Category Archives: Culture

Letter to the Editor O’ the Day: The American Association of Stupid People

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Idiocy springs eternal

From the illustrious Dr Boli (links added, for extra enjoyment):

Sir:

Now that racism is dead and the darkies have everything they want, is it not high time to end the senseless discrimination against stupid people? Statistics say that 50% of the population is of below-average intelligence, but I believe the true figure is much larger. I myself have been proudly stupid for my entire adult life. I was a stupid child as well, and I came from a long line of stupid ancestors. Indeed, family tradition says that our ancestry goes back further than any other family’s, and I firmly believe every unexamined tradition I hear. The secret of my success has been, in one word, credulity. If I could remember what this letter was about, I should have ended it with a zinger that would make my opponents feel awfully silly.

Sincerely,
Carton Gherkin IV
President, American Association of Stupid People (AAPS)

Happy Anniversary, Motown!

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Motown records brought black music by black musicians into the mainstream, and changed American culture forever.  If you’d like a serious analysis of that, please go here. You know I ain’t got time for that shit.

Instead, I’d like to present two videos choreographed by very, very white people, and mashed up with some very, very black (although not Motown, it must be said, and indeed it WOULD have been said, had I not just said it myself, thus inocculating this blog against those so-called sayers and their nastily truthful accusations, now where was I?) music.

Bob Fosse‘s Mexican Breakfast featuring Gwen Verdon: original here. Unaccredited, vulgar ripoff by Beyonce here. More amusing version of same here. Walk It Out, Fosse version below:

And here is something that could only be made even whiter by the addition of Soulja Boy: Tappercize!

mashup from EverythingIsTerrible

the first Craigslist ad

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Married To The Sea

This was, of course, back in the days when Craig was still posting notices on tree trunks.

Kung Poo Hustle

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It’s true what they say (and don’t ask me who they are. How would I know? I’m an innocent blogger, not an investigative journalist, dammit Jim!).

And what do they say? They say this:

That it is a fact universally acknowledged that a Kung Fu master in action looks uncommonly like he’s trying to pass a truly recalcitrant turd.

Check it out:

via BestWeekEver

Peaches Geldof, world’s least-likely humourist

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Peaches Geldof with man of the moment

“I have respect for broadsheet journalists because
they haven’t succumbed to degrading themselves, to
writing pidgin English with all these terrible
colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just,
like, embarrassing”

Peaches Geldof

from Popbitch