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People Have Fun In Weird Ways: Tarp Surfing

Kelly — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:30:51 +0000

Not that I would ever want to spoil anyone’s good clean summer fun, because GCSF is the best, especially when it is set to a cover of a Louden Wainwright song, but uh, whatTF is going on here? You run across the tarp while people pull it over you so it kind of looks like a wave? That doesn’t seem like fun! That only seems like running on plastic. Like a weird poor man’s version of the parachute games you’d play during gym class in first grade, except somehow even worse than that description. Not that a game has to be particularly thrilling to be a fun game to play in the summertime. Like some of us, for example, might play a game with a frisbee they invented called “Mamma Mia!” where you stand in a close circle with your friends and throw a frisbee in the middle in a weird way and then call out the type of pizza thing it is, based on the weird way you threw it. Like, for example, maybe you twist your arms and throw it in the air and say “garlic knots.” You know? You get it? “Mamma Mia!”

Listen, I’m not saying that the game I just described, “Mamma Mia!” is any better or worse than tarp surfing. I’m just saying that maybe tarp surfing looks like not a lot of fun and maybe we should all try to get this “Mamma Mia!” game off the ground because hey that sounds like a great time. (Thanks for the tip, Andy!)

Let’s All Learn About Lawn Mower Racing

Kelly — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:30:42 +0000

At the top of this video, Bruce Kaufman (President of the US Lawn Mower Association) states, “A lot of people don’t know what to think when they think ‘lawn mower racing.’” And you think to yourself: Yeah, he’s right, I have no idea what that could possibly be. I mean, I have IDEAS. You race against a lawn mower? You assign races TO lawn mowers? You set them up and have them race against each other? And then Kevin Penne, a mechanic, comes in to explain, “Well, we got racing. And lawn mowers. And we just combined the two.” And you think: Ohhhh. So, wait, still not sure. You attached lawn mowers to race cars? Or legs. You attach lawn mowers to legs? And then you think, listen, just show me the rest of this mini explanatory doc on lawn mower racing because I’m just kind of floundering here.

This Machine Prints Foam

Kelly — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:45:11 +0000

Oh, great! Today is neat stuff flying through the air day apparently. When I woke up I had NO idea that it was that day, but it’s a very nice surprise. Did you get that the title was supposed to be like “this machine kill fascists”? It’s a very loose allusion, I understand if you didn’t get it. I would like to have one of these machines for barbecues this summer. I would spell out all of my friends names and then the things I wanted on my burger. (Pineapple, guacamole, cheese, fried egg.) Also:

Haha, yes, exactly correct. (Via Reddit.)

Good Morning Egg Miracle

Kelly — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:30:33 +0000

Good morning. It’s the morning, so here is a video about eggs. “Kelly, just because it’s the morning doesn’t mean we’re going to care about a video about eggs.” Oh, really? Well you don’t even know what the video is about yet. Maybe you are going to care about it. Maybe it’s going to be about how eggs develop, which would be very gross but probably interesting to watch. Or about a statue made of egg shells. You have no idea. I’ll tell you what it’s about right now, though. You may have guessed already from the image associated with this post but hold on a second, gosh, just cool it down for one second it’s just so early in the morning, I don’t know where you’re getting the energy for this. What did you have for breakfast this morning? An egg with a double yolk? A whole carton of eggs with double yolks? Well, first of all, I think you’re lying. I doubt you ate a whole carton of eggs this morning and even if you did I highly doubt they were all double yolks. But maybe SOMEONE had a whole carton of eggs with double yolks this morning, that they did or did not eat afterwards. I don’t know, I’m just saying that someone maybe had that. And by “this morning” I mean “a morning.” And by all of these words I mean “watch this video.”

Crazy Hula Hoop POV Video I Barely Understand

Kelly — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:15:17 +0000

When I had a (very important) office job (selling concert tickets) (over the phone) (in a room with no windows), I would always appreciate when there were videos on Videogum that you didn’t need to put your headphones over your (very important) headset to enjoy. Here is a video like that! A guy attached a camera to a hula hoop and the results are very confusing and disorienting and embarrassing, kind of. Is anyone else embarrassed? Or sick? Is everyone sick? Because maybe it will make you feel sick. But ALSO, why haven’t I seen a video like this before? This seems like an idea every student in every film school would have had every day of every term. Maybe it’s hard to rig a camera like this and you have to be a genius? I’m not a camera genius, but I’m sure that that is definitely not the answer. Just, you know, tape it on. Movie secrets. This stupid thing should be in every student film. You’re welcome, students. Here’s another example:

Skittles Ads Update: Yup, Skittles Ads Are Still Weird

Gabe — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:00:41 +0000

It’s nice to know that we are a full month into 2011 and Skittles ads are still so weird. In this topsy-turvy world it’s nice to have something to hold onto!

Hey, You Look Great

Gabe — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:15:29 +0000

This is just definitely a very normal ad for clothes. “What? You don’t wear clothes?” That’s what the guy who made this says. “Then what do you put on your moustache when traveling through the mirror to the parallel dimension of pure light and sound?” He has a point, you guys. (Via Robert Popper.)