The WTF File

[MacQuarrie]

Back when I was a Moderator, my one lasting contribution to CBR was the creation of a thread on the Back Room forum (mods only) entitled "What the Fuck?"

This thread was the repository of all the weird and/or insane things we found posted on our respective boards. It may stillb e going for all I know. At the time I stepped down, it was still going strong and was one of the longest-lasting threads on all of CBR.

It's the one thing I miss about being a Mod.

So I figured, why not start a new one? This is the place where I will post the things I run across on the net (or occasionally off the net) that make me say "what the fuck?"

Let's begin.

We are the World
Remember "We Are the World"? The benefit concert and album for world hunger from about 20 years ago? Ever wonder what it would look and sound like if performed by Japanese celebrity impersonators?

Wonder no more. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36w-CyqCO1A)

[Spike-X]

I do now!!

*edit* Oops, missed the link. I thought it was just a random thought.

*watches*

Holy crap.

Japanese Cyndi Lauper was awesome!

[Cam63]

That was almost as bad as the original version.

[Solaris]

Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder, performing as Milli Vanilli.

:biggrin:

[MacQuarrie]

I do now!!

*edit* Oops, missed the link. I thought it was just a random thought.

*watches*

Holy crap.

Japanese Cyndi Lauper was awesome!

I'm sure you dug Japanese Bruce too.

[Ben Morgan]

This. (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/member.php?u=5693) ....

[PatrickG]

Japanese Ray Charles is pretty cool.

[Flying Saucers Over Oz]

Then there's Richard Cheese's lounge-y cover...

"We are the world
Keep Michael Jackson away from your children..."

[TomStillwell]

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/7abf12bdb4

Worst. Rap battle. Ever.

[Sally Sensational]

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/329000/329194HNpl_w.jpg

[the4thpip]

Who would kiss that guy??

http://einestages.spiegel.de/hund-images/2008/04/23/11/faa04320fdd9039c2a22472c53db2e6c_image_document_la rge.jpg

[the4thpip]

Brasilia Hopes were fading last night for a Brazilian priest who floated aloft on Sunday tied to 1,000 giant party balloons and has not been seen since, though several of the helium-filled balloons were found floating at sea. Father Adelir de Carli, 41, soared into the sky from the southeastern town of Paranagua, sitting in a harness attached to the white, red, yellow, green and pink balloons, and wearing a thermal outfit and helmet.

He was trying to draw attention to his campaign to provide rest stops for long-distance truck drivers, and to enter into Guinness World Records. A known adventurer, he had already made a previous similar flight with 500 balloons in January that reportedly took him as high as 5,000 meters (16,400ft). But bad weather this time pushed his makeshift contraption out to sea off Brazil’s southern coast, and in his last contact with police on Sunday night he said that he was encountering problems. Parishioners in his church were praying for him. (AFP)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3799493.ece

I know this is a sad story and he might have been a fine human being but... THAT is the cause a man of the cloth risks his life for? With poverty, crime, drugs and HIV rampant in his country? Truck stops?? WTF?

Here is what might turn out to be the final photo of Father de Carli.

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080423/capt.35b0cbb5046247a1871e58a1510fe9b7.brazil_flyin g_priest_rio101.jpg

[Alan Lynch]

It's a shame and all, but what exactly did this guy think would happen?

[Cam63]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3799493.ece

I know this is a sad story and he might have been a fine human being but... THAT is the cause a man of the cloth risks his life for? With poverty, crime, drugs and HIV rampant in his country? Truck stops?? WTF?

Here is what might turn out to be the final photo of Father de Carli.

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080423/capt.35b0cbb5046247a1871e58a1510fe9b7.brazil_flyin g_priest_rio101.jpg

St. Peter to dumbarse: " Party balloon pilot, eh ? ...What the fuck kept you !? "

[PatrickG]

Who would kiss that guy??

http://einestages.spiegel.de/hund-images/2008/04/23/11/faa04320fdd9039c2a22472c53db2e6c_image_document_la rge.jpg

Note:

He doesn't say that anyone kissed him, just that he kissed someone. That adds to the creepy factor for me.

[Solaris]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article3799493.ece

I know this is a sad story and he might have been a fine human being but... THAT is the cause a man of the cloth risks his life for? With poverty, crime, drugs and HIV rampant in his country? Truck stops?? WTF?

Here is what might turn out to be the final photo of Father de Carli.

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080423/capt.35b0cbb5046247a1871e58a1510fe9b7.brazil_flyin g_priest_rio101.jpg

Well, when you think about it, if they don't stop and rest, eat, and sleep---they're a helluva hazard on the roads...

[Copper]

I know this stuff came out in the 60s, but imagine my surprise when I found it was still on sale at some nostalgic candy stores! Talk about getting them early.

http://wesclark.com/am/cigs.jpg

[Flying Saucers Over Oz]

Creepier, there used to be a Pez dispenser shaped like a (admittedly ray) gun. You put the barrel in your mouth, pulled the trigger, and a tasty Pez would be dispensed.

On the counter-culture side, there was Hippie-Sippie. Released at the height of the Haight-Ashbury Era (1968), Hippie-Sippies were little plastic toy hypodermic needles filled with candy pills, with buttons attatched saying things like, "Hippie-Sippie Says, I'll Try Anything Once!"

[Grazzt]

I just found the most awful chess set ever.

What do you guys think? (http://maze.icomix.com/picturepage/020707/the_eternal_rivalry.jpg)

[Sally Sensational]

I just found the most awful chess set ever.

What do you guys think? (http://maze.icomix.com/picturepage/020707/the_eternal_rivalry.jpg)

I think the person who carved that needs to rethink how he uses his "art".

[Pink Bat Maxine]

Just because it hasn't been mentioned in over a week.....

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~tenchi/japan/helvib2.jpg

....the Hello Kitty Vibrator!

[CutterMike]

I'm sure you dug Japanese Bruce too.

The problem was that "Bruce" seemed more like a Joe Cocker impersonator.

Maybe he was just doing this on his day off.

...and, frankly, that's the first Michael Jackson I've seen that is even creepier than Michael Jackson!

[Cam63]

I just found the most awful chess set ever.

What do you guys think? (http://maze.icomix.com/picturepage/020707/the_eternal_rivalry.jpg)

That person has too much time on his hands.

[Spike-X]

I just found the most awful chess set ever.

What do you guys think? (http://maze.icomix.com/picturepage/020707/the_eternal_rivalry.jpg)

I can't decide if it's shockingly hilarious, or hilariously shocking.

I think the person who carved that needs to rethink how he uses his "art".

You're right. Art should never, ever be used to shock or offend people.

[the4thpip]

http://praxeology.net/would-we-have.PNG

Um... hate ta tell ya...

[bert]

Back when I was a Moderator, my one lasting contribution to CBR was the creation of a thread on the Back Room forum (mods only) entitled "What the Fuck?"

This thread was the repository of all the weird and/or insane things we found posted on our respective boards. It may stillb e going for all I know. At the time I stepped down, it was still going strong and was one of the longest-lasting threads on all of CBR.

It's the one thing I miss about being a Mod.

So I figured, why not start a new one? This is the place where I will post the things I run across on the net (or occasionally off the net) that make me say "what the fuck?"

Let's begin.

We are the World
Remember "We Are the World"? The benefit concert and album for world hunger from about 20 years ago? Ever wonder what it would look and sound like if performed by Japanese celebrity impersonators?

Wonder no more. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36w-CyqCO1A)


wow. .Japanese Cyndi Lauper ROCKS!

[bert]

I just found the most awful chess set ever.

What do you guys think? (http://maze.icomix.com/picturepage/020707/the_eternal_rivalry.jpg)

I think it's tacky, and pretty tasteless, and wouldn't buy it.

but I also think "I'm really glad that I live in a country where if I *did* wish to buy it, I'd be able to, because the artist had the ability to create it"

[Paradox]

bert likes it, too:

wow. .Japanese Cyndi Lauper ROCKS!

Best one of the bunch. "Stevie Wonder" looks like he ATE Stevie Wonder. :eek:

[the4thpip]

wow. .Japanese Cyndi Lauper ROCKS!

Well, she had the easiest job. I love Cindy to bits, but she did kind of sound like a screaming geisha on that song.

Wait, are geishas even allowed to scream?

[Sally Sensational]

You're right. Art should never, ever be used to shock or offend people.

As a mother who allowed, nay encouraged, an art student to use plaster sculptures of her own newborn baby in a performance piece that required students to take the sculpture, which was covered in sticky red goo, down a dark red-lit black-lined hallway and dump it in a trashcan, I find that a bit of a cheap shot, Spike.

[Pink Bat Maxine]

http://praxeology.net/would-we-have.PNG

Um... hate ta tell ya...

I don't know why, but that's the funniest thing I've seen in a long, long time.

I am truly a bitter old shrew.

[Paradox]

Nah, Maxy, a bitter old shrew would be outraged by such stupidity. You just find it funny (as I do). :biggrin:

[Crowley]

That's awesome...
Ever wonder where American Idol rejects go to get booed?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OIKkUTn1Wuc

[Spike-X]

As a mother who allowed, nay encouraged, an art student to use plaster sculptures of her own newborn baby in a performance piece that required students to take the sculpture, which was covered in sticky red goo, down a dark red-lit black-lined hallway and dump it in a trashcan, I find that a bit of a cheap shot, Spike.
If I misunderstood what you were saying, I apologise.

What exactly did you mean, then?

[Grazzt]

Poorly thought out advertising campaign. (http://www.towleroad.com/2008/04/hanes-utilizing.html#comments)

[Sally Sensational]

A Lawsuit by a man who wants to STAY fat! (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080427/ap_on_fe_st/odd_jail_diet)

I think this definitely belongs under the WTF heading.

[Sally Sensational]

If I misunderstood what you were saying, I apologise.

What exactly did you mean, then?

TBH, I don't even remember. I was probably exhausted and annoyed at the time - it's that time of year when my students go out of their collective ways to be as much trouble (without actually doing anything suspension-worthy) as possible. So, I likely just spat out a response without actually thinking about it.

I have no problem with art for any purpose, including simply for its own sake. Hell, I happen to think Mapplethorpe's photography (to grab the quickest shock-art cliche I can think of) is exquisite. Not a big fan of a lot of his subject matter, but I can't deny the quality of the art itself.

[Spike-X]

TBH, I don't even remember. I was probably exhausted and annoyed at the time - it's that time of year when my students go out of their collective ways to be as much trouble (without actually doing anything suspension-worthy) as possible. So, I likely just spat out a response without actually thinking about it.

Believe me, I know what that's like. No hard feelings?

[Spike-X]

A Lawsuit by a man who wants to STAY fat! (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080427/ap_on_fe_st/odd_jail_diet)

I think this definitely belongs under the WTF heading.
"The only reason we lost weight in here is because we are literally being starved to death."

If he's still at 140 kg, he'll probably have served his time and be out before he has to worry about that.

[Sally Sensational]

Believe me, I know what that's like. No hard feelings?

None, whatsoever.

Now, if I can just survive the next 3 weeks, everything will be just fine!

Oh, and one for the WTF file -

I offered to take pictures of my seniors, many of whom couldn't afford to have senior pics done. Even told them I'd burn them a cd of their pics at no charge as my gift to them. That way they could take the cd to wal-mart or wherever and print their own.

Now comes the WTF part - the bloody kids pitched a fit about how I couldn't get them their cd's today and how they didn't get to PICK which picture is going on the senior slide show!

What is it with this generation that they've NEVER been taught to appreciate any form of kindness done them?

WTF, man?

[a. non]

Last week i stumbled across a short "comedy" vid with wierd, creepy images, and one of them showed Wonder Woman lying in a hospital bed dying of AIDS. I hope i never find it again.

[PatrickG]

http://praxeology.net/would-we-have.PNG

Um... hate ta tell ya...

My favorite so far...

[Spike-X]

Now comes the WTF part - the bloody kids pitched a fit about how I couldn't get them their cd's today and how they didn't get to PICK which picture is going on the senior slide show!


Simple solution then.

[the4thpip]

Simple solution then.

Right. Pick the absolute worst photos. Half closed, drunk looking eyes. Gaping mouths. Cross-eyed glares. Those will be reminders for the rest of their lives to not bite the hand that feeds them.

[Spike-X]

Right. Pick the absolute worst photos. Half closed, drunk looking eyes. Gaping mouths. Cross-eyed glares. Those will be reminders for the rest of their lives to not bite the hand that feeds them.
My solution was simply "No photos for you!"

I like yours better.

[the4thpip]

Texas mayor's colorful past called into question

The mayor of this Dallas suburb has long talked about her colorful background, saying she used to sing backup for Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and other famous musicians. Her campaign Web site lists less glamorous credentials, including a stint at Western Kentucky University.

Officials say Mayor Becky Miller has talked of once being engaged to singer Don Henley, and of a brother who died in Vietnam.

All those details have one thing in common: Family members, representatives of the musicians and school officials have told The Dallas Morning News that they're untrue.

Miller, who became Carrollton's first woman mayor in 2005, says she never made some of the claims and attributed other discrepancies to dirty politics by challenger Ron Branson.

"I get angry when people get into my personal life," Miller told the newspaper for a story in its Wednesday editions. "My personal life does not have a thing to do with my job as mayor or being elected on the City Council for 10 years."

Branson said Miller's claims are false and reflect poorly on Carrollton, a suburb of about 116,000 just northwest of Dallas.

"I really don't think our city and our council wants somebody they can't trust what they say representing them," he said.

Branson said he is most upset by Miller's claim that she had a brother who died in war. Miller's father, Edward Sampson, told the newspaper that his son is alive and never served in the military.

Miller first suggested her 80-year-old father didn't get his facts right and said he suffers from Alzheimer's disease. She later said the man who died was not her biological brother but a "blood brother" was as close to her as a real one. She declined to give his name.

Three former Carrollton council members and one current member said Miller told them she was once engaged to Henley. Larry Solters, a spokesman for Henley and the Eagles, said the musician has "never heard of her, doesn't know her, certainly was never engaged to her."

In an e-mail to the newspaper, Miller wrote: "I have never said that I was engaged to Don Henley. I dated him."

Spokesmen for Browne and Ronstadt said Miller never sang backup for them. Neither Miller's first husband nor her father recalled a professional singing career.

Miller told the newspaper she went by several other names, including the nickname "Pinky." She declined to say what those other names were.

"I'm not going to tell you what they are," Miller said. "You have to find that out."

Miller's contention that she attended Western Kentucky remained on her Web site Wednesday. She told the newspaper she attended for two months in 1968. Laura Dilliha, a student records specialist at the school, said there's no record of Miller having been there.

Miller said these questions are coming up just days before the election because Branson is desperate.

"He thinks ... this is the only way he can win this election," Miller said. "That infuriates me."

http://www.cityofcarrollton.com/government/2006-Becky.jpg

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/080507/ap/d90gvf801.html