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5 Things You Should Never Put in the Dishwasher

by Lincoln Sedlacek

1. Cast Iron Swords
Cast iron requires some more attention than your regular pots and pans and shouldn’t be put in the dishwasher. Instead, wash a cast-iron sword with a sponge (don’t use soap), apply a light coating of vegetable oil, and then wipe off the excess oil as much as possible. If by chance you take off some of the sword’s smooth seasoning, you should re-season it after cleaning.

2. Pitchers of Red Dye 40 and White Tuxedos
Yes, a dishwasher will clean out an unemptied pitcher of Red Dye 40. It will clean a white tuxedo as well. But if you put both of these things in the dishwasher at the same time, your nitpicky spouse will go on and on about how you should wash the pitchers of Red Dye 40 and the white tuxedo separately.

3. Crystal Glasses or Amulets of Kalissya
This one might seem obvious, but you’d be surprised how many people let dish detergent and heat chip or crack their fine crystal. You can protect your fine champagne glasses, along with your necklaces granting you immortality, by hand-washing them instead.

4. Bombs with Less Than 30 Minutes Left on Their Timers
Yes, a dishwasher will get a bomb reading 29:59, 16:38, or even 00:47 absolutely sparkling. But a normal dishwasher isn’t going to finish its cycle in time for you to be able to defuse the typical timed explosive, so you may want to hand-wash this one.

5. Hamsters
R.I.P. Tibbles.

The Time I Read an Article About Box Jellyfish in Men’s Health Magazine, In Graphs

by Melissa Chiasson

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Father’s Day Cards

by Lincoln Sedlacek

Card: A cartoonish dog is holding up a cake against a tackily-colored background. The inside says, “Happy Father’s Day,” under which a handwritten note reads, “I couldn’t think of what to write here, but I hope you enjoy your present!”

Meaning: “Please show this card to Mom. It will make her feel better after she realizes how much more money I spent on your Father’s Day gift than her Mother’s Day gift.”


Card: A single American flag stands against a cloudless sky. On the inside are the hastily scrawled words, “Happy Father’s Day,” a heartfelt note, and a $50 gift card to Applebee’s.

Meaning: “I felt really bad about forgetting Father’s Day until it was so late that the only cards left were for the Fourth of July.”


Card: On the front there’s a little kid’s baseball glove nestled inside of an adult baseball glove, kind of like they’re two hands holding each other. It says, “To the dad who was always ready to play catch.” The inside has a handwritten note that looks like it was made illegible on purpose.

Meaning: “Thank you for always accepting me, provided I lived up to your standards of masculinity from a very early age.”


Card: A macaroni card showing a father and his child holding hands. The inside reads, “No matter how old I am, I’ll always be your little boy/girl–and you’ll always be my dad.”

Meaning: “I do not have enough money to buy a real present, or a real card. This card was an entire day’s worth of meals.”


Card: The front shows a stapler and the words, “Thanks for holding everything together.” The inside says “We wouldn’t be where we are without you. Happy [scribbled out] Day!” with the word “Father’s” written over the scribbled out bit.

Meaning: “I wanted to get you a card that made it clear how great I thought you were as a stay-at-home dad. But thanks to the sexism in the greeting card industry, the closest I could come was getting you an Administrative Professionals’ Day card and making a few strategic alterations.”


Card: A father and son are smiling as they sit in a boat and fish. On the inside it says, “Here’s to the good times. Happy Father’s Day.”

Meaning: “The only good times we had were when we sat in silence and lured animals to their death.”

Wet T-shirt Contest Rubric

by Melissa Chiasson

What is the style of contestant’s t-shirt?

  1. crop top
  2. v-neck
  3. baseball tee
  4. henley
  5. long-sleeve turtleneck

Threadcount of t-shirt is approximately…

  1. 50
  2. 70
  3. 90
  4. 120
  5. 140

Is t-shirt properly hemmed? If not, ask contestant whether he or she has access to a qualified tailor.

When contestant pours water over t-shirt, shirt looks

  1. Sheer
  2. Semi-sheer
  3. Opaque

Upon inspection, how wet is contestant’s t-shirt?

  1. Soaking
  2. Very wet
  3. Reasonably damp
  4. Moist
  5. Bone dry

Has contestant competed before in the same t-shirt? If so, rate durability of t-shirt on scale of 1-10.

Overall impression of t-shirt quality, including water retention during chest shake, is

  1. Exceptional
  2. Good
  3. Average
  4. Below par
  5. Unacceptable

Contestant’s motivation appears to be

  1. Showcase the fine craftsmanship of his or her t-shirt
  2. Celebrate the diversity of t-shirt styles
  3. Bring attention to the issue of poor t-shirt construction
  4. Engage in a shallow display of human sexuality that defiles the wholesome spirit of wet t-shirt contests

Pregnancy Test Instructions for Women in Their Mid-Twenties

by Jordy Greenblatt

  • Urinate on the enclosed stick
  • Clean up drops of urine nervously splattered on toilet seat resulting from stress peeing
  • Check stick despite absolute certainty that test is not finished yet
  • Consider an appropriate public space to inform Jeff of your pregnancy where he has to remain calm and can’t run off like when you asked him to add you to his Netflix account
  • Look around bathroom for a strand of Jeff’s hair for a DNA test just in case he does run
  • Check stick again
  • Pretend not to have been paying attention as an excuse to check one more time
  • Hope that somehow Jeff can take better care of a baby than a goldfish
  • Kick self for not keeping a bottle of wine in the bathroom
  • Drink two thirds of a bottle of Scope instead
  • Tell self you lost track of time so you should check the stick again
  • Convince self that Jeff is mature enough for this
  • Convince self that self is mature enough for this
  • Put on Sweet Child of Mine and curl into fetal position on bathroom floor
  • Check timer to discover there are still 53 seconds left
  • Check stick anyway
  • Remember time when Jeff forgot to take cookies out of the oven and blamed the disappearance of the cookies, the broken oven, and the smoke all on the dog
  • Remember how he still sticks to that story and tries to leave the room as fast as possible whenever it comes up
  • Watch YouTube clip of a baby tasting a lemon for the first time to remind yourself this is not necessarily a bad thing
  • Google “youtube baby phenomenon make parent millionaire”
  • Stare into space until timer goes off and then jump up so fast you almost smash the stick
  • Check stick
    • If minus sign is present, dump Jeff’s dumb ass
    • If plus sign is present, finish bottle of Scope

-Melissa Chiasson and Jordy Greenblatt

Facebook Security Questions

by Lincoln Sedlacek

Facebook works hard to ensure your account remains secure and you private information stays private. In order to help us keep your personal information safe, please answer the following security questions:

What is your biggest regret?

Does the Red Cross allow you to give blood?

Have you ever considered deactivating your Facebook account?

What was the make and model of the first car you cheated on your spouse in?

Knowing we have the answer to that question, are you now considering deactivating your Facebook account?

Who was your favorite professor who raised your exam grades for unethical reasons?

What is the name of your first illegally owned firearm?

What is a crime you have committed for which you were never convicted?

What is the trigger word that will cause you to carry out your mission for the KGB?

If you thought that deactivating your Facebook account could result in up to 20 years in prison, would you still consider doing so?

Where did you last bury a human body? Please select a state from the drop-down list below.

On what date did you commit your most significant act of treason?

We read all your private messages.

-Jordy Greenblatt and Lincoln Sedlacek

2015’s Hottest Summer Looks for Thermometers

by Lincoln Sedlacek

Look out, thermometers, because summer is here. Is your wardrobe ready for the coming months? Check out a few of 2015’s hottest summer trends!

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Higher Mercury Levels
Nothing says “summer” like a hike — hiking up your mercury levels, that is! Get your mercury levels as high as these, and the world is going to know that you’re hot, hot, hot!

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Greater Digital Numbers
Of course, if you’re not a “mercury” type, you can always heat things up with some high digital numbers. Gone are last month’s 60s and 70s. Time to break out the 80s and 90s!

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Condensation
Remember how your parents wanted you to wear icicles from November through February? Well, they may be about to have a meltdown, because it’s time to shrug off those boring old ice chips and show the world that, with you, it’s not just the heat: it’s the humidity.

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Bursting
Still don’t feel like you’re hot enough? Try blowing your top off, sending your insides shooting out and dribbling down your sides. It’s a daring, once-in-a-lifetime look, but it’s sure to have people pointing at you saying, “Gee, look at that thermometer! It doesn’t get much hotter than that!”

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Be the Sun
People will definitely realize how hot your look is if you’re the sun.

Put It All On Red Menial Task Internship

by Lincoln Sedlacek

Are you an aspiring humor writer? Is it too late to apply for any worthwhile internships? Will you temporarily settle for undignifying menial tasks in an attempt to further your misguided dreams? If so, you may be a perfect candidate for the Put It All On Red Menial Task Internship!

The Put It All On Red Menial Task Internship was created to prepare young humorists for securing unsatisfactory internships after college. Salaries are “competitive,” meaning interns will participate in weekly fights over spare change found under the break room’s couch cushions. Interns will work at PIAOR’s main office, which has been described as “illustrious” and “state-of-the-art” in brainstorming sessions for this posting.

Our ideal candidate is someone who comes into a professional workplace and simply can’t leave without cleaning out the fridge, bringing everyone coffee, and figuring out which fluorescent light is making that high-pitched buzzing noise. The full list of responsibilities for this job is currently unknown, however, and could range from things we don’t want to do all the way to things you don’t want to do.

Likely responsibilities include:

  • Cutting apart and adapting sections of pantyhose to use as coffee filters
  • Writing a 1000-page essay on how Put It All On Red’s internship helped prepare you to compete in the American workforce (or whatever)
  • Opening, reading, and answering Jordy’s fan mail
  • Writing Jordy’s fan mail
  • Positioning yourself to take the fall for any crimes that PIAOR may have committed in the past, present, or future

You’ll also learn valuable real-world skills, like:

  • Using Word, Excel, and other Microsoft Office programs to feign productivity
  • Listening to a moron like Lincoln Sedlacek
  • Coping with being vastly underpaid for your work
  • Designing microchips for supercomputers, if you also happen to take a second job at a tech development company
  • Talking to family members about your job as though taking it wasn’t a career-ruining decision

At Put It All On Red, we want all of our interns to receive learning experiences that meet their career goals, just long enough for them to decide it’s too late in the summer for them to start looking for a job more suited to their professional ambitions. The position begins June 1st and ends August 31st. To apply, please submit a cover letter and resume to intern@putitallonred.com. We will get back to you as soon as we find someone to go through all these applications.

The Origin of Dippin’ Dots

by Melissa Chiasson

“What if we took ice cream and made it awful?”

Mr. Hecht’s 7th Grade Pre-Algebra Final to Be Administered During His Open Ended Vacation In the Cayman Islands

by Jordy Greenblatt

  1. Your mom has to be at the bank 11 miles from home at exactly 10am. Suppose she wants to walk but she left the house at exactly 9am and doesn’t have time to walk the whole way. If she drives part of the way at 35 miles per hour and then walks the rest of the way at 5 miles per hour, what’s the furthest distance she can walk and still make it to the bank by 10 sharp. Include the name and address of your mom’s actual bank with your answer.
  2. How many ways are there to rearrange the letters in your mom’s online banking login? How many ways are there to rearrange the letters in her password? Write down 3 rearrangements of each, including the actual login and password. Also her first pet, her favorite food, her middle name, her elementary school, and the first name of her paternal grandmother.
  3. If C is your mom’s checking account number and S is her savings account number, calculate C-S and C+S. Is this enough information for me to determine C and S? I think so, but just to be safe, write down both her account numbers.
  4. If D is your dad’s debit number and P is his ATM PIN, calculate D+P and D-P. This may look similar to problem 3 but it’s not the same because the numbers are different and it’s about your dad.
  5. Divide your dad’s credit card number by the 3 digit security code on the back with remainder. You must show all work to get credit. Especially the card number and security code.
  6. If a credit card fraud protection plan costs 2% of your dad’s credit limit and only one in ten thousand of all card holders are fraud victims, is it worth investing in the plan? Hint: It’s not. Make sure to tell your dad within the next 3 business days.
  7. If x3 = 343, what are your parents’ social security numbers?
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