The latest episode of It's Jerry Time deals with the horrors of being forced to swim nekkid in middle school. As usual, it's a brilliantly painful study in low-key Schadenfreude.

It also reminded me of my own awful Phy. Ed. experiences in junior-high school. Our gym teacher's name was Elton Fessier (rhymes with "brassiere"), a decrepit, and in retrospect, probably pre-verted old geezer who used to jog behind us with a big wooden paddle as we ran the 440 track, and gleefully use it to swat anyone who ran slower than he did. He'd also peer over the wall and watch us take showers, occasionally shouting out, "I want to see soap on those bodies!"

Brrrrr!

[Link: The Naked Swim]

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I used to collect these bubblegum cards back in the early Seventies. The quality of the "humor" was definitely Kindergarten-through-3rd grade, but the monsters were first-rate.

[Link: You'll Die Laughing][via PCL]

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Many thanks to scrubbles for hepping me to Something Awful's snicker-worthy, and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny parody of Cartoon Brew. Don't miss the spot-on, bogus John Kricfalusi commentary "Why All Modern Animation Sucks," on page 2.

[Link: Animation Website]

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In an attempt to save us all from burning eternally in a flaming volcano bowl of Heckfire, Humuhumu is thoughtfully sharing this VERY IMPORTANT Jack Chick-style tract on the evils of Tiki culture that she received from my friend, tongodeon, at Forbidden Island's 1-year anniversary party last Sunday night.

Repent, ye sinners, lest the Lord shatter your tiki mugs into potsherds with a rod of iron and cast your demon rum into the Abyss!

[Link: Tiki: A Plague Upon This Land]

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I went digging through the magazine racks at our local antique mall yesterday, and emerged with a 1935 issue of Ballyhoo, a humor magazine published by Dell between the years of 1931 and 1939. This particular issue features a South Seas theme, which should be abundantly obvious from the glorious hula girl on the cover (is that Bob Hope strumming the uke and leering from underneath his straw boater?). The contents are a mixture of Playboy-style vintage adult cartoons and Mad Magazine-ish lampoons. I'm sure this was pretty sophisticated and edgy stuff back in the Thirties, but today it seems hopelessly quaint, not to mention un-PC in the extreme. I've scanned 20 of the magazine's 34 pages and created a new gallery for them. Enjoy, and Happy Easter!

[Link: 1935 Ballyhoo Magazine]

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You can thank (or blame) the orangeguru for adding yet another awful German music clip to my growing collection, although this is actually some Swedish guy singing about Bavarian hats, potato salad, shoe-slapping, and Lederhosen.

[Link: Tysken Dansar Med Lederhosen]

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From Easter, 2006: our hero, Ace Jackalope, valiantly leads the marshmallow chicks and chocolate bunnies in their battle for freedom from nibbled off body parts.

[Link: Lope of the Peeps]

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