New Zealand’s Top Planker

On 29th May 2011, Max Key, the son of New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key, planked on a lounge suite with his father standing behind. It made the front page of the New Zealand Herald two days later, and the PM’s office didn’t want to comment at first, but later confirmed that it’s genuine.

Army Unintentional Plank

Of course there are many variants of photos of the military falling flat on their faces while trying to stand still for ages.

Jet Engine Plank

Hopefully done by airline staff – but his boss might not be too pleased. And whatever it is, do not switch on the engine!

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I think it’s safe to say football was not on his mind at that point in time.

On 1st April 1957, BBC’s current affairs television programme Panorama showed what was apparently a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a tree. It was reported that the bounty was caused by the eradication of the spaghetti weevil. As a result, many people to contacted the station to find out how to plant their own “spaghetti trees”.

The hoax worked because at that time the Italian delicacy was not yet popular in the United Kingdom, hence not everybody knew that spaghetti is made from wheat flour and water, and definitely does not grow on trees.

In addition, it was narrated by respected broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, hence increasing its credibility.

The report lasted around 3 minutes:

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The BBC let its viewers know the truth on the same day.

Many years later CNN called this “the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled.”

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Museum of Hoaxes

And I think that happened some time in 2006 / 2007 during Ian Benardo’s audition in So You Think You Can Dance? Never mind the that apparently the first “official” rickroll happened in May 2007 on 4chan’s video game board.

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If Benardo were like any other ordinary contestant, probably nobody would’ve noticed, but he’s probably the cockiest reality talent show contestant ever, with his “outspoken claims to superstardom, his argumentative style, camp retorts and inventive use of language.” During his audition, his dance entry was criticized by the judging panel. During the ensuing altercation, judge Nigel Lythgoe told him “you’re wasting our time”.

The following are fake, yet I think still deserves to be in the list of the greatest rickrolls ever:

How about Hitler being rickrolled? This is probably the greatest combination of 2 popular internet memes – rickrolling and “Hitler Knows”:

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And how about Senator John McCain being “Barack Rolled” at the Republican National Convention? Unfortunately it never happened; the “Barack Roll” image was displayed on the giant blue sky background that was behind John McCain during parts of his speech; the video was pieced together from footage of the event.

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Then there’s the rickroll which rode on the Wikileaks bandwagon, called the single most damning wikileaks cable:

Saturday, 12 December 1998, 16:13
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 LONDON 000368
NOFORN
SIPDIS
DOE FOR GPERSON, CHAYLOCK
EO 12958 DECL: 12/12/2018
TAGS EPET, ENRG, PGOV, RS”>RS, NI
SUBJECT: ENGLAND: RELIABILITY AND LONGEVITY OF UK-US RELATIONSHIP CONFIRMED
REF: A. LONDON 365 B. LONDON 366
Classified By: Consul General Robbie Honerkamp for reasons 1.4 (B) and (D )

1. (S/NF) Summary: We’re no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I.
A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of. You wouldn’t get this from any other guy.
I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling. Gotta make you understand.

2. (C/NF) Chorus: Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

3. (S/NF) We’ve known each other for so long Your heart’s been aching but You’re too shy to say it
Inside we both know what’s been going on We know the game and we’re gonna play it
And if you ask me how I’m feeling Don’t tell me you’re too blind to see

4. (C/NF) Chorus: Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

5. (C/NF) Chorus: Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

6. (C/NF) Background Singers: (Ooh, give you up) (Ooh, give you up) (Ooh) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) (Ooh) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up)

7. (S/NF) We’ve know each other for so long Your heart’s been aching but You’re too shy to say it
Inside we both know what’s been going on We know the game and we’re gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling Gotta make you understand

8. (C/NF) Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

9. (C/NF) Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

10. (C/NF) Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. ASTLEY

Perhaps the only thing that can top these is Mr Astley’s song suddenly filling the air while one is busy fiddling with POS systems in a busy supermarket.

On 22nd October 2010, Melissa Lee Williams, 41 of West Virginia, USA apparently went over to her ex-husband’s residence while in a state of alcohol drunkenness.

Yup, she looks to be in severe need of a makeover, starting with that weight loss supplement

When she arrived there, she found him and another man sitting in the living room.

She then asked both of them to er… pleasure her using the “first portion of their alimentary canal that receives food and saliva,” while at the same time starting to take her clothes off.

Her ex-husband refused, but the other man agreed. Unfortunately, as he approached her, “he became overwhelmed by horrible vaginal odor emitting from Melissa Williams,” following which he “declined to proceed any further.” That we can understand perfectly well I should think.

Then we enter a real-life Twilight Zone. Ms Williams then was said to have brandished a knife at her ex-husband before uttering an unforgettable line, which can be seen in an excerpt of the police report as recorded at Jackson Country Sheriff’s Department.

She’s now facing assault and weapons charges.

I have 2 contenders for the award:

Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Singapore. “Kandang kerbau” is a Malay word meaning “buffalo pen”. That immediately conjures images of a filthy and smelly place, totally at odds with what one would expect of hospitals.

The reason why this name was chosen was explained thus:

In colonial times, local people often used landmarks as place names. Due to a buffalo pen located there at that time, the district around the cross-roads formed by Serangoon Road, Selegie Road, Bukit Timah Road and Rochor Road was known as Kandang Kerbau district. The hospital located within this area was variously the (Singapore) General Hospital (1858; leaves for Sepoy Lines in 1882), the Pauper Hospital for Women and Children (c.1905) and eventually the Kandang Kerbau Hospital / KK. The name KK become synonymous with the hospital and was retained when the hospital was renamed KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital after its move to its present location at Kampong Java Road in 1997.

So in the olden days the name was displayed on a huge banner like this:

And even though now they shortened the name to “KK”, the full phrase is still used, like in the following screenshot from a related website:

The other hospital is called Fauquier Hospital, located in Virginia, USA:

If you can’t see how this could be funny, watch the following promotional video of the hospital, observe carefully how they pronounce the hospital’s name at 0:29:

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F**k your health? Even they admit the name’s a bit odd.

Unfortunately, apparently it’s only a sketch on SNL.

Still, even if it was a real question, “greatest ever” here could not possibly mean “most difficult”. For example, the following question can be asked: what is the longest name of a model of a cooking utensil? The answer of course is “all clad copper core set of cookware,” but then how many people would know that, at least worldwide?

Location unknown – anybody know where this is?

Not that it’s advisable to drink too much, not just due to well-publicised health hazards of over-drinking, but I’ve heard whispered conversations among heavy drinkers that alcohol makes you visit the loo so much that in time you might need to rely on incontinence products just to stay 5 minutes at the bar.

Berbay Corporation was established in 1995 and specialises in marketing and public relations, working with legal, financial, real estate, professional service and B2B firms.

In their team list, apart from the 6-member “Account Team” they also have 3 CEOs. Wait, you ask, why do they have THREE CEOs? It only makes sense if you discover that the CEOs are 3 dogs named Hunter, Hamlet and Halo, and that CEO here stands for Canine Efficiency Officer.

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I don’t think this will be found in most other company websites.

If it’s any clue, all of them are women: I suppose they’re game for over the counter prenatal vitamins?

I am not sure if putting man’s best friends on an official publication is a good idea – what do you think?

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Free mammogram? Any takers?

Squeeze the pump, fake diarrhea comes out at the “exposed bum.” Very tasteful…

Just don’t show that to Gary Glitter!

Keep childbirth out of Halloween parties!

I think men sporting fake saggy breasts are horrific sights:

And no references to bestiality!

As for this truly stunning creation, it will not even pass customs:

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