a Faux Pas

Them Thangs. nsfw

Them thangs is right.  A serious cocktail of wacky, weird, symbolic, druggy, female, poetic oddness.  I feel like I know the guy who posted this up after scrolling through the whole thing.  This is sure to be the best collection of pictures you’ve seen today.  Oh, I should have warned you… there was nudity.  Sorry about that, I hope you didn’t get fired.

- Regretfully, AFP

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How’s that for the first picture back?  Wilt Chamberlain, Arny and Andre on the set of Conan the Barbarian.

Andre the Giant was and is a lengend.  Not just for what he did inside the ring, but what he did outside of it.  The Selvedge Yard has taken it upon themselves to dig up all the best Andre the Giant pictures I’ve ever seen and relate some of the tales of his ridiculous booze habit.  A habit that could exceed a case of beer every 90 minutes (not humanly possible? Andre wasn’t human..).

First, consider the number 7,000. It’s an important number, and a rather scary one considering its context, which is this—it has been estimated that Andre the Giant drank 7,000 calories worth of booze every day.The figure doesn’t include food. Just booze.

7,000 calories.

Every day.

I don’t know about you, but it makes my brain turn somersaults. Hell, it makes my brain perform an entire floor routine, complete with colored ribbons.
via TheSelvedgeYard

A monster among men, a god among mortals, and a scary booze habit to boot.  Get out of the way.

- Still in awe, AFP

Awful Library Books indeed!  Metafilter user wendell put together a terrific post exploring some of the best posts from the Awful Library Books blog.  One of the better posts included this book with some rather outdated commentary:

Volumes that are so outdated or so outmoded that they no longer belong in a public library.Your grandfather’s Computer Science. Your grandfather’s Rocket Science. Your grandmother’s Feminism.Your great-grandmother’s Pre-Feminism. (And your great-grandfather’s.) Your grandparents’ parents! World Powers that no longer exist! Old predictions that didn’t happen! Bios of people when they were famous for something else! Roller Disco! Books considered crackpot when they were new! Stuff even the Politically Incorrect would think are Just Plain Wrong! And more!
(via Metafilter and Neatorama)

How about these bonus nuggets of advertisements that I’ve scrounged from the internets…
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Housekeeping Monthly – The 1955 version:

Every good woman needs a good spanking:

Lysol is what is missing in your marriage.  Not love:

The answer to this question is “certainly.”  That is, when she can’t work a simple postage machine:

And the age old picture that’s made its round on the web for years:

- Still impressed with the boldness of our grandparents, AFP

I hope you have a few hours to spare.

Slate.com has hit the nail on the head.  What’s popular these days?  Mocking a narrow slice of life and devoting a webpage to it.

Coined Single-Topic Blogs (or single serving blogs), these slices of life use crowd-sourcing to collect pictures (with captions for effect), comments, statuses… anything; some have even received book deals.

You may have already heard of some of the bigger ones through word of mouth:

• Textsfromlastnight.com Forward your embarrasing or dissapointing texts, get laughs.  Too many to list.
• Fmylife.com Write a sad/funny story about your life with FML at the end.  Simple.
• failblog.com The quintessential collection of all things we fail at.  A picture or video with the word: Fail. Examples are here.
• Awkwarefamilyphotos.com Obvious… Some of my favs.
• thisiswhyyourefat.com Brought us classics like the McGangbang.

But, these were not the first.  Remember back when you first heard about LolCats from icanhascheezburger.com?  Started by the web zealots at 4chan.org, it chronicled the best pictures of cats with the most ridiculous misspelled captions (lolcatspeak).  4chan (started by moot in 2003) has been responsible for some of the most juvenile and hilarious events of crowd-sourcing on the net.  They’ve been credited with the creation/popularization of internet memes like lolcats, rickrolling, Anonymous’ war against Scientology, even rigging Time Magazine’s Most Influential Person voting through hacks.

These days the topics are getting even narrower.  Slate’s twitter roundup produced some more that you may not have heard of, or have just heard of:

• Thereifixedit.com Simple fixes to everyday problems.
• latfh.com Look At This Fucking Hipster has some gems like this, or this.  NSFW Bonus: lookatthishipsterfucking.  Not linked on purpose..
• petswhowanttokillthemselves.com So sad.  So cute.
• fupenguin.com Yea.. you tell that animal who’s boss.
• lovelylisting.com Bad real estate listings, funny photos.  Bonus: The Chair updates.
• cakewrecks.blogspot.com Exactly that.  Some are just gross awesome.
• asleeponthesubway.tumblr.com I’ve been guilty of this one.
• stuffwhitepeoplelike.com Well I like this too.  Does that count?
• happiestpeopleever.tumblr.com Ironic.
• stfumarrieds.tumblr.com Mocking married peoples’ status.
• owltattoos.blogspot.com Because owl tattoos kick ass.
• theyahooanswers.tumblr.com People ask the darndest things.
• sexypeople-blog.com More irony
• unicornwolflazersfuckyou.tumblr.com Um, what?
• whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com Excellent question.
• lasercats.tumblr.com Cat plus laser eyes.

The “Fuck Yeah” category:

• fuckyeahcilantro.tumblr.com Celebrating cilantro in spite of all you haters.
• fuckyeahryangosling.tumblr.com
• fuckyeahannehathaway.tumblr.com.
• fuckyeahanimalswithcasts.tumblr.com
• fuckyeahvans.tumblr.com
• (many more aren’t included because they aren’t funny.  Sorry fuckyeahpuppies.tumblr.com and cuteoverload.com.  You’re relegated to fuckyeahfuckyeahs.tumblr.com)

The Slate author Farhad Manjoo has even started his own tumblr account to keep track of the STBs called lookatthisfuckingtumblr.tumblr.com.  Still in its infancy, we’ll see if it takes off with the stiff competition from fuckingcurated.tumblr.com.

Some more bonuses just because they’re interesting:

• stealourideas.tumblr.com
• moviesinframes.tumblr.com
• I’m getting tired.  Find the rest on your own.  If you have any more, list them in the comments!

- Think I’d let you leave without a bonus? AFP

In September of 2008, two Austrians traveled 13,000km by rail from Vienna to Pyongyang – without asking permission and going through the official Koran travel agency.  Travelling via Slovakia, Ukraine and Russia, they chatted up North Korean border officials, were invited to eat lunch by North Koreans on the train, spent 36 hours without a guide, reaching areas not normally accessible to tourists.

Travelogue with photos:
Vienna-Moscow : Moscow-Barnaul : Barnaul-Irkutsk : Irkutsk-Skovorodino
Skovorodino-Khabarovsk : Russia-DPRK : Tumangan
Kilchu-Pyongyang 1 : Kilchu-Pyongyang 2 : Pyongyang & Mt. Myohyang
Arirang Games, &c. : The Demilitarized Zone

via Metafilter

You can even check out their route on Google Earth.  Give Kim Jung Il as slap on the bottom for me.

- Having fun with my buddy Hollywood, AFP