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Googly-Eyed Street Art

Bulgarian street artist Vanyu Krastev has been busy highlighting the various objects -many of them broken- on the streets of Sofia by adding googly eyes.The result us a comical parade of pareidolia. How can you not feel sorry for a drainpipe or a trash can when it's looking right at you?

Krastev imagines faces in everything from mailboxes to stains on a wall, and with the eyes, so can the rest of us. See 43 pictures of Krastev's google-eyed creations at Bored Panda. -via Metafilter


Cream by David Firth

You might know animator David Firth as the creator of the legendary Salad Fingers, or from the memorable music video we posted a few years ago. He has now posted an eerie new short film that's an ad campaign parody for a product called "cream."     

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The promises of the product start out mundane, but quickly escalates into the bizarre. Cream is not only a cure-all, it performs miracles! You'll start to wonder how the story can get any weirder, and then it does, again and again. -via Metafilter


The Top Five Pizza Delivery Guys in Movies

The pizza delivery guy is a trope in porn films, but in mainstream movies, TV, and music videos, he gets little respect. But how can you not love them fellows who bring a delicious, hot, tasty pizza right to your door? And the few that have names or lines seem to fall into tough luck to further the movie plot. Who's your favorite pizza delivery guy from the movies? Can you think of any at all? You'll remember them fondly when you see this list at TVOM. With video evidence provided.


Students Dump Paper to Celebrate Last Day of School

Seniors at Basha High School in Chandler, Arizona, toss paper down the stairs to celebrate the end of school. It's more paper than you imagine.

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Senior Jordan White captured the video, which went viral on Twitter. Witty_Squirtle is the class valedictorian, and created a reddit account to explain what's going on in the video.

Hi, student at Basha High School, a.k.a the school seen in the video above, here, created a Reddit account just to explain to you guys what's going on because Twitter is a firestorm and Reddit is usually better at that sort of thing.

This is known as the Paper drop, a very long time school tradition at Basha where all the seniors gather in the F Building stairwell after the second bell of C lunch on the last day of school and toss every paper, yes every paper, that they have saved up over 4 years of attending the school. Each year students bring trash bags full of paper to the school and dump them all at once. The "waterfall" you see in the video was only a little of a probably 5-10 minute drop of paper.

Afterwards, seniors slide down the stairs and go outside to where they take pictures, say goodbye to teachers, and say goodbye to the school for one last time as graduation is done at Arizona State University. While the seniors are reminiscing, underclassmen from across the school, as well as a teacher that brings a leafblower every year, gather the papers up into trashbags to be RECYCLED while the janitors talk and watch along with everyone else.

Basha High School is a fantastic place that's had its ups and downs, but this one event brings together everyone from geek to jock into one, single, Basha Bear student body.

The seniors will graduate tonight. -via reddit


12-Year-Old Ventriloquist

America's Got Talent returned for season 12 last night with a lineup of first round acts that delighted the audience. One was 12-year-old Darci Lynne Farmer, who managed to sing a song without moving her lips and operated a puppet at the same time. In the old days, we called this ventriloquism.

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She got a golden buzzer for that one! There were also some other acts you may be familiar with (since we've posted them here) include Puddles the Clown and Jokgu the piano-playing chicken. -via Tastefully Offensive


The Final Beatles Concert

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.

The Beatles were coming to the end of what was to be their last tour. The date was August 29th, 1966. And if any date ever earned the title "the end of an era," this truly was it.

At 5:27 pm, the Beatles plane arrived in San Francisco. The Fab Four had a clear destination and a mission to fulfill.

After playing over 1,400 gigs together, John, Paul, George, and Ringo all knew that they were going to play their final concert that night. (Note of clarification: John, Paul and George had played over 1,400 gigs together, since 1958. Ringo, not having joined the group until 1962, played fewer.)

The 1966 tour hadn't been easy on the boys. They'd been physically assaulted in the Philippines by mobs of angry citizens after their unintentional "snubbing" of presidential spouse Imelda Marcos, faced outrage in Tokyo by playing rock 'n' roll music at the consecrated Budokan, and there were still harsh reverberations stemming from John Lennon's "We're more popular than Jesus" comment, which had shook up and infuriated much of the western world.

Another by-product of the Beatles concerts was the sad fact that the boys were worsening as musicians. The screaming fans' deafening shouts had all but completely obscured any actual music being either heard or played. John would often deliberately change a song's lyrics, just for sport ("I want to hold your gland," etc.). Poor Ringo Starr couldn't hear what was being played and had to watch his bandmates rear ends swinging back and forth to get the beat of the song.

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The 20th-century War on Women's Swimwear

In the 19th century, train travel and then the automobile enabled people to take trips to the beach. But while men stripped down to their body-hugging swimwear and went right in, women were supposed to cover up their foems, even in the water. Elaborates costumes were designed for beachwear that were barely less than a woman would wear on city streets. That wasn't good for swimming, or even staying afloat. But some woman pushed the boundaries, and gradually styles changed. See a timeline of photographs of women's swimwear as it evolved over the last hundred or so years at The Week.


Will Robots Take Your Job?

More and more occupations are being automated, first manufacturing jobs, then engineering careers, and now more and more service jobs. The future is wide open, as computer hardware and software are enabling machines to do jobs previously reserved for think and breathing people. An interactive site called Will Robots Take My Job? invites you to enter your occupation and find out what the future holds. There's a 10% chance that a robot will take your radio announcing job, but that's mainly because the automation revolution happened there years ago. How about a blogger? It didn't even recognize that as a job! Check out your career here.  -via The Daily Dot
 


7 TV Characters Killed Off Out of Spite

TV characters come and go from shows for many reasons, but in some cases, the character is unexpectedly killed off so that there's no chance of them ever coming back. If a character is just suddenly dead with no warning, and you know the actor is not, it may have been a "creative" way of firing the actor for any or no reason. In some cases there is still speculation about the real reasons years later.

From 1989 to 2000, voice actor Maggie Roswell portrayed the prim and proper wife of devout family man Ned Flanders on Fox’s The Simpsons. Then, in a highly-publicized episode, Maude was killed when a T-shirt gun propelled her off a set of bleachers and to her death. According to the Los Angeles Times, Roswell claimed she was fired from the show for asking for a raise, from her typical $1500 to $2000 per episode to $6000; Fox argued she quit because she no longer wanted to commute from her home in Denver to the voiceover sessions in Los Angeles.

You can read seven stories of characters killed off because of conflicts with the actor at Mental Floss.


Octopus Steals Crabs From Fisherman

A giant Pacific octopus has learned where to get an easy crab meal -from a crab fisherman's trap! An octopus is about the smartest creature living underwater, so a trap designed for dumb crabs is easy to break into -and then break out of.

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In this video from BBC Earth, we see how the octopus takes advantage of the trapped seafood feast presented to him. Not only does he figure out the trap, but his ability to fit through the smallest of holes serves him well. -via Digg  


Senior Yearbook Quotes for 2017

Any time you find a list of funny senior quotes, there will be some you saw last year, and some who got their quote idea from previous lists. That said, there are some quotes you've never seen before in this roundup, funny, clever, and some are even poignant. Congratulations to graduating senior Omotola Omotinugbon, who has a unique quote to reflect her school years with a unique name. And then there's Joesph Kline, who enlisted the help of his twin brother to pull this one off:

See more clever yearbook quotes from the class of 2017, 33 of them in all, at Buzzfeed. Some of them may be NSFW.


Brimstone Bread

This recipe makes bread that looks like crusty balls of molten lava! But that's just the appearance. It's really just tasty bread that you can use for sandwiches, burgers, or hot rolls for dinner. These rolls are not quite as "hot" as they appear. It's an illusion from Helen Die, aka Tye Lombardi.

When I make this in Hell, I like to roll my dough in the deep pits of sulfur and soul dust and cook them in the hot brimstone vents.  Unfortunately, as you are mortal and have neither access to soul dust or brimstone vents, I’ve had to make a few adjustments to the recipe for you.

The inside is standard bread dough from your favorite mix, colored red. The crust is what makes the magic. Get the recipe and instructions at the Necro-Nom-Nom-Nomicon. Bone appetite!


10 Facts About the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

If you've been to Arlington National Cemetery, you've probably been impressed by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The war dead interred there are representative of the hundreds of thousands of United States military service members who made the ultimate sacrifice, and the respect and reverence shown by the Old Guard sentinels who guard the tomb is unparalleled.   

8. BECOMING A TOMB GUARD IS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT.

Members of the Old Guard must apply for the position. If chosen, the applicant goes through an intense training period, in which they must pass tests on weapons, ceremonial steps, cadence, military bearing, uniform preparation, and orders. Although military members are known for their neat uniforms, it’s said that the Tomb Guards have the highest standards of them all. A knowledge test quizzes applicants on their memorization—including punctuation—of 35 pages on the history of the Tomb. Once they’re selected, Guards “walk the mat” in front of the Tomb for anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours, depending on the time of year and time of day. They work in 24-hour shifts, however, and when they aren’t walking the mat, they’re in the living quarters beneath it. This gives the sentinels time to complete training and prepare their uniforms, which can take up to eight hours.

9. THE HONOR IS ALSO INCREDIBLY RARE.

The Tomb Guard badge is the least awarded badge in the Army, and the second least awarded badge in the overall military. (The first is the astronaut badge.) Tomb Guards are held to the highest standards of behavior, and can have their badge taken away for any action on or off duty that could bring disrespect to the Tomb. And that’s for the entire lifetime of the Tomb Guard, even well after his or her guarding duty is over. For the record, it seems that Tomb Guards are rarely female—only three women have held the post.

You'll learn more about the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in an article at Mental Floss, as well as everything we know about the service members who are buried there.


What Are the Odds?

He knew he wasn't a winner when the first number was pulled, but redditor dierubikdie found something really odd when he compared his lottery ticket to the winning numbers. Every number is only one digit off! That's got to be super rare, but still a lot more common than hitting the winning number. Commenter dragonfyre173 did the math.

Let's say you can get 1-32 on this. Because you can't get less than 1 or higher than 32, your odds are (2*(30/32)+1*(2/32))5, simplified to (62/32)5. Which is about 27x more common.

Or since we're working with the lottery, we can stop kidding ourselves and just call it zero.   

Oh, well, although he didn't win the $408,000 jackpot, it was probably worth a dollar for the viral picture. Your mileage may vary.  


The Stormtrooper Who Banged His Head in Star Wars

It was only a split second shot in the most famous space movie of all time. A stormtrooper follows his commander through a corridor and bangs his head against the ceiling. It was a moment that actor Laurie Goode thought would be edited out, but it wasn't. When Star Wars was released in 1977, so many people watched it so many times that he became anonymously famous.

I remember after the first two takes, we were told to hold our guns in our left hands as opposed to our right. So I believe the head bang happened on the fourth take — whatever number of takes we did, the head bang happened on the last take. When it first happened, that day I told my fellow actor on the film, Mark Kirby, that I hit my head, but we didn't go for another take.

Afterward, nobody believed him when he said he was that stormtrooper. It turns out that quite a few people claimed to be the one. He even wrote a song about it. Goode tells the whole story of what happened on that day of filming and why he wasn't quite on his mark in an interview at The Hollywood Reporter. -via The Daily Dot


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