Category: Silliness

“When Just Born did a customer survey last year, it found that 20 percent of consumers prefer their Peeps stale. Five percent like them frozen.” — Lisa Gidley

From Salon Lisa Gidley tells all about Peeps, including this excerpt:

People don’t just eat Peeps. They take pictures of them. They make crafts with them. They write songs about them. They put them on wreaths. They put them on pizza. They create parody porn Web sites for them. And some curious souls devote countless hours to Peep research, testing the effects of everything from heat to liquid nitrogen on the hardy little fertility symbols.

What is it about Peeps that inspires such passion? Is it their expressions, as winsome as a kitten offering you its paw? Maybe. But hollow chocolate rabbits are cute, too, and nobody writes loving odes to them. Is it their long-standing association with Easter? Perhaps; the Just Born company has been putting Peeps in Easter baskets since 1953. But Cadbury eggs have the holiday-icon thing going on too, and nobody builds little dioramas for them to live in.

Maybe it’s the pure sugar rush that ensues five seconds after you pop a Peep in your mouth. Some folks find it blissful; others shudder in disgust at the mere thought. Arguably, though, those marshmallow Circus Peanuts provide the same result. And, safe to say, nobody devotes parody porn sites to them.

Read more.

Welcome to the official website of Marshmallow Peeps

Again, thanks to Lee for the link. That man knows his Peeps.

The Fellowship of the Peep

Thanks to Lee for the link.

Bento Pictures. More silliness, but artistic silliness.

Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog brings us up to date on glofish. He begins:

It has been a while since we have had a glofish update and for that I apologize. But who else is updating you on the struggle to Free Glofish? Not quote-unquote libertarian Eugene Volokh. Not Calpundit who is Californian and has ignored the glofish controversy engulfing his state. In the blogoverse only Fafblog is promisin to bring you fast-coming updates on this enfolding crisis of civil liberties. Fast-coming updates every couple months.

Be silly. Read more.

NewMexiKen saw this somewhere else but only decided you needed the glofish update after seeing reference to it again at Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal.

More Peeps Than You Can Shake a Stick At

Link via Dave Barry.

From Musings from America’s Outback:

Old Town [Albuquerque]: Ready for Anything

I need to get a picture of one of the signs cropping up all over Old Town that read:

Weapons of Mass Destruction:

Iraq = 0
Old Town = 1

They are referring to the missile outside of the National Atomic Museum in Old Town.

Metaquerque provides us with this image of the offending missile:

My Rejection Letter from Home

Link via Musings from America’s Outback, who got it from TheAgitator.com.

NewMexiKen thought The Dialectizer was pretty amazing — and even laugh-out-loud funny.

Try entering https://newmexiken.com/ and Redneck and seeing the results. Or Jive. Or Elmer Fudd.

and re-enacted by bunnies. From Angry Alien Productions. [Cartoon video with sound.]

From Quizilla.

NewMexiKen was Woodstock but I demand a recount.

You got stopped by a state trooper.
He asked you if you had an I.D.
And you said, “Bout What?”

You’ve been married three times and still have the same in-laws.

You have a bumper sticker that says,
“MY MOTHER’S AN HONOR STUDENT
AT SOUTH LITTLE ROCK JR. HIGH.”

South Knox Bubba has a couple of photos for you to take a look at.

Dave Barry’s Blog has reproduced a column he wrote 10 years ago about a sport called Car Bowling. The object of the sport is to drop bowling balls on cars from low-flying aircraft. Money quote:

At this point, many of you women are thinking, “They drop WHAT? On WHAT? From WHAT??” Whereas you men, because of your complex and subtle psychic interplay, are thinking: “When can I do this?”

Barry suggests that Car Bowling could be a benefit in shopping-mall parking enforcement.

Some (many) are dumb and some are tacky, but FARK.com: Comments Thingee has a wonderful page of make-believe Google pretend holiday art. Here’s a couple, but go take a look.

Which Came First — The Chicken Or the Egg?

That’s what NewMexiKen wants for Christmas from the Dave Barry Gift Guide.

From Slate, Which beauty queen reigns supreme and where Miss America fits in, a brief rather interesting summary of the beauty pageants.

The New Republic Online: Easterbrook: “CBS has announced that its special ‘Michael Jackson Presents “The Reagans” Sponsored by Victoria’s Secret’ will be postponed.”

From The Volokh Conspiracy

“One such recent example included the manufacturer’s labeling of equipment where the words ”Master/Slave” appeared to identify the primary and secondary sources. Based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County, this is not an acceptable identification label.”

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