The 1987 Robin Williams movie Good Morning Vietnam was loosely based on the story of Adrian Cronauer, a radio deejay in Saigon. The project was started in 1979, but delayed for almost a decade because America wasn't yet ready for a comedy about the Vietnam War. Meanwhile, Robin Williams became involved and ran with the project. The finished movie was less Cronauer and more Williams, but it was a big hit. Cronauer was ready to supply a sequel, also based on his life.

The real-life Adrian Cronauer – who Levinson had kept Williams apart from until the film had been shot – still had much story to tell. As such the follow-up film would have followed him as a journalist, this time at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. It would have been set in 1968, and the proposed title was Good Morning, Chicago. The political setting was particularly interesting, given that Adrian Cronauer has described himself as “a lifelong card-carrying Republican” who campaigned for the likes of George W. Bush.

Furthermore, the 1968 convention saw a clash between 10,000 anti-war demonstrators and 23,000 police and national guardsman. Violent clashes ensued, including an infamous police assault in front of the Hilton hotel, on August 28th, 1968. At the convention itself, serving vice-President Hubert Humphrey was endorsed as the Democratic candidate for President, and he would lose the eventual election to Richard Nixon.

It was against the background of the event that Good Morning, Chicago was to be set.

Read more about the sequel that never was at Den of Geek.

Bread at its most basic is made with flour, water, yeast and salt, and once you've made bread a few times you can easily identify the proper consistency and add more flour or water as needed.

But making bread from scratch without a recipe, and with little to no prior baking experience, sounds like a recipe for disaster, so can The Try Guys make an edible loaf of bread when left to their own devices in BuzzFeed's Tasty Kitchen?

It's like the Great American Bake-Off only with less impressive results and with way more alcohol! (NSFW Language)

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Some pubs (and homes) in the past had a ceramic joke available to mess with their guests. Puzzle jugs had plenty of holes in them between the bottom and the spout to interfere with pouring. It was a game to see who could figure out how to pour from them without spilling the drink -which could be quite funny to watch after everyone already had a few drinks.

The puzzle jug was particularly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, though the concept dates back centuries earlier. Some cite a 14th-century vessel from Exeter in England as the earliest example, but that one lacks the characteristic features typical of a puzzle jug. Puzzle jugs became super-popular by the 1650s, according to Aronson, but weren’t the first example of ceramics used for gaming purposes. One predecessor was the “fuddling cup,” popular in the 16th to 18th centuries. As literary historian Juliet Fleming wrote in Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England, a fuddling cup or mug is “a group of individually thrown pots with interconnecting bodies, whereby liquor poured into one cup could slowly disappear and reappear in another,” a “toy machine” meant not for a practical purpose, but to entertain.

But how does a puzzle jug actually work? Find the explanation at Atlas Obscura. 

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Whenever my computer starts acting up on me I daydream about smashing it to bits with a hammer or setting fire to it with a torch, but since I can't afford to buy a new computer every week I let it live to piss me off another day.

So for me this Amazing Timelapse video showing a computer keyboard being dipped in acetone and slowly melting over a 70 hour period is like PC therapy, and now it's my go-to video when I feel like killing my computer!

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-Via Laughing Squid

The 1994 film The Chase was about exactly that. Charlie Sheen plays a man convicted of a bank robbery he didn't commit, who panics and leads police on a nationwide chase -in a stolen car with a hostage (Kristy Swanson). Yeah, it's a comedy. A subplot concerns media coverage of the chase, in which news outlets lose all perspective trying to get a scoop on the unfolding drama. The movie was critically panned, but was a modest box office success. There are other things you don't know about The Chase.

4. Henry Rollins plays a part in the movie and is credited for the song when the end credits roll.

He plays Officer Dobbs and he’s credited for the song Shine at the end.

3. This was shown at the Dublin film festival.

Unfortunately it was shown as part of a classics retrospective and not as it was supposed to be.

Read more about The Chase at TVOM.

You remember in grade school when there was supposed to be a dress-up day, and you were terrified you'd be the only one dressing up? These guys did that to their friend Darren. They told him they were all going to go out on the town dressed as Smurfs, then they didn't dress up. Watch as they go pick up Darren.

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The joke's on them in the end. You know that Darren, dressed as Smurfette and apparently okay with it, got all the attention that night and all the respect from the internet after the video was posted. He's the one we would all rather hang with. Besides, British commenters assured us that these guys are going to a darts tournament, where half the spectators will be dressed in ridiculous costumes. -via reddit

The myth that cracking your knuckles will give you arthritis is one of the most common lies told to kids by their parents, up there with "don't do that or you'll go blind" and "your face will get stuck like that".

But this myth has been busted just like the rest, and Dr. Donald Unger even spent over 60 years proving it's not true, cracking only the knuckles in his left hand to compare to the right.

So what actually happens when we crack our knuckles?:

When you make the motion to crack your knuckles—either by stretching your fingers or bending them backwards—you expand the joint. This causes the pressure between the joint  to decrease, as well as the ligaments that connect the bones and the joint capsule that holds all of it together. That depressurization causes gasses like carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and oxygen that are dissolved in the synovial fluid to form into little bubbles that rush into the empty space. As the joints settle back into place, the fluid also returns to its rightful place and pops those little bubbles, causing that recognizable cracking sound. 

The sensation of cracking your fingers feels good because the stretching of the joint also stimulates nerve endings found along the fingers; joints can’t be cracked more than once within 15 minutes to a half hour, which is about how long it takes for those gasses to dissolve back into your synovial fluid.

Dr. Unger's findings were published in a journal called Arthritis & Rheumatism back in 1998, and yet I still constantly hear parents telling their kids they'll get arthritis if they crack their knuckles. So what's it going to take for this myth to die?

-Via Mental Floss

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How one mysterious medical case helped map the brain.

On April 11, 1861, Dr. Pierre Paul Broca examined a man in the surgical wing of the Bicêtre hospital near Paris. The 51-year-old patient had gangrene all along his right leg, his entire right side was paralyzed, and he was nearly blind. When Broca asked about the origin of the man’s illness, the patient answered, “tan, tan,” with a wave of his left hand. It was the only thing he could say. Strangely, though, his mouth, tongue, and voice box were in working order. His hearing was good, and he understood what other people were saying.

The man’s name was Louis Victor Leborgne, but everyone called him Tan. He had been admitted to the hospital at age 30 after losing the ability to speak. Ten years later, he also started to lose the ability to use the limbs on his right side. This led to the gangrene, which landed him in Broca’s care.

Wes Anderson's upcoming film Isle of Dogs is a stop-motion animation story of dogs living on an island in a future dystopian Japan. That may sound depressing, but this clip shows that it's got its humorous moments. Notice the symmetry that all Wes Anderson films display.

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Isle of Dogs features the voices of Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, and a whole slew of celebrity cameos. The movie will debut at the Berlin Film Festival next weekend and hit theaters on March 23. -via Nag the Lake

Kids think they are so smart. But you can't blame them for thinking that -they are smarter than they were yesterday, and they have no concept of how much more they have to learn. Parents, on the other hand, have been there, done that, and it takes years for children to understand how that works. But then every once in a while, they hand us a zinger that hits close to home.

I was doing an activity with my 5-year-old and then told him I had to go back to work and he said “Okay, go touch your letters daddy.” which is such an amazing burn. “Must be exhausting touching that keyboard all day. Did you hit all the letters yet? You’ve had all day.”

— Chris Hallbeck (@ChrisHallbeck) February 7, 2018

The next step, in this highly-connected world, is to create a holiday named Hawklin's Day, which will be a universal day off school. This is the latest comic from Chris Hallbeck at Maximumble.

Fire Department / EMS Flag by Dave Paranteau

Fire fighters and EMS personnel have earned our utmost respect and admiration with their very lives, and without their service people wouldn't just lose their lives- our very society would fall apart. Fires can start anywhere at any time, and despite advanced fire fighting technology they still have a hard time keeping fires from spreading out of control, so without firefighters one house fire would lead to entire neighborhoods being destroyed. And without emergency medical services people would die where they fall when their lives could have otherwise been saved by paramedics who often bring them back from death's door before they even make it to the hospital. So thank you for your service fire fighters and EMS pros, we appreciate you!

Wear your support for the people who save our lives for a living with this Fire Department/EMS Flag t-shirt by Dave Paranteau, it's a refreshingly un-political way to say "we appreciate all you do for us!"

Visit Dave Paranteau's official website, then head on over to his NeatoShop for more life saving designs:

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Whether you enjoy camping, going on cruises, taking road trips or flying to far off destinations your trip will go so much smoother if you pack a few tips and tricks in your bag.

Did you bring an air mattress but totally forgot to pack the pump? Use a plastic bag to trap air and fill the mattress up manually, it will take a little bit longer but at least you won't be stuck sleeping on the floor!

And forget about packing a frying pan when you go camping, just pack some foil and use that on the campfire instead.

Tired of losing your rings when you go swimming and do outdoor activities while on vacation? Cut the rolled end off a balloon and roll it on to your finger- it will hold your ring in place and it's waterproof!

For these great tips and many, many more check out this fun video by 5-Minute Crafts and learn some cool new tricks to make travel less of a pain in the neck.

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Where we're going, we don't need roads! This is the final selfie from Starman, the mannequin in the red Tesla launched yesterday and deployed by the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The massive Tesla battery could only power a livestream from space for 12 hours. Now Starman and his ride are headed into asteroid territory. 

The car was supposed to be put on a path around the Sun that would take the vehicle out to the distance of Mars’ orbit. But the rocket carrying the car seems to have overshot that trajectory and has put the Tesla in an orbit that extends out into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

There are no predictions yet on how long the car will last in space. That all depends on what it might collide with. -via reddit

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Have you ever gotten into a fight with someone that involved a lot of swinging and yelling but very little physical contact? You were probably quite young and inexperienced in the way of the melee, like a pawn swinging wildly for the sake of someone else's entertainment.

Pawns are forgiven for their lack of fighting skills, but when a big bad bishop steps up and attacks a pawn we expect their quadridirectional combat abilities to prevail.

But, as this Chilikto comic shows us, when a bishop slides up next to a pawn they end up looking like just another pawn in a stalemated game.

-Via Geeks Are Sexy

Erin Hudson of Afton, Iowa, grabbed her camera when someone spotted a cow eating the family's mail right out of the mailbox! That's not something you see every day. Or any day, for that matter. Video contains NSFW language.

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The cow acted like she knew she'd done something that wasn't permitted, but she did not want to give up that sweet tasty junk mail! -via Tastefully Offensive