a winning streak

How could I have possibly forgotten this commercial? It's apparently from 2006, but still... it's a streaking sheep!



Watch other top Super Bowl commercials of the past decade here. (Though I have to say, in 4 of the last 10 Super Bowls, commercials were the farthest thing from my mind.)

a most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, bohemianational rhapsody

I fell in love with The Muppet Show as a kid. Then in college, one of my roommates and I used to watch it on Nick Jr. between classes every morning. She just sent me this link, and it cracked me up!



Glad to see the Muppets are alive and well!

what would you give?

This spoof of a MasterCard commercial featuring Dennis Leary is as poignant and funny now as it was then...



Some things truly are priceless!

i'd rather be rich than stupid

Here are my top 11 favorite "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey," as seen on SNL. (Why 11? Well, it's kind of like 10, but better.)

11. To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other.

10. Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.

9. I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.

8. Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.

7. How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.

6. The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

5. If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

4. The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

3. As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way.

2. It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.

1. Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.

Here are a couple of other "Deep Thoughts" lists.
And the official site.

i hope i'll be safe at home

One of my favorite monologues is George Carlin's "Baseball and Football".

You know the one:

Football is concerned with downs - what down is it?
Baseball is concerned with ups - who's up? Are you up? I'm not up.

A transcript is at Baseball Almanac. Video is below.



The only part that makes no sense to me is this:

In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling; emotions may run high or low, but there's not too much unpleasantness.
In football, during the game, in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you're capable of taking the life of a fellow human being.

Apparently he's never been to a Red Sox/yankees game...

But apart from that, it's one of my all-time favorite bits.

ministry of silly flash animation

Click the image below to see this silly walk in action, or generate your own at the Silly Walks Generator. (Click the image, click "Click to Begin", then click "Play this walk".)


Important advisory: This silly walk was performed by a professional cartoon lumberjack. Do not attempt.

this will always make me laugh

Always.



I love the dead serious "closer face", even while dancing the jig in his underpants!



Yoooooouuuuuuk!