2012–2016
1,303 posts
2016 256
December 2016
- 2016 Just Keeps Taking
- Cows Can Jump?
- Jfdi
- The Difficulties of Being a Father
- The Santa Convention
- God I Love the Holidays!
- Thank God We Finally Know
- Cindy Stowell Kicks Ass
- Mannequin 3: Please Don’t Rescue Me
- Ghost Shark
- Unlimited Credit
- Really, It’s a Very Strange Name for a Christmas Band
- Facts as a Baseline
- Squirrels Have a War on Christmas
- Who Knew the Mannequin Challenge Could Be So Profitable?
- A President Who Misleads Workers, Who Gives Them False Hope
- China’s Loafing Bus
- Staving Off Tyranny
- There’s Actually a Special Ball-Cleaning Machine Called the GobbleMuffin
- The Space Poop Challenge
- He Is India’s Answer to Anthony Bourdain
- Where Is Your God Now?
November 2016
- Not Even Drunk Driving
- Muni Stands Strong
- Reducing Bias
- An Oral History of the Double Dare Obstacle Course
- Decency Is Not a “Shot”
- Strangers in a Strange Land
- Prejudice as a Practical Weapon
- Helluva Start to His 2020 Campaign
- Sign Me Up for That Job
- And Facebook Lives on to Memorialize Us All
- Where We Go From Here
- ···–––···
- Election Watch 2016: Election Day Edition
- Election Watch 2016: November 7th Edition
- They Shouldn’t Be Surprised When the Pitchforks Come Out
- The Giraffe-Necked Assassin Bug
- I Have Died, Walgreens. Please Stop Emailing Me.
- Election Watch 2016: November 1st Edition
October 2016
- A New Low Even for Uber
- Engaging With Brands, October 28th Edition
- Ancient Emoji
- Scrotox Is a Real Thing
- Election Watch 2016: October 25th Edition
- I’m So Disheartened I Can’t Even Make a Bonuses/Boni Joke
- Nobody Should Be Making This Harder for You
- Responding to Threats
- Eastern Airlines Flight 980
- Election Watch 2016: October 18th Edition
- It’s Dingells All the Way Down
- Raining Catfish and Dogfish
- Explorer’s Day?
- Inside North Korea
- Election Watch 2016: October 11th Edition
- Almost One in Eight Republicans Believe Trump Should Drop Out
- Iceland Airwaves Is Apparently NOT the Onboard Music Station for IcelandAir
- Guac the Vote
- One Score and Eight Websites
- Election Watch 2016: October 4th Edition
- Resistance Is Futile and Essential
September 2016
- Inverted Rebuttal
- Much Too Recent
- Shipping Trickery
- Donald Trump Should Not Be President
- Magnificent and Repulsive
- Low-Tech Drone Prevention
- Half-Baked
- That’s a Hell of an Assignment
- Bad-Ass Nuns
- As if Running a Marathon Isn’t Difficult Enough
- This Seems Like a Really Legitimate System
- What Could Be More Fun?
- Science Denialism
- Trash Crabs
- Picnic Basket, 33% Off
- Ghost Guard
- The Latest in Paper and Microfilm Technology
- Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Ants
- Snitches Get Stitches
- Yet Another Reason Not to Play the Bagpipes
- Knockoff North Koreans
- Safe for Even the Fattest of Tourists
August 2016
- Honey, We’re Out of Smallpox Again. Can You Pick Some Up?
- Motels From the Past
- Sorry, Kids
- The Ultimate Caper
- A Stunning Rebuke
- A Short Tale
- What’s the Police Code for This?
- Varying Levels of Class
- The Russian Mosquito Festival
- America Is Anxious
- Goat Portraiture
- A Very Sage Infestation
- Corpse Cupboard
- That Might Be a Little Awkward
- He Can Buy So Many Faux Banksy Prints
- Money Quotes: August 10th, 2016 Edition
- Save Money. Destroy Capitalism.
- Australia Is Coming for You, Papua New Guinea
- Guess Who’s Swearing Frequently
- A Thesis on Pants
- Happy Dying
- Marketing Malaise
- Michael Caine Changes His Name To “Michael Caine”
July 2016
- Using Us for Our Axes and Fire
- Meditations on a “Fresh Paint” Sign
- Inadvertent Altruism
- One Felony Count of Beverage Return of Non-Refundable Bottles
- Lazy Rivers Seldom Occur in Nature
- Foul on All Levels
- The Encyclopedia of Matt Damon
- Dryer Lint Donald
- Explain Yourself, Groupon
- A Most Unusual Lawsuit
- Only 163 Days Until Christmas
- A Sexy Navy Suit
- Justice and Accountability Are Apparently Revolutionary Ideas
- Very Sorry Indeed
- Damn Straight
- Longing to Touch the Lips of Men
- Plagiarizing Fiction
- That’s Just Inconvenient
- That’s One Awkward Phone Call
- Thankfully, It’s Not a 10-Point Safety Plan
- The World’s First Robot Lawyer
June 2016
- Of All the Classes
- An Expensive Waste
- An AI Wrote a Screenplay
- It Means Paying More, Anyway
- Thank God They’re Gluten-Free
- A Deliberate Provocation
- You Never Say It Can’t Happen
- I’m Insulted by the Suggestion
- Portraits of America
- A 33-Year-Old Easter Egg
- Celebrate With a Drink
- Mr. Munglani’s Wild Ride
- Every Day Is Children’s Day
- Be the Helpers
- Yo, Peep This
- That’s Some Expensive Shit
- Shut Up and Listen
- Beer Hero
- Emily Doe’s Powerful Words
- Everyone Loves Roxie
- The Beer Probably Cost More
- Questionable Use of Police Resources
May 2016
- Cut ’Em Up
- A Fool for a Client
- Earth’s Remaining Trees Breathe a Sigh of Relief
- Well Handled, NYPD
- The Vegan Bernie Madoff
- Why’d He Rat Himself Out?
- You Really Do
- Intolerant of Intolerance
- Carpageddon
- Security Search Management & Problems Ltd
- Racism Is the Bogeyman
- Any Press Is Good Press?
- Dark Side of the Icon
- Nine Lives and Then Some
- I’ll Go to My Grave Calling These “Glideboards”
- Detachable Penis
- So Much Spray-Tan
- It’s Not Libel if It’s True
- Netflix Is Watching You Watch Netflix
- Winning Feels a Lot Like Losing
- Always Check for Blowhole Mucus
April 2016
- Cloudy With a Chance of Software Updates
- Hairblade
- Caution: Dumb Bus Driver
- Aphantasia
- The Day Without Cake
- Water Does Not Truly Sustain Life; It Merely Extends It Until the Next Drink
- Congratulations! You’ve Done a Soccer Game!
- So Many Nautical Puns
- Less DRM, Less Cooked Cat Poop
- Not Sure Who Was More Frightened
- Located Near the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology
- Inky’s Done a Runner
- No Sex in the PodShare Pods
- It’s a Living
- Dragons Are an Underused Mascot
- How Are You Celebrating?
- Listen to Me. Listen to Your Heart. Listen To…
- An Incomplete List of Lengths of Time for Which One Can, and/or Ways One Might, Chill
- They Literally Could Have Just Used Quarters
- Nick Offerman Is Pretty Great
- How Do You Make That Request?
March 2016
- Patrolling Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
- Magneto’s in Medina
- The Enemy of My Enemy
- Little Jenny Null
- Rental Friends
- Time Flies. That Bird Doesn’t.
- Ohhhhh. I Get It Now.
- A Little Beyond Your Average Tagger
- Proudly Serving Aboard the RRS Boaty McBoatface
- Dog Overboard
- Drinking and Riding
- Not a Lot Going on in Charlton, It Would Seem
- Presenting Steerage Class
- He Shouldn’t Have Looked
- I Suppose “Apologizes for” Beats “Diffident After”
- Sucks to Be Seated on the Left Side of the Plane
- Seems Legit
- Becca Pizzi Kicks Ass
- L is for Laughable
- Kentucky Fried Creepers
- Leonardo DiCapriovich
- Blink Twice if You Need an Extraction, Chris Christie
- Inducing Fear in Raccoons
February 2016
- Barvd: 2015 in Review
- Five Weeks May Have Been Optimistic
- Founded Fears
- Fur Missile Away
- An Anticlimactic Conclusion
- If the Worst Should Happen
- Who Pooped My Mailbox?
- That’s Still Pretty Cheap
- Now to Add “Ass” to the Mix
- The Year of the Monkey Jewelry
- Einstein’s Missing Out on a Lot of Cake
- Nothing Says Austerity Like 4000 Meters of Carpet
- Gravity’s Just a Habit
- Centriphone
- Poor Jim Nantz
- 🎵 Hey QB, You’re on TV 🎵
- Living Is the Best Revenge
- Up Your Bowel
- Knock It Off, Assholes
- Expect Less
- John Scott, 2016 NHL All-Star MVP
January 2016
- $1000 Buys a Little Jewelry or a Lot of Roaches
- A Review of an Unheard Album
- Refusing to Pay the Troll Toll
- $4.8 Million to Not Host The Super Bowl
- Donald Rumsfeld, Game Developer
- Walmart’s Dirty Deal
- Ease Into That
- Virtual Reality Options
- John Scott, 2016 All-Star
- Nickelback Is Your Secret Boyfriend
- The Missing 11th
- JT’s Avatar
- Smooth Criminal
- Questionable Cross-Promotion
- Extremely Low
- Mandating Ignorance
- Looks Like a Fun Guy
- Henry Kissinger Has No Time for Your Nonsense
- Vexatious Hypocrisy
- Squeeze One Last Lie in to the Old Year
- That Poor Widow Veazie
2015 261
December 2015
- Eye on New York
- Two Angry Men
- The Pep Boys Aren’t Sexy?
- More Holiday Weirdness From Smithsonian Mag
- Merry Christmas, Icelandic Weirdos
- Crickets Are the Ticket
- The Amazon Promotional Code
- The Hess Spite Triangle
- How Do You Match That?
- So That’s Where You Left Them
- Who Knew Potatoes Were Such a Good Fuel Source?
- Alive in Three Centuries and Counting
- A Brief Overview of JT Dobbs’ Trumang Tweet
- Ghost Streets
- Things I Learned About Dog Treats
- Aging Gracefully
- That Dog
- You Can Hear The Ignorance
- The Screams Seemed So Real
- “Oculus Rift” Would Be a Badass Baby
- The Oral History of the “Wayne’s World” “Bohemian Rhapsody” Scene
- Last Year’s Model?
- The Grouchy Chef
November 2015
- The Origins of “Hello”
- “Live by Night” by Day (And Also Night)
- Michael Dukakis Would Very Much Like Your Turkey Carcass
- An Octogenarian Baby
- Thing Explainer
- Run, Leroy, Run
- Singles’ Day
- “An Insult Comic Made by the Jim Henson Studios”
- Avoiding Feckless, Hypocritical Cynicism
- Join the Club
- Well This Is Helpful
- The Horror
- A Particularly Offensive Shade of Red
- Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool
- Too Big to Emoji
- New Mascots on the Horizon
- Opt Outside
- Modern Art Is Trash
- Why Old Sports Photos Often Have a Blue Haze
- Quick, Somebody Call…
- Sorry, Morning People
October 2015
- Kept In the Dark
- How Would the Quentessa Design a Bathroom?
- Outlawing Good Taste
- Weak, Lego
- Emily Dreyfuss Is a Robot
- Cardboard Pimp My Ride
- Apple’s Upped Their Emoji Game
- Hell of a Shot
- What Has Tony Wrought?
- The Untold Story of the Ermahgerd Girl
- That Would Never Happen
- That’s Not What Free Means
- A Most Mysterious Star
- Bumper Sticker Copyediting
- It’s the Best Their Dumb, Stubby Little Bodies Can Do
- A Lot of Free Time
- The Best $5 You’ll Ever Spend
- Real Or Fake? (October 7th, 2015 Edition)
- We Rob Houston
- Done Him Wrong
- How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina
- Don’t Do Unto Others as You Would Have Others Not Do Unto You
September 2015
- Yeah, Reporting on the Drone Strikes Is the Problem
- The Non-Existent War on Police
- A Tourist Story in Four Pictures
- Endorse Him for Cartoon Captioning
- People All Over The World (Everybody), Join Barrels
- Fun with SiriusXM
- Bring Us Home
- Overengineered German Crap
- Give a Little Piece of Your Skin
- What Kind of God Would Allow a Thing Like This to Happen?
- Losing While Running Unopposed
- AT&T’s Rollover Data is Bullshit
- An Emoji Primer
- Could This Story Possibly Be More French?
- Finally
- Disingenuous Movie Reviews
- Pillow Fight Leaves 24 Concussed
- Perverse Incentives
- Space Jam Forever
- Head of the Charles
- No More Sense Than an Amish Bus Driver
- Self-Driving Cars vs. Fixed-Gear Bikes
August 2015
- That’s Not What Dolphins Do
- It’s Also a Very High-End Hunting Load for Ducks, Geese, or Turkeys
- Waste Not, Want Not
- At Least He Can Still Go to the Same Church
- Tomato Seasoning
- “I Love the Thing That I Most Wish Had Not Happened”
- The UK’s Most Disappointing New Visitor Attraction
- Pretty Damned Good for Around a Thousand Pixels
- Early Notes on the Ashley Madison Hack
- Unlikely to Be a Viable Alternative
- How to Win Contests and Influence Mexican Soap Stars
- Chicago Falcons
- You Reap What You Sow
- Please Report to the Principal’s Office
- There Is, of Course, No Gun
- Unwelcome and Superfluous
- Get Off My Back, CVS
- Drones Are Delivering Contraband to Prisons
- Planes, “Planes”, and Automated Fare Pricing
- No, It’s Not Your Opinion. You’re Just Wrong
- Well, I Guess It’s Bust
July 2015
- That’s Why It’s Sacrifice
- The Uselessness of Car Alarms
- A Lego Photographer
- You Just Got Out of Prison
- The Semantics of Selfies
- Leeeeeeeeeew
- It’s Worth the 4 Seconds It’ll Take
- Other Ed Casey
- You Get One, Donald
- Baseball, Emoji, and a Rainout
- Ridiculous Products: Pizza Hut’s Hot Dog Bites Pizza
- Think About What You’re Saying
- Wal-Mart’s Hypocrisy and Amazon Prime Day
- This Robot’s Headed to Vegas
- One Foot Tsunami Thinks It’s Funny That the Washington Post Thinks It’s Funny That Boston.com Thinks It’s Funny the NY Times Just Noticed Our Huge Snow Pile Is Still There
- Massterisk
- Emoji Battle
- A 13-Email Delay
- The Boston Militia Are Now the Boston Renegades
- The King Is Dead
- Just Really Very Stupid
- Dumb People Keep Getting Hit By Trains
- An Abridged Oral History of Jerry’s Girlfriends on Seinfeld
June 2015
- Know Hope
- One and the Same
- Counting the Sticks
- Nice Unibrow, Kingsley
- A Pricey Gesture
- Edna Never Caught On
- Hamburglars I Have Known
- Take Down the Flag
- Stick to the Doodles
- A Valuable Apology
- Living in the World Is Not a Dress Rehearsal
- The Show Does Go On
- Robot Blooper Reel
- Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc
- Say Hello to Tallywackers
- Sounds Like a Site for Fancy STDs
- Good for You, Walter Thomas
- Minecraft Dogs
- A Quick Trip to the Apple Store
- Bathing in the Spider Rain
- An Enclave Wrapped in a Parcel Inside a Country
- Take Care in Naming Your Boat
May 2015
- Precision-Controlled Holes
- Ghana’s Power Bank Phone
- Say Hello to Patrick, the Robotic Ass
- Meet Hobson, You Peanut Botherer
- Open Table Redux
- Seattle’s Canine Police Force
- You Do Not Have to Make a Watch App
- Stop the Contest
- Amazing Automated Time-lapses
- Slightly Less Offensive Is Still Offensive
- Also, Chevy Metal Is a Great Name
- Right City, Wrong Team
- Seven Days Offline
- My Kind Of Mischief
- The Quotable Elon Musk
- Taller
- As Little as One-Tenth as Much
- Nightmareliner
- Immediately Everything Was Wrong
- Cupertino, Start Your Photocopiers
- Water Resistant-Ish
April 2015
- Hoist With Their Own Petard
- Weird and Wrong
- You Know What They Say
- She Didn’t Like the Joke
- Nail Houses
- Funeral Strippers
- Instagram Comments Need an “Off” Switch
- The “Kermit the Frog” Frog
- The Best of Sports
- Bring on Return-Free Filing
- So Much for Alcoholics “Anonymous”
- Rogue Microwave Ovens
- Playing Cop
- Aptly Named
- The First Person to Pass the Real Test
- Emoji News for April 9th, 2015
- Black Barely-Liquid Toxic Sludge
- The Brief Existence of an Additional $100 Million in Market Cap
- Conning His Way Out of Prison
- Work/Life Balance Is a Joke
- McBarge
- Temporarily Grounded
March 2015
- Mid-Performance Marketing
- The Billionaire You’ve Never Heard Of
- At Least He Didn’t Have an Open Container
- Stopping the Stadium Wars
- Likely Considered Weird
- Bad Ads: Logic? Whatever.
- A Man of Many Talents
- Au Revoir, Louis vs. Rick
- The Man Who Posted Himself to Australia
- A Pretty Good Extortion Scheme
- Mostly Saltwater
- An Open Letter to Kid Rock
- Autoimmune Disease
- Lindsey Graham Plans His Coups Well in Advance
- Icebergs on the Sand
- I Hope They Offer Divorce Insurance
- Lowered Expectations
- Hindsight
- My Kind of Wine Recommendations
- Lenticular Cloud at Sunset
- I’m Sorry Too, I Guess
- The Chairman’s Flight
February 2015
- Massages Are Not for Me
- Slurpee Waves
- Budweiser’s Hypocrisy
- New Emoji and My Favorite Radar
- The Tomatan Has Arrived and Nothing Will Ever Be the Same
- Snowzilla, Snowtron, and More
- Ringling’s Unicorn
- Not Exactly Making Philadelphia Proud
- How Russia Punishes People for Likes, Retweets, and Selfies
- Vine’s Raison D’Être
- Inside the Loew’s 46th St. Theater
- Barvd: 2014 in Review
- Zoo Security Drills
- This Might Only Prove No One Visits The Grammy Museum
- Jesus Crist
- Instagram’s Raison D’Être
- They Went Inside and Had a Wedding
- God Bless You, Herr Schabowski
- The Curious Case of the Disappearing Polish S
- Scientology at War With Film Critics
January 2015
- FCC Chairman Mocks ISP Industry
- The Worst Part of Waking Up Is Talking to a Stranger on the Phone
- Someone in the ’90s Got Hurt Over This
- Seems Like a Lateral Move at Best
- The “Weather Is About to Eff You” Truck
- IDEO’s Oldest Designer
- Speaking of Fishes
- Sleep With the Fishes
- How Do Windows Users Live Like This?
- Hardly a Populist Hero
- There’s No Such Thing as a Free Helicopter
- Wage Peace, Except on Guinea Worms, Because Holy Hell, That’s Disgusting
- The Secret Racing Test Tunnel No One Wants to Talk About
- Does His Shirt Have a Tattoo?
- Feared by Batters and Birds Alike
- A Cartoonist in Jail
- Life Imitates Snowpiercer
- A Teenager’s View on Social Media Written by an Actual Teen
- Going Out on Top
- Some Florida Courthouses Take Their Ball and Go Home
- Small Favors
- Not-So-Regrettable Errors
2014 263
December 2014
- Anything but That
- I’d Rather See 3500 White Elephants
- Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty
- Winning the LDBC
- Jesus Was the Original Zombie
- Get the Kid His Peaches
- A Diplomatic Pouch Full of Semen
- The Case for Allowing the Homeless to Drink
- More Cowardice
- The Guaranteed Hiccup Cure
- Ecce Mono
- Moral Madness
- Who Knew South Dakota Was So Dirty?
- Simply Having a Financially Rewarding Christmastime
- Which Do You Prefer: Concast or Comcrap?
- Never Enough Corgis
- “Grub”, Get It?
- Conduct Unbecoming
- 32 Bits Was Not Enough for Everybody
- I Can’t Breathe Either
- A Racist Candy Store
- Who’s Drunk at 5 AM on a Tuesday?
- An Interview With Chris Rock
November 2014
- Pomplamoose’s Tour Profits
- Hypocrisy? In the NFL? Why, I Never!
- Only Words
- Ain’t No Rule Says the Dog Can’t Adventure Race
- Pile of Poo Is the Anti-Like
- Expertise Not Required
- Your Body Is Disgusting
- We Need an Uber for People Who Don’t Want to Use Uber, Because It’s Run by Assholes
- Not So Funzies
- Truckin’ for the World
- Springsteen Is All You Need
- Rogue Toilets
- AirDrop Is for Space Sloths
- No Need to Hold for Laughs in Russia
- Olive Garden Certainly Got Their Money’s Worth
- Penguins Don’t Notice Wheels
- That’s Entertainment
- Science Smells Amazing
- In Bad Company
- The Wink Makes It
October 2014
- Proud Father Kevin Bumgarner
- Two Penny Candies, Please
- That Hedge Fund Makes Some Nice Cars
- A Dog Story
- He’ll Grow Into It
- Stegosauri Fought Dirty
- You Can Still Drink at the Jack Daniel’s Distillery Though, Right?
- Ruthie Smalls
- Head on Down to the Airport for Dinner
- A Toy Bag of Crystal Meth
- There Is Such a Thing as Bad Publicity
- Just Heading in to the Office
- Unlikely to Give Chase
- Two Million People Are Still Paying AOL for Dial-Up Access
- Meet the All-New Web Voyager
- It’s Fun to Say “Walloon”
- Shoppers Gonna Shop
- Sympathy Emoji
- Goodbye Forever
- Fore! Score, and Then Another 42 Score
- Square Cash and the World’s Worst Negotiator
- Not Funny. Not Clever. Not Excused.
- They Have Not Sold Many Phones, You See
September 2014
- Purple-Bellied?
- Do the Math
- Well Done, Mr. Simms
- Swindling the Nazis
- We Miss You, Law Talking Guy
- Now With Improved 1000 Yard Stare Graphics
- Katie Ledecky Kicks Ass
- The Fascinating Disappearance of the McSpoon
- Families Fight
- Vancouver Seems Like the City to Do It
- Just The Tip Chows Down on Some Leftovers
- Complete and Utter Horseshit From Urban Outfitters
- The Myth of Voter Fraud
- This War of Mine
- The Gift of Divorce
- Argo
- A+ Name, D- Ads
- Best Joke Ever
- Happy Belated Birthday, Whitey!
- The 14-Inch Linebacker
- The Kings Dominion Law
- Probably Doesn’t Taste Any Worse Than Red Bull
August 2014
- How Paintball Started
- Muslim, Moor, Baby, Whatever
- There Are a Few Moments of Joy, but You’re Not Allowed to See Them
- Why We Didn’t Vaccinate Our Child
- Cropping Out the Joke
- Battle Martin Is in Charge of Your Beer Bottle Labels
- Vandalizing Monuments
- Like Mo’ne Davis
- Just the Tip Returns for Season Two
- The Ice Bucket Challenge Has Been Won
- Win-Win-Win
- Enough Is Enough in Ferguson
- Chess 2
- Looking Sharp, USPS
- Strike Two, Amazon
- Misdirected Email
- Help, I’m Trapped in a Blog Post Factory
- Monkeying With Copyrights
- Triple Fail
- All 30 Mario Kart 8 Characters, Reviewed
- You Were Born to Live and Be Loved
July 2014
- The Last Stand for the Middle Class
- CV Dazzle
- Not So User-Friendly
- No Kids, No Stress, and a Spoonful of Honey
- Let’s Eat Grandma
- Presumably One With the Power to Detonate Itself
- Perverse Incentives
- Lego Beach
- Ball Nipper
- Kacy Catanzaro Kicks Ass
- Also, Who Called in the Report?
- No Post Today
- Genocide City
- A Slip ‘N Slide for Adults
- The Wrong Kind of Rally
- I Can’t Wait To See This One On Law & Order
- Hip, Hip…Meh
- Pitchforks for Plutocrats
- Fireworks From a Drone
- The 2014 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest
- Take That, Hitler
- The Making of “The Writing’s on the Wall”
- License Plates of the Past
June 2014
- Innovation, Thy Name Is Facebook
- Heritage’s Ugly Benghazi Panel
- This Man Has Just Set a World Record for Most Game Show Episodes Hosted by the Same Presenter (One Show)
- Grenada, Granada, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
- The Rise of Emoji
- Rejected Princesses
- Have a Nice Day, Period
- The Less Than Ideal Vehicle Resulted in the Cessation of Life
- I Really Like Calling Them “The Football Team From Washington”
- Unabashed
- Thanks a Real Lot
- Ugh, Soccer
- Helping the Internet Be Less Terrible
- Biting the Hand That Rolls
- That Doesn’t Even Make Sense
- Bill Watterson’s Return
- We Are Now in Command
- Sexism Kills
- An Incomplete List of Major League Baseball Players Who May Be “Greek Fellas”, According to My Father
- Pointer Pointer
- Serial Tickler
May 2014
- The Wrong Kitty Litter
- It Was Not Clear Who or What Journalism Was
- Never Read the Comments
- Watch for a Lawsuit From the Estate of John Cage
- Why Wait?
- I Like My Highways Like I Like My Coffee…Covered in Bees
- Unless You Do
- White House Vows That CIA Will Not Use Vaccine Programs for Covert Ops
- Who Watches the Watchers’ Pirated Movies?
- An Awful First Pitch
- Goodbye in the Key of Kenny G
- Now You See Me: The Abridged Script
- Nostalgically
- Close Enough
- Thoughts About the Politics of Zimbabwe Over Pictures of Its Scenery
- Mini Car, Mega Oops
- The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop
- Please Consider Proper Grammar
- Bring Back the Guillotine
- And Buddha Smiled On
- Disappearing Quicksand
- A New Wheelchair Icon
April 2014
- Abstinence-Only Education Doesn’t Work on Pets Either
- A Night of Drinking With Jim Koch
- Call in an Expert
- Do as We Say, Not as We Do
- This Is Gonna Be Bad
- The Worst Kurt Cobain Lede Ever
- Assorted Notes from the 2014 Boston Marathon
- The Eternal “I Told You So”
- [Sponsor] Briefs
- I Prefer My Public Officials Use Less Chidish Words
- Heds Will Roll
- One Year Later
- All But
- Order the Chicken, Not the Fish
- [Sponsor] Sponsorships on One Foot Tsunami Now Available!
- At Least Spongebob Is Smiling
- Won’t Someone Please Think of the Puppies?
- NPR’s April Fool’s Day Prank
- John Popper Vanity Searches, Too
- More Stings to the Penis, Please
- Baseball Bloopers (April 4th, 2014 Edition)
- John Popper Looks on the Bright Side
- The NCAA Took Away My Cat Mug
- Where Do You Buy a Rat Trap That Big?
March 2014
- Shoulda Shipped It Priority Flat-Rate
- I Think the Food Was Good
- Dumpster Dining
- Why, That’s Almost Three Quarters
- Blue Bloods
- A Portrait of the Bro as a Young Ass
- How Not To Kill Yourself With Household Items
- An Incomplete List of Things People Clap for, in Increasing Order of Stupidity
- The $17 Million Dollar Squatter
- The Girl With the Pirated DVD
- Refusing to Negotiate
- Kids Say the Creepiest Things
- The Senate and the CIA at War
- Retiring at 26
- Nothing To Hear Here
- Unreplaced Placeholder Text
- A Valentine’s Story in Four Pictures
- RadioShack To Close 1100 Stores
- Stephen Colbert at the RSA Conference
- For Reference, No Jewish Leaders Are Welcome Either
- When May I Shoot A Student?
February 2014
- Godspeed, Columbia
- Dehipsterized
- Muppet Selfies
- Disgustingly Fascinating
- Jason Collins, Signed
- The “Doink Doink” Would Be a Great Shutdown Sound
- A Bad Omen
- Death Pocket
- Better Than Crashing the Market
- Hotwire Geography
- Criminal Genius
- Reverse Product Placement
- Bob Costas’s Unsightly Eyes
- Karma
- The Barvd Emoji
- Checked the Wrong Box
- Analyzing the Esurance Contest
- Heroes in a Half-Shell
- Whittemore’s Revenge
- Breaking Madden Predicts the Super Bowl
January 2014
- Goodnight Earth
- The NSA’s Insurance Policy
- Fools or Fabricators
- Pearl’s Final Story
- I Don’t Appreciate Their Ruse
- So Money
- Amazing Bug Fixes
- This January in Baseball
- The House at 3215 Wade Avenue
- A Televised Sunrise
- Barvd: 2013 in Review
- “Jim Harbaugh’s $8 Pleated Khakis” Would Be a Great Name for a Fantasy Football Team
- The Origin of “Screwed the Pooch”
- You Don’t Know Me but I’m Famous
- Unabashed
- Sent by a Robot
- Dolphins Getting High
- Class Act
- Woman Bites Toe
- They Blew It
- News You Can Use
- How Does The Fox Taste?
- Exceedingly Quiet
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December 2013
- Spend the Extra Half a Cent
- Covered in Gross Buttons
- Simon Beck’s Snow Art
- Where to Point the Finger
- So Pumped for Christmas
- Alan Turing Needs No Pardon
- Oh Thank Heavens!
- OK, Now It’s Christmas
- The Sculpture on the Moon
- Mikenesses
- Taking Bus #19 to New Haven
- Headline Review: December 16th, 2013 Edition
- Will There Be Cake?
- Festive Feast in a Tin
- At Long Last
- Things Are Looking Up Already
- Let’s Hope It Was Misused
- Advertising at a Funeral
- Maybe Just Use a Zippo Next Time
- That’s Some Catch
- At the Intersection of Sacarmneto and 43th
- Phallus-Obsessed Bushwacker Strikes Again
November 2013
- Infiltrators
- Women Smiling With Turkeys
- Cats Don’t Give A Shit
- Coffee Maker Cooking
- Brutally Frank Relationship Advice From a Nonagenarian
- No Thank You
- Judi Dench and Steve Coogan Look Weird Here
- Zebra Bites Staffer at National Zoo; Scared Gazelle Runs Into Barrier and Dies
- Walmart Food Drive for Walmart Employees
- Just The Tip: Season One
- Finally, Lincoln Will Get Some Respect
- Safely Ensconced
- Think About It for a Few Minutes
- Get Your Menurkey Now
- Pinkberry Co-Founder Convicted of Beating Homeless Man With Tire Iron
- More on Climax
- One Taze Over the Line
- A Failed Revolution
- Washington State’s Initiative 522
- Jake Peavy Bought a Duck Boat
- Genuine Fake Banksys
October 2013
- I Put a Spell on You
- I Couldn’t Sleep At All Last Night
- Bad Ads: Nissan’s “Gas Station Breakup”
- Turns Out That’s Not Legal
- The Always-On Grid
- Even $100 Seems High
- Sally Kohn’s Obamacare Savings
- Who the Hell Wears a Helmet to Do a Handstand?
- Boston Cop Photoshops
- Surgery Performed Before a Live Studio Audience
- Prison Sentences, 15% Off
- And North Korea Knows From Human Rights Abuses
- The History of the Trapper Keeper
- News Anchor Eats Cat Barf
- BlackBerry’s Windowless Van
- Halcyon Hall Is a Great Name
- 4.5 Cents on the Dollar
- Rocky Runs a 50K
- A Penny Stock Soars on Twitter’s Wings
- The (Al)Chemist
- Your Phone Is Too Big
- Mr. Pink Would Approve
- The Stuff of Nightmares
September 2013
- Manipulating the Market to Swing an Election
- My Mom’s Gonna Love This
- Auto-Brewery Syndrome
- Ridiculous Products: Bad Ass Socks
- Fetch
- The Man Sure Owned a Lot of Ladies’ Capes
- Washed Away
- Clowns Are the Worst
- Jenny Lawson Buys a Bear
- He Draws Tom Hanks
- Better Hurry Up
- Vote @Horse_ebooks
- That’s Not a Thing
- Taking on The CPSC
- Seriously, You Should Buy the Minelab GPX-5000 Metal Detector
- All 32 Quarterbacks as Their Team Name
- Almost Like a Metaphorical Key
- 1-900-FU-Pay-Me
- Kindle Matchbook
- 52,000 People Can Be Gross
- Competition in the Space
August 2013
- Animals…Don’t…Wear…Pants
- Automated Cameras Gone Mad
- More Tips from Roku
- Brain Power Not Included
- The Pathetic Desert Tortoise
- High Demand for the Hoff
- Thanks Be They Had That Police Dog
- What Brian Beutler Learned From Getting Shot
- A Catwalk Model
- Volvo’s Open Patent
- Alone in a Crowd
- Stealing From the Cops
- Always Check the Fine Print
- The 700+ True Messiahs
- Los Angeles Is the Worst
- No PEDs Necessary
- Invisible License Plates
- Blatantly False Advertising
- Shut Up About It!
- Does Work for Food
- Thupid Fearth
- Race Relations
July 2013
- Water Damage Not Covered
- Skinvertising
- Why Your Supermarket Only Sells Five Kinds of Apples
- Speed Enforced by Drones
- The Gutless Cutlass from Chancy Vought
- Just The Tip on Airplanes
- Assorted Notes on Flight 214 Which Didn’t Fit Into the Previous Post, but Remain Nonetheless Interesting or Darkly Amusing, and Are Thus Worthy of Their Own Post
- Something Wrong, Alright
- A Picture’s Worth
- Does Pascal’s Wager Apply to Twitter?
- Cutbacks at the Ol’ Blood Factory
- Hitchhiking to Your Own Concert
- Canine Apiarist
- More on Greeting Cards
- They Should Probably Skip the Midi-Chlorians Though
- Where US Currency Goes to Die
- A Podcast Called Just The Tip
- De-orange-ification
- An Open Letter to the Worst Wax Museum in America
- The 2013 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest
- Literacy Tests Written by Illiterates
- Profanity Ahead
- Opening the Door
June 2013
- There Are Some Bad Ideas
- Evil Master of Odors
- Keep It Up, Wendy Davis
- An Imagined Conversation
- Sky Poo
- Come on, Japan
- Eventually, They’re Just Not Going to Take It Anymore
- He Went to Six Years of Clown Medical School
- Vladimir Putin Is Ridiculous
- K9 Kaiser, End of Watch
- Dumb Ways to Die
- Dispelling the Clouds of Despair
- Covering the United States
- Things I Learned: Buying Chocolate
- Traffic, Backed Up. Headline, Teed Up.
- Prism
- Superformula
- Visiting Nicholas Cage’s Estate Sale
- Nobody Counts In L.A.
- Take Me to Bob Seger!
May 2013
- Grumpy Cat Has a Stipple Portrait
- Go East, Young Marijuana Dealer
- Pot Tells Kettle to Be Less Black
- Milk Preferences
- Dictionary of Numbers
- My Favorite Preference Name of All Time
- Seems Like a Reasonable Investment
- Plane Wifiaholics Anonymous
- Bootstrapping the Industrial Age
- Tunnel Smugglin’ Good
- Stop Over and Say Hello
- Permanent Crippling Seems a Fair Punishment
- Money Quotes: May 15th, 2013 Edition
- Bee Fences
- The Jacks of Tom Cruise
- Mani-Pedis Cure Extremism
- There’s Only One Answer
- A Solid for Rodman
- Inside Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos Taco
- Lines You Won’t See in Ads for “The Great Gatsby”
- John Scalzi’s Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
- A Portrait of the Congressman
- Kings Don’t Build Their Own Castles
April 2013
- Sign Jason Collins
- Prisons Have Handbooks?
- Never Return to the Scene of the Crime
- Perfect for the Puppy Bowl
- A Soggy Dutch Dog
- Getting the Right Country: Czech
- Our City
- I Want My City Back
- Existential Uncertainty
- That’s How to Defeat Terrorists
- Strength in the Face of Evil
- Powered by Runners
- Beating Snake
- Don’t Walk, Asshole
- Parenthetical Ess
- Times Haiku
- Religious Ridiculousness
- No Photoshopping Necessary
- Corporate Communications
- I Only Eat There for the Articles
- Ridiculous Products: Quiver
- The Barry Bonds of Butt Dialing
March 2013
- Keeping Up With One Foot Tsunami
- Metro News (March 28th, 2013 Edition)
- The Fresh Ten
- Scoot Over, Tilda Swinton
- Today In Bizarre Foreign Cultures: Penis Snatching
- The Flavo(u)rs of Molton Brown
- Excessively Sheer
- Walk It Off
- Taken Down a Peg
- The Crucial Penguin Segment
- But They’re Faster Than Lightning!
- Sustainable Sushi
- Fish Eggs! Get Yer Fish Eggs!
- Who Knows Why Kids Do Anything?
- You Do Have to Admire Their Aim
- Literally Literally, or Figuratively Literally?
- Unappealing
- So Long, Rapiscans
- Five Questions for the TSA
- Asimov’s Fourth Law of Robotics is “No Swearing”.
- Trusting Amazon
- Who’s Buying Black Market Bags of Blood?
February 2013
- Everybody Out of the Water
- Paint First, Then Tow
- Also, if You Have a Nickname Like ‘Mr. Sidewalk’
- Maybe Consider a Fabulous Type of Gorilla
- A Map of Missed Connections
- Flattening the Curve
- The Tweet Hereafter
- Speaking of Matt Damon
- Under Pressure
- Now Curable!
- Tesla v. Broder
- Raining Spiders
- A Complete List of Warning Messages Cycling Through the Dashboard of the Last Cab I Took
- Not Exactly Van Gogh
- I Give It a Full Ten Jock Straps
- Better Brick Up Your Mailbox, Ms. Borer
- Missing Tortoise Survives 30 Years in Storage Room
- “Take the Long Way Home”
- Five Suggested Locations for My Roku, in Decreasing Order of Likeliness
- The Existential Crisis of Le Pew
January 2013
- Can’t Abide This
- No Tagbacks
- What It Takes to Get Ejected
- Real-World Gesture Analogs
- Looking a Gift Coupon in the Mouth
- Giant Goat Cheese Fire Shuts Down Norway Tunnel
- And He Would Have Gotten Away With It, if It Weren’t for That Meddling Aquarium
- Happy Martin Luther King Day!
- Guerilla Filmmaking in Disney World
- A New Leap in Outsourcing
- Bad Ads: Bud Light Commercials
- Don’t Lie to Your Readers
- Won’t Somebody Think of the Pubic Lice?
- Bright Lights, Big Box Store
- Shaking Hands and Terrifying Babies
- Amazon AutoRip
- A Country at Peace With Its Neighbor
- Patent Trolling for Fun and Profit
- Corporations Are People, Officer
- Android Issue #38538
- Can I Get an Amen, Along With Your Email Address So We Can Send You Information on Some Exciting Promotions?
- Testy
- Page Weight Matters
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December 2012
- Snake Oil
- By The Numbers: December 28th, 2012 Edition
- Thanks for the Tip
- Richard Branson, You Scamp
- Barvd: December 25th, 2012 Edition
- Sacks of Potatoes
- N.R.A. Calls for Armed Guards in Schools to Deter Violence
- Inspiring Words
- Your Favorite Cosby Sweater
- “Did We Just Kill a Kid?”
- Paint Me A Picture
- A Bobcat Is a Type of Cat
- Life Imitates Crappy, Crappy Art
- Sweet Referral Cash
- No Matter Who Loses, We Win
- Eat Up Martha
- Yo, Dawg, Etcetera
- “JPG Artifact Shirts” Are the New “Pre-Faded Jeans”
- Cigarettes ARE Good for You
- A New Low
- Be Sure to Check That Organ Donor Box
November 2012
- Pastor Scott Lively – Grade A Putz
- How About ‘Replyallvalanche’?
- Who Wants to Go for a Carefully Measured Walk?
- Insult to Leg Injury
- Macy’s Wisely Distanced Themselves
- Overheight When Flashing
- Turkeys, Chickens, Close Enough
- He Pulls It Off
- Senate Charts
- Limited-Time Offer
- Crime Pays
- And When You Gaze Long Into an Abyss, the Abyss Also Gazes Into You
- An Ineffective Threat
- Finally, It’s Over
- Marijwhatnow?
- Poor ROI for Super PACs
- Overwizenening
- Activating A Mouse Shouldn’t Require A Net Connection
- Finally, Some Bipartisanship
- Fireworks of Yore
- That First Season, Goalies Actually Played in Street Clothes
- Trampoline Bridge
October 2012
- Trick or Treat
- I Have Always Depended on the Kindness of Major Corporations
- Really Terrible
- Bring Me The Head of Paul McCartney
- A High Price for Lousy Sex
- The Crispy Crimes of Guy Fieri
- The Limits of Modern Medicine
- Nice Can?
- That’ll Catch the Eye
- “I’m the one on the left.”
- Beer Soap
- Stratos
- $275
- Ignorance About Ignorance
- Simpsons Did It
- How Convenient
- Into Most Lives, Some Rain Must Fall
- One At-Bat
- Facebook’s First Ad
- Kaboom Goes The Walking Stick
- The Name ’Machine Gun Kelly’ Might Have Been a Tip-Off
- Beerd
- Just a Bissel Racist
September 2012
- Good Tweats
- How Often Do Plane Stowaways Fall From the Sky?
- Not Even Good Enough for the LFL
- Speaking of Popcorn
- Popcorn Lung
- iOS 6 Maps
- Oh Boy!
- What a World
- Yet Another Romney Write-Off
- Unlicensed Horse Massages
- Best Word Ever
- Helluva Paint Job
- More Field Goals, Fewer Punts
- Illustrating the Euro Crisis
- A Familiar Face
- Followup on the Salter Brecknell PS1000 Veterinary 1000lb Scale Reviewbomb
- Whale Scat Too
- Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Whale Barf
- One Bizarre Proposal
- Two Pieces for America
August 2012
- Headline Review: August 31st, 2012 Edition
- Ram Groping for Fun and Profit
- Climbing The Martian Charts
- Maybe Voter Fraud IS an Issue
- Fit for Cows
- Seems Like a Longshot
- Ice Recipes and a New Reviewbomb
- Toddler Fight Club
- The Embodiment
- Incredible
- Domestic Terrorism Is Not an Oxymoron
- Ticks Can Really Mess You Up
- Ugly American
- Space Etiquette
- Olympic Medal Miscellanea
- Counting Your Stock Gains Before They’ve Hatched
- Defiance
- A Comprehensive List of Outfielders Who’ve Played Baseball for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Share a Last Name With a Type of Fish
- Getting Honan’ed
- Dare Mighty Things
- Nude Diving
- Something’s Missing Here
- Smile to Shoot
July 2012
- Women and Children Maybe
- The Scariest Thing in This Year’s IKEA Catalog
- Banning Buckyballs
- $30 Million in Taxes on a $0 Piece of Art
- Last Requests
- Better Conceal Your Water Pistols
- Some Strong Prostitutes
- Sonic Fiction
- The Naked American Hero
- Let’s Make a Batman
- Barvd: July 17th, 2012 Edition
- Police Identify Suspects
- Better Red Handed Than White Handed
- That’s A Far Better Amenity Than “Color TV”
- What If?
- Sewage to Drink
- The Psychology of Shopping
- San Diego’s Big Bay Bust
- Doubt Insurance Covers That
- The 2012 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest
- Doctors React
- Tampa Bay’s Fauxback Uniform
June 2012
- Toeing That Line
- Seriously, the Bathroom Was Not Big
- This Isn’t Already Illegal?
- The Cause of, and Solution to, All of Life’s Problems
- Every Business
- On Nigerian Email Spammers
- What a Ridiculous Job
- The MagSafe to MagSafe 2 Adapter
- An Evil Hoax
- From the Journal of Parasitology
- How Cockroaches Disappear
- The Not-So-Amazing Spiderman
- Passwords
- Recently Seen in My Inbox
- Skeu It!
- The Garden of Your Mind
- Quite the Journey
- Banned Booty
- Blotto Bovines
- Nookd
- Fathers? Gay.
May 2012
- Interesting or Unusual Jobs
- I’m With Stupid
- You’ve Got Squatters
- That Much Heat Can’t Be Good for the Brain
- 21st-Century Copyright Systems Are Broken
- What, No Nickname Listing?
- Over-Promise and Under-Deliver
- Wwjcd
- Triplets or Photoshop Cloning?
- And a Girl Shall Terrify Them
- He’s Back!
- Song Lyrics, Analyzed: Love
- No Harm, No Foul
- Unconscionable
- Old People Icons
- The Hindenburg
- Dolphins Die of Drug Overdose After Swiss Rave
- By The Numbers: Miscellaneous
- Overly-Frequent Fliers
- Crown Crust
- Why the Modifier?
- Pearls of Terrorist Wisdom
- Best of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
April 2012
- Prison Without Punishment
- A Denial of Money Attack
- Elephant Ponchos
- Very Gracious
- A Bigger Stretch Than Saved by the Bell and Dawson’s Creek Combined
- Rejected Chinese Fortune Cookie Fortunes
- This Week in Stupid: April 20th, 2012 Edition
- Regional Video Game Censoring
- Not a Noble Goal
- The Only Dream I Ever Had in Life That Came Completely True
- My Darling, I Got You a Rat
- Follow-Up to Here Comes the Pizza
- Gingrich Accuses Fox News of Bias
- The Bike Prank
- Probably Shouldn’t Have Brought Him to ‘Take Your Child to Work Day’
- Know Thine Enemy
- Here Comes the Pizza!
- Rampage In Motion
- What’s the Latin Word for ‘Chutzpah’?
- Real Or Fake? (April 3rd, 2012 Edition)
- Two Quarterback Moves
March 2012
- Further Inappropriate Uses of Comic Sans
- Lenny B. Robinson
- The Strategy Is Stupid
- Government Is Serious Business
- A Fantastic Inadvertent Prank
- Screenshots of Despair
- Something’s Rotten in the State of Wisconsin
- HR Sounds Hilarious
- “Smurfette” Is Weird Shorthand
- Flying Almost to Eternity
- Confessions of a Former TSA Agent
- Ideal for a Variety of Situations
- Inappropriate Quotation Marks
- Mitt Romney Just Can’t Help Himself
- Fishermen: 0, Fish: 36.
- Well, That’s Pretty Stupid
- The Dyson Airblade vs. The Excel Xlerator
- Incredibly Oblivious
- Tempting Fate and Poseidon
- So He’d Have About 11 Ounces of Actual Meat?
- Not Quite a Man of the People
- You Think You Know a Muppet
February 2012
- Was That Really the Best Available Venue?
- How’s Waldo?
- In Honor of Fred Rogers
- Thanks a Lot, Citizens United
- Always Check the Cables
- This Ruling Sponsored by Darden Restaurants
- Eternal Copyright
- ”Humans can do that.”
- Target Is Watching You
- Contractually Rewriting History
- You Gotta Fight
- Make ‘Em An Offer They Can Refuse
- Barvd: February 13th, 2012 Edition
- Not a Smart Bet
- Take-Backsies
- Better a Crack Whore Than an Atheist
- Graffiti Pays
- Nice Shirt, Daniel
- Super Troopers
- Homeopathy Isn’t Even the Dumb Part
- Oh Yes, They Call Him The Sneak
January 2012
- Today, We Learned Two Things
- Accident Ahead: Depress the Deceleratrix
- Windows Simple
- Rats Have Empathy
- There’s No Moops!
- A Story in Four Pictures
- The Bizarre Tale of Kim Dotcom
- iPad, iPad, iPad, I Made You Out of Clay…
- And Yet, No One Blames the Reef
- One Foot Tsunami Is Blacked Out to Fight SOPA/PIPA
- Shortest “For Dummies” Book Ever
- Problem: Crying Lacked Sincerity
- Proposed Slogans for an All-Night Rose Vendor
- Surge Pricing
- Stealth Mountain
- As American As Apple Ple
- The KKK Sells Tchotchkes?
- Just Gotta Wait ‘Em Out
- Horns Should Be a Privilege, Not a Right
- I Am Become PayPal, the Destroyer of Violins
- Blacklisted for Fighting Hitler
- The Year That Wasn’t