Random Epic-ness + Mother Mother



This picture is not mine and I'm not actually sure where it came from - I found it in deep in the archives of my "Random Epicness" pictures album...



Ahh, the world is a wonderfully fun(ny) place, isn't it? Well, here are a few aMUSEing tidbits to brighten your day and lessen your opinion of mankind. 

15 Stunningly Dumb Warning Labels 

Got your interest piqued? While your still grinning, take a quick peruse of this site:

Stella Awards

To give you a bit of background info, a friend referenced the Stella Awards to me a while back and this is what he transcribed to me:

"I found the post! Here are the Stella Awards from a few years back. 

"Only in America!!!
It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico , where she purchased coffee.... You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that, right? That's right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy. 
Here are the Stellas for the past year:  


Start scratching! 


SEVENTH PLACE
Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

Start scratching!

SIXTH PLACE
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

Scratch some more...


FIFTH PLACE
Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count 'em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner's insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish.

Keep scratching. There are more...

Double hand scratching after this one..

FOURTH PLACE
Jerry Williams, of Little Rock , Arkansas , garnered 4th Place in the Stella's when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor's beagle - even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun.

Pick a new spot to scratch, you're getting a bald spot..


THIRD PLACE
Amber Carson of Lancaster , Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?

Only two more so ease up on the scratching....

SECOND PLACE
Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000....oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure.

Ok.

Here we go!!


FIRST PLACE
This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was: Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , who purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the river's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down?

$1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home." 

 Those warning labels don't seem so stupid anymore >.<

And (in case you were wondering) I was, indeed, listening to some music while copy/pasting all that! Check out some Mother Mother! Their third album Eureka hits stores March 15.

I have to add this video because I so vividly remember the day I first watched it... and I quote: "It's a GUY?!?!" Yeah... but in my defense, after listening to it on the radio for I-dunno-how-many months I never would have guessed it was a falsetto (it's more obvious now. I'll admit ;)

I really like music videos like this and in all honestly, before watching this, I thought those gals were just saying something like "dum dum da de dum dum, dum dum da de dum dum ...." Pfft! See, you can learn so much from music videos!

 

(great face, eh?)

Ah, this one's got a catchy tune. And I'm starting to notice a trend with their lyrics here....

Mini-Bio: Mother Mother is a Canadian indie rock band based out of Vancouver, BC and siblings Ryan and Molly Guldemond are the two with blond hair on vox/guitar and vox/synth respectively.




*EXTRA STUFF!!
I just bought Eureka last night and I am really diggin' the flow and feeling of the album! Definitely a good investment and highly recommended - it's not too often you can put an album on shuffle and end up enjoying everything (and here's where I'll pitch Florence + the Machine again, Between Two Lungs was one of these albums). A few songs that stand out to me at the moment are "In the Wings", "Simply Simple", "Getaway", "Baby Don't Dance" and "Oleander".

Here's the music vid for "The Stand" (comes with the album on iTunes!): 

Jasmin Parkin (dark hair) is so striking! Yay for La Roux-inspired hair

And to end this post, "O My Heart" and the little Edward Scissorhands boy :P