Archive for March, 2008, click title to see full post
March 31st, 2008 @ 4:03 pm by zymetric
Friday, a reporter from the Canadian National Post detailed the history of how the whoopee cushion accidentally came to be. Until recently it was assumed that Americans had invented the greatest farting gag.
[JEM Rubber Co.] produced parts for printing companies. In the late 1920s, it moulded an inflatable bag that farted. Possibly it was [...]
No Comments | Posted in In The News, industry
March 28th, 2008 @ 4:07 pm by zymetric
Normally we don’t pre announce products, but we just can’t contain our excitement about a new line about to launch tuesday. Actually, we have alot of things to announce soon. Here is a teaser.
1 Comment | Posted in Announcements, Product Placement
March 27th, 2008 @ 2:38 pm by zymetric
One of the shifts in our new homepage layouts has been to make video & other media more prominent, above the fold. While we have been posting silly videos since 2005, it hasn’t been until recently that the video bug really got us. It must have something to do with the blogging [...]
No Comments | Posted in Product Placement, staff videos, videos
March 26th, 2008 @ 10:32 am by zymetric
So you think you’re funny?
Do you have a better caption for this old Guinness ad that Kyle William found? If so, let us know and you could win a brand spanking new 22″ deluxe rubber chicken like the one pictured. We have never tried one of these caption contests, so with (or without [...]
18 Comments | Posted in Announcements, contests
March 25th, 2008 @ 11:43 am by zymetric
Speaking of cool new videos, check out this new tee-v pilot that just launched Monday, from our favorite t-shirt company . But we aren’t writing about them here because we love them, plenty of others do that.
We are writing about it because they used not only our pooping pig keyrings, but also our silly [...]
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March 25th, 2008 @ 11:12 am by zymetric
For all of you pranksters who aren’t buying your practical jokes, we found instructions for homemade dog poop cookies. Not the edible chocolate poop kind either (sold out for Easter).
No Comments | Posted in General Crap, videos
March 24th, 2008 @ 12:19 pm by zymetric
According to a recent study published Friday, the 2008 laughing index has jumped 4% in the last 12 months, which is not good news for the already weakened dollar. The index, a cumulative measure of 16 humor indicators tracks, among other things:
The cost of a single issue of Mad magazine
The wholesale prices of rubber [...]
No Comments | Posted in Announcements, In The News, industry
March 24th, 2008 @ 11:30 am by zymetric
According to a press release from comscore, young people aged 18-34 are more likely to read headlines than those aged 65 and older, and get most of their news online vs. traditional newspapers.
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March 21st, 2008 @ 2:09 pm by zymetric
Because it is video Friday, we have two more videos for you. Both are set to Al Yankovich’s parody, ‘Oops I farted again’. The first video was shot just under 2 years ago and has over 712,000+ views. The second has just under 40, but was just uploaded yesterday.
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March 21st, 2008 @ 12:34 pm by zymetric
Crunchgear, the gadget review arm of techcrunch, just reviewed our shocking ipod. Surprisingly there is no way to embed the video, but you can watch it there or on techcrunch. It is worth the click (NSFW language).
And below is a video of one of our older models. Currently we [...]
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