Well, we already covered the Darwin Awards for 2008, but we’ve got lots more stupid stuff to talk about!

Take for example the case of Marie Lupe Cooley. She’s reading the newspaper one day and notices a job position that looks suspiciously like hers and her boss’ name and number right there! Obviously the only thing to do at this point is to a) assume that she’s about to be fired and b) go immediately into the office and delete 7 years’ worth of drawings and blueprints (oh, about $2.5 million worth). Nice, right? Classy. There was one minor problem, she wasn’t about to be fired - the position was for the boss’ wife’s company. Oops! Mea Culpa! Well… in a twist worthy of Nostradamus, Ms. Cooley’s sure as hell fired now. How do you explain this to your next employer?? Hopefully, she doesn’t have the gene that makes it hard to learn from past mistakes… (via)

And in the war against idiots another shot has be fired. A group calling itself Anonymous has just begun it’s War on Scientology. Notice how I did that? “war against idiots”? “war on Scientology”? Yeah. Nice. Save Katie! Anonymous has even released a video stating their goals featuring a bad ass text to voice narration. And to bring it all back with the fly mixups, here’s a video response featuring the girl that stares.

On the other side of the coin are those that embrace their idiocy. They embrace it while at the same time racing. That’s right, if it’s January it must be Idiotarod time! This saturday the 2008 race begins and you too can enter it, or watch it, or completely ignore it. One of those. The route, hidden so you don’t gain any advantage starts in one hipster place or another (LIC, DUMBO, Williamsburt or Greenpoint). It is hard to believe but this is the 11th year of the race. Here’s 10,931 ways to reaquaint yourself with it.

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