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Filed under: Sex , Humor , Women , Video , A Woman's Perspective For this, the final Woman's Perspective, our girl was under a lot of pressure. After over a year of bringing you her week...

Filed under: Sex , Entertainment , Women , Movies Our own Emily McCombs, she of A Woman's Perspective, has enlightened us through the years with her thoughts on everything from manscapin...

Filed under: Sex , Politics , Video Just take a second to drink that headline in ... In terms of political sex scandals, Berlusconi makes the Bill Clinton affair look like a game of Mono...

Filed under: Sex , Humor , Photos Humorous moments during the recent Australian floods have been few and far between, but this definitely is one. How so? Inflatable sex dolls ... being u...

Filed under: Sex , Games , Below the Belt Last year, Asylum played and wrote about "BoneTown," a NSFW (and arguably anywhere else) adult video game that let players snort cocaine, punch ...

Filed under: Humor , Entertainment , Video , Masterclash The time has come to say goodbye. There were robots and nerdy burlesques and everything Star Wars. We gave you A Woman's Perspect...

Filed under: Humor , Health , Weird Science , Weird Stuff Cool Whip: The very name conjures up images of tasty summer treats that even those lame lactose-intolerant (or as we like to cal...

Filed under: Humor , Sports , Video Now that the NFL playoffs are in full swing, fans' emotions are at a crazy fever pitch. If you're lucky enough to get to see one of the playoff games ...

Filed under: Sex , Humor , Women , Video , A Woman's Perspective For this, the final Woman's Perspective, our girl was under a lot of pressure. After over a year of bringing you her week...

Filed under: Humor , Politics , Video , Asylum Exclusive Many Founding Fathers top-five lists have Alexander Hamilton following George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and Joh...

Filed under: Booze , Happy Hour Hero , Weird Science Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. College students learn very little their freshman and sophomore years. The b...

Filed under: Gear , Booze , Video , Asylum Exclusive Based on a very unscientific straw poll we took, a bunch of you out there have never heard of whiskey stones. And, no, that's not a e...

Filed under: Booze , Celebrity It was a story that warmed hearts: Ted Williams, a homeless man with a pitch-perfect radio voice was found panhandling on the streets of Ohio by a local jo...

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Filed under: Booze , Health , Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Residents of Milwaukee get the most smashed. The Daily Beast developed a drunkennes...

Filed under: Entertainment , Games , News Technology hasn't reached the point yet where video game characters can mimic our every move from the hardest high kick our flabby bodies can mu...

Filed under: Sex , Games , Below the Belt Last year, Asylum played and wrote about "BoneTown," a NSFW (and arguably anywhere else) adult video game that let players snort cocaine, punch ...

Filed under: Games , Weird News , Weird Stuff And here we thought remote-control technology had reached its pinnacle with the invention of a brain-tumor-removing robot arm. But my, how T...

Filed under: Games , Happy Hour Hero , Weird Science Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Playing video games sharpens vision, as well as the mind. Daphne Bavelier, a...

Filed under: Entertainment , Games , Asylum Exclusive Actor and filmmaker A.J. LoCascio does a near flawless impression of Marty McFly, the almost squeaky, panicked voice of Michael J. F...

Filed under: Women , Video , New York Other than sending warm wishes to that special someone on International Pole-Dancing Day, the greeting card and exotic-dancing industries rarely int...

Filed under: Weird News , New York Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Holiday Billboard Battle at the world-famous Lincoln Tunnel! In the New Jersey corner, hailing from evolved apes,...

Filed under: New York , News , Weird As we've learned, abandoned subway stations are awesome. However, reaching the closed-up train hubs of New York City often means sneaking into unauth...

Filed under: New York , Asylum Exclusive , News It was only a matter of time before New Yorkers grew so accustomed to rats that the inflatable union rat -- festering nipples and all -- j...

Filed under: Food , New York , Asylum Exclusive If the two things you desire more than anything else in life are cheeseburgers and recognition for not exerting yourself mentally or physi...

Filed under: Humor , Health , Weird Science , Weird Stuff Cool Whip: The very name conjures up images of tasty summer treats that even those lame lactose-intolerant (or as we like to cal...

Filed under: Booze , Happy Hour Hero , Weird Science Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. College students learn very little their freshman and sophomore years. The b...

Filed under: Entertainment , Weird Science , Music , Asylum Exclusive When humanity inevitably finds itself at war with our robot nemeses, we know one thing for sure: They'll have their ...

Filed under: Dating/Love , Happy Hour Hero , Weird Science Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Attractive people have significantly higher I.Q.s than their frumpier ...

Filed under: Gear , Video , Weird Science Humanity has accomplished plenty to be proud of: We landed on the moon, created the internal combustion engine and invented the cell phone. Howe...

Filed under: Cars , Video , Weird News Some convenience stores are better than others. Like the ones that have everything you could want at 6 a.m. on a Tuesday morning -- a pint of milk,...

Filed under: Sports , Cars , Video , Asylum Exclusive , Travel Before crossing the finish line of the 2010 Dakar rally, Asylum's Brett McKenzie and the Volkswagen motorsports team had to...

Filed under: Cars , Video , Photos , Weird Stuff , Asylum Exclusive Austin, Texas, apparently everyone's favorite city in America, is famous for its array of street-legal art cars. But A...

Filed under: Sports , Cars , Video , Asylum Exclusive , Travel For part two of Asylum's behind-the-scenes look at the Dakar rally race, correspondent Brett McKenzie traveled with the Vol...

Filed under: Cars , Video , Weird News Connecticut's favorite motorway, the beloved Interstate 95, was blessed with a unique traveler recently, one who might not quite have the license r...

Filed under: Humor , Style , Animals , Weird Science Animals -- we've celebrated the deformed, the ugly, the masturbatory, and we now present you with the amputated. Because whatever an ...

Filed under: Humor , Video , Style Our weekly dispatch from the nation's foremost mustache expert. With the exception of dwarf-hunting season, there's nothing quite like the holidays in ...

Filed under: Entertainment , How-to , Style , Movies If you take a good look at the outtakes of Eric Stoltz's brief run as Marty McFly in "Back to the Future," you might get the idea tha...

Filed under: Humor , Dating/Love , How-to , Style Guys may appear shallow as we guzzle beer at a wet T-shirt contest, but the truth is we have depths that ladies cannot comprehend. Case ...

Filed under: Humor , Video , Style , Weird Our weekly dispatch from the nation's foremost mustache expert. Last week I reported on Orlando-area firefighter Brian Sheets winning the Ameri...

Filed under: Entertainment , Celebrity , Cheat Sheet , News Showbiz news you actually want, from geek gossip to celeb train-wrecks. Photos of Kevin Bacon wearing an ascot and January Jon...

Filed under: Entertainment , Celebrity , Cheat Sheet , News Showbiz news you actually want, from geek gossip to celeb train-wrecks. Anne Hathaway has been cast as Catwoman in "The Dark K...

Filed under: Entertainment , Celebrity , Cheat Sheet , News Showbiz news you actually want, from geek gossip to celeb train-wrecks. Brooklyn Decker posed in a see-through top for "Esquir...

Filed under: Entertainment , Celebrity , Cheat Sheet , News Showbiz news you actually want, from geek gossip to celeb train-wrecks. "Octomom" Nadya Suleman reportedly whipped a man weari...

Filed under: Entertainment , Celebrity , Cheat Sheet , News Showbiz news you actually want, from geek gossip to celeb train-wrecks. Sofia Vergara's cleavage, the rest of Sofia Vergara at...

Filed under: Humor , Entertainment , Video , Masterclash The time has come to say goodbye. There were robots and nerdy burlesques and everything Star Wars. We gave you A Woman's Perspect...

Filed under: Entertainment , Video , Movies Movie mistakes and continuity errors are a form of film trivia that go beyond mere geekiness. Geek knowledge regarding films consists of knowi...

Filed under: Video , Asylum Exclusive Magic is just smoke and mirrors, they say. But sometimes it's also smoke and mirrors and fire and blood and sheer embarrassment. And maybe some dead...

Filed under: Humor , Sports , Video Now that the NFL playoffs are in full swing, fans' emotions are at a crazy fever pitch. If you're lucky enough to get to see one of the playoff games ...

Filed under: Sex , Humor , Women , Video , A Woman's Perspective For this, the final Woman's Perspective, our girl was under a lot of pressure. After over a year of bringing you her week...

Filed under: Humor , Style , Animals , Weird Science Animals -- we've celebrated the deformed, the ugly, the masturbatory, and we now present you with the amputated. Because whatever an ...

Filed under: Video , Animals , Weird Stuff We've all fallen asleep on the train, right? Luckily, the worst thing to happen to us was missing our stop. This homeless man wasn't so fortuna...

Filed under: Animals , TV Unemployed? Love Shark Week? Well, then we have the job for you. The Discovery Channel is looking for their first ever Chief Shark Officer (CSO), who will presi...

Filed under: Video , Weird News , Vid of the Moment , Animals We know the Internet loves a cute animal almost as much as it enjoys an odd-looking one, so it goes without saying that comb...

Filed under: Sports , Video , News , Animals A week-long amateur bullfighting event in Colombia has seen some 48 would-be matadors being injured after jumping into an arena to taunt 1,00...

Filed under: Food , Photos , Movies , Asylum Exclusive Listen, guys, we need to talk. Where is this relationship is going? Because we're not getting any younger, and someday we want to g...

Filed under: Sex , Humor , Photos Humorous moments during the recent Australian floods have been few and far between, but this definitely is one. How so? Inflatable sex dolls ... being u...

Filed under: Cars , Video , Photos , Weird Stuff , Asylum Exclusive Austin, Texas, apparently everyone's favorite city in America, is famous for its array of street-legal art cars. But A...

Filed under: Humor , Celebrity , Photos That's right, it's a picture of Michael Douglas, Oscar winner and all-around badass, photobombing his own wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Angelina...

Filed under: Entertainment , Photos , Weird Stuff , Asylum Exclusive Monsters are going to be hot in 2011. Everyone from Kanye West to J.J. Abrams agrees, and so does Derek Tonks, a 17-y...

Filed under: Humor , Sports , Video Now that the NFL playoffs are in full swing, fans' emotions are at a crazy fever pitch. If you're lucky enough to get to see one of the playoff games ...

Filed under: Sports , Cars , Video , Asylum Exclusive , Travel Before crossing the finish line of the 2010 Dakar rally, Asylum's Brett McKenzie and the Volkswagen motorsports team had to...

Filed under: Entertainment , Sports , Music , Asylum Exclusive Despite Vegas's best efforts, determining who's going to win any given week's football game is not an exact science. Some c...

Filed under: Sports , Cars , Video , Asylum Exclusive , Travel For part two of Asylum's behind-the-scenes look at the Dakar rally race, correspondent Brett McKenzie traveled with the Vol...

Filed under: Sports , Video 2010 was a good year for highly impressive basketball-based viral videos, but 2011 looks like it's going to be even better, starting with this footage of high...

Filed under: Women , Video , Below the Belt , Weird Stuff Advertisers aren't stupid. OK, some of them are, but most of them know what helps things get sold: pretty girls. Preferably pret...

Filed under: Sex , Games , Below the Belt Last year, Asylum played and wrote about "BoneTown," a NSFW (and arguably anywhere else) adult video game that let players snort cocaine, punch ...

Filed under: Sex , Entertainment , Video , Below the Belt Just when you maybe allowed yourself to start thinking "The Simpsons" couldn't get any worse, somebody decided to up and make a ...

Filed under: Sex , Women , Below the Belt Maxim and Olivia Munn have managed to kick up a bit of controversy with the February issue of the magazine. That's because cover girl Munn, who ...

Filed under: Women , Below the Belt , News OK, slight exaggeration. Neither time nor the Internet stopped when these pictures of "Mad Men" star January Jones hit the Web, but our hearts ...

Filed under: Entertainment , Video , Movies Movie mistakes and continuity errors are a form of film trivia that go beyond mere geekiness. Geek knowledge regarding films consists of knowi...

Filed under: Food , Photos , Movies , Asylum Exclusive Listen, guys, we need to talk. Where is this relationship is going? Because we're not getting any younger, and someday we want to g...

Filed under: Entertainment , Movies According to our friends at FilmDrunk, Will Smith and Jay-Z are getting together to remake the movie "Annie," which will star Smith's hair-whipping da...

Filed under: Sex , Entertainment , Women , Movies Our own Emily McCombs, she of A Woman's Perspective, has enlightened us through the years with her thoughts on everything from manscapin...

Filed under: Food , Weird Stuff , Movies The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, may seem far away from Frodo Baggins' epic path to destroy the One Ring. However, the cinema house proudly...

Filed under: Asylum Exclusive , Travel , Weird You've just been chosen as a contestant for "Survivor: Andamans." But instead of immunity idols, there are red buckets. Instead of eliminat...

Filed under: Sports , Cars , Video , Asylum Exclusive , Travel Before crossing the finish line of the 2010 Dakar rally, Asylum's Brett McKenzie and the Volkswagen motorsports team had to...

Filed under: Sports , Cars , Video , Asylum Exclusive , Travel For part two of Asylum's behind-the-scenes look at the Dakar rally race, correspondent Brett McKenzie traveled with the Vol...

Filed under: Entertainment , Video , Travel As Lex Luthor's father once told his shiny-headed son, "Stocks may rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People ar...

Filed under: Video , Weird News , Travel Argentinian Antarctic cruise ship the Clelia II and its 160 passengers were left at the mercy of what we're calling "massive angry waves of doom"...

Filed under: Dating/Love , Happy Hour Hero , Weird Science Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Attractive people have significantly higher I.Q.s than their frumpier ...

Filed under: Sex , Dating/Love , Women , Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Women in their 40s are more likely to go all the way on a first date tha...

Filed under: Dating/Love , Women , Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Most people remember about 90 percent of the details surrounding their first k...

Filed under: Sex , Dating/Love , Women OK, that headline obviously needs a bit of context. According to our friends at With Leather, Andre Agassi recently did something strange while par...

Filed under: Dating/Love , Women , Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. More women are marrying men who are better-educated than they are and have mor...

Filed under: Entertainment , Celebrity , Cheat Sheet , News Showbiz news you actually want, from geek gossip to celeb train-wrecks. Photos of Kevin Bacon wearing an ascot and January Jon...

Filed under: Humor , Video , Celebrity , Vid of the Moment You already know we love Betty White. This week, America's favorite grandma turned 89. To celebrate, here's a video of the time...

Filed under: Entertainment , Celebrity , Cheat Sheet , News Showbiz news you actually want, from geek gossip to celeb train-wrecks. Anne Hathaway has been cast as Catwoman in "The Dark K...

Filed under: Entertainment , Celebrity , Cheat Sheet , News Showbiz news you actually want, from geek gossip to celeb train-wrecks. Brooklyn Decker posed in a see-through top for "Esquir...

Filed under: Humor , Celebrity , Photos That's right, it's a picture of Michael Douglas, Oscar winner and all-around badass, photobombing his own wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Angelina...

Filed under: Humor , Health , Weird Science , Weird Stuff Cool Whip: The very name conjures up images of tasty summer treats that even those lame lactose-intolerant (or as we like to cal...

Filed under: Health , Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. When you inhale cigarette smoke into your body, it almost immediately causes genetic damage...

Filed under: Health , Cars , Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Driving a convertible with its top down at high speeds could lead to permanent heari...

Filed under: Booze , Health , Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Residents of Milwaukee get the most smashed. The Daily Beast developed a drunkennes...

Filed under: Health , Happy Hour Hero , Weird Science Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. More than one of four American children and teenagers take a prescription d...

Filed under: Animals , TV Unemployed? Love Shark Week? Well, then we have the job for you. The Discovery Channel is looking for their first ever Chief Shark Officer (CSO), who will presi...

Filed under: Weird News , TV The show "Lost" reached its epic conclusion last year, but the mysterious six-number sequence of 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42, which popped up throughout the series,...

Filed under: Entertainment , Video , TV , Asylum Exclusive "The Price Is Right" has been around since 1965, and it has given away more than its share of ugly entertainment centers, usele...

Filed under: Entertainment , Celebrity , TV Death is the great equalizer, as relentless in its pursuit of celebrities as it is common folk. So it should come as no surprise that there we...

Filed under: Entertainment , Video , Vid of the Moment , TV Sure, there's already been a live-action movie remake of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," but the video you're about to see is ...

Filed under: Entertainment , Women , Video , Hot Girl Cool Job , Asylum Exclusive Looks or personality -- what's more important? It's a debate that's raged since the first X and Y chromo...

Filed under: Food , Women , Video , Hot Girl Cool Job , Asylum Exclusive The holiday season is upon us, and there's never a better time to overindulge. To get in the spirit, we consulted...

Filed under: Sex , Women , Video , Hot Girl Cool Job , Asylum Exclusive Some men have been known to feign enthusiasm about "getting some culture" at a museum. In the case of New York's M...

Filed under: Women , Games , Video , Hot Girl Cool Job , Asylum Exclusive The woman who doesn't mind when you sit around all day playing video games is rare. Raychul Moore, then, is extr...

Filed under: Booze , Women , Video , Hot Girl Cool Job , Asylum Exclusive Another summer has abruptly ended, yet wine enthusiasts take comfort in the kickoff of the harvest season. We re...

Filed under: Sex , Humor , Women , Video , A Woman's Perspective For this, the final Woman's Perspective, our girl was under a lot of pressure. After over a year of bringing you her week...

Filed under: Women , Video , Below the Belt , Weird Stuff Advertisers aren't stupid. OK, some of them are, but most of them know what helps things get sold: pretty girls. Preferably pret...

Filed under: Sex , Entertainment , Women , Movies Our own Emily McCombs, she of A Woman's Perspective, has enlightened us through the years with her thoughts on everything from manscapin...

Filed under: Gear , Women , Would You Rather? This is it: the final "Would You Rather" post. From now on you'll just need to find a new excuse to look at cute college girls and nerdy gea...

Filed under: Entertainment , Women , Video , Hot Girl Cool Job , Asylum Exclusive Looks or personality -- what's more important? It's a debate that's raged since the first X and Y chromo...

Filed under: Gear , Women , Would You Rather? This is it: the final "Would You Rather" post. From now on you'll just need to find a new excuse to look at cute college girls and nerdy gea...

Filed under: Gear , Video , Weird Science Humanity has accomplished plenty to be proud of: We landed on the moon, created the internal combustion engine and invented the cell phone. Howe...

Filed under: Gear , Booze , Video , Asylum Exclusive Based on a very unscientific straw poll we took, a bunch of you out there have never heard of whiskey stones. And, no, that's not a e...

Filed under: Gear , Women , Would You Rather? This week features a blonde and a bike -- two great things that go great together. Abbie admits to having "blond moments," but we look at th...

Filed under: Gear , Weird Stuff Spy cameras -- typically hidden around the houses of paranoid loons, tech-friendly perverts and, well, actual, real spies -- are not gadgets we recommend ...

Here at Asylum HQ we've literally got dozens of people on the look out for the very best in pedestrians vs. car near miss videos. And by 'dozens' we of course mean 'some', and they've fo...

Dunk fails, slam dunk fails, epic slam dunk fails -- whatever you want to call them, we love it when a bozo flaps at the rim and comes back down to earth with nothing but embarrassment. ...

Little babies are adorable buggers, aren't they? Well, the internet seems to thinks so, and after looking through our "Kids will laugh at anything" post, we can't help but agree. So here...

We wish we could just post this video for you to look at without any preamble, but it does require a little explaining. You see, a recent 'female' contestant on Thailand's Got Talent sho...

Superheroes are bigger than themselves. They mean something. They belong to the world. And they don't have a choice about that. Andrew W.K. is as close as New York City has to a real-lif...