Always with a joke - Monty Python

After they had successfully entertained television viewers from all around the world in the late sixties and early seventies of past century, the group Monty Python started making full-length movies and publishing books.

Although their fans expect similar gags in their movies, hardly anyone expected from silly Britons to make pell-mell even in publishing venture.

For a book titled "The Brand New Monty Python Bok" (sequel to Monty Python's Big Red Book with striking blue cover), Terry Jones hired his sister-in-law Katharine Hepburn (accidentally with same name as the famous American actress) to assist them.

The cover was realistically made to look like it was greasy and filled with dirty fingerprints. It was made so realistic that many readers didn’t wanted to buy the book, asking for "newer" and more preserved copy.

However, there was also another thing - the cover could be peeled off and reveal hidden pictures of naked girls. 

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Scrat from Ice Age found on Mars!

While we're eagerly waiting for the fourth installment of the mega-successful Ice Age (Ice Age: Continental Drift), the star of the film, and possibly the most popular character in the series, Scrat,  a wacky "saber-toothed squirrel" who is obsessed with acorns, apparently moved – to Mars. 



While I was browsing the surface of the Mars in Google Earth, I accidentally stumbled on an image that amazingly resembles the character from  the movie Ice Age, a "saber-toothed squirrel" named Scrat. And not only that…the shape that I discovered is surrounded with blue color that looks almost like ice.

It appears that Scrat not even on Mars hasn’t manage to escape from Ice Age. 

See for yourself on the image below.

If you want to find Scrat by yourself, follow these coordinates:

47“30'33.80“ S
5“05'15.81“ E 

Who knows, maybe in the next installment of Ice Age, our funny hero will indeed have some adventure on Mars. We will discover that when the movie hits the theaters.

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Artistic vanity – Gore Vidal

After one international meeting of writers in Sofia (Bulgaria), British novelist Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was surprised when he saw that American writer Gore Vidal (1925) is curiously flipping through Bulgarian daily newspapers searching for culture articles.

- Here I am! I knew it! - enthusiastically shouted Vidal.

When he saw that Powell was staring at him with puzzled look, Vidal explained to him what was going on:

- I just love it when my picture comes out in some newspaper. That is why I always sit down next to a man wearing a turban. Photographers always take pictures of them. The same happened here. I was sitting next to a writer from India – and they took picture of me.

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