Category Archives: WTF
Camelflage! For a Sleeker, Smoother, Uh…
Ladies, I would not presume to speak at you about your undergarment needs. (I do not even like to utter the word panty.) But there is a website and a product out there that needs mentioning, and it is selling … Continue reading
Posted in fashion, WTF
Tagged bizarre products, camel toes, crotch shields, let's get clinical, the 'other cleavage'
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The Welsh Get Their Own Summer Sea Monster
It would not be a summer if there were not gruesome dead monsters washing up on the shore. This time it is a horrible tentacly mass, in Wales. A zoology expert quoted in the Daily Mail helpfully likens it to … Continue reading
Posted in Monster Squad, WTF
Tagged Doctor Who, geek references, sea monsters, Suck it Montauk, summertime is monster time!, Torchwood, Wales
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As If Trying For An Attractive Driver’s License Photo Wasn’t Hard Enough…
From the office of Total Information Awareness: Four states are ordering people to wipe the grins off their faces in their license photos. “Neutral facial expressions” are required at departments of motor vehicles (DMVs) in Arkansas, Indiana, Nevada and Virginia. … Continue reading
Holiday Road: North Carolina Woman Dumps Aunt at Homeless Shelter On Way to Disney
Beverly Edwards, you just dumped your elderly aunt, who was in your care, at a homeless shelter. What are you going to do now? You are going to Disney World. You crazy bitch you! Edwards, whose scheme sounds like it … Continue reading
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Tagged Disney World, ethically dubious vacations, granny dumping, people are fucked
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The Interrobang: The Punctuation Mark You Never Knew You Wanted Until Now
In the early ’60s a frustrated ad exec, for whom the usual combination of the question mark and exclamation point (?!) had lost the ability to convey the appropriate WTF-ness of a thought, came to create the interrobang — a … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar, it's new to me, punctuation, suck it emoticons, the interrobang
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Not-So-Final Resting Places
Here is a sign of the (end) times: A Cemetery in foreclosure! Apparently even that industry is not recession-proof. So then: what to do with the land? The Times asks an expert: “Given the current economic climate, people probably aren’t … Continue reading
Dear Everybody,
Can we put a moratorium on all thing Bro (Bromance, Indiebros, broviate, bromosexual and so on)? Please and thanks. It is becoming the Xtreme of the ’00s. N.B.: this.
All Your Jellicles Are Belong to Us
Musical maven Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is getting into the video game business, Playbill reports. The Really Useful Group, Webber’s entertainment conglomerate, wants to “take its portfolio of world-famous brands into the interactive entertainment sphere.” Those world famous brands, you … Continue reading
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Tagged jellicles can and jellicles do, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Really Useful Group, video games
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Burger King Debuts Meat-Scented Body Spray
What’s that smell? You like it? It’s my new signature scent: FLAME™. Whatthefuck is FLAME™? It’s “the scent of seduction with just a hint of flame-broiled meat.” Ew. And also true! Burger King is now selling this limited edition men’s … Continue reading
Better To Be Pissed Off Than…
As the saying goes, pissed on. This gentleman, Torey L. Devaux, is clearly unschooled in the art of wooing, and also has some problems in the rejection department. “Devaux was drunk when he argued with a woman he lived … Continue reading
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They Get Letters! From Prison!
Who knew club kid-cum-killer Michael Alig was a crossword aficionado? Apparently so! He penned a letter to Time Out New York, lamenting the loss of the magazine’s puzzle. “It’s the smartest crossword puzzle I’ve ever seen!” the magazine quotes from … Continue reading
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