Follow along as Jim, Ben, and friends take on their GM in a Star Wars campaign in a world where Star Wars never existed. If you’ve ever been a GM you’ll be laughing during almost every strip. The strip follows the movie visually, but diverges heavily on the plot and characters. This is definitely entering my weekly rotation of web comics!

[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/]

What would happen if Leslie Nielsen fell into the world of Grand Theft Auto 4? How about this:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu37TEKoim4]

And to compare it to the original:
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyx7UJndtlI]

Pontiac is catering to the geeks now, with their commercial for their G8. The blurb from YouTube says it all very well:

“On Selection Sunday (March 16th) “Spy Hunter” will run nationally, and pop culture enthusiasts everywhere are sure to rejoice, as the :30 is largely inspired by the massively popular action/driving game of the same name from the early 80s. (The object of the game was to drive an armed sportscar and destroy enemy vehicles while protecting civilian vehicles.) In the Pontiac spot, the mission is the same, with the G8 starring as the hero car. The :30 enjoys several of the same top-down vantage points as the original game — and gives people a look at what this “world” would look like in 3D from other angles. Perhaps most enjoyably for enthusiasts, the “Spy Hunter” music (an arrangement of the Peter Gunn theme) plays a major role in the spot as well.”

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO6ER2K65sE]

Rich Cando (RichCando.com) has created a parody of the Simpsons series intro using Star Wars characters. He gets all of the classic gags in the intros and, while using the wrong characters in some places, does a really good jorb. I would have believed that it was done by Sir Groening himself.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-56cSYP1do4]

I hope you’ve all seen Chad Vader, and I’m sure you’ve seen the Chocolate Rain video. Now you can see the dark lord of the Sith performing his version.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6dUCOS1bM0]

The original Chocolate Rain:
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA]

Chad Vader:
[http://www.splu.net/chadvader.php]

The Holecheck Brothers bring us a mockumentary of the Spartan 305 unit – 5 soldiers tasked with guarding a goat gate. Brilliant!

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wpa2Qplm8M]

PiratePalooza.com brings us information about the upcoming release of the rPhone – “… [combining] three delightfully diverse products into one awkward and cumbersome handheld contraption — a revolutionary steam-powered satellite phone, a stylish French musicbox, and a vibrasonic multi-purpose tool that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a Sonic Screwdriver. rPhone is the first portable telephone constructed of materials you’ve come to associate with progressive technology… from its exquisite rosewood paneling to the handsome brass frame, it shouts ‘This is the 18th century!’”

Check it out here:
[http://www.piratepalooza.com/rphone/?p=0]

Courtesy of Silver Snail Comics in Toronto, the Battle of Ham’s Deep, staring the Muppets. I love the picture of Beaker!

[https://www.silversnail.com/shop/m-muppets.html]

FEUDALISM
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk

PURE SOCIALISM
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.

BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and as many eggs as the regulations say you should need.

FASCISM
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

PURE COMMUNISM
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

RUSSIAN COMMUNISM
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.

DICTATORSHIP
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

SINGAPORE DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed animals in an apartment.

MILITARIANISM
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

PURE DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
The government promises to give you two cows if you vote for it. After the election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair “Cowgate”.

BRITISH DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. You feed them sheep’s brains and they go mad. The government doesn’t do anything.

BUREAUCRACY
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

ANARCHY
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors kill you and take the cows.

CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

HONG KONG CAPITALISM
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows’ milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the Feng Shui is bad.

ENVIRONMENTALISM
You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.

FEMINISM
You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf.

TOTALITARIANISM
You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
You are associated with (the concept of “ownership”is a symbol of the phallo-centric, war-mongering, intolerant past) two differently-aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.

COUNTER CULTURE
Wow, dude, there’s like… these two cows, man. You got to have some of this milk. Far out! Awesome!

SURREALISM
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

JAPANESE DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. You give the milk to gangsters so they don’t ask any awkward questions about who you’re giving the milk to.

EUROPEAN FEDERALISM
You have two cows which cost too much money to care for because everybody is buying milk imported from some cheap east-European country and would never pay the fortune you’d have to ask for your cows’ milk. So you apply for financial aid from the European Union to subsidise your cows and are granted enough subsidies. You then sell your milk at the former elevated price to some government-owned distributor which then dumps your milk onto the market at east-European prices to make Europe competitive. You spend the money you got as a subsidy on two new cows and then go on a demonstration to Brussels complaining that the European farm-policy is going drive you out of your job.

EASTERN EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY
You have two cows. You sell the milk (diluted with some water) at a high price to the neighbors or to anyone at the open-air market. If somebody asks for receipt, you charge them twice as much, so nobody will request an invoice. For concerned families with small babies you claim that the milk is “bio”, though you collect your hay at the side of the highway and you keep the milk in plastic barrels used previously as containers of dangerous chemicals. Later, your neighbor or anybody from town will steal the cows and will sell their meat for a high price, and if you ask for a receipt, you will be charged twice as much.

FINNISH SOCIALISM
You have two cows. Soon you have to kill one of them because in the Netherlands there is an overproduction of milk and the European Union rules say so. When you do so, you find out that it was not necessary, only the system was too slow in getting you the up-to-date news. From the stress, you get an ulcer in your stomach so you go to a doctor. The doctor realizes that this ulcer is a serious one, so you need an urgent treatment. Therefore, you soon get a call to the local hospital. The call’s date is for 3 months later, because there is a queue with more urgent cases. Then your ulcer becomes even more serious because you remember that 40 percent of your income is taken for social tax.

2 January 2007

Dear Headcount Employee,
As part of our consolidation and globalization plan, we have looked at what benefits each geographic location can provide the organization. After examining your location, we have determined that low cost of living and the accompanying lower wages outweigh any benefits of outsourcing. However, in order to remain competitive in the global marketplace, it has been determined that all employees will need further training to improve their global value.

As such, each employee will be scheduled for on-site linguistics training to enable them to sound like they are from India. Also, as a condition of continued employment, each employee will be required to legally change their name to an ethnic one supplied by the company. Examples include (but are not limited to): Robert Maharastra and Sarah Karnataka.

Employment practices will mirror that of the copied nation. Each employee will now be allowed two (2) 5-minute restroom breaks per week. Lunches will be extended to 10 minutes per day and the average work day will decrease to 15 hours. Hourly employees will still be expected to stay after they clock out for any scheduled meetings. Salaried employees are still prohibited from marrying, dating, or living anywhere but under their desks. Due to international humanitarian reasons, floggings will be discontinued and replaced with more humane and internationally approved torture methods.

Thank you for increasing shareholder value and contributing further to management’s palatial offices.

Sincerely,
Bob B Bobson, III
CEO, Initech