The "not worth its own thread" thread

[scamboogah]

Comedy troupe Broken Lizard is teaming up with Counting Crows lead singer Adam Duritz

Top 5 worst sentences I've ever read.

[sWalker27]

Top 5 worst sentences I've ever read.

Someone's making a movie you don't want to watch? Man, that is bad news.

[Having Fun!]

oh boy, it's going to be a long december

[Shane]

oh boy, it's going to be a long december

Mr. Jones

am I playing the game right?

[BillBrasky]

llumination Entertainment topper Chris Meledandri has kicked off his Universal Pictures-based family film unit with Despicable Me, a 3-D CG-animated film that has Steve Carell voicing the title character, says Variety.

Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Will Arnett, Danny McBride, Russell Brand, Jemaine Clement ("Flight of the Conchords"), Jack McBrayer ("30 Rock") and Julie Andrews are providing the other lead voices. The film will be released in 2010.

Carell's title character is a deplorable man known as Groo who masterminds the mother of all heists when he plots to steal the moon. Egged on by an evil mother (Andrews), Groo finds one obstacle in his way: a trio of orphan girls who temporarily come under his care and won't leave.

The film reteams Carell, who provided one of the voices for Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, with Meledandri, who made that animated feature as head of Fox Animation, and with "Horton" writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio.

Paul and Daurio wrote Despicable Me, which Meledandri will produce with Janet Healy and John Cohen. Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin are directing from an idea hatched by co-director Sergio Pablos.

[TimBuktu]

oh boy, it's going to be a long december

100 internet points.

[KevinLee]

This might be worth its own post: From Todd Jackson at Dead Frog:

"I’d like to add a couple of bloggers. Since both Julie and I are in New York City and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. I’d like to get a regular poster who can talk about comedy in Los Angeles and another who’s up on Chicago. From a pure territorial perspective, that’s what I think Dead-Frog needs.

But I don’t want to “fill a coverage hole” - I want people who respect comedy as a art form but still laugh like demented chimpanzees. So if you’re interested in blogging for Dead-Frog, write me. If you live in one of two areas I mentioned, so much the better. But whatever the case, tell me what you think Dead-Frog needs and why you’re the person to bring it. I welcome any and all insights into this little site."



http://www.dead-frog.com/

Who do you all think would make good bloggers for Dead Frog? I recommended Dan Telfer for the Chicago area. Because he always seems to post thoughtfully and is in the know in that city.

[Cameron]

Man tries to pay bill with spider drawing

[Fentmore]

Sacha Baron Cohen gets on the set of 'Medium' and causes a stir as a jury member during a courtroom scene. Cohen kicks ass. Not because I hate Medium or anything, but because he got on set in Hollywood without tripping someone's alarm. Awesome.

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2008/11/...h.html?cnn=yes

[Meen Bellpeppers]

Man tries to pay bill with spider drawing

I love you for posting this.

[ragu sauce]

Man tries to pay bill with spider drawing

that is simply amazing.

[Fentmore]

Well, they've got about 80% of that Mammoth's DNA mapped. Science wins again. How come religious nutbags aren't protesting the resurrection of an extinct species because it's against God's will? I mean he done made it dead for a reason.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/169825/page/1

BTW: The spider e-mails were some kind of great.

[Jawa]

This might have been posted on the board previously, but I couldn't find it in its current incarnation.

For those who liked the spider emails, I think you'll really enjoy this story of a Nigerian scammer put through the paces.

I saw this linked to from a 2006 BoingBoing post, so it's potentially stale to some of you. Still, it's one of my favorite things I have ever seen on the Internet.

http://www.419eater.com/html/john_boko.htm

[Fentmore]

If you like scamming scamers, This American Life did a show (Enforcers) with an act devoted to guys sticking it back to a Nigerian scammer:

Three guys who go by the names Professor So and So, Jojobean and YeaWhatever spend part of each day running elaborate cons on Internet scammers. They consider themselves enforcers of justice, even after they send a man 1400 miles from home, to the least safe place they can bait him: the border of Darfur. The three self-made enforcers tell Ira their story. For more on what they did, along with photos, maps and phone recordings, go here. (29 and 1/2 minutes)

You can stream the episode for free here:
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1260

EDIT:
CELL PHONE OVER MAN'S HEART STOPS BULLET
http://www.wdsu.com/news/18020334/detail.html

[Jixby Phillips]

My collection of Seinfeld Magazines are up for auction. Please highlight under each picture for rude comments from Mr. Adventure:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Seinfeld-Magazin...3A1|240%3A1318

[JPSpaulding]

Kramer has let us down indeed...

[chawner]

llumination Entertainment topper Chris Meledandri has kicked off his Universal Pictures-based family film unit with Despicable Me, a 3-D CG-animated film that has Steve Carell voicing the title character, says Variety.

Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Will Arnett, Danny McBride, Russell Brand, Jemaine Clement ("Flight of the Conchords"), Jack McBrayer ("30 Rock") and Julie Andrews are providing the other lead voices. The film will be released in 2010.

Carell's title character is a deplorable man known as Groo who masterminds the mother of all heists when he plots to steal the moon. Egged on by an evil mother (Andrews), Groo finds one obstacle in his way: a trio of orphan girls who temporarily come under his care and won't leave.

The film reteams Carell, who provided one of the voices for Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, with Meledandri, who made that animated feature as head of Fox Animation, and with "Horton" writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio.

Paul and Daurio wrote Despicable Me, which Meledandri will produce with Janet Healy and John Cohen. Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin are directing from an idea hatched by co-director Sergio Pablos.

The moon?
The moon is useless. Can't you just take the moon?
This sounds awful

[JPSpaulding]

Can some one explain to me why they keep making Punisher movies? It seems the media doesn't care, I haven't seen any and I was a big fan back in the early War Journal days, and besides maybe having a small budget, what's the point? Where is this demand coming from?

[smartbunny]

I have the same question about The Hulk: Hulking Around Again (2008).

[KevinLee]

I think that Edward Norton's "Hulk" is going be a part of the Avengers Movie.
I'm not sure about the Punisher.