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We'd forgive you for looking down on three 30-somethings who aim to play at least four straight days of "Super Mario Brothers." But what if we told you it was all for charity?

As of 11 a.m. today, John Groth, Chris Deckard and Brian Bringer of Lafayette, Ind., have set forth on their third annual Mario Marathon, with all benefits going to the Child's Play Charity, which provides games, toys and books to patients in children's hospitals.

Alternating their time behind the controllers, the trio hopes to finish all the levels in nine different Mario-themed Nintendo games. The catch being the group will only play as many levels as have been "unlocked" by the donations they are soliciting for the Child's Play Charity.

So far they have raised more than $10,000, which unlocks over 500 of the 809 levels in the nine games. Because the donation threshold increases by a percentage point with each level, it would take $156,611 for them to have the opportunity to reach to their ultimate goal.

Last year they were able to raise over $29,000, which kept them busy for 96 hours.

You can donate directly to the Child's Play Charity through the Mario Marathon website, where you can also check out a live stream of the marathon.

Here's this week's most outrageous relationship red flag story from the editors of The Little Black Blog of Big Red Flags.

The Story: "My girlfriend and her ex are extremely good friends. They often have fights, and when that happens she claims that she never wants to speak to him again. She even deleted him from Facebook -- twice. But somehow they always seem to make up and add each other as friends again.

I finally explained to her how uncomfortable this made me, and she said she would stop talking to him. This lasted all of two weeks because they "missed each other." Then they made plans to hang out.

We've been together nine months, and she says she wants to marry me, but I feel like she's just settling for me because he's leaving for the Marines in September and will probably never see her again."

Got a red flag story? Submit it by visiting The Little Black Blog of Big Red Flags or emailing bigredflags@gmail.com.

Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

A yawn may signal that a person wants to have sex, among other things.

Yesterday, at the International Conference on Yawning, scientists presented the latest theory on yawning. The new revelation is based on reports from sexologists that many of their patients yawn during sex and foreplay.

Yawning -- which the average adult does five to 10 times a day -- can also signal that one is tired (which you no doubt already knew) or under stress. As of now, scientists have no ability to distinguish a "let's get it on" yawn from an "I want to catch some ZZZs" yawn.

Nevertheless, we've used this new information to reevaluate every date we've ever been on. It turns out we may have been much more interesting than we initially thought.

Most of us don't realize this, but it's hard out there for hot chicks sometimes. Not only do they have to put up with guys making crude comments about how good they look, they also have to deal with not hot people checking out their Facebook profiles.

Did you know that the profiles of hot chicks are the most viewed profiles on Facebook? Well, regardless if this is true or not, a group of hot chicks set out on a campaign to change Facebook's privacy settings, so that hot chicks everywhere wouldn't have to put up with gross people checking out their "Puerto Rico!!!" photo albums.

As if fast food wasn't fancy enough, along comes Erik Trinidad with Fancy Fast Food. This popular blog is all about transforming the greased-up menu items of McDonald's and the like into delicious orgasms for your eyeballs.

The Asylum gang sat down with Trinidad to pick his brain about the site, and how it all got started in the second installment of "Masterclash Takes on Fast Food" ...


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No self-respecting cult-movie collector can truly call himself one without owning this horror clunker on their shelves. "Manos: The Hands of Fate," made famous after receiving heaps of ridicule as a feature on "Mystery Science Theater 3000," is one of the most famous bad movies of all time.

Its extreme-low-budget look, sound and feel have made it a must-see for all B-movie lovers. It's so beloved that one of its biggest fans hopes to pick up where the film's vision left off by giving it the sequel treatment.

"We're doing it because we love it," said Rupert Tailbot Munch, the film's director, writer and producer. "We're doing it on our own dime. We're doing it for fun and to see how far it can go. It's going to be a testament to the creativity and the craziness of all the people involved."

The Topps Trading Card Company knew Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg's rookie card would be a highly coveted item. Even before the first-round draft pick began to strike batters out at a record-setting pace, Topps decided to limit his autographed rookie card to a grand total of one copy.

And so it should come as no surprise that the rare red-bordered original was found in a box of trading cards and immediately put up for sale on eBay, where it quickly garnered more than 200 bids, topped by a confirmed current bid of $999,900 with days still to go.

Adam Martin, owner of Dave and Adam's Card World, the largest seller of trading cards in the world, told Asylum, "It's the uniqueness of this card and the uniqueness of this player that, combined, created this frenzy. I would've aimed high and said it would sell for $50,000, and here we are at a million."

How rare is it, we wondered, to find a baseball card worth seven figures? "It's never happened before, with the exception of some truly vintage cards like the Honus Wagner, which went for $2.8 million," says Martin.

It's even rarer, then, that a very recent rookie card -- as a supposed to, say, a Mickey Mantle -- would go for this much. "We are totally in uncharted territory," admits Martin. "When the unsigned card went for $16,000, we were absolutely amazed it sold for that much. I'm speechless."

Even stranger, too, is the fact that the unsigned, unnumbered Stephen Strasburg rookie card from the same box, without shiny refractor technology, is worth only about $30.

A fourth-grader from Warwick, N.Y., named Jack Singer broke the record for wearing the most underwear at the same time. The video of the record-breaking feat straddles the line between triumphant and harrowing.

At about the 0:51 mark, Singer seems to be struggling to breathe with a pained grimace on his youthful mug. We're also thinking that having a group of adults strap you down with 215 pairs of tighty whities while your classmates cheer you on may mean serious therapy bills later in life.


That said, we celebrate this boy's achievements. Watch for yourself and see why this isn't a record-making attempt that should be taken lightly ...

Readers share their true stories of terrible tattoos.

It started back in 1996 when I wanted to get a small "R" on my ring finger to always remember my daughter's father who passed away. I ended up with a hideous-looking "B."

I looked at the guy through tear-filled eyes and asked him what he had done. He looked at me as if he was in shock and said, "Clearly it's a 'B.' No kidding! I asked for an 'R.'"

He apologized and tried to fix it but nothing could be done.

Years later I got married, and my husband did not like that I had this (botched) dedication to another man on my body. He wanted it covered up.

We argued in the tattoo shop because I wanted a small, solid heart. He thought that if I covered it up with a heart it would mean I still loved him. Men's jealousy issues, I suppose.

I grew frustrated and finally said, "Fine, put that gecko on my finger." To this day, I have a faded black gecko on my ring finger, and although the marriage did not last, the tattoo will remain a constant reminder of the mistakes of my past.

Got a terrible tattoo tale and photo you'd like to share? Send it our way.