Ahm’a Merkin!

A 1970s Italian parody of American pop songs, featuring pretty convincingly English-sounding gibberish.

And then, the reverse, from Who’s Line.

So bad it’s awesome

From here:

In the early days after the discovery of x-rays, Edison received two requests in the mail, one from an apparent voyeur asking him to fit a set of opera glasses with x-rays and the other asking him to “Please send me one pound of X-rays and bill as soon as possible.”

If the world must end, this is how I want it to go

Holidaze

Tomorrow is both Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day, holidays with entirely different cultural origins and functions.  However, they do have this one thing in common: both are dating conventions.

(sorry)

"…but I repeat myself."

The DoJ is looking for mentally retarded lawyers:

The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division is seeking up to 10 experienced attorneys for the position of Trial Attorney in the Voting Section in Washington, D.C….The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and/or spine.

H/T to The Volokh Conspiracy.

Welcome to the sausage factory

Ever wonder how the news gets made?

Rapping makes everything funnier

Also this, for those of you unfamiliar with the conventions of the genre.