balloon boy

This week's unclaimed domain:

BalloonBoyfriend.com

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Believe it or not, BalloonBoy.com was registered way back in 2000, well before the media frenzy over the Colorado balloon boy hoax. But the next best thing is a play on words, so snatch up BalloonBoyfriend.com before the buzz floats away.

Here are some ideas for BalloonBoyfriend.com:

• Pictures of obese men with attractive girlfriends.
• A place to post personal ads directly addressing Balloon Boy.
• A community documenting instances of boyfriends bailing on a relationship by leaving town unexpectedly (hot air balloon, optional).
• A dating site for people with balloon fetishes like Billoon45.
• Or, just buy it and forward it to the Tosh.0 Blog!

Congrats to Alex Wu, who got to last week's unclaimed domain name first! If you're not sure how to buy a domain name, start here.

After last week's "Balloon Boy" fiasco, it's probably not a coincidence that the above video was uploaded to LiveLeak and has garnered a lot of attention.

I believe, in retrospect, the video portrays how many of us now wish the Heene saga would have ended (…um, assuming the whole family had climbed into the balloon.)

Oddly enough, one of the students attempting to witness this floating balloon experiment had actually crawled inside the balloon and was instantly incinerated upon the explosion, but weary of another hoax, local authorities refused to respond to investigate the claim.

R.I.P. Actual Balloon Boy.

[via UniqueDaily]

Here's a fun little stunt I just learned on the Internet that you can try at home.

Actually, DON'T try this at home.� But it's still a fun little stunt…

According to a Redditorciting something done on 4chan, [Ugh.� Are these really my sources?� I'm embarrassed and will probably get fired.] yesterday, during all the "balloon boy" media circus, an anonymous mayhem-maker ordered a pizza under the name Richard Heene to Balloon Boy's address (the order is seen above — click to see the whole thing) and then waited for the delivery car to show up and took a photograph of it on the news (see the picture after the jump).

As if the world isn't crazy enough with attention-deprived dads lying about unleashing balloons containing one of their three children, now we have this.� I call it "pizzatainment."� And it's childish, and it's probably illegal, and for some reason it stand for all that is good with the Internet.

Again, you can check out the end result after the jump…

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LA Weekly, one of L.A.'s primary alt-weeklies, went into its archives and found some of the most outRAGEous party photos they've ever taken. They compiled them into one big article called " Nightlife Fail: Signs the Party is Over," which hit on Digglast night.

Each image has a caption explaining why it constitutes a "party's over" moment.

See that one at the top of this post? It's number one on their list. Its caption is: "You pass out in the snow, wearing nothing but shorts."

Wrong. That's for sure a sign the party is about to start.

I mean, when the hell does it snow in L.A.? At the end of Crash.(Spoiler alert! Too late!)� And yes, no party started there.

But that's just a fictitious movie.� If it seriously ever snowed in L.A., there would be massive parties. We would riot. It hasn't snowed here since 1962. Which, by the way, means this picture must not have been taken in LA, so why's it on the list anyway?

See number 2 on their list after the jump…

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This kid throwing up is about to blow up the internet. Why?
Because he's conveying exactly how we all feel about this story: sick. If I hear another balloon boy joke from one of my friends on Twitter, I'm going to build a balloon and stage a stunt myself. Then I'll be puking on live tv.

Wait, no. I don't want to do that. Balloon boy, go away. But first, just for fun, here's a weird balloon boy remix video.

Nobody did anything productive for about an hour yesterday. All eyes were on the boy who floated away inside a balloon. ?Are we part of a fictitious tale?? we thought. ?Are we actually inside a Roald Dahl novel??

No. We actually were not. In fact, the boy wasn?t actually even inside the balloon.

Doesn?t that suck? Such a fanciful story so quickly became a sham. If only we could relive that hour of verisimilitude when we all believed.

Well, now you can write your own version of the balloon boy tale online with the Balloon Boy Game. You can be balloon boy.

(If you?re still crushed by the half-truths of Balloon Boy and this web game offers no solace, you might enjoy the story of this 18-year-old MacGyverinstead.)

Play the game, after the jump.

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