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Another amusing article From Cracked.com.

Gotta love any top # list where each topic is sub-headed with: “So Where Does the Poop/Pee Come in?”

McSweeny’s has a great piece by Sarah Walker

“Assure Susan that you are a doctor and be sure to have made up a doctor badge that you can show her. It should be made of pure gold with something like five snakes engraved on it. You probably aren’t a doctor. If you are, good for you. That must’ve taken a long time. You must be very proud and possibly wealthy.”

Much to my delight Scare Tactics has been posted on Hulu. I had all but forgotten about the show that originally aired a few years ago — with host Shannon Doughtery when recently I saw an ad for an updated version with host Tracy Morgan. The problem with my being able to watch the show didn’t, however, so much lie in the choice of host (though I think Morgan is a bit appetizing to the palate) but in trying to figure out air-times. I’ve never been very good at remembering when a show is on and rarely do I tune my dial to the SciFi channel when there isn’t a marathon of some show that has been cancelled for several decades. Hence I’m glad that Hulu posted it and I get to enjoy the antics and pranks at my own leisure, creating a little mini-marathon for myself this morning.

If you haven’t seen the show its similar in format to the old “Candid Camera” or new “Punkt” format where an unwitting participant is duped into believing a bizarre scenario while the audience laughs at their stupidity. The twist with Scare Tactics is that instead of the premise being bizarrely funny in order to shock the participant it is based upon a paranormal event set in the fantasy or Sci Fi realm. The effect is to scare the ba-Jesus out of the person. For example one scene has a participant who is hired for an odd-job on a farm who’s owner (an actor) is very a very testing and demanding, border-line paranoid. The dupe along with his “co-workers” (also actors) are unclear about the whereabouts of the “owner’s” brother. They set about their work loading branches into a chipper when one of the co-workers disappears. The participant along while finishing the chipping work see a stream of (fake) blood shoot through the machine and upon discovering the half-mangled body of their deceased co-worker the owner returns and starts screaming about how they “didn’t see anything.” Of course, the actors are just portraying characters. The dupe, however, is shitting his pants more scared than he has ever been in his life until he it is all revealed as a prank.

One of the beauties of the show is not simply the premise — that scaring people is funny but in a lot of ways mirrors the popularity of folk-lore. That is, the skits concocted are slightly based in reality and are acted out real enough that placed into the situation the participant can’t tell that the over-acting and silly postulation are fake. By blending reality with fantasy the show achieves a sort of hyper-reality making true what cannot be. For the individual involved the reality of the sketch is de-facto reality.
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McSweeneys Internet Tendency: Thank You for Choosing the Hyatt Regency Purgatory. [link]

“Ice—Ice machines can be found on every floor. Guests are welcome to help themselves to as much ice as desired, except when enduring mandatory periods of purifying fire.

Newspapers—A complimentary copy of USA Today will be delivered to your room each weekday. Note: Though some guests may tell you that reading USA Today every morning is “hell,” we can assure you that it is not actually Hell.”

.. for the catholic

McSweeneys Internet Tendency: OK, Its Time to Talk About the Elephant in the Room. [link]
“So this isnt a question of me being uptight. This is a question of having a giant elephant in the conference room. Its huge. It stinks. And I think it might have relieved itself on one of the spare laptops.”

Shouts & Murmurs: Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers: Humor: The New Yorker [link]
3. Steal Cheryl’s famous potato-salad recipe. When Cheryl asks, “Why did you steal my recipe?,” say, “I don’t know, Cheryl, why did you break my heart?” Then laugh so she knows you’re just kidding.

(Via: Kottke

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This video should be standard curriculum in high school chemistry.

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UPDATE:
As soon as you post something up someone takes it down! Here is an alternate link to a quicktime version: [LINK]

These two Buttersafe comics speak to me for some reason.
The Organ Lender[link]

Death Ray [link]

There’s something relatable to me about suffering for technology or something. Then again maybe I’m reading into it too much.

Proving once again that on a rainy day YouTube is your best friend I found this small meme revolving around remixing film footage of Hitler to make it appear that he is singing or dancing along with pop songs. I wont subject you to the sub-meme of Hitler as an emo-kid.. I’ll leave you to find those for yourself.

Videos:
Hitler Plays the Banjo and Sings [link]

Hitler Sings the Darkness [link]

Hitler is the Scatman [link]

Hitler Sings I Saw her Standing There [link]

Hitler Sings ‘The Jeffersons’ Theme [link]

And for good measure: Spongebob als ‘Der Füherer’ [link]

I’ll probably rot in hell for this