You are a rude thoughtless little pig. When a Baldwin Calls. ...

Think you’ve got it tough, trying to make it with the girl next door? Some of the mating rituals in the animal kingdom are downright painful to one’s pride, like the honeybee’s exploding testicles, the argonaut’s detachable penis, or...

"Baby, if you ever wondered...wondered whatever became of me..." today on the veg...

A 12 year-old kid called me a bitch and then beat the living hell out of me. This was my weekend....

ME: (drowsy) Hey. YOU: (unattentive) Hey. ME: Good weekend? YOU: ok...pretty quiet. You? ME: Pretty good. Nice weather, though...right? YOU: yeh...really nice. (long pause) ME: Who brought the muffins? YOU: Nancy. ME: That's cool. (pause) ME: Who's Nancy, again?...

- So Alec Baldwin took the celebrity apology walk of shame on The View. I know I can sleep better now. - Ten different takes on Mr. Tarantino's masterpiece, starting with the oddly entertaining...Pulp Muppets. - Via yesterday's NY...

Long time readers will remember I'm a milk chocaholic, and wrote a lengthy review of milk chocolate bars quite a while ago. I just wanted to point out that Hershey's new Whole Bean brand is just excellent. Recommended. (But...

Thanks to everyone who entered this week's competition, especially those who wrote personal notes (which didn't affect the outcome, but made me smile every day). We had nearly 100 entries, and the winner is Jennifer W from Muskegon, MI....

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Axl Rose was (sort of) in the news this week after pulling out of a music festival in South Africa. In the absence of a Chinese Democracy progress report, let's instead read an excerpt from John Moe's Pop-Song Correspondences,...

Das ist Hard Rocken, Ja! Ja! Ja! Das ist gut! Wanken die Winky! Tygörz is the newest, coolest German rock band. Check out their site. More songs are available at their MySpace page. However, if you can look beyond...

Frank Zappa was on TV a lot. If you remove the music videos, and you remove the political talk, you still have a lot of Frank Zappa on TV. Zappa, today on the veg....

Here it is, the final day. All week we've been running a competition to give away a set of five CDs. Number Ones is a series of greatest hits collections, featuring classic Motown, Jazz, Country and dance tracks, and...

- Have you had breakfast? Tony's Frosted Flakes take on a whole new meaning after watching this clip. - Do we need another MySpace? It's a question alot of big brands ask. And now NBC is taking their turn....

Last Monday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences screened Star Wars as part of their Great to Be Nominated series. Before the start of the show, they showed this special clip as a warning to the audience....

Google recently launched Google Web History, a service where you can access, search, and sort the places you’ve been on the web, even after you’ve deleted the browser history on your computer. Google’s ability to do so, which many...

Every once in a while, a story pops up that is so outrageous, so intriguing, so deliciously funny, that you either rush to tell everyone you know (which in my case would be a lot of people), or you...

Because Michael Bay movies are fun until you're living in one.

Wow, real prizes. We've got a set of five CDs to give away this week. Number Ones is a series of greatest hits collections, featuring classic Motown, Jazz, Country and dance tracks, and one YBNBY reader will win five...

Tonight's Idol Gives Back had me all nostalgic. A Concert for Life, the Freddie Mercury Tribute/AIDS Awareness rally held at London's Wembley Stadium, was held fifteen years ago this week. I'm not sure how much this event moved the...

While American Idol is getting the press for their charity efforts, America's Most Wanted is doing their part, too. Well, not exactly America's Most Wanted. But one of their All-Star nominees. Email from my friend Phil: My cousin Carl...

Someone must really hate me. Or hate The Office. This is what greeted me Monday morning. If you're crazy enough to decapitate my toys, you're probably stalking me and reading my contributions to this website. This aggression will not...

Remember that guy in high school who got all the chicks because he could play "Crash Into Me" on the guitar? Andy McKee isn't that guy. Andy McKee can melt that guy's six-string with a few quick strums of...

King Brat Amazons Gone Wild King Cat Mummies in love Return of the Golden Age Every Wednesday we run down the 5 most interesting comics and graphic novels that come out this week. I've been away from the comics...

In the 80s, Night Flight hosted the wildest collection of independent comedy, music videos, and experiental short films. It’s one of the better things I recall from the 80s. Night Flight, today on the veg....

Picture, if you will, a night where none of the Idol singers stunk. That's what we got, but we still have to get rid of someone. Haterade tells you who he thinks it's going to be....

Wow, real prizes. We've got a set of five CDs to give away this week. Number Ones is a series of greatest hits collections, featuring classic Motown, Jazz, Country and dance tracks, and one YBNBY reader will win five...

- This list, alone was reason enough to bring back the breakfast links...the top 10 head slices. (Genius) - When you look at pictures of the Joker, are words like subtle and understated supposed to come to mind? -...

Matt Wiggins started a FaceBook group to convince his fiance to have a Star Wars wedding. If he gets 10,000 people to join, he gets stormtroopers for escorts. If 20,000 people join, they’ll play The Imperial March. If you...

The perfect nerd storm: combine Legos, robots, and videogames. WiigoBot is a Lego NXT Wii Playing Robot that can bowl a perfect game! Building instructions are available. (via Metafilter)...

I loved the Muppets doing this song when I was a kid (a century or so ago). This updated version features WoW machinia characters trying to pronounce l33t terms. Yeah, I laughed. (via Fuzzytopia)...

Following various gaffes – and the unimaginative advice of their publicists – celebrities have been apologizing in public for years. We're a forgiving people. Today we feature some of the more (and less) heartfelt ways people said they were...

Worst Super Mario Brother's level ... ever. (Via BoingBoing)...

Wow, real prizes. We've got a set of five CDs to give away this week. Number Ones is a series of greatest hits collections, featuring classic Motown, Jazz, Country and dance tracks, and one YBNBY reader will win five...

Last week was a pretty good week for the Haterade - 2 out of 3 in the bottom, including calling the surprise of Blake in the bottom and the ouster of Sanjaya. What does he have in store this week?...

China Central Television (CCTV) has some astoundingly beautiful women, but can’t bring itself to say too many nice things about them. In the slideshow Uniqueness of 10 hot female stars in China, movie star Gong Li on the left...

After posting pictures of David Beckham's foreskin last week, I thought it only fitting to redress the gender balance by linking to all the pictures from Playboy's shoot of The Brazillian Women's Soccer Team. It was the last I...

Are you in the mooooooood? Dancing cows, today on the veg....

I know a lot of funny people. Every now and again, I'm going to turn things over to one of them. We'll call it Pinch Hitting. And we'll start with a neat freak brimming with pent-up anger. In fact, we'll...

The White House Correspondents Association held their dinner Saturday night. Rich Little was the featured entertainment, but as expected, didn’t leave much of an impression. David Letterman, who couldn’t attend because of his conflicting yoga practice, sent a video....

Dear Sanjaya, thank you for teaching us how to laugh again.

I see to have a sall proble. Blogging is y ain sorce of incoe right now, and y oldest daghter spilled soda pop on y keyboard. I rinsed it ot, and now it’s drying. I got ot y older...

Wow, real prizes. We've got a set of five CDs to give away this week. Number Ones is a brand new series of greatest hits collections, featuring classic Motown, Jazz, Country and dance tracks, and one YBNBY reader will...

One of my favorite blogosphere features is the entertaining customer service rant. My contribution to the genre was a long-winded tirade against Sprint, which was wildly successful and gave me an unwarranted sense of self-importance. Let me pass along...

In the last week, two of my kids have each asked questions that made me stop in my tracks because I didn't quite know how to answer them authoritatively, so any one sentence answers you readers ca provide to...

When it was announced last week that the latest rock band tribute Ice Cream put out by Ben & Jerry's would be for Queen - flavor named Bohemian Raspberry - I questioned whether the bland ingredients fit Freddie Mercury's...

Almost two years ago, we posted a handful of pictures of Reggie Cleveland All-Stars. Coined by Bill Simmons of ESPN, Reggie Cleveland All-Stars are athletes whose names and ethnicities don't match; guys who made you say, "Wow, he's white?"...

Thorough piece by N.R. Kleinfield in Sunday's Times on the upbringing of Seung-Hui Cho. This was one of the crazier points: His junior-year roommates mostly ignored him because he was so withdrawn. If he said something, it was weird....

Makes me feel like a kid again. Official site....

Reuters reported that fruity alcoholic drinks may be good for you! Adding ethanol -- the type of alcohol found in rum, vodka, tequila and other spirits -- boosted the antioxidant nutrients in strawberries and blackberries, the researchers found. Any...

In case you didn’t know, this site is lousy with ad men. I spent almost all my adult life in advertising, too, and even though it was audio, I know exactly where this came from. For you guys, here’s...

I have a Hotmail account I rarely check. It’s where I send emails I don’t want to read, including non-essential account updates from HSBC. On March 27, they tried to use New Year’s Day to start a conversation about...

That’s what Purina named their catfood in Sweden. The ad campaigns have been full of snicker moments, such as “Now you can wake up with Pussi every morning!” (Thanks, Stratoblogster!)...

Who wouldn't want to smell like this?...

The internet is having a field day, or week, or month with the Virginia Tech shootings. Here are some links that may get you up to speed....

"Hot Fuzz" ***1/2 (out of four): Director Edgar Wright cements his reputation as a master parodist with this classic send-up of bombastic Hollywood cop movies. “Shaun of the Dead” director Edgar Wright is having a moment. Not only is his...

"In the Land of Women" ** (out of four): Achingly sincere study of a man who leaves Los Angeles to care for his ailing grandmother in suburban Michigan only to - wouldn't you know it? - find himself, features strong...

I'm always saying to my wife "well, that doesn't look very much like the picture" when i order food. Usually it's in Jersey diners, but clearly the same applies to fast food. And now someone has a site dedicated...

Today on the Veg - when interviews go bad ...

Despite what you may think from the title, this is not just scatological humor. Author Eric Spitzhagel’s latest project is to showcase how various authors view their own assholes. He invited writers to make a sketch and submit it....

"When the man is putting his penis in another woman's vagina, he isn't respecting the vagina that he made a commitment to."...

As men, we may not be able to agree on things like Angelina or Jen, Drunken Fist or Shaolin, or Beer Pong or Beirut. But the one thing we all agree on- the one thing we all want, is...

Nike ran an ad in Sunday's Times, thanking Don Imus for "starting the conversation" and "moving women's sport forward." A pretty cool and timely execution, except for one unspeakable error. They made a typo, referring to the school they were...

Another reason to party hardy when you turn 28: you are still alive. The 27 Club refers to the many celebrities (especially in music) who died at age 27. I had no idea there were so many! The top...

Today on the Veg - Girlfight Club. ...

VideoJug: How To Join The Mile High Club Someone once told me that it doesn’t count if you do it in the Mile High City. It has to be in the air. Doing it in the loo doesn’t seem like...

This week, we journey to the genre which has been the favorite-killer: country music. Will there be an upset? If so, who? You may be surprised......

In our first two installments, we've bitched about crazy roommates and traded tales of inappropriate co-workers. Today's topic is raising kids. You don't have to be a parent to participate. Tell us about the hell your kids put you...

With the release of The Children of Hurin, J.R.R. Tolkien becomes the Tupac Shakur of fantasy novelists.

For some weird reason, I thought that worth mentioning, if only to open up a debate on the pros and cons. Full pics here. (via WoW) ...

The Smoking Gun has a copy of the play written by Virginia Tech murderer Cho Seung-Hui. It's called Richard McBeef. Had I read this before, I'm not sure I'd have fingered him as a mass murderer. But I would have...

How did Gene Roddenberry ever come up with the grand plan that became Star Trek? Could it be possible that he had some inspiration from extraterrestrials? Did they get a cut of the proceeds, or just the satisfaction of...

Today on the Veg - the genius of Ricky Gervais. ...

Last week, Haterade correctly predicted all bottom three singers and had the person eliminated in his bottom two. What can he do to follow it up this week?...

I had considered this series complete with three volumes, but requests have trickled in steadily. So after regrouping, I began my research anew to find whatever happened to your favorite adult film stars. It’s not easy, because a lot...

Today was another great day in the office, as we finally launched something I've been working on for a while now. Virtual Thirst is an open competition being held by Coca-Cola to design an imaginary machine that delivers a...

If you are new to the net, or even if you aren’t, this will get you up to speed on some of the most popular viral videos of the past few years. Pasted together, it just goes to show...

I remember seeing Bruce Lee’s movie Game of Death at the drive-in theater when it was first released. I was aware that he had died, but I was young and oblivious to the bizarre circumstances surrounding the making of...

Through a series of accounting mistakes and critical oversights, I've been made the newest contributor to the YBNBY team. In an effort to get everyone comfortable with my addition, I thought I'd give you some snippets about my life....

Reynaldo Ojeda and Claudia Lopez are professional salsa dancers from Bogota, Columbia. That's all I know, but I'm impressed....

Singer Sandy Belle feels the loss. This is not your everyday country song. More here....

Following on from "Phish Food" and "Cherry Garcia", Ben & Jerry's are coming out with "Bohemian Raspberry" in tribute to Queen, described as "Vanilla ice cream with fudge brownies & raspberry swirls." Which got me thinking - this seems...

Welcome to the twilight zone, where Sienna Miller is more famous than Lucy. Here's proof positive that the wisdom of crowds doesn't always apply. Famousr is a site where you vote on who is the more famous of two...

I had this whole article ready to go about what Adolph Hitler and Jesus Christ have in common..their mutual love of Gloria Gaynor! Then I looked down and saw that Miss Cellania had already posted the Hitler video. Sigh...story...

See the rest of this joke (or series of jokes) at The Rack....

It’s Friday, when you can count on some outrageous silliness from the folks at b3ta....

Posted early, as I have a busy day. For your Friday Lunch Hour Veg - Poledancing. ...

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Another YBNBY contributor here who we haven't seen in a few weeks (come back soon, Jellio) once developed a piece of artwork for sale in his online shop called "Drive In" and told us about it here. So it...

In a bored moment at the end of last year, Clickety Clack, a one-time contributor to this blog, and I came up with a guerilla stunt we wanted to play. The plan was to get packets of Crayola crayons,...

No, really, Walt Disney's passport, now on eBay. If you're a silicon valley geek, with millions from Google stock but no life, get this now. Pulling this out at a bar - instant chick magnet, HalleBerry-quality chicks too. i...

About two weeks ago, the news came around that Michael Jackson wanted a 50-foot robot of himself that would wander the desert near Las Vegas. It sounded like a publicity stunt, like the elephant man's bones, or the hyperbaric...

The average age of The Zimmers is 78. Lead singer Alf Carretta is 90 years old, which leads one to wonder about the line "I hope I die before I get old." Other band members are 99 and 100...

"Lonely Hearts" *** (out of four): Simple retelling of the true story of Long Island's Lonely Hearts Killers features John Travolta's best work in almost a decade. After the success of David Fincher’s thrillingly-detailed serial killer procedural, “Zodiac”, there may...

After a short hiatus, it's back!!!! Today on the Veg - Movie's in Five Seconds. ...

In the crowded genre of “white rap,” King of the Cul-de-Sac by Poor Marcus is pretty decent. I’m sure some of you can relate....

Let’s see, it was a “horrible coincidence” that CFO Mark Weins sold a 14,000 shares of company stock at the same time Menu Foods discovered that pets who ate their product were dying. Three weeks before anyone else knew...

Sunday sees the premiere of Drive on Fox. I know nothing about it (looks like some kind of Death Race 2000 thing) but interestingly, during the show, the director Greg Yaitanes is going to be using Twitter to provide...

Oh, those Idol boys :) ...

R.I.P. Mr. Vonnegut. ...

A plus-sized wedding dress for sale on eBay. Nothing special, except that the seller felt the need to tell the entire long and sordid story on the ad. If I had a sister and she did that to me.......

No, it's not new, but it made me laugh. (Thanks, Jan!)...

With the theme being Latin night, and with Jennifer Lopez on as the guest vocalist, the songs this evening have the potential to be muy caliente...or muy chupo....

When I got this picture in the mail, my first thought was a caption competition. But since I'm such a prude and this may be borderline NSFW, the picture is after the jump. Give us your best caption, I...

See all the exciting action in "Hoverboy Destroys Christmas!"...

The outrage over this gross injustice continues to build, and Cadbury's silence is deafening. First, if you haven't done so already, read the original post exposing the conspiracy. The people demand answers, Cadbury. ...

I promise I'm not going to make a habit of posting recipes on YesButNoButYes, but this is a WTF moment. I've snarked about deep-fried Twinkies, pickles, Snickers bars, etc etc, but after this, none of that is a bit...

Filmmaker Stephen Tramontana has some harsh words for Quentin Tarantino: Quentin Tarantino is a thieving piece of shit and he knows it. He stole Grindhouse from a bunch of kids who were just asking for his help and he...

Tub o' whey protein displayed beside other athletic supplements. Various military diplomas, no frame necessary. A bottle of Febreze, because actual clothes washing is womanly. Lotion (lube), hand sanitizer, and toilet paper. And all this arranged on raw, unfinished...

I'd recognize that face anywhere! Bonham’s auction house has a prize work of art for sale- Banksy’s self-portrait. The painting (oil and spray paint on canvas) by the renowned grafitti artist is expected to bring £30,000 - £40,000. (via...

Another strong week of contributions. Give yourselves a round of applause. Here's my original story. And here's the previous edition. A few highlights: Evan On one late night shift, while unloading the stock truck, Jason, my supervisor, starts talking...

According to The Sun, which is always reliable in topics of no import, scientists have determined the precise formula for the perfect bacon sandwich. The Formula N = C + {fb(cm) . fb(tc)} + fb(Ts) + fc . ta...

These two tried this move after seeing it in a swing dance routine, but since it’s online, I predict it will become part of some squad’s cheerleading routine and cause parents to have a coronary....

OK, search your memory. Do you remember the band OXO? They had one hit, Whirly Girl, in 1983, and broke up soon after. Frank Garcia was their photogenic bass player. He’s now the focus of a new movie that...

A moral tale. Once I worked for a large ad agency, and we had a large cosmetics account. We had created a database that would allow fashion-conscious young ladies to input their skin type, eye and hair color, and...

Just to get you in the mood for tonight's season premiere, here's the entore story of the The Sopranos, in seven minutes. ...

As a Creative Director who's spent the last ten years working on web sites and digital ideas, you sometimes get the feel that creativity has been supplanted by technology, and that may of the awards shows only reward flashy,...

Easter is supposed to be bunny rabbits, candy, and and smiling faces, as embodied by the iconic Cadbury Creme Egg -- but scratch below the surface, and an evil conspiracy lurks. After the jump, corporate lies, video evidence, and...

I just returned from Podcamp NYC, an excellent (and free) one day podcast convention held at the New Yorker hotel. Nice to meet new friends and see old ones again. I won't bother to give you a rundown of...

As far as dating sites go, Get Them Laid is strange, but very straight to the point. Dick Cheney is there, as well as Tom Anderson of MySpace, although it seems most of the people there are just everyday...

I so covet Bill Maher's ability to take common sense and turn it into pure gold....

To cap off Wrestling week on the Veg, here's a short history of women in wrestling....

< soapbox > Double Viking has a great article entitled Questions from your girlfriend that aren’t really questions. It’s an expanded version of what you’ve read on the net for years, if you read at all. I wrote on...

After I'm Busy Blogging, this has to be my favorite video of the year. (Via Neatorama) ...

Remember the old stories about the soldier who carried a bible in his pocket, which ultimately stopped the bullet aimed at his heart? Well, here's the same tale, but with an iPod. ...

"Grindhouse" *** (out of four): The Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino three-hour tribute to the exploitation films of their youth is undeniably fun, but it's as choppy and uneven as the films it reveres. “Grindhouse” – the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino three-hour tribute...

"The Hoax" **** (out of four): The most ironic part of Lasse Hallström's perfectly crafted tale - based on the true story of a man who nearly published an entirely fictitious autobiography of Howard Hughes - is how completely believable...

If you were starting up a new tech focussed podcast, to take advantage of all those early adopters, who would be your first choice? The man with the hardest working penis in showbusiness, of course. ...

For sale. 1982 Pontiac TransAm. One previous owner (who's very big in Germany). Answers to the name of K.I.T.T. ...

Wrestling week continues. Today on the Veg, Jello Wrestling....

I was doing research for a post on another site on fishing lures, and it struck me that the names they give those things are kinda, um, kinky. How well do you know fishing lures? How about sex toys?...

Let's hope we don't see Sanjayar himself trying the old "nude boy with guitar" trick to get into the final four. (Via World of Wonder where you can also see her in her Hooters uniform.) ...

Take one terrible photo of Hilary Clinton. Post to Something Awful, and watch the photoshop competition take off. Priceless. ...

"The Reaping" *1/2 (out of four): Incoherent mess about the ten biblical plagues afflicting a small Louisiana town marks another poor post-Oscar choice for Hilary Swank who deserves – and should know – better. It's always the same. A formerly...

The Mayor of Cincinnati throwing out the ceremonial first pitch. [Via Bill Simmons]...

This documentary is called The Most Hated Family in America, broadcast on BBC 2. I was curious enough about the title to watch. It’s about The Westboro Baptist Church, which I’m familiar with, but I didn’t know that just...

Wrestling week continues! Classic wrestling matches from the '80s, today on the veg. ...

The new JLA meets the new JSA Vertigo Splendor Madman and the end of the world Another Joss Whedon comic! The long-awaited complete Elk's Run Every Wednesday we run down the 5 most interesting comics and graphic novels that...

Hopefully, you all read the Celebrities April Fool's Special. But what's not an April fool is Tony Bennett, who will help determine who will be leaving their singing career in San Fra...I mean the Idol Soundstage....

Ick. (via Clueless in Carolina, who linked to YesButNoButYes, but didn’t report it)...

Today on the Veg, we salute the precursor to Jerry Springer and all the confrontational talk shows that followed. Ladies and gentlemen, Piper's Pit....

Good job, ppl. The power of the masses prevails. Now if we could only get our shit together like this during a Presidential election. Only six sites actually emailed me for a credit, so here goes with the linkslutting:...

Alanis Morissette has turned the stupidest song in the world into the most depressing song in the world. Check out her version of "My Humps" below. via WWTDD...

A long time ago, at a comic convention far, far away.... Prepare yourselves for the Ten Worst Star Wars Costumes of all time. ...

So... we need a favor, and we'll do one in return. YesButNoButYes has been sitting just over 1000 on Technorati for a while, and I keep hoping it'll flip under 1000, but no luck so far. Of course, it...

I'm not much of a gamer, but I love logic puzzles. Orbox B sucked up a big chunk of my time last night. Just try to get to the exit on each level. Infinitely frustrating. Videos and passwords for...

Nude Suits, a part of the Text*iles art portfolio. All I can find out is the creator is named Matthew. Six pictures, not all of them this fetching. (via Dump Trumpet)...

It's Wrestlemania Week on the veg! Today, classic Mean Gene Okerlund interviews from the '80's....

Back when I was in Big Brother Second Life, I met Lillani, who I termed the Martha Stewart of BSDM. She's an accomplished scripter, and I always keep on eye on her blog to see if she announces any...

As midnight rolls around, it's time to fess up. Twitterati.net was, of course, that most evil of things - a product of April Fool's. If you were one of the ones who were sucked in, you have my apologies,...

Did you guys not see the American Idol Singing with Celebrity Duet Special? It was excellent. Haterade has that and the analysis inside....

Pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman is down in Atlanta for the Final Four, blogging for ESPN.com. Even if you picked a Texas-Duke final, you'll enjoy his dispatches. Unless you hate Klosterman, I guess. Here's how it all began on...

Last call to share your stories about inappropriate co-workers. [Thanks to Miss C. for this week's image.]...

I knew it wouldn't take long before someone tried to monetize this. For anyone out there who is using the hot new web app Twitter, there's now a service called Twitterati that offers to PAY you for your Twitters....