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6 Spectacularly Bad Ideas From History’s Greatest Geniuses

Tesla’s Earthquake Machine, Thomas Edison the Ghost Buster and Flying Tanks. Continue reading

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6 Famous Movie Wisemen Who Were Totally Full of Crap

Sometimes you’ll be watching a movie and an old wise man will appear on the screen. He will say little, but those few words will be full of sage advice that will guide the hero on his journey. You may even find yourself quoting him later.

What is easy to forget is that behind that wise old man is just a hack Hollywood screenwriter, and that those ancient words of wisdom were thrown in on the third draft, at four in the morning, after half a pound of cocaine. Continue reading

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5 Things The Media Loves Pretending Are News

Reporting the news is really hard. We’ve seen those poor guys standing in the hurricanes, trying to hold on to their microphone while debris flies by. And it’s a good thing we have them; blogs and Twitter are nice, but to find out what’s really going on in the world, at some point you need good old-fashioned journalism.

So can you blame a news outlet for using shortcuts and falling into the same old mistakes and cliches over and over again, just to fill space?

Yes, yes we can. Continue reading

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Conan O’Brien on Fox: Pros vs. Cons

The Late Night scrap-up has undoubtedly been one of the most fun public battles between multi-millionaires since John Jacob Astor and J.D. Rockefeller dueled on national radio with giant bags of money. But when the dust settles, our beloved Coco must find a new home and one particular network, Fox, is frothing at the mouth for the coup. What would a Foxy Conan look like, and should we care? Let’s weigh the pros and cons. Continue reading

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How to Recognize Comedy

We all crave a chuckle now and then, but most of us chose to receive our larfs in safe venues like open mike comedy clubs or your local college improvisational team. Why limit your yuks to these rare and controlled occasions when comedy is all around us? Comedy is, after all, nothing more than a common situation with surprising or unexpected results. I myself have an uncanny knack for recognizing comedy in daily existence. Allow me to present some recent situations I found myself in to illustrate how to spot comedy in your life. Continue reading

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Super Bowl XLVI Commentated by 19th Century English Dandy Lord Horatio Byron Fluttersby.

My word, what is this, my good fellows? Could this be a game of footsieball? Well, well. Why I could watch footsieball for a fortnight. Ee Gads! Continue reading

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Things People Won’t Say to Me Once I Own a Dragon

That I haven’t totally recovered in a kick ass way from the divorce.

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Jokes My Four Year Old Recently Told Me

What did the giraffe say to the sky?

A: Get lost, buddy! Continue reading

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