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Entries Tagged as 'Humor'

Clip of the Week: The Numa Numa Dance

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

I love stories when something unexpected suddenly becomes a huge hit. My next two clips of the week are that way.
2003 - Eastern European band O-Zone releases a song titled “Dragostea din Tei”
2004 - 19 year old Gary Brolsma of New Jersey hears the song and recrods himself lip-synching to the lyrics […]

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Top Ten Things I Learned from Cloverfield

January 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Rick here once again. Cloverfield is here, and yes, I survived the incident. I thought it was pretty good, not great mind you but pretty good. There are a few things I didn’t like, but this isn’t a review site or we’d be more pretentious and love ourselves a lot more.
Monsters, Chaos, all hell […]

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Top 10 Things I Learned from AVP

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Hello Monks. Rick here again with the top 10! This time I tackle Alien vs. Predator Requiem. Sure it wasn’t Aliens, but at least it wasn’t that first AvP movie. There were a few things to learn from this movie. And at least one very good one. Here it […]

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Top Ten Things I Learned From ‘The X-Files’

December 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Our main Monk Marvin has been busy this weekend. So Rick is here again and I took it upon myself to come up with a top 10 for the week. I had my 10 year reunion just a few weeks ago and I have been thinking of people who have come and gone […]

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Life Lessons from the Movie ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Hey Monks, this is Rick again. Marvin asked me to lend another helping hand. I just picked up Pirates 3, which lead us to write up a top 10 for the Pirates series. This is what we came up with. If you come up with any more, let us know.

Sometimes […]

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Top Ten Things I’ve Learned From Recent Video Games

December 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Hello everyone.
I’m Leiandra from Zanderfin’s Wow “Casual” Raiding . I was a little hesitant when Marvin first asked me to post the top 10 things I’ve learned from World of Warcraft. I just couldn’t think of 10 things. So, I took the liberty of widening the category a bit and bring you.
Top Ten Things I’ve […]

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Top Ten Things I Learned From Watching 300

November 26th, 2007 · No Comments

For todays top ten I selected ‘300′. Enjoy everyone and have a great Monday.
1. To prevent a million foreigners into your land all you need is 300 people.
2. Corpses make a great wall.
3. If your child isn’t perfect throw them off a cliff
4. The act of saying “No” to someone isn’t as effective as kicking that someone, in […]

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Top 10 Things I Learned from ‘The Last Starfighter’

November 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Hi everyone, I’m Rick, Marvin’s little brother. He asked me to come up with a top ten this week and after some thought I wanted to go with a long time favorite of mine, The Last Starfighter. I hope you enjoy it. Funny doesn’t come easily. Being a timeless tale of […]

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Clip of the Week: Kiwi!

November 16th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Ok, For whatever reason this clip really inspires me. It is also one of the winning videos from last Years YouTube.com Videos of the year. The clip is of a Kiwi, a bird who cannot fly, who comes up with a way through massive effort to create the illusion of flight. And […]

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Tags: Clip of the Week · Humor · Inspirational

Top Ten Things I’ve Learned from The Karate Kid

November 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I had previously had plans with my beautiful wife for the long weekend. But she stood me up to help out an old friend. So I was stuck at home and watched ‘The Karate Kid’ this weekend. So, to make the best of things I decided to create a top ten karate […]

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Tags: Humor · Movies