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Where I Refuse To Buy Porn

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 by goooooootenberg

First thing I want to clear up: I don’t buy porn. Why buy porn when it’s free online?

But if I did buy porn, it cer­tainly wouldn’t be at an air­port news­stand. And make no mis­take, they do sell porn there. There’s all sorts of nasty shit on those shelves. Stuff that’ll make your mother cry her eyes out.

I never want to be that guy who buys porn from an air­port news­stand. You just have so lit­tle shame to look at a porno mag on an air­plane. You don’t care if the stranger in the seat next to you sees you enjoy­ing your com­pli­men­tary peanuts while star­ing at women doing nasty things. You don’t care! It’s one step away from jack­ing off in pub­lic. Might as well just whip it out, if you care so little.

Is It Wrong To Procreate For A Personal Workforce

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 by goooooootenberg

I don’t want kids. I think they’re annoy­ing and messy. Power to peo­ple who want to be par­ents because I say fuck that shit. If you want to live a happy life, skip mar­riage and chil­dren. You know, you can do mar­riage. I’m all right with you lock­ing down one vagina for the rest of your life, but you best get on birth con­trol and use condoms.

The only rea­son to have some brats is to cre­ate a per­sonal work­force. I’m in the mar­ket of mak­ing imi­ta­tion designer wal­lets, and my guy who usu­ally sup­plies me with worker chil­dren was arrested. When I’m in a fix, I do my best think­ing. Why not have some kids of my own?

It’s per­fect. No need to worry about par­ents grip­ing at you, “there are burns on chil­dren.” They’re your own kids! And if you get them used to eat­ing industrial-grade oat­meal with water, you can max­i­mize your prof­its by cre­at­ing a low cost of living!

Just a warn­ing: your kids may at some point try to edu­cate them­selves. This is bad. Do your­self a favor and invest in Chi­nese Play­doh. Great thing about China is that they don’t worry about remov­ing pesky tox­ins. Your kid’ll keep him­self enter­tained and become too stu­pid to revolt. If some­how they do learn how to call CPS, no need to panic imme­di­ately. A few, short ses­sions of spirit-suppressing water board­ing should keep them quiet when CPS offi­cials show up.

Oh man, I can already see my bank account surging!

But what wife will let you be such a hor­ri­ble father to her chil­dren? The kind that was min­utes from being deported until you mar­ried her.

When you’re mil­lion­aires, you can thank me by send­ing 5% of all your prof­its to my orga­ni­za­tion. We save chil­dren from the harsh envi­ron­ments of Pak­istan and South Korea and bring them to Amer­ica where they can pros­per on $0.20 an hour wages! Yay! They’re liv­ing the Amer­i­can dream!

How To Tell If Your Valentine Is A Serial Killer

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 by Mike

1. Is he tak­ing you out of town for your date?

I know this great place that’s such a hid­den gem in the mid­dle of nowhere.” That’s ser­ial killer talk for “no one will hear you scream.” Here’s my advice if you find your­self at the restau­rant: order the most expen­sive thing on the menu. That’ll teach him a les­son for incon­ve­nienc­ing you with an untimely death.

2. Creepy Valentine’s Day Cards

First of all, if the thing’s hand­made with clipped-out let­ters, you’re already in bad shape. Sec­ondly, look for sub­tle nuances in the text. Stuff like: “Be mine for­ever,” “I love the way you smell,” and “noth­ing can end our love! Even if I were to do some­thing cooky like chop off your head with a hatchet. You’d still love me. And that’s what’s great about us! You shrug off the petty fights, like get­ting your head chopped off. Oh man, you’d look so cute shrug­ging with­out a head. Sigh, good times! Goooood times.”

3. Instead of a box of choco­lates, he sends you a box of fin­gers

Yeahh, I know tough one. In some coun­tries that’s like a mar­riage pro­posal. If he’s a for­eigner that’s a tough call cause gosh I just don’t know.

4. When you’re cud­dling on the couch, he never wants to watch the news

Why would he? The most dam­ag­ing thing to a cuddle-moment is a police sketch of your­self pop­ping up on the daily news. Trust me, a cuddle-moment will soon turn into a strangle-moment, and those are not adorable Kodak moments.

5. Does he own a large col­lec­tion of sev­ered human heads in his den?

If you’re in his den and you’re notic­ing an unusu­ally high num­ber of sev­ered human heads (a high num­ber mean­ing more than 0), there’s a slight chance he might be kind of a ser­ial killer. Light­ning will strike and he’ll appear in the foyer with a hatchet. You’ll try to run for the exit, but gosh darn it he put up some trip wires. Man, that’s when you’re so screwed.

If this were a hor­ror film you might get lucky by play­ing the “I’m a vir­gin, and I will con­quer you!” card…but let’s not kid our­selves, lady. You’re in home of some strange guy you met off Craig’s List.

By now you’re prob­a­bly also regret­ting order­ing the Cae­sar salad at din­ner. I told you! Didn’t I tell you to order some­thing expen­sive! But nooo, you were too damn wor­ried about calo­rie count­ing. A steak and a baked potato wouldn’t have hurt you! You’re damn well burn­ing off the calo­ries now that you’re run­ning away from a psy­chopath with a rusty hatchet.

Side note (and I’ll make it quick because I know you’re busy deal­ing with keep­ing your head attached): What did you think of that Super Bowl com­mer­cial with Leno and Let­ter­man. I mean, isn’t that crazy? They haven’t talked in like — oh, not a good time?

In con­clu­sion, the warn­ing signs are all there. The key to sur­vival is in your intu­ition and cau­tion. Be safe this Valentine’s Day, y’all!

Written On Sarah Palin’s Hand

Monday, February 8th, 2010 by goooooootenberg

This is your left hand.

That means your other hand is your right hand. See right hand for fur­ther information.

Writ­ten on the right hand.

The other hand lies to you. Trust no one.

(P.S. rent Memento.)

Twitter Usage Rising Among Gang Members

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 by goooooootenberg

lilmikkey: Just shot a man dead. Any­body wanna tweetup for some froyo?

dan­gerbling­banger: #fol­lowfri­day these nuts.

mex­i­can­mafi­amelvin: drug deal went sour. fail whale!!!!!

Classroom Turned Fighting Ring, Teacher Forces 4th Graders To Fight

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 by Mike

Yup, it hap­pened in New York City (Seri­ously, where else besides Thai­land will you hear about this?)

First rule of Fourth Grade Fight Club, no juice boxes until you kick some ass.

In the first match, we have a two fierce fight­ers. In this cor­ner, the infa­mous booger picker, Dora the Exploder! When told to work on her mul­ti­pli­ca­tion tables, she cracked that teacher’s skull with her lunch­box. In the other cor­ner, a new­comer, Tim “I Still Pee The Bed” Fiercely. He may be an under­dog, but I think he’ll be packed with surprises.

In the sec­ond match, we have the Caped Avenger. Held back a grade and bred on school cafe­te­ria tacos, the Caped Avenger strikes ter­ror into his class­mates. He will be going up against the Mayer twins. Their father is a Biol­o­gist; their favorite sub­ject is Home Ec. So they’re prob­a­bly going to be sent to the hospital.

In the third match, we’ll see Lit­tle Orphan Roger go into a cage match against a live tiger.

Today’s cham­pi­ons will get 10 extra points on their next test and a packet of Go-GURT. Good luck to the best of them.

An Honest Invitation To The Grammys

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 by goooooootenberg

Dear sir,

You are cor­dially invited to the music event of the year, The 2010 Gram­mys. Your fel­low guests will be music stars like Justin Tim­ber­lake and oth­ers who once made music, but haven’t pro­duced a good album in a long while. The musi­cal per­for­mances, with their over-the-top pro­duc­tion val­ues, will delight you and dis­tract you from the turned-up reverb and lip sync­ing. Tay­lor Swift will prob­a­bly go home with all the awards, despite only a 1/3 of the atten­dants know­ing one of her hits.  We will honor Michael Jack­son, bring­ing sev­eral indus­try insid­ers, who thought him a pedophile, to tears.

Around the sec­ond hour of the award show, you’ll prob­a­bly start notic­ing people’s flasks. We advise you to bring your own, filled with some­thing strong. It’s the only way you’ll sur­vive a per­for­mance by some­one only your par­ents remem­ber. It’s a shame Kanye won’t steal a micro­phone from any­one as it was prob­a­bly your best shot at hav­ing an enter­tain­ing moment.

This invi­ta­tion is brought to you by the RIAA, who would like you to know they are vig­i­lantly watch­ing your inter­net activ­ity so they can sue you for mil­lions if you pirate any tunes on Limewire. Let’s just put it that there are more RIAA agents watch­ing you right now than will be watch­ing the Grammys.

Hope you can attend!

NYTimes.com Will Cost Money

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 by goooooootenberg

The fol­low­ing is an exam­ple of a free pre­view post from NYTimes.com

Barack Obama’s Rat­ings Falling

Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s rat­ings fell to an astonigh­ing — this is a pre­view post. To see just how bad Barack Obama is doing in the polls click here to become a sub­scriber. This is punc­tu­ated by the Repub­li­cans win in — this is a pre­view post. Even though it’s com­mon knowl­edge which state Repub­li­cans just won a Sen­ate seat, the rest of this sen­tence is only for NYTimes.com mem­bers. Ana­lysts say that the bad rat­ings are the result of — sorry, only for mem­bers — com­bined with — you guessed it, mem­bers – and the econ­omy.

This whole para­graph was omit­ted from the pre­view, but read­ers can enjoy all 4 sen­tences of it when they subscribe.

Of course, Demo­c­ra­tic strate­gists are ral­ly­ing for more action on health care and the econ­omy. If they can once again ener­gize the base, this will mean a rise in rat­ings for Pres­i­dent — the president’s name is only for mem­bers.

Slumdog Millionaire Home Video

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 by goooooootenberg

From the back of the Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire DVD packaging.

Win­ner of the Oscar for Best Pic­ture, Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire has astounded audi­ences every­where. It’s the story of impov­er­ished Indian boy who wins a mil­lion dol­lars and bangs a really hot girl. Yes, it’s every col­lege male’s fan­tasy. What the fuck am I say­ing, it’s every guy’s fan­tasy. Women will even bang Ferida Pinto if they had a mil­lion dol­lars. Who can hate a film about an aver­age joe win­ning a lot of money with­out doing any dif­fi­cult work or hav­ing any real intel­li­gence, since after all he just hap­pened to stum­ble upon the exact answers they would ask in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

So if you haven’t seen this film, I’m bet­ting you can prob­a­bly just go day­dream about crazy, ridicu­lous shit and it’s about the same. Just come up with some­thing that sounds com­pletely impos­si­ble, and it’s about as believ­able as this plot.

Demon Possessed Grandmas!

Thursday, January 21st, 2010 by Mike

An ad copy for Demon Grandma Exterminators!

No longer able to enjoy a tasty lunch at your local diner with­out demon-possessed grand­mas try­ing to eat your face? Wellll, Demon Grandma Exter­mi­na­tors has solu­tions for you!

If you’re look­ing for grandma-friendly treat­ment, we will place traps with bait in the infected area. The demon-possessed grandma will smell the sweet mar­malade in our traps. Once inside, they can­not escape. Then we can release the demon grand­moth­ers in their nat­ural habi­tat, New Jersey.

If you don’t give a shit and just want us to kill every last moth­er­fuckin demon-possessed grandma, we will just bust into your home or work­place and open fire on any elderly woman. I mean, we smell den­ture cream, we’re fir­ing in that direction.

And if you just want an old lady dead, man, this economy’s so bad we will take your money and put her down. Don’t feel bad. She’s lived a very long and reward­ing life, and you were just going to stuff her into an old folks home. Those places are hor­ri­ble, man. The elderly are abused, mal­nour­ished, and liv­ing in their own filth. A shot­gun blast to the face is way more humane.

So give us a call at xxx-xxx-xxxx, Demon Grandma Exter­mi­na­tors, your solu­tion for some brit­tle boned bitch try­ing to mur­der you.