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This fine post about bathroom fixtures reminds me of why I read The Sneeze.

Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman have concocted a set of awards they call The Golden Clogs, described hilariously by Anthony Bourdain on Eater. My clear favorite category (though not necessarily nominees)?

THE ALTON
For being on Food Network and yet, somehow managing to Not Suck

Be sure to read the follow-up interview with Bourdain as well.

I threw this together last night in about 1.5 hours. Be afraid...


Eine Kleine Nachtfilm from ploafmaster on Vimeo.

Few publications can make me smile quite like The Onion, and their piece about the Patriots losing the Super Bowl could almost be confused for a serious piece :-)

Phunniest Pharmaceutical Pharce I've seen in ages:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrVqD67zils&rel=1&border=1&w=425&h=373]
(via Joshua Blankship)

Despite his most thinly-veiled comments, we all know he's guilty.

I just discovered this excellent tribute to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining on the Late Night Underground website. DRAEB EKIRTS!!!

I've not yet seen this Orbit Gum commercial on television, but my boss sent this around the office, and it's hilarious:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWDgQPSomGk&rel=1&w=425&h=355]

What the French, toast?

So there's a whole lotta noise today about the Justice Department opening a criminal investigation over the CIA's destruction of two interrogation tapes.

Wait...they're still using tapes?!?

Sarah Walker tells us how to roll out of a moving car. She's really quite thorough.

For your own good, please go to the website for This American Life and listen to this week's episode. Particularly the segment on Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble that starts after the introduction. Holy CRAP, it's hilarious.

Two Medieval Physicians Debate Universal Health Care on McSweeney's.

Finally, something to make my day feel a little brighter.

Nobody does Thanksgiving quite like McSweeney's.

I hope he never stops, because this is at least as amazing as The Show.

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My excellent wife pointed me to a series of commercials for some North Carolina car dealerships. The entire collection features a throaty, anthropomorphized badger who sells cars, and some of them are pretty funny. This one, however, is my clear favorite:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrtokRku20&rel=1&w=425&h=355]

Couldn't have said it better myself:

There are no words...only bewilderment...

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This is so true that it's almost not funny:

Silly Germans...tricks are for...oh, wait. This is actually hilarious:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbrcEAH9Q3U&rel=1&w=425&h=355]

Rebecca, if you're reading this, please let me know if I got the post title correct...

Dan Liebert, occasional verbal cartoonist for McSweeney's, has his own website. And it's hilarious.

Like so:

When I want a treat for Halloween, I need only look to my dear McSweeney's.

You'd be amazed at how cheap razorblades are these days.

Recently, my friend Dave has been spamming me with links to choice articles from The Onion, and today was one of the best yet.

Even though this glorious nugget is nearly 11 years old, you could essentially substitute the years and it would be just as relevant.

I wrote about Jessica Hagy's indexed back in February this year, and fortunately for her, so have many others more important than me.

I found out today that she's releasing a book through one of Joel Turnipseed's first posts to Kottke.org - an interview with Ms. Hagy, in fact.

The book is titled, appropriately, Indexed, and releases February 28th of 2008.

It's pretty effortless to laugh at the martial artist and would-be actor Jean-Claude Van Damme, but I don't think I've laughed so much at him as when I read Grady Hendrix's homage in Slate.

Eschatological: having to do with the end of the world.

Scatological: having to do with excrement.

Escatological: when the $#!% hits the fan?