The Greatest Christmas Decoration Ever!!!!
Yes, I know this is all over the place in emails...but I liked it...
Fantastic. Greg sends along this DIY FYI:
"Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever.Great stories. But two things made me take it down.
First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.
Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard."
Fantastic. Greg sends along this DIY FYI:
"Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever.Great stories. But two things made me take it down.
First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.
Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard."
Dead man slumped on balcony mistaken for Halloween decoration
Boo!
Neighbors on the 13900 block of Bora Bora Way told Raishbrook that they noticed the body Monday “but didn’t bother calling authorities because it looked like a Halloween dummy," he said.
Ban the pint!
Found over at Boing Boing:
The British Home Office is looking for proposals to make it harder to attack people with pint-glasses, including a mandate that all pint sleeves be made from plastic, or coated with shatter-resistant plastic. Because, you know, most bar-brawlers are fundamentally upset at the pint, not the people around them, and if they can't smash a pint sleeve, they will contain their anger and not use a chair, bottle, or imposing scarred forehead.
Q: Are We Not Men? Again?
YES! Not only is a new Devo album in the works but we're also going to get some fine and dandy re-releases and live performances...what? no Atlanta?
Warner Bros. Records released six of DEVO`s classic albums between the years of 1978 and 1984. To mark the band`s new deal, the label will reissue deluxe CD and limited-edition colored vinyl versions of DEVO`s 1978`s gold debut Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!and 1980`s platinum favorite Freedom of Choice, as well as a seven-inch vinyl single of "Jocko Homo/Mongoloid" on November 3rd. 11/03 Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda Theater 11/04 Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda Theater 11/06 San Francisco The Regency Ballroom 11/07 San Francisco The Regency Ballroom 11/08 Seattle, WA The Moore 11/09 Seattle, WA The Moore 11/12 Chicago, IL The Vic Theatre 11/13 Chicago, IL The Vic Theatre 11/15 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 11/16 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 11/20 New York, NY The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza 11/21 New York, NY The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza 11/23 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre 11/24 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre Penn & Teller iPhone app
Found this over at textually.org for the new Penn & Teller magic trick app:
"Basically, you have your friend pick a card from a deck, then you give them your iPhone with the app turned on. The app looks like your standard SMS text message interface, where they're putatively going texting back-and-forth with Penn & Teller to guess the card that they picked. There's a lot of sarcastic, funny patter, as the app asks questions about your card, then finally guesses what it is. You win!"
Tape Yourself
Exactly how bored are you and how much packing tape do you have on hand?
http://www.tapeyourself.com/
http://www.tapeyourself.com/
Old WeirdAssShit
The old WeirdAssShit is still available over here for now...but this
is going to be the new and improved site
http://esmokingguns.com/weirdass/
is going to be the new and improved site
http://esmokingguns.com/weirdass/
Breathing life back into WAS
So I've been running WeirdAssShit.com for more then a decade now but not actively in the last couple of years. I've decided to start migrating the site over to here and slowly start breathing life back into it...
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