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A snowed-in student had his bluff called when the university prez showed up to shovel him out.

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He knows president isn't an elected position, right?


President Michael Benson might just get the EKU Colonels promoted to Generals.
(via @EKUprez)

Eastern Kentucky University student Devan Dannelly was feeling pretty snow-bound after Kentucky was hit by the huge storms that affected much of the eastern U.S. last week, so the senior criminal justice major took to Twitter to tell the university president, Michael Benson, what it would take for him to come to class.

What Devan forgot is that occasionally, people involved in higher education are actually invested in their students and communities, like EKU president Michael Benson. "I tweeted back asking for his address," Benson told the Richmond Register. "He probably didn't expect me to show up."

Warm up the bus, you're about to get schooled.

Devan almost certainly didn't expect Benson to show up, because when he did (along with a friend who saw the tweets), the only person at home was Devan's mother.

Apparently, Devan did have enough mobility to go run errands for his mom (which is why he wasn't home), but that's pretty nice, so we won't give him crap about it.

Meanwhile, the prez and his buddy got to work.

Said Benson, “[My friend] Chris and I ended up knocking the shoveling out in 45 minutes, and Devan and his sister brought home food for us. We ended up going inside and having dinner with the family. Of course as things turned out, we ended up not having class [the next day] anyway." What? No class? Was there a point to any of this? As it turned out, two cool things came of it.

Firstly, Devan was duly chastened and held up his end of the bargain.

Even better, Benson did something we almost forgot is part of a university presidents' job description: inspire students.

10/10 would shovel again.

Eastern Kentucky University has since returned to class, but hopefully in higher spirits. Said Benson, "It was fun, and I got to make a connection with a student that otherwise probably wouldn't have happened." Also, he politely failed to mention how cool he now looks.


Snake eats giant egg; makes you wish you could eat a whole cake like this.

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Because you needed another reminder of why snakes are terrifying.

Remember when you learned in school that snakes can unhinge their jaws in order to eat very large food items? Oh, you blocked that out because snakes are disturbing abominations of everything we hold true about how animals should work? Right.

Well, behold, as this li'l guy opens his jaw to six times (or so) his height. It's half horror movie, half "I wish I could do that when I eat my feelings." I would find this video a lot less disturbing if the snake was eating an entire meat-lovers pizza and grocery-store sheet cake, though.

See the "Guardians of the Galaxy" easter egg you missed in the "Parks and Rec" finale.

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Just in case you forgot for a minute how rich Chris Pratt is.


(via Marvel/NBC)

In case you missed it, last night was the Parks and Recreation finale. The episode jumped forward in time to the year 2022, to show the fans what the characters are up to down the road. But the producers of the show couldn't help but throw in a reference to actor Chris Pratt's rising star.

The episode takes place on Halloween, and features a scene where Pratt's character Andy Dwyer opens the door for some trick-or-treaters.


Look for the only non-generic costume.(via Mashable/NBC)

The one kid is dressed as Star Lord, Pratt's character from last summer's megahit Guardians of the Galaxy! This is a lovely nod to how far Pratt has come in the seven years since Parks premiered, but it does raise some very puzzling questions about the show's universe.

First of all, if Guardians exists in the world of Parks, who plays Star Lord? Is it like in Last Action Hero, where Sylvester Stallone stars in Terminator 2 because Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't exist in that universe?


Still impossible to understand the dialogue.(via imfdb)

The more important question is: why is that kid dressed as Star Lord in 2022? Talk about a poorly-timed costume. Even if a whole trilogy of Guardians movies comes out, the last would probably be released in 2020, meaning that this kid's costume is passé by two years. Is that costume a hand-me-down? Is he just a die-hard fan?

If you ask me, it's very convenient that the Parks writers left all these questions hanging in the last episode, when they'd never have to answer them. It's Lost all over again.

Listen to Hunter S. Thompson complain about his DVD player in the most Hunter S. Thompson way.

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Fear and Loathing in the AV Industry


YouTube user Margot Douaihy comes through for us with this upload that's sure to delight any fans of American literary legend Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson, who is most famous as the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, wasn't just the original gonzo journalist. He's also the reason millions of American college students think tripping on LSD will make them insightful.

In addition to his writing, Thompson was a famous curmudgeon, rarely leaving his fortified compound in the years leading up to his death in 2005. However, that doesn't mean he didn't need TV, and in this answering machine message, you can hear him letting loose on the company that installed his home theater. This is a rage that most of us have only seen directed at the hypocrisy of the American dream.

It's actually cathartic to hear Thompson's unique voice and point of view expressing a frustration that so many of us have experienced. Imagine being able to complain to customer service in a prose style that influenced a generation of writers. It would also be worth getting your wires all fucked up.

Honeymooning groom falls off 4,000 ft. cliff while taking photo of bride, says "it was very scary."

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Just take another step back honey...


Great shot!
(actual image World's End via)

Honeymooning groom Mamitho Lendas, 35, was taking a picture of his new bride at famed tourist destination World's End in Sri Lanka, when, in an effort to capture as much of the beautiful view as possible, he stepped off the cliff's edge.

"It was very scary and very painful as well," said Lendas.

Understatement of the century. The massive cliff has a steep drop of 4,000 ft and, until now, no one has ever survived a fall from it. Fortunately, even though Lendas fell twice, his descent was interrupted by a tree 130ft down. Lendas said he sat in a bush for three and a half hours while waiting for help to arrive.


(Falling) off (a cliff) to a great start!
(via Sky News)

"It was the longest three and a half hours of my life," he told reporters from Sky News.

40 Sri Lankan soldiers and a helicopter were brought in for the rescue. The soldiers rappelled down the cliff and brought the Dutchman back up using ropes. In spite of how dangerous his predicament was, Lendas walked away with no injuries.

Despite the scare he and his new wife must have gone through, they probably got some amazing shots from his plummet off the face of the earth.


A student mocked a teacher he thought wasn't reading his work. Oh boy, was he wrong.

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Even if you think your teachers aren't reading your work, here's some advice: don't call them "basically retarded."


Also, does nobody write in paragraphs anymore? (via)

Redditor dxidaniel posted this paper from a schoolmate who thought his teacher wasn't reading his homework. Obviously, the teacher was. Here's what the kid put in the middle of the paper, which is the text bracketed above in red:

Overall this paper was completely pointless and was retarded that it had to be a zero point five margin and I hope I never take bio again. My teacher is basically retarded and it seems as if he copies and pastes everything he writes. And obviously he never checks what we do in our work because I'm writing this fool. Way to put a foundation of this subject in us you fool. Now everyone in your class hates you. Great job and keep working on that ecosystem teaching thing or whatever.

Who's the more foolish... the fool, or the kid who calls his teacher a fool and then gets caught and has his work posted for everyone to see?

My second-favorite part of this paper is the following sentence, which is pretty much the perfect example of how we all tried to sound smart and add as much length as possible to our high school papers: "Our greed and monetary desires that drive our actions to be considered to be acceptable in our eyes is what lead to all of the tragedies, deaths, natural disasters, and etc." I like to imagine a man in a top hat and monocle saying that out loud, and then a crowd full of distinguished gentlemen very sincerely nodding in agreement.


Watching this guy with his pet owl will make you want one.

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Just when you thought you were over your Harry Potter fantasy…

Disappointed you can't make it to London to check out the new owl bar? Why don't you do like Vine user Assam and get an owl of your own? It might seem like a challenge to care for a large bird of prey inside your apartment, but from his vines, it looks like Assam manages just fine, and in a cramped Japanese apartment to boot. I couldn't make much sense of the Google translations of his captions (sorry I'm not fluent in Japanese, fanboys), but I get the impression he enjoys having the critter around. In fact, it looks like being friends with an owl is a blast. Check out all the activities you and your wise little buddy can share:

You can play fetch.

You can teach him to come.

You can say something that shocks him.

You can play with a little toy.

Or a big toy.

You can give him a bath in Ecto-Cooler.

You can even give him some petting.

And he might just give it back.

Now don't you all run out to the owl store at once. Form an orderly line, please.

This riled-up cockatoo is running all over the house and he is pissed about something.

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Upset? This bird is your new spirit animal.

Remember how annoyed you felt when you got really into the first two seasons of Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23 on Netflix, only to discover that the show was canceled? YouTube member Katie Vannoy's cockatoo, Gotcha, gets it. You can't really tell what's he's raging about while he's running around the house here, but one thing you can be certain of is that he is FIRED UP.

I don't know if Gotcha is available for hire, but if he is, I think having this bird run around your boss's office like this during your next salary negotiation would be a GREAT bargaining tool.


Do you have one of the 20 sexiest names?

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"Oh, Alessandro!" "Oh, Alessandra!"

Everybody stop what you're doing! Baby Name Wizard just released their list of the sexiest baby names! Or maybe it's just the sexiest names. At any rate, here they are! (Come on, Dennis! Come on, Dennis! I've got a good feeling about this one!)

Sexiest Men's Names

1. Alessandro
2. Lorenzo
3. Rhett
4. Romeo
5. Mateo
6. Dimitri
7. Dane
8. Marcelo
9. Dante
10. Rémy

Sexiest Women's Names

1. Scarlett
2. Nicolette
3. Natalia
4. Anaïs
5. Paulina
6. Alessandra
7. Chanel
8. Soraya
9. Adrianna
10. Giuliana

Hmmmmm... That's a bit of a let down. Does one of those names belong to you? I'm going to go out on a limb and say no, since I've met exceedingly few Romeos, Rémys, Chanels and Anaïses in my life.

It is interesting that Scarlett and Rhett both made the list. Does Gone with the Wind still popular enough that it continues to influence the people we want to bone? Unless those two names are actually references to Scarlett Johansson and Boston University mascot Rhett the Boston Terrier. That seems unlikely, though. And is Twilight not having any affect? Where's Bella and Shirtless Werewolf Guy on this list?

Anyway, if none of these are yours, don't despair. You still have a chance to make one of these next lists:

Least Sexy Men's Names

1. Bob
2. Ernest
3. Norman
4. Dick
5. Howard

Least Sexy Women's Names

1. Gertrude
2. Bertha
3. Agnes
4. Ethel
5. Mildred

I'm sorry, but this is just nuts. There's no way that Gertrude is worse than Snotfacelizardtongue. True, I've never met anyone named Snotfacelizardtongue, but I've never met anyone named Gertrude either.

KFC made a coffee cup made of sugar, cookie & chocolate. But they won't sell it to Americans.

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Nothing to Scoff-ee at.


Never have to worry about what part of the coffee you can eat again. (via KFC)

What if I told you that there's a solution to the problem of discarded coffee cups? Yeah, that's really boring. What if I told you there's a solution to the problem of coffee cups being made out of paper instead of cookies, white chocolate and sugar? Now that's progress.

That is exactly what KFC just unveiled in the UK this week. It's called the "Scoff-ee" cup, which is hilarious if you're British and call both food and the act of eating "scoff" (or "to scoff," I guess). The cup is lined with sugar paper on the outside, ringed by a wall of biscuit (which in Britain is more like a cookie than what we call biscuit), and finally coated with an inner layer of white chocolate. When the coffee is added, it melts the white chocolate and softens the biscuit, although the paper holds the cup together.


Um, you left beans everywhere. (via KFC)

But wait, it also smells!

The cup was designed with help of The Robin Collective, a group of food scientists. Said a spokesperson for the Collective,

"Not only do the edible cups taste amazing, but they smell delicious too. We've infused different cups with a variety of ambient aromas including Coconut Sun Cream, Freshly Cut Grass and Wild Flowers. These scents were used in our recipes as they have a natural ability to evoke the positive memories we associate with warm weather, sunshine and summer holidays."

I was pretty happy with just sugar, cookies and chocolate, but that's great, too. The whole project was created to promote KFC's rollout of Seattle's Best coffee in its UK stores.

The most important question this story leaves us with is, "why isn't this in the United States?" My guess is that they're concerned Americans will instinctively eat the cup before drinking the scalding hot coffee inside, resulting in lawsuits.


A hilarious shot of someone exhibiting portion control around KFC. (via KFC)

The second-most important question is, "when will a cookie-and-chocolate-and-sugar-paper KFC chicken bucket be available?" It's very important that this happen so I can finally live out my lifelong dream of tying my arms behind my back and lowering my face onto several thousand calories of chicken, cookie, chocolate and paper and not picking my head back up until it's gone.

I don't think we can truly call America a free country until that happens.

Netflix is doing a new Inspector Gadget, because everything you ever loved will be rebooted.

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Hey, look! Another thing you used to love that can be ruined!


Inspector Gadget looks like he can see someone in the distance being murdered. (via Netflix/DHX Media)

As anybody over the age of 30 who has gone out drinking with old college buddies can tell you, the glow of nostalgia can make bad ideas seem like really good ones (like nostalgically drinking as if you were still 22). That's why I'm reluctant to throw up my pom-poms for the announcement of yet another childhood cartoon being rebooted — Inspector Gadget. Because while we might all be getting warm fuzzies from remembering how much we loved the bumbling Inspector and shows like DuckTales as kids, we need to remember two things:

1. A lot of stuff we get nostalgic for wasn't amazing in the first place.
2. It's a rare reboot that's better than the original.

Think of it this way — remember when you were a little kid, and the school playground still had at least one awesome, super-tall metal slide that, yes, someone could fall off of and break and arm? And then that slide got replaced with some "safer" plastic slide that was also not nearly as fun? The original cartoons were metal slides, and any reboot of a cartoon we loved as kids is coming in to a plastic slide world.

To be fair, this is Netflix, and the streaming service does have a pretty high quality level in its original programming. The show will be available starting next month — here's hoping that it will be the metal slide of children's programming.


Here's an entire room full of people refusing to face Kanye West.

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This is what happens when your only friend is your phone.


If you make eye contact, he will disappear. (via Imgur)

That's right, it's an entire room full of people so excited to see a celebrity that, in unison, they all faced away from him so that they could get a selfie. Kanye even got on a table so that everyone could get a good view.

Heaven forbid they just help each other take photos with him.

I Kan't-ye even.

Turns out "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" was a death metal song all along.

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That Mary Poppins lady could thrash!

Hail, Satancalifragilisticexpialidocious!

I don't know what kind of weird chemistry is happening inside the brain of L.A.-based musician Andy Rehfeldt—the guy who previously gave us the smooth jazz version of "Runnin' with the Devil"—but I think we all owe the Dark One a debt of gratitude for giving him to us.

See the aliens from an abandoned Steven Spielberg horror movie that became E.T.

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The phone home is coming from inside the house!


"That's right. I made you fall in love with a monster."(Getty)

Way back in 1977, Steven Spielberg was fresh off his blockbuster hit Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Although he wasn't interested in a sequel, Spielberg began working on one so that the studio wouldn't make it without him and screw it up (*cough* Jaws 2 *cough*). This time, however, it would be a horror film about short, ugly aliens invading the home of a rural family, and it would be called Night Skies.

Over the next few years, Spielberg would lose interest in Night Skies and eventually cancel the project, but not until a lot of time and money had gone into preproduction and design. Being the certified hitmaker that he is, however, he knew not to let it all go to waste. So when he began working on a kid-friendly story about a sweet, innocent alien who befriends a young child, he just tweaked his monster to make it (slightly) less disturbing, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was born. But thanks to redditor mike_pants, we can see the original concept art from before he was Disneyfied:


He comes for Reese's Pieces, he stays for YOUR BRAINS.(via)

Other ideas for Night Skies would be turned into different Spielberg projects. Notably, the plot was adapted with ghosts in place of aliens to become Poltergeist. Gremlins and War of the Worlds also owe a lot to it.

It's amazing to think how close our beloved childhood movies came to being completely different. How would your life be different if you were scared of E.T? Mine wouldn't be different at all. He always freaked me out.

Head on over to the Twitter or YouTube accounts of Rick Baker, the monster maker who originally created these, to see more freaky concept creatures, although they won't be as familiar to Elliott. Then phone home to tell your parents about it. Get it, phone home? You could also send them this article.

A story about filthy NYC public bathrooms today contained the greatest anonymous quote ever.

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New York really is where dreams come true.


"I coulda been a nobody." - anonymous.(via redditor hollidette)

This life-affirming piece of prose was excerpted from today's New York Times, which apparently sent a reporter out to review the bathrooms at New York's (in)famous Port Authority Bus Terminal. This may be the shortest distance the Times has ever traveled for an investigative report, since their brand-new skyscraper is literally across the street from the transit hub/biohazard. The article was ostensibly checking to see if the station's notoriously filthy commodes had improved since HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver aired a highly-shared segment on the bathrooms, which they called "the single worst place on Planet Earth."

All of which is just window dressing on what's really important here: some presumably normal person living out their dream to become an anonymous source. Not just an anonymous source, I might add, but an anonymous source for the Paper of Record in America.

I didn't read the whole article, of course, because I'm a New Yorker and I don't care if Maureen Dowd writes a whole column about eating weed brownies and passing out in a Four Seasons suite only to wake up and discover she was in the newly-pristine Port Authority bathrooms all along; I'm never going to pee there. I'll pee somewhere classier, like on the wall outside.


Madonna eats it falling off stage at British Grammys, learns why capes are a bad idea.

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Like a cape virgin, hooked on weird bull horns for the very first time. Actually, exactly like that.


Hook M, horns!

OK, OK, OK. I know everyone has seen The Incredibles (if you haven't, you're a sad little person who is wrong about life) and that everyone is very excited to quote superhero fashion icon Edna Mode's motto "No Capes!" after seeing too many young Supers going to early graves from back-fabric mishaps. That still doesn't change the fact that there is simply no other reference to quote here. It's perfect. Completely perfect.


This just happened at the BRIT Awards, if you cared. You shouldn't, because they're basically the Grammys with way more One Direction, but maybe you were curious.

Leaked! 7 unretouched celebrity images that prove photoshop goes way too far.

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Shocking.

We recently found these leaked photos of celebrities—before they were photoshopped to look perfect. The more these types of photos are leaked, the more we'll learn to accept our true selves: giant unibrow, turkey neck, big ears and all.

Turns out, stars really are just like us! Only, actually uglier.

Beyonce: Perhaps if Beyonce were to accept her true self, mouth for an eye and all, she might actually make it in this crazy biz.

Madonna: Nothing to be ashamed of in getting older. Be proud of that turkey neck, Madonna!

Shepard Smith: The louder the man, the smaller he usually is. Suffering a bit from short man's syndrome Shepard Smith?

Will Smith: And all along we were seeing a fake version of those famous ears. Think how great kids who are teased for their ear size would feel if they knew Will Smith's true proportions.

George Clooney: Perhaps now that he's a married man, we'll get to see George Clooney's real self, including that silver fox tail framing his eyes.

Dakota Fanning: Girlfriend, you can't keep your youth forever. Stop with the Photoshop and show off those crow's feet!

Ryan Gosling: Alright buddy, we get it. You're perfect. F-You.

(designed by Cole Mitchell)

This talking husky puppy sounds just like a toddler, but without asking "why" a million times.

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Speak! OK, now you can stop speaking.

This puppy is so cute, I want to do everything he asks. Does anyone know what a "gyang gyang waahwaah" is?

First impressions.

The Rich Dogs of Instagram are savoring the good life like a fine bone.

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First you get the money, then you get the bow-wow-er.

About to call the paparazzi on himself... if he could operate a phone. (via Rich Dogs of Instagram)

You know how you sometimes feel bad when you see people who have more money than you (cough cough, The Rich Kids of Instagram), but you feel good when you see a cute animal? Let those feelings balance each other out with the new Rich Dogs of Instagram, which shares pictures of pooches living the high life instead of entitled teens and tweens.

Not pictured: The aftermath where this $500 bow tie is chewed to bits. (via Rich Dogs of Instagram)

This dog is totally friends with Betty Draper, but just like the rest of us, he doesn't care about her problems anymore. (via Rich Dogs of Instagram)

When training your dog to "go on the paper" backfires. (via Rich Dogs of Instagram)

Dogs can't drive. But isn't the most baller move to have something expensive that you can't even use? (via Rich Dogs of Instagram)

If there's one thing we all know about Yorkies, it's that they always put ice in their wine. (via Rich Dogs of Instagram)

When you have a lot of money, it's a good idea to have a watchdog around. (via Rich Dogs of Instagram)

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