Sillyness is Contagious

And Slightly Misspelled

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thedailywhat:

Marriage Proposal of the Day: The planning! The dorkiness! The tears!

So imperfect it’s perfect.

[thanks, rob!]

Future girlfriends take note.

WHAT? I WANT TO FEEL SPECIAL TOO.

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alisonanon: After only 2 hours in a focus group with strangers, one immediately referred to me as Aubrey Plaza. What does this mean to my life. Note: subject of focus group was not participants’ perceived similarities to Parks & Rec characters. I don’t know, i kinda see more hayley atwell.

alisonanon:

After only 2 hours in a focus group with strangers, one immediately referred to me as Aubrey Plaza. What does this mean to my life.

Note: subject of focus group was not participants’ perceived similarities to Parks & Rec characters.

I don’t know, i kinda see more hayley atwell.

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Goofy is the only classic Disney character who has had sex.

artninja-mcrockviking:

Mickey has nephews, Donald has nephews, Goofy has a son.

And he wasn’t adopted, he looks just like him.

Goofy……has had sex.
Goofy…..has known a woman biblically….

Imagine what it must’ve looked like.
Imagine what it sounded like.

These are the things I think about when I wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat.

That’s a rather big assumption. 

Here’s what I think REALLY HAPPENED.

Goofy got his girlfriend pregnant in high school, and the rest learned NO GLOVE, NO LOVE.

SO REALLY GOOFY MUST BE PRO LIFE

AND THE REST ARE PRO CHOICE.

IT ALL MAKES SENSE. 

IT’S LIKE AN ALLEGORY FOR OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM. 

(also goofy’s friend and mickey’s nemesis pete also has a kid and a wife. So there’s a second one.)

(i think the bigger question is, why is goofy friends with mickey’s nemesis?)

(via badtvblog)

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Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer: Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate. The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.” The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot. Just a little robot trying to make it in this lonely world. 

Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer:

Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.

Just a little robot trying to make it in this lonely world. 

(via geekyjessica)

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fartwithheadphoneson: From The Fire Starter Sessions :) What if i pay for compliments, does that still count? “Of course it does, sir! Good Observation!” Thank you, George. Here is a nickel. “Very good sir! You handed me the best amount of money for that compliment.” Here’s another nickel. “You are the most excel-“ George I’m going to cut you off right now because I am out of nickels. Now unless you want me to start chucking pennies at you, you’ll wait until I get back from doing laundry.  “-lent” I WARNED YOU GEORGE. 

fartwithheadphoneson:

From The Fire Starter Sessions :)

What if i pay for compliments, does that still count?

“Of course it does, sir! Good Observation!”

Thank you, George. Here is a nickel.

“Very good sir! You handed me the best amount of money for that compliment.”

Here’s another nickel.

“You are the most excel-“

George I’m going to cut you off right now because I am out of nickels. Now unless you want me to start chucking pennies at you, you’ll wait until I get back from doing laundry. 

“-lent”

I WARNED YOU GEORGE.