Britain’s Guardian newspaper reports that Cambridge University’s Peter Wadhams, an expert on ice in the Arctic, fears that the Arctic Ocean will be essentially ice free in the late summer (August-September) as soon as four years given recent observations. Wadhams … Continue reading
Another mean prank pulled to scare somebody. (Not safe for work, given that surprises are known to elicit exclamations of indelicate language.) That might have been inspired by the following clip, in which a guy who hadn’t seen his father … Continue reading
Buzzfeed and Yahoo (among other sites) have a number of photographs of Libyans demonstrating against the assaults on American diplomats. A handwritten text seen multiple times reads in slightly fractured English, “Sorry People of America this is not the Pehavior … Continue reading
Another incredibly elaborate prank, this one from Germany. It involves a washroom with a mirror that is in fact transparent glass, with an identical, mirror-image washroom on the other side. A pair of identical twins who move in unison as … Continue reading
More from the folks at Bad Lip Reading: by … Continue reading
In Japan they go all out, no half-measures, including on hidden-camera prank shows. Here most of the pranks seem to be based on scaring the living crap out of people, which can often be funny but also rather cruel. The … Continue reading
From a high school student’s class project: by … Continue reading
From the fine folks at Bad Lip Reading, in which we learn why Edward slapped and punched a fish: by … Continue reading
I’m tentatively planning a trip to Oregon next year, or I was before I saw this video. Those of you more familiar with Oregon: Does this sort of thing happen all the time? by … Continue reading
The fine folks at Red State Update don’t post new clips often enough, but they did finally release the following, their take on Clint Eastwood’s famous conversation with an empty chair (representing President Obama) at the Republican National Convention last … Continue reading