Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Anything worth using is worth abusing

All contents reprinted from elsewhere without permission.

Buenos dias,

Ready, Aim, Focus
Where would we be now if the caveman that discovered fire had presented it to a "focus group" first?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuCAKuqRVQA


Animals Against Glass
Literally.
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/06/30/50-animals-squashed-against-glass/#onepage


Quick pic: Michael Phelps in the beginning
Swimming. It doesn't get any more exciting from this point on. (Thanks Kate)
http://vinweasel.posterous.com/michael-phelps-in-the-beginnin


Crank it
Listen as this dude tortures some poor call center monkey at Britain's version of 411.
http://www.videojug.com/film/prank-call-118-118


QuOteD
"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided." -- Casey Stengel


The Gallery of "Misused" Quotation Marks
Maybe on a sign at the "grocery" store, maybe in an ad in your "local" newspaper. Perhaps even in a "memo" that circulated throughout your company. They're quotation marks, and they turn up in the strangest of places. "Excellent" site packed with a number of apostrophic "abuses".
http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks/#current


PedX-ing abuse
A gaggle of arty types lies in wait and then parades across in an almost unending stream of wackiness. The drivers seem to take it in good spirits though, perhaps because they're French.
http://dailymotion.alice.it/video/x31umd_people-are-strange-remi-gaillard_fun


Game: Throw Me
http://www.thorgaming.com/includes/fullsizegame.php?gameid=386


Awesome rap sequence
And finally, check this vintage teen movie clip where a guy's coolness is judged by his rapping and breakdancing skills, boy-band style. Wait for it..."Look how funky he is!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEa1BYBgeQI


Famous last words
"Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that." -- Bill Shankly


Sayonara,
vW

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