Sunday Funnies: How To Get Road Salt Off Your Car With One Bucket Of Water (YouTube via Neatorama)

Mercyhurst is in Erie PA and we have dealt with snow salt for as long as there has been snow salt.

We realize that many of our brethren to the south of us are less familiar with tried and true ways to keep the salt from eating into your paint job.

So, for all the Washingtonians dealing with massive amounts of snow salt this year, Neatorama points to this helpful video:

Sunday Funnies: American Football Explained (YouTube)

It never ceases to amaze most Americans that "football" means something entirely different to the rest of the world and that what most of us are going to do this evening is perceived as little more than a bizarre tribal ritual by the other 6.5 billion people on the planet.

This short story by Andy Griffith might help you to explain it to them:

Sunday Funnies: What Do You Do With Your Old Christmas Tree? Shoot It Into Space!

5, 4, 3, 2, 1...!

24: The Christmas Special (YouTube)

Sunday Funnies: Spy Pigeon! (YouTube)

Great short video about what would happen if pigeons got access to Top Secret information...

Sunday Funnies: A Palindromic Proclamation

Anyone who has taken my Communications class knows of my fondness for palindromes. This sketch is particularly clever...

Sunday Funnies: What Will The French Think Of Next? (YouTube Via Improbable Research)

The Annals of Improbable Research (who award the IgNobel each year) featured this "revolutionaire" device a few weeks ago. If you are not familiar with the AIR, it is to science, research and academe what The Onion is to everything else.

Sunday Funnies: Doom-bas! (The Daily Show)

In case you missed the Daily Show's take on military robots, here it is...

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Sunday Funnies: Star Wars -- By Someone Who Has Never Seen It (Vimeo via Neatorama)

Whether you like Star Wars or not, this 4 minute video (seen first on Neatorama) is pretty funny. What I want to know is where they found someone who had not seen Star Wars...


Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Sunday Funnies: Take On Me, Literally... (Current via Boing Boing)

If you survived the 80's (as I did) then this "new" Take On Me video will resonate. If you missed that decade, check out what we were doing back then (feel free to laugh at either version...).

"New" Version:

80's Version:

Sunday Funnies: If SEALS Were Issued Rubber Band Guns... (YouTube Via Danger Room)

I have written about the awe inspiring power of a really well designed rubber band gun before, but the model in the video below, with its rugged design and all weather, night ops, hand-held capabilities, needs to be seen to be believed...

Self Defense Or Performance Art ... You Decide! (YouTube via Gizmodo and Wired)

Combat umbrellas from Real-Self-Defense.com...



For more see Gizmodo and Wired.

Sunday Funnies: Girl Spinning On Escalator (LiveLeak via Gizmodo)

If you are tired of thinking about intelligence, national security and all that stuff and haven't yet seen the video of the girl spinning on the escalator (From LiveLeak via Gizmodo), you owe it to yourself:

Sunday Funnies: Computer Generated Joke Recommendations (Jester)

Jester, from the brilliant minds at UCal Berkeley, gives you a few jokes and asks you how funny you think they were on a sliding scale. Based on your input, the program then sends you jokes that the computer thinks you think will be funny and then continues to hone its selections based on your input until you are rolling on the floor...or something like that. It worked pretty well for me.

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