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Paws Up!Our Salute to the Awesome!
From Episode XXX: Clip Show Sean Bean Some actors hate being typecasted. But one may actively seek out roles that require him to die onscreen. I give you Sean Bean, who has over 20 onscreen deaths, the most currently. See the death montage of each one of his deaths at listverse.com (scroll down to #5). To Sean Bean, who really is dying for a living, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode XXIX: Combo #5 Waffleizer Imagine a blog, that will soon be a book that asks, "Can I waffle that?" This site does. And it has tasty recipes. Check it out at waffleizer.com. To Waffleizer, for imagining new things to shove in our piehole, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode XXVIII: Charismatic Uncertainty Keanon Lowe With time running out in the Fiesta Bowl, walk-on receiver Dane Ebanez had not played a snap. He had played in a handful of plays in his career, but never in a bowl game. Here was a well-liked, hard-working player who put his time into practice with little payoff. Receiver Keanon Lowe came up with a plan to get his teammate onto the field for at least one bowl snap. He faked an injury so Ebanez could take his place. Read about it at Yahoo! here. To Keanon Lowe, for doing something awesome for a teammate, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode XXVII: The Mullet of Fish Chris Hadfield If you needed any more evidence that Twitter is amazing, here it is: Star Trek's Captain Kirk, William Shatner, in conversation with Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently on the International Space Station. The conversation between two Canadian space icons - one fictional, one real - got a lot of attention almost immediately. Read about it at CBC News here. To Chris Hadfield, for understanding the precariousness of wearing a red shirt in space, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode XXVI: featuring Special Guest, Matrice David Marshall and his fellow physics students at the University of Leicester In a paper that has gone viral, entitled "Trajectory of a falling Batman," they try and calculate whether BatmanŐs cape is aerodynamically suited for leaping off tall buildings. They consider the surface area of the wings at full stretch (as depicted in Christopher Nolan's films), the caped crusader's presumed body weight and height. They conclude that if Batman jumped off a 150-metre-tall structure he might expect to glide comfortably to a distance of 350 metres. But the students also reckon that the bat-suit cannot generate enough lift and that he would crash-land at a speed of 80kph (50mph). Read about it at The Economist here. To David Marshall and his crew, for showing us they had nothing better to do, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode XXV: A Podcast Full of Presents A holiday triple dose of Paws Up! Pizza Hut Singapore The Pizza Hut in Singapore calls it the Double Sensation Pizza. It's really a pizza in a pizza. What they've done is take a small pizza and place it atop a larger pizza. It's two unique crusts, one stuffed with cheesy sausage and another 3-flavor cheese. Topped with succulent smoked chicken and turkey ham on two tantalizing sauces, Pepper Alfredo and Salsa. Read about it at Buzzfeed here. To Pizza Hut in Singapore, for showing us there is still imagination left in the world, we salute you. PAWS UP! Carlton Draught The Australian brewery is known for its unconventional, yet fun, advertising. It has given us, quite possibly, the best beer commercial ever. See it at YouTube here. To Carlton Draught, for, also, showing us there is still imagination left in the world, we salute you. PAWS UP! David Tennant The former Time Lord is using a interesting way of curbing the urban fox problem he's encountered in his London home's garden. In a nutshell, he pees in his garden. Seriously. Read about it at the Evening Standard here. To David Tennant, for showing us there is still imagination... um, let's say "ingenuity" left in the world, we salute you. PAWS UP! From Episode XXIV: Baking Cookies for the Apocalypse Kristina Green & her Neighbor Everyone knows it is hard to compete with that neighbor who goes all out every year. Kristina Green found herself in that exact situation with her home in Maricopa, Arizona. But she clearly came up with a brilliant response: "Ditto." What it is a simple lighted sign that say "Ditto" with an arrow pointing to the house next door. Read about it, and see the photo, at CNN here. To Kristina Green and her festive neighbor, for showing us a little tongue-in-cheek holiday spirit, we salute all of you. PAWS UP! From Episode XXIII: Magical The Fans of the Calgary Hitmen It's called the Teddy Bear Toss. On a designated game, when the home team scores its first goal of the night, the fans rain down teddy bears down on the ice. On this year's event, 21,453 bears were tossed onto the Calgary ice. The fans of the Calgary Hitmen hold the record for most bears tossed (26,919) back in 2007. Read about it, and see the video, at Yahoo! here. To minor league hockey fans, for chuckin' stuffin' and showing some holiday charity, we salute all of you. PAWS UP! From Episode XXII: Mashed Potatoes Museum of Modern Art Are video games art? The Museum of Modern Art in New York has weighed in by establishing a collection dedicated to showcasing the best in videogame design and aesthetics. The list includes Pac-Man (released in 1980), Tetris (1984), Another World (1991), Myst (1993), SimCity 2000 (1994), vib-ribbon (1999), The Sims (2000), Katamari Damacy (2004), EVE Online (2003), Dwarf Fortress (2006), Portal (2007), flOw (2006), Passage (2008) and Canabalt (2009). Read about it at CBC News here. To MoMA, for confirming that video games are indeed art, we salute all of you. PAWS UP! From Episode XXI: I'm Going to Wreck It Lance Gilman The owner of the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel recently became the first of his kind to win election to public office in Nevada since prostitution was legalized here in 1971. He won a seat as a Storey County commissioner by a wide margin. And he's believed to be the first to do so in the state's 148-year history. Read about it at LATimes.com here. To Lance Gilman, for being a pimp and smacking the election like a bitch, we salute all of you. PAWS UP!
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