What a surprise
Posted on August 12, 2008
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Community college faculty and students decided that a four-day work week beats working five days a week.In unrelated news: potsmokers prefer everything kept in reach of the couch.
Also, this just in: readers believe that the book is better than the movie … unless they’re writing a book repor–
We interrupt the end of this report with this emergency breaking news:
Water’s wet, but only when you touch it.
We now return to the original story in progress.
– because college students are lazy.
Written by Rick SneeTiny phone big in Japan no longer
Posted on July 22, 2008
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Fun fact:
Did you know that every time you snap a picture on the Japanese version of the iPhone 3G it will make an audible “shutter click” noise that you can’t turn off, even when the phone is on silent mode? Why? So upskirt perverts can’t do their dirty work undetected!
OK, actually, almost all new phones in Japan are supposed to do this … which is slightly disturbing. The only things that can make this situation better are:
- the entire voyeur industry to come together to sue Apple, Nokia, Motorola and so forth for interfering with their right to profit.
- someone invents EMP underwear.
- Japan gets a clue and stops becoming so weird that these limitations need to be implemented.
Anastasia is dead …
Posted on July 17, 2008
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… as of 90 years ago.
Scientists in Russia, Austria and the U.S. have finished examing the remains of the Tsar Nicholas II’s two missing children. Using DNA, medical records and forensics, they have been positively identified as dead, not living and definitely not your grandmother.
Turns out the old broad was just crazy/hated your great-grandparents. The real little princess was executed, just like those commies claimed, in 1918.
So, now that you’re not the heir to the Russian throne anymore, get back to work!
Written by Rick SneeAmerican gangs with cameras are serious business in Thailand
Posted on June 10, 2008
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Joke time: so, an American tourist is waving his camera (and hopefully, that’s all that he’s waving that belongs to him) in his hotel room when he gets a knock on the door. He opens the door and there’s a local cop. The cop asks him “Do you know what’s the capital of Thailand? No? You’re going to very soon. By the way, you’re under arrest.”
Now, what happens in Thailand really stays in Thailand—because if you try to film it for a porn movie, you are most assuredly going to jail (and you might be considered a “gang member” too, even if you’re probably the saddest excuse for a gang member ever.)
Written by Chris "Chugs" TaylorFun fact:
The best thing about filming in the Valley, or for that matter, anywhere that’s not Thailand, is that your odds of ending up in a Southeast Asian prison are remarkably low.
A most triumphant day
Posted on June 9, 2008
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The Guys would like to remind you that today is 6-9-2008.
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Written by Rick SneeRedtape their blowholes shut!
Posted on June 5, 2008
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The U.S. government does not typically have much in common with Lifetime War on Animals Achievement winner Japan. This blog believes we told them to “go tentacle rape themselves” when they presented their Kyoto Clean Air Agreement.
However, we have adopted one of their better habits: allowing whales to die.
Because of “confusion” between several government agencies, our government is unable to prevent the “accidental” killings of right whales*, which now number in the 300s. Whoopsies!
*Fun Fact:
The right whale got it’s name from whalers(!) because “their mellow personalities, shallow feeding habits and lumbering, 70-ton bodies made them the easiest, or the right, whales to kill.” Now that’s how you name a species!
We completely understand, feds. Keeping “boaters” and “fishers” from “accidentally” killing whales is very difficult to manage. It’s a tragedy, but what can we do about it?
Written by Rick Snee‘This isn’t Vietnam … there are rules’
Posted on May 22, 2008
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As part of our ongoing coverage of “Summer is here” — which will continue until mid-October — there’s an element we’ve forgotten: driving around.
For our high school and college readers, this is the time that you and your peers are bored and will drive around, pretending that going nowhere is “something.” For the adults, this means you’re going to a lot of stores with wedding and baby registries.
Without fail on any of these excursions, an argument will arise about the rules to calling Shotgun and Rock-Paper-Scissors (or Roshambo to non-South Park viewers). We’d normally use this as an excuse to write a How To, but someone has beaten us to it and done so throughly.
We suggest sending this link to that friend that calls Shotgun during the planning stages of your Warped Tour trip in August.
Written by Rick SneeFun Fact:
“The history of calling ‘Shotgun’ goes back to the days of covered wagons and the Wild West. On a trip across the plains, the driver of a wagon would hold the reins of his horse team and concentrate on driving. This left him and the occupants of his wagon susceptible to sneak attacks from bandits and thieves. To avoid this atrocious circumstance it became necessary for one person to sit next to the driver with a shotgun and fend off the enemy.”
If only he knew the power of the jail time …
Posted on May 20, 2008
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Update time! Back in April, we reported on a Welshman dressed in a shoddy Darth Vader costume attacking a Church of Jediism. Obviously copious amounts of alcohol were involved in the age old battle between nerd and nerdier (you can take a guess at which is which). Said Dark Lord of the Sith imitator, Arwel Wynne Hughes, was arrested.
Flash forward to now! Arwel has managed to avoid jail time, using the age old defense “I was so drunk, I don’t even remember it taking place.” You would think that the video taping of the incident (done so because “the church” was taping their “service”) might jog his memory, but, well, I can’t say that I’ve ever actually heard of Wales being done for their progressive attitude and inherent of adaptation of new technology. Alas. A great disturbance in the judicial side of the Force remains.
Fun Fact: In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 390,000 — 0.7 percent of the population — listed Jedi as their religion.
That’s most assuredly .699999999% more than I ever would have guessed.
Written by Chris "Chugs" TaylorPeople get older over time (including children)
Posted on May 12, 2008
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With the May releases of blockbusters trickling out, it’s obvious that it is now summer. (Hear that sound? It’s children on your lawn! Remember: shoot first, then drag them onto your porch.)
With summer here, it’s also time for the press to go on vacation while entertaining their interns with puppet shows, magic tricks and lists. The most popular list, of course, is the “Child Stars: Then and Now” rehash that gets updated every year.
Today’s lazy adventure in Internet slide shows comes to you courtesy of Florida’s Sun-Sentinel.com.
Written by Rick SneeBonus Fun Fact:
Apparently Prince William was a child star.
World-class rope burns
Posted on March 20, 2008
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The Olympics is coming this summer, so get ready to see a bunch of people run around a track in approximately 800 different events. It has also been a criticism of the Olympics for having too many strange sports (so you cross country ski really fast and then shoot things?), but they have had others in the past.
From 1900 to 1920, Tug-of-War was an Olympic event–really. Think of all the hard work, training and sacrifice that must go into a game your dad and his coworkers used to play after having a few to many at the annual office picnic. Sadly, Dodgeball, Red Rover and Handlebar Mustache-Growing were not approved for these early Olympiads.
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