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Posted on 04.26.13 by Danny Glover @ 11:36 pm
What a boring Congress that would be. If the Georgia Democrat didn’t serve in the House, we wouldn’t get memorable speeches like yesterday’s humdinger on helium, where Johnson waxed ineloquent about “a world without balloons” and comedians with that “high-pitched voice that we all hold near and dear to our hearts”: Or this gem from 2010, where Johnson worried aloud that the U.S. territory of Guam might “become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize”: Filed under: Government and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and People and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.26.13 by Danny Glover @ 11:01 pm
Vice President Joe Biden made news last week for advising American women to “buy a shotgun” for protection instead of an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine — the kind of gun Biden and others want to ban. “You don’t need an AR-15 — it’s harder to aim, it’s harder to use, and in fact you don’t need 30 rounds to protect yourself. … Buy a shotgun,” Biden said. “Buy a shotgun.” Let’s put that theory to a video test and see what happens: No wonder the woman who asked the question that prompted Biden’s response called it “sexist” and “the poorest advice he could give anyone.” Filed under: Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.13.12 by Danny Glover @ 1:28 pm
Donna recently called into the morning show of Y94 in Fargo, N.D., to gripe about inconsiderate deer on major highways. Over a two-year span, she was involved in three car accidents involving deer. She is convinced that she can solve this problem for her and other drivers, but no one will take her seriously. Her solution: Move the deer-crossing signs to rural areas and areas where traffic already moves slowly, such as in school-crossing zones. She reached that conclusion after realizing that every accident she had involving deer occurred soon after she saw a deer-crossing sign. “My frustration is that Minnesota and North Dakota departments of Transportation would allow these deer-crossing signs to be in such high-traffic areas,” Donna the Deer Lady complained. “I mean, I’ve even seen them on the interstate! Why are we encouraging deer to cross at the interstate?” The show hosts insist the call was real, or at least not a hoax perpetrated by them. They clearly were dumbfounded by Donna’s deer talk but (mostly) suppressed the urge to laugh out loud while she was on the line. “You seem to be under the misunderstanding that the deer are somehow attracted to the deer-crossing signs,” of host said. “Well, yeah,” Donna replied, “the deer-crossing sign is there to allow the deer to know that’s where they need to cross.” Here’s your sign, Donna! Filed under: Entertainment and Just For Laughs and People and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.07.12 by Danny Glover @ 4:22 pm
Unfortunately, Candy Corn Oreos are not an imaginary nightmare on Main Street. They are about to become a reality at Target stores thanks to some evil marketing genius with a sick sense of humor. The news is all over the Internet today, and I knew before I read it that someone covering the story was sure to use the phrase “outside the box,” which too often is synonymous with bad ideas. I’ve explained my animosity toward that phrase before. Now, with the introduction of Candy Corn Oreos, I’ve decided to revive my regular ridicule of the concept with a new feature on this blog. Consider this the first official installment of “Outside The Box.” While we’re talking about nasty attempts at sweet treats, enjoy comedian Tim Hawkins’ take on the subject to start your weekend: Filed under: Advertising and Business and Food and Holidays and Human Interest and Just For Laughs and Outside The Box and People and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.07.12 by Danny Glover @ 12:10 pm
There may be a few rednecks rooting for President Obama, but the president’s Democratic Party certainly isn’t a welcoming place for rednecks. Behold the “party of inclusion” and “tolerance” when its members are asked just how big their tent really is: Let’s recap that dialogue for posterity:
Where could all of these Democrats possibly get the inspiration for such elitist, bigoted ideas? Oh, I don’t know, maybe from the current standard-bearer of the Democratic Party? Filed under: Hatin' On Rednecks and Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and People and Rednecks and Religion and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 09.05.12 by Danny Glover @ 6:44 pm
This gem just surfaced in my Facebook news feed: We need a sign like it at our local pavilion, where on Labor Day a skateboarder decided to do jumps while wearing baggy jeans. His pants fell to mid-thigh every time he hit the ground, exposing his plaid boxers for everyone else to see. Tacky! Filed under: Culture and Just For Laughs and Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.27.12 by Danny Glover @ 8:19 am
Does this make you want to eat Little Baby’s Ice Cream? I didn’t think so. But it did make more than 2 million people want to watch the ad on YouTube. The ad clearly accomplished the goal of introducing more people to the Little Baby’s brand — enough of them that President Obama’s campaign paid to build a preview of its “Blatant” ad into the video pre-roll, which is what played when I just watched the Little Baby’s ad. But few consumers are likely to rush out and buy ice cream pitched as the key to “glistening skin” and “clean and clear pores.” Just the thought of eating Little Baby’s now makes my stomach turn. All I see are scary eyes and hairy cream. Filed under: Advertising and Business and Food and Just For Laughs and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 08.18.12 by Danny Glover @ 1:52 pm
A Facebook friend just stumbled across this knickknack in a country store. It’s every wild animal’s fantasy. Filed under: Culture and Friends and Hunting & Guns and Just For Laughs and Rednecks and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.24.12 by Danny Glover @ 10:55 am
I’m not a fan of “The Daily Show” or Comedy Central, the cable channel that airs it, but occasionally Facebook or Twitter friends will point me to a “Daily Show” segment that catches my interest. I missed one called “Working Stiffed” from September 2010, but I discovered it today thanks to a new list of the “Top 10 Conservative ‘Daily Show’ Segments.” The episode exposes the liberal hypocrisy of a labor union in Nevada that protested Walmart’s employment practices while engaging in those same practices toward the non-union protesters it hired. Ranked No. 1 on the Washington Examiner’s top 10 list, the staged report is hilarious: The top 10 list also includes a similar report where the show confronted liberal editorial writer Froma Harrop for her hypocrisy. She started a “Civility Project” after she personally had called tea party activists economic terrorists on par with al Qaeda. (Content warning: This video includes profanity.) This quote from the clip perfectly captures the problem with much of the do-gooder double standards of liberals: “They just don’t get irony. Even when there is almost a dictionary definition of it right in front of them, they just don’t get it.” Filed under: Entertainment and Just For Laughs and Media and News & Politics and People and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.18.12 by Danny Glover @ 1:29 pm
President Obama’s website team was busted this week for rewriting presidential history by inserting Obama-friendly text into the White House biographies of almost every president who has served dating back to the 1920s — 13 presidents in all. That ego-driven messaging tactic created great fodder for this parody video of “America’s fourth-greatest president”: Filed under: Government and History and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and People and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.17.12 by Danny Glover @ 1:13 pm
A Facebook friend shared this illustration today. It’s funny and sad at the same time: The message: Teach a man to fish … and the government will steal his fish. If you know the origins of the image, please let me know in the comments so I can give proper credit and a link to the source. Filed under: Culture and Government and Just For Laughs and News & Politics Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.27.12 by Danny Glover @ 2:02 pm
What better day of the week to post a wacky frog video than Friday. It’s Frog Friday! Filed under: Human Interest and Just For Laughs and Video and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.27.12 by Danny Glover @ 12:53 pm
That’s what one of my Facebook friends said yesterday when sharing this snapshot, captured by CU Independent photographer Andy Duann after a bear wandered onto Colorado University’s campus: Head to the CU Independent’s article for more photos of the bear incident. And while we’re getting cheap laughs at the expense of falling bears, watch this decade-old clip of a bear hitting a trampoline, which Shephard Smith plays regularly on his Fox News show: Filed under: Human Interest and Just For Laughs and Media and News & Politics and Photography and Video and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.23.12 by Danny Glover @ 9:31 pm
Our 12-year-old son has been brainstorming ways to make money so he can buy an iPod Touch. Maybe once his voice changes, he can adopt this teenager’s tactic and start charging $5 to record messages for people’s answering machines: The boy behind the voice is 14-year-old Jake Foushee, and the video above made him an Internet star. The Charlotte Observer has the story:
Foushee, who was on “Good Morning America” last week, is following in the footsteps of another Southerner who recently become an online celebrity thanks to Reddit: Zeddie Little, the “ridiculously photogenic guy” who spawned an Internet meme. You gotta love it when enlightened rednecks get their 15 minutes in the spotlight. Filed under: Entertainment and Human Interest and Just For Laughs and Media and People and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 03.28.12 by Danny Glover @ 2:50 pm
When I was a child, my Dad decided to go high-tech one Christmas and buy my country-born-and-raised grandfather a Polaroid instant camera. I remember the first picture Grandpa ever took as he held the camera at his waist and pushed the red button. The result was a blurry photo of nothing in particular in his tiny living room. I doubt Grandpa ever used the camera again! I thought of that Christmas Day as I watched this video of a German daughter asking her aging father what he thinks of the new iPad she bought him: Thankfully, my own Dad isn’t so far removed from modern technology that he would use the iPad Mom bought him for Christmas last year as a cutting board. Then again, he doesn’t get to use it nearly as often these days because Mom is addicted to “Angry Birds.” Filed under: Entertainment and Family and Just For Laughs and Photography and Technology and Video Comments: None |
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