I like to imagine they sent him to a nice farm upstate.

Are you sure it was Willis O'Brien who died? IMDB has him living until 1962. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639891/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

The story of the attempted battery refund brings up an interesting thought. I had something similar happen to me once in retail, so it makes me wonder...how many times in history has this stupid response happened? Did it happen in Ancient Babylon? In the earliest days of the barter system? Is this particular stupidity built into human evolution?

I remember seeing this news clip being replayed on a couple different shows, like That's Incredible and other comedy clip shows. I was amazed as a little kid at his gifts. He should really get into a rap battle with Eminem.

The answer is probably Reckless, if anyone was wondering.

Botox. I'm guessing that Botox will be this generation's radium.

I was city hall mailroom clerk in a small midwestern city. About 90% of my job was signing for packages from animal control. They were almost always rabies specimens, which included dead bats, or the heads of dogs or cats. The specimins always in a cardboard box, but there were stickers on the outside saying, "Rabies - danger blah blah", and what animal. There was a small dorm fridge that I got to place these in until someone would stop by with a cooler for pickup. (Sidenote: I managed to get fired from this job on 9/12/2001 for showing up late twice. I joined the air force the same day.)

I was a sophomore in 1992, taking a midterm test in my American History class. For extra credit, we were told to name the presidents, from Washington to Polk. Next to the pencil sharpener: a poster with all 42 (at the time) presidents. I sharpened my pencil like 4 times during that test. Terrible luck with breaking my lead. Sadly, the poster was taken down shortly after (I was probably too obvious), and I was forced to memorize the presidents from Washington to GRANT for the final. I still remember the mnemonic device I used for those presidents.

Anyone else confused as to why Wonder Woman's hand was replaced by Chairman Mao?

Is it wrong that I want to see someone do a trailer like this for Lawrence of Arabia, Out of Africa, and Malcolm X?

Okay, what everyone needs to do, since they regret not doing this when they were 12, is to create a fairly open script and do one of these for when you're 20 years older. Do like an hour of dialog (so it can be trimmed down to something fairly cogent of, say, 3-5 minutes), and do about a dozen of these over the course of a year. The one thing I regretted after watching this video is, for how amazing it is, there will probably not be a sequel.

So...were any charges brought up against this guy, for pulling a FREAKING GUN on live television?

Looks like the start of a really cool golem.

I've had a number of painful papercuts dealing with cardboard boxes as a warehouse employee. I can't see how cardboard furniture for children is a good idea.