This Week:
 * VID - Philip Schofield on drugs
 * GREYBLOKE - Gets groomed
 * WEEBL - Guide to Biscuits
 
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 B3ta email 322 - 04 Apr 2008
 
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 : WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
   Other than semen stained rags
 
 >> Phillip Schofield on drugs <<
   "I made a video/tune out of Phil Schofield
   clips," gurns Swede 'are you on one matey?'
   Mason, "In which he raps about loving crack and
   heroin. It used to be on YouTube. Phil ended up
   seeing it; two days later it was gone. So I
   stuck it on Myspace instead." This is very
   entertaining, but has the vibe of kept in a
   sealed box since 1992, and maybe that's why we
   like it so much.
 http://snipurl.
 
 >> Greybloke gets a Skype call<<
   You'll start of thinking this is a bit boring,
   then it suddenly becomes utterly foul and very
   funny in an extremely wrong way. We won't spoil
   it for you, just enjoy it.
 http://b3ta.
 
 >> Horse Manure <<
   Your newsletter team has been thinking about
   the various methods used to stop Mr Spitty from
   spitting too quickly. We reckon Sting uses
   horse poo. BTW: This is the fifth and final
   episode of our Mr Pitchy series, for now anyway.
 http://www.comedybo
 
 >> Weebl's guide to biscuits <<
   It's fair to assume that Jonti Picking lives on
   biscuits, and if he doesn't he knows far too
   much about them. We love this tribute to the
   food of the gods, and have given Jonti's
   details to the producers of BBC3's Freaky
   Eaters.
 http://www.weebls-
 
 >> Happy Birthday war <<
   "Here's a video that I made with Mitch Benn,"
   boasts adamjamesbromley, "to mark the 5th
   anniversary of the Iraq war." If you like
   politilols, then this is right up your Downing
   Street. Even if the singer does look like John
   Prescott in a blonde wig.
 http://www.youtube.
 
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 : QUESTION OF THE WEEK
   Shit Stories, part poo
 
 Last week we pressed the shit button and our
   users started telling stories like they were
   on Ex-lax. Lots of long, involved stories about
   poo for you to read:
 http://b3ta.
 
 * SHITTING OFF A BRIDGE - "I used to know a guy
   called Marcus who defined the word disgusting.
   After a very heavy night, Marcus found himself
   on Richmond Bridge waiting for the train
   station to open. Around 5am, rowers began
   splashing their way upriver. In a moment of
   sicko genius he decided to take a shit on them:
   crouched on the concrete ledge, it took all his
   concentration to control the push and balance
   at the same time. It was all the more difficult
   as he was physically trembling with laughter. A
   subtle change in the sound of the boats as they
   came under the bridge and his morning glory
   took flight. "What the fuck?" "Errr, you sick
   mother," came the shouts below. He'd managed a
   direct hit on his first attempt. Laughing too
   much, his balance started to go and despite
   flapping arms, he almost instantly fell off the
   bridge into the dirty water below. All credit
   to the rowers - they pulled him ashore, made
   sure he was alright... and then took turns
   kicking any remaining shit out of his body. The
   last thing he remembers was the expanding anus
   of a burly rower about to take a shit on his
   face." (kiss.me.where.
      
   * WHAT'S GREEK FOR SHIT? - "On arrival on
   Zakynthos, we were solemnly instructed to put
   the tissue in the bin after wiping, and not
   down the ancient Greek plumbing. 11 days later
   we were talking about how sorry we felt for the
   maids having to empty the used tissues from the
   bin. Silence reigned for a couple of seconds,
   then Suzi piped up, "Hang on, what do you mean
   'putting tissue in the bin'? You haven't been
   flushing your poo away, have you? You're not
   meant to put any solids down the toilet or
   it'll block the drains!" It turned out, that
   Suzi hadn't listened very well. Instead of
   passing her jobbies into the toilet, she'd been
   diligently folding tissue paper in to her hand,
   pooing on to that, and depositing the whole
   shitty, tissuey mess in to the small bin by the
   throne. She left the maid a big tip."
   (Devil_In_Tights)
      
   * THANK YOU VERY MUCH - "My ambulance was sent
   to a woman complaining of abdominal pain. My
   partner Fabio and I can handle a lot of gross
   smells but this smelled like the patient had
   done a shit, vomited into said shit, let it
   ferment in piss for a week, added a heaped
   tablespoon of vinegar flavoured rat cum and
   then re-ingested the lot and shat it out again.
   There was shit on the sofa, shit in the carpet,
   shitty hand prints on the walls, shit all over
   the patient (who had passed out and was lying
   in the shitty shit) and there was shit in the
   shit. Fortunately, my partner was patient care
   officer on this job thus enabling me to tread
   shit whilst alternately making fake dry
   retching noises and laughing at his genuine
   retching. About a week later we received a
   thank-you card from the patient which
   surprisingly did not smell of shit. She was
   very embarrassed by the whole situation and was
   profusely apologetic. Before my partner saw the
   card I forged an extra line of writing which
   said: "Fabio, did your thumb slip up my arse
   because of the shit or was that just a way of
   stopping me doing any more? Either way, it was
   nice. Call me." I added a couple of brown thumb
   prints to the card courtesy of Cadbury's. He
   actually dry retched on reading it, which was
   nice." (emadex)
 
 >> This Week's Question <<
   We'd like your DIY disasters. Talk to us here:
 http://b3ta.
 
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 : SITES IN BRIEF
   Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates
 
 >> Fantastic MAD fold-ins <<
   A classic feature of MAD magazine, and arguably
   the best thing in it, fold over the pages to
   reveal a hidden image and message by artist Al
   Jafee. We were left a bit confused by some of
   the more US-centric references, but it's all
   very clever stuff indeed.
 http://snipurl.
 
 >> Ric Flair Finance <<
   In the UK it's TV brainbox Carol Vorderman
   inciting the poor to hazard their credit. The
   US, however, prefers someone a little more...
   energetic. The poor, sad little "woo" he adds
   to his sales spiel made us feel sorry for him
   though.
 http://ricflairfina
 
 >> Pretty, pretty light graffiti <<
   Some truly impressive effects in this galley of
   'light graffiti" culled from Flickr. To try it
   yourself you'll need a torch, a camera with a
   long exposure time and, er, darkness. 
 http://abduzeedo.
 
 >> Incredible frivolous lawsuit guy <<
   Jonathan Lee Ritches is a US convict who is
   passing his lengthy jail term avenging himself
   against the US court system with an endless
   cycle of bizarre lawsuits. At last that's what
   we assume. Cases range from suing Brad and
   Angelina for kidnapping Madeleine McCann, to
   going after Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner for
   paying their taxes (which he alleged went to
   funding his incarceration)
   surreal joke, perhaps he's actually mentally
   unwell... no-one can say for sure.
 http://news.
 
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 : THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO AAHH
   Kitten goes to bed
 
 "Oh to be a kitten", news TIAL, "where the
   serious business of chasing a toy ends in
   finding oneself neatly tucked away for bed
   time."
 http://snipurl.
 
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 : VIDEO SCHMIDEO
   And remember next week, YOU could be the star!
 
 >> Monkeys on Motorbikes <<
   If we were wearing our PC hat, we'd say this is
   animal exploitation, from dreadfully
   economically-
   entertainment of crass western tourists.
   However, fuck it, we're B3ta, and it's a monkey
   on a motorbike FFS! A monkey on a fucking
   motorbike!!!
 http://www.youtube.
 
 >> Alien abduction <<
   No one at B3ta HQ can drive a car or pass a
   driving test, so imagine our mental trauma on
   watching this rather fantastic short from
   Pixar, Lifted. Shown before Ratatouille in the
   cinema, and if you're one of the two people
   left in the world who haven't caught that movie
   yet, then watch that too, for it comes with our
   prestigious 'ideal bank holiday' movie award.
 http://www.cyberthi
 
 >> Drunk Jeff Goldblum <<
   In 1999 Jeff made a series of ads for Apple and
   some naughty internet pixie has slowed down the
   audio 30% to make him sound completely pissed.
   Yourzzz mah besstestss frriendds etc etc.
 http://www.youtube.
 
 >> Orange peel teeth trick <<
   We all did this as kids, but this man does with
   an unnatural precision. He's rather too nifty
   with a knife for comfort, and has the
   worryingly precise air of Gunther von Hagens.
   Still, nice to be reminded of a cute little
   trick. We also recommend doing similar with
   chewing gum and peanuts.
 http://snipurl.
 
 >> Walk of death <<
   El Caminito del Rey (The King's pathway) is a
   ruined path along the walls of a gorge in
   Spain. After four people died at the turn of
   the millennium, the local government closed off
   the entrances. However this intrepid filmmaker
   and raving lunatic decided to walk on the wild
   side. Few vids make us as feel as sick as this.
 http://www.b3ta.
 
 >> Remember Noseybonk? <<
   If you're British and in your 30s, you may
   remember this from kids' telly. It's bloody
   weird and only unintentionally funny. We're not
   sure if the "nosegay" seeds was a deliberate
   joke, but we certainly laughed out loud when
   six giant cocks - we mean noses - sprouted from
   their individual pots of muck.
 http://uk.youtube.
 
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 : FUNNY NAME CORNER 
   Now featuring Amazonlols quarterly
 
 * SPAAKY KIDS - Stephen Joyes belms, "My
   brother had a leaflet posted through his door a
   few weeks ago for a company called SPAAK. It's
   not exactly a politically-
   best of times but these people decided it would
   make a good name for a children's
   afterschool/
 http://www.flickr.
 
 * PENETRATING WAGNER'S RING - an oldie but
   goldie from the 'amusing reviews on Amazon'
   series via David Beckett. "When I initially
   came across Wagner's Ring it was like a
   revelation. I couldn't quite put my finger on
   it - but I wanted to." etc. etc.
 http://www.amazon.
 
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 : B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
   Results from the famous babies challenge
 
 Last week we wanted to see famous people as
   infants.
 
 Your favourites included:
  
   * MR BEAN - this image is terrifying (Pob_mk2)
 http://www.b3ta.
 
 * KERMIT - it was never easy being green,
   especially in the early days (Beardo)
 http://www.b3ta.
 
 * SOCK - not just for Christmas (prodigy69)
 http://www.b3ta.
 
 All these images, and the highest as voted by
   you can be found here:
 http://www.b3ta.
 
 >> New challenge: Third World America <<
   Use photoshop (or Microsoft Paint if you must)
   to predict the effects of global recession on
   the lovely US of A.
 http://www.b3ta.
 
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 : WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
   Follow-ups on previous stories.
 
 * CELEB BABES IN THE STAR - Er... that would be
   the UK tabloid covering b3ta's 'Celebrities as
   Babies' image challenge  - and with a nice
   credit too. Amusingly, they do describe the
   pics as the work of 'a computer whizz'.
 http://www.b3ta.
 
 * KENTISH TOWN MUSIC VIDEO - "In response to
   your plea for NW5-based pop vids in last week's
   newsletter," parps Seb, "here's the Ed
   Wood-tastic promo for 'I Want To Go To Borneo',
   the debut single by my band The Inconsolables.
   QUAKE! as a giant hamster marauds around
   Kentish Town, attacking taxis, phone booths and
   quality ladies-wear emporium Blustons. GASP! in
   amazement at the special FX. And WEEP! as Noel
   Fielding gets nibbled to death."
 http://www.youtube.
 
 * NOB SIGS - Mikemystery answers our call for
   cock and balls names with a brilliant example
   from occult japester Aleister 'Great Beast'
   Crowley. Can you uncover anything better? We're
   told that Mohammed al-Fayed also has a phallic
   sig but no examples were forthcoming.
 http://tim.maroney.
 
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 : FRIDAY GAME
   Burn the rope
 
 "Have you received about 5000 emails about this
   yet?" asks tismselfstorage, "You should have.
   It's the best game ever." Heh, he has a point,
   we enjoyed it muchly and wonder if it's making
   not-so-subtle reference to Portal.
 http://www.mazapan.
 
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 : STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
 
 Make something cool and tell us about it. If
   you are in it then people will see your stuff.
 
 Things we'd really like to see include
 
 * ADULT-UP MOVIE - mictoboy ponders, "seeing
   your link to porn cartoons got me thinking. I
   reckon it must be possible to insert bits of
   hardcore porn into otherwise tame sex scenes
   from mainstream movies, to 'dirty up' the
   sexiness - Last Tango in Paris with proper
   money shots; Don't Look Now with anal
   penetration. For my money it could seriously
   improve otherwise rather dull cinema."
 
 * RICKROLL BBC NEWS - greem requests, "I read
   in your latest newsletter about the plan to
   rickroll an entire railway station. Interesting
   though this is, I think it can be taken
   further. You may know that Radio 4's six
   o'clock news starts with the chimes of Big Ben,
   which are broadcast live from a microphone in
   the clock tower. This microphone picks up other
   sounds around Parliament as well - occasionally
   you can hear a police siren going past. So, if
   a large group of people were to assemble in
   Parliament Square just before 6pm on a
   pre-arranged day, and sing very loudly in the
   general direction of Big Ben at the right
   moment, they could successfully rickroll the
   news." Heh, good plan, and we had no idea the
   BBC were wasting OUR LICENCE PAYERS MONEY on
   live broadcasts of the chimes when they could
   just use a bloody tape.
 
 * OVER EGGING THE PUDDING - thinking about this
   odd little phrase and we've never eaten a
   pudding with too many eggs. Maybe you'd like to
   see what cake comes out like if you add 16
   eggs? How many eggs is too many? Only science
   knows the answer.
 
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 THANKS:
   This issue was written by Rob Manuel with David
   Stevenson. Just noticed that the BBC iPlayer
   has a volume control that is one louder and
   goes to 11. Stuff sent in by jessekillerkay,
   gronkpan, neal.atkinson. Tip Topiary by "when
   cutting your hedge into the shape of a penis,
   take a photo of your cock for the model, rather
   than waving your old chap all around the front
   lawn." Additional linkage and image challenge
   by Fraser Lewry. Mike Trinder is QOTW bloke.
   Subjlols via HappyToast, mastheadlols from Ad7.
    
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 TOP TIP:
   If you're bored and want to find out something
   amusing, go to www.imdb.com and in the search
   criteria type in the word wanker. (Ravage
   monster)
 
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 SICKIPEDIA:
   It's been confirmed that Dawn French has
   contracted the Ebola flesh-eating disease.
   Doctors have given her 27 years to live.
 http://www.sickiped
 
 
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