Absurd and Humorous Websites

Bookshelves of Doom did a group watch of the movie adaptation of that 80s bad book classic Flowers in the Attic.

The results are hilarious:

WHO OWNS AN ARSENIC SHAKER?? #fita

Rich people. RT @bkshelvesofdoom: WHO OWNS AN ARSENIC SHAKER?? #fita

I found the Hallowe'en Google Doodle so entertaining that I forgot what I went there to search for. :(

Putli Bai wrote:

draco vulgaris wrote:Doodle God

Start with the 4 basic elements and try to create ALL the things!

Well so much for me getting anything done this evening. Except for creating Life, the Universe, and Everything.

I may or may not have made a giant spreadsheet...

Jamie wrote:

Putli Bai wrote:

draco vulgaris wrote:Doodle God

Start with the 4 basic elements and try to create ALL the things!

Well so much for me getting anything done this evening. Except for creating Life, the Universe, and Everything.

I may or may not have made a giant spreadsheet...

***secretly covets Jaime's spreadsheet***

And just to make sure you don't accidentally wind up doing anything productive, have a link to the sequel.

ASOIAF tribute in the style of Edward Gorey. Or perhaps it's the other way around?

This site bills itself as "embarrassing products for women", but there's enough hilarity to go around. Anyone who's not done with their Secret Santa shopping may find this useful.

The Hawkeye Initiative is a tumblr where people submit fanart that takes the ridiculous sexy poses comics always force female superheroes into and redraws those poses staring Hawkeye! Somehow I keep laughing more the more I look at it.

Bad games. Ideas for bad games to play, that end in embarassment, injury, or property damage. My favourite is

You’ve been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Murder the other nominees to ensure victory.

Today's google doodle is so cute.

Droll pranks!

"Bend another fellow's hoop into an oval. His future attempts at hoop rolling will prove to be deeply frustrating!"

"Visit a barrage of toilet tissue upon another fellow's estate. Couple it with a rainy evening to further trouble the victim of the prank!"

"Commission a local Italian to prepare and deliver an unwanted dinner of sauce bread with cheese to the schoolmaster’s home."

"Give another fellow a champagne bottle made from plexiglas. When he tries to christen his ship, the bottle will bounce into the sea!"

A lot of you have probably seen this already, but I didn't want to take any chances that someone might miss out on this. Best autocorrects of 2012. I was crying I was laughing so hard. (Some NSFW language.)

"Wawa Skittletits" is the best "screw it, I'm done even trying" phrase ever.

Nice Guys of OK Cupid

I've learned that shaving my legs is important and no doesn't always mean no.

Wow. Those are some classy dudes there.

Your LL Bean BF He will build you a desk and then have sex with you on it.

aninnocent wrote:Nice Guys of OK Cupid

I've learned that shaving my legs is important and no doesn't always mean no.

Gosh, I wonder why these guys might be struggling to find a girl who is interested in them.

My favorite dude is the one who was all, "MAYBE treat The Nice Guy like the COOL guy." Right. Hee.

It's a bit creepy how alike they all are. They say the same things. They have the same attitudes. They all want to force women to shave their legs.

Oh wait, there's a flowchart!

This is one of the most brilliant pieces of marketing I've seen in a while. It's the website for Monsters University (the setting of Pixar's Monsters Inc. sequel), and it is just a completely realized, spot-on academic website in every way. As someone who has spent A LOT of time poking around academic websites, especially the one I help maintain, I can't get over it. I've been looking at it for like an hour. They spent a lot of time/money on this. And every page is funny. And there are like a million pages.

You are completely right about that website. It's far superior to the websites of many real universities I could name. Plus it's funnier.

That is fantastic, Instant Monkeys. They have everything about university Web sites spot on!

I have been blasting that website to everyone I know since you linked it on FB this morning, Monkeys. It means so much to hear your praise, from your point of view as a professional university website connoisseur/maker.

Oh lordy, maker definitely not; I couldn't come anywhere NEAR to even beginning to conceptualize putting together a site on that level. But I have spent enough time poking around ours lately to enjoy it from that point of view (and I sent it to our web team, though they are mostly tech folks; the design of our site was done by consultants). I'm starting to think one reason it resonates so strongly with me is that it MAY be partly based on my school's main website...the designs of the front pages when looked at next to each other are REAL similar, hee hee.

I just really admire stuff like this that is SO completely realized and well done (not coincidentally, it's one of the reasons I admire Pixar so much). Design aside, there is a HELL of a lot of copy in that thing, and whether or not they cannibalized most of it from other .edu websites, it is totally seamless. And funny. I love Pixar. And I love gigantic corporate marketing budgets.

It looks a lot like UPenn's site too.