1) “A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. In the shadow under the green visor of the cap, Ignatius J. Reilly’s supercilious blue and yellow eyes looked down upon the other people waiting under the clock at the D.H. Holmes department store, studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste in dress. Several of the outfits, Ignatius noticed, were new enough and expensive enough to be properly considered offenses against taste and decency. Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person’s lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one’s soul.” (John Kennedy Toole)
2) Cheaters
3) Barack Obama kicks down the door.
4) “Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 0627 hours on January 1, 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate facedown on the steering wheel, hoping the judgment would not be too heavy upon him. He lay in a prostrate cross, jaw slack, arms splayed on either side like some fallen angel; scrunched up in each fist he held his army service medals (left) and his marriage license (right), for he had decided to take his mistakes with him. A little green light flashed in his eye, signaling a right turn he had resolved never to make. He was resigned to it. He was prepared for it. He had flipped a coin and stood staunchly by the results. This was a decided-upon suicide. In fact, it was a New Year’s resolution.” (Zadie Smith)
5) The Duke
6) Always funny, all the time.
7) “I’m into scales right now.” (John Coltrane)
8) “We’re quibbling over semantics, gentlemen.” (Traditional)
Fletch
Jeremy
Zack!
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Can I get a witness? Woot woot!
hmmm. islandsfirst…sounds familiar. Also makes me wish I would have signed on as isthmussecond. It’s funny because it’s a joke about land formations. Jeez.
Has anyone else thought that the video of the bear is less than candid? I mean the whole point of a trampoline is to throw things back into the air, correct? And didn’t the bear end up falling from a height nearly as high as his original place in the tree? Now we all know that it just would have seemed cruel to laugh at a bear falling directly from tree to ground but have some opportunistic youtuber insert a trampoline and grab their camera… This was set up. If i were smarter, I would have thought of doing the same thing and would have collected that cash prize from Bob Saget. And you are right, “always funny, all the time.”
It’s possible. If so, whoever thought it up is a comedy genius. But we don’t ask a magician how he does his tricks, do we? No, we just love the wonder of it. As such, I say we let it remain the glorious hilarity it is.
And compare to two similar videos, one which is far less successful in comedic terms, and one which is shocking (!) but still falls short of the transcendent qualities of the trampoline.