Sep 3rd 2010 By Asylum Staff

Hot, Fresh Links -- Served When We Feel Like It

The Real Bad Girls Club
20 of the hottest misbehaving girls (Heavy)

Freshman-o-Vision (CollegeHumor)

Soccer Catfight: 2010 Edition (Total Pro Sports)

How to Land Your Dream Girl (AskMen)

Hipster Dinosaurs
No wonder they became extinct (Fork Party)
Which Celeb Hottie Would You Date?
Cast your vote for your dream girl (Gunaxin)

The "Hometown Hotties" 2010 Finalists
These 10 girls have made it to the finals (Maxim)

Sep 3rd 2010 By Simon Crisp

Finally, Musical Beer -- Meet the Pale Ale That You Can Play a Tune On

Tuned Pale AleEver thought that drinking beer, in and of itself, is pretty pointless?

Well, Tuned Pale Ale has come out with a beer that gives you a chance to do something constructive while boozing: whistle a tune. It's carefully calibrated so you know just what note you're going to hear when you blow over the top.

It's a gimmick, sure, but it's a good one -- and it also comes in a wooden case that you can play like the drums. And if there's one thing we know about being a little bit drunk, it's that the idea of hitting drum-like things with sticks is very, very exciting.

Oh, and the bottle has ridges, which can be handily played with a bottle cap, providing an extra option in the whole noise-making game. Apparently the beer's OK too, if you like actually drinking the stuff.

Unfortunately, it's just a concept at the moment, but with the attention it's been getting it'll be made into a buy-able product in no time, we're sure. In the meantime, check out the pictures below.

Sep 3rd 2010 By Jeremy Taylor

Many Fat People Don't Realize They Are Fat

Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

Most obese Americans underestimate how fat they are.

A Harris Interactive / HealthDay survey asked 2,418 adults their height and weight, as well as if they thought they were of normal weight, overweight, obese or morbidly obese.

It turned out 30 percent of overweight people believe they are of normal size, 70 percent of obese people think they are just overweight and 39 percent of morbidly obese people classify themselves as being only overweight.

"While there are some people who have body images in line with their actual BMI [body mass index], for many people they are not, and this may be where part of the problem lies," said Regina Corso, vice president of Harris Poll Solutions.

We blame the glossy magazines. If they were doing a better job of airbrushing our celebrities to even more unrealistically skinny dimensions, maybe this wouldn't be such a problem.

Sep 3rd 2010 By Brian Fairbanks

Playboy's 'Badass' Is Russ Meyer Fantasy Come to Life

Playboy BadassFriday at 9 p.m. EST, the Playboy Channel will attempt to rescue its struggling parent company with some good old-fashioned nudity, death-defying stunts, and explosions. That's because the new series "Badass" features "bad girls in fighter planes, hottie shark wranglers and bare butts on the rifle range."

That's right, it's an extreme sports show livened up with pure female nudity, as evidenced in the ridiculous (and life-changing) trailer.

Playboy hopes its stunning new program of bombs, boobs and babes will be the breakout hit that offsets years of paid subscribers either dying of old age or discovering something called "the Internet." It's pretty confident that "Badass" is going to be a success, since everyone loves "man-eating sharks ... falling out of airplanes ... [and women] being naked in public."

Keep reading for the safe-for-work trailer and weep silently in your cubicle.

Sep 3rd 2010 By Asylum Staff

Scott Thompson and Masterclash Guess That Classic Cult-Comedy Bit

In last week's installment of Masterclash, the Masterclashers and Scott Thompson of "Kids in the Hall" fame each made lists counting down their favorite cult-comedy movies, books and television shows. Being the competitive bunch that they are, the gang decided to test this knowledge by quizzing each other on famous bits and routines from cult-comedy classics.

Watch the answers fly in the epic conclusion of Masterclash's take on cult comedy.


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Sep 3rd 2010 By Luke McKinney

6 of the Oldest (and Most Expensive) Alcohols

For most, the joyous recovery of ancient alcohol means "finding a forgotten Bud in the back of the fridge." But a lucky few get to taste truly ancient elixirs, like a sailing team led by Christian Ekstrom, which discovered 30 bottles of hundreds-of-decades-old champagne on a wrecked ship between Sweden and Finland.

They brought one bottle back to verify the wreck's age, then "verified" the champagne as well. That's true luxury -- sailing on a boat, drinking an irreplaceable alcohol from 1780 just because you can.

With each bottle expected to fetch $68,000 at auction, the happy crew were swallowing $1,000 a mouthful -- the most expensive swallows since Anna Nicole Smith convinced that billionaire to marry her.

Keep reading for five more of the world's oldest alcohols.

Sep 3rd 2010 By Emerald Catron

He Got Served! Video Captures Fan Fight at U.S. Open

Real life tennis hooligansWe know, we know, tennis really pisses us off too. The serves. The volleys. The sweatbands. But somehow we've never managed to start a brawl at a match. Probably because it's so hard to get trashed on Pimm's.

Or maybe it's because we haven't been dropping enough F-bombs, which is what sparked the brawl last night at the U.S. Open in Queens.

A female spectator had grown tired of listening to the gentleman behind her cursing like a sailor and asked him to stop. He (rather foolishly, it turns out) responded by telling her if she had a problem with him, she should hit him. So she slapped him in the face. Then her father tried to strangle the guy and ended up getting shoved down three rows of seats. And then things went bananas.

Fortunately for you, you don't have to take our word for it, we've got video footage of the entire rumble, after the jump.

Sep 3rd 2010 By Alastair Plumb

Sleepy Driver Crashes into Store, Survives Relatively Unscathed

We'd give the driver in this clip 10 points for style, but -100,000 for technical parking ability. As you can see in the video below, he falls asleep at the wheel, blasts off the highway and into a parking lot before plowing headlong into a general store.

The owners of the Four Mile Country Store in Westfield, Mass., had only just locked up their store for the evening and headed on home. They have spent over $130,000 on repairs to their beloved shop since the crash on Sunday; it's just about ready for business once again.

As for the driver of the vehicle? Well, the car's no longer in service, but, after a trip to the hospital, 42-year-old Tina Richard and her daughter should be fine after recuperating from relatively minor injuries.

Sep 3rd 2010 By Jeremy Taylor

'Nobody Cares About Colorado' -- ESPN's Michelle Beadle on College Football

michelle beadle espnWhen ESPN personality Michelle Beadle innocently posted a blurry picture of herself wearing a sexy red dress right before the ESPY Awards on Twitter, it quickly lit up all corners of the web.

"I liked the dress, but I didn't think it was that big of a deal," she told Asylum. "It got me a lot more followers on Twitter."

These days, Beadle, co-host of ESPN's "SportsNation," has a 90,000-strong Twitter army, all of whom get access to a constant stream of her mostly sports-related insights. (She recommends following Bill Simmons, The Big Lead and Sports by Brooks for sports news.)

Since fall is approaching, we asked the die-hard University of Texas Longhorns fan for the five things she'll be watching for this college football season. Read on to check them out, as well as the photo that made her a Web celebrity.