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Like the real super-consumers they entertain everyday, the titular family on the animated comedy The Simpsons have torn through all kinds of unnatural and ill-conceived products over the years, from mysterious meat substitutes to bizarre beers. Guyism shops around for The 14 Awesomest Fake Products from The Simpsons, like Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel and Strawberrito. [...]

Generally we’re a little frustrated by how many of the images we encounter on the street in a given day are commercials, not to mention that most are poorly conceived and thoughtlessly executed. If we were starting a new society (which we do almost ever day, in our mind) the streets of its cities would [...]

As we all know all too well, people get some really terrible tattoos. From logo tattoos and unicorn tattoos to Obama tattoos and misspelled tattoos, folks just don’t stop to think long enough to realize that the thing about to be permanently written on their skin is extremely lame, uncool, silly, offensive or wrong. We [...]

It’s the season (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere) for drinking under birches, drinking at beaches, drinking on benches, drinking on bleachers, drinking on roofs one has gained access to semi-legally and drinking on stoops of buildings one has never been into. With all the running around we tend to forget bottle-openers at least [...]

Want to know the true stories that gave the beers you (hopefully) avoid drinking like they’re tepid bathwater their names? We’re talking to you, $1 PBR-crushing hipsters and Bud-swilling football fans. Well, it turns out that roughly half the brewing tycoons in North America came to their positions of power through some combination of business-savvy [...]

In case you hadn’t noticed, we love us some creative commercials. And while it’s sad that we’re in such an advanced stage of capitalism that one of the most potent arenas for creativity is the marketing of consumer commodities, we still see some sort of consciousness-raising value in unsettling ads like these 6 Strangely Funny [...]

With St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow and Big Money Mondays today, we’re plotting the most extravagant cheap beer-guzzling we can possibly indulge. Beginning at 12:01 tonight, we’ll be bringing a series of the largest receptacles in our cupboard to our lips and draining them of liter upon liter of delicious hops. We realize steins are German, [...]

If the extreme measures our government is taking to keep the American banking system from collapsing are any indication, we do truly appear to be headed for Great Depression 2. Don’t get depressed, though, because as mental_floss reminds us, hardship has a way of generating some of the most inventive and resourceful ideas. So check [...]

Famously, this year advertisers devised one second-long spots for the Super Bowl, foregoing any kind of narrative or gimmick for maximum impact spending slaps. We don’t like this. We think ads should at least be engaging, and ideally will build self-referential meta-narratives across different spots as they deploy their campaign (like Skittles, we love Skittles). [...]

Our parents used to get us piñatas for our birthday without fail, but ever since they stopped two years ago we’ve tried to repress memories of those papery candy-vessels into the depths of our subconscious. Then, like an uncanny eruption from the depths of our psychic underworld, NOTCOT.ORG called our attention to this, the world’s [...]