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Bono as an Egg (and You Can Bid on Him)

By on March 3, 2013 in Bono, Causes & Charities, Funnies & Oddities

That list of the weirdest U2 crafts that Rashas wrote about a few days back was obviously written before anyone saw this. That’s Bono done up in the shape of a giant egg … an egg that also happens to be up for auction this month. If you’re in Dublin during the next couple weeks, [...]

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Weirdest U2 Crafts

By on February 26, 2013 in Funnies & Oddities

Ever wonder what unusual U2-related crafts people have come up with? Stereogum put together a list of the 10 Weirdest U2 Crafts on the Web. There’s everything from a dress made out of a tour T-shirt to a drawing of Bono and Edge as sheep in the band Ewe 2. This reminds me of the [...]

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Introducing Bonospider! (Bono has a spider named after him. Really.)

By on January 20, 2013 in Bono, Funnies & Oddities

Forget the hundreds of millions of albums sold, forget the globetrotting tours that set records that may never be broken, forget the throngs of adoring fans … you know you’ve made it when scientists name a spider after you. That honor has been bestowed on Bono. According to the Riverside Press-Enterprise, taxonomist Jason Bond recently [...]

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Best. Book Promotion (and U2 Parody) Video. Ever.

By on September 13, 2012 in Funnies & Oddities, Video/Audio/Photo

To promote their upcoming book, Is That a Word?: From AA to ZZZ, the Weird and Wonderful Language of Scrabble, author David Bukszpan and publisher Chronicle Books created this hysterical parody of U2′s “With or Without You” video. You probably don’t need to be a word geek to love this, but it might help. Me? [...]

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VIDEO: Bono & Edge’s Elevator Music on Letterman

By on July 22, 2011 in Funnies & Oddities, On TV & Radio, Video/Audio/Photo

We wrote on the main site about Bono and The Edge appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman this past Monday, but last night’s show (Thursday) had a sort of encore performance! Well, kind of. It seems that while B&E were at the Sullivan Theatre, they taped a funny little skit that aired on [...]

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U2 and Harry Potter

By on July 17, 2011 in Funnies & Oddities, Miscellaneous

Our earlier blog post showed band members in movie roles in U2 themed movie posters. Now the roles are reversed. Nextmovie.com took 9 classic album covers and put the actors from Harry Potter in character on them. Two classic U2 albums made this list. I was going to post the images , but I thought [...]

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