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		<title>Pants on the Ground</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Less than a week after Pants on the Ground made its debut on national television on the January 13 episode of American Idol, the song has exploded.
That same night, USA Today revealed that Larry Platt was a long time civil rights advocate. The following day, Jimmy Fallon performed the song in the style of Neil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2010/01/20/pants-on-the-ground/</link>
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		<title>81st Academy Awards Prediction Contests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oscar
For more details, hints, and tips on Oscars prediction contests, read the Academy Awards Prediction Contests page. For the most recent Oscars posts, be sure to check out the Oscars/Academy Awards category page. There, you should find contests, predictions, and results.
Make sure you know who&#039;s in the running for each category! Print the official Oscars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2009/02/21/oscar-contests-2009/</link>
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		<title>High-Five Hollywood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The High-Five Guys hit Hollywood and published a video featuring Robert Downey Jr., Tim Meadows, Mary Steenburgen, Ryan Seacrest, Milo Ventimiglia, Will Ferrell, and others.

HIGH-FIVE HOLLYWOOD! from Will Ferrell
Great job, guys. You really deserve a . . . pat on the back, or some other form of congratulations.
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		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2009/01/25/high-five-hollywood/</link>
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		<title>If I Played the Lottery . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I played the lottery, I&#039;ll bet you I&#039;d have the same luck as Donald Peters of Danbury, Connecticut. Peters had purchased lotto tickets regularly for 20 years. According to the AP, on November 1, 2008 Peters purchased his lottery tickets as usual but died of a heart attack later that day while working in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2009/01/04/if-i-played-the-lottery/</link>
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		<title>Kajeet: Cell Phone Plans for Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was swimming around BzzAgent&#039;s Frogpond today. The site lists various websites that you can view, rate, and comment on. If you&#039;re a member of BzzAgent, you get credit for these reviews toward your BzzAgent account.
I checked out one link for a service called Kajeet, which is basically cell phone service geared for children. My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/11/24/kajeet/</link>
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		<title>India &quot;Rams&quot; the Moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s a small step for man . . . a great ram for India.
A CNN article reported that an Indian probe &#034;successfully rammed into the moon&#034; at a speed of 3,579 mph!
The probe Chandrayaan-1 was part of India&#039;s first unmanned lunar mission &#8212; it makes you wonder who in the world is going to volunteer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/11/21/india-rams-moon/</link>
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		<title>New Mitch Hedberg Comedy CD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mitch Hedberg was one of the funniest comedians around. His comedy was filled with observational humor such as, &#034;An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an &#039;Escalator Temporarily out of Order&#039; sign, just &#039;Escalator Temporarily Stairs&#039;. Sorry for the convenience&#034;. Back in June 2006, I blogged a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/09/26/mitch-hedberg-cd/</link>
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		<title>Got an Idea? Google&#039;s Giving Away $10 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is giving away $10 Million through Project 10100 (pronounced as &#034;Project 10 to the 100th&#034;). The money will go to fund between one and five ideas that will help humanity in a great way.
The guidelines are extremely loose for this project: They would prefer submissions in one of the following eight categories: Community, Opportunity, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/09/24/project-10-to-the-100th/</link>
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		<title>Free Ice Cream, Anyone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How can you possibly pass up Cold Stone Creamery&#039;s World&#039;s Largest Ice Cream Social?
On September 25, 2008 from 5pm until 8pm, Cold Stone Creamery is giving away free 3 oz. &#034;Make-a-Wish&#034;-sized creations. This free portion is about 60% the size of Cold Stone&#039;s &#034;Like It&#034; (small) size, which is approximately 5 oz. The stipulations are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/09/18/free-cold-stone-3/</link>
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		<title>23,000 Big Macs in 36 Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 17, 1972, Don Gorske ate a Big Mac.
&#034;No big deal,&#034; you might say, but Gorske never stopped. In that first month in 1972, he ate 265 Big Macs.
Due to his obsessive-compulsive disorder, Gorske continued eating Big Macs every day. In fact, Gorske has had less than 10 Big Mac-less days in those 36+ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/09/12/don-gorske/</link>
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		<title>Hole in the Wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the success of MXC and then Wipeout, we&#039;re seeing a rash of Japanese game imports coming to the U.S.
I&#039;m not sure about the rules exactly, but it really does seem straightfoward. The contestant stands at the end of a runway in front of a pit of water. A large wall with a certain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/08/31/hole-in-the-wall/</link>
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		<title>True Story Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Billy Reid of Very Tasteful puts out consistently catchy songs on his website. One of his latest tracks, and True Story is no exception.
The video for this song is one of those &#034;photograph&#034; videos. It&#039;s missing the &#034;photograph-turned-to-video&#034; element, but still worth watching.

He also released a video of Swim Now, a song based on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/08/20/true-story-video/</link>
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		<title>The 2008 Olympics Rant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#039;s talk summer Olympics, shall we?
As with most people, I enjoy when the Olympics are on, because it gives you the chance to watch all sorts of . And let&#039;s face it &#8212; this isn&#039;t the 70s, when the Olympics took up &#034;all three&#034; channels for the entire day. You don&#039;t have to be inundated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/08/18/2008-olympics/</link>
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		<title>My 2008 Academy Awards Prediction Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And the winners are . . . 
Yet again, I made my annual Oscars predictions and joined many contests.
Three years ago I correctly guessed 13 categories and two years ago I guessed 14 correctly. (Last year I got lazy.) This year, I didn&#039;t take very much time making my picks, and obviously the results show. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/25/academy-awards-predictions-2008/</link>
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		<title>More 80th Academy Awards Prediction Contests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For more details on Oscars prediction contests, read the Academy Awards Prediction Contests page. For the most recent Oscars posts, be sure to check out the Oscars/Academy Awards category page. There, you should find contests, predictions, and results.
Here are a handful of contests I have found since my previous post of contests. The Academy Awards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/22/oscar-contests-2008-2/</link>
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		<title>80th Academy Awards Prediction Contests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oscar
For more details on Oscars prediction contests, read the Academy Awards Prediction Contests page. For the most recent Oscars posts, be sure to check out the Oscars/Academy Awards category page. There, you should find contests, predictions, and results.
Make sure you know who&#039;s in the running for each category! Print the official Oscars printable ballot.
The Contests:

Oscars.com [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/20/oscar-contests-2008/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Cars.com &#8211; Plan B: Witch Doctor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A car salesman congratulates a man on how much he already knew about the car. The man admits that he used cars.com&#039;s consumer reviews and dealer locator to help himself instead of using Plan B.
The car salesman asks what Plan B was, and the man explains that he was going to have a witch doctor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-carscom-witch-doctor/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Doritos &#8211; Mouse Trap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Set to Habanera from Bizet&#039;s opera Carmen, a man arrives in his apartment, opens a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos, and puts a small corner of a Dorito on a mouse trap.
After placing the mousetrap in front of a small mouse hole, he pulls up a chair and waits.
As soon as the man puts his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-doritos-mouse-trap/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Planters &#8211; Unibrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A homely woman with a unibrow, large mole, big teeth, hair clips, and frumpy fashion sense is fawned over by countless men as Frankie Valli&#039;s Can&#039;t Take My Eyes off of You plays in the background.
A tall, handsome man in an elevator gives her a look. Another admirer walks through a glass door as he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-planters-unibrow/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Toyota &#8211; More Refined</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An unsuspecting man is pushed into a car containing sleeping badgers that, &#034;if awakened, they&#039;d gnaw his face off. &#034;
The people who pushed him into the car begin to fire cannons off outside the car, but nothing can be heard inside the car: Lucky for him, that car is the Toyota Corolla, which keeps the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-toyota-badgers/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Tide &#8211; My Talking Stain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A job interviewer asks a candidate to talk about himself. As he begins talking, a second voice speaking gibberish cancels out anything the man says. It&#039;s clear that the voice is coming from the stain on the man&#039;s dress shirt.
The man talks about his organizational skills, his ability to work well in groups, and his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-tide-talking-stain/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Cars.com &#8211; Plan B: Circle of Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A man shopping for a car explains to the car salesman that he did all his research on his cell phone with cars.com. He said it was that, or &#034;Plan B&#034;.
The salesman asked what Plan B was, and the guy explains, &#034;Oh, I was gonna have you fight Glondor in a stone circle death match.&#034;
We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-carscom-glondor/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: FedEx &#8211; Carrier Pigeons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An office worker impresses his boss by showing him how he was shipping all the company&#039;s packages via carrier pigeons equipped with GPS tracking and night vision sensors.
For the large packages, however, he used giant pigeons and robes that almost immediately broke and dropped the packages right into the street, crushing cars. The pigeons then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-fedex-pigeons/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Bud Light &#8211; Wine and Cheese Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this commercial, a guy shows up with his girlfriend at a wine and cheese party. He is carrying a huge piece of cheese &#8212; probably a foot tall and almost as wide.
He takes the cheese into the kitchen, where most of the men are hanging out. As a guy comments on the size of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-bud-light-wine-and-cheese/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Commercial: Diet Pepsi Max &#8211; Nod</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This ad starts out with Troy Aikman discussing football as Joe Buck starts dozing off, with his head nodding as he falls out of consciousness a couple times. Haddaway&#039;s What is Love? starts playing.
We then see various people nodding off: A guy with a combover at a diner, office workers, valets, cowboys, and nominees for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2008/02/03/super-bowl-commercial-diet-pepsi-max/</link>
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