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Wanda Sykes Makes Them Uncomfortable

May 11, 2009 By: refrieds Category: current events No Comments →

A number of folks have complained about Wanda Sykes performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Some say she was too partisan. Others complain that she was hellbent on teaching lessons. Judge for yourself:

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No Free Chicken at KFC?!?

May 08, 2009 By: refrieds Category: current events No Comments →

Man, KFC just let the terrorists win…

Weaves Can Save Your Life

February 21, 2009 By: refrieds Category: current events No Comments →

Check out how a weave stopped a bullet…

Journalist Throws Shoes at Bush

December 15, 2008 By: refrieds Category: current events No Comments →

Dude gets so mad, he chucks his loafers at George Bush in Iraq:

First the shoe bomber and now this? I guess journalists will have to do press conferences in their socks.

David Blaine 60 Hours Upside Down…with breaks

September 24, 2008 By: refrieds Category: current events 2 Comments →

David Blaine wants you to worship him because he does dumb shit. His latest stunt: hang upside down in Central Park and take breaks now and then:

What’s next? Channel surfing horizontally on a couch? Staying up for three days with a few nap breaks? How about reading a few pages of this site? That’s pure torture!

NBC Anchor Curses On Air

May 13, 2008 By: refrieds Category: current events 3 Comments →

Last night on WNBC-TV’s Channel 4, Sue Simmons dropped the F-Bomb during a promo (NSFW):

I blame co-Anchor Chuck Scarborough. If you look at his expression before Simmons went crazy, you can tell he’s clearly up to no good.

Hopefully she doesn’t suffer the fate of Arthur Chien who was fired after Opie and Andy fans set him up (NSFW):

WARNING To All Jamaican Tourists!

April 28, 2008 By: refrieds Category: current events 1 Comment →

Back in the day, people associated Jamaican music with the spliff sounds of Bob Marley. While Bob singed about revolution, he wasn’t as threatening as Peter Tosh, but that’s a discussion for another day.

My point is, if you think that getting your groove on in Jamaica is all about weeded, laid back, Red Stripe drinking chilling, check out this video (Thanks Mediatakeout.com):

Doctor Doolittle’s Dirty Little Secret

March 28, 2008 By: refrieds Category: current events No Comments →

For generations, people have tried to figure out the best way of learning different languages.  Some spend years immersing themselves in foreign cultures in other countries. Others pay top dollar for Berlitz classes.

Now, the good folks at Fox News offer a cheaper, more dangerous alternative:

SYDNEY —  A New Zealand man has been sentenced to community service after telling police he was raped by a wombat and the experience had made him speak “Australian”.

Now we finally know how Dr. Doolittle was able to “talk to the animals”.

Deciphering the movie posters, we should have known all along the producers were trying to tell us the sad and dirty truth…

Note the positioning of the horse…

old dr doolittle

And why is Eddie Murphy bending over?  Which “language” is he learning?

dr doolittle 

Now the monkey and bear are having their way with him!

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That Eskimo doctor in Grizzly Man was right.  There is a world of animals and a world of man that sometimes, should never intersect!

What Was Louisiana Chef Paul Prudhomme Cooking?

March 26, 2008 By: refrieds Category: current events No Comments →

Years ago, a friend of mine warned against eating red jambalaya while in New Orleans.

Turns out it can be a witches brew with menstrual blood in the stew.

He swore up and down that a classmate of his was trapped in a woman’s home in New Orleans, unable to muster the willpower to escape because of the red jambalaya she fed him.

“She put roots on that dude, man!”

I didn’t believe his story until I read this ditty about Louisiana Chef Paul Prudhomme getting shot while setting up a cooking tent:

He shook his shirt sleeve and a .22 caliber bullet fell to the ground, a spokesman for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said.

Deputies believe Prudhomme was hit by a falling bullet, probably shot about 9:30 a.m. from somewhere within a 1 1/2-mile radius of the golf course, said Col. John Fortunato. Prudhomme did not require medical attention.

“He thought it was a bee sting,” Fortunato said. “Within five minutes, he was back to doing his thing.”

Witnesses said the bullet cut Prudhomme’s skin on his arm and put a hole in his white chef’s coat. But Prudhomme continued cooking until he left the course about 3:30 p.m.

Some people think it’s because Prudhomme is a fat fuck. But I know better.

It’s the roots.

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And that’s not a cookbook.

It’s a spellbook.

That is, if you can break the Prudhomme code!

I don’t think your cholesterol is up to the challenge.

American Idol Hair Apparent?

March 06, 2008 By: refrieds Category: current events 2 Comments →

Male pattern baldness has been the mane bane since the dawn of time.  Men had to play a game of acting as if balding didn’t bother them, because the options, toupee and combover, weren’t real options.

rudy comb over toupee

Baldness shame wasn’t seen as sexy, So guys needed was a stealth option.  Something that eliminated the shame of balding, but was bold. 

Michael Jordan popularized the bald head. 

It didn’t destroy his perceived virility.  Bald Michael Jordan looked like a champion, not a cancer patient.

Michael Jordan at Boston Garden

Unfortunately, white guys didn’t enjoy the same option, because a bald white head made them look like nazis.

Schillinger

That is, until Stone Cold Steve Austin came around.

Stone Cold 

Because of Stone Cold, anyone, regardless of race, could shave their heads.

And then the backlash came.

Bret Michaels introduced a wig/hat combo which confused people at first, but eventually was revealed to be faker than a bad boob job.

bret wigs

Then, American Idol ringer Robbie Carrico tried to pull a Bret.  Robbie was younger, so he thought he could get away with it. 

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He did, until TMZ struck.

After that, he was voted out of American Idol.

America is not down with the wigness.