Most of us encounter the concept of nicknames when we're kids, as we come to know our friend James as Jimmy, Susan as Sue and so on, but these nicknames never really come with an explanation.
For instance- why is Richard shortened into "Dick"?
Turns out that nickname comes from the Middle Ages, when names were often shortened for the sake of brevity since they were written out by hand and rhyming nicknames were all the rage.
Richard became Rich and Rick, and for rhyming sake Rick became Hick and Dick, and for some reason Dick was the only one that stuck.
Now that one's not so strange, but how in the world did Margaret get the nickname Peggy?
Once again rhyming is to blame, as Margaret was shortened to Maggie, Meg and Mog, which then became Peg(gy) and Pog(gy). Still strange to call Margaret "Peggy" instead of Maggie or Marge, but Peggy is way better than Poggy!
Doctor Who has presented us with some of the most original and iconic alien races in sci-fi history, and even people who have never seen the show know of the Daleks or the Cybermen.
Most of the alien races created for the show are that perfect blend of campy and bizarre, with an undeniable edge to them despite their funny faces.
Who could forget the seemingly peaceful Ood, who turned out to be just as sinister as they look, or the cat faced Sisters of Plenitude, who grow their own human beings for medical research purposes?
And let's not omit the adorable Adipose, the cute and crittery Tivolians and the hard as nails Judoon, because they prove not every alien species on the show is out to kill the Doctor and his companions.
Billy On The Street is the absolute best thing happening on the sidewalks of New York these days, and his abrasively candid game show stars people who don't know what to expect when Billy shoves a mic in their face.
He gets yelled at, questioned and flat out ignored, but Billy runs on until he finds a participant who's awake and aware enough to answer his questions sometimes strictly for our amusement.
And speaking of amusing- Seth Rogen, he's an amusing guy, and Billy found out that some New Yorkers genuinely cared when they heard Seth had passed away...while others had no clue who he was.
Good thing Seth was there to film their reactions!
Thanksgiving is supposed to be a day of giving thanks, spending time with friends and family and celebrating the wonderful bounty offered in the fall, but let's face it- sometimes Thanksgiving comes and you don't give a crap.
That's because Thanksgiving can be a nightmare with all the family feuding, uninvited guests and the massive dinner preparation headaches in the kitchen, and all for zero gratitude or reward.
So if you're feeling as blue as a turkey's face, or you're just looking for more things to be thankful for, then feast your eyes on these cards, ads and photos from the good old days of Thanksgiving past!
Apparently pumpkins who survive Halloween hate Thanksgiving turkeys
When dark days threaten to sour your mood just think of something sweet and take yourself on a cruise to Candy Cone Island, where every day is as sweet and fluffy as cotton candy! Just don't go asking any questions about what you're seeing while you're on Candy Cone Island, k? We wouldn't want to have any trouble with one of our guests, we're here to please you with high fructose happiness and candy-licious cheer! What's that you say? You say you saw someone pass out and get dragged away by our Rock Candy Security Team? You must be mistaken, nobody can die on our Island! Oh, I thought you said he died? Hehehe, I guess it was my mistake after all...
Add some sweet kawaii silliness to your geeky wardrobe with this Candy Adventure t-shirt by happinessinatee, with a delicious design that will delight people wherever you go!
Visit happinessinatee's Instagram, then head on over to her NeatoShop for more delightfully geeky designs:
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Springfield used to be the kind of town where visitors could relax and enjoy themselves, a town that could be trusted with its own lake, but then old Monty Burns rolled in with his nuclear power plant and spoiled everything. His seemingly unlimited supply of money made it easy for him to cover up any crimes against nature he committed, but the fish refused to stay quiet. People started getting sick every time they took a dip in the lake, and fisherman started reeling in three eyed fish, so the lake was declared unsafe for humans. But Homer doesn't read signs, and he doesn't do rules, so he went for a float despite the warning signs. That was the last time anyone saw old Homer Simpson, although some say you can still hear the sound of his "D'oh!" if you listen closely while near the lake...
Warn the world about the dangers of toxic waste dumping with this D'OHS t-shirt by Vitaliy Klimenko, it's one delicious design sure to make your fellow fans go "HAHA!" with delight!
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They had gone camping in the woods to reconnect as friends but ended up reconnecting with something far more important- their primal nature. Jesse felt his cherished wisdom welling up inside him, a mental substance that made his spirit feel lighter than air, so he took flight as the wise old owl. Frank felt like hunkering down low and digging around for a bit, searching and shaping the earth as he'd loved to do since he was young, and before long he was feeling right at home in his new badger body. But Pablo would find his transformation hardest to accept, because his new lupine form came with a deep hunger and a thirst for blood...
Go wild with this Leader Of The Pack t-shirt by Againstbound, it's sure to blow people's minds wherever you go!
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Marvel comics has always catered to an older crowd than most of their competitors, and they have never shied away from including adult themes in their storylines or killing off a main character.
Their heroes will kill, and death is no stranger to the Marvel Universe (she's part of a love triangle with Deadpool and Thanos!), so they have presented readers with some pretty grisly panels over the last 55 years.
And speaking of Deadpool-he's proven to be one of the grisliest characters in comics because he can regenerate from pretty much any wound, so comic creators like to really stick it to him.
Of course there's no gore quite like zombie gore, and the Marvel Zombies series featured zombified superheroes doing all sorts of nasty stuff, such as Spider-Man munching on Mary Jane or Giant-Man using Black Panther as a living food source. *shivers*
The Sickies will walk amongst us again soon, exposing us to their germs, viruses and diseases in hopes of making us one of them.
There will be people on the verge of transforming into a Sickie, those trying to soldier through the transformation, and the shambling Zombie Sickies who should be given a wide berth.
But the sickest Sickie of them all is the guy or gal who calls in sick to work just so they can hang out at home, they are likely to be struck by lightning for angering the gods and therefore should be avoided at all costs!
Most people learn to rely on their can openers because it's the easiest solution, never feeling the need to learn alternate ways to crack open canned goods.
But if you love to learn new ways to do basic and necessary stuff then you'll definitely want to watch this tutorial video by Dave Hax so you can see how easy it is to open a can with a spoon.
Movie studios often have unrealistic expectations when it comes to box office sales, and when a movie doesn't live up to those expectations they pull it from theaters without a second thought.
Sometimes low sales justify the pull, or in the case of The Rocky Horror Picture Show low sales plus controversy cause the movie to get pulled, but studios never know when a movie is going to become a cult classic.
Rocky Horror has gone on to become the big daddy of all cult classics- it has played continuously in theaters across the country for the last 37 years.
Movies like Office Space, Heathers and Donnie Darko did well in the rental market after becoming cult classics, because people spread the word about these offbeat films that were barely in the theaters.
John Carpenter's horror classic The Thing is arguably the most surprising box office flop, because between Kurt Russell's performance and the amazing creature fx it should have made it big.
Speech bubbles are made to deliver the words uttered by characters to our eyeballs, who then transfer the information to our brains.
But before the speech bubble can come into existence it must be constructed and filled by the almighty Creative, who then turns it over to the Speech Curator for approval.
And since the almighty Creative likes to get saucy the stuff that comes out of its mouth doesn't always meet with the Curator's approval.
But as these Deathbulge comics show sometimes the speech bubbles are given a voice despite their message of madness, because the Speech Curator has a bit of a drinking problem too.
Lesson of the day- don't drink and talk, or vile and reprehensible statements may escape your lips...
Hercules and Red Demon met while hunting the same vampire in the rainforests of Brazil, and after nearly squaring off with each other they decided to team up and tackle the supernatural menace that threatened the world. They found the vampire easy enough to defeat thanks to Red Demon's famous Brazos de Muerte move, which allowed him to literally punch the vampire's head off and pulverize the body into a pile of goo. But the vampire had used its knowledge of black magic to leave them a little present- a zombie horde which was quickly growing in numbers and threatened to devour South America!
Take the cinematic adventure with you wherever you go with this HERCULES AND RED DEMON VS THE ZOMBIES t-shirt by The Dirty Poncho Studio, it's one epic imaginary flick!
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Having a giant worm in your stomach is generally seen as a bad thing, but when you're competitive eater Matt "Megatoad" Stonie that giant worm represents an eating challenge you tore through like a boss.
Matt devoured an entire 3 pound gummy worm in just under 8 minutes, and the before picture above is also a faithful representation of what the inside of his intestines will look like after he finishes the challenge! (NSFW language)
Pigeons hang around our cities eating stuff off the sidewalks, pooping on statues and cars and people and generally just being an urban bird that has adapted to life in the concrete jungle.
But for some reason city folk find the mere presence of pigeons offensive, calling them "rats with wings" and cursing their existence when they spot them strutting around town.
Ask these people why they hate pigeons so much and they probably won't have much to say because, as NY Times writer Jon Mooallem said, "The full scope of our disdain and distrust for the birds is impossible to quantify, It’s hard even to explain.”
Sociologist Colin Jerolmack got pooped on by a pigeon in Greenwich Village back in 2005, and that crappy encounter inspired him to investigate how people came to hate city pigeons so much.
Colin studied how animals and humans interact in NYC in an effort to discern whether the enmity originated from something the pigeons did directly to us humans or not.
His conclusion- humans feel pigeons are out of place in the city, a feeling they interpret as hate:
The pigeon-as-pest, he thinks, is a symptom of people’s idea that the environments we build are separate from natural ones. In what sociologists call our “imaginative geography” of cities, there’s a border that separates clean, orderly civilization and wild, uncontrolled nature. “That doesn’t mean there’s no nature, but ideally, the city is the place where we invite nature in in ways that we control,” Jerolmack says. “We cut out little squares in the concrete, and that’s where the trees belong. We don’t like it when grass and weeds begin to grow through cracks in the sidewalks, because that’s nature breaking out of those boundaries that we want to keep it in.”
