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Let’s Play: Associative News Article Degeneration!

Rules: Start with as innocuous a news story as possible, and through association, find the most bizarre, disturbing story you can in five moves or less. Show your work.

Round 1–The Totally Innocuous Personal Interest Story

Hey, did you hear about this guy who changed his name to “The” Dan Miller Experience? How wacky is THAT?! I mean, okay, Dan, and Miller? Sure. But “The?” With quotes no less? I’ll bet you this guy is a real character, if you know what I mean. A real piece of work, as they say.

Round 2—The Fairly Harmless Government-Compiled List

What else is new in naming?

Well, The Baby Center (They’re a Government Agency, dammit!) has released the 2007 list of most popular baby names!

Aside from letting you know what phonemes to start watching out for in the next ten years, it also proves just how little the generation currently spawning children is trying.

Exhibit A: boys’ names numbers 1, 4, and 5, which are, respectively, Aiden, Jayden, and Caden. Now how in good conscience can I name my unborn son after his beloved Grandfather Shmayden?

Meanwhile, Michael still holding strong at number 6, while the top female name is Sophia. Apparently Golden Girls is experiencing a return to relevance. And the number 6 female name? Addison. Thanks for cheapening Michael, bitch.

Round 3—The Pretty Horrific Dead Baby Story

What else is new in babies?

They’re dead. Police in Florida have arrested a 12-year-old for fatally beating the infant he was babysitting with a bat for crying while he was trying to watch TV.

Horrific yes, but to be fair, it was the season premiere of The Wire. And he had been listening to that Ramones song “beat on the brat” moments before. And when the Mom left him in charge, she did say “I forgot to make a list of emergency numbers, but there’s a bat over there.”

Round 4—The Depths of Human Depravity

What else is new in arrests for the murder of innocent creatures?

Well, this guy in Wisconsin is in jail for sexual contact with a dead deer. Not THAT crazy—I have uncles who have done similar—until you add on that he was “previously convicted of killing a horse with the intention of having sex with it.”

Setting aside the grammatical question of how you kill something with an intention, how did police know he was planning to fuck the dead animal? I imagine they must have found him slapping his flaccid penis across the poor beast’s backside. Lends a whole new meaning to “beating a dead horse.”

So there you have it! from “The” Dan Miller Experience to necrobestiality in four moves, with a dead baby en route! Beat that, Ian’s Unnecessary News Roundup!


Besides blogging for CRACKED, Michael also makes hilarious videos as writer and co-founder of Those Aren’t Muskets!

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17 Responses to “Let’s Play: Associative News Article Degeneration!”

  1. FAWKLEY Says:

    1. Hey, the price for Microwaveable Burittos at the supermarket in town have shot up.

    2. Some idiots on Youtube make videos of themselves microwaving things.

    3. A man in Wisconsin microwaved a baby to death.

    I F*CKING WIN! BTW, is “microwaved” a word?

  2. Darkmage Says:

    Every article from now on should have a cat reaction meter! Or some other such animal.

  3. Ranger Says:

    http://neilsnotes.com/?page=15&catid=24&sku=E-00408

  4. Sean Says:

    I’m pretty sure Michael Swaim just performed the greatest unrelated self-plug of all time.

  5. kingmonkey Says:

    I fucking love Pensive Cat!

    From now on, I will gauge my reaction to anything that happens, by looking at my cat. Typically, my reactions to many things will be to roll over and go back to sleep.

    Finally, I may not be the ‘adventurous’ type when it comes to sex with dead animals, but WTF? Sex with dead animals? How many kinds of fucked up do you have to be for that to seem like a good idea?

  6. Ross Says:

    I apologise for the wierd way in which Blofeld changes to Blofelt and back to Blofeld again. I’m sleepy. :-(

  7. Ross Says:

    Wow, the ‘pensive’ cat looks scarily like Donald Pleasance.

    If Blofeld had, in fact, owned a cat that looked like him You Only Live Twice would have been a comedy.

    “James Bond, allow me to introduce myself; I am Earnst Stavro Blofelt. And this is my cat, Blofelt 2. Watch him DANCE! YAAAA *moves Blofeld 2’s arms around* YAA HE CRAZY CAT NO!?”

  8. mainsw Says:

    Like all great writers before him, he will find a way.

  9. Bacalao Says:

    Oops forgot the “?”

  10. Bacalao Says:

    There’s cats in there!! What are you guys waiting to lolcat this up?!? Uhmmm… I CAN HAS BLOG POST.

  11. Michael Swaim Says:

    YOU MEAN LIKE THE HILARIOUS VIDEOS AT THOSEARENTMUSKETS.COM?!

  12. Vimmy Says:

    Swaim, don’t act like you’re not into the whole necrobeastiality thing. I’ve seen videos.

  13. Yabels Says:

    In another recent trend, necrobestiality is accounting for the disturbing lack of road kill found on today’s highways.

  14. Glenn Says:

    See those trees over there? I planted them all. Do they call me Glenn the treeplanter? Hell no. See those fields over there? I plowed them. Do they call me Glenn the field plower? Heck no. But you ‘try’ to fuck one dead horse…

  15. glendoor42 Says:

    “Horse Fucker”.

  16. rev.felix Says:

    Well, there’s still Lohan. So that’s something.

  17. Gladstone Says:

    That’s cheating, Swaim. How do you expect Ian to beat necrobestiality when he no longer blogs about Britney?

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