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Joining us in the studio for this week's Urly Show podcast was editor of the excellent new comedy blog, Splitsider, Adam Frucci.Urlesque reader Maren joined us via Skype from Omaha, Nebraska (home to steaks, corn and insurance, we learned) to play our tl;dr quiz. Check out her very cool venture, Travel Blog Exchange, an online community for travel bloggers and journalists.
In A Word From Our Spammers, we learned that you can send just $500 to some dude on eBay to learn how to clean your feet (it makes sense when you hear it out loud) (no, it doesn't).
And in our FW:FW:FW: segment, we parlayed a conversation about our popular post highlighting nonsensical pronunciations of food items superimposed over their pictures into a larger conversation about how humor and comedy lives online. Considering that on Splitsider, Adam focuses specifically on online comedy, we found ourselves engaged in a very serious conversation about what makes stuff funny online, and how the internet as a medium has changed comedy. And we were brilliant.
Watch, download and subscribe to this week's episode below.
Links for what we talked about this week:
- The New Oxford American Dictionary validated "Interweb" as a real word!
- OK Go's newest video features lots and lots of dogs
- Delaware Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell meets Carl Winslow
- The Tampa Bay Rays want DJ Kitty as their mascot
- Katy Perry brings her bosom to Sesame Street (which will not, after all, make it to air)
- FW: FW: FW: Misspelled names of food on 4chan? Yep, that's a thing.
- Check out tl;dr contestant Maren's impressive site for travel bloggers and journalists!
- Visit Splitsider, edited by our in-studio guest, Adam Frucci
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