Fright club

Daniel Limmer's Emma is a short horror film that lasts just 15 seconds, judged best of the many entered in the aptly-named "15-Second Horror Film Challenge". The top 20 winners are conveniently available in a YouTube playlist.

And a little quiz... can you judge a book by its cover? In a quick 10 rounds, you'll see two books, one of which has a 5-star Amazon rating. How many can you correctly pick?

"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?" -- Maurice Freehill

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News Be Funny has compiled the Best News Bloopers of 2017 for your year-end viewing enjoyment. Best, worst, whatever... your call.

And people sum up the dumbest thing they've ever bought in a terse six words or less.

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." -- Colette

Travel guides

Behold a gigantic Hot Wheels track of your childhood dreams that starts out of a second-floor window and goes all the heck over the backyard and garden.


And prepare for a most interesting takeoff in Hamburg, Germany.

Takeoff from gifs

"I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio." -- Rodney Dangerfield

Ad infinitum

Not sure of the purpose of this performance from a human centrifuge of a dancer spins over 100 times without stopping and doesn't even seem dizzy when she's finally done, but it's fairly impressive.

And speaking of going on forever, Infinitown is a procedurally-generated city that never seems to end.

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Interchange of plans

Looks like a transportation planner's wildest dreams realized in this traffic simulator gone amok running cars through a series of wacky traffic junctions.


And also not real but maybe enjoyable nonetheless, retaliatory rocket-fire on the roadway.

Not today, MOTHERF****R from funny

"An object at rest tends to stay at rest, especially if you're behind it when the light turns green." -- Robert Brault

Elf retooling

A machine that wraps gifts in 10 seconds, though not particularly well, from inventor Joseph Herscher. (And check out some of the other nifty contraptions from Joseph's Machines.)


And the GIF that just keeps on GIFfing... the conversation on Christmas Eve.

The conversation my son and I will have on Christmas Eve. from funny

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people." -- Karl Marx

Mistooken identity

Enjoy the holiday neo-classic "Dear Satan", a heartwarming Christmas story from Hell spawned courtesy of a child's typo. Narrated by Patrick Stewart, no less.


And no reason not to drop my cigarette in there, right?

WCGW if I drop this cigarette down a hole from Whatcouldgowrong

"As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is." -- Eric Sevareid

Project runaway

Your next assignment: The Expert, a classic comedy send-up of the worst type of corporate meetings.


And seasonal greetings -- grumpy cat crashes Nativity scene, causes inadvertent Holiday cheer.

"There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." -- David Letterman

Fall colors

This is some crazy-ass domino-ing that sorta makes it look like the tiles are falling both directions at once. (Here's how it's done.)


And it's a shame that seemingly no one was watching this nifty pool table trickery. Thank goodness for the video.

Doesn't seem like anyone was watching from gifs

"Greatness is a birthmark." -- James Lendall Basford

Second chances

A pretty decent sketch in which gifts are for the giver.


And The Not Yorker is collecting rejected New Yorker magazine cover submissions to give them another run at the limelight. Enjoy the goodness.

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." -- Roy L. Smith

Smarter than your average

The most Canadian way to get rid of bears.


And is eavesdropping OK if you're someone like artist Avner Geller, who illustrates the funny conversations he overhears?

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another." -- Juvenal, Satires

Brush off

This 77-year old Japanese artist paints incredible works of art with Microsoft Excel instead of paints, a canvas, and all that usual stuff.


And a crafty use of markers on an unsuspecting whiteboard.

The perfect use of Permanent and Temporary markers. from funny

"The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist." -- Robert Brault

With a vengeance

Ambulance chaser Barry Glazer makes a compelling case for his possibly legal legal services in this instant classic of an ad.


In other trawling, this golden retriever shows off his expert fishing technique.

Golden retriever waits patiently with bread under its mouth to catch a fish in the wild from NatureIsFuckingLit

"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts." -- H.L. Mencken

Simmer up

The Onion's cooking videos are a perfect comeback to Gordon Ramsay and the scourge of lame culinary shows.


Also not serious, probably... smoking babies, suicidal Santa, assault rifle selfies, and other oddities from the Dark Stock Photos Twitter feed.

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— Dark Stock Photos (@darkstockphotos) November 21, 2017

"Preheat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place." -- Adam Peterson

World beater

This "Geography Joe" guy typed the name of (more or less) every country on the globe in under three minutes.


And you probably needn't have lived in either one to appreciate the differences between New York and San Francisco, humorously illustrated.

"California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character." -- J.B. Priestley

Tanks for playing

No explosions, but fair job with these Thomas the Tank Engine stunts on a toy train track.


And nine handy flowcharts to help you navigate the Christmas season.

"If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future." -- Danielle Steel

Das boot

Well-dressed fellow rips the not-so-effective device off his car so as not to miss his flight. Nice how he abides the law by not littering.


And road rage, interrupted, in a big way.

Road rage: interrupted. from funny

"Sometimes you feel like giving up, but then you look at other people who have given up, and the results aren't that good." -- Robert Brault

High boltage

Enjoy this astounding video of lightning strikes filmed in 1,000 fps ultra-high def, even if the somewhat overwrought music seems right out of a Michael Bay movie.


And an outdoor enthusiast @YouDidNotSleepThere calls out illogical and improbable campsite photos in stock photography.

A post shared by @youdidnotsleepthere on Nov 15, 2017 at 11:03am PST

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in." -- George Washington Carver

Paper jam

It's here -- OK Go's latest video made with 567 printers and God-knows-how-many sheets of paper starts out making you wonder how cool it could possibly be, and then...


And what does this GIF sound like to you?

Ooh look, I'm a @Twitter moment now https://t.co/bL2EvWHcnR

— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) December 4, 2017

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves." -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The lowbrow art of advertising

Either Toyota just didn't know or care that her eyebrow was falling off at the end of this commercial, or, they saw the opportunity for a successful viral campaign.


Other suspect judgment... morons trying to drift, in a BMW no less, meet with an unsatisfactory ending.

Trying to drift from Whatcouldgowrong

"It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have." -- B. Earl Puckett

Duck scoop

How fast can a duck eat peas? Fast enough to worry the cat, anyway.


And other dangerous critters, this guy is more than fairly fortunate, I'd say, after trying his best Steve Irwin impersonation with an uncooperative alligator.

If I try to be like Steve Irwin from Whatcouldgowrong

"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet." -- Colette

Sea for Colorado

The closest the Centennial State gets to the ocean... take a look and tell me how these incredible clouds are not a roiling sea?


And a form of levitation practiced near high school football fields.

challenge accepted pic.twitter.com/QQ1JWbkXx0

— ariel (@arielo1220) December 2, 2017

"The clouds -- the only birds that never sleep." -- Victor Hugo

Viscous cycle

Watch Matt Stonie (a little reluctantly, it seems) eat/drink three pounds of honey in four minutes without making me nauseated. Can't promise the same for you.


And artist Rochelle Javier makes soap that looks good enough to eat.

"Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great." -- Henry IV of France

Doomsday afternoon

Succinct and pointful one-minute short about a survivalist's last stand of sorts


And some specimens of strange street flyers with a message found on the streets of New York.

"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons." -- Johann Schiller

Same as it ever was

This is not my beautiful House... Donald Trump as David Byrne in "Once in a Lifetime".


And thinking ahead, some potential EU leaving names.

Potential EU leaving names

"Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own." --
Seneca

Anchor management

Vintage footage of a news anchor laughing hysterically about someone's tumor.


And a detailed, functional diagram of the human brain's anatomy in the style of a London tube map.

"The ear is the avenue to the heart." -- Voltaire

Stretch play

Check out maker and player Shane Speal rockin' good on one of his two-string cigar-box guitar.

And here's your chance to pull on Elastic Man's face and watch it snap back into place.

"Indecision may or may not be my problem." -- Jimmy Buffett