Back in December, “The League” featured an episode where Taco came up with the not-so-crazy idea of a Netflix type service for neck ties called “Neckflix.” The idea is simple: The service would send its customer a few ties each week in the mail, and then the customer could return them for a new set of ties the following week. This way, the customer could wear a different tie every day of the year without actually having to buy 365 new ties.

Genius, right?

David Powers, a lawyer at WilmerHale (Boo! BigLaw) thought so. He and Scott Tindle started their own Neckflix service.

TieTry.com is the brainchild of David Powers, who works for the firm WilmerHale, and Scott Tindle, who is based in Mobile, Ala., and they bill it as a kind of Netflix for your neck. For a monthly subscription charge, TieTry will send customers between one and five neckties to wear without having to buy. Ties are expensive, Powers says, so why plunk down a wad of cash and be stuck with it when you can loan one for a few days at a time.

Yup. That sounds exactly like Taco’s service. Powers claims that he got the idea from reality series “Shark Tank,” in which a group of venture capital investors hear pitches from aspiring entrepreneurs. But we know the truth. I expect that Mr. Powers will soon be hearing from Taco Corp. I don’t expect, however, that Taco Corp. will have a credible intellectual property claim — you can’t patent a business idea — but he could sue for egregious douchebaggery and failure to cite proper inspiration. Or he could just sic Bobbum Man on him.

(Source: AbovetheLaw with a Major Hat Tip to Douglas W. for the heads up)

“Douchebag” has come a long way since the 1960s when its meaning was spun-off from vaginal cleaning contraption into the most commonly used pejorative in the English language. Used to describe arrogant, self-obsessed a**holes, douchebags themselves have also taken on a endearing quality in recent years. That is to say: Not all douchebags are created equally: Some are loathsome, some are lovable, and some are just plain funny. 2011 was a great for douchebags, as the following slideshow recounting the biggest d-bags of the year will attest.

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If you’ve been following the Brett Ratner skeeve-fest at FilmDrunk, it should come as no surprise that the Tower Heist director has resigned as the producer of this February’s Oscars telecast.

To recap Ratner’s week: in response to Olivia Munn’s blind item about a “fat, slobby, smug, and ridiculously rich and famous blockbuster film director” masturbating while eating shrimp, Ratner said that he “banged her a few times, but forgot her” because “she wasn’t Asian back then.” He later admitted he never had sex with Munn. But Ratner was just getting warmed up with insensitive statements: last weekend, during a Q&A session about Tower Heist, he uttered the infamous “Rehearsal is for fags” line. He apologized — kind of — but the damage was done. Queue the resignation:

Over the last few days, I’ve gotten a well-deserved earful from many of the people I admire most in this industry expressing their outrage and disappointment over the hurtful and stupid things I said in a number of recent media appearances. To them, and to everyone I’ve hurt and offended, I’d like to apologize publicly and unreservedly.

Blah blah blah, LGBT community, dialogue, you get the picture. Much more entertaining is the Los Angeles Times’s scathing analysis of the fallout:

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As Brett noted yesterday on UPROXX, Stephen Colbert infiltrated Occupy Wall Street dressed up as Che Guevara for a segment on “The Colbert Report.” But the majority of the segment (video below) was an interview with these caricatures of liberal hipster scum. The woman on the right — yes, she really IS wearing oversize glasses AND a vintage dress AND Down Syndrome bangs — goes by the name “Ketchup.” Her name is Ketchup. And she says she’s a “female-bodied person,” because not all biological females identify themselves as women. Because apparently saying she’s a woman would be insulting to transgendered people? I don’t know.

I mean, here I am, someone who’s angry at the big banks and hedge funds who led to our nation’s financial ruin. I’ve lost a significant portion of my meager life savings thanks to their greed. I absolutely identify with the 99%. And yet these cheesedick academic douchebags make me want to reconsider my position. I’m thinking about joining the NYPD right now just for the outside chance to hit these people with a night stick.

Yo Occupy Wall Street, hire a PR firm.

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Occasionally, the Internet is a weird force for good. Due to Internet dares started by Something Awful, Smashmouth singer Steve Harwell will attempt to eat two dozen eggs cooked by Guy Fieri — for charity. Douchologists are calling this the douchiest philanthropic event since the Sigma Chi’s spring break wet t-shirt contest in Daytona Beach benefited Livestrong. Let’s go to the douchey press release:

The spontaneous request was immediately backed by a multitude of fans via [Something Awful], Twitter and Facebook continuously urging Harwell to eat the eggs. Soon, it became one of the hottest trending topics on Twitter and Yahoo, and like an encore chant at a live concert, Harwell had no choice but to submit to their pleas.

Harwell responded in an effort to legitimize the request, telling fans if they could raise over $10,000 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a charity very near to Steve’s heart, he would eat the eggs. The band launched a fundraising page on Causes.com and watched as fans came through to meet the goal in less than a week.

The Egg Challenge will take place October 10th at Fieri’s Johnny Garlic’s restaurant in Dublin, California. And since the money’s already been donated to charity, it won’t be a total bust if, say, everyone at the event is incinerated by a meteor. Hint hint, God.

[via BuzzFeed]