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Category: Humor

  • Leonard Nimoy’s Bilbo Baggins

    This is one of those links that’s too wacked-out not to post… Back in the late ’60s, Leonard Nimoy—riding high on his Star Trek fame, I’m sure—released an album of music called “The Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy.” My friend Justin in Portland found the album at a thrift store or something, I’ve heard part of it. It’s pretty awful, but the craziest song on it is “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.”

    Yes, you read that right.

    What possessed him to sing such a song, we’ll probably never know… but what further possessed him to make a video from it—well, it’s really too messed up to think about much.

    Oh yeah. Not only do you get to hear the song, you get to watch the video too: The video for “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins” (QuickTime).

    Update: here’s the YouTube embed:

  • Is this cat stoned?

    Is this cat stoned?

    (Thanks, Jake!)

  • What Kind of Elitist Are You?

    HASH(0x8a97e94)
    You speak eloquently and have seemingly read every
    book ever published. You are a fountain of
    endless (sometimes useless) knowledge, and
    never fail to impress at a party.
    What people love: You can answer almost any
    question people ask, and have thus been
    nicknamed Jeeves.
    What people hate: You constantly correct their
    grammar and insult their paperbacks.

    What Kind of Elitist Are You?
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    That sounds about right.

  • Not so PC

    Just a braindump of some ideas I have that wouldn’t really be considered very politically correct…

    Like a series of books like the “For Dummies” books, only these would be “For Tards.” They would be much more simplistic; with titles like “Keyboards for Tards” and “Books for Tards” I think they could really be successful…

    Then there was this idea for a sitcom that I had—a homophobic ex-Marine, a flamboyantly gay man and the ex-Marine’s mentally retarded brother are roommates sharing an apartment in a big city somewhere (maybe San Francisco). Man, that would write itself.

  • Tasteless… yet funny

    Tasteless ad from Zeldman's Ad Graveyard

    Found on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Ad Graveyard, via Boing Boing. Pretty much speaks for itself.

  • Life lessons…

    I don’t remember where I originally read this, but it was awhile ago, from a list of “life lessons” that someone had compiled. The only one that stuck out in my head is insanely funny to me:

    Never lick a steak knife.

  • Pretzels

    You know… while he’s onstage at the Republican National Convention, someone should present Bush with a bag of pretzels.

  • Beer swilling bear

    This is good stuff: Bear guzzles 36 beers, passes out at campground.

    A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer….

     

    The hard-drinking bear, estimated to be about two years old, broke into campers’ coolers and, using his claws and teeth to open the cans, swilled down the suds.

     

    It turns out the bear was a bit of a beer sophisticate. He tried a mass-market Busch beer, but switched to Rainier Beer, a local ale, and stuck with it for his drinking binge.

    The only way this would have been better if it had been Hamm’s Beer.

  • Gizzard Blizzard!

    Well, it’s not going to go down as one of my all-time greatest image hacks, but here we go anyway:

    The new Chicken Gizzard Blizzard from Dairy Queen

    Chicken Gizzard Blizzard™ for y’all.

  • Fool’s World Map

    Via Boing Boing tonight comes the Fool’s World Map. Brilliant.

    This is a project visualizing the world map which many fools in the world imagine. If you can see this map comfortably, you are definitely a fool.

     

    One day, a Texan asked me a question when I lived in U.S…

     

    The question was “How many hours does it take to go to Japan by car?”. (true story)

     

    He didn’t know where Japan is, and even bofore that, he didn’t know that Japan is an island. And then, I thought. “What kind of world map is pictured in his mind?”

     

    This was a beginning to think that it might be fun to gather those mixed up recognitions of countries and visualize it as a world map imagined by the fools in the world.

    I love the map, although it’s kind of depressing how dumb the world seems to be in general…