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Category Archives: humor
Banned from Wikipedia: a story in pictures
I’d like to show you a few of the changes I submitted to Wikipedia; not to worry, they were all quickly rejected, and were shortly followed by a ban from editing Wikipedia entries ever again.
By George, whatever next?!
We imagined a customized Nespresso bin, with a giant, laughing George Clooney on its side. Gathered around it were throngs of women.
Also posted in Science & Technology, Society, essays Tagged environment, francesca prescott, george clooney, PETA, recycling 2 Comments
Sexy movies that make you want to stab yourself
Picture, if you will, an emaciated heroin addict making out with a peacock in drag. Throw in a cameo by loud, hammy Ben Affleck and you have… well, something.
25 Things about the Facebook “25 Facts” List
This sort of meta-flattery more or less ensures that at least 25 people will still read about how your favorite book is something classy, like The Da Vinci Code.
Josh Frathole Faces Challenges (and comes out on top, haw haw)
"So, uh, Luke was tellin’ me that you had scored, like, tons and tons of American dollars and you were lending them back to us for Treasury Bonds? Yeah, what’s up with that? No, I mean, it’s, you know, it’s fine."
The beauty of recycling… chandeliers
My Great Aunt Nelda is probably giggling in her grave right now, because her revamped chandelier also found its way into my romantic comedy, “Mucho Caliente!”
If Party Flyers Could Be Any More Awesome…
You’ve seen them, the glossy cards with some absurdly hot girl dancing beside some text. These cards invariably have some pants-wettingly cool way of saying that you can be 18 to party, but you have to be 21 to drink.
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Men Dancing: A Taxonomy
Do you know what happens when I shimmy my hips and wave my hands around to the beat? My friends trap me under a bed sheet and beat me with socks full of quarters.
The new G.I. Joe movie: a tantalizing preview
He has a massive brow, as well as a vacant, drooling sort of stare. He wouldn’t notice if you stood him at the bottom of a cliff and dropped an Acme™ anvil on his head, so a few bullets probably won’t slow him down at all.
The truth about accountants: an excerpt from The Profit