In the vein of things making music that normally don’t, like Tesla coils, I present a Renault Formula One V10 singing God Save The Queen:
If that doesn’t whet your appetite, how about La Marseillaise?
Okay, this one’s made its way around the internets (don’t click that link yet), but it’s so bad it had to be shared. In fact, I might just have to stop with the Bad Baby Names thing because there is absolutely no way this could be topped. And yes, I know I’ve said that before, but that was then and this is now.
Are you ready? Brace yourself. Sit down. Strap in. Clear your mind of any distractions.
It starts with Urhines. Pronounced “your highness”.
Wait, it gets better.
It continues with Kendall. That’s a nice normal name. I have no idea what it’s doing here.
The third act only improves upon things with Icy Eight. When Icy Seven just isn’t enough.
And the fourth act, well, you know the fourth act is special. In fact, that’s it exactly: Special K.
That’s right, Urhines Kendall Icy Eight Special K. And in case you think I’m making this up, I’m not.
Blame Amy, she emailed it to me.
This is a continuation of a series (1, 2, 3).
Part four actually happened back in October 2006, when our house got struck by lightning, knocking out our telephone connection. After going out to the junction box on the side of the house, plugging in a wired phone only to get no connection (thus proving that the problem wasn’t inside the house), Alice called Hawaiian Telcom to get someone out to fix it. The customer service rep told Alice that it was probably a problem with our phone because it was cordless.
Needless to say, after Alice bitched at them for being stupid they sent out a technician to find a blown fuse in the junction box. Who would’ve thought.
Part five has been going on for five months now. Five months ago one of our phone calls to Victoria got billed as if it were a call to Rwanda. I know how easy it is to confuse Rwanda and Canada. They both have the letter ‘a’ in their name. I called and got that fixed fairly quickly.
Next month we got overcharged for long distance. Not outrageously, mind you — we got charged either 7 or 10 cents a minute to Canada when our plan is 5 cents a minute. I called and got that fixed.
Next month we got overcharged for long distance. Not outrageously, mind you — we got charged either 7 or 10 cents a minute to Canada when our plan is 5 cents a minute. I called and got that fixed.
Next month we got overcharged for long distance. Not outrageously, mind you — we got charged either 7 or 10 cents a minute to Canada when our plan is 5 cents a minute. I called and got that fixed, but this time the CSR said that she’d personally look into it and send me a letter. Haven’t heard a thing since, and that was a month ago.
Notice a pattern? Can you guess what happened on the bill I just received? That’s right! The only change is that I haven’t called because their call center is down because Honolulu is getting hammered by a winter storm.
I am beyond disappointed in Hawaiian Telcom’s customer service. They always say that they’re looking into it, yet nothing changes. Counter-example: Oceanic Time Warner Cable. Our DVR was getting a little flaky, so they sent a technician out to look at it. Turns out it was an older model that had problems dealing with some of the programming, so we got a new one. A week later we got a voucher for a free pay-per-view movie from Oceanic “for the inconvenience [we] suffered.” Now that’s customer service!
All I have to look forward to from Hawaiian Telcom is another overcharged bill and another wasted fifteen minutes on hold. And that’s why Hawaiian Telcom continues to suck.
Many people have seen crepuscular rays. They’re rays of light typically seen streaming from clouds, radiating back towards the Sun. These rays are actually parallel, but because of perspective effects they seem to radiate from a single point in the sky.
Not many people have seen anticrepuscular rays, which are formed by essentially the same process as crepuscular rays — shadows cast from clouds in the Earth’s atmosphere. However, they’re typically only seen at sunrise, and they’re much fainter than crepuscular rays.
The above picture (click for larger sizes) was taken just before sunrise in Hilo, Hawaii. The coming sun signals a beginning and an end for the terrestrial subjects of the picture — the start of the day means Hilo wakes up, and the end of the night means the telescopes on Mauna Kea close up.
Apologies, loyal readers, for today’s Bad Baby Name selection is rather weak. The names are still offenses against humanity, however, but they’re all of the boring “let’s put as many Y’s as possible into our kid’s name” variety.
Starting off, little Kyngston is not only named after a city, his parents have misspelled Kingston. Now he’ll never be able to visit Ontario without being shunned.
Next up come the double-y-whammy twins: Shyley and Taylyn. Luckily they’re not actually twins, as that many Y’s in one family might be a critical mass.
The loser of this week is Payje, not only for having the Y, but also for replacing a perfectly good G with a J. Seriously, Paige is a perfectly good name, so why ruin it by tarting it up so?
