{"id":259,"date":"2005-11-20T21:52:24","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T02:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=259"},"modified":"2005-11-20T21:56:05","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T02:56:05","slug":"3-pieces-of-silliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/11\/20\/3-pieces-of-silliness\/","title":{"rendered":"3 pieces of silliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jibjab.com\/\"><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-content\/images\/JibJabLogo.gif?w=840&#038;ssl=1' alt='JibJab logo' align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn an effort to ensure that people don&#8217;t actually think I have something meaningful to say here, I thought I&#8217;d share three pieces of complete silliness brought to my attention by <a href=\"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/SubEvilBoy\/\">Sub-Evil Boy<\/a>.  So, because I know that you don&#8217;t have any <em>real<\/em> work to do (I know that <em>I<\/em> don&#8217;t) you might want to check out these three little videos (all discovered by Sub-Evil via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jibjab.com\/\">JibJab<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jibjab.com\/Movies\/Home.aspx\">Big Box Mart<\/a>&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/jibjab.com\/\">JibJab<\/a>&#8216;s highly amusing look at America&#8217;s favorite retailer.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.endofworld.net\/\">The end of the world<\/a>&#8221;  This one is dead funny (ho, ho, ho) and features a fair amount of &#8220;strong language&#8221;, leading to one of those &#8220;This is damn funny, but should our son actually being finding this stuff?&#8221; moments.  Parenting is oh-so-interesting as we head into adolescence&#8230; :-)  It&#8217;s interesting that the web site folks don&#8217;t actually know who made this, but liked it so much that they made a web site for it.<\/li>\n<li>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rathergood.com\/looking\/\">Looking for my leopard<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rathergood.com\/looking\/\"><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-content\/images\/looking_for_my_leopard_still.jpg?resize=140%2C78&#038;ssl=1' alt='Still from Looking for my leopard' align='right' vspace='10' hspace='10' height=78 width=140 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThose crazy folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rathergood.com\/\">rathergood.com<\/a> make some pretty goofy low-tech videos to accompany pretty goofy songs by a band by the name of &#8220;7 Seconds of Love.&#8221;  Sub-Evil and I are contemplating singing this particular ditty at the next CAC Open Mic Night on campus, as the students tend to love this kind of silly stuff.  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.7secondsoflove.com\/soupy_george\/\">Soupy George<\/a>&#8221; is also quite a load of fun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Now get back to work!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently listening to:  &#8220;Dreams from the wounded mouth&#8221; by the Degenerate Art Ensemble&#8217;s new album <em>The bastress<\/em>.  Fun stuff, this!<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/video\/\" title=\"Video\">Video<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/09\/11\/you-have-to-either-laugh-or-cry-and-ill-help-you-do-both\/\" title=\"You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both) (11 Sep 08)\">You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both)<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/06\/you-folks-are-super-generous\/\" title=\"You folks are super generous! 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So, because I know that you don&#8217;t have any real work to do (I know that I don&#8217;t) you might want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/11\/20\/3-pieces-of-silliness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3 pieces of silliness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[14],"tags":[876],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-4b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/04\/18\/youd-never-know-i-grew-up-in-texas\/","url_meta":{"origin":259,"position":0},"title":"You&#8217;d never know I grew up in Texas","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"18 Apr 05","format":false,"excerpt":"There seem to be a vast ocean of \"surveys\" that are all the rage on places like LiveJournal these days. 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