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SciFi Tech From TV & Movies We Most Wish Was Real
Views: 486 May 21 2013Science Fiction is packed with gadgets that range from super-useful to just plain out-there. Mostly, I just want that damn Transporter to be real so I can, one day, skip the hour that it takes to drive 5 miles on the 405. Vote for the gadgets you most ...
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The Best Restaurant Names on The Simpsons
Views: 973 May 20 2013The Simpsons has some of the best background gags in all of televised comedy. Half the time, the names of the businesses are funnier than the episode itself. Which restaurant had the biggest laugh when you caught the name on the sign in the background? ...
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The Most Hateful Amazing Race Teams of All Time
Views: 543 May 19 2013Which were the worst teams in the history of the Amazing Race? There's always going to be hateful teams every season, but these teams really brought home the gold. Every moment onscreen they were fighting, whining, crying, quitting, backbiting, ...
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A Guide To Cloud Types
Views: 65 May 17 2013We live with clouds every day, but most of us don't know the difference between them or that knowing your clouds can tell you about the weather that might be coming. This is a guide to all the common (and some uncommon) cloud types that you might see on ...
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Superstitions You Secretly Believe
Views: 1,912 May 14 2013You might not admit it out loud, and maybe you don't even fully believe in these superstitions, but I bet you still knock on wood whenever you say something like "oh, well, I've never been in a car accident." Vote for the things you secretly ...
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The Best Hiking in Los Angeles
Views: 620 May 7 2013Los Angeles has everything an outdoors enthusiast wants. Beach, islands, desert and mountains... all for you to explore. There are hundreds of trails up in the high desert, along the coast and in the Angeles Forest, these are just a few of them. Vote for ...
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The Most Annoying Corporate Buzzwords
Views: 2,250 May 19 2013Anyone who has ever worked in an office, sat in a meeting, hunched in a cubicle all day or spent a day in a conference room forced to listen to a consultant tell you what you're all doing wrong has heard these words and phrases. And they make you angry ...
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The Most Idiotic Bad-Science Moments in Disaster Movies
Views: 2,075 May 18 2013Hollywood has no time for science! It's too slow/too fast, too dangerous/too benign, and mostly too complicated to be bothered with on the big screen. Disaster movies are the worst offenders of them all. If you have your fave bad-science moments in any ...
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The Grossest Personal Habits
Views: 825 May 17 2013Sometimes you are driving and you look over at the light and some dude has his finger shoved up his nose. Other times you are at a sporting event and a gentlemen next to you hawks a huge spit glob down at his feet. It's nasty. What's the grossest one, ...
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Horrible Things Every Vacation Rental Has in Common
Views: 1,396 May 19 2013For those of you who prefer to rent your own place when you go away for vacation with your family (or on your own), there are a number of things that you will find in common with these sorts of rental properties. I'm sure many of these owners are ...
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The Top 10 Oldest Living Things on Earth
Views: 214,149 May 8 2013You could probably nitpick some of these life forms within a million years here, a million years there... but the fact remains that these animals have been around a LONG @#$% time. They've achieved apparent perfection in their environment. Millennia have ...
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10 Things About Ants You Didn't Know
Views: 201,994 Feb 26 2013I'm a freak for insects. Love em. But ants have a special place with me. No other insect species is as unbelievable... as sophisticated, and as ...well, as powerful as ants. They have remained in an un-evolved state of perfection for 6 million years, ...
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Top 10 Worst (Best!) Rob Liefeld Covers
Views: 169,927 Apr 26 2013Is this too easy? Probably. I know better people than I have made their own Liefeld Lists of Pouches and Swords (notably: Progressive Boink) but I think I have a few he missed... plus, its never a bad thing to collect this much awesome into one place.
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The World's 6 Known SuperVolcanoes
Views: 166,292 May 9 2013Supervolcano is a word that sounds pretty silly. It's not just a regular volcano, it's SUPER. Just SUPER! But these calderas live up to the "super" in their name. A supervolcano can rain superheated rocks and debris down at a distance of 240 ...
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The 15 Smartest Animals on Earth
Views: 156,989 May 15 2013When putting this list of the smartest animals in the world together, I had to give myself criteria to follow. A complex brain is not a factor so much as the ability to use creative thinking. Sure, these are my own standards, and some might complain that ...
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The Biggest Douchebags in Hollywood
Views: 139,799 May 21 2013The biggest douchebags in Hollywood are the people we love to hate and wish we could remove from our happy, cozy world. These people are famous, but often not for being talented, like top Hollywood actors or Grammy-winning musicians, but rather for being ...
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Origins of the 7 Dirty Words
Views: 84,405 Mar 22 2013Some of these swear words, the words that George Carlin has told us they can't say on television (although I don't think thats entirely the case anymore), have been around for a very long time... their meanings unchanged even though their pronunciations ...
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The 25 Best Simpsons Quotes
Views: 79,300 May 21 2013Really, there are so many more than 25, but my fingers are tired. Plus, this list should really just be called MY favorite Simpsons Quotes, and even then... still not right (see: first sentence).
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10 Incredible Insect & Spider Battles
Views: 72,373 May 9 2013This is a collection of some of the most amazing insect and spider battles caught on tape. These are all predators - in almost all cases here, they are predator vs. predator... but in some it's a matter of small vs. large. These arthropods have been on ...
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10 Most Adorable Cartoon Drug Addicts
Views: 52,049 Mar 25 2013When I was a kid, the drug problems of these characters were never apparent. So what if Wimpy had an obvious food addiction problem? He was eating plates and plates of burgers! Hilarious! Did it occur to me that Shaggy was constantly stoned? No. They ...
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The Top 10 Untrue Medical Myths
Views: 49,592 May 8 2013We've heard these medical misconceptions repeated for years, and I'm certainly not the first person to debunk these 10 popular medical myths... myths that have seeped into the zeitgeist, been repeated by parents, friends, roomates and sometimes even ...
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How To Survive a Disaster
Views: 13,811 May 17 2013It could be that my most favoritest guilty pleasure is the consumption of disaster movies. Mostly because of what I learn so that I may be prepared when that next Meteor/Tsunami/Alien Invasion/Tornado/Earthquake/Monster/Climate Change comes along. How ...
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10 of the Most Doomed Expeditions in History
Views: 33,913 May 7 2013History is just FULL of doomed expeditions. It's hard to choose just 10 and it's hard to rank them in any kind of order. I chose these because these were doomed before they set out and almost all of them were victims of bad planning or bad leadership. In ...
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Top 10 Untrue Myths About Animals
Views: 30,754 Aug 30 2012We've heard all these things about animals and their behaviors and we've all believed them. In fact, many of these myths have been around for so long that people even get angry when you debunk them. However, these things are not facts and they have only ...
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The Best Fake Words From The Simpsons
Views: 37,190 May 19 2013If you aren't using Embiggen in your everyday jibber-jabber, your life must be sad and small. The Simpsons have been around for a couple decades now, and have given us so many fabulous words and made-up Simpsons sayings and Bart slang... SO many that, ...
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The Best & Worst Cartoon Vehicles
Views: 29,323 Mar 25 2013They say the car makes the man, right? Or is it hair... shoes? Well, these are the upstaging people movers that, oftentimes, were way cooler than the shows or comics they were in. We start from the best and move to the worst. As it should be.
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Earth's Big Five Mass Extinction Events
Views: 28,563 Feb 26 2013In honor of the discovery of particles found in Permian rocks that might have clues to the cause of the Permian die-off, I'm listing our planet's five biggest extinction events according to the fossil record. There have been a few large-scale extinction ...
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The 13 Scariest Viruses on Earth Today
Views: 54,883 May 15 2013They say these guys have existed since the beginning of life on Earth. As far back as there's a plant or animal record, there are viruses. Life has adapted, changed, grown... and still the virus plagues it. It has been re-inventing itself over and over ...
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Hateful, Hateful Cartoon Characters
Views: 23,686 Mar 25 2013Saturday morning cartoons. The staple of my childhood. But there was a stink in the flower field... and these characters were responsible. Even as a kid, they made my teeth clench.
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10 Amazing Things About Spiders
Views: 17,650 Feb 26 2013Most everyone hates and fears spiders on sight, but they are actually some of the most impressive, well-equipped animals on earth. They are the highest order of predator, built for killing and built for survival. Their amazing adaptive bodies make them ...
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10 Amazing Facts About Bees & Wasps
Views: 24,540 Feb 26 2013Everyone has an opinion about bees and wasps, ranging from wild, hysterical arm waving to wild, hysterical body contortions. You see black and yellow out of the corner of your eye, hear that droning sound, and immediately start flailing. Sting! It's ...
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The Best Simpsons Epi-ma-sodes
Views: 23,062 Mar 6 2013This is a hard thing to do, ranking Simpsons episodes. Sure, it hasn't been brilliant for a long time, but it had an amazing run of incredible, never-grow-old, always-funny episodes. Years worth. And while some just have some of the best bits EVER, ...
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The 20 Brightest Stars in the Sky
Views: 25,663 Mar 26 2013Determined by Apparent Magnitude, these are the 20 brightest stars in the sky from brightest to ... less bright. Magnitude measures brightness as seen from inside Earth's atmosphere... not necessarily size or importance. The white and blue stars tend to ...
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10 Things to Know About Earthquakes
Views: 22,092 May 6 2013While we in earthquake-prone places like California tend to get blase about the ground shaking ( aw hell, my coffee spilled! ), even the most unaffected of us feel that little niggle of fear whenever the walls start to shake... will this be a big one? ...
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The 15 Best Things To Do With Your Kids in LA
Views: 22,677 May 7 2013Whether you live in Los Angeles or are just on vacation here, if you have children you are always on the lookout for fun activities that will entertain them and that - hopefully - won't make you want to shoot yourself in the eye. I have not included a ...
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My Top 10 MST3K Episodes
Views: 19,518 May 17 2013This is a hard list to make, as any fan of Mystery Science Theater will tell you. But When you get down to it... as long as you set the criteria as "laughing until you're crying from start to finish", these, for me, set the standard.
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Awesome Movies You Never Heard Of
Views: 20,260 May 17 2013These are movies you may not have heard of, but should watch. Immediately. Because of the awesome.
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The Best Seasons of Survivor
Views: 24,949 May 21 2013"Survivor" was the first and, arguably, the best reality show. Now your voting can determine which of the seasons was tops. Maybe it was the personalities, or maybe it was the twists... or maybe it was the number of times someone was voted out ...
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Most Offensive Best Picture Oscar Wins
Views: 15,577 Aug 23 2012Movies that won Best Picture oscars and didn't deserve them.
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The 10 Things About Your Baby That You Don't Remember
Views: 14,835 May 7 2013If your kids have been out of diapers for a few years now, I have some news. Everything that consumed your life while you were intensively involved in Bring Up Baby is going to be wiped from your memory. Remember napping? How about how you were ...
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10 Amazing & Rare Natural Phenomenons
Views: 15,918 Feb 26 2013The natural world is packed to the brim with amazing life forms and spectacular accomplishments, but there are some things that just stand out. Mostly because they are so rare and unusual. Some of the things on this list have yet to be fully understood, ...
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The Origins of 15 Common Words & Phrases
Views: 14,505 Sep 5 2012Many of the words and phrases we use every day are things we take for granted in terms of what they mean now. But what did they originally mean? What are the origins of these everyday phrases and terms? Some of these might surprise you.
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The Funniest Business Names in The Simpsons
Views: 12,115 May 20 2013The Simpsons has a rich history of background gags, and some of the best are the names of the stores in Springfield and its environs. Sometimes they blow by so fast you have to rewind to fully appreciate the rich and hilarious history of business names ...
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The Best Simpsons Non-Human Characters
Views: 14,706 May 20 2013The Simpsons is full of hilarious characters, but what about the cornucopia of animals and creatures that come in and out of the show's life? Vote for the best of these guys and add any that you think are missing, so that we can turn this into a ...
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Best Superhero Costumes
Views: 11,090 Aug 23 2012Coolest costumes... and there aren't many. It's hard to make bright spandex look good.
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6 Amazing Stories of Exploring the American West
Views: 10,432 May 7 2013The American West is full of stories of men and women who did things that are unimaginable to those of us today. Many of whom are, right this moment, feeling bitter and disgruntled that they have to actually sit up to reach the clicker to turn the ...
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Earth History in 11 Easy Steps
Views: 11,883 Feb 22 2013Getting a little tired of this Earth? Think you might want to get a shiny new one? Maybe one with less plastic bits floating in the ocean, more fresh air, and less annoying neighbors? If you have the right elements and enough free time on your hands, ...
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The Best of the Treehouse of Horror
Views: 17,593 May 19 2013Every year since 1990, the Simpsons have been releasing their spooooky 3-segment Treehouse of Horror episodes right around Halloween. Some of these are brilliant... some not so much. Vote for your favorites, and, if you think you're a bona fide ...
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11 Awesome Things in the 1908 Sears Catalog
Views: 9,420 Mar 23 2013The 1908 Sears Catalog has a LOT of awesome in it, but I took the time and trouble to go through and pull out some of my favorite gems that not only harken back to a day before electronic gadgets (sweet, sweet electronic gadgets) but to a day when ...
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Everyone's Biggest Pet Peeves
Views: 11,274 May 20 2013Everyone has stuff they hate... stuff that just gets under your skin more than other stuff. Sure, war and suffering is terrible and all, but don't you really hate it when someone smacks their food when they eat? Vote for the things you hate the MOST and ...
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The Most Annoying TV & Film Characters Ever
Views: 4,955 Apr 21 2013You know them. You hate them. Honestly, I don't even know why these characters exist. Did someone think they were funny? Maybe adorable? Seriously? Fingernails on a chalkboard, teeth-gritting perserverance, and channel-switching is how you feel about ...
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Best Game of Thrones Characters
Views: 1,851 Mar 25 2013My list includes my favorite characters from the books that have yet to make it onto the HBO show.
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Top 35 Batman Characters
Views: 1,328 Aug 24 2012Not quite 35, but these are my favorite Batman characters.
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Best DC Comics Heroes
Views: 1,114 Aug 24 2012Clearly, I'm a Bat-Family fan... but DC has so many great ones. I know I am leaving off a TON
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The Funniest Robots of Futurama
Views: 3,392 Jun 6 2012No one does funny robots better than Futurama. No one. After all, they brought us the best shiny metal ass@$% of all... Bender. Shamelessly ripped from all the hard work done over at the Futurama Wiki, these are the funniest robots of Futurama... ranked ...
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Monty Python: Best Comedy Bits...
Views: 229 May 17 2013My personal list of the funniest Python sketches. It's hard to choose, so many funny ones. But these are the classics!
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The Best Space Movies
Views: 1,692 Apr 24 2012These are the best movies that take place in space, I left off ones that are just about Aliens on Earth ( like ET).
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The Best Dog Breeds
Views: 1,663 Apr 23 2013Greatest dog breeds ever. Solid, loyal, strong and calm.
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Best 80's Teen Stars
Views: 2,990 May 23 2012My list of the best 80s teen stars is ranked pretty much in the order in which I liked them the most... not necessarily for influence or even skill.
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The Best Fantasy Worlds
Views: 13,365 Apr 14 2013This is a list of the most awesome, spectacular and entertaining fantasy worlds created. Not always just from books, but also from movies and games... this is a ranking of the greatest, most imaginative worlds dreamed up. Vote for your favorite Worlds ...
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The Best Store-Bought Cookies
Views: 3,829 Apr 12 2013If there's one thing most of us can agree on (and there aren't many), it's that cookies are yummy. Crispy or soft, sandwich variety or dipped. Chocolate, peanut butter, gingerbread, caramel, nuts... mmmm. But when you don't have the time or the skills to ...
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Coolest Non-Superhero Comic Characters
Views: 11,599 Apr 11 2013Superhero comic books tend to get all the attention and glory, but sometimes it's the characters without capes and cowls that really stand out. This list collects all the coolest comic book and graphic novel characters who don't fit the traditional ...
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Best Survivor Players Ever
Views: 10,638 May 9 2013My qualifications for this list are simple. The highest your strengths are in all three of the required categories - Social Skills, Physical Abilities and Gameplay, the higher you are to the top of this list. People who were extraordinarily strong in ...
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The Best Condiments to Keep on the Fridge Door
Views: 4,633 Apr 12 2013List of condiments, ranked best to worst by eaters everywhere. There might be nothing else in your fridge - maybe just half a dried-up lemon or perhaps an empty box of pizza - but there's always something on your fridge door. The best condiments are ...
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Best Movies For Kids
Views: 5,012 May 7 2013If you have kids, you know you are always on the lookout for a movie that they will love and that you can sit through without clawing your own soul out. These are movies that transcend the whole kids-are-idiots-and-therefore-must-be-talked-down-to trap ...
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Fictional Company You'd Most Want to Work For
Views: 1,763 Aug 24 2012Not sure that I'd want to WORK for some of these companies, but certainly, there doesn't seem to be a lot or work done at most of these. So, that would be nice.
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Best Animated Comedies
Views: 1,692 May 9 2013In my opinion, the best animated comedies of past and present.
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The Most Influential Politicians in American History
Views: 1,406 May 7 2013
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The Worst Movie Directors of All Time
Views: 18,986 Apr 14 2013A list of the worst directing hacks ever. Through a combination of luck and possibly some kind of payola, these directors have managed to have long, lucrative careers making films, even though they seem to lack any kind of discernible talent. Some of the ...
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Worst Cities to Drive in or Out Of. (usa Edition)
Views: 389 Sep 30 2012Worst cities to drive in - from the worst of the worst (Boston, hands-down) to the least worst, Los Angeles... which has a lot of traffic, but at least the freeways make sense.
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Oscar Nominations 2011: Rank The Best Picture Oscar Nominees
Views: 1,277 Aug 24 2012
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The Best Safety Schools: College Fallback Options
Views: 2,185 Aug 24 2012
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The Worst Movies Of All Time
Views: 4,838 Aug 24 2012I can't unsee these movies.
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The Great Beer List: Best Beers from Around the World
Views: 1,697 Aug 24 2012
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Lying Politicians: The Worst Liars In American Politics
Views: 3,735 Aug 24 2012Terrible men, all. While I'm sure that, as with anyone, the case could be made that these men were decent men with good intentions -- the fact remains that they failed to be decent men in the public theater. Each of them, in their own ways, used their ...
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Actors, Actresses & Celebs We Just Can't Stand Anymore
Views: 3,813 Aug 24 2012
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The Beautiful People: The Hottest Celebrities of All Time
Views: 3,225 Aug 24 2012
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The Most Crave-Worthy Comfort Foods On Earth
Views: 2,943 Apr 8 2013The things I crave are probably not poster-children for this list. I would be thrilled to subsist entirely on San Francisco Sourdough Bread for the rest of my life. Or Spaghetti and Meatballs. I know, I would be the size of a house, but that's all I want ...
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The Worst Ways To Die
Views: 2,918 Aug 24 2012No way burning can't be at the top of this list. Have any of you even just gotten too close to the fireplace?
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Books That Changed My Life (Aka: You Should Read These)
Views: 2,977 Aug 23 2012Don't know how they changed my life, but they certainly meant something.
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Worst People in History
Views: 20,146 Aug 23 2012These guys make a case for "evil" being more than a idealized concept.
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