The Twitter account is fairly new but the idea isn't. There's a feature on GoComics.com called That Is Priceless by Steve Melcher that has been doing the same thing once daily, Monday-Friday, since November 2011. GoComics isn't just Garfield and Peanuts reruns any more (I could go on, but I already got extensively into it at MetaFilter).
Well, #5 was not really a 'screw-up', according to the INFO link: "Although Douglas Corrigan never quite admitted it, his 'mistake' was surely a ruse to circumvent aviation authorities who had turned down his request to make a trans-Atlantic flight." Even if he didn't appreciate the nickname, Corrigan became the third-most famous aviator (after Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart) to cross the Atlantic. Nice PR.
Technically, that's a classic Misheard Lyric (#1 on this list) - but the accurate lyric "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night” is pretty weird anyway. AND it was written by Bruce Springsteen, whose first hit for himself, "Born to Run" started with... "In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines"
I think Springsteen and Bob Dylan should dominate the category. (Dylan: "Better jump down a manhole / Light yourself a candle / Don’t wear sandals / Try to avoid the scandals / The pump don’t work / ’Cause the vandals took the handles"
It must be noted that the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy (using music recovered from an '80s mixtape owned by StarLord as a kid), is full of potential guilty pleasures, stating with "Hooked on a Feeling (Ooga Chucka)" by Blue Swede, not to mention "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes.
With Weird Al finally getting the #1 album, it somewhat surprises me that nothing by him made the Guilty Pleasure Top 10 (and the only song on the list he parodied was 'My Sharona'). Dropping an "Eat It" or "White and Nerdy" into an otherwise 'normal' playlist is a Guilty Goodie to me.
But my own list would go back as far as "You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd" by Roger Miller and "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor" by Lonnie Donegan (two of my earliest musical memories), through "The Time Warp" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas, "Rock Lobster" by the B-52s, "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats, up to "Gangnam Style" by Psy. Which is why I've never been allowed to DJ at any party I attend...
The good news is there's a gas station clerk who has been an MMA champion... the bad news is there's an MMA champion who has to work as a gas station clerk.
Oh, deer! I just hope the deer living in the hills behind my 'just off the highway 3 miles from town' home location don't get any ideas from this (checks over shoulder to make sure no deer are looking at my monitor). We already had a notable incident near me where a deer decided to race a motorcycle down the frontage road - with fatal consequences, for the deer, and almost for the biker, who had to be pulled out from underneath his cycle AND the deer by a semi-heroic neighbor of mine (the hot cycle caused him 3rd degree burns AND turned the deer into roasted venison). I don't know where that deer got the idea to do that, but I suspect it was the Internet.
Lite-Brite dates back to 1967 (according to Wikipedia), and I would watch "Lite-Brite the Movie" (but not in a theater). Of course, all the movies based on the Hanna-Barbera and Jay Ward cartoons of MY youth were made some time ago (to mostly not much success). And I know the video was for Wil Wheaton's TV show, but he didn't belong there - he has already gotten a couple of remakes and reboots, right?
And Martin, who started by stealing both of Tolkein's middle initials, promised 7 but only delivered 5, all filled with rapey, behead-y stuff that Young Adults should avoid, even if their parents subscribe to HBO. And the whole "Winter Is Coming" crap is just global warming denialism, right?
"winner of the 2014 award for Most Exaggerated Factoid Video Title."
The year is only half-over, the competition for 'link bait-y' titles is getting fiercer all the time, and TheOnion has a new site, ClickHole, dedicated to this kind of thing. I predict that, by December, this may not even make the Top 10.
Hmm... "The Top 10 Most Exaggerated Factoid Video Titles"... yep, that'll go viral.
The greatest flaw in this design is the lack of automation for moving furniture on/off the floorspace/poolspace so it can be more like a regular room when dry.
"So, Mr. Lincoln, otherwise how did you like the show?"
"In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through the mansions of glory in suicide machines"
I think Springsteen and Bob Dylan should dominate the category. (Dylan: "Better jump down a manhole / Light yourself a candle / Don’t wear sandals / Try to avoid the scandals / The pump don’t work / ’Cause the vandals took the handles"
But my own list would go back as far as "You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd" by Roger Miller and "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor" by Lonnie Donegan (two of my earliest musical memories), through "The Time Warp" from the Rocky Horror Picture Show, "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas, "Rock Lobster" by the B-52s, "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats, up to "Gangnam Style" by Psy. Which is why I've never been allowed to DJ at any party I attend...
I just hope the deer living in the hills behind my 'just off the highway 3 miles from town' home location don't get any ideas from this (checks over shoulder to make sure no deer are looking at my monitor). We already had a notable incident near me where a deer decided to race a motorcycle down the frontage road - with fatal consequences, for the deer, and almost for the biker, who had to be pulled out from underneath his cycle AND the deer by a semi-heroic neighbor of mine (the hot cycle caused him 3rd degree burns AND turned the deer into roasted venison). I don't know where that deer got the idea to do that, but I suspect it was the Internet.
The year is only half-over, the competition for 'link bait-y' titles is getting fiercer all the time, and TheOnion has a new site, ClickHole, dedicated to this kind of thing. I predict that, by December, this may not even make the Top 10.
Hmm... "The Top 10 Most Exaggerated Factoid Video Titles"... yep, that'll go viral.
*or as I like to call it, porcu-pineapple