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For the many years that we have lived with cats, not once have we seen one even semi-fail, not to speak of outright or epic fails, so it took the emergence of the Internet and its endless numbers of cats to convince us that our feline friends do in fact fail. For instance, look at [...]

Of all the strange vehicles in the world–including stealth boats, solar-powered planes and homemade submarines–there probably isn’t one that we’re less interested in piloting than the snowmobile. That being said, for a long time we didn’t understand just how fast they can go. Then one overtook us on the highway. Still, judging by Epic Carnival’s [...]

Hey, you know what are just around the corner? No, not highway bandits. The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver! When the big city near where we grew up was first selected to be the host we were determined to make it our grand homecoming. We started training immediately, but quickly put ourselves out of the [...]

After the first time we saw an epic escalator FAIL on YouTube, we’ve done our best to avoid those mechanical jaws of death. Convenience be damned, we’ll take the stairs! That said, we’re glad some people continue to use escalators, because their spectacular on-camera spills keep us entertained. Urlesque’s listicle of The Internet’s 10 Worst [...]

One spring, a few years back, as the winter snow finally melted away and the foliage turned a deep green, we were dismayed to see that a family of trolls had taken up residence in the tall spruce tree next to our house. And not the cute trolls with tufts of hair in funny colors; [...]

As you must know, we’re quite fond of Fail blogs Sigourney Weaver Dr. Grace Augustine of all sorts, and therefore we check in with the original, FAIL Blog, regularly. That also means that we’d already seen most of the videos and images they’ve assembled into the vidsticle of FAIL Blog’s Top 10 Fails of [...]

Did you know that November is National Model Railroad Month (NMRM) here in the U.S. of A.? No? Well, how could you, really, unless you rode one every day or so. Most of us only use the model railroad very occasionally, and it’s generally an occasion for bedazzled wonder. Daily model railroad commuters have it [...]

As you presumably heard, a couple weeks ago Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien fell during a race with Teri Hatcher, hit his head and suffered a mild concussion. The fall was played during a subsequent broadcast, becoming the latest but by no means the biggest celebrity head-bump. Super Punch provides some context with their listicle [...]

It’s Monday morning and we presumably all feel a little weary of the week that’s beginning. (Oh, to live in Canada and have the day off for Thanksgiving!) But fear not, for it could always be worse. At least you aren’t (we sincerely hope) one of the poor people in pain featured in Manofest’s epic [...]

We haven’t thought about pole-vaulting in ages, not since we accidentally flipped on the track and field competition on TV during a long-ago summer Olympics, or maybe it was during junior high school gymnastics… At any rate, pole vaulting is a rather ridiculous-looking sport that we’ve never considered practicing, and are less likely to consider [...]