America loves game shows because we love people who make fools of themselves while trying really hard to win cash that they don’t deserve. It’s all very similar to a skeezy politician wooing voters and committing an embarrassing gaffe.
I digress…Our list of the week comes today from PWNtheNET.com, and its a compilation of recent failures on Wheel of Fortune. You really can’t miss this one: Link
“ALL YOU CAN EAT TACO BAR!”
Dirty Hobos holding Dirty Signs
I wont make excuses for the lack of blogging this past week. I have a day job for crying out loud!
I will give you a teaser for what’s coming… it’s big and it involves the Presidential Primary!
There are a ton of lists regarding amusement parks and the rides that are built to thrill. We recently stumbled across rideaccidents.com, a site that attempts to document reported accidents and deaths at amusement parks. The site has a lot of information but nothing is sourced; which is a real pain in the ass when you are looking for the gruesome details of an amusement park death. Once we dug around in the CSPSC reports (see below) we felt much better about our chances of cheating death because their report concluded that since 1987, there has been an average of only 4.4 fatalities per year in the US.
Why all the information? We just thought it was interesting, that’s all.
Happy thrill hunting in 2008!
How come every time you walk into an elevator already containing more than one other person, you immediately feel awkward. Why is this?
Our random list of the week is 50 things to do in an elevator.
The advice contained in the list should make for interesting ways to either break the ice or freeze it even colder:
Examples: The list itself is not entirely comprehensive, as always we could always add more…
- Sell Girl Scout Cookies
Announce in a demonic voice: “I must find a more suitable host body
is not entirely comprehensive, we could always add more…
I find elevators annoying and here’s why:
When I walk into a crowded elevator, I feel a lot like the time I was 9 and my mom caught be rocking out to Kenny G with sunglasses on and my recorder in front of my closet mirror. (Subtext: I feel stupid and/or embarrassed) Yet in the case of the elevator I cannot explain why…
I remember the first time I went to a college wrestling match I was stupid enough to ask why they protected their ears but when I watched an Ultimate Fighting Championship match it all made perfect sense: cauliflower ear.
Cauliflower ear is when fluid (water or blood) collects under the skin of one’s ear, causing the cartilage to die, and your ear to permanently swell and deform. It’s pretty nasty stuff to look at and can cause pressure to build up in one’s eardrum that can possibly result in hearing loss. It is caused when the ears are unprotected during wrestling, boxing, or martial arts matches.
Why all the useless information? It all bring us to our random list of the week, which can be found here: MMA Worst Cauliflower Ears
“Yucki Yucki Town”
Our first random list of 2008 goes to 10 extraordinarily peculiar eBay purchases.
The runner-up goes to the 17 most bizarre sights on google earth.
2008 tally: ebay 1: google 1/2
During an ice breaker at work a few months ago I was asked to name my first celebrity crush. Taking the question literally, I responded “Snow White.” As a youngster I was quite taken by the lovely, soft-spoken princess and her plight of escaping from a murderous mother-in-law. In my youth, cartoons and animated movies seemed pretty darn close to reality – I was often convinced that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be coming by to take me on a crime-fighting adventure “any day now”. With time and maturity I grew out of this phase (aided by the unsettling realization that Snow White lived with seven other men).
However, cartoon infatuations clearly are still an issue for others. And to prove it, we have a list of the Ten Hottest Animated Disney Women. Take a look and rekindle your own childhood romances. You had forgotten about Jessica Rabbit, hadn’t you?
This list is adequate to a point, but here are a few thoughts:
· Esmeralda is definitely attractive, but why choose the picture of her embracing, perhaps a little to intimately, a hairy goat?
· Similarly, we all know that the Little Mermaid ends with Ariel turning from a mermaid into a human so we could do without the photo of her still half-fishy. The sea-shells are a keeper though.
· Where is Princess Aurora??? If you are going to use 7 of the 8 official Disney Princesses, you might as well include all of them.
Speaking of Disney Princesses, here is the list of the 8 Official Disney Princesses on their website. (The theme music on this site is so captivating, I almost donned a tiara and started dancing.) So you know, this will increase in 2009 when Princess Tiana becomes the first black princess, thus increasing racial diversity in the group.
Back to our list of most attractive characters, the two most important questions are left for last: First, who is your favorite?
And second, should we be calling Mike Hansen about this?
There are a few images that completely and utterly define college life. Well, unless you went to seminary school.
One of them is the crap that people put on their dorm room walls. Invariably, one of your roommates had some of these posters up. I’ve been working at universities for several years now and I’ve seen Bob Marley’s face more than my parents at this point. Encourage the seller at next year’s poster fair to bring some some new prints with him.
Another is the combination of multiple items on this list of the Top Money Drains on college students. Books, well, you can potentially do without those. But you have to eat out because no one has done the dishes. And everyone else is going to Cabo for spring break, so you have to too.
And don’t forget your cheerleaders, football games and all-night cram sessions.
If you had to pick one single image, however, how could you not pick beer pong? Developed purely out of the college environment, there is a small chance you never played but a zero chance you’ve never seen it. And on that note we bring you a thing of visual beauty, the 33 Best Beer Pong Tables Ever Made. Feast your eyes on countless hours of design and handy work - time that might have been foolishly spent getting to know your professors or studying for finals.
“Game on!”
The least impressive is clearly the Surfboard, dubiously ranked #27 when in fact it looks pretty much like they just couldn’t find a table and needed a quick-fix. I’m also somewhat concerned about the dude with the Grass Pong Table: A) He’s taking it way to seriously, its just beer pong and B) what kind of “grass” is that?
The four-way Beer Pong Table of Fire is my pick for most innovative. And when you sober up, why not roast a few marshmallows?
Which is your favorite?
