The readers of Cracked have come up with a useful collection of rules that you probably did not learn from your parents, because most of them solve problems no one had twenty or thirty years ago. Oh, sure, you learned etiquette from your mom, but you didn't learn about swiping photographs on someone else's smartphone.
Or how to gauge the best time to jump on a new piece of software. There are also rules about dressing, taking care of cats, planning an outing, and other rules of thumb that make perfect sense. Check them all out at Cracked. http://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-691-21-rules-thumb-every-adult-should-know/
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Tom Scott is in the United States, telling us about odd places again. He's explaining why so many movie location backgrounds look the same -it's money, of course. This is Hollywood's Thirty-Mile Zone.
Now I won't be able to watch a movie without trying to peg the background of other movies I've seen. Thanks, Scott. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.
Ethel Mertz had three different middle names in I Love Lucy. She was (in various episodes) Ethel Mae, Ethel Roberta and Eethel Louise Potter before marrying her husband Fred Hobart Mertz. Lucy's maiden name was Lucille Esmeralda McGillicuddy. Ricky's full name was Ricardo Alberto Fernando Ricardo y de Acha.
Clark Kent's middle name has been variously given as Joseph, Jerome and Jonathan. (Shades of Ethel Mertz!) Jimmy Olsen's full name? James Bartholomew Olsen.
Tarzan's real name is John Clayton, Lord Greystoke.
The Sweathogs of Welcome Back, Kotter were Arnold Dingfelder Horshack, Freddie Percy Washington, and Juan Luis Pedro Felipe de Huevas Epstein. Vinnie Barbarino was just plain Vinnie Barbarino.
Comic artist Iguanamouth got a request from a user named insecurepumpkin to draw an alligator protecting a pumpkin (Yeah, if you were an insecure pumpkin, it would be nice to be protected by an alligator). And so this comic was born. Oh, this is just the beginning of the story. You'll find the whole saga of the alligator hatching a pumpkin at her Tumblr site. Believe me, it's worth the trip. -via Metafilter
Redditor verantgoten took what he thought was just a cute picture of the place his 3-year-old son chose for hide-and-seek. I case you don't see it, the child is behind the mirror. At first glance, the optical illusion is that verantgoten, in the mirror, has feet below the mirror. Look again. When you look at the picture closely, it appears that the feet are not attached to any human legs at all!
Weird, huh? See, the boy is wearing pants that are not quite the same shade as the wall, but are the exact shade of the shadow on the wall. You can enlarge the picture even more here, if you need to.
I had to go back and reread this before I got it. You know, a whole novel could be written about the altruistic IT worker who decided that autocorrect on government communications would not initially recognized the spelling of the word "launch." This is the latest from Randall Munroe at xkcd. Go to the comic to read the additional punch line in the hover text.
If you love horse shows and show jumping, but you can't afford to buy and board a horse, then the sport of hobby horsing may be for you. The sport's biggest championship took place a couple weeks ago in Vantaa, Finland. Around 200 competitors and a thousand spectators gathered to crown winners in several events and celebrate their peculiar sport.
From the Washington Post:
Hobby-horsing has gained momentum outside Finland because of this year’s release of the documentary “Hobbyhorse Revolution” by the Finnish Oscar-nominated director Selma Vilhunen. Over a year, she followed young hobbyhorse enthusiasts and their preparations for a competition.
Some actual horse riders may look down on hobby-horsing as childlike past-time not suitable for anyone aged over 10, but Fred Sundwall, the secretary general of the Equestrian Federation of Finland, disagrees.
“We think it’s simply wonderful that hobby-horsing has become a phenomenon and so popular,” Sundwall said. “It gives a chance to those children and teens who don’t own horses to interact with them also outside stables and riding schools.”
-via reddit
Isn't this an adorable Hobbit house? Redditor KahlumG has lots of pictures of it. His uncle built it back in the 1980s near Tomach, Scotland. The inside is just as magical as the exterior.
You have to duck to get through the front door. The fireplace heats the stove. There are bedrooms upstairs, a greenhouse and a pond in the back, and grass grows on the roof. You have to see the bathroom to believe it. See a gallery of over a dozen pictures of the house at imgur. -via reddit
Actors who play superheroes in the movies have to do a lot of TV interviews, and every one of them is eventually asked how their young children feel about Dad being a superhero. They aren't impressed. Seeing it through the child's eyes, that is quite understandable. They know Dad, he's Dad all the time, so when he's a superhero, he's play acting and not the real thing. Anyone else they don't know as well just might be the real thing! -via Geeks Are Sexy
Last year we introduced you to Kap Te'O Tafiti of the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii. He showed us how to make fire, and made it a totally charming lesson. Now he's back to show us how to husk and crack open a coconut. There are two methods for removing the husk, and using one's teeth is the cooler way.
See there, now you'll be prepared when you come home from the grocery store with coconuts in the husk! -via Tastefully Offensive
This footage is from Hempfield High School in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, taken in 1976. Check out those fashions! And the hair! If that's not your generation, it may seem a bit weird. But the music is awesome.
I graduated from high school in 1976, so this is all very familiar to me. I could swear I recognized a few people, even though I went to a different high school. We got away with so much back then that kids can't get away with now. -via Digg
Two items in the local newspaper's police blotter tell a story that may have repercussions for a long time. Although the second one is cut off, we get the idea. The controversy could have been kept out of the paper if the woman had just contacted the neighbor, or even the pizza parlor, about what she saw. But when the police get involved, everyone will know eventually. Found at Bad Newspaper.
Plays with Wolves found it! This happened in July of 2015, in Burlingame, California.
It was hot Friday in Texas. John Wells lives in the desert area of Terlingua. He's not a rancher, but an alternative energy and sustainability researcher. Wells put out a bucket of water with a GoPro sitting in the bottom, to see what animals came by for a drink.
We see bees, birds, a bunny, chickens, a donkey, and a steer. The rabbit is named George, recognizable among the other wild rabbits by the notch in his ear. Wells said the bees were rescued from the bucket. -via Tastefully Offensive
What most people think of when they hear the word "karate" is someone breaking boards with a flat hand chop. Alex Culang and Reynato Castro posted a series of comics about karate, all featuring that chop. See all five of them at Buttersafe. They are funnier all together like that.
The following article is from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into California.
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Built in 1888, the Hotel del Coronado (or Hotel Del) near San Diego has been the site of ghost hauntings, movie filmings, celebrity getaways, and all kinds of other legendary stuff. Let’s separate the facts from the fiction.
RUMOR: In December 1904, the Hotel del Coronado lit the first electric outdoor Christmas tree in the United States.
TRUTH: The hotel itself makes this claim, but it’s unlikely. Electric lights on trees probably came sometime in the late 1800s. However, in 1904 the hotel did wire 250 lights to its 50-foot tree. It may have been the first in Southern California and was certainly done at a time when few people lit outdoor trees at all and indoor ones were still fire hazards with candles. The tree remained on display for a three hours each night from Christmas Eve through New Year’s.
RUMOR: Every U.S. president since Lyndon B. Johnson has stayed at the Hotel Del.
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