Cake Wrecks
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Talula Does the Hula
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
(photo by Kirk Aeder)
A New Zealand judge made a 9-year-old child a ward of the court so he could change her name to something normal.
Her given birth name: Talula Does the Hula.
Apparently this case is not unique; previous New Zealand examples include: Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy, Number 16, Bus Shelter, Violence, and (a personal favorite) Sex Fruit.
What happened to naming your kid something normal like Kal-el, Zowie, Piper Maru, Jett, Gaia Romilly, Sage Moonblood, Justice, Christopher Sargent Shriver, Essenz Astral, Hopper, Tatum, Brawley King, Zola Ivy, Frances Bean, Saffron Sarah, Tito Joe, Prince Michael, Alchemy, Phoenix Chi, Fifi-Trixibelle, Pixie, Satchel, Calico, or Guggi Q. Hewson?
(via Angie, via Yahoo! News)
NSFW Friday Afternoon Countdown
Friday, July 18th, 2008Known as Stripper Fail, this nsfw video will definitely have you laughing for quite a while. Don’t worry, there’s no nudity here – it’s much worse.
Rejected Olympic Mascots
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Though China has five Olympic mascots (”The Fuwa”), several others never made it past the drawing board.
A Blogadilla exclusive: rejected Chinese Olympic mascots.
Maomao – Lil’ Mao Zedong.
Melmel – The Melamine Cat.
I take pleasure in knowing that I’d be shot for doing this if I lived in China.
Bigfoot Lawn Art
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Why I Hate Mark Twain
Saturday, June 7th, 2008Throughout gradeschool and highschool, English teachers repeatedly stated that it was our civic duty as Americans to adore and admire the works of Mark Twain. Years later and I still hate him.
Here is a revised list of the many reasons why I think Mark Twain is a douche:
• Tom Sawyer Island and the Mark Twain Riverboat are the lamest rides at Disneyland.
• He gave his characters dippy names like Huckleberry and Pudd’nhead. No kid would have gone by the name Huckleberry – classmates would have called him Hucklefairy or Fuckleberry. And Pudd’nhead already sounds dirty.
• Mark Twain impersonators (”Twainies”) are the lowest strata of the nerd pecking order – even Star Trek geeks and Renaissance Faire nerds make fun of them and beat them up.
• He was overly fond of the word “Yankee,” and often used it as an obscene verb.
• Mark Twain and Colonel Sanders used to go to parties together dressed the same. They thought it would get them chicks.
• Both Ernest Hemingway and Jack London could have taken Twain in a fistfight.
• At a time when people were dying of cholera, the standards for humor were pretty low. Frog jumping contests and suckering someone into painting a fence = SO NOT FUNNY.
• There are dozens of public schools and parks named after Mark Twain, but there isn’t even a single parking lot named after Elmore Leonard.
