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Pickup Truck Gets Air Off a Snowbank, Bo and Luke Duke Applaud

Posted January 17, 2012, 6:30 pm by (9 Comments)

Video: These dudes are crossing their fingers that this footage reaches Johnny Knoxville.

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Video From The North American Wife-Carrying Championship

Posted October 9, 2011, 2:50 pm by (No Comments)

These people win beer and money for running around like fools.

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Zoomer Wins World Snail Racing Championships

Posted July 20, 2011, 2:10 pm by (79 Comments)

The World Snail Racing Championship took place in England on Sunday and it seems that the event got lost in all the news coverage of the World Cup and British Open. Better late than never. The winning snail was Zoomer, a small snail of indeterminate sex, age and religious beliefs.  Zoomer was the first ever Snail Racing [...]

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What Is Dumber: Extreme Ironing or Kronum?

Posted May 5, 2011, 3:35 pm by (28 Comments)

Across the Atlantic Ocean, something called “extreme ironing” exists. I can’t be the only one who hadn’t heard of this assholery. There’s an official website that calls extreme ironing, “the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt.” Translation? This is done by [...]

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Stat Analysis of Sports in Television and Movies

Posted April 2, 2011, 11:00 am by (3 Comments)

Hollywood Stat Revolution: The fine young men at the Harvard Sports Collective have finally worked on something truly worthwhile, a series on Hollywood sports. Through advanced statistical analysis, we’ve learned Jimmy Chitwood is incredible, Shawn Bradley as an alien is still worthless, Trey Parker > Matt Stone at Baseketball, the Fresh Prince was justified in keeping the ball [...]

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Girls of the Grand Prix

Posted August 8, 2010, 4:00 pm by (276 Comments)

Which Grand Prix am I talking about? I have no idea. See, I’m not much of a racing fan, but searching through Getty photos looking for something to post about I noticed that there are a lot of “grand prix” events and they all feature good-looking girls holding signs. Or the good-looking girls are just [...]

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Mutton Bustin’

Posted May 29, 2009, 5:00 pm by (19 Comments)

Years of training, and it all comes down to a 6 second ride. The brilliance is in the simplicity. You take a small child and you put it on a sheep. Then you let the sheep go and see how long the small child can hang on. The winner gets a belt buckle. It’s sweeping [...]

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