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Sending kids to stand in the corner to reprimand naughty behavior seems, well, slightly arcane as far as ways of flexing parental authority go. Why not make them wear dunce caps too while we’re at it? A slightly more humane–though infinitely more creepy and still on balance foolish–variation of the standing in the corner punishment [...]

Today, for some reason we can’t quite figure out, is National Play-Doh Day. Our only hunch is that today may be the 54th anniversary of the invention of the product by Joseph McVicker, although we’ve had a hard time pinning down an exact date. Regardless, in its time on the market it’s become a staple [...]

There were studies conducted, if memory serves, back in the early days of CGI movies, which determined that viewers would be way too weirded out by super-realistic animated characters. That’s why, we guess, the Final Fantasy movie flopped so hard. While we don’t really buy the argument – we’d like to think that given the [...]

As our nutty Christian friends would have it, today is Good Friday (aren’t they always good, though?), which means this weekend is Easter. For some this will involve lots of talk about a Jewish carpenter named Jesus being crucified – ironically enough - on a fairly standard piece of carpentry (the classic T-model). For us, [...]

A few days ago we featured a picture of Ronald McDonald being driven from a crime scene in a cop car, which we thought was pretty funny and a little creepy. After all, McDonald’s as a company is rather creepy (as are the foods it claims to prepare), and its choice of a clown as [...]

Avid commercial commentators that we are, we always find ourselves being surprised by some new development or old obscurity in the advertising world. Today’s revelation comes from 2Spare’s listicle of unpleasant, politically incorrect and offensive print ads and posters from the days of yore. Check out our five favorites below (and some worthy additions), then [...]