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I know some of you saw this last week but there are a few of you who follow my blog that have not seen this yet.
It is simply awesome watching Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake do this stetch.

One of the most awesome first person shooters i played back when i was a kid was Duke Nukem. Duke’s one liners were simply catchy and epic. In 1997 they started working on the new title “Duke Nukem Forever” but over the years they kept on changing the game engine, repeatedly announcing and deferring release dates and simply said after a while that it will be done when it is done.
In 2009 3D Realms was downsized for financial reasons, resulting in the loss of the game’s development team. Statements by the company indicated that the project was due to go gold soon with pictures of final development. Take-Two Interactive, which owns the publishing rights to the game, filed a lawsuit in 2009 against 3D Realms over their failure to finish development. 3D Realms retorted that Take-Two’s legal interest in the game is limited to their publishing right. The case was settled with prejudice and details undisclosed in May, 2010. On 3 September 2010, after 13 years, Duke Nukem Forever was officially reported by 2K Games to be in development at Gearbox Software,with an expected release date of 2011.

Now with the new developers been working on it they released some first hand footage of Duke Nukem Forever at the Firstlook gaming convention in Amsterdam. It looks awesome and this is also by far one of the most anticipated games to be released after Starcraft 2 and Diablo III.

“Hail to the king baby!”

came across this game called I, Robot for the Atari and i was amazed. 1983 and a video game like this? i know in this day and age this game looks like a piece of crap, but back then it was awesome!
I, Robot is known for being the first commercial video game with filled 3-D polygon graphics and featured flat shading, as well as being the first video game to feature camera control options.

so we seen the Icelandic team Stjarnan with their goal celebrations. Now in the J League (Japanese), Sanfrecce Hiroshima celebrated another goal in their semi-final game against Shimizu S -Pulse by almost replicating a celebration by the Icelandic side.
Hiroshima copied Stjarnan’s “fishing” celebration and now they have kind of almost copied thier “fighting” celebration except that the Japanese side did it in Samurai style!
YATAAAA!

so the Independent published this article a couple of years ago, like back in 2002. i came across it and thought it was too funny to not share with you guys.

A most extraordinary trial was going on in the High Court at the moment in which a man named Chrysler was accused of stealing more than 40,000 coat hangers from hotels round the world. He admits his guilt, but in his defence he claims that – well, perhaps it would be simpler just to bring you a brief extract from the trial. We join the case at the point where Chrysler has just taken the stand.

Counsel: What is your name?

Chrysler: Chrysler. Arnold Chrysler.

Counsel: Is that your own name?

Chrysler: Whose name do you think it is?

Counsel: I am just asking if it is your name.

Chrysler: And I have just told you it is. Why do you doubt it?

Counsel: It is not unknown for people to give a false name in court.

Chrysler: Which court?

Counsel: This court.

Chrysler: What is the name of this court?

Counsel: This is No 5 Court.

Chrysler: No, that is the number of this court. What is the name of this court?

Counsel: It is quite immaterial what the name of this court is!

Chrysler: Then perhaps it is immaterial if Chrysler is really my name.

Counsel: No, not really, you see because…

Judge: Mr Lovelace?

Counsel: Yes, m’lud?

Judge: I think Mr Chrysler is running rings round you already. I would try a new line of attack if I were you.

Counsel: Thank you, m’lud.

Chrysler: And thank you from ME, m’lud. It’s nice to be appreciated.

Judge: Shut up, witness.

Chrysler: Willingly, m’lud. It is a pleasure to be told to shut up by you. For you, I would…

Judge: Shut up, witness. Carry on, Mr Lovelace.

Counsel: Now, Mr Chrysler – for let us assume that that is your name – you are accused of purloining in excess of 40,000 hotel coat hangers.

Chrysler: I am.

Counsel: Can you explain how this came about?

Chrysler: Yes. I had 40,000 coats which I needed to hang up.

Counsel: Is that true?

Chrysler: No.

Counsel: Then why did you say it?

Chrysler: To attempt to throw you off balance.

Counsel: Off balance?

Chrysler: Certainly. As you know, all barristers seek to undermine the confidence of any hostile witness, or defendant. Therefore it must be equally open to the witness, or defendant, to try to shake the confidence of a hostile barrister.

Counsel: On the contrary, you are not here to indulge in cut and thrust with me. You are only here to answer my questions.

Chrysler: Was that a question?

Counsel: No.

Chrysler: Then I can’t answer it.

Judge: Come on, Mr Lovelace! I think you are still being given the run-around here. You can do better than that. At least, for the sake of the English bar, I hope you can.

Counsel: Yes, m’lud. Now, Mr Chrysler, perhaps you will describe what reason you had to steal 40,000 coat hangers?

Chrysler: Is that a question?

Counsel: Yes.

Chrysler: It doesn’t sound like one. It sounds like a proposition which doesn’t believe in itself. You know – “Perhaps I will describe the reason I had to steal 40,000 coat hangers… Perhaps I won’t… Perhaps I’ll sing a little song instead…”

Judge: In fairness to Mr Lovelace, Mr Chrysler, I should remind you that barristers have an innate reluctance to frame a question as a question. Where you and I would say, “Where were you on Tuesday?”, they are more likely to say, “Perhaps you could now inform the court of your precise whereabouts on the day after that Monday?”. It isn’t, strictly, a question, and it is not graceful English but you must pretend that it is a question and then answer it, otherwise we will be here for ever. Do you understand?

Chrysler: Yes, m’lud.

Judge: Carry on, Mr Lovelace.

Counsel: Mr Chrysler, why did you steal 40,000 hotel coat hangers, knowing as you must have that hotel coat hangers are designed to be useless outside hotel wardrobes?

Chrysler: Because I build and sell wardrobes which are specially designed to take nothing but hotel coat hangers.

Sensation in court. More of this tomorrow, I hope