BNP. I wasn't after much, a sensible debate shouldn't have been much to hope for. Instead I feel let down by the circus freak show it became. Yes, the BNP's actions can be laughable at times but the fact of the matter is, whether we like it or not, the BNP is slowly becoming big bananas after their 'success' in the European Elections and we need to start taking them seriously as an extremist, but legal, party lest we end up vastly underestimating them.

Sweet Lord

Html can be a real pain, can't it? Trying to get everything to look right. Annoying. It can stay as it is. Making a two column layout a three column one was awkward enough considering the restrictions but I'm having so much trouble trying to sort out the fragging image header.

Day 21: Days Of Our Lives

Okay, I've got seven days to catch up on here so here we go:

Angels and Day-mons
TallaDAYga Nights
DAYzed and Confused
Training Day
Groundhog Day
The Day After Tomorrow

There we go, that should cover all of the 'Day' puns I've missed so far.

Not much to report, to be honest. I've been popping in and out of Chicago haphazardly on little shopping trips and the lark and just exploring new parts of the city.

I went to the museum today - because it was free - but left unimpressed. Maybe it's the lack of variety there or maybe it's because I was just wandering around a museum by myself but either way it wasn't great. I nipped into Gamestop today too and picked up Scribblenauts and Katamari Forever for the DS and PS3 respectively. Scribblenauts seems alright from the initial 20 minutes of tutorials but the DS needed charging so a full opinion will have to wait.

Drank almost a litre of Monster energy drink. The can made me chuckle with a little Doom reference, the can being referred to as the BFC: Big 'Effin Can. =D

I was going to go to the Skydeck today but stupidly I left my camera behind so I'll have to go another day. It's a shame because it was a really nice day and the view would've been ace.

Seven days till I come back now. Will try and update this more often.

Jambo out.