It’s been awhile since I’ve featured anything stupid for sale on eBay because I have been pretty busy, but thankfully I have some great readers out there to email me and share me what they’ve found.

So, what do we have for you today?

What is this an auction for, you ask?

Allow me to quote the seller:

You are bidding for a play set (4) of Wrath of God. These cards have been placed on top of my cat (see photo!!!) for extra luck!!!

There is one revised in near mint condition, one ninth edition in near mint condition and 2 fourth edition that show wear from play (see scan).

*CAT NOT INCLUDED IN AUCTION*
**No animals were harmed in the making of this auction**

It’s good to know that at least the cat was not harmed I suppose. But you really have to think about why someone would think that would make their auction more appealing or interesting

Special thanks to Jordan for finding this one for me to share and reminding me what stupid stuff people come up with every day!

If you’d like to see this auction live then and search for auction #170405843100.

What do you think? Does the luck of the cat make these cards all that more appealing to you? And if you have something stupid you want to share, don’t hesitate to tell me about it – always love hearing from people!

So this week is one of those rare moments when us Yinzers become a spotlight in the world because they are hosting the G20 Summit here in the great city of Pittsburgh. People have been preparing this for weeks – businesses and schools are closing – it’s a pretty big deal here. The G20 Summit is when all of the world’s leaders meet to discuss their plans and the topic of discussion will mostly be on a green economy.

Today, some stupid protesters were arrested for dangling themselves off the West End Bridge:

My husband drove right past these idiots today. And you look at this picture from the LA Times and can’t help but question what these people are thinking or what they’re really trying to achieve. Is this peaceful? Does this accomplish anything?

Anyways, I get too mad thinking about this to really write anything that’s not going to offend anyone, so instead I’ve decided to create a short little guide for all of our visitors we are welcoming into the city this week.

Here are some things you need to know if you will be visiting Pittsburgh this week:

1. The majority of Yinzers I’ve talked to would love it if the world actually warmed up. It was -20 degrees here all last winter. Most of us were wearing sweaters this summer. Bring on the global warming, please!! Carbon Credits? Yeah, we’ll trade you a beer for a kielbasi at the next Steeler’s game if that sounds good to you.

2. Speaking of football, for your own personal safety, please do not wear your home team’s football jersey while visiting. Wearing anything besides Black & Gold may result in accidental injury or harm to you and your loved ones. We take football seriously here. I don’t want anyone to get hurt.

3. I will predict that few violent outbreaks will be because of protester’s signs or causes or messages. Any possible violence will most likely occur because residents in the city of Pittsburgh have been detoured not only from construction for the past 20??+ years, but also because we now must detour even further so yinz can all hang out here.

4. We like to go fishing and boating in our rivers. That means we don’t want our fishing lines and hooks to be caught up in your banners you are dangling over our river, nor do we want anything to accidentally drop into it that would actually pollute it from your protesting efforts.

5. Our friends, family, and many residents here have fought and are currently fighting for you all over the world so you can have the right and the freedom to protest and share your viewpoints here. Please show a little respect to our city and to the people who have supported and your freedom.

6. We love our city and you better not f*** with it or any of us while you’re here.

Well, I’m going to bed tonight seriously wondering if I should perhaps evacuate somewhere else for a few days…but I think it should all be fine and most of us can’t wait for this to be over.

If you’re in Pittsburgh or from Pittsburgh, I want to hear from you about it and your thoughts on the whole G20 shebang – and feel free to share any of your thoughts and comments on this whole thing even if you’re not a Yinzer native

In an article I read today on TechDirt apparently Disney is in hot water for selling a lamp that infringes on copyright laws.

As you may know, Pixar is one of the divisions of Disney and they make all those sickeningly cute little movies like Cars and Wall-E and tons of others that my kids watch constantly. I’ll admit it: I like them.

And if you’ve ever watched any of these movies then obviously you’re familiar with the various Pixar Logos that incorporate that sweet little lamp:

Well, this little lamp is inspired by a pretty prominent lighting company called Luxo. They make task lighting, medical lighting – pretty much if you can screw a light bulb into it they make it.

Disney is scheduled to release a special Up – Limited Edition Luxo Jr. Collectible Lamp Pack on November 10th but there’s one teeny tiny problem. They named the lamp Luxo Jr. – and the lamp is not made by the company Luxo.

It really makes you wonder why the heck nobody caught this or thought, geez, we’re releasing a product that has the same name as a brand that we have nothing to do with…

And while this type of stuff happens quite a lot, it seems very strange to come from Disney…especially since they have sued others for similar violations. Apparently after doing some research it’s not the first time Disney nor Pixar has had legal problems with copyright infringement and been involved in a stupid lawsuit – but you would think something this obvious would be impossible to overlook.

Do you know the difference between a cabbage and a cat? Well, the owners of this store front seem to want to make it known that you do, just in case there may be any sort of confusion. Y’know, in case your cabbage starts purring and suddenly develops fur, which I’m sure could happen. You also want to make sure that you do not eat your cat, as the fur would get pretty stuck up in the back of your throat.

photo credit: pink_fish13

At least the cabbage gets to do whatever it wants.

How about you? Do you know the difference between a cabbage and a cat?

It’s fantasy football time again, so I’ve decided to give some unsolicited advice on how to choose funny fantasy football team names.

For those of you unfamiliar with the whole fantasy football thing, basically it is some sick obsession with tracking football stats and creating your own virtual team of real, live, breathing point scoring players. You go to a site like NFL.com and join a league and then you pick your players and hope that they outscore all of the other teams you play. If you love football, it’s a lot of fun. If you hate football, well then it probably seems like a pointless waste of time.

One important thing that you must do when playing fantasy leagues is create your own team name. Usually people want something that is funny, creative, unique, maybe even a little raunchy. It can be tough coming up with something witty and something that might sound cool to you but not lame to everybody else. Some people go with generic names – IE, they’ll call themselves the Dolphins or the Raiders. That’s not funny or creative at all though!

So, if you want some fantasy football team ideas that will make people laugh, then try some of my fool proof ideas below:

1. Pick an Obscure Animal: Calling yourself the Tigers is pretty boring. But if you pick an obscure animal that most people know nothing about, then it can potentially be funny. For example, how about a jellyfish? An aardvark? Why not a star nosed mole? If you go with an animal, make sure it’s a good one. Choosing something snugly like an angora rabbit will likely make the other players in your league think you’re a big wimp.

2. Think Pop Culture: I hate pop culture, but lots of people like it. Think to some movies you’ve watched lately or a song you’ve heard. Lady Gaga is really big (and disgusting in my opinion) these days so you could be the “Lady Disgust-ga-gas”. That’s not really funny, but it serves as an example of something wittier and funnier you can hopefully come up with on your own.

3. Something Menacing: It can be really funny if you have a menacing name and then it turns out that your team is totally terrible.

4. An Old Cliche: Simply head on over to the Cliche Finder and pick whatever word you happen to like. Voila – You can be the “Crazy Sack O Cats”.

5. Something Football Related: Pick a player name and find some play on words with his name. I suck at this to give you examples but at least once a year I see a name like Farvenators and I’m sure you can think of something much better.

6. Add in a Ridiculous Adjective: Add more power to your name by picking a very strange adjective. The Handsome Lizards, the Menacing Angora Rabbit, the Precious Flip Flops, the Bamboozling Pandas…you get the idea.

Anyways, that’s all my big ideas for coming up with funny fantasy football names. I do not claim that any of the made up team names here are any good ones or even actually funny. I hold no responsibility if you use one of my ideas and you end up with a lame fantasy football team name. But I have confidence that you can do better than me. And remember: sometimes names are so bad they become funny.

Have any good fantasy football team names you want to share? Tell me your ideas or ones you have seen/heard before in the comments section below!

Suh-Tweet is a new word that I invented today. It is a play on the word “sweet”. Say it everybody: Suh-tweet. Kinda like “so sweet” except instead of sweet we say tweet.

Best of Stupid is officially on Twitter. That’s right folks, you are free to stalk our latest updates here. For you Twitter addicts out there, that’s kind of suh-tweet.

For those of you who don’t know what the heck Twitter is, consider yourself blessed, as you still have the opportunity to save yourself from being sucked into a time killing pointless vacuum. You should stop reading this post and hide under a rock as fast as you can if you are not on Twitter. SAVE YOURSELF.

You can officially declare something as stupid when you are sitting in the waiting room somewhere stuck watching some mainstream news channel and instead of reporting the news, the news anchors instead are talking for 30 minutes about Twitter and who they are following. Apparently knowing that someone we don’t know spilled coffee all over herself this morning is WAY more important than things like health care or world poverty.

It is also annoying that everytime you visit their page they ask you “What are You Doing?”

There’s a lot of good smart ass answers to that question:

Why do you care?

You really want to know? Yeah, you don’t really want to know.

Mind your own f$%#%# business.

I am sitting here staring at a computer screen trying to think of something to type, what do you think I’m doing?

What are YOU doing?

I am compulsively updating people with mundane details of my life for their pure entertainment.

Then there are a variety of dumb play on words for Twitter apps and the latest “lingo”.

IE: Let’s Have a Tweet Up!

Normal people would say, “Hey, let’s meet up”. But if you meet on Twitter and decide to actually see the person face to face then that’s a Tweet Up. Suh-tweet.

Fortunately, to help you understand this mass confusion of Twitter Lingo, you have the Twittonary, a dictionary for making sense of all these made up words.

Coming along with this also introduces a whole lot of new acronyms I never knew about before. An acronym is when you take the initials of something and give it meaning. For example, BOS could be an acronym for Best of Stupid. You only get 140 characters on Twitter, so you can’t really write anything too long.

Here’s just a few examples of ones I never knew existed:

AMFYOYO : Adios Mofo You’re on your own. Of course, a MOFO is a word I won’t say on here because this is a family friendly site. I don’t have problems with the word MOFO. It’s just not real “family friendly”.

KYSO: Knock Your Socks Off.

And then there are more twitter inspired words like my new word suh-tweet:

BIRD OF MOUTH: Word of mouth, except on Twitter, a little bird tells you everything.

TWABULOUS: Yes honey, it’s not Fab-u-loooousss…It’s TWAB-u-loooouss.

TWANG: As in, let’s all TWANG up on @username and make fun of him. That’s not too nice to TWAUNT people.

I could go on. There are lots of other dumb words people addicted to Twitter are using. Just take anyword that starts with a T and stick a W in front of it.

For Example: Taco could be TWACO. That way, if you are eating a Taco while twittering you can say “twaco-ing.”

And people make fun of how us yinzers talk.

Anyways, Twitter is stupid. It’s a waste of time. Sure, maybe you can get 1 million followers or whatever, but chances are 1 million followers later you won’t really be able to know what anybody is doing. Or worse, none of us will actually be doing anything.

That’s what I think of Twitter anyways. What do you think? Tell me why you love it/hate it below. Or if you’re feeling creative, why not make up some of your own twitter words & share them?

I am sure by now you have seen automatic faucets in a public restroom or other public place with running water near you. Basically, the faucet has no handles…it is operated by a sensor that detects your motion by your hands and it will automagically turn on by the movement.

This is what one looks like, in case you haven’t seen them:

In theory, it is supposed to save billions of dollars worldwide in water costs, not to mention help conserve water.

And it’s quite possible that maybe these automatic faucets do indeed save a lot of water. After all, every time I try to use one to wash my hands, guess what? No water comes out of it. Unless, of course, I drop my purse or something else I don’t want to get all wet. Sure, then it will work quite well and completely soaking everything in its path.

It’s not that I’m against conserving water or anything like that. But it aggravates the heck out of me when I have to stand there for five minutes waving my hands around like an idiot to get water to come out.

So, the automatic faucet belongs in the stupid invention category

This one definitely wins an award for creativity. A toaster made from a VCR! I guess in the days of DVDs and YouTube videos, your VCR does not need to be forgotten or go to the garbage. Oh no, it can make perfect toast for you!

This video below demonstrates how this thing works well for flinging toast at you and your friends:

And I know you of course want to make one don’t you? Who wouldn’t want one of these? Well, as far as I know you can’t buy them anywhere. But the good news is there are step by step instructions for building your own available here. So, if you’ve ever been one of those people who likes to build stuff from old stuff and keep outdated and obsolete technology out of landfills, this one should be perfect for you!

If you do make one of these, I want to see it!

This is a funny sign that I noticed while at a party a few months ago. I’ve been meaning to share some more original funny photos and pictures found by yours truly here, but I am kind of lazy when it comes to dragging out the camera and uploading all the pictures up to my computer.

This picture as you can see is pointing towards the restrooms, which in a public banquet hall makes perfectly good sense since people will naturally need to use them and have no idea where they are.

But…placing the cookies directly beside the sign? I don’t know about that! Is there anything appetizing about cookies knowing they are on direct route from the bathroom? Geez, I hope everybody washed their hands…

Have a funny picture you’d like to share and let me post on this site for all the world to see? I always give full credit (and links to your site if you have one) so c’mon now, don’t be shy, Send Me Your Stupid Funny Stuff.

Some April Fool's Day Pranks are funny - others might get you arrested (or worse)!

Happy April Fool’s Day Everybody! I’m not much of a prankster by nature, but I know some people will certainly be pulling a few pranks today so I decided to create a post all about pranks NOT to pull. There’s quite a few pranks that even though they may appear to be slightly harmless can actually have some pretty devastating consequences. There’s plenty of pranks gone wrong plastered all over the internet. So, here’s my list of bad ideas for April Fool’s Day Pranks.

1. Tell Your Partner You’re Cheating On Them: I have no idea why anyone would think this would be a good prank to tell someone you’ve been cheating on them, but this video clip below shows you exactly how this one can backfire on you:

Cheating Husband Prank Call – Funny home videos are a click away

2. Prank Call the Cops: Yes, people have really thought it would be funny to prank call the cops. Until they end up getting caught and arrested of course. Keep the police out of it my friends. For that matter, don’t think about the fire department, emergency services, or any other authority type figures you can think of.

3. Pretending to Run People Over: Of course you don’t plan on really running anybody over of course. BUT…you shouldn’t even pretend to do it. People can get seriously hurt!

4. Anything Involving Fireworks, Flames, Smoke Bomb, Fires: Unless getting arson charges is your goal, you’re probably best to avoid any of these marvelous ideas as well!

5. Photocopying Your Butt: Most offices do have security cameras, so you’ll likely get in trouble. Even if you don’t get in trouble…well, you might end up like this guy:

6. Tampering With Mail Boxes: Doing anything with a mailbox is a federal offense. Don’t go there! Though it would be a good day to deal with all that junk mail you’ve been getting.

7. Messing With People’s Food: Well, you could probably do some harmless things, like make a cake with salt…but for the most part with just about everybody anymore having food allergies you probably don’t want to mess with people’s food either. You don’t want to make them sick or worse not be able to breathe and have to be rushed to the emergency room! It’s also not cool to mix non-food things with food – not worth the risks of poisoning your friends.

8. Creating Mass Panic: This is another bad idea. You don’t want hundreds or thousands of people in a panic about a bunch of nonsense. Be careful you Twitter addicts with lots of followers!

9. Giving People False Hope: It’s just not nice to make someone think something good is going to happen, and then it doesn’t. How would you feel if I told you I was going to send all of my subscribers $20…and then didn’t. It wouldn’t even be funny.

10. Do the Same Pranks As Everybody Else: Last April Fool’s day just about every blogger out there said they were selling their blog. Or something along those lines. It was pretty lame when you see it over and over again. Be creative! If you can’t think of anything good, just do what I did and write a lame post about bad ideas for April Fool’s Day. At least that way fewer people will do stupid things hopefully.

What’s the worst April Fool’s day prank you’ve ever seen or done or had someone do to you? Want to share an April Fool’s Day prank gone bad? Share it in the comments below!

Almost all of us have been inundated with too much junk mail. You open up your mailbox, thinking hopefully that you will get something cool like big checks with lots of money or maybe a friend will send you a birthday card…And what do you get to your dismay? Nothing but junk mail!

There are a few different types of junk mail. I classify them into these three categories most of the time:

1. Offers From Credit Card Companies: It never ceases to amaze me how many credit card offers I get. Sometimes I even get credit card offers from companies I already have credit cards with.

2.Cable Offers: Verizon and Comcast send me mail every single day. I have had both Comcast and now Verizon…again, like the credit card companies, I wonder do they even bother to check that they are not wasting tons of money and paper on their existing customers? (I have a lot of gripes about both companies- that could be a whole future post!)

3. Annoying newspaper/magazine type of ads: These aren’t newspapers or magazines, but they look like one. They’re basically just a giant book of advertisements. I have found these types of junk mail are good for starting campfires, but that’s about it.

There’s really no way I could find to stop junk mail on the US Post Office website, well, unless you’re dead… There’s plenty of places that offer to stop it…but it’s still no guarantee.

This person has such a great idea though:   Dear BulkMailer.

And while it probably won’t stop the junk mail, well, at least you can have some fun with it

The Monkey Playing Cymbals Vintage Toy is a classic in many ways. You may have seen these in toy shops, who knows? You may even have one in your house somewhere in a toy box of discarded items.

This video shows you kind of what I’m talking about, just in case you have no idea what a monkey playing cymbals toy is:

There are many different kinds of monkeys available that you can get new and used. They come in plastic, they come in plush, they all come with cymbals.

The cymbal, when not used in a symphony or band for musical arrangement, is probably one of the most annoying instruments ever created. Just give a set of cymbals to a three year old and you’ll quickly understand what I mean! But a professional cymbal player might actually really enjoy the monkey playing cymbals as a goofy gift.

However, the monkey playing the cymbals is really quite cute and endearing, and actually a very rare and valuable collectors item if you have a vintage toy monkey. People love monkeys for some reason. They have them as pets, they have rooms full of stuffed animal monkeys, and the monkey cages, though typically hot and smelly at the zoo, are always the busiest attraction anytime I am forced into going to the zoo with my family.

I could sadly however not find any information online about the creation and manufacturing of the monkeys playing the cymbals toys. I have no idea who first invented this toy or who sold it. You would think that the guy who invented the cymbal monkey toy would get a little recognition! I am sure it has something to do with street carnivals or fairs or maybe even a circus a long time ago, but can’t find too many details on them. If anyone just happens to know anything about them, please share it in the comments below! (Hey! You never know what strange and useless trivia other people happen to know off the top of their heads! I’m usually full of it!)

Oh well, the good news is there are plenty of vintage monkeys playing the cymbals available on eBay. Check out these cute little guys and get yourself one before the monkey playing the cymbals becomes another lost and endangered icon like the Twinkie.

Recently we had a mouse decide he would like to live in our house. Being nice people, we decided to try a humane mouse trap – and unbelievably it actually worked!

We used the The Mice Cube (Click Here) and were pretty happy with it.

Here’s a picture of our scared and trapped but not dead mouse:

The mouse is kind of cute for being a rodent, don’t you think? The lighting is terrible since we wanted to hurry up and get him out of that box, but this picture is proof that the humane mouse trap really works.

We have never had a mouse in this house before (though in older, draftier houses I have!) and so when we spotted him hanging out in the basement I knew we had to get rid of him before he found his way into the kitchen. The thought of finding a dead mouse and having to dispose of it was almost worse than the thought of him moving in as new tenant. And with little kids, the thought of setting up traps to kill the mouse didn’t seem like a very safe option, since kids like to get into everything!

And so began our quest for the humane mouse trap. We started looking at local garden supply stores. They had smaller live catch traps, but they had spring loaded doors and I was afraid the kids would still figure out a way to somehow get hurt on them. Nobody else really sold anything that was what we were looking for – when we told people we wanted a humane mouse trap they thought we were crazy. We even stopped at Pet Smart thinking maybe they would have something in case your pet mouse escaped and you needed to catch it. They are not as animal friendly as you’d think, especially since they sell pet mice – the sales clerk told us to just kill it. Can you believe that?

Naturally, Amazon sells everything you could possibly need, and not surprisingly we found one humane mouse trap that looked promising: The Mice Cube.

It’s a teeny tiny little box (much smaller than I expected it to be!) and basically once the mouse pushes its way into the box it cannot get out until you open the door for it. The trick supposedly (it worked for us at least) is to spread a little peanut butter on the door and wipe it off to get the mouse interested in going inside where you leave a little snack for it.

So, we ordered our humane mouse trap with expedited shipping (I wanted this mouse gone fast!) and as soon as it arrived, stuck in our basement with a snack for the mouse to eat inside. It took another day before we finally saw any progress, but sure enough I went down to our basement and could see/hear the box rattling! We caught our mouse!

It was so nice because we did not have to touch the mouse at all – my hubby released him outside where he belongs. When he was done we washed the mouse trap out with water and bleach to disinfect it.

I don’t anticipate or hope that we will ever need to use our humane mouse trap again, but it is from now on the only way I will ever try to get rid of a mouse in my house. Everybody should start using these humane mouse traps! And ideally, but it before you need it so you don’t have to wait two days for it to be shipped to your house!

Click here for the humane mouse trap I recommend!

Have you used a humane mouse trap before? Share you thoughts in the comments below!

One of my favorite movies is the Big Lebowski. It’s a movie about a guy (Respectfully named “The Dude” and played by Jeff Bridges) and his quest to get back his rug. Really though, his qualms about missing Area Rugs are the least of his problems. He’s got foreign people trying to kill him, his friends go causing all types of problems, there’s even a kidnapping involved. But, that rug really tied the room together and he wants it back!

Now, most people, if they had their rug stolen, would simply go online and start looking for Cheap Rugs and get a replacement rug. It’s relatively easy to find just about any kind of rug you’re looking for. In a way, you could say it is admirable how determined The Dude is to get back his rug.

It also goes to show that a good movie and story line can be based on just about any object. If a movie all about Rugs can be a blockbuster hit, it’s pretty safe to say you could write a great movie based on just about anything, like a couch, or a washing machine.

Have you seen the Big Lebowski? Did you think it was a good movie? Have you ever gone to any great lengths to get something back that was stolen from you? Do you agree that the right rug can really tie a room together?

Happy Valentine’s Day! I’m sure by now you’ve already made plans for how you will woo your sweetheart.

But just in case you didn’t…You can still make reservations to have a romantic dinner at White Castle, a hamburger joint in the U.S. (Really – click here for locations and phone numbers for reservations.)

Imagine, just the two of you romantically trying to determine if that thing in front of you is a burger or…well…something else… No offense to White Castle or anyone who likes White Caste, but I kind of think their food is probably best left for certain extreme situations where you are starving to death and your other options are to eat something out of a dumpster or gnaw your arm off…(well, maybe its not that bad, but pretty close!)

At any rate, I wouldn’t think of it as romantic, especially when you think of the millions of other things you could be eating today. Although, if you’ve been dating someone you’ve been trying to break up with months now, this could be a great way to deliver the message.

Whatever you did or are doing today, hope you have a good one!

How did you spend your Valentine’s Day? Tell me all about it in the comments below!