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The Best Fake Words From The Simpsons
Views: 6,818 Feb 6 2012If you aren't using Embiggen in your everyday jibber-jabber, your life must be sad and small. The Simpsons gave us so many fabulous words and made-up Simpsons sayings and Bart slang... so many that, really, should be in the dictionary despite their ...
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Everyone's Biggest Pet Peeves
Views: 1,597 Feb 6 2012Everyone 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 Best Fantasy Worlds
Views: 1,556 Feb 6 2012This 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 Simpsons Non-Human Characters
Views: 211 Feb 6 2012The 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!
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10 Amazing & Rare Natural Phenomenons
Views: 1,287 Jan 17 2012The 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 10 Things About Your Baby That You Don't Remember
Views: 10,792 Nov 30 2011If 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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Earth History in 11 Easy Steps
Views: 2,568 Oct 26 2011Getting a little tired of Earth? Think you might want to get a shiny new one? Maybe one with less plastic bits floating in the ocean, more fresh air, less annoying neighbors? If you have the right elements and enough free time on your hands, here's how ...
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10 Amazing Facts About Bees & Wasps
Views: 10,334 Oct 10 2011Everyone 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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10 Amazing Things About Spiders
Views: 3,744 Sep 19 2011Most 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 Things About Ants You Didn't Know
Views: 132,770 Apr 1 2011I'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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The Best Attractions to Visit in Springfield
Views: 2,899 Feb 6 2012Watch out, Utica: Springfield is a City On the...Grow! There are many, many fine and fun places to visit in Springfield. From amusement parks to cider mills to fantastic local areas like EthnicTown, Springfield has it all! Browse through what this great ...
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My Top 5 Most HOLY S**T Moments From Breaking Bad
Views: 1,217 Oct 10 2011SPOILERS AHEAD! If you haven't watched the season finale of Season 4, don't read this. I mean it! Breaking Bad is easily one of the best, most continually surprising, never-disappointing shows on TV. It's the kind of show that flies in the face of the ...
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Tips For Encountering 5 Dangerous Animals
Views: 693 Sep 15 2011No one wants to be in a situation where they have to figure out how to avoid being ground into hamburger by a shark or julienned by a bear, but sometimes we find ourselves there anyway. Nature's all full of pretty trees and nice-smelling flowers, but it ...
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My Top 10 Backpacking Tips & Tricks
Views: 781 Aug 10 2011I've been backpacking since I was a kid. In that time, I've learned a few small things that have made a huge difference when I'm out in the backcountry. Very small things that make a very large impact on your experience. Here are my favorite 10 tips for ...
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10 of the Most Doomed Expeditions in History
Views: 5,525 Jul 22 2011History 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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The Best Quotes From Raising Arizona
Views: 982 Jan 23 2012Raising Arizona is easily one of my favorite movies of all time, and the dialogue is as close to brilliant as you can get. I put down just a few of the top quotes and lines from Raising Arizona, now give me yours! Then vote, vote, vote!
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What's Always on Your Fridge Door? (No Matter What!)
Views: 534 Feb 3 2012There 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.
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The Worst Baby Toys (For Parents)
Views: 1,518 Aug 24 2011Add yours to this list! Have a baby or a toddler? If it's your first, you will soon be experiencing the wide and wonderful world of hateful, hateful toys that will inevitably make their hateful, hateful way into your home. I am sure that, 90% of the ...
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5 of the Best Hikes in LA
Views: 1,586 Aug 6 2011If you are looking for a good hike in LA, that can be hard to find. Not because there aren't a lot of trails to pick from (there are), but because it can be difficult to find a trail with a decent number of miles on it while not having to drive all the ...
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10 Things to Learn When You Move to LA
Views: 1,936 Jun 27 2011So, you're moving to Los Angeles. Welcome. You're going to love it here despite what your terrified family and friends are saying. We've got weather to die for and some of the best restaurants in the world. Plus, where else can you see Jesus chatting ...
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Top 10 Most Amazing Ant-Mimics
Views: 1,444 Jun 24 2011Camouflage is nothing new in the animal kingdom... thousands of species use it for both hiding from predators and for sneaking up on prey. In these ten cases, everyone wants to be the cool kids on the block... ants. Ants, it turns out, are the Fonzies of ...
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6 Amazing Stories of Exploring the American West
Views: 6,470 Jan 23 2012The 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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The World's 6 Known SuperVolcanoes
Views: 38,920 Dec 27 2011Supervolcano 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. Volcanic eruptions are categorized by the VEI (Volcanic Explosivity Index) and ...
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10 Incredible Insect & Spider Battles
Views: 57,380 Apr 1 2011This 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. Usually when we think of ...
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The Best Seasons of Survivor
Views: 3,536 Feb 5 2012"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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Top Chef Season 8 Contestants
Views: 985 Oct 1 2011All Contestants from Season 8 of Top Chef All-Stars. Vote to rank them in order of talent!
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My Top 10 MST3K Episodes
Views: 4,217 May 20 2011This 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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10 Things to Know About Earthquakes
Views: 11,069 Jan 28 2012While we in earthquake-prone places like California tend to get blase about the ground shaking ( aw h**l, 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 Smartest Animals on Earth
Views: 15,736 Sep 19 2011When 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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11 Fantastic Pieces of Comic Book Art
Views: 4,017 Apr 3 2011I tried to keep it to 10, but in the end, I couldn't whittle it down further than this. And I left some amazing stuff on the cutting room floor. Also, because art styles vary wildly, and many artists excel in their own style (like Frank Quitely and Dave ...
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The Best Simpsons Epi-ma-sodes
Views: 10,653 Dec 5 2011This 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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10 Amazing Insects and Spiders You Will Never See
Views: 4,255 Apr 1 2011These amazing crawlers are highly specialized camoflage experts. They are also awesome because the odds of you actually seeing one are very low. For obvious reasons. Good Luck even spotting them in these photos. Check out my other bug lists: 10 ...
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11 Awesome Things in the 1908 Sears Catalog
Views: 3,782 Mar 29 2011The 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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Earth's Big Five Mass Extinction Events
Views: 6,671 Jan 24 2011In honor of the recent 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.
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Best Survivor Players Ever
Views: 5,339 Dec 13 2011My 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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Origins of the 7 Dirty Words
Views: 43,020 Jul 10 2011Some 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 Top 10 Untrue Medical Myths
Views: 22,489 Jan 6 2011We've heard these medical misconceptions repeated for years. But it's time someone debunked these 10 popular medical myths that have seeped into the zeitgeist, been repeated by parents, friends, roomates and sometimes even doctors. But they aren't true.
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The 25 Best Simpsons Quotes
Views: 51,659 Feb 6 2012Really, 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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Hateful, Hateful Cartoon Characters
Views: 13,294 May 4 2011Saturday 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 of the Biggest Mistakes Ever
Views: 19,264 Dec 12 2010We've all made them. But I bet accidentally forgetting to take off the parking brake before you start wondering what that burny smell is 25 miles later isn't going to alter human history.
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Best Movies For Kids
Views: 2,093 Nov 30 2010If 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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How To Survive a Disaster
Views: 6,693 Feb 8 2010It 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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Best Survivor Players Ever
Views: 5,339 Dec 13 2011My 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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Fictional Company You'd Most Want to Work For
Views: 0 Nov 9 2011Not 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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Oscar Nominations 2011: Rank The Best Picture Oscar Nominees
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Lying Politicians: The Worst Liars In American Politics
Views: 0 Nov 30 2010Terrible 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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The Most Crave-Worthy Comfort Foods On Earth
Views: 0 Jul 5 2011The 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: 0 Jul 19 2011No 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: 0 Jul 5 2011Don't know how they changed my life, but they certainly meant something.
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Worst People in History
Views: 0 Jul 5 2011These guys make a case for "evil" being more than a idealized concept.
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