I learnt this trick when I visited the States in the mid '80s.

From a big guy who looked like a lumberjack as a matter of fact.

wait wait wait... they're all the same aren't they?

I'm so happy I don't have to live in that country.

Haha. These were awful.

You also need to buy a pair of gloves to drink hot liquids from this stainless steel cup.

LOL. So now I see that someone already got it right.

I think it's a model of a Carbon molecule. I don't know anything about molecules or atoms or anything like that, but this was the very first thought that popped into my head.

A nonsense list of mostly perfectly well known films. Like Falling Down which was a movie EVERYONE had seen and talked about when it was new.

These list are like a modern day Reader's Digest or one of those Mondo movies. Losts of amazing facts you never knew simply because they aren't very accurate.

For instance, there are no venomous insects in Sweden or anywhere in Scandinavia for that matter.

All good fun but it worries me a little that people get their historical education from these simplified believe it or not lists of nonsense.

I'm live Norway and I think everyone here pretty much knows who Tommy Cooper was too. He was never much on tv here but that doesn't mean that he wasn't known. Like they don't show Jay Leno on tv here either, but he is still a household name.

Great. Why don't we narrow all of art histoty into these Lettermanesque lists and then just haul all the rest of the old junk to the rubbish tip.

While I fully agree with the krap is krap statement, art appreciation is still too subjective to be rateable into a list like this.

I get a little depressed when everyone argues (albeit eloquently) over who is number one and numner two when in fact IT IS NOT A #*@$# SPORT!

Great stories. Not all true of course, but fun reading. Some of them, like digging your own grave and falling into it are a bit obvious.

I used to be very much into business card/letterhead design. The problem was that I have never ever had a single client who wants anything even remotely humorous or different. So whenever I actually did manage to come up with something slightly brilliant, it was simply met by scepticism and eventually rejection.

Where do these designers find their clients? That is an even bigger question to me than where they find so many great ideas.

Lol. What we have here I think is an artist's rendition of the cranium of that mythical prehistoric beast known as "the horse".

It's a sign! Behold the blessed toast onto which he hath showeth himself!