Maybe they know better and they’re just saying this stuff to get on YouTube? Link: https://youtu.be/kyhCOPh48ew In fairness, a lot of people probably did answer the questions correctly besides the vacationing Italian and were simply left out of the video, … Continue reading
Category Archives: Funny peculiar
I suspect most people remember their first experience driving in San Francisco, probably for the same reason they remember scary scenes in The Shining. Some hills are so steep you wonder how your car is holding onto the road. Walking … Continue reading
Last week’s New York Times Magazine had an article (link) by Adrian Chen about a strange new Russian plot. It seems that Russia has, no kidding, deployed an army of Internet trolls tasked among other things with making Putin look … Continue reading
Jack Pearl is little remembered today, but in the early days of radio he was famous for playing Baron Munchausen, a character with a thick German accent who would recount ludicrous adventures he claimed to have had, responding to skepticism … Continue reading
My brother Tom recommended that I watch last night’s episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and he was right; it was definitely worth seeing. I can’t embed the whole episode here, but you can watch it on the … Continue reading
Here’s a 30-second video clip captured in March in the Czech Republic. Presumably this started with the boy taking the St Bernard dog for a walk, but admittedly that’s not quite what the video shows. Link: https://youtu.be/jBKkuYYzu70 (Updated to new … Continue reading
Here’s yet another John Green clip I found entertaining (though I’m old fashioned enough that it annoys me that he says “lay” when he means “lie”), this time revealing some interesting facts about that under-appreciated noble animal, the pig. Link: … Continue reading
Back in 2014, the University of Maryland’s Memorial Chapel played the following from its bell tower on the first day of April, sometimes known as April Fool’s Day: Link: https://youtu.be/tmehbkhPWGs by … Continue reading
The following caution from the packaging for a flying Batman toy is among the most poetically cryptic I’ve ever read. It’s not often that instructions include the word “prythee” or the expression “till the cowcomes home.” Someone named Sandy Moritz … Continue reading
It takes a minute to figure out what you’re looking at on this graph, but once you get the point it’s quite interesting. A title’s horizontal position represents how long ago the story (novel, movie, or whatever) first appeared, with … Continue reading