ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH?
SIR, i have come to ask permission to marry lour lovely daughter…
BY PHIL McANDREW
7 Products You Rather Your Kid Won’t Even Know About
From Fake Beer to Suicidal Bathtub Plug : 7 Products You Rather Your Kid Won’t Even Know AboutSome trends can be considered as improvements and are easily likable. Others should better be left behind. Take this new freaky trend from the land of “no one can be crazier than us” for example: fake alcoholic drinks [...]
Horse Fight In China
Chinese spectators smile sadistically at the inhumane spectacle of two beautiful horses savagely attacking one another.
With ears back, eyes rolling and nostrils flared in fury, the enraged horses pummel each other with their hooves and bite and head-butt each other in a horrifying fight, sometimes to the death.
Men, women and children watch, and a roar [...]
5 Things You Didn’t Know about AK-47
Guns have always been a fascinating topic in America. From who’s using them to what model, make and brand they are, guns have become a staple in our modern society. Now, whether that’s a sad or thrilling fact, we’ve decided to let our readers in on some interesting facts about one of America’s most loved [...]
Top 10 Modern Mysteries
Mysteries tap the imagination, fuel speculation and invite the attention of conspiracy theorists. While there are numerous ancient mysteries, they don’t excite us the same way these top 10 modern mysteries do; perhaps because we can relate to them easier if they’re closer to our own time. It is that ability to relate, to feel [...]
4 Huge Explosions Nobody Could Explain
Tunguska – Thousands of square kilometres of trees were burned
In the early morning of 30 June, 1908, witnesses told of a gigantic explosion and blinding flash. Thousands of square kilometres of trees were burned and flattened.
Scientists have always suspected that an incoming comet or asteroid lay behind the event – but no impact crater was [...]
What’s Inside Rome’s Ancient Catacombs
Corridor in the famous catacombs of Rome
Catacombs such as these were carved over hundreds of years, beginning in the second century A.D., from soft rock beneath the outskirts of Rome. The labyrinthine corridors of these underground cemeteries cover hundreds of acres and house the remains of hundreds of thousands of Christians and Jews.
Rome’s famous catacombs [...]
World’s Best Street Food
Street cooks are magicians: With little more than a cart and a griddle, mortar, or deep-fryer, they conjure up not just a delicious snack or meal but the very essence of a place. Bite into a banh mi—the classic Vietnamese sandwich of grilled pork and pickled vegetables encased in a French baguette—and you taste Saigon: [...]
The World’s Top 10 Left-Handed Athletes
Right is wrong and left is … right?
Seems to be. It’s not exactly a bass-ackward revolution, but left-handers are doing okay for themselves in sports these days.
Or are they?
The idea struck me last week when I saw highlights of college quarterbacks Josh Heupel and Matt Leinart winning BCS National Championship Games. They disappeared = [...]
Weirdest Things Found in Sewers and Drains
At one time, the only things you worried about finding in sewers were alligators, but Roto-Rooter — the international plumbing and drain company — has rescued everything from guns, illegal drugs, GI Joe dolls, live cats, electric razors, currency, coins, snakes, prosthetic eyeballs, iPods and even an unexploded Civil War cannon shell from toilets, drainpipes [...]
The 12 Worst People to Gamble With In Vegas
Vegas is America’s Tijuana, but without needing to sit on a toilet for 2 days afterwards. Some of the people you meet in Vegas are so shady it can make you feel like the city had been controlled by a bunch of mobsters. Between your pupils never adjusting to the epileptic flashing lights and the [...]
12 Awesome 80’s Movies That Are Perfect
The 80’s were a decade of decadence, with everything being bigger, crazier, and more over the top. It was the beginning of the age of insanity, and yet somehow, out of the midst of all of the big crazy hair and drug use and Reaganomics, a few gems that could withstand the test of time [...]
7 Products You Rather Your Kid Won’t Even Know About
From Fake Beer to Suicidal Bathtub Plug : 7 Products You Rather Your Kid Won’t Even Know AboutSome trends can be considered as improvements and are easily likable. Others should better be left behind. Take this new freaky trend from the land of “no one can be crazier than us” for example: fake alcoholic drinks [...]
Most Interesting Bookstores of the World
Selexyz Bookstore in Maastricht, Holland. The bookstore is installed in an old Dominican church. Photography by madcrow Flickr.com
The coffee shop of the Selexyz Bookstore in Maastricht is settled in the altar of the church. Photography by edwin_wisse Flickr.com
Borderlands Science Fiction Bookstore in San Francisco is home to this hairless Sphynx cat. Photography by massdistraction Flickr.com
Shakespeare [...]
Anti Smoking Campains
It appears that some of the most creative and inventive advertising is coming from nonprofits these days.
This month, I will be taking a look at the nonprofits and “for a good cause” marketing techniques. Today, we turn to the the advertising campaigns being used to increase awareness about the bad effects of smoking
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How would you [...]
97 Years old Fruitcake
Pierre Girard got a gag gift that lives up to its name. It keeps on giving – and it occasionally makes people gag.
Hunterville Huntaway Festival
Hunterville is a village in New Zealand, established in 1884 by George Hunter and that according to the 2006 Census has a population of only 440. But that doesn’t stop it from gathering huge crowds from all over the island for the unique Huntaway Festival.
The Huntaway is a fun festival featuring contests like the Dog [...]
