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A blue valentine, a la Arrested Development

A series of Arrested Development valentines that you can print and distribute to your friends, whether you're related or not? Yes, please. As featured on Marisa Seguin's blog. 

 

Dora The Explorer: The Movie

Well, not quite. But this parody (of both action/thriller trailers and the little girl herself) from CollegeHumor.com is pretty appealing, particularly for parents of kids who fell for Dora's charms. 

By the way, that's Ariel Winter (young, brainy Alex from Modern Family) taking around the backpack, backpack. 

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Your mom reads the movie poster

I am, granted, old enough to be the age of the target of this type of humour - parodies of movie posters as your mom might have worded them.

 

See more here.

Movie novelizations that never happened

When I started buying my own books in the Seventies, a lot of what I was picking up were used copies of paperbacks that had been published in the Sixties (it makes sense; I was a kid trying to stretch the book-buying power of my paper route income). Thus, the style of this set of purported mid-Sixties novelizations of movies that had not yet been made was familiar, and the humour is spot-on.

Your ideal engineering faculty

Can you imagine what their faculty meetings are like? (I mean, I've heard some doozy MUNFA stories over the years, but imagine having Q's issues: dealing with Tony Stark's ego, Dr. Strangelove's insanity and Anton Chigurh's pressurized gear.

You can see more in a post called TV University, right here.

The Killsbury doughboy

More of that where this comes from.

From the Onion: Barack Obama and that fateful trip to Denny's

Apologies to Denny's fans ... but this rang more than a teensy bit true.

Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America After Visiting Denny's

Quotation: Art Buchwald on reality and satire

"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."
- Art Buchwald

Epic fail, from the Garden of Eden

 Oh sure, the English of the King James Bible is unspeakably beautiful, but what it would be like if current web language had been deployed? H. Caldwell Tanner published this comic on Loldwell.com earlier this month. 

Hey, it's the inevitable 'Hitler learns Leno is going back to late night' video!

Why is #teamconan one of the most popular hashtags on Twitter right now? Probably because most people recognize a hijacking when they see one, and agree with Conan O'Brien that it's not right to punish him for Jay Leno's failure in prime time.

Small wonder someone got to the "HItler learns ..." meme and gave it yet another twist.

The world's most alienating airport

From, who else, The Onion:

Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport

Snowball fight! Let's make it an Olympic sport

 

There's no snow at all in our yard, nor all over St. John's, but that won't last. In fact, in December, we had enough snow to make a couple of decent toboggan runs down Pippy Park, and our and a neighbour's son had a blast making a slew of snowballs. Not sure how much of a snowball fight they had at the time, but as recently as today, Nick said he wanted to line up a kids-vs-adults match.

Also today, my school chum Doug started a Facebook group with a funny purpose: a lobby to make Snowball Fighting a sport in next month's winter Olympics in Vancouver. (The odds, Doug will admit, are slim.)

Love a good snowball fight? Pitch in. It is, after all, a whole lot more meaningful than some of the sports we'll be following next month.

Life and death at the new age ER

From the comedians at the UK television series That Mitchell and Webb Look, a sketch on what would happen if the people who believed in the healing properties of ever-diluted tinctures and of quartz took care of trauma patients. Stick around for the beer at the end.

Christopher Walken puts on his Poker Face

My PVR is set to record Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, although BBC Canada airs the episodes weeks after they air in the U.K. The latest episode had the always entertaining Christopher Walken on, with a line reading of the lyrics of Lady Gaga's Poker Face.

The Pixar lamp goes to court

The symbol of Pixar runs afoul of the letters in the logo ... and the law. Funny, but probably not a good idea to play it around really young children. Lighning McQueen this is not.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Jack Black as Jesus Christ: the Proposition 8 musical

I had not seen this video - a brief, star-filled mini-musical about California's Proposition 8 - until a few days ago. Not so topical, but still pretty funny. Look closely, and you'll see a slew of famous folks, from Alison Janney to Margaret Cho to Maya Rudolph and more.

"Prop 8 - The Musical" starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more... from Jack Black