Everything Right With The Price Is Right
On November 26, 1956, a television revolution took place. A price-bidding game allowed coupon-clipping housewives to finally feel as smart as the PHD-holding contestants seen on the many quiz shows...
View ArticleA Mobius Bacon Strip
Just imagine Homer Simpson’s response to this brilliant tee shirt by John Sumrow, “mmm…infinite bacon.” Link via Laughing Squid
View ArticleMore Not-So-Famous Christmas Firsts
We featured a few holiday firsts last year, and have since dug up a few more to further clutter your mind in between shopping trips. First Rockefeller Center Tree In New York City, the holiday season...
View ArticleThe Quick 10: People With Fake Middle Initials
Maybe fake isn’t exactly correct – some of the people on this list really have initials for middle names, they just don’t mean anything. But others have made them up entirely. Read on to see what I...
View ArticleThe Lonely Emperor Penguin of New Zealand
Imagine you’re on a warm New Zealand beach, walking your dog, minding your business, when farther along the sand you spot a–no, it’s not a… it is a penguin! Christine Wilton was doing exactly that on...
View ArticleA Temple Made From Beer Bottles
Now here’s a place Homer Simpson could really worship, the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew Temple in Thailand. It’s made from over 1.5 million green Heineken and brown Chang beer bottles. Link
View ArticleAcid Park
Vollis Simpson built a collection of what he calls “whirlygigs” on his property in Wilson, North Carolina, that came to be known as Acid Park. According to an urban legend, Simpson’s daughter died in...
View ArticleEvery Bart Simpson Chalkboard Quote To Date
To celebrate The Simpson’s upcoming 500th episode, the interwebs is passing around this note straight from Krabappel’s classroom- all 288 of Bart’s chalkboard punishment quotes from the intro! But you...
View ArticleWoman Fired For “Living in Sin”
Could you lose your job because you’re "living in sin" with your boyfriend? That’s what Ashlie Simpson, 31, of Colorado, claimed. She said that her employer Colorado Christian University fired her...
View ArticleHow Did King Edward VIII Meet Wallis Simpson?
© Bettmann/CORBIS In the 1930s, how would a middle-class Baltimore divorcee become romantically involved with the man who would be King of England? It always comes down to who you know. And Wallis...
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