– Cannot unsee: W. T. F. Is. This. Thing????!????

I didn’t really want to, but I did some Googling, and found that this is the “Face Bank – Coin Eating Savings Bank,” available for $19.72.

The face bank is a uniquely designed piggy bank that literally eats your money! It’s fun for kids because the mouth moves as you put your hand close to it. It’s the savings bank that will make them want to save. They’ll be running around the house searching for coins to ‘Feed’ their face bank.

Something that moves its mouth as your hand gets closer is this company’s idea of fun??? I’m no expert on kids, but it seems just as likely that they’ll be running around the house screaming.

– Poe’s Law gets a new corollary: If you start an auction on eBay as a joke, someone somewhere will take it seriously, no matter how patently absurd it is:

Shaun Coles, a British dude from Northamptonshire, attracted a small storm of internet scrutiny this week when an extended joke about selling his girlfriend on eBay got so out of hand that he started receiving actual bids from real people who totally believe that one can purchase a human being on the internet. According to the Daily Dot, Coles’s attempt to sell his girlfriend on eBay attracted serious (we can only surmise) bids maxing out at at $1,180, as well as a friendly reminder from eBay that it does not condone the selling of people.

It wasn’t even a good joke. His girlfriend didn’t know he was posting it, which just makes it douchey.

This just affirms the extension of Poe’s Law in the realm of online sales: no matter how ridiculous it might seem to reasonable people, someone will take it seriously.

– Further proof that nature hates you and wants you to be miserable: Crocodiles can climb trees (h/t Paul). As far as I know, though, spiders still can’t fly, so there’s that.

– “We don’t all look alike”: A news anchor in Los Angeles (which is where they keep Hollywood) got Samuel L. Jackson confused with Lawrence Fishburne…….during an interview with Samuel L. Jackson (h/t Sarah):

Samuel L. Jackson had a very important message for news anchor Sam Rubin: “We don’t all look alike!”

The “Robocop” star was mistaken for Laurence Fishburne during a KTLA interview that aired Monday, an error Rubin will likely never forget.

“Did you get a lot of reaction from that Super Bowl commercial?” the TV anchor asked.

“What Super Bowl commercial?” Jackson asked bewildered.

Rubin can be seen looking off camera stunned and embarrassed. As he attempted to continue the interview, Jackson quickly interrupted and went on a two-minute tirade.

– I didn’t read past the headline: Justin Bieber’s wax statue retired after excessive fondling.