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200ft Inflatable Turd Crashes in Switzerland, No Injuries

August 13th, 2008 @ 8:24 am by zymetric

As first reported by the guardian, a 200ft inflatable dog turd went afloat and caused quite a ruckus at the Swiss museum, in Berne on July, 31st.
According to officials, the ‘art installation’, was intact with a “self deflate” system in case of bad weather, but the system seems to have “overflowed” if you […]

Breaking: Bin Laden using Groucho disguise

July 29th, 2008 @ 11:34 am by zymetric

As first reported by dotpenn late yesterday, the FBI believes that Osama is using a fake moustache & glasses to thwart capture somewhere near the Pakistan border. Below is an artist rendering.

Giambi’s Moustache Popularity Growing Wild

July 10th, 2008 @ 3:39 pm by zymetric

If you haven’t heard, Jason Giambi of the New York Yankees has been growing out a moustache for the last month or so and its popularity with fans has grown out of control. More recently he was nominated for a spot on the All-Star team (voting ends at 5pm today). Part publicity, and […]

Utica Attempting Groucho Record

June 25th, 2008 @ 10:47 am by zymetric

If you happen to be in Utica, NY on Sunday, July 13th then why not participate in a Guinness world record attempt. Organizers hope to hand out 7,000 pairs of glasses to participants running in their annual boilermaker race. This is far more glasses than the last few attempts (and the official record), […]

This Novemeber, Vote Chicken

May 21st, 2008 @ 9:30 am by zymetric

Eh, talk about your rubber-chicken-circuit politics.

130 Million Year Old Poop

May 6th, 2008 @ 4:54 pm by zymetric

Speaking of poop in the news, can’t believe we missed this headline last week. According to CNN, A 71yr old man in Ohio is now the proud owner of a 130 million year old dinosaur ’specimen’ that he won via auction.
“Poop is a big business in the pet industry.”
This is not to be confused […]

Art Happens

May 2nd, 2008 @ 4:37 pm by zymetric

They say that beauty is in the eye of the holder. Well it appears that school officials at the prestigious University of Virginia don’t gree with that statement, and don’t have much of a sense of humor.
UVA, just a few hours drive from here, recently vetoed a student’s art project from appearing in a […]

Drop in Sales of Rubber Chickens at SF Giants Stadium

May 2nd, 2008 @ 1:14 pm by zymetric

According an in-depth fox sports article from yesterday, last season SF giant’s fans used rubber chickens to show support for Barry Bonds during his, er, trials & tribulations. Weeks before he was indicted on perjury & obstruction charges by a U.S. district court, the SFG franchise opted not to renew his contract.
So serious an […]

On A Serious Note

April 16th, 2008 @ 11:31 am by zymetric

As a company of twenty-somethings from Virginia, we would like to take a moment and extend our thoughts and prayers to the entire student body of VT, the faculty, the families, and everyone involved. For those of you who don’t know, today is the 1 year anniversary of last years massacre.
You can read commentary […]

Johnny on The Spot

April 2nd, 2008 @ 1:37 pm by zymetric

As we blogged back in 2005, Johnny Depp is a huge prankster and has been known to use fart machines and other props & gags on many, if not all of his sets.
Now, according to an post tribune article published earlier today, Depp has been caught again with his trusty whoopee cushion, this time on […]