Don't worry about why are car company would care whether you take the stairs or the escalator.

Volkswagon's theFunTheory.com [site not ready yet] is all about getting people to better their behavior by making everyday things more fun.

First, to get people to stop littering, they created the world's largest, deepest trash can. Coming soon, a recycling bin arcade game. But up now, the piano stairs.

It's no Tom Hanks in BIG, but it's unique nonetheless.

Any new suggestions for what they might do next?
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While we all assumed it'd go away faster than Vanilla Ice on a Compton street corner, it hasn't. The Twitter phenomena continues. Hell, it even grows. And if you're one of the millions who "tweet" daily, you might be searching for some more people to follow. And if you're really desperate, you could always follow us. Using the trained llama we keep in the backroom, we compiled a list of 10 celebrities you should follow. (Sorry Mr. and Mrs. Kutcher, you don't make the list.)

These 10 kiwi cougars are the New World Master Netters.

Well, that's their new name. The name they wanted to be called was the Master Baiters.

Unfortunately, officials at the Sydney World Masters Games thought a team of Master Baiters would be quite inappropriate for an international sports competition.

And here's why:
Master Baiters implies that this team of 40+ ladies is really good at catching Whitebait. A sweet and tender fish that is very popular in New Zealand.

It's true.

The reference to whitebaiting, or fishing for whitebait, was just too much for the 2009 Sydney World Masters. Plus, officials feared Master Baiters "might have a bit of a double meaning if it was pronounced wrong."

Well, good on ya Sydney World Masters Games officials. Everyone at yesbutnobutyes.com is glad these former Master Baiters will have to play by the proper rules of engagement.

The other teams might not have enjoyed playing with a bunch of professional women Master Baiters. But now, they just might.

via The Press.

It's a shame Billy Mays had to die before he was able to view his greatest gift to our fair planet. It wasn't in the form of a super-concentrated and potentially illegal stain remover. Nor was it an automatic alphabetizer for your vinyl collection. His greatest contribution, nay, his most profound contribution was in the mockery of his work on last night's episode of South Park.

Chipotle is great. Chipoltaway is better.

Anyone with kids in the house will know Zac Efron, eponymous lead of the High School Musical series, the pop culture equivalent of nails on a blackboard. I thought nothing could persuade me to go see a movie he was even in, let alone leading. But this new trailer for the movie Me and Orson Welles looks pretty interesting, with a spot-on portrayal of Orson Welles by Christian McKay.

From The YBNBY Culinary Arts/Cardiac Arrest Desk...

At the state fair in Massachusetts, some sadistic food peddlers were selling the "Craz-E Burger." It was a burger patty with cheese and blessed bacon on a Krispy Kreme donut for a bun. That's 1,500 calories of ridiculous.

Apparently during the fair's run, 17,000 Craz-E Burgers were bought and consumed. So, let me check my math, that's about 3,333 heart attacks or strokes. Roughly.

We will be watching to see if the Craz-E Burger is wanted for murder in the next few days. A culinary serial killer. The beast will be holed in in a cheap motel, on the lam. Surrounded by police. "You'll never take me alive coppers!"

This is one of the reasons the terrorists hate us...

According to the folks at Digital Inspiration, if you have an old Unix computer, you can use a simple code to run a program that automatically opens and closes the CD Rom drive.

Add a string, like in this video, and you've got an automatic baby rocker.

Okay, so maybe it's not practical or a long term solution. But it's damn sure unique.

"Couples Retreat" ** (out of four): On the surface, "Couples Retreat" appears to be a quickly stitched together comedy that places a bunch of likable actors in a tropical setting for some cheap laughs. And that's exactly what it is.

Remember how Michael Caine once said he would pick his movies based on where the scripts took place? I have to imagine this "Caine Method" had more than a little to do with the making of "Couples Retreat", a loosely stitched together comedy that places a bunch of likable actors in a tropical setting for some cheap laughs. The film looks like it must have been a lot of fun to make. Watching it? Not so much.

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