Think twice, Miss Merry Mac

My daughter Merry informs me that, like the Princess before her, she wishes to be a cheerleader. Kasia has offered to use her personal experience to convince Merry that it's not a great idea, but I think the following two YouTube videos should do the trick just fine. Plus the second one will keep her out of marching band as well.

Um, if you're not the kind of person who thinks the Darwin Awards are funny, you may want to skip these. (The frightening thing is that are lots of cheerleading-disaster videos on YouTube that are FAR more disturbing than these relatively light-hearted blooper reels.)



You gotta totally love the one cheerleader in the fifth clip of this second video, though, who pulls a totally Calvinesque "ta-da" from her unexpectedly low elevation.


Meanwhile, in the "explain this" department (mild content advisory, but then when you see a dude alone in room with a xerox machine and an inconspicuous security camera, you surely know what's coming next...or at least you think you do):



And here's a kid who should have studied harder for his sobriety test:



But you have to figure he did better than this guy (look, I know it isn't funny that the dude was out on the road behind a wheel, but look at it this way: surely it'll be a heckuva long time before he gets his car keys back):