Category: Humor

ESPN Courts Female Viewers With World’s Emotionally Strongest Man Competition

Another brillliant piece from The Onion. Excerpt:

During the show’s premiere, a two-hour special titled “Manhattan Blowout,” competitors put their bodies, minds, and spirits to the test in events ranging from the brutal grind of “Enduring Quietly As She Takes Her Hard Day At Work Out On You,” to the agility-straining “Throwing A Last-Minute Surprise Party For A Despised Mother-In-Law,” to the ultimate combination of strength and finesse, “Helping Her Over The Death Of The Cat That Always Hated You.”

Link.

79 Percent Of Americans Missing The Point Entirely | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

The Onion (America’s Finest News Source) has a great article on how most Americans are missing the point entirely on a fairly wide array of issues that they consider important:

“From the overweight housewife who eats bag after bag of reduced-fat Ruffles, to the school board that bans Huckleberry Finn for using the word ‘nigger,’ to the Manhattan stockbroker who uses recycled-paper checks to pay for gas for his behemoth SUV, the tendency of Americans to really just not get it transcends all boundaries of class, color, religion, sexual orientation, and political persuasion,” said Dr. Ronald Shaw of Georgetown’s Center For American Studies.

See full article.

If you haven’t really been reading The Onion, you should. It is amazing. The best coverage of the 9/11 bombings and the ensuing American reaction was in The Onion. Almost every article in that issue was spot on – from “Hijackers surprised to find selves in hell” (they were expecting 72 virgins) to “US vows to defeat whoever it is we are at war with” (be it Osama, or Saddam, or Taliban, or whoever). I have been a fan of the Onion for over 15 years. This was when it was just a small, local, print newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin (where I spent 8 years), before the web really existed, and before the Onion hit the big time with a #1 bestseller.

Sheep sold as poodles

My friends often think that I make up some of the stories I tell them. You can’t make these things up. I don’t have that much imagination. For example, see this:

Thousands of Japanese people have apparently been scammed into buying “poodles” that are actually sheep with fancy haircuts. The scam was uncovered after actress Maiko Kawakami showed a photo of her pet poodle on TV and commented that it “didn’t bark and refused to eat dog food,”

Pictures are here. One of the commenters there asks whether this is what is meant by a sheepdog.

Source: boing-boing.

Update: Hmmm… Taste of my own medicine. Normally, people forward me all kinds of internet crap, and I have to tell them it is a hoax. Now I got the same thing done to me. In the comments below, MJ points out that this is a hoax. Snopes (one of my favorite sites on the internet) has officially debunked the story. Serves me right for being too credulous.