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Category Archives: Silly
Evel Knievel, Reincarnated. Sort of.
When Pigs Fly
“Scientists have shown that the fastest animal on Earth is a cow dropped from a helicopter, which quickly reaches speeds of 120 feet/second.” — Dave Barry
Sometimes You Can't Stop at 10
Not without a parachute and some good brakes, at least.
15 Ridiculous Rocket and Jet-Powered Vehicles
Here’s one: a jet-powered luge.
There’s also a recliner, shopping cart, an outhouse, and more silliness.
Superuseless
SUPERUSELESS SUPERPOWER: Resistance to helium.
Legend has it that there walks a man with uncanny abilities. After a tragic blimp accident, this man has developed an immunity to Helium. As this man courageously inhales Helium, there is no effect on the timbre of his voice.
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Pillow Talk: 25 Strange Throw Pillows
Here’s one that will scare away any pain-in-the-ass innocent bystanders
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A Sports Question
Do two football teams meeting in a game, ever, ever like each other? I mean, for years I’ve been hearing variations of These two teams don’t like each other! in the pre-game blather.
Has anyone ever seen a player not make a tackle ot hard hit, or not pick up a fumble, because it turns out they liked the other team?
Remaking the Classics
Get it?
I think someone could remake Spartacus as a present-day story of a huge conglomerate, corrupted by its greed, and how it crushes an attempt by some employees to split off and form their own company. The Roman Senate becomes the board of directors/senior management, who like to make the junior employees (or interns) try and complete projects while competing with each other for resources. The loser gets a really bad evaluation and it kills his chance for advancement. A worker nicknamed Spartacus comes along with this wonderful idea and wants to break off and form a new company. He starts winning employees over to him in an attempt to break away, but HyperMegaCorp deems his idea to be their intellectual property and sends their army of lawyers after him.
The end is where the CEO wants to fire Spartacus personally, but all the rebellious employees claim to be him, so he fires everyone. But Spartacus’s idea survives, uncontrolled by the company.
Inspiring Elemental Awe
The Periodic Table of Awesoments
In the 300 B.C., years before the birth of black Jesus, Aristole postulated that all good things were made of “win.” That was a pretty good guess, but he was drunk and probably also having an orgy. Modern day awesominers know there are actually 118 fundamental “awesoments” that compose all good things. The Periodic table of Awesoments can be a very useful tool. It’s designed to show the relationships between awesoments, and often one can even predict how awesoments interact simply by their positions on the table.
I’m not sure of some of the logic behind all of this.
Beer, at Z=6, holds the carbon place, which means it forms strong bonds with a lot of things. That’s good. Cheese is at Z=8. The equivalent of an oxidation reaction of awesomeness is to add cheese to it, which is … disgusting, actually. Vertical relations are not always apparent. Do the Noble Races not bond with anything else? Ramen is awesome?
I approve of the choice of Mf for Samuel L Jackson (what happens when you mix Mf with CbJf?), and the choices do seem more reactive as you move down the column. But is Bacon an awesomeness equivalent of Hydrogen? Does bacon form special awesomeness-bonds? Unless it’s Kevin Bacon, with that whole six-degrees thing.
Quick Thinking
Pizza delivery man tosses a hot pepperoni pizza in the face of a would-be robber.
In a completely unrelated story, pizzas are no longer allowed on airplanes, and carrying anything larger than a personal-size pizza is now considered “armed and dangerous.”
via Schneier