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Bed Bouncing With Bambi

GiggleSugar — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:00:00 -0800

What's the best way to break in a new bed? Not this way. But, as Bambi here demonstrates, it's a good way to break in a new kid sheep.

A Hop, Stilt & A Jump

GiggleSugar — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:00:00 -0700

You know what they say about a dude on stilts: he's gotta a whole lotta bounce. Need I say more?

_ Is The New _

GiggleSugar — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:00:00 -0800

Bunny Show Jumping is the new Human Long Jump. Yes, we're getting lazy folks.

Now You See Him...

GiggleSugar — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:00:00 -0800

Another one bites the dust. Or rather, the dust bites another one.

Flashback: Douchebag Edition

GiggleSugar — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:00:00 -0700

We took our popular Flashback feature and thought it would be a great idea to combine it with your insatiable desire for all things douchebag! (Actually, Flippy thought it would be a great idea, and we stole it.) So without further ado, it's ~~House of Pain~~ the Jumping Douches, you know, being tough and jumpin' around!

Jump Rope Doggies!

GiggleSugar — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:30:00 -0700

If one dog jumping rope isn't impressive enough, how about six dogs at a time? Or how about a pink-tailed poodle who can double dutch in fast forward? It may sound like a stretch, but it's a hop, skip, and a jump for these coordinated canines. Where are they from? Japan, of course.

Flashback: 30 Years Ago Today, The Fonz Jumped A Shark

GiggleSugar — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:43:04 -0700

What the hell am I talking about, you ask? Well, serendipity would have it that I was talking to someone about the expression "jumping the shark" today. This term comes from the infamous moment on September 20, 1977, when "The Fonz" from "Happy Days" donned his famous leather jacket, went water skiing, and jumped a shark on his skis. TV critics and anyone with taste or brains realized this was the moment the show had finally killed itself; the moment the original premise of the show was so betrayed, its vision having veered so off course, that there was no point going on. And it's used now to describe the moment that anything betrays its original purpose. And what do you know, it was thirty years ago to the day. Freaky, man.

East vs. West: Berlin Wall Divided Two Attitudes Toward Nudity

TresSugar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:00:49 -0800

When the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago last week, East and West Germany had to integrate two very different cultures. Freedom may have spread quickly through the East, but nudity - the East's favorite and perhaps only freedom - never caught on in the West.

Freikörperkultur (FKK), or liberal body culture, was really the only way to rebel in the East, where the most quotidian details of people's lives were observed by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. Though the East German government forbid FKK at first, many government officials were into walking around nude, so they protested with the argument that "doing FKK" did not mean you weren't a good communist. Good point - don't they put kids in school uniforms to level the playing field? What's more egalitarian than wearing nothing!

Yet on the west side of the wall, the attitude toward nudity was more on par with America and its don't-even-discuss-it-in-public ethos. A West German interviewed a former East German for Vice magazine to find out what's so great about wearing nothing. Check out some of the highlights after the jump.

Another Guinness Challenge: Underpants Jumping

GiggleSugar — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:00:00 -0800

The folks over at Guinness World Records have set out to name the world's fastest underpants jumper. The person who can hop in and out of a pair of underpants the fastest, without resorting to one leg at a time, gets the record. It's kind of a big deal. And it might be somewhat tolerable if these competitors had any clothes on, but that would make the challenge a little less realistic, of course.

Hillary Talks Sexism, Obama's Job Offer, and Mad Men to Vogue

TresSugar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:00:35 -0800

Hillary Clinton finally sat down for a long-overdue Vogue interview. She offended editor Anna Wintour during the primaries by turning down the fashion mag out fear of looking "too feminine." And though she won't be on the December cover, the article is as substantial and satisfying as a cover story.

From night swimming alone to her favorite shows (Mad Men!), we see a side of Madame Secretary that all the vetting in the world would not unearth. See some of what she had to say below.

On visiting countries as a high-ranking female: "You can go to some countries and there's not a woman in the room. They don't even make the effort to give me the token woman minister. . . . And in lots of African countries the honorific for women is 'Mama.' So I had lots of people say to me, 'Mama, what about this; Mama, what about that?'"

On President Obama's job offer: "I was stunned after the election when President Obama asked me to consider this. . . . I really was very unconvinced. I did not think it was the right thing to do. I didn't want to do it. I just really had a lot of doubts, and I kept suggesting other people: Well, how about this person! How about that person! This one would be really good! But then a friend of mine called me and basically said, 'How would you have felt if you'd been elected and you'd called him and asked him to do this?' And that really made a big impression on me. How do you say no? And so . . . I said yes. And here I am."

On Mad Men: "That's how it was! That's why the women's-liberation movement was so shocking. It was like news from outer space"

See what else she had to say after the jump.