You know it's a great interpretation of the Nativity when it includes the line "Jesus was a huge Kenny Loggins fan." (Thanks to Lex for the link).
Now THIS Is a Nativity Play
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Category Archives: Funny Stuff
Man on the Street
Found the video below at Fec's place. Sadly unsurprising.
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”
This is one of my all-time favorite TV clips. Classic WKRP in Cincinnati turkey drop:
Al-Qaeda Marching Band in Macy’s Day Parade?!
I love The Onion, and this piece titled Al-Qaeda Marching Band To Join Macy's Parade After Incredible Audition is a good example why. As with most satire there's always the risk that someone won't get it and take it seriously, which can offer its own form of entertainment. A perfect example of this happened recently on Facebook when a friend of mine "shared" the aforementioned article and a friend of his took it seriously. To avoid piling on I'm going to use pseudonyms when replaying the conversation that ensued in the comment section of the post:
Took It Seriously: absolutely obnoxious that this country even allows this to happen, what an insult to the Americans who have lost their lives to these people……….sorry <Jon'sFriend> call it as I see it, I hope you son never knows what it is like to find himself in the sight of an Al-Qaeda terrorist.
Jon's Friend: Its a joke <TookItSeriously>
Took it Seriously: It's a joke?
Jon's Friend: Yes – The Onion is a humor site.
Jon's Friend: Like this http://www.theonion.com/articles/worlds-power-brokers-hold-annual-summit-where-they,18474/?utm_source=recentnews
Took it Seriously: Quit givin me a heart attack <Jon's Friend>!! No chocolate for you this week!! Forgive my momentary loss of sanity!!
Before you're too judgmental about Took it Seriously, remember that we live in the post-9/11 age of hyperventilating news so we're inundated with seemingly implausible headlines like:
- FBI pulls guns on dance troupe as they spark terror alert… by running through Lincoln Tunnel while dressed in camouflage
- 'Don't touch my junk'
- How to travel with a machete — and other TSA app advice
- Please Remove Your Prosthetic Breast: The TSA Horror Story to Trump Them All
- TSA Head John Pistole: No Body-Cavity Searches…Yet
Seriously, if you live in a world where headlines like these appear on a regular basis I think you can be excused for mistaking The Onion for a real news outlet.
A Cover Letter I’d Love to Have the Guts to Write, and, Journalism Hasn’t Changed Much in 50 Years
Hunter S. Thompson wrote an incredible cover letter to accompany his application for a job with the Vancouver Sun in 1958. You can read the full in all its glory here, but I offer this excerpt as evidence that journalism apparently hasn't changed much in 50 years:
The enclosed clippings should give you a rough idea of who I am. It's a year old, however, and I've changed a bit since it was written. I've taken some writing courses from Columbia in my spare time, learned a hell of a lot about the newspaper business, and developed a healthy contempt for journalism as a profession.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If this is what you're trying to get The Sun away from, then I think I'd like to work for you.
Oh-Oh-Ochocinco
Chad "Don't Call Me Johnson" Ochocinco has his own cereal called Ochocinc'O's (clever huh?) and it looks like they made a little mistake when they produced the box:
The number printed on the box of "Ochocinc'O's" is suppose to send callers to the charity "Feed The Children". Instead, callers hear a sultry voice offering an adult conversation.
Tara Sand and her family, including her 9-year-old daughter, called 1-800-HELP-FTC on speakerphone…
The correct number to "Feed the Children" is 1-888-HELP-FTC. An operator who answered that number said she wasn't aware of the problem and notified her supervisor.
Ochocinco told 9 News that the number was clearly a mistake for which he was not responsible. He is confident that PLB Sports will fix the problem.
"We don't need anything to give our Bengals a bad name, especially Chad," said Sand. "He's obviously trying to do something great by doing this [for] 'Feed The Children.' "
The Best Version of Bohemian Rhapsody You’ll Hear Today
Gotta love the slide whistle and the kazoo:
And You Thought Electing a Convicted Crack Smoker to Public Office Was Weird
Only the city that keeps electing Marion Barry to public office could pull this off:
Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty lost the Democratic primary, but the city's Republicans want him as their candidate.
The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics announced Friday that Fenty won the Republican primary as a write-in, but Fenty has said repeatedly that he has no interest in being the GOP candidate in November. The Republican party was not running any candidate in the mayor's race, but a total of 822 Republicans wrote in Fenty's name.
On a totally separate note, why didn't the Tea Party come up with a candidate in DC?
The Dad Life
Considering the fact that this video has over two million views I'm probably the last Dad in America to see this, but just in case I'm not I'm gonna share. Some of it is definitely relevant to me, although the line about a "weed in the fescue" would have to be reversed to say "a fescue in the weeds." Enjoy.
Why are Residents of Charlotte Behaving Like Floridians?
From the article:
The woman allegedly punched her husband in the face breaking his nose and causing injury to his eye.
Police said she then jumped out of the truck and walked away naked. They say she later broke into the school which set off all kinds of alarms.
The 58-year old woman is now in jail for assaulting her husband and claims she doesn't know how she ended up in the school naked.
Only in Charlotte.
Befuddled 