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It's the little things that can make a difference... such as this Bagger machine operator taking a minute to bring smiles to the kids!👍🧑‍🏭 pic.twitter.com/fGVRru9dhq

— Madeyousmile (@Thund3rB0lt) May 18, 2020

This is cute, but I would have made my kids stand way back while the dumping was happening. (via Laughing Squid)

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Jkhkhjjmkhj! LOOK AT THESE BABY WOODCOCKS PRACTICING THEIR BOOTY BOP

Video credit: https://t.co/WNgg06nHQY pic.twitter.com/OikRng7bgd

— Kaeli Swift, Ph.D. (@corvidresearch) April 17, 2020

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Funny Links

21 Ways to Fix the Academy Awards Show. It's harder every year to get viewers to sit through four hours of Hollywood patting itself on the back.

Jack Blankenship is the name behind "The Face" that trolls basketball games. Once you see "The Face," you never forget it.

If you only watched the Patrick Swayze movie Roadhouse for the fighting, you can now see the whole thing in 45 seconds. Warning: this may leave your face sore.

The cat wants your attention. He will not take "no" for an answer.

If picking the Oscars were as much fun as picking March Madness winners, ...it would be a lot more fun. With that in mind, take a look at FilmDrunk’s 2012 Oscars Best Picture Bracket.


"UFO Phil" wants to be president, but he says he doesn't have to run for the office. Ancient documents from extraterrestrials give him the authority to assume power without an election.

It's just a flesh wound! Kids recreate the Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Betty or Veronica? Archie must once again take a side when the Occupy movement comes to Riverdale and pits the have-nots against the haves in the comic book town.

Drawing a dragon with dripping caramel is way beyond my abilities. But I would be able to eat it, artwork or not!




Morbid Home Decor. These products will give your guests either smiles on their faces or chills down their backs!

Links for Fun and President's Day

 10 Presidential Ailments of a Very Specific Nature. History records that several chief executives would rather stand, thank you.

Can you recognize these U.S. presidents by their baby pictures?

Presidential Pros and Cons, part one and part two.

The ridiculously difficult game QWOP is now made for two players to compete against each other. Yes, with 2QWOP you can double your failure! (via Waxy)

The new Jatech car door doesn't just open, but completely disappears underneath the car. No more door dings, no more getting blocked in, and no more slamming!

PeteyHendrix wrote a modern version of the classic comedy routine called "Who's On First?" with a twist -now the scene contains the names of real modern-day baseball players! (via Metafilter)

Texting while walking is dangerous, too. As proof, watch what goes on in the background of this news report.

Google thinks it has an algorithm to determine what makes a viral video funny. Not only are they "taking all the fun out of laughter," but their results are underwhelming.

Jeremy Lin and 6 other surprise sports sensations. The Knicks point guard gives us something to talk about during basketball season, but he's not the only sports surprise sensation.

A monkey at the Memphis Zoo doesn't want to be part of the scenery for your picture. He wants to be the photobomber!

It's a kung fu kitty! This street-fighting cat will mess you up.

Randy Halverson's gorgeous time-lapse video Temporal Distortion will remind you that the universe is a beautiful, wonderful place. The music is quite nice, too.

The World's Strangest Animals (with video evidence). Hollywood's got nothing on Mother Nature for stretching the limits of the imagination.

If TV Channels were Your Family. These are funny, but they also explain why everyone watches TV in a different room of the house these days.

Fun and Funny Links

The fan film that just about all Star Wars nerds wish they had made: Bye Bye Jar Jar. Many would pay to see the character get his just deserts.

An honest movie trailer for the re-release of The Phantom Menace. “George Lucas defiles your childhood for the second time in a third dimension!”

Watch this Beer Bottle Excavator Trick. The Bobcat E50 excavator operator no longer has to fill out employment applications; he just sends the video link!

Artist Carl Turner shows you what it’s like to go hunting in a Dr. Seuss fantasy world. These trophy heads look fake enough to set you at ease, but real enough to bring back childhood memories.

8 Common Animal Misconceptions. C.G.P. Grey busts these myths in a hurry, so try to keep up.

The Top 100 First World Problems, at least from a young single guy’s point of view. “No room in the refrigerator” is the common problem I am grateful to have.

The producers of the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter have released both a US trailer and an international trailer. For some reason, we expected a comedy, but the movie seems to take itself rather seriously.

Reverse Things is a video of various actions shows backwards, creating order from chaos. It looks like it was a lot of fun to produce, too.

Here are some pictures of cats who look like, dress like, or are possibly Photoshopped to resemble pandas. So you get two adorable critters in one!

Firefighters in Pennsylvania responded to a smokehouse fire and rescued 200 pounds of sausage. "This is definitely the best-smelling fire we've seen in a long time."

21 Vintage Cat Advertisements. Even a hundred years ago, advertisers knew what would catch your attention.

Joe has been digging a basement for seven years now, using his remote control trucks to remove the dirt. He's in no hurry to finish, since the "work" is so much fun.

Watch adorable but very real dogs re-enact the "spaghetti" scene from Lady and the Tramp. The scene was cute the first time around, but was redone to promote the movie's Blu-Ray release.

The University of Manitoba has programmed a robot to -wait for it- play hockey! The humanoid, named Jennifer, can hit a puck, but may need some help with its skating skills.

Valentines Day Links

Dating Dos and Don'ts. Watch for the point where the illustrations start to differ from the captions.

Valentine Flowers.

Kids on Dating and Marriage.

The Ten Worst Romantic Comedies Ever. The ones you'll want to steer clear of if you have a Valentine date.

Heart Shaped Meals for Valentines Day. It's one of the cheapest ways to get your romantic sentiments across.

15 Romantic Records Perfect For Valentine’s Day

Ten Out-of-the-Ordinary Valentine’s Day Customs.

The Oatmeal's Horrible Valentine Cards.

12 Hilariously Bad Wedding Proposals.

Now that you can get duct tape in just about any color imaginable, why not make your Valentine some duct tape roses that are darn near indestructible? (via Metafilter)

14 Geeky Valentine’s Day Cards.

Mitch O'Connell posted 34 vintage valentine cards that appear to be the type children would exchange at school, yet many of them contain double-entendres, whether intentional or not. (via Boing Boing)

The History of Sweetheart Candies.

23 Painfully Honest Valentine's Day Cards.

12 Science Valentines.

Links for Fun

 Basically Everything You Need To Know About The 2012 Grammy Awards. Hint: Adele won.

History’s Wildest Ballet Riot.

Weird and Wonderful Movies That You’ll Never Get to See. (via mental_floss)

The movie Seven Psychopaths is about a dognapping ring and the nutty people they steal from. A star-studded cast of crazies just might make it work.

The 15 Most Adorable Pictures Of Rabbit Bathtime. And then you have a clean, flea-free bunny to cuddle.

Retaliation. 

Why American Kids Are Brats. Oh, not every American kid, and certainly not yours.

Jordan Correa, a developer on the Microsoft Robotics Team, built a robot to interact with his dog while he was away at work. Geeks that don’t even have dogs would enjoy having one of these around!

Have you ever wondered how hard it would be to play pool on a ship that rocks with the waves? Modern technology takes care of that with the self-leveling pool table.

7 Tales behind the Tails. How your favorite pop-culture dog characters came to be.

The Nairobi Trio from the Ernie Kovacs Show.

Links for Fun

Here's a valentine for female movie buffs: Hot Guys Saying "I Love You." A supercut of what you really want to hear from a leading man.

The Lair of the Clockwork Book is the latest serial from Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual, about a book that constantly adds to its own knowledge, including knowledge about those who consult it. The serial began a year ago, so you can read just about all of it now.

The 1982 film Koyaanisqatsi, sped up to fit into five minutes, is a wild ride. The resulting short film is called Balance Out of Life.

Your daily dose of adorable comes in 20 pictures of cute koalas. Asleep. In trees.

At the Gym: Who is Looking at Whom.

The Criminal Lawyer's Guide to Criminal Law. It's part webcomic and part law class, and all interesting.

"The enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming." Werner Herzog delightfully explains how much he hates chickens.

My Humbling Experience in an MMA Gym. Don't brag about how tough you are -even to yourself- when going up against a trained fighter.

When an electrical plant exploded, people in St. Petersburg, Russia, thought Armageddon had come. That's certainly what the video looks like.

This geeky marriage proposal out geeks all the others: The question was popped totally in binary code. It took his girlfriend a half-hour to translate it.

What could be cooler than a compilation of nuclear cooling towers undergoing demolition? Those towers imploding with surprised faces drawn on them!

Valentine's Day Drink Recipes. You could call these recipes for disaster, after which you'll need a drink.

The Horror of Bunnies: 8 Rabbits to Avoid. This may give you bunny nightmares.

Fun and Funny Links

A cat learns boxing skills from watching TV. Cute video, but if you watch carefully, you'll learn its secret.

Carl LaFong & the Spunk Holler Boys perform Shortnin' Bread, with new lyrics. Listening may cause giggles and raised cholesterol levels.

Comedian GloZell takes the cinnamon challenge with a spoon that's too big. It's not so much that she fails, but how spectacularly she fails.

Catwoman Pepper Sprays Fake Ozzy Osbourne On Hollywood Boulevard. Other strange characters backed up Catwoman's side of the story.

OK Go's new video for the song "Needing/Getting" took four months of planning and four days to shoot before debuting at the Super Bowl. The car plays the music, but the real trick was singing and driving.

He's back and scarier than ever! The Osama bin Laden horror/war film you knew would happen has the terrorist coming rising from the dead as a zombie in Osombie.



You saw Matthew Broderick reprise his Ferris Bueller role for a Super Bowl ad campaign, but was it really like the movie? See the original and the ads side-by-side for a comparison.

A souped-up mobility scooter can be awesome and dangerous. Colin Furze gets his up to 50 mph, because he just don't care.

Three flavored beers that even beer snobs should try. Knowing nothing whatsoever about beer, I'll  defer to the writer's judgement.

The Toronto Zoo has an unbearably cute new baby polar bear. They're holding a poll to give the little guy a name.

Math Homework I Wish I Still Got. Jason's Plautz's teachers assigned problems that were way more fun than anything I recall in math class.

Links for Fun

Porn for Pregnant Ladies. (via Metafilter)

The annual Animal Planet Puppy Bowl on Superbowl Sunday will feature a kitten halftime show. See a series of adorable photographs taken during the taping of the halftime show.

If players in the Super Bowl were movie characters, which ones would they be? Difficulty level: they must remain in New York or Boston.

The film One For the Money managed to get exactly one sort-of-favorable critic's review. The best lines of MovieBuff's review stand alone as comedy gold.

A new Sweded version of The Phantom Menace was produced in honor of the new 3D theatrical release of the old movie. But it's better because it's free, it's not 3D, and George Lucas isn't responsible for it.

Remote-control "flying people" are released over New York City. Makes you wish you could be one of them, doesn't it?

Matthew Broderick reprise his role as Ferris Bueller in a Super Bowl ad. Watch the full-length version and note that the product is prominently but not obnoxiously displayed.

Masters of Food Art. Their mothers never told them to stop playing with their food.

All her life, actress Kristin Bell wanted to interact with a sloth. She got the opportunity on her birthday, and was overcome with emotion, as she tells Ellen Degeneres.

20 Actors Who Appeared on Law & Order Before They Were Stars.

Understanding Your Cat's Emotions.

Scientific Dining: Reviews of Research Institute Cafeterias (part one).

Fancy tips from cheap British magazines. Or: how to festoon your life with garbage. (via reddit)

Fun and Funny Links

Time Travel Movie Marathon. What a great way to spend a weekend!

Microwaves Ruin Everything shows you all kinds of things that shouldn't be microwaved -in slow motion. I'd have to disagree about the Ivory Soap, that's always a hoot.

Jaipur's Elephant Festival is like a big beauty pageant for pachyderms. They show up with painted faces, bejeweled clothing, and bells on their toes!

Smitty the dog has found his favorite film. Don't turn it off; you'll break his heart.

Boots and Cats and Bees and Beef.

6 Amazing Animals That Practically Lived Forever.

The Colon Rectum, and Other Weirdly-named Animals.

Anne Billson knows that the cat Jonesy is much more important to the 1979 film Alien than most viewers realize. So she wrote the story of the spaceship Nostromo and its crew from Jonesey's point of view. (via Maximum Verbosity)

Save the Date Photobomb. Can you find what Ben added to the scene?

The Mathematics of Boneless Pork Rectums. Read at your own risk. (via a comment at Arbroath)

Fourteen dancing robots make up a chorus line to celebrate Chinese New Year. Do you think they could put the Rockettes out of business?

Liam Neeson records an awesome outgoing phone message for a fan. Her phone has been ringing off the hood ever since.

Filmmaker Freddie Wong attempts to find and unlock the power of the Fire Flower from the Mario Universe. However, with great power comes great responsibility, or risk, or something.

Friday Fun Links

What Your Favorite Blog Says About You.

7 Amazing Stories of Lost and Re-Found Wedding Rings.

The meaning of friendship, told in pictures.

The World's Ugliest Cars.

It is strange enough that a little boy in China has light blue eyes, but reportedly Nong Youhui can also see in the dark. Sounds like a melanin deficit to me, but some are calling him an "alien starchild."

Artist Scott Garner created a work called "Still Life." It shows a bowl of fruit, but this interactive artwork is anything but still.

No, you can't ski the way freeskiier Tom Wallisch does it. But in these videos, you can feel like you are right there with him.

The video for "Dawned on Me" by Wilco features the first newly-drawn Popeye cartoon in over thirty years. Oh yeah, the band is also in it.

The Origin of the Beatles Haircut.

Meme Watch: ‘2/10, Would Not Bang’ Is Here To Help Point Out The Flaws You May Have Missed.

How my cat sees things.

Imagine AMC's series The Walking Dead as an '80s family sitcom, complete with the proper theme music. Silly? Go see for yourself.

Links for Fun

What kind of countdown was that? NSFW language, but oh, so funny!

Well this is interesting. (via Fark)

Probably the Craziest Finger Drumming Video You’ll Watch Today. The machine does amazing things, but it still takes talent to play it like this.

How Return of the Jedi Should Have Ended. Pointing out all the plot holes and what the prequels did to the story makes that last scene really awkward.

Winter Pick-Up Lines. NSFW text. Funny to read, but hearing these would leave you cold.

What if one of your battle robots stopped battling and acted like a real person? Archetype is a short film that's really a teaser for a possible future feature film.

Whaddaya know ...it turns out I don't need to see How I Met Your Mother because I've already seen Friends.

The Psychoanalyst Says Your Gut Says…

Michel Gondry directed a Japanese commercial, and it’s awesomely weird. There's no need at all to understand the language, and you'll be too busy laughing to listen anyway.

10 Famous Misconceptions Debunked. Don't believe everything you read or hear on the internet!

And the nominations for the 84th annual Academy Awards are... The winners will be announced February 26th.

This year, the Oscars nominations are more notable for their omissions than for the nominees themselves. Here are the most surprising snubs.

Fun and Funny Links

新年快樂 Happy Chinese New Year! Welcome to the Year of the Dragon.

Don't cry -that's a copyrighted emotion. Hitler reacts to SOPA.

In this video, a 5-week old Tonkinese kitten named Jumpin Jack Flash starts his training for a career in Feline Agility competitions. He’s already got a blue ribbon in “adorable.”

A French Metal group called Fadades is one you'll never forget. And for that, I apologize.

The 5 Most Insane Original Uses of Famous Products.

A skit called Surprise Party, performed by boobs. This is very much NSFW, but oh, so silly. (via Breakfast Links)

Star Wars Uncut is finally finished, and it's a real hoot! The two-hour fan film features the work of hundreds of filmmakers recreating the first Star Wars movie in 15-second increments.

A traffic cop in Quezon City, Philippines, really wanted to be a dancer instead. Many motorists are entertained nevertheless.

45 Cats Wearing Glasses. They must be hipsters, since cats all have laser lights for eyes and can already see everything.

These guys parked a bike in New York City and photographed it every day to see how long it would last. After a few months, folks probably assumed it was abandoned and resented it taking up a parking spot.

Funny Links

A conversation with a robot gets creepier the more it understands. He even looks human, at least from the front.

Amy Oops is having a contest at her site in which you could win a t-shirt!

You can't have a Brad Pitt movie without a scene of him eating (or at least drinking). There's enough material for a nice-looking supercut of such scenes.

This is a video of a dog on a chain. You will still be surprised at what that means.

If the gizmo you invented never found a clientele, it may end up in the Museum of nonsense. But how much nonsense does it take to justify a trip to Austria?

8 Things the Internet Ruined. But don't mourn the loss -the list of things the internet has improved or made possible is much longer.

50 Brilliant Fan-Made Remixes, Mash-Ups, and Supercuts That Will Be Strictly Prohibited Under SOPA. Select them from a menu on the right, and sat goodbye to the next hour or so.

Wait a minute, you need something light and pleasant to start your day off right. How about 32 Pictures That Will Make You Say Awwwwwwww. Guaranteed.

New Zealand has some of the best sheep-shearers in the world. They believe that sheep-shearing would make a wonderful Olympic sport.

Haley Joel Osment is back and he’s gay in ‘Sassy Pants.’ He's been in quite a few independent films over the past decade (since he grew up), but this ought to get him some attention.

Students doing homework were aghast that their main reference, Wikipedia, was gone yesterday. Adults had a field day making fun of the overly tech-dependent scholars.

Do-It-Yourself Molded Pumpkins. It's possible to grow sculpted fruit, if you're not too cheap to invest in the right equipment.

Funny Links

Beyonce's baby Blue Ivy was just born and already has followers and hangers-on. And that's just in the hospital nursery!

We've already got a remix of the trailer for the Ridley Scott Alien prequel film Prometheus. The footage from WALL-E works well, giving us a trailer for WALL-Etheus.

Get ready for the strangest Old Spice commercial you've ever seen. That's because Blown Mind is from Tim and Eric.

Redditor Vidzilla composed an apocalyptic story using the internet: website screenshots, photographs, social networking, generators, and news sites. Click on each day in order to follow the story, but be aware that the images become increasingly graphic and may be disturbing. (via Metafilter)

The Most Extreme Super Bowl Party Recipes. But why should we wait three whole weeks to try them out?

Little Chloe says, "Bye!" to people going down the escalator. Everyone who saw her was compelled to respond -and you'll understand why.

The Lazy Jedi. The ability to move things by using The Force discourages you from using anything else.

Web 2.0 Site or Don Martin Sound Effect?

The most insane surf footage you’ll ever see was recorded in Tahiti on August 27th. The waves look like they came out of a special effects lab for a disaster film.

The greatest calendar ever invented probably won't last past the end of January. Well, could you resist the temptation?

Snippets from movies were edited together to give us Lionel Richie's song "Hello." It's a strange idea, but impressive that so many of the clips seemed to be born for this project.

Drinking Games for the Mature Adult. If this is what mature adulthood really is, you'll need a few drinks.

Friday the 13th Links

Happy Friday the 13th! Here are some facts about this supposedly unlucky day.

How 'The Phone Stack' is civilizing dinners out with friends. Try this out and be amazed at the uninterrupted conversations that follow.

It’s beautiful, it’s intelligent … it’s slime. And slime molds might be the stuff of your nightmares.

Golden parachutes are getting bigger. Fired business executives get severance packages that set them up for life, even if they did a lousy job.

Homeland Security may be keeping an eye on your Facebook page. They routinely check social media sites and blogs, too, as part of its “Social Networking/Media Capability.”

This Chinese Women’s Volleyball Rally Might Be the Most Insane Thing You’ll Watch in Sports Today. They had to be exhausted afterwards, since it made me tired just watching.

Lucy the Yorkshire Terrier holds the record for the world's smallest working dog. The 2.5 pound therapy dog is adorable, which is hard work in itself.

The 7 Creepiest Abandoned Japanese Love Hotels. Apparently charging by the hour didn't cover expenses for these places.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about allowing swear words on network TV. Broadcast networks say they need the freedom to compete with cable channels, even though the networks own those cable channels.

New Uses for 5 Old Pests. If we can recycle invasive species, we can do anything!

What Rick Santorum Doesn’t Know About Sex.

Three-legged Puppy. It's a translation of the Brazilian comic MenTirinhas http://mentirinhas.com.br/ by Fábio Coala. (via reddit)

When Mitt Romney Came to Town is a film that could sink Romney's presidential campaign -if anyone watched the whole thing.

Fun and Funny Links

The 30 Best Taco-Related Crimes Ever. People who write for the internet will make a list out of anything, and I wish I had thought of this one first!

Why Do Nerds So Often Wear Glasses? Eddie Deezen (who should know) looks at the history of nerds in pop culture.

In the Friendzone. (via reddit)

Can you think of any movie that needs to be remade more than Police Academy? Sure you can, but it's Police Academy that's getting a reboot anyway.

Dogs are awesome athletes. Because you deserve a treat, here are 20 Funny Pics of Flying Dogs Catching Frisbees.

MySpace isn't quite dead yet. It's coming back as MySpace TV, which may be something like MTV was when it first entered the market.

A Bee Battle Of Epic Proportions. Around 30 Japanese hornets take on 30,000 honeybees, with an appropriate soundtrack for the war.

In the Friendzone. (via reddit)

28 Jokes You Can Tell Your Grandparents. They don't make sense anymore, but you may recall reading the original versions here.

The 10 Cheesiest Movie Moments of 2011. With an in-depth analysis for each over-manipulative scene.

After thirty years, I just found out the dirty little secret in Journey's song "Don't Stop Believin'." There is no South Detroit. (via Metafilter)

A history lesson for the History Channel. It was once called the Hitler channel, then the Nostradamus channel, now what?

Links for Fun and Entertainment

The Battlestar Galactica Video Game. If you haven't seen the entire 2044-2009 series, be aware that this contains spoilers, but its totally worth it.

Awwwright, Dude! Watch turtles give each other a high-five underwater.

A glitch in the new game Star Wars: The Old Republic has characters becoming invulnerable if they keep dancing. Add a little music, and you can prevent a war!

British footballer and actor Vinnie Jones shows you how to do "hard and fast" hands-only CPR. Or he might jump-start your heart just out of sheer fright.

The 6 Most Ridiculous Abuses of Diplomatic Immunity.

Literally Unbelievable is a website dedicated to documenting those moments on Facebook when people react to Onion articles as they were real news stories.

‘Huge Group Of Girls’ Is The Most Ridiculous Comedy Music Video You’ll See Today. All the better because it's sung my men. (NSFW lyrics)

Here's an ad that didn't make the cut in Dorito's annual fan-ad competition. I can't imagine anyone else making the chips look better.

General Zoi's Pony Creator lets you design your own My Little Pony. Five-year-olds and Bronies will stay busy all weekend!

Return of the Farting Jedi. Oh, it's simple and mindless and juvenile, but you'll laugh before it's over.

The Internet’s Famousest Felines. Enjoy the cats, but be aware this was written before Maru and Shiro became well-known.

Funny Links

How to Write a Ph.D. Dissertation.

13 Simpsons Jokes That Actually Came True.

The 1980s Film Alphabet. I guessed all of them -can you?

In a series of text messages and photos, a drunk octopus steals a diver's camera and then relates his adventures to other cephalopods. There's really nothing I can add to that.

Gravitas is a simple physics game in which you release a little red block by rotating the fence holding it. Or multiple fences. And please avoid the force field!

The dancing inmates at the Cebu Detention Center in the Pilippines have inspired a web-only musical production. Part one of Prison Dancer will drop in March, but the teaser should hold you until then.

If you are going to graduate this year, don't do this, especially in high heels. Hundreds of parents are videotaping the event, and your name will be enshrined for posterity.

A Supercut of Gene Shalit’s Most Delicious Puns. Each is like a very small bonus for listening to the movie reviews.

This is what happens when you give kids thousands of stickers. They take your boring monochrome decor and make it all happy and colorful.

This guy hooked together a Nao robot, a Kinect sensor bar, two Wii remotes, a head-mounted display, and a treadmill for the purpose of brushing his cat. All this technology only worked because the cat is extremely tolerant.

Is this a cheap foreign knockoff of Star Trek, or a parody that attempts to look like a cheap foreign knockoff? Does it honestly matter?

Fishing Under Ice is about ice fishing from a completely different perspective. That perspective is the fishermen standing upside down on the underside of the ice!