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May 18 / 8:17am

It's an ad and I don't care.

I like Sarah Silverman. There, I said it. I don't really find her all that funny most of the time, but I like what she does. She's raunchy and wrong and disgusting. But that's just her, and she owns it. And I think she's hot, so there's there.

So when I heard she was making out with a unicorn for a Juicy Fruit commercial, I hopped on over to YouTube and discovered possibly my new favorite thing. Please enjoy.

Filed under  //  sarah silverman   video   videos  
May 13 / 7:49am

Kudos to KidHeaded - the #5 place on the interwebs for all things nerf-related

I don't know why KidHeaded is Google's #5 ranking site for non expanding recreational foam. It must have to do with his recent post titled Frogs and Non-Expanding Recreational Foam. What the hell is non expanding recreational foam, you ask? 

It's better known as NERF. I just took a look at the Nerf website, and wow. Nerf has gotten all edgy and extreme. It's kind of hard to reconcile that with a substance that's intended to be soft and squishy and allows you to bop people over the head with things that would normally hurt, but I digress...

Back to KidHeaded. This post is for you, KidHead. My lame-o blog doesn't posses much link "juice" but what it's got I'm throwing your way. Here's hoping that tomorrow your rank goes up a notch. Write a few more posts about the subject, and you could become THE online authority.

Just don't bop anyone over the head with it.
Apr 20 / 6:49pm

I'm gonna live forever!

For as long as I can remember, I've been a fast walker. Pretty much anyone who's walked anywhere with me has told me to slow down.

"What's they hurry?" they say.
"Late for an appointment?" they ask.

My new answer: Nope, just livin' longer than you, that's all.

According to this article people who walk fast consistently live longer than people who walk slow.

Now, I'm not a particularly fast person in general. I certainly don't run fast. But for some reason, I've always walked fast. I don't even let people join me on my daily mid-day walks at work, because I don't want to dragged down by some meanderer.

Now, in addition to arriving sooner, there's another reason to refuse to slow my gait. I'm probably going to live longer than you! Take that slow walker!

Filed under  //  fitness   life expectancy   walking  
Apr 7 / 9:53am

Underwear, a poem

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Sometimes when my hair
isn't looking it's best
rather than despair
I can easily rest.

Two briefs I shall wear
And pure joy will be mine
Devoid of a care
Life will be fine.

'Cause my favorite pair
will stand in good stead
For Elmo underwear
Is the cure for bedhead
Filed under  //  Bedhead   Kids   Poems   Underwear  
Apr 6 / 12:12pm

Cuticles and appendectomies

Colorado Rockies pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez has a problem with a cuticle on the thumb on his pitching hand, so he's going on the 15-day disabled list. His manager Jim Tracy says the thumb is doing well, but they don't want him to rush back from the injury.

Yes, the cuticle injury.

Meanwhile, Chicago White Sox slugger Adam Dunn had an emergency appendectomy on Tuesday, and immediately started lobbying to get put back in the line up on Thursday.

I love baseball.
Filed under  //  baseball   injuries  
Aug 11 / 7:46am

What the hell is riding that tortoise?

Who doesn't love a video of an animal hitching a ride on another animal?

But the question is, what the hell is that? A giant black guinea pig?

According to Neatorama it's a hyrax.

 A small mammal native to Sub-Saharan Africa, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
 
Although their body size and front teeth make them look like rodents, hyraxes are in fact distantly related to elephants and manatees. The teeth are believed to be remnants of tusks.

Despite their bulk, rock hyraxes move with great agility among rocks. Sweat glands and many muscles make their feet function like suction cups, enabling hyraxes to move about securely

You learn something new every day. 
Filed under  //  animals   video   weird  
Aug 10 / 10:52am

One of the worst songs ever recorded

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Several months ago I posted a link to what I called the worst song ever. I was wrong.

Click the play button above to listen to what I now believe to be the absolute worst song I've ever heard. If the image isn't displaying, click here to view the video

It's not just politics, though that is certainly no small part of what makes this song so horrible. Everything about it is bad. But it never crosses into "so bad it's good" territory.

Nope. It's just bad.

Filed under  //  music   songs   videos  
Aug 9 / 12:03pm

State laws kill buzz of home brews

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Hey, you've had 22 years to break this stupid outdated law. Enough's enough, home brewers.

Filed under  //  home brew   stupid laws  
Aug 6 / 1:10pm

A fun skill game?

Pokeabone

Believe it or not, in 1971 Wham-O introduced this, uh... game.

I don't think any more really needs to be said. 

Poke-A-Bone. 
Aug 6 / 8:01am

Sounds healthy to me

Vitaminwater

Something about the name Vitaminwater is kind of reassuring, isn't it? I don't particularly care for flavored water, and I never buy water at all. But if I were so inclined, I might look at the Vitaminwater bottle, thinking that it sounds better than some of it's brethren.

Now, I'm an avid nutrition label reader, so I'd take one look at the VintaminWater label and know that this was not a totally healthy drink. One bottle is 2.5 servings, each with 13 grams of sugar. That comes to 32.5 grams per bottle, and let's be real: who ever buys a bottle of any of these drinks and portions it out into 8 ounce servings. Right. Nobody.

By comparison, a 12 ounce can of Dr. Pepper has 27 grams of sugar per serving and is (allegedly) 1.5 servings. That's a total of 40.5 grams. So when you look at the numbers, you see Vitaminwater has almost as much sugar as soda.

Why all the math? Well, Coca-Cola, makers of Vitaminwater, are being sued on the grounds that their product makes unwarranted healthy claims. And their defense is just absurd:

From John Robbins, writing for the Huffington Post:

In a staggering feat of twisted logic, lawyers for Coca-Cola are defending the lawsuit by asserting that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."

Does this mean that you'd have to be an unreasonable person to think that a product named "vitaminwater," a product that has been heavily and aggressively marketed as a healthy beverage, actually had health benefits?

Or does it mean that it's okay for a corporation to lie about its products, as long as they can then turn around and claim that no one actually believes their lies?

I like to think of myself as slightly smarter than the average consumer. And it seems to me you don't name a product Vitaminwater unless you want people to think it's a healthy beverage. 

I propose changing the name to PissJuice. Or maybe Toiletwater. Or Onedropofjuiceandsugarwater. 
At least then nobody would sue them for health claims. Marketing Onedropofjuiceandsugarwater would be tricky, as would printing the labels. But I'm confident Coke has the money and the talent to make it happen. I just hope somebody from Coke reads this post...
Filed under  //  absurd logic   advertising   coke