Life is a D.C. Cabaret, my friends

We've done this two or three times now, be it us at work in Topeka or on various fora frequented by m'self and rewil, but since ravenskye8 reminded me....

It's the old game of mashing movie titles together: ravenskye8 contributes An Inconvenient Truth About Cats and Dogs, The Empire Strikes Back to the Future, Children of a Lesser Godzilla and The Muppets Take the Manhattan Project ("I have become Beaker, destroyer of worlds....").

Now I'm not even going to try to come up with any new ones; I'm migraine-y and exhausted, so I leave that up to y'all. I just dug the old database out of the archives so I could toss up the few we had oh those many years ago. Though I still don't know that we can improve on D.C. Cabaret or Children of a Lesser Godzilla. ( Pity the fool. )

Very bad taste

Hey, did you see where legendary Osteria L'Intrepido won the coveted Award of Excellence in the August 2008 issue of Wine Spectator magazine? Have you even been to Osteria L'Intrepido, you plebeian?

Of course not, because it doesn't exist.

Turns out a nonexistent restaurant can overcome that slight hurdle by submitting an impressive wine list and the $250 entry fee. At least read through the reviews of the wines (“Quite disjointed…a coarse, chewy texture and an astringent finish. Hard to tell if it will ever come around…”). Edit: NYT figures out a lemonade stand can win this award five years ago.

Unrelated: Michael Phelps Returns To His Tank At Sea World.