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Howdy, Everyone! Yep, it’s time to lift your weary heads from the ol’ work slab, loosen the ankle chains, and take a moment to partake deeply of the sublime, the ironic, and the outright strange. One would think that sooner or later the wheels of progress would eventually grind down the quirkiness we talk about here, but luckily that’s not the case. In fact, I can’t imagine a world without it!That’s right, ladies and gentlemen – the time has come for another exciting edition of… OOB!

Amazing Google Earth Discoveries Dept.

There is no end, it seems, to the amazing things you can find on Google Earth. Especially if your life is so boring you have nothing else to do except scan every square mile of the planet’s land masses (all 57,268,942.658 square miles of them). This time, someone named LSDsmurf (what’s in a name?) posted this photo from Google Earth that very clearly shows a huge Native American in profile. Actually, to me he looks more like a South American, perhaps Mayan, but then what do I know?

Oddly enough, it looks like he’s wearing an earplug – perhaps he’s groovin’ to the latest smooth tracks from Kenny G? Or – could he just be taking a precaution and protecting himself from that giant earwig discovered in Germany?

The King is Still Dead Dept.

Gasp! Zounds! Cowabunga! Shazam! (Insert your favorite exclamation here – but please, keep it clean – this is a G-rated blog)

In news sure to shock all Elvis fans down to their very cores, Reuters is reporting that Curt Cobain has knocked Elvis off the top earners spot in the ever-popular Sure-They-Make-Millions-But (And-That’s-A-Really-Big-But) They’re-Still-Dead category of Celebrity wage earners. It seems he’s “earned” $50 million in the last year. (I’m not jealous – really. I’m working on my second million now. Sadly, I had to give up on my first one.)

What really irks fans of the King is that Cobain has never been on the list before, while Elvis has been No. 1 since the inception of the list. Talk about being an upstart! Sheesh! The two of them are probably fighting it out right now, whacking each other with guitars. Or, or they could be havin’ a drink instead (although without being too judgmental here, considering their respective lifestyles, let’s hope it’s not a really hot drink.)

Political Correctness Run Amok Dept.

Is Feminism really making great strides forward? Or maybe just sideways?

In a great example of political correctness running amok, the Spanish town of Fuenlabrada has decided to do their part for equality by banishing “only masculine figures” from their street signs. Presumably they mean signs like the “pedestrian crossing” sign seen here. But does anyone else besides yours truly think their solution of having half the signs portray feminine figures with “skirts and ponytails” is, let’s see… what’s the word I’m searching for… stupid?

C’mon now, admit it, people. Is a figure of a woman in skirt and ponytail truly representative of all women? I would say at least half, if not more, women wear pants most or all of the time, and ponytails are definitely not representative of the majority of women’s hairstyles. Besides, even what could be considered to be the most obvious difference between the sexes, breast size, is not really that universal. I know lots of men with man-breasts, and women come in all sizes too.

So why couldn’t the human figure portrayed on the sign just remain the same? I say it already represents the majority of people everywhere.

Innie or Outie Dept.

The Museum of London will offer for auction on Ebay one square meter of display space for the lucky winning bidder to display “anything they want”. Luckily for the rest of us, there’s at least ONE restriction: the exhibit “must display the winner’s life in the capital.” Whew! Dodged a bullet there!

Too bad, though. I guess that means I wouldn’t be able to display my collection of used bubble gum, or the bottles of air from around the world, or even that extensive collection of celebrity belly-button lint (unless I restrict it to just British Celebrities). Naah – one square meter isn’t enough space for that one.

Oh, well.

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