on Funny or Die
I love this. So metal.
Laughs
From the week of August 15th, 2010
Fartmasters to Ballsacks: The Gems of Potpourri Catalog
Now, for a $5 Subscription
I received a Potpourri Catalog in the mail yesterday. It was hilariously addressed to Jim, but I decided to steal it away for a mind numbing peek at it’s offerings. Many you can imagine: singing stuffed animals, non singing crystal animals, kitchen wall hangings about animals (and wine or chocolate)… but I decided to scan a few that really stood out to me and made me utter “oh my god.” Interestingly, nothing from the cat lady pages made the cut – these are, if you can believe it, far stranger than that.
Believe it or not, this “humorous” ball sack actually escaped my attention the first, even the second time through. Maybe because it’s just so subtle and tucked above a huge crystal four leaf clover.
This is pretty par for the course, but if you take the time to really look at it, nothing but confusion will greet you. Is this what has become of womanhood?
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See more: Laughs, Shops
From the week of August 1st, 2010
Flirting with Magic and How to Seduce Women Through Hypnosis
Both Terrible Advice
This Flirting with Magic video is kind of a tamer version of the insane and hilarious Found Footage gem, How to Seduce Women Through Hypnosis.
See more: Laughs, Viral Videos
From the week of July 18th, 2010
How Spencer Pratt Crashes a Party
Craziness
I love this. The Kenny Rogers get up made me laugh out loud… does this mean I am becoming a Spencer Pratt fan?
See more: Laughs, Television Personalities
From the week of June 27th, 2010
The White Castle Candle
The Aroma of Tiny Burgers
Whether it’s reservation only candle lit red rose Valentine Dinners or vampire claims, I like the style of White Castle’s stunts as much as I like their little square sliders (by which I mean, quite a bit). The newest pr oddity is their candle that promises the aroma of hamburgers (but according to this article doesn’t quite succeed). Still, like all the crazies that snagged these up right away (they are totally sold out online), I’d love to have one of these.
See more: Laughs, Fast Food, Home/Self Improvements
From the week of May 23rd, 2010
New Yorkers/Tourist Walking Lanes
About Time
Pat Kiernan thought it was pretty funny, but later NY1 Called the New Yorkers/Tourists walking lanes as “mysterious” and “ominous”. Obviously, I am with Pat on this one. So far, the prankster behind the lanes has not come forward.
See more: Laughs, I Love NY
From the week of April 18th, 2010
Winston the Cat
Kitty Pride
I love fourfour and the “kitty pride” segments, featuring that other Brooklyn exotic shorthair (my dearest Tiptoe isn’t the only one!) named Winston have been giving me so much pleasure lately.
The E.T. Halloween costume is one of my favorite things on earth, and the site features many videos.
See more: Laughs, Animals, Personal Blogs
From the week of April 4th, 2010
Peep Dioramas
A Perfect Combination
I love Peeps and I love dioramas, so you can just imagine how I feel about this Washington Post gallery. Below/after the jump are some favorite entries from this and years past.
See more: Laughs, Art, Candy
From the week of March 14th, 2010
Lololololo
L0, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo, lo
I think I like this Russian pop song (recently brought to my attention by Luke over on Rotating Corpse) most because of the complexity and depth of its lyrics.
See more: Laughs, 1970s, Russian
From the week of August 22nd, 2010
Epic Duck Face
Sexy Face, Down Pat
I may be late in discovering this but Epic Duck Face is truly… epic and an excellent use of the animated gif. Another animated gif favorite of mine? The Mariah Carey boob sweat sniff… which I sadly can’t find anymore 
See more: Laughs, Viral Videos
From the week of August 8th, 2010
The World’s Most Action Packed Movie
at Everything is Terrible!
Brought to my attention by friend Luke, and featured on Everything is Terrible! This is indeed the world’s most action packed movie. Which, if you’re curious means lots of gun shots, punching, screaming and a man being beaten with his own severed arm of course.
See more: Laughs, Action, Viral Videos
From the week of July 25th, 2010
Fat Booth
Iphone App
Like this week’s recipe, this silly app comes to my attention via Shaun. It’s called Fat Booth and it shows you what you would look like if you were morbidly obese (apparently I’d gain it all in my chin and become cross eyed). Do enjoy!
See more: Laughs, Electronics/Gadgets
From the week of July 11th, 2010
Giallothon
Have Yourself a Trailer Party!
Beautiful women, hunky men, high style vintage fashions, J&B, bright red blood, Morricone soundtracks, greatly terrible dubbing, skeletons, black gloves, Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov, and nudity – the Italian Giallo genre offers so, so much, but is sometimes most effective in small visual doses.
Often, though certainly not always, the movies themselves can be tedious, confusing, and too easy to forget. Giallothon, presented in two volumes, compiles these spin tingling, often psychedelic trailers about psycho-sexual killers and is a blast to watch. We have good friend and fellow connoisseur of the cinematic unusual, Matthew to thank for our copy – but you can buy yours at brutallo. Any fan of the genre would be remiss not to.
See more: Laughs, Horror, Italian
From the week of June 6th, 2010
If TV’s LOST was a 1987 point-and-click computer game
by Penney Design
I am seriously kind of jealous of my friends that are watching LOST from the beginning for the first time (they are blissfully ignorant hug fest horror of the final scenes) and only just saw the numbers on the hatch (remember how cool that was?) But this Penney Design faux video game is a great, really well done inside joke fix for fans. Sadly, I can’t get the animated version to load, but the screen shots are priceless. Other modern films and shows the design team has worked up in faux 70’s and 80’s style video cartridges are Wall E, Snakes on a Plane, and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
See more: Laughs, About TV, Design
From the week of May 16th, 2010
Slayer at Church
on youtube
Praise the… lord? Nope, Angel of Death!
See more: Laughs, Heavy Metal, Viral Videos
From the week of April 11th, 2010
Teabonics
Creative Grammar and Spelling
I didn’t get born to this grate cuntry to go baroque, loss our feedom and speak any lanaguage that not english, be a red communiss with socilism!
Spoken like a true Teabagger, a fringe (at least, I hope fringe) group that has fascinated me from the beginning with their unwittingly dirty name. Here is a photo collection of their unique spellings on recent protest signs. Prepare to feel superior.
See more: Laughs, Found Photos
From the week of March 28th, 2010
Jan Terri
Self-made Pop Star
Another gem that I first discovered courtesy of the Found Footage Festival, age defying (or perhaps “age confusing”) home made pop star Jan Terri is phenomenal. Her list of cable access hits such as Losing You, Get Down Goblin, Journey to Mars, Little Brother, and Baby Blues are catchy, mind blowing and rather touching in their earnestness.
The world needs more Jans! And, to be prefectly honest, her voice kind of sounds like a Runaways-era hit maker.
See more: Laughs, Found Photos, Viral Videos
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