Labor Day Laffs

Nick Gillespie | September 3, 2007

Courtesy of Joe R comes two YouTubes worth checking out.

Up first is a prank pulled by an enterprising high school kid who pranked the entire cheering section of a rival school at a football game. Rest easy, America, as long as we're still producing punks like this one!:

And then stop the clock on that 3-dimensional chess match you're having with Charlie X and check out this inspired vid mashup of Leonard Nimoy's "Highly Illogical" song with Star Trek footage. This may be one of the reasons why the terrorists hate us--and why the US of A is still number one:

Comments

|9.3.07 @ 8:10PM|#

They've been owned, Jim.

|9.3.07 @ 8:18PM|#

"We Suck"

No. You're just far too trusting.

Harris Klebold|9.3.07 @ 8:29PM|#

If that kid isn't suspended/expelled/sent to sensitiviy re-education the terrorists win

|9.3.07 @ 8:32PM|#

Cool. But Spock said, "From far beyond the galaxies" He shoulda said "From far beyond the galaxy" Oh-Unless he was referring to a specific group of Galaxies. That's the only way that the plural form would make sense.

(Geez, just one little bit of Star Trek and I go right into geek mode!)

|9.3.07 @ 8:48PM|#

Somewhere above the margarita fumes I sense uber pwnage of n00bs.

Bones wins.

|9.3.07 @ 8:56PM|#

They may be punks, but they ain't the first of their kind.

http://www.nysun.com/article/5576

http://harvardsucks.org/

iih|9.3.07 @ 9:56PM|#

Oh yes, the Harvard case! That was hilarious.

|9.3.07 @ 11:49PM|#

Yeah, those kids were suspended. Apparently making others look stupid is wrong.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/highschool/news/story?id=2997862

CL|9.4.07 @ 12:54AM|#

No love for pranking the Cameron Crazies?

http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2006/01/11/SportsmBasketball/Policy.Changes.After.Cheer.Hoax-1476643.shtml

|9.4.07 @ 1:14AM|#

They won! Doesn't that count? Oh wait, winning doesn't give them self esteem, that comes from being loved by your rival. Back to your regular programming....

penxv|9.4.07 @ 2:22AM|#

Sometimes I love Ohio... sometimes.

|9.4.07 @ 4:44AM|#

Beside Jesse Walker being from Ohio, another reason to love the place is that's where Devo is from!! Here they are on a fun field trip to the southwest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UXqiEf6l4E

And here's Jesse's personal blog (quite interesting):

http://jessewalker.blogspot.com/

Other than Devo, Jesse, and that Taft fellow, I don't know of anyome else from Ohio who is/was both good and famous. If I left anyone out, just list em along with links to their blogs, vids, or any books that they wrote.

|9.4.07 @ 7:42AM|#

Guided By Voices Motor Away (the good shit kicks in at about 1:05)

|9.4.07 @ 8:05AM|#

I don't know of anyome else from Ohio who is/was both good and famous.

Maynard James Keenan?

|9.4.07 @ 8:27AM|#

The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde is from Akron), Talk of the Town

|9.4.07 @ 8:39AM|#

de stijl - but when she went back, her city was gone.

|9.4.07 @ 9:00AM|#

Maynard!

lunchstealer|9.4.07 @ 9:38AM|#

According to their quarter, Neil Armstrong and Wilbur and Orville wright.

Xaaba Zu|9.4.07 @ 9:53AM|#

Marilyn Manson

|9.4.07 @ 10:01AM|#

de stijl,
I saw that video on the old "Matador at 10" DVD, and I always wondered why GBV included the "Auditorium" part of the song - BESIDES THAT IT ROCKS!!!!!!11!!1!

Also, is one of the lines "Sweet sham peter the pig"?

rho|9.4.07 @ 10:41AM|#

P.J. O'Rourke.

|9.4.07 @ 10:56AM|#

Trent Reznor is from Cleveland, right? And Drew Carrey?

Jesse Walker|9.4.07 @ 10:58AM|#

Beside Jesse Walker being from Ohio, another reason to love the place is that's where Devo is from!

No Ohio roots here, Rick. I grew up in North Carolina, and I currently live in Maryland. But Pere Ubu is from Ohio -- that must count for something.

Since everyone else on the staff is linking to video mash-ups, I'll throw in this.

|9.4.07 @ 11:02AM|#

I grew up in North Carolina...

Show us some love for The dBs!

Dave|9.4.07 @ 12:29PM|#

Go Caltech!
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/pranks/rosebowl.html

(And somebody else mentioned the recent pranking of Harvard; somebody should tell the clowns responsible for the suspension about the outcome of that one:
Harvard officially reacted to the prank with tolerance.

It was "all in good fun," the school's director of athletic communications, Chuck Sullivan, said yesterday.
http://www.nysun.com/article/5576?page_no=3)

|9.4.07 @ 1:18PM|#

Well, it would have been funny if the words "WE SUCK" were actually, like, legible. Even the video maker realized viewers needed the cheat sheet.

Jesse Walker|9.4.07 @ 1:21PM|#

Show us some love for The dBs!

I dig the dBs, especially "Amplifier" and "Lonely Is As Lonely Does." I love all those jangly '80s NC acts: dBs, Don Dixon, Parthenon Huxley, etc.

|9.4.07 @ 3:14PM|#

Jesse,

Sorry, I woulda sworn that I remember reading that you had Ohio roots or that you lived there.

If I ever report that I was kidnapped by space aliens or something, be very skeptical of my story.

|9.4.07 @ 3:40PM|#

Lotsa fine folks from the Buckeye state. Whatsa Buckeye?

P.J. O'Rourke is a delight to read.

Thank you, Wilbur and Orville wright.

Here are The Pretenders!! - "Middle of the Road"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdd0PJqslfE

|9.4.07 @ 7:51PM|#

WE THINK LIBERTARIANISM SUCKS.

|9.4.07 @ 7:53PM|#

That was really me.