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6 Pieces of Office Equipment (For the Incredibly Paranoid)

Posted by KrazyMan Knievel On July - 25 - 2011

With massive layoffs, corrupt CEOs and disgruntled employees, the office has become a dangerous place to work. At least, that’s what your paranoid mind tells you. For those who envision office-wide knife fights or think the lunch room is the most likely Ground Zero in the upcoming robot-zombie apocalypse, rest assured certain entrepreneurs have stepped forward to fill this void.

#6. Turn Your Briefcase Into a Working Machine Gun

We’ve all had that thought, Sure, nothing makes me feel safer during a quarterly sales meeting like a semi-automatic weapon, but Cathy down in HR is a being a total Nazi about it. Luckily, military weapons manufacturer Heckler and Koch puts the “concealed” in “Holy shit, you bring a concealed submachine gun to work?!” with the MP5 Briefcase accessory. And no, it’s not just a carrying case — the gun can be fired while it’s still in the case.

Via Kafkanishian
“This is the last time you leave the coffee pot empty, Ted!”

Yes, the good people at HK have taken their 90 years of experience in the field of weapon design to terrifying levels with this fusion of practicality and reckless endangerment.

Via gunpundit
They seem to have a lot lying around.

See how the MP5 not only fits into this stylish leather briefcase made for just that purpose, but also has a trigger embedded right there on the handle? You don’t even need to change the way you’re holding it, you can be strolling down the sidewalk, and with the twitch of a finger, suddenly be spraying hot lead indiscriminately in every direction. How fantastic/horrifying is that?

Via hkpro
This guy is holding the briefcase all wrong.

Of course, knowing that your co-workers are armed with these means you’d better invest in …

#5. The Bulletproof Clipboard

We’ve all been there before. A hectic work environment, unreasonable goals and sadistic bosses are all getting in the way of recreational Web surfing and flirting with Kathleen from IT. But just when the day could not get any worse, Phil from accounting starts screaming something about the Angel of Death and opens fire on everyone in sight with his briefcase. And to think you were just five days from retirement. Getting too old for this shit, you are indeed.

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“Dammit, Phil, I used your mug one time! Jenkins was the one who stuck all that gum under your desk.”

It would be a good time to carry the bulletproof body armor clipboard. It’s sold by ThinkGeek, but it’s no joke. Watch:

Composed of level II body armor, this clipboard can stop multiple 9mm rounds and comes with a 25 year limited warranty.

Via thinkgeek
At $44 a piece, you could afford to make a whole suit out of these babies.

After careful examination, there appears to be no major faults in the design of this clipboard, as long as your crazed spree killer aims directly at the 9 x 12 area, and not at the part where your fingers are. Unfortunately, boredom and human nature might be the biggest threat to the people purchasing this product as the desire to test it proves irresistible. While it might not be difficult to find someone willing to fire off a couple rounds at you while holding this clipboard, it might prove more difficult to find someone who could fire off some rounds at this clipboard accurately.

Via thinkgeek
Ideally, your would-be assassin should be lying directly between your feet.

So you’d better also invest in …

#4. Business Class Body Armor

There are many drawbacks to wearing body armor at work. Because it typically looks like this …

Via bodyarmoroutlet
It matches very few dress skirts.

… it can be cumbersome and makes you look distrustful. If only it were possible to have the protection of class III ceramic body armor with the comfort and style of a classic three button blazer? Fashion designer Miguel Caballero developed a line of clothing to solve this problem.

Via miguelcaballero
The leather jacket is bulletproof. We assume those stylish bangles are smoke bombs.

These are not simply blazers made of Kevlar cloth. Using a technique designed and patented by Caballero himself, these designs use a polyester and nylon weave that can withstand gun fire and is also stab proof. The only drawback being it makes you look a tad bloated.

Via miguelcaballero
You get all the benefits of looking like someone with severe gas, plus you can repel small arms fire!

Caballero’s designs fuse the perfect harmony of style and paranoia. Or, as he explains, “We make bullet proof fashion.” Some of his clients include Presidents Alvaro Uribe of Colombia and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, so rest assured, you’ll be sharing pretty rarefied company with some of the most despised men in the world. However, if your management style inspires the kind of hatred and blood vengeance usually reserved for Third World dictators, perhaps you might want to reinstitute Casual Friday.

Via miguelcaballero
Rest assured, they got you covered even for that.

But why use these garments just for protection when there’s potential for coworker bonding through pants-shitting fear? At Caballero’s own office, the CEO is known to continually test his products by randomly shooting his employees with a .38 revolver. Consider that the next time you bitch about the break room vending machine eating your dollar.

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2,000-YEAR-OLD BELL

Posted by The Mullet Master On July - 25 - 2011

JERUSALEM — A tiny golden bell pulled after 2,000 years from an ancient sewer beneath the Old City.

The orb half an inch (one centimeter) in diameter has a small loop that appears to have been used to sew it as an ornament onto the clothes of a wealthy resident of the city two millennia ago, archaeologists said.

When Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority shook it Sunday, the faint metallic sound was something between a clink and a rattle.

BUT, one of the archaeologists, Zev Bufmin took the bell and kept ringing it over and over while singing Anita Ward’s classic – You Can Ring My Bell.  The other archaeologists tried to take the bell away from Bufmin but he wouldn’t let them touch it – he wouldn’t let them ring his bell.

The bell broke.

The bell’s owner likely “walked in the street, and somehow the golden bell fell from his garment into the drainage channel,” Shukron said.

The relic was found last week. Shukron said it was the only such bell to be found in Jerusalem from the Second Temple period, and as such was a “very rare” find. The Second Temple stood from about 515 B.C. until A.D. 70.

The biblical Book of Exodus mentions tiny golden bells sewn onto the hem of the robes of Temple priests, along with decorative pomegranates. The artisans in charge of making the priestly clothes and implements, according to the Bible, “made bells of pure gold, and attached the bells around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates.”

It was not know whether this bell was attached to a priestly garment. It is engraved with a pattern of circular channels starting at the top.

The bell was found inside the Old City walls, a few paces from the site of the Jewish Temples – the sacred compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The compound is home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the golden-capped Islamic shrine known as the Dome of the Rock.

The excavation of the sewer is part of the City of David excavations in the oldest section of Jerusalem, which lies just outside the current city walls and underneath the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan. In the past, Palestinians have objected to Israeli excavations in that area.

The sewer, which Jewish rebels are thought to have used to flee the Roman legionnaires who razed Jerusalem and its Temple in A.D. 70, is set to open to the public later this summer.

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ALIEN SPACESHIP PASSES SPACE STATION

Posted by The Mullet Master On July - 25 - 2011

An alien spaceship based by the International Space Station last night – shooting warning lasers as it went by.

The  crew aboard the International Space Station were shocked to see a purple spaceship circle the space station in a threatening manner.  They astronauts were all sleeping at the time and said that the spaceship seemed to “come out of nowhere.”

The crew from Expedition 28 has only been on the International Space Station since June of 2011.  The astronauts alerted NASA immediately of the breech in ISS security.  “They broke through our force field with ease,” said astronaut Kevin Janowick.

NASA, however, could not see any evidence of the spaceship, but the astronauts all confirmed seeing it and felt that they were in “extreme danger.”

One Expedition 28 astronaut said that he could see “blue aliens” in the windows of the purple spaceship.

“That’s a ship from Planet Zeeba,” said John Malley, an expert on aliens and a member of the U.N. Panel of Extraterrestrials.  “The alien invasion will be occurring in November and in the months leading up to it, there will be many unusual sightings like this.  We at the U.N., continue to advise ALL citizens on earth to prepare for the alien invasion.”

WWN has been covering this story for a year. READ ABOUT THE ALIEN INVASION.

The International Space Station (ISS) is an internationally-developed research facility, which is in low-orbit and is the largest space station ever constructed. 

On-orbit construction of the station began in 1998 and is expected to be finished in 2012. The station is expected to remain in operation until at least 2020, and potentially to 2028.

Like many artificial satellites, the ISS can be seen from Earth with the naked eye.   NASA monitors everything the astronauts do and see, but they completely missed seeing the alien ship from Zeeba.

“We are concerned.  We think the alien ship has equipment that can make is seem invisible to us.   We do not even know how many were really flying around the ISS,” said chief NASA engineer, Jyoti Aggarwala.

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Nation’s School Systems Held Back A Year

Posted by Cha Cha Brown On July - 25 - 2011

WASHINGTON—Having continued to display learning deficits and a failure to reach basic educational milestones, the nation’s school systems will be asked to repeat the academic year, sources confirmed Friday. “We know this is disappointing news, but we believe it’s for the best,” said Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who pointed out that many underperforming schools glide under the radar for years without achieving any kind of proficiency in math, reading, or science. “An extra year will give America’s school systems some time to get a better handle on the subject matter so they can catch up with the other nations.” Duncan added that allowing school systems to continue on without meeting minimum standards wouldn’t be fair to all the kids who come to school every day prepared to learn.

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American Voices: Kim Kardashian Suing Old Navy

Posted by Cha Cha Brown On July - 25 - 2011

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Kim Kardashian Suing Old Navy

July 22, 2011 |

ISSUE 47•30

Celebrity Kim Kardashian is suing Old Navy for using an actress that looks like her in an ad. What do you think?

  • Are you sure it’s not actually her? That woman is a snowflake.

    Alisha Kelliher
    Systems Analyst

  • Please don’t sue Old Navy. They make the shorts that I buy.

    Scott Sanders
    Facilities Planner

  • On top of that, the ad photo itself is just a simulacrum of the Kim Kardashian look-alike. I’m in cultural studies hell.

    Dwayne Hinds
    Grad Student

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Hip New Alternative Band Has One-Word, One-Syllable Name

Posted by Cha Cha Brown On July - 25 - 2011

SEATTLE (UPI)—A hot recording by what listeners describe as a hip new alternative band was discovered yesterday by the staff of a local radio station, exciting numerous area music listeners.

“The new one-word, one-syllable band, known to its growing legions of fans as KISS, uses out-of-this- world make-up to parody rock’s excess.”, “The devil guy”

The recording in question, Double Platinum, by an unknown group identified only by the one-word, monosyllabic name KISS, was rushed to a nearby stereo where it underwent intense listening and scru-tiny by knowledgeable disc jockeys, many of whom have subscriptions to hip, al-ternative music magazines like Alternative Press, Spin, Op-tion and Rolling Stone.

The recording was found by DJ Josh Negler while rummaging through K-ALT’s vast library of recordings for his “Alternative A.M.” radio show. Negler, 27, has been an intense fan and expert on alternative rock for over 18 months.

“The CD player was down, so I had to find some vinyl,” Negler says. “I never thought I’d uncover such an unknown treasure, which I knew was alternative right away, as soon as I saw the silvery reflective packaging.”

While none of the station staff was able to exactly categorize the new and innovative sound of the double-album set, it was described as “heavy, kind of like Nine Inch Nails, with hard power-chord guitars like Pearl Jam and an almost industrial high-tempo rhythm like Tool or Filter.”

Songs such as “Strutter,” “Deuce” and “Detroit Rock City” were positively identified as “alternative.”

“Yeah, they don’t sound anything like Hole, Beck, Bush, Spore, Sponge, Tad, Ride, Clutch, Scrawl, Slint, Schtum, Lync, Gren, Seam, Dis, Dig, Mule, Gaunt, Az, Hum or Pram, but the band does have a one word, monosyllabic, name like Hole, Beck, Bush, Spore, Sponge, Tad, Ride, Clutch, Scrawl, Slint, Schtum, Lync, Gren, Seam, Dis, Dig, Mule, Gaunt, Az, Hum and Pram,” music writer Jordan Kohan says. “So they gotta be alternative like Hole, Beck, Bush, Spore, Sponge, Tad, Ride, Clutch, Scrawl, Slint, Schtum, Lync, Gren, Seam, Dis, Dig, Mule, Gaunt, Az, Hum and Pram.”

So impressed was Negler with KISS’s raw talent that he is considering asking KISS to play at the K-ALT’s “Punka-palooza 1996,” an all-ages benefit that has highlighted the best in new and unsigned bands with one-word, monosyllabic names since 1993.

Further evidence of KISS’s alternative stature was offered by rock critic Howard Frankel, who points to the band’s use of theatrics and costumes.

“Much like seminal no-wavers the Resi-dents and Devo, KISS’s gestalt is a deconstructivist take on the extravagance and excess of rock and roll and the insanity of stardom,” Frankel explains. “By encompassing a per-sonae in the guise of the exact rock establishment they are mocking, via the use of absurd amplification and standard verse/chorus/verse arrangements, their worldview only be-comes more salient and biting.”

Furthermore, Frankel ex-plained that the band’s choice of the antiquated vinyl format (or LP) gives the disc a “retro” sensibility matching the ’70s nostalgia sound prevalent in many tracks.

“In fact, KISS has so marvelously captured the retro look and feel that one can almost imagine the record being released 20 years ago,” Frankel says.

Excitement escalated af-ter DJ Heather Luken stumbled across a series of solo recordings re-leased by the members of the band—a pattern remarkably similar to a series of albums released by the Melvins, a seminal Seattle band in the late ’80s.

“One’s by the star guy, another’s by the cat guy, another’s by the rock guy and another’s by that devil guy,” Luken says. “I like the cat guy.”

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Crazy Rat Will Do Anything To Survive

Posted by Cha Cha Brown On July - 25 - 2011

As the saying goes, you can’t keep a good man down. Or, in this case, a good rat! Despite pesticides, traps, flooding, a constant lack of food and the universal hatred of almost all other life forms, Tootho the Rat just refuses to die! Will this toothsome rodent eat and do absolutely anything to survive? You bet he will!

Tootho, a wild, disease-ridden 2-year-old rat from the urban hellhole known as subterranean Manhattan, has been impressing everyone from subway patrons to municipal sewage workers with his unflappable determination. Tootho may be a flea-covered vermin with a 30-foot tapeworm in his lower digestive tract, but when it comes to making it through one more day in the city he loves, he has a look in his eyes that seems to say, “I demand more food sources.”

“We’ve seen him do just about everything: eat garbage, swim through raw human fecal matter, eat other rats,” says Jake Dones, a trash disposal worker. “I once even saw him eat the eyes out of a dead wino.”

Fellow city employee Karl Pzcyszny was equally impressed with the loathsome rodent’s tremendous will to live.

“We’ve thrown everything we’ve got against him—poison gas bombs, death powder capsules, hidden steel traps, trained attack terriers—but he still shows up every day, ready to eat,” Pzcyszny says.

Ellen Burgess, a single mother and head of a homeless family of four, adds: “You know what we saw Tootho eat the other day? You’re not going to believe it, but he ate a shoe!”

But what exactly is it that drives Tootho the Rat, giving him the stamina and tenacity to keep on keepin’ on day in and day out, never ceasing in his quest for survival? According to Clark Newman, head of New York’s De-partment of Sanitation, the answer may be simpler than it seems.

“The way we see it, Tootho is motivated largely by an instinctive urge to seek out a food supply, produce offspring, and succeed in the process we know as natural selection,” he says. “To the best of my knowledge, humans are motivated exactly the same way.”

But how long can he keep it up? He might end up chewing rubber matting, building nests out of medical waste, and impregnating female rats at an explosive rate well into the 21st century! He’s that determined.

“These vagabond shoes are leaving today! I’ll make a brand new start of it in ol’ New York!” Tootho said at a press conference. “The Big Apple! The Great White Way! I can see those neon lights on Broadway, baby! It’s NYC for me, sweetheart! There ain’t no city like New York City! Kiss me! Kiss me! If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere! I’m headin’ straight to the top, mama! Straight to the top! Watch me hitch my wagon to a star!”

After bowing repeatedly and blowing kisses to the assembled press, Tootho then scurried into a sewer pipe, where he proceeded to tear the rubber sealant off a septic tank run-off valve, gnawing vigorously at its coarse black surface while being drenched in sickening, poisonous effluvient.

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Strongside/Weakside: Darren Clarke

Posted by Cha Cha Brown On July - 25 - 2011

Darren Clarke

No one expected fun-loving Darren Clarke to win the British Open, but the Guinness-and-cigarettes-loving Irishman took his first major at the age of 42. Is he any good?

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5 Classic Games You Didn’t Know Had WTF Backstories

Posted by KrazyMan Knievel On July - 24 - 2011

A lot of classic arcade games have straight-forward, logical plots that drive them: Turtle dragon stole your woman, stomp mushrooms until he gives her back. That’s cool; we’re on board with that. But some of these other classic, seemingly self-evident games actually hid madness and dementia behind their fun, childish veneers.

#5. Donkey Kong

Via Video Game Obsession

What we thought was going on:

We all know the story of Donkey Kong, right? It’s just the plot of King Kong, Japanified: Giant ape escapes, kidnaps a woman, runs to the top of someplace high, is put in its ape-place by a plumber who isn’t entirely clear on his job description.


“Well, there’s your problem.”

The WTF Backstory:

Except that Mario is the villain in Donkey Kong.

According to the game’s manual, Donkey Kong was actually Mario’s pet ape. Without even venturing into the shaky moral and legal issues of primate ownership, it gets way worse from there: The reason Donkey Kong escaped in the first place was only because Mario was abusing him. That’s not our accusation; the manual spells that out, plain as day: “[Donkey Kong] is actually [Mario's] pet who was mistreated.” The manual doesn’t get really specific as to exactly how DK was being abused — presumably because even jaded 1980s game designers figured that was some heavy shit to lay on a kid — but it’s not hard to fill in the blanks: Here’s a screengrab of Mario sticking Donkey Kong in a cage, chaining him up, and what’s that in his hand? A whip?


Isn’t this basically how the Planet of the Apes got started?

The poor beast suffered years of physical abuse and neglect, can you blame him for reacting poorly when he finally got his shot at freedom? We don’t blame the abused dog if it bites the mailman, can we blame DK for grabbing Mario’s girlfriend, Pauline (safe to assume also an animal abuser, if only by proxy) and simply running away? He didn’t even hurt anybody, he just ran. And we all know what happens next: Mario, possessed by the invincibility of rage, hurdles every obstacle in the pursuit of his frightened pet — barrels will not stop him, fireballs will not stop him, ramshackle construction sites will not stop him, nothing will stop him, not even death (he’s got extra lives) — until he slowly but surely chases down the cornered, abused, terrified monkey, and drops him from the top of a skyscraper.


Teaching children around the world a valuable lesson about pet care.

We should probably tell you that the Donkey Kong of today — the one seen happy and healthy in all the current Nintendo games? Rare made a very specific point of mentioning that he’s not the original DK; that’s his son. Now, they’re not outright saying what happened to the original Donkey Kong, but it’s best not to look too closely between the lines.

Because you’ll probably find Mario there, covered in ape-blood, screaming in unearthly fury.


“When they talk to you, you just fell down the stairs, right?”

#4. Super Street Fighter II

What we thought was going on:

A bunch of characters fighting one another in a martial arts tournament. That’s a wholly encapsulated backstory right there: Here are some dudes (and dudettes). They are in a tournament. They would like to win said tournament, and plan on doing so via the liberal application of punching. It’s like Bloodsport, but with fireballs. We’re done here, right?


Although we wouldn’t mind learning the backstory behind that one-piece.

The WTF Backstory:

You get hints of crazy throughout the game (especially if you were the kind of lonely child who played fighting games single player and actually saw the endings) but the depth and complexity of Street Fighter‘s completely needless backstory still might surprise you. To find it, you need to grab the character bios from the obscure Street Fighter role playing game. Here’s a glance to give you a hint of the scope of M. Bison’s backstory, for example:


We always assumed his backstory began and ended with “steroids”.

M.Bison, the man holding the tournament, who you thought was just kind of a dickhead — maybe a dickhead with some kind of military background — actually has a larger agenda: He’s only hosting the matches in the first place so he can corrupt the street fighters with his psychic abilities.

All that crazy shit he can do in the game, like flying horizontally, bursting into flame, or wearing absurd power-lesbian shoulderpads? It’s all the result of psychic abilities that he’s developed ever since he found a meteor in a cave and started sleeping above it.


Step 1: Sleep on a rock. Step 2: Burn half-naked women with your thoughts.

Bison also heads an evil organization known as Shadoloo, which he took over with the help of his power-meteor, and the whole point of his plan to psychically corrupt martial artists is to eventually recruit them into said organization. How does this weirdness affect the actual gameplay? Well, let’s look at Cammy:


Ok, that’s long enough — she’s a cartoon, you sick freak.

If you’re the kind of person who worries about spoilers for a twenty year old fighting game, you should probably click away now (we suggest visiting whatswrongwithmypriorities.com).

If you beat the game with Cammy, she’s revealed to be a double-double agent — that is to say, she thought she was working for the British Special Forces as an undercover agent in the competition, but that’s only because she has amnesia. In reality, before she lost her memory, she actually was a member of Shadaloo, as well as M. Bison’s brainwashed lover.


Above: The least appropriate use of a cheering crowd in video game history.

When Street Fighter takes place, Cammy is 19. According to her backstory up there, she suffered her bout of amnesia — the one that made her forget her torrid love affair with Bison — starting at age 18. Which means that fun little fighting game round you just played? Where you thought the story was “beat that guy because you’re supposed to beat that guy”? Yeah, that was actually the brutal revenge of a psychologically traumatized amnesiac with sexual identity issues (punching dudes while wearing a thong falls a little outside of even Great Britain’s freaky sexual norms) against the psychic pedophile that hypnotized and molested her as a child.

Wasn’t that fun? Put another quarter in, kids!

#3. Centipede

Via Video Game Obsession

What we thought was going on:

Centipede was a typical 1980s top-down shooter — kind of a Space Invaders variant. The player controls a small ship at the bottom of the screen, and the goal is to shoot a giant centipede that descends toward you from the top of the screen. In the player’s way are a bunch of mushrooms that can be blown up to clear space to hit the thing, and some other bugs like spiders, scorpions, and fleas.


And of course, everything was colored LSD-neon.

The WTF Backstory:

The arcade game itself offers no story, and why would it need to? You’re a spaceship fighting freaky alien bugs. Nuff said. But then the console version came out, and it included an official comic book that explained the plot in surprising depth.

See, in reality, your “ship” is actually an elf with a magic wand.


Clearly.

According to Atari, the elf — your ship — is named Oliver, and he lives in a magical forest with his pals the centipede, the spider, the flea, and the scorpion.

Oh, no. What?

This is a game about murdering your friends?

All of your bug-pals turn evil when a wizard decides he wants your wand, and hypnotizes the creatures of the forest into attacking you and stealing it for him. Now, you’re not a monster — these are your friends here, after all — so your magic wand doesn’t outright kill them; it only transforms them into toadstools. You know, toadstools, like the ones you have to shoot through and… explode… to hit the centipede… before it reaches… you…

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Just shoot the colored dots, (CENSORED).

So all that fun you were having just now, blasting away, nimbly dodging bullets and raining hellfire into your enemies? Well the only reason there weren’t tears streaming out of that tiny elf-ship the whole time is because there wasn’t enough memory to render them back then.

Oh, and the wizard that causes all of this? Nowhere to be found in the game. Even though the comic gets a happy ending, at no point does that happen in the actual gameplay. There is no final boss scenario here — no ultimate showdown with the guy who ruined your life — there’s just an endless cycle of death and tragedy as you mow down wave after wave of the things that used to be your friends.


“You get a five second head start, and then I unleash Hell.”

So, in a way, Centipede was the very first survival horror game.

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10 Stories About Donald Trump You Won’t Believe Are True

Posted by KrazyMan Knievel On July - 24 - 2011

Donald Trump is the most public (CENSORED) since Goatse and has done even more degrading things for fame. He’s aligned himself with Birthers and turned the Presidency of the United States into an ad for reality TV, and that’s just so far this year. The terrifying thing is that Trump is winning.

He’s made such a joke of himself in the process that it’s easy to miss the immense balls required to do what he does in public, and get away with it. At a certain point, you have to take a step back and marvel at the rap-sheet of dick-headed insanity he’s managed to put together.

In 1988 Eastern Air Lines routes were about as profitable as Indian buffalo hunting grounds, and dying out faster. Trump’s cunning plan was to buy them and make them more expensive. He justified the increased fares with the sort of pointless bling typically reserved for silver-plated watermelons. The Trump Shuttles featured maple wood veneer floors, chrome seat belt latches, and gold-plated toilet fittings so that the passengers could know how it felt to value money as much as Trump does.

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His idea of the Mile High Club is to screw investors up there

The purchase was financed by a $380 million loan from 22 banks and not one of them ever saw a cent. As we’ll soon find out, Trump has knocked over more banks than the Joker, who at least leaves once he’s taken the money. Trump tends not to be satisfied with ruining mere days.

For instance, after he defaulted on the loans the banks were forced to repossess the airline’s assets, which it turns out were worth approximately as much as the Hindenburg’s spare gas tank. They couldn’t sell them, they couldn’t use them, and they had to negotiate a settlement to force the company to even try to turn a profit. Since then it’s been repeatedly re-merged with other divisions in the world’s only financial application of homeopathy. They seem to be attempting to dilute it with enough other companies that Trump’s presence will stop mattering quite as much.

Trump Ocean Resort Baja: those four words contain the entirety of Trump’s contribution to the project. None of this stopped the Trumps (multiple, him and his and daughter Ivanka) from pushing the Mexican resort like the Lost City of Gold. The project collected 32 million dollars from investors, and then promptly sent them a letter saying that loan negotiations had collapsed. It also informed them that the buildings that were supposed to be build with the money didn’t exist, then closed by quoting the part of the contract that said the company was allowed to spend the deposits anyway. Mission accomplished, Trump removed his name from the project the next month. He then told interviewers that investors were “lucky” because they’d have lost even more money if anything had been built.

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Customers give us money for goods. “Customers” just give us the money.

How? Would the laborers have stolen bricks from their houses to build the resort? Rather than asking such questions, several victims sued Trump and developer Irongate to recover their $32 million, and his response was to sue Irongate as well – for $40 million. This is a man who charges eight million dollars for even being reminded that he screwed people over. Unfortunately, Irongate were bankrupt before either suit started.

New York Times author Timothy O’Brien wrote that Trump “only” had 250 million dollars, so Trump sued him for five billion. Suing a writer for five billion dollars takes more piss out the legal system than the Supreme Court’s plumbing.

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He also objected to legal documents from Deutsche bank valuing him at three quarters of a billion, and argued with Forbes magazine when they valued him at three billion. He pits his own delusions against every legal and financial fact available, but in his defense that is his only job skill. We’re not sure how insecure in your manhood you have to be to argue with ten-digit wealth, but we’re guessing Trump’s penis is a socket.

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Trump distracted by the phallic microphone, imagining the joys of such (or any) size.

In March 1990 he threatened to sue a stock brokerage over an analyst who said the Taj Mahal casino hotel wouldn’t work out. The company proceeded to fire the broker and deny being influenced by Trump. Within a year the analyst was proven right and got three quarters of a million from the brokerage (and an undisclosed sum from Trump), making him the only person the casino made money for.

As of 2011 Forbes values Trump at 200 million, while Trump claims fifteen times that much. We’re not going to take sides since we’d rather not be sued, so we’ll just point out that Forbes has not filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy four times.

The Ground Zero mosque debate mocked every single word in that phrase: it wasn’t at ground zero, it wasn’t a mosque, and if it was a debate then shit-flinging monkeys are trade envoys. CNN, Fox, and thousands of Americans spent the middle of 2010 whipping each other into a racist lather, and Trump offered to pay 7.5 million dollars for the oppurtunity to appear on TV shouting “ME TOO!” There were so many insanities in his offer that he had to mix lithium into the printer ink to stop it from becoming pictures of screaming bat-children.

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In the written offer to the owners of the property, Trump stated that he respected freedom of religion so much that he was prepared to pay 7.5 million dollars to prevent a community center with a prayer room from being built on their property. It also stipulated that the mosque should be built “at least five blocks further from the World Trade Center site,” essentially asking the owners of the property to magically force-field other sellers hundreds of meters away. Apparently the zoning radius of insane racism is between 2 and 7 blocks. It’s probably safe to assume Trump knows the exact radius of stupidity because he has to buy belts.

The landowner replied via lawyer to say he found the offer both laughable and insulting, to which Trump replied, “Classic Trump!”

In the early 90s, Trump found himself the owner of a personal debt of $900 million. That’s not the companies he owns. At the time, his companies were in $3.5 billion of corporate debt. No, he himself owed almost a billion dollars personally after somehow convincing the world he was worth more than NASA’s 30-year Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.

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Though he also qualifies as a gas giant.

You could offer to buy everyone in the United States a drink and not owe as much money as he did. He could have personally cancelled out the Seychelles’ economy by moving there.

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En route to the Reel Jeenyusses Conference

While sane men with jobs can’t borrow a few grand, a man who’s filed more 11′s than a fantasy soccer manager was allowed to spend the lifetime income of over five hundred of them before anyone noticed he didn’t actually have it. The corporate debts equal the entire education budget of two states, meaning society would actually have seen the exact same fiscal return if they’d invested the money in educating millions of children. And people still lend him money today. Enjoy that thought as you chew dry macaroni to pay off your student loans.

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ALIEN MONKEY

Posted by The Mullet Master On July - 24 - 2011

GEZHAI, CHINA – An alien monkey has taken control of a small village in China.

Chinese villagers first feared the alien monkey that stepped out of a blue alien spaceship (before it disappeared).

But the alien monkey, that Extraterrestrial experts believe is from Planet Zeeba, spoke fluent Mandarin and told the villagers that he had come down to help the Villagers.

Locals first panicked when Mao Xiping, a housewife from the village of Gezhai, in Henan province, central China, found the scraggy simian stealing cucumbers from her flat.

She thought it was a harmless rabbit, until she noticed it had an ‘alien face’ and her neighbors agreed it was like nothing they had ever seen before.

The alien monkey then spoke to Mrs. Mao and said that he had come in peace.  The alien, nicknamed Yao Bo by villagers, said he wanted to help the Villagers restore their farms to health.  The town had been devastated by a drought in the past few months.

A surly neighbor, Bing Zong, took snatched the alien monkey and caged in a washing basket and demanded that officers place it under arrest.

But Mrs. Mao came to rescue and brought Ling Bo home.

Experts were last night examining the alien monkey to make sure he was in full alien health.  John Malley, an alien expert on the U.N. Panel of Extraterrestrials, flew to China and confirmed that the alien monkey was in full health and that he was, indeed, from Planet Zeeba.

Mrs Mao, who fears rabbits more than aliens, said: ‘At first I thought it was a rabbit, and was scared out of my mind.  But when I learned it was an alien, I was happy.”

Ling Bo was elected mayor of Gezhai last night.

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WEINER PLEASES HILLARY

Posted by The Mullet Master On July - 24 - 2011

NEW YORK, NY – Anthony Weiner has finally made his wife’s boss, Hillary Clinton, happy.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she would have to think “long and hard” if she were ever to take Weiner back into her fold.

But on Friday – Weiner pleased Hillary.

Forget his wife — Anthony Weiner’s biggest problem with his recovery has been trying to please Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The horndog ex-House member from Queens told his friends the hard part of his “recovery” from “sex addcition” is getting his wife’s boss to believe he’s through with sending crotch shots to young women.

“My problem is that I have three women I have to convince that I’m cured: Huma, her mother — and Hillary,” Weiner, 46, told a friend recently.

Hillary has proved to be the toughest.  Hillary has never liked “Weiner” and many insiders close to Clinton said that they could never see her taking in Weiner again.

Hillary saw graphic photo of Weiner’s private parts and “was not impressed” said insiders.

“She hates Weiner.  She hates everything about Weiner,” said Hillary aide, Jonathan Mondell, “and she loves Huma.  Hillary spends all her time with Huma and there’s just no room for Weiner.”

Weiner’s humiliated, pregnant wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Clinton, has distanced herself from Weiner in recent weeks.  She has gotten much closer to Hillary.

But there is progress… Weiner spent several hours with Hillary on Friday.  Insiders said that Hillary feels Weiner may be a changed man.  “It’s the first time in a long time that a Weiner has pleased Hillary.”

Weiner flew last night on a first-class flight from Orlando to La Guardia Airport on a Delta flight, carrying nothing but his iPad and picture of scantily clad Hillary.  Orlando is near the Winter Park, Fla., offices of the New Leaf Center, which on its Web site says it provides outpatient therapy for sexual addiction and sexual compulsivity issues, including for “politicians.”

Will Hillary be pleased by Weiner again… well, time will tell.  In the meantime, Hillary and Huma headed to Hawaii for an important Women’s Empowerment meeting.

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Celebrity Couples With Tons of Benefits (17 pics)

Posted by Cha Cha Brown On July - 24 - 2011

Some celebrities decide to shack up with other equally famous people and make obnoxiously famous couples. Check out these celebs out and about with their honeys.

 

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Daily picdump [WEEKEND EDITION] (74 pics)

Posted by Cha Cha Brown On July - 24 - 2011

# 52 – could be a photo of my lungs

this morning I kicked the Grim Reapers ass, again!
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shortness of breath woke me up
SPO2 was 85!

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Sportsgraphic: Highlights Of Ben Roethlisberger’s Wedding

Posted by Cha Cha Brown On July - 24 - 2011

Highlights Of Ben Roethlisberger’s Wedding

Steelers quarterback Big Ben Roethlisberger will marry Ashley Harlan this Saturday in what is already being touted as Pittsburgh’s royal wedding. Here’s what to expect:

  • Roethlisberger reads his vows off his wristband
  • Bride’s family gives witness statements to police outside the church
  • All 500 guests are truly touched by the bride and groom and maid of honor’s first triple-kiss
  • Speech from the maid of honor basically a last-ditch plea for rational thought
  • First extramarital affair occurs two hours into the reception under table 17
  • Best man speech bombs, as it is just a horrifying account of groom’s previous assaults
  • After the cake-cutting, everyone overhears Roethlisberger telling his new wife, “I want to smear this all over your tits”
  • An extremely awkward silence occurs when Steelers owner Dan Rooney insists there be at least one African-American woman in the crowd waiting to catch the bouquet

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