Category Archives: Funny

Saturday Video Roundup: Happy Birthday John Lennon! (or, Mashups delenda est…)

Today would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. In his honor, S&R is hosting a monster mashup party. Let’s get it started in here. Item 1: Guns? Screw guns. What we need is a mandatory five-day waiting period for the purchase of any audio or video editing software. Then again, happiness is a warm gun, they say. Although this is

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You write the backstory

Apparently Ellen DeGeneres has this feature where people send her horrid photos of themselves – it’s called Bad Paid-For Photos. Great idea and laugh-so-hard-you-cry-on-your-keyboard-while-people-in-surrounding-cubicles-wonder-what’s-going-on funny. Surely we can squeeze a little mileage out of this compilation of trainwrecks. So we’ll show you a photo, and in the comment box below you provide us with a backstory. On your mark, get

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Looking for work? Job ad of the day

Now this, this sounds like a great place to work. (I’ll post the entire text of the ad a) in case it disappears, and b) because it seems to be posted a number of places online.) TRUTH AND HONESTY WRITERS AND EDITORS (East Denver) Wanted – Editors/Writers To Sift Through 10 Years Of Our Truth And Honesty Writings Into Approximately

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Four Percenters Unite!: Study says some humans are four percent caveman

Hey, I’m not making this stuff up. We have met Neanderthals, and they are us – or about 1 to 4 percent of each of us. That is one implication of a four-year effort to sequence the Neanderthal genome – essentially setting out in order some 3 billion combinations of four key molecules that together represent the Neanderthals’ genetic blueprint.

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Can we please do something about the goddamned moguls competition?

Okay, help me out here. Last night I was watching the Men’s Moguls competition from Vancouver. Absolutely fantastic fun, lots of drama, the thrill of victory, apeshit Canadians, etc. But this particular event, probably moreso than anything this side of parkour, drives me bonkers. (No, figure skating and synchronized swimming aren’t sports. Anytime you can trigger controversy because your tutu

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