This Week in WTF, April 25, 2014

By Andy Jones from Gaithersburg, USA [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons– You’re doing it wrong: A high school student in Pennsylvania got suspended after making what probably seemed like a bold move during a school assembly featuring the reigning Miss America, Nina Davuluri. During a Q&A session about whatever it is Miss Americas talk to kids about, the 18 year-old stood, asked her to be his prom date, and walked up to the stage with a flower. Reports indicate that Miss Davuluri was flattered, and the whole school cheered, but the higher-ups were less amused. He got a three-day suspension, and while Miss Davuluri politely declined the invitation, she asked the school to reconsider his punishment.

– An Indiana Jones adventure worthy of LeBeouf: The Video Game Crash of 1983 was something that actually happened and has a cool, ominous-sounding name. The industry didn’t recover in North America for several years, when the Nintendo Entertainment System came along. One of the major culprits in the crash was Atari’s movie tie-in game for 1982’s E.T., which was one of the first video games to throw almost everything into its title and marketing and almost nothing into actual gameplay. The game sucked so much that Atari allegedly buried all the unsold cartridges in the desert.

Why am I telling you all this? Because a rumor is afoot that a documentary film crew plans to dig up all the old cartridges. If ever there were an opportunity to continue the Indiana Jones franchise with the new generation introduced in the last film (that I’m still otherwise pretending doesn’t exist), this would provide appropriate source material.

– Turnabout is fair play: The Chive‘s Mac Faulkner published a slideshow of attractive women appearing on Google Street View—women who, by definition, were doing nothing more then being attractive (by Mac’s standards) on the street. Applying the goose/gander paradigm, Joe Veix at Death and Taxes posted a bunch of pictures culled from Mr. Faulkner’s social media posts, and I must note that they’re heavy on dramatic shirt removal.

– Gravitaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!!!!!!!!! Funny or Die has a listicle of the 7 Worst Line Readings of All Time. For some reason, this inspired moment of awesome from Troll 2 is only #3 on the list:

Photo credit: By Andy Jones from Gaithersburg, USA [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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