Three Time-wasters for Friday. Thank you, Facebook.

Seeing as how it’s Friday, I figured I’d help you goof off a little today. And you don’t have to thank me. Just thank Facebook, because I found all these on that 600-lb gorilla social network.

I don’t know if that says something about Facebook, me, or the people I hang out with over there. Probably all three.

1. English pronunciation from The Poke, via Jason Konopinski.

See how many words in this poem you pronounce correctly. I had a blast with this one, and I got four wrong (though, to be fair, one was a word I didn’t know). Clearly I speak better English than most native English speakers (of which I’m not one, ha!).

Here’s an excerpt:

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

See what I mean?

2. The Bart Simpson chalkboard generator, from Add Letters, via Julie Pippert and Jeff Esposito.

You can make Bart write whatever you want. I’m pretty sure you will spend hours, if not the entire day, trying to outdo young Simpson.

Though it didn’t take Ken Mueller very long to come up with this one:

3. Video: Put a Bird On It (All the Seagull Ladies)

Thank you, Tracy Viselli, for giving me a huge laugh yesterday with this one. Though if I strain or break something while trying to imitate these moves, you will be hearing from my lawyer, personal trainer, accountant, clients, husband, dogs, Apple and Ragan’s PR Daily. And not necessarily in that order.

I’m warning you – this video is addictive. I suggest you watch it and enjoy it in its entirety first. Then try to sing (and dance) along with the lyrics, so helpfully included.

Happy Friday!

Image: Thomas Hawk on Flickr, CC 2.0