From part 18 of A Thin Veneer:

"We get signal!"

Acaltha turned in his chair and directed a sharp look at his communications officer. "Mr. Vickers, I believe I mentioned something previously about a certain officer trying break the tension on the bridge by reviving three hundred year old Terran jokes?"

Mr. Vickers felt a vague unease. "Ahh.. yes sir. You did."

"And what was it I said at the time? Please refresh my memory."

"That if it happened again, I'd be assigned to Commander M'Zell as her sparring partner during personal combat practice?"

"That sounds about right. Now, you were saying?"

Vickers deflated slightly. "Subspace transmission directed to this ship, sir."

Consider, if we aren't going to give any immigrants a break, not even spouses of people serving in the military in combat zones... Has it occurred to them that this means having to deport Superman as well. After all, where are his papers?

And while I'm on a run of fox references...

It's The Basil Brush Show! which was found by way of jeriendhal.

I think the kids might not catch all the jokes. And oh my, either I have a dirty mind (quiet!) or there might be a rather er, naughty innuendo hidden in one of the Basil's Blog entries. Mmm, probably not, but maybe...

What would the LOL Cats watch on TV? Why LOL Trek of course! It's The Trouble With Tribbles as the cat caption people would tell it.

Ah, UML, that of the stick figures for use-case diagrams. Unless of course you are in desperate need of procrastination. Then you might do like a guy going by 'Trapper Zoid' and create a set of cartoon peg person UML diagrams. I expect people could find these fun to look at without knowing one bit of programming.

Procrastination... Why am I thinking of that. D'oh! Java homework...

The scene, a single high school girl sits in a classroom, becoming ever more lost as a formula for Hohmann transfer orbits fills the white board. When she complains that some of the numbers are seven digits the instructor points out she has been given a calculator. As she looks at the calculator she's stunned by the number of buttons on it, only to be even more shocked by a realization...

"There's no equals key!"
"Of course not! Don't you know reverse Polish calculation?"
"Of course not!"
"Oh, really?" An all to excited look appears on the instructor's face. "In that case I'll take five minutes to cram its operation into your head. When I'm done with you, you'll never be able to use a regular calculator again. Prepare yourself."


Our vict-- er, high school girl has traveled to the Solomon Islands to search for her father who disappeared years before on her parents honeymoon trip. Meanwhile a Japanese company wants to build a new manned rocket to operate from the islands -- their only problem, their current astronaut (on loan from the JSDF) is about forty kilo's too heavy for their only reliable model's payload capacity -- while our main character is actually a couple kilo's less than that target weight. So a deal is struck. The Solomon Islands Space Agency will use its contacts to help search for the missing father, and she will be their astronaut so they can get a successful launch before the end of the year and keep their funding.

I think I'll be keeping my eyes out for this one on DVD. So what if it's still airing in Japan, somebody go and license it already.

EDIT: D'oh! jeriendhal points out I never mentioned the title. The anime in question is called Rocket Girls. If there were still a good nearby independent store that carried anime I'd tell them this is on my guaranteed buy list. (Stuck with the chains as the nearby stores, no point telling the staff there, more than likely will be gone in a few weeks let alone by the time this is licensed and released)

From the Crossovers the Should Not Be 3, Son of Crossovers comes Ghostbusters in the Shell.

As Bob Schroeck warns, "Important safety tip -- don't cross the data streams."

The first page has not merely an idea, but a short fanfic of one of these Should Not Bes. Let's just say Naruto discovers his disguise jutsu grants him an opening into another hero franchise.

(In stereotype narrator voice...)

"It was then that John realized there was a reason the insurance industry shunned Crabapple Cove. But by then it was too late."

No, no thank you I do not plan to write any Murder She Wrote fanfic. :}

I'll make videos and books of my new exercise program and get rich! It's simple enough, just grab three years worth of old phone books and carry them to the recycle bin across the street.

Oh drat! I just gave away the program for free!

The really scary thing? That was only half the old phone books. I even found a 1999/2000 book that escaped the previous purge.