Back in 1992, my wife and I opened up a barber shop in Houston called Captain Nemo’s.  We decided to place a small advertisement in the local paper to attract more business.  We told the ad designer to provide us with something nautical, and this is what came out of it:

Fast forward to 1996.  My wife and I were now living on a trawler in Channel Islands Harbor in California.  We wanted to dress up a couple of portholes on board the vessel, so we contacted a local stained-glass overlay company.  We gave them the same instructions – provide us with a nautical design of some sort.  Here is what they produced for us:

Kinda wierd, huh?

I thought there was an interesting tidbit in a recent Simpson’s episode.  Homer, challenged in this scene to summon his mental abilities, conjures up “Intellectual Homer” in his imagination.  “Intellectual Homer”, however, is shown face down, impaled by a sword, with the words “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” scrawled in blood on the floor around him.  This is one of those scenes that flashes by rather quickly, and the only way I was able to read what was written on the floor was to rewind and slow-mo the scene.

Which got me to thinking -  I can usually find at least one or two instances per Simpson’s episode where there is great humor embedded in scenes, but only available to those of us with the capability to time-shift and slow-mo our TV viewing.  Another show that makes frequent use of this technique is the Daily Show on Comedy Central.  It’s amusing to try to find all of the camouflaged humor in these programs.  The downside – it can sometimes take an hour to watch a half-hour show.  Also, other people who are trying to view the program sometimes don’t find this very amusing, so use your better judgement.