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Entries Tagged as 'Fun'

Shakespeare Through Facebook

August 24th, 2008 · No Comments

According to the image, this was created by Sarah Schmelling. While I didn’t get permission from her to post this on my blog, I hope she won’t mind if I make a point of saying that I think it’s very clever and that she should be given praise for her creativity.

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Tags: Fun · Satire

“Dance Off with the Star Wars Stars”

June 15th, 2008 · No Comments

I love it!

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Tags: Video · Fun

My Film Festival Submission

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

A few months ago I came up with an idea for a short film. The plot was very absurd, but I thought the humor in the movie might appeal to people besides myself. Every year my college has a film festival and so I decided to ask around to see if anyone else […]

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Tags: Film · Video · Fun

The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All-Time

February 16th, 2008 · No Comments

A nice little history lesson here. I liked their selection and the commentary.
From an actual Theodore Roosevelt eulogy given at the time of his passing: “Death had to take him sleeping, for if Roosevelt had been awake there would have been a fight.”
If I could change one thing, I would have added some […]

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Tags: Fun · History

Subprime Morgage Mess

January 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I actually don’t have much to say about this, except that this video is probably the best explanation I have heard for what happened. To top it off, it’s actually a comedy sketch in the form of an interview. If you watch it, you will probably learn something and you might get a […]

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Tags: Video · Fun · Economics

Flight of the Conchords

December 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

If you’ve never heard of Flight of the Conchords, I highly recommend you check them out. They’re a New Zealand comedy band with some top-notch material. My favorite songs are Jenny, Business Time, and Albi the Racist Dragon.

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Tags: Video · Fun · Unsung Heroes

Comedy & Tragedy (in the opposite order)

November 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments

I had to share this one because it’s super super special. (And because you always hear about all the men involved in sex scandals and never the women.) The female in question is a 33-year-old teacher for mentally handicapped children. This super special woman decided to have sex with one of her […]

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Tags: Video · Fun · Sex

Stormtrooper Dancing on Tokyo Streets

October 31st, 2007 · No Comments

I felt like my tuition article was a little bit dry so here’s something for the kids. The title really says it all… My favorite part is when the two pedestrians jump in and start dancing with him.

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Tags: Video · Fun

Surrealist Shoes

September 22nd, 2007 · 6 Comments

OK, I’m a guy and even I think these are awesome.

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Tags: Fun · Fashion

Giuliani’s 60/40

September 20th, 2007 · No Comments

OK, I don’t normally like Michael Moore but I did enjoy this publicity stunt mocking former Mayor Giuliani. As much as I dislike Giuliani’s aggressive, uncompromising foreign policy, I do think he did a pretty good job cleaning up New York City. Those good deeds aside, I thought this video was hilarious. […]

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