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STRANGE SUPER BOWL XLIX FUN !
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SUPER BOWL FOOD! - PIZZA - SNACKS - BEER - TAILGATING - CHEESEBURGERS
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SPORTS FUN AND FROLIC - COLLEGE & NFL TAILGATING FOOTBALL GAMES
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STRANGE SPORTS CELEBRITIES CRIBS AND COMPOUNDS - SOCCER STARS - NFL FOOTBALL - MLB BASEBALL - MBA BASKETBALL STARS!
http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/news_9515.html
NEW - HOT ESPN SPORTS ANCHORS & REPORTERS - ERIN ANDREWS!
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STRANGE OLDE SUPER BOWL HALF TIME SHOWS AND CELEBRITIES - VARIOUS OTHER OLDE SPORTS TEAMS
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Strange Super Bowl Quotes
Herb Adderly, Green Bay Packers cornerback (Super Bowl II):
"(When asked if he would rather play the game in Los Angeles or Miami)
"I'll play anywhere for $15,000."
Joe Namath, New York Jets quarterback (Super Bowl III):
"We're going to win on Sunday. I guarantee it."
A reporter to Doug Williams, Washington Redskins quarterback (Super Bowl XXII):
"How long have you been a black quarterback?"
Eli Manning, New York Giants quarterback on Joe Namath:
"Joe Namath was a great, confident man. That was then, this is now. I am not going to guarantee anything."
Duane Thomas, Dallas Cowboys quarterback (Super Bowl VI):
"If it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?"
Ernie Holmes, Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle, on Super Bowl X in Miami:
"I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die."
Julie Brown to Emmitt Smith, Dallas Cowboys running back (Super Bowl XXVIII):
"What are you going to wear in the game Sunday?"1
Bill Peterson, football coach:
"Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl."
Tom Coughlin, New York Giants head coach:
"We have taken precautions. The medical people have done the best they can to distribute some medicine, if you will, in advance of the plane trip out there. Hopefully the guys are rested enough that this will not be an issue."
Safety Rodney Harrison, on Randy Moss' play:
"It's not about catches and stats...It's all about wining. Coach Belichick, whether you're a free agent, a draft pick or a guy that's been here for five [or] eight years, he tells you [to] check your ego at the door, and that's what Randy's been doing."
Amani Toomer, New York Giants wide receiver:
"My first Super Bowl I was real giddy...I'll be honest with you, I was just happy to be around. Now just to get off the plane and see all of the cameras, I'm just focused on the game and what we have to do in order to beat the Patriots."
Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, Dallas Cowboys linebacker (Super Bowl XIII):
"Terry Bradshaw couldn't spell 'cat' if you spotted him the 'C' and the 'A.'"
Matt Millen, Oakland Raiders linebacker (after learning the Washington Redskins' OG Russ Grimm said he'd 'run over his own mother to win the Super Bowl') (Super Bowl XVIII):
"I'd run over Russ Grimm's mother to win the Super Bowl, too."
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Today's Featured Humor : -) - Which City Has Hosted the Super Bowl the Most Times?
Which City Has Hosted the Super Bowl the Most Times?
Miami, Florida has hosted the most at ten times.
Five times at the Miami Orange Bowl, and 5 times at the Joe Robbie/Pro Player/Dolphin/Sun Life Stadium.
The decision by NFL owners to award the 2014 Super Bowl to the joint bid submitted by the New York Giants and New York Jets was a significant milestone for America's unofficial national holiday, Super Bowl Sunday.
For the first time, the Super Bowl will be played in the largest metropolitan area in the country which also happens to be the No. 1 media market in the U.S.
Super Bowl XLVIII will take place at the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, which is owned by the Giants and Jets and is a short subway ride from Manhattan. New York (or New Jersey, if you will) will finally get a chance to host the big game, an event that some economists believe will provide a $550 million boost to the local economy, New York Jets chairman and CEO Woody Johnson told news sources.
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Most Popular - Parody - News - Pix
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SCARY ROAD RAGE INCIDENT - MAN CONFRONTS DRIVER WHO GETS OUT AND IS HUGE - KICKS HIM IN THE BUTT! - FUNNY ACTION GIF! - http://www.strangepolice.com/content/item/193982.html
COOL NFL SUPERBOWL COMPARISON - FIRST SUPERBOWL RING GREEN BAY PACKERS - 2014 SEATTLE SEAHAWKS RING! - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/194122.html
SNOW FUN - WOW! - SNOW CRAWLER - THE LAMBORGHINI OF SNOW MACHINES! - http://www.strangevehicles.com/content/item/194123.html
AMAZING GUNSHOT VIDEO - HIGH POWERED HANDGUN BLOWING UP A WATERMELON! - WOW ACTION GIF! - http://www.strangemilitary.com/content/item/194126.html
AMAZING HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK PHOTOS OF HEAVY METAL BANDS - ROCK STARS! - http://www.strangeoldepictures.com/content/item/194127.html
NASA - SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER CREW - JANUARY 28, 1986 - RIP - http://www.strangemilitary.com/content/item/194128.html
STRANGE GHOST PICTURES - SEE SCARY GHOST REFLECTION IN THE WINDOW! - http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/194129.html
STRANGE MOVIE FACTS - FIRST AMERICAN FILM TO SHOW TOILET FLUSHING ON SCREEN - PSYCHO! - http://www.strangecelebrities.com/content/item/194130.html
STRANGE ANIMAL PICTURES - CHECK OUT THE PEACOCK IN FLIGHT! - NOT JUST STANDING AROUND! - http://www.strangezoo.com/content/item/194131.html
SUPERBOWL FUN STUFF - DEFLATED SEATTLE SEAHAWKS CAKE READY FOR SUPERBOWL XLXIX - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/194132.html
OH THE IRONY! - TRAFFIC TICKET LAWYERS CAR TOWED FOR BAD PARKING! - http://www.strangebusiness.com/content/item/194133.html
STRANGE SPORTS - NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS QB BRADY HUNTING FOR A HIGH FIVE! - FUNNY ACTION GIF! - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/194134.html
NFL SPORTS DANGERS - FOOTBALL REFEREE TAKES A HIT FROM PLAYER RUNNING FULL SPEED! - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/194135.html
STRANGE GREEN BAY PACKERS INTERVIEW - SUPER BOWL WINNER - GAL WITH GUNS! - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/173157.html
STRANGE NFL FOOTBALL - IT'S HUGE - THREE STORIES TALL! - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/178693.html
STRANGE NFL FOOTBALL FANS - SEATTLE SEAHAWKS - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/145917.html
STRANGE NFL FOOTBALL FANS - SEATTLE SEAHAWKS - http://www.strangepersons.com/content/item/157267.html
STRANGE NFL FOOTBALL - IT'S HUGE - THREE STORIES TALL! - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/178693.html
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The Featured Pix Category This Week - SS - FOOTBALL - NFL - COLLEGE - STAR PLAYERS
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The Top News Articles & Humor for the Week
Strange Occupations - Human Cannonball Launched to His Death - http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/194048.html
Who's the Greatest NFL Quarterback Ever? - http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/177525.html
Big Time Football in the South - How Many SEC Students to Change a Lightbulb....... - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/156610.html
'G' On Packers' Helmet Doesn't Stand for 'Green Bay' ... What? - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/179999.html
Using Football Terminology in Religion - http://www.strangevehicles.com/content/item/168933.html
The Difference Between College Football In the South and the North - http://www.strangesports.com/content/item/156611.html
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The Featured New Category This Week - SS - FOOTBALL - NFL - COLLEGE - STAR PLAYERS
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Freitag, 30. Januar 2015
[b3ta] We bought it to help with your Grandad's homework
This Week:
* FAWLTY - meets DelBoy
* SPECTRUM TEARDOWN - like porn but with tech
* WHALE POO - because why not?
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B3ta email 651 - 30 Jan 2015
Read this issue to a dog - might be fun:
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Before we had a Chromecast, YouTube was a place
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Chromecast is the missing link between your TV,
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: WHAT B3TA PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING THIS WEEK
>> Start-up software architecture generator <<
"Here's a bit of silliness I've been working on
recently," begins Fraser S. "Need inspiration
for your growth-hacked startup's distributed
Big-Data Web-Scale Cloud Platform SaaS App
architecture?"
>> The Nag's Towers <<
The two funniest ever scenes from a BBC comedy
mashed into one seamless narative, or something
like that. "It's really a shameless copy of
Fresh Water Mole's image comp thing," confesses
sithemong.
http://www.b3ta.com/links/The_Nags_Towers
>> Smearballs new showreel <<
"Here's a pile of my work from the past few
years," writes legendary b3ta alumnus
smearballs. "Realized I probably made too many
videos of me dancing like a turd with a
celebrity head on. Love that Conan said
'Smearballs' on the air though."
http://www.b3ta.com/links/New_showreel
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: UVT
Stuff from that other site we also do
* We've redesigned Monopoly to make it more
accurate. Without inherited wealth you lose.
http://usvsth3m.com/post/austerity-the-board-game
* The new all-female Ghostbusters will be
great, but I hope they dump the capitalist
propaganda
http://usvsth3m.com/post/nationalise-ghostbusters-now
* What's your favourite ridiculous movie
tagline? Here are some of the silliest we've
ever seen
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: HEY HEY 16K ANNIVERSARY BONANZA
Ten years ago this March we made a vid for
@MJHibbett's Hey Hey 16k. Ten years! Blimey.
Anyway, now the great man's doing shows to
celebrate!
http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/heyhey16k/index.php
http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/
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: SITES IN BRIEF
Stuff we like that wasn't made by our mates
* THE TECH THAT LIVES ON after you've popped
your clogs:
https://medium.com/message/deathhacks-b767903b7c15
* MASTERS OF MOVIE MATTE PAINTING (pre-computer
era) - Star Wars etc etc, but some of these are
AMAZING and took months of real old-school
skill.
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-amazing-matte-paintings-from-star-wars-and-their-cr-1680372651
* SCROLL SLOW HAVE FUN - Leaves you wanting
more, but that's mostly cause it's good.
http://www.scrollslowhavefun.com/
* NO MORE PORTRAIT FORMAT VIDEO LOLS - Alas, an
Android developer has spoiled the fun with an
app that always record horizontal video, no
matter how you hold your phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hvt.horizon
* BUSINESS TOWN - whimsically-illustrated
cautionary tales of business-related twattery -
Richard Scarry brought up to date.
http://welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com/
* EVER WONDERED WHAT WHALE SHIT LOOKS LIKE -
reminds us of an incident in the 3rd year at
school with James Burgess (Hi James)
http://petapixel.com/2015/01/23/underwater-photographer-captures-sperm-whale-poopsplosion/
* WORRYING DEVELOPMENT - you should be scared,
technological singularity isn't a dating site.
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: VIDEO SCHMIDEO
Like a CASIO TV watch but it doesn't tell time
* WEATHER REPORTER DEALS WITH TECH GLITCH - with
a stylish ad-lib.
http://www.b3ta.com/links/Local_weather_reporter_deals_with_a_tech_glitch
* SINCLAIR SPECTRUM TEARDOWN - we're literally
spent much of the week watching the bloke at
EEVBLOG take apart computers. Unapologetically
geeky and we only understand about 25% of it,
but we can't stop watching. He also does a
Sinclair C5 and we can't wait to get home to
finish watching him full apart a kindle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-IebArtT9I
* JS BACH MOBIUS STRIP - what happens if you
stick a musical score on a looping mobius strip?
http://www.b3ta.com/links/J_S_Bach_Crab_Canon
* TANK VS TENNIS PLAYER - nice bit of video
editing. We assume it's editing or tennis has
suddenly got a lot more interesting.
http://www.b3ta.com/links/AUS_OPEN_2015_Djokovic_v_Tank
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A BASIC programmer didn't close their FOR loop.
You won't believe what happened NEXT.
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: FUNNY NAME CORNER
Threeway action
* FANNY KEY - nameleft writes, "Would it be
awkward giving your address to a new girlfriend?
Or does 'have private island' win?"
http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/en/island+buy+fanny-key+florida+usa/#!prettyPhoto
* AMUSING BBC NAME - barst writes, "This is not
the aerial photgrapher you are looking for"
http://i.imgur.com/mprtnLS.jpg
* RUDE-LOOKING ORNAMENT - Apparently a 'mother
and child art sculpture' - yeah right. (thanks
jim.s)
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: B3TA IMAGE CHALLENGE
Results from the 'Comedy Crossover' challenge
Last week we gave classic comedy characters a
busmans holiday, shopping them in to other tv
shows and films.
Our favourites included:
* Fawlty Fools: Don't mention the bar. (Fresh
Water Mole)
http://b3ta.com/board/11130229
* All hours: Are you L-l-l-l-l-l-local? (Capt
Hood-Butter)
http://b3ta.com/board/11130281
* Fawlty Fools2: Taking it to the streets.
(VicBrown)
http://b3ta.com/board/11130184
All these images, and a load more can be found
here:
http://b3ta.com/challenge/comedycrossover/popular/
>> New challenge: In Drawers <<
It's a crafty creative challenge this week. Open
a drawer, pull out the contents and turn it in
to something for our delight. Channel your inner
Tony Hart, Neil Buchanan or Rol.. no stick to
the first two.
http://b3ta.com/challenge/indrawers/
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: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Follow-ups on previous stories.
* SCARY KNIVES - UltimateMonkey writes, "Was
reading the newsletter last night and it had a
link for some Swiss made knife with '87 Tools &
141 Functions', which is laughably shit compared
to what we're packing up here"
http://www.hawleytoolcollection.com/index.php?sheffield-tool=individual-objects
* GET MONTY A HOFMEISTER BEAR COSTUME - Do you
love Monty or hate him? Either way, this seems
like poetic justice (via PhillieJoe)
http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/get-monty-a-george-the-hofmeister-bear-costume
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: Ottawan's D.I.S.C.O. (12" Remix)
She is D delirious
She is I incredible
She is S superficial
She is C complicated
She is O oh, oh, oh
She is T terracotta
She is H hydroponic
She is E extremely eggy
She is Q quixotic
She is U under active
She is E eee, eee, eee by gum
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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
* Let's put the fun back into funerals - coffins
should be shaped by the position you die in.
* Hold a leather wallet to your cheek. Now hold
a smartphone. The cheekfeel of leather is so much
nicer. We demand 'cheekfeel' becomes a thing in
2015.
* A bullet with our name on it. Actually we
asked for this before and they actually turned
up. It was a bit odd.
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THANKS:
This issue was written by Rob Manuel with
David Stevenson. Stuff sent in by Frogbeat,
tubaman, barst, robneymcplum, Mudface, smaggers
& p.hill.
Image challenge by Fraser Lewry.
Mike Trinder is QOTW bloke.
Top tips via teedyay.
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TOP TIP:
Cut one fingernail every day. They'll all remain
respectably short but you'll always have one
long enough for scratching, nose-picking or
separating lego bricks.
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