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It must be morning, I can smell bacon

What is with the internet and bacon?  Obsess much? Leave it to Oscar Myer to profit from those who just can't get enough. The company has developed an iPhone app that teams up with a fragrance dispenser so you can wake up to the smell of cooking bacon. %%embed1%%

Hoverboard hoax ad pretty convincing

A viral video of a commerical selling a hoverboard like the one from the movie Back to the Future is sadly a hoax. The mystery now is what the viral marketing campaign is actually selling. Is it for Back to the Future IV or maybe Nike's new futuristic running shoe? No one is saying... yet....

Colonoscopy prank

You found what in my butt? Jack Vale is one of the best known pranksters on the internet. In this edition he's pranking people as they wake up following their colonscopy. Vale is also trying to raise awareness about colon cancer, one of the few cancers you can do something about because it's largely preventable...

Banana cat

Yep. It's a cat eating a banana while dressed as a banana split. %%embed1%%

Don’t piss off NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon

NASCAR racing champ Jeff Gordon teams up with Pepsi MAX to pull a prank on an unsuspecting automotive journalist who had questioned the authenticity of his original "Test Drive." The latest Test Drive %%embed1%% The original Test Drive %%embed2%%

Babymetal rockin’ Japan

Only the Japanese can get away with mixing metal and pop. Check out the band Babymetal. Finally, a tune you can head bang and dance to. %%embed1%%

Bottle boys blow

The Bottle Boys take us on a journey through the history of video game theme songs. %%embed1%%

Swirling herds of reindeer will amaze

If it wasn't for hexacopter drone technology we wouldn't be getting these amazing wildlife videos. Jan Helmer Olsen captured this aerial view of reindeer being herded in Norway. %%embed1%%

Timeholes

In the year 2015 time travel has been invented, and like all new technologies, it's abused by drunk Timeholes. %%embed1%%

Beatles medley is wrong on so many levels

Raffaella Carrà and her dancers peformed this Beatles medley on an Italian TV show in the late 70's. Yep, it's disco-themed but with a very surrealistic quality. %%embed1%%

How to avoid the ‘Kiss Camera’

If you don't want to be featured on the stadium's Kiss Camera, you have to come prepared. Just like this guy did at a Minnesota Gophers hockey game on Valentine's Day. %%embed1%%

Walmart American jobs ad features Rush song

The American Jobs commercial Walmart is running includes the song Working Man by Canada's Rush. Maybe there were no songs by US bands that were good enough. Rush fans are escstatic. Americans commenters on YouTube, not so much. Walmart's social media department is working overtime dealing with the flood of negative comments. %%embed1%%

Jimmy Kimmel fooled the internet… again

Remember the viral video of a twerking girl who set herself on fire? You'll also remember it turned out to be a hoax perpetrated by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. Well he's done it again. This time it was a video posted by US Olympic luger Kate Hansen. It allegedly showed a wolf wandering the...

Ignition – Jimmy Fallon’s Barbershop Remix

Jimmy Fallon has taken the Tonight Show reigns from Jay Leno this week. Kimmel and his staff are pulling out all the stops, including this remix of R. Kelly's Ignition, barbershop style. %%embed1%%

Hurry! Hurry haaaard!

The sounds of women's curling at the Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Here's a montage of about a dozen athletes from various countries including Canada's Jennifer Jones. No language barrier here. You know exactly what the curlers are trying to communicate. %%embed1%%

Octopus tried to eat my camera

A pair of divers had a close encounter with a giant pacific octupus off the coast of Point Lobos in Carmel, California. The octupus was facinated with the underwater camera. It quickly disengaged when the diver popped the flash a few times. %%embed1%%

The Bobsled Song

The Jamaican bobsled team may have finished in last place at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, but the song put together by the Jamaican Toursist Board is a winner. You have to love the 8-bit animation and the reggae grove. %%embed1%%

Compressed air… more uses than you’d think

Compressed air is extremely useful on the job site, especially when you need to de-pants your fellow mechanic while your coworkers watch and laugh. WARNING: Brief naked butt %%embed1%%

Imperial walkers attack Olympic moguls

This is what would happen if the Winter Olympics were held on the planet Hoth in the Star Wars universe. The video from a Danish TV program has already had over 3 million views after just a few days. %%embed1%%

Vicious penguin chases down zookeeper

One of the zookeepers at Matsue Vogel Aviary Park in southern Japan struggles to escape from one of the most vicious penguins known to mankind. %%embed1%%

Run! Run! Run!

The lead dog on this sled team is ready to go. It sounds like he's saying, "Run, run, run, run." O'Reily is one of the rescue dogs that make up the teams in the Apostle Island Dog Sled Race in Bayfield, Wisconsin. %%embed1%%