Arrant Nonsense

From IMDB:

Actor/moviemaker Jon Favreau had a few nervous moments while he was filming Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man - because the Chaplin star was actually ripping his classic car apart in garage scenes.

In order to show film fans that Downey Jr's Tony Stark character was capable of building the Iron Man suit, the director decided to show off his machinery and mechanic skills at the beginning of the movie.

So the Swingers star brought his classic '32 Ford Lowboy Flathead Roadster to the set - and let his star tinker with it.

Favreau reveals, "They painted it for the movie... and they said, 'Do you mind if we re-do the upholstery?' and I said, 'No, go ahead, whatever's good for the movie.'

"I wanted to show Robert working on an old car... and then Robert, being the method actor that he is..., was like, 'I should be ripping the head off the engine block.'

"Sure enough, he busted out the wrenches and just ripped the engine apart and I was just cringing in the corner."

Favreau recalls his crew looking at him as if Downey Jr. was having "a go at my wife."

I swear, men and their cars...

playing Text Twist*, as I do, and I get the following letters:

A W I S T S

I turn my head slightly sideways. "Nah," sez I, "surely not." But, for a giggle, I type this in:

A S S W I T

"Sorry, that's not one of the listed words."

Well, I didn't honestly think it was. But, you know...I had to try. Because I'm twelve.


*A game in which you get a six-letter word, scrambled, and try to make as many words as possible in the time allotted. If you get the six-letter word, you get to go on to the next round.

You guys all know about LOLcats, right? Short tutorial for the link-o-phobic, they're pictures of cats (or other animals) with funny, badly-spelled captions. They get used as macros a lot here on LJ, for troll posts and the like.

Apparently there's a project to translate the Bible into LOLcat.

Okay, I'm a pretty fundy fundy. I don't usually like it when people mess with Scriptures. And I think this is freakin' hilarious. Not least because they're actually trying to stay fairly true to the spirit of the Bible. I can definitely see where it might get old, reading it that way, after awhile, but in small doses it's really really funny.

Rly. LOL.