Labor Day Laffs
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:
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They've been owned, Jim.
"We Suck"
No. You're just far too trusting.
If that kid isn't suspended/expelled/sent to sensitiviy re-education the terrorists win
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!)
Somewhere above the margarita fumes I sense uber pwnage of n00bs.
Bones wins.
They may be punks, but they ain't the first of their kind.
http://www.nysun.com/article/5576
http://harvardsucks.org/
Oh yes, the Harvard case! That was hilarious.
Yeah, those kids were suspended. Apparently making others look stupid is wrong.
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/highschool/news/story?id=2997862
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
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....
Sometimes I love Ohio... sometimes.
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.
Guided By Voices Motor Away (the good shit kicks in at about 1:05)
I don't know of anyome else from Ohio who is/was both good and famous.
Maynard James Keenan?
The Pretenders (Chrissie Hynde is from Akron), Talk of the Town
de stijl - but when she went back, her city was gone.
Maynard!
According to their quarter, Neil Armstrong and Wilbur and Orville wright.
Marilyn Manson
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"?
P.J. O'Rourke.
Trent Reznor is from Cleveland, right? And Drew Carrey?
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.
I grew up in North Carolina...
Show us some love for The dBs!
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
WE THINK LIBERTARIANISM SUCKS.
That was really me.