Ransom Riggs
Weird Website of the Week: Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
by Ransom Riggs - February 1, 2010 - 7:30 AM

tom-selleck_320I have to say, I’m consistently amazed that A) websites like this exist, and B) people (like me) find them interesting enough (for a minute or two at least) to scroll through them and laugh and tell other people, and also that C) a meta-weird randomness like this will probably attract enough attention to garner a book deal of some sort. So before someone gives it to you as a gag gift, you can be proud to say you saw it here first: Selleck Waterfall Sandwich.

Yep, it’s just like the title says. Three simple elements, quickly Photoshopped together in a low-fi mishmash (which is kind of the point), featuring Tom in a baseball uniform with pastrami on rye, Tom firing a shotgun through a bologna on a roll, Tom in a tux underwater with a cheesesteak … and so on. It’s even got a theme song.

What do you think? Stupid? Brilliant? Both? Should I be fired for even posting this crap? (A frequent theme in the comments recently!) Let us know!

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Comments (21)

  1. If I were Tom Selleck I would be on the lookout for a stalker!!!

    posted by Gordon Daily on 2-1-2010 at 7:40 am

  2. If I were Tom Selleck, I would find this person and beat the snot out of him. I always find your posts fascinating, Ransom; especially the strange geographies. Incredible stuff.

    Captcha: in scrounge

    posted by Kevin on 2-1-2010 at 7:49 am

  3. Weird? Check. Stupid? Check. Probably going to be popular? Unfortunately, check. Now if it were Tom as PART of a sandwich… that’s a whole different kinda website.

    (captcha: wrestler systems)

    posted by Kelley O on 2-1-2010 at 7:56 am

  4. He appears to be a fun target these days between this site and the @t_selleck Twitter account.

    posted by Christian A. Dumais on 2-1-2010 at 8:12 am

  5. If I were Tom Selleck my mustache would be less cool than it now is.

    posted by gus on 2-1-2010 at 8:33 am

  6. As a fan of Selleck the actor and a Magnum PI lover, I don’t understand. Maybe I am too old. Maybe this is like one of those mosquito tones – after a certain age you just don’t notice it.

    Oh well.

    posted by Scott Brown on 2-1-2010 at 8:57 am

  7. Apparently some people just have way too much time on their hands.

    posted by Wendy on 2-1-2010 at 9:19 am

  8. I appreciate anything that makes me laugh or smile, I vote that Ransom keeps making posts like this.

    posted by Kie on 2-1-2010 at 1:06 pm

  9. What? What is this???? Fun!

    posted by colette on 2-1-2010 at 1:14 pm

  10. I think these photos are pointless and a time waster.

    posted by susan federico on 2-1-2010 at 2:16 pm

  11. @ Susan
    That’s the point. It’s meant to irrelevent and waste time

    reCaptcha: decoy pie

    posted by hockey zombie on 2-1-2010 at 2:57 pm

  12. If the sandwiches were better illustrated, I’d say it’s fine. But no, let the firings commence.

    posted by Chris Higgins on 2-1-2010 at 3:15 pm

  13. I love stuff like this. Makes me feel better that I’m not the only person that sits around and let’s random things pop in her head. I just don’t have have the time (or lack of firewall) to put my ideas on… um… internet?

    posted by Stacy the Amazing on 2-1-2010 at 3:41 pm

  14. Ransom,

    I was delighted when I found this website last week. I’m glad you posted it.

    posted by Jen on 2-1-2010 at 4:04 pm

  15. I dont get it. I’m a little disapointed in this post…

    ReCaptcha: In Algeria

    posted by ashley on 2-1-2010 at 6:48 pm

  16. That was amazing.

    (captcha: the mermaid)

    posted by Shine on 2-1-2010 at 6:50 pm

  17. that’s ridiculous. and awesome. love the theme song.

    posted by C on 2-1-2010 at 6:59 pm

  18. Ahh, the internet. An amazing technological tool that is now being used to propagate Selleck Waterfall Sandwiches, LOLcats, inane Twitter posts from half-witted celebrities, and the like.

    The way I see it, we have to take the good with the bad. For every amazing website (Google, Pandora, Wikipedia), there’s at least a couple thousand lame ones. Whatever. Nobody’s forcing you to spend time perusing the dumb ones.

    posted by Brooke on 2-1-2010 at 9:52 pm

  19. I think this isn’t too worthy of mentioning, but whatever. Please remember, this is mental floss and not mental ache!

    posted by A on 2-2-2010 at 6:21 am

  20. This is from our blog, TIGER BUTTER, the original link here will give you the back story if you’re interested.

    http://meltallthetigers.blogspot.com/2010/01/selleck-waterfall-sandwich.html

    kdub

    posted by kdub on 2-2-2010 at 12:43 pm

  21. It delivers what it promises. :)

    posted by Scott on 2-10-2010 at 11:13 pm

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