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Box Office Flops That Are Now Cult Classics

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.

But E.T. had come out two weeks before, and Blade Runner came out on the same day so it's possible The Thing was just overshadowed by the competition.

See 15 Box Office Flops That Are Now Cult Classics here


How Vile Speech Bubbles Are Born

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 VS THE ZOMBIES - An Epic Film We'll Never Get To See


HERCULES AND RED DEMON VS THE ZOMBIES by The Dirty Poncho Studio

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!

Visit The Dirty Poncho Studio's Facebook fan page and official website, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:

ROAD GLADIATORS THE CURSE OF NOSFERATU´S DAUGHTERS WEREWOLF DJANGO

ATOMIC NINJA

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Megatoad Gobbles Up A 3-Pound Gummy Worm In 8 Minutes

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)

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So that's what "4,000 calories of pure sugar" looks like! *drool*

-Via Laughing Squid


The Origin Of Our Misguided Hatred Of Pigeons

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.”

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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.”

See The Origins Of Our Misguided Hatred For Pigeons here


Angry Peacock At The Petting Zoo Charges In To A Photoshop Battle

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Peacocks are absolutely beautiful birds, with a colorful tail full of fancy feathers meant to woo mates and mesmerize foes, but peacocks are great big jerks too.

They'll come after you if you so much as look at them funny, and since they're often allowed to roam freely in zoos they often get to pick on somebody their own size- innocent children.

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So whaddya do when a peacock attacks your kid and ruins an otherwise splendid day at the petting zoo?

You submit a pic of the incident for a Photoshop Battle, so Photoshoppers can make it all better. 

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Redditor bwaxse submitted a photo of the traumatic incident in order to give his daughter a chance for retribution, and she totally ran with it.

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-Via FAILBlog


The Only Rational Response To Having A Spider In Your House

Do you think spiders know that some people find them to be utterly terrifying?

It sure seems like it, since they love to appear out of nowhere when those timid souls are just sitting there minding their own business and hoping not to see a spider.

But if spiders are aware of how terrifying they are they're not letting on, and as this The Odd 1s Out comic shows they're grossly underestimating what humans consider an appropriate level of threat response. 


Woman Discovers Her Uber Driver Is The AOL "You've Got Mail" Guy

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It seems like everyone is becoming an Uber driver these days, picking up some extra cash by shuttling folks around town and livin' that indie taxi life.

The program is so good even people with good paying jobs are willing to drive on their days off, and for those who are in-between jobs it often becomes their new career path.

Elwood Edwards is one of those guys who was brought back into the workforce by Uber, but his passengers are often surprised to discover that Elwood was the voice of AOL in a former life.

You might remember him as the guy who told you "You've got mail", a job for which he earned a whopping 200 bucks.

Nowadays Elwood seems quite content to shuttle folks around Ohio for Uber, all the while hoping his passengers don't ask him where they've heard his voice before.

-Via Distractify


A Cornucopia Of Charts To Help You Tackle Thanksgiving Dinner

The biggest headache on Thanksgiving day has got to be the preparation of the meal, because as much as cleaning and dealing with uninvited guests can suck there is no Thanksgiving without the meal.

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And since it's one of those epic meals with a ton of sides, all of which need to be cooked or baked at different intervals for varying amounts of time, it can be hard to keep track of it all, especially if you're an army of one in the kitchen.

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But with a little chart based assistance and some pre-cooking prep on paper you can cook up an awesome turkey day spread without breaking a sweat. 

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See 23 Super Helpful Charts To Make Thanksgiving Dinner Less Stressful here


Images That Will Make You Say "That's Enough Internet For Today"

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It can be hard to tell when you've had too much internet for the day, especially when you keep going down search engine rabbit holes that all lead to a limitless wonderland of fun.

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But all it usually takes to make me log off for the day is an image that's both satisfying and deeply unsettling to my tired brain, so I can have sweet nightmares.

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If you suffer from internet addiction like I do, and you find it hard to go a day without browsing your brains out, you should search for images and videos that force your hand to close the browser.

Because together we can beat internet addiction one click at a time. 

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See That's Enough Internet For Today here and a bonus 12 Pics That'll Make You Say "That's Enough Internet For Today" here (NSFW-ish)


Where Did The Saying "I'll Eat My Hat" Come From?

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The saying "I'll eat my hat" conjures up such a funny image in our minds that people have continued to use this antiquated idiom every time they're confident something will not happen.

But this idiom can't possibly originate from someone actually eating their hat, can it?

Karl Smallwood of Today I Found Out dug around for an answer and came up with an entry from Homer Travestie by Thomas Bridges, dated 1762, which contains the saying:

For though we tumble down the wall, And fire their rotten boats and all, I'll eat my hat, If Jove don't drop us, Or play some queer rogue's trick to stop us.

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Karl then goes on to explain that Bridges merely streamlined the "now defunct utterance “I’ll eat Old Rowley’s hat” that had essentially the same meaning", Old Rowley being a nickname used to ridicule King Charles II.

Charles II was known for wearing foppish hats, so this is likely why the saying deals with eating a hat rather than some other garment.

So has anyone actually eaten a hat after saying the phrase?

An Atlanta Falcons fan did after he claimed they wouldn't lose to the Carolina Panthers in 2015 or he'd "eat his hat"- he ate it along with a Wendy's chicken sandwich.

See Where Did the Saying "I'll Eat My Hat" Come From? here


Apathy Bear - Care Or Don't Care, Nobody Cares Anymore...


Apathy Bear by BRIK

For some reason Apathy Bear didn't really catch on with 80s kids, the generation who made those cute bears with sweet and friendly powers what they are today, but the toy company decided to give him another try and it turns out apathy is big with kids in 2016. It seems the dark state of the nation has given the kids a dour outlook on life, and rather than getting scared, sad or angry they're all starting to get meh, giving up on all they once held dear. So it seems it's Apathy Bear to the rescue? Ah, who gives a crap, just give kids any old piece of junk, they don't seem to care anymore...

Show the world you have a hard time caring these days with this Apathy Bear t-shirt by BRIK, it's the funny way to make a meh statement about the meh state of the world, and your fellow apathetic souls will totally know that feel.

Visit BRIK's Facebook fan page, then head over to his NeatoShop for more geek-tastic designs:

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Let Celebrities Eating Things Show You How To Dine Like The Rich And Famous

It seems fan obsession knows no bounds, and some fans are so obsessed they want to see every single thing their favorite celebs do in a normal day, including their eating habits.

These fans feel closer to celebs when they can take a voyeuristic peek into their daily lives, and they are the target audience for weird Instagram accounts like @celebritieseatingthings.

At @celebritieseatingthings you can see awkwardly candid pics of celebs like Will Ferrell, Leo DiCaprio and Eva Mendes stuffing their faces, if that's something you're in to.

You'll also discover a mystery I have yet to solve- why do so many celebrities like to eat bowls of soup or ramen in strange places?

Like Natalie Portman literally walking around eating soup out of a ceramic bowl, doesn't she have ten minutes to sit down and eat her soup comfortably?

See Celebrities Eating Things Will Be Your New Favorite Weird Instagram Account here


Sonic The Hedgehog Twitter Account Is Serving Up Some Golden Memes

Sonic the hedgehog hasn't received enough love from game designers in the 21st century despite the fact that fans still go gaga over that fly little blue guy twenty something years after his first appearance.

So fans have taken it upon themselves to keep Sonic alive online, and most recently the Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account has been serving up the laughs with strange memes and inside jokes meant for hardcore Sonic fans.

It turns out we have Sonic superfan and SEGA social media manager Aaron Webber to thank for the hilarious Twitter account, which Aaron took from typical to truly dazzling by letting his strange Sonic centric sense of humor off the leash.

-Via Polygon


Footage From A GoPro Mounted To The End Of An Arrow

Special effects shots have been created to simulate an arrow's eye view as it soars towards its target, but until recently this shot was extremely difficult to create with an actual video camera.

Now cameras are smaller and lighter than ever and can be attached to most anything, so Niko Pueringer of Corridor Digital mounted a GoPro on the end of an arrow and started shooting them at his friend Wren Weichman. (Skip to around 4:30 to see arrow camera segment)

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It's interesting to see how straight the flexible arrow flies even though it has a GoPro strapped to the front of it, but I don't think this practical camera shot will replace the digital version anytime soon.

-Via Laughing Squid


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