One is far superior to the other

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 74: Thanks to someone's msn name, I discovered that the McFly song, "Lies", contains the lyrics "And I'm just one drink away/And I'm back in Wonderland like it was yesterday". However, it doesn't feature on their second album, "Wonderland".

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 75: Finding all that out jogged my memory that The Wildhearts have a song called "Geordie in Wonderland". They've also done a live album of the same name.

How about mint?

I started wondering earlier, do we actually know what butter tastes like? It seems most of what we use is actually margarine (stuff like Flora being made of sunflower oil, or Bertolli being made of olive oil) simply masquerading as butter. So I started to wonder, after years of having butter decried as unhealthy and instead being offered "butter substitutes" that are apparently just as good, do we know the difference? If someone actually gave us some real butter, made from real milk, would we like it? Would we complain that it doesn't taste just like Flora (or any of its variants that do many different things to your body)?

I wonder if there are any other products like this that we might have lost the taste for.

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 72: It seems I found this one a while ago and forgot about it. I discovered a link to this page in my bookmarks on a site called "Blabberwocky".

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 73: Bash.org has been down for a while, so I've turned to qdb.us for my amusing IRC quote needs. The other day I discovered this little snippet.

I couldn't be bothered at first

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 71: So, two recent episodes of the US version of "Whose line is it anyway?" have featured Alice references in the "props" round. The first was Colin turning his props into a large smile and Wayne calling for "Cheshire cat, party of two". Then today there was Wayne making his prop into a hookah and saying "Welcome, Alice, welcome". Way too much Alice in that show...

Attack of the Alice

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 67: In a recent edition of Attack Of The Show's "The Loop" segment, Matt Schwartz describes part of his experience of researching into "trolling" as having "[fallen] down the rabbit hole of Encyclopedia Dramatica and 4chan".

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 68: Another AOTS segment, The Feed, recently reported on Tim Burton's work on an adaptation of the Wonderland story, with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 69: The last in a trio of references from Podcasts, a recent edition of Diggnation had Alex using the word "jibberwocky" as an example of a gibberish word.

Alice in popular culture sighting no. 70: So this is a pretty exciting one for me. I've mentioned Rockabaret a couple of times before. This time, the entire night is going to be Alice themed! Their next night is on the 20th of September and is entitled "Rockabaret in Wonderland". I shall endeavour to go and take copius amounts of pictures, which I will of course post here.