Regional dialects and accents can make otherwise ordinary words sound a bit silly, and these strange pronunciations become the stuff of legend as people from other areas puzzle over the odd word's meaning.

In the case of "Jawn" Philadelphians have turned "joint" into an all purpose noun that is used to describe everything from locations and people to inanimate objects and abstract concepts.

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The origin of "Jawn" is still a bit of a mystery, and as new generations of Philadelphians grow up replacing as many words as they can with this silly slang the history of "Jawn" has begun to fade away.

Paige has a lot of jawn to do @Paige_Conti pic.twitter.com/bTEwjaeTJs

— bean (@DenaParmigiani) November 10, 2014

But thanks to the efforts of University of Philadelphia Ph.D student Taylor Jones the story of "Jawn" will live on forever, as he uncovers the word's connection to hip hop, New York and semantic bleaching.

Read more about The Enduring Mystery Of 'Jawn'- Philadelphia's All-Purpose Noun here

Anybody who has spent enough time on the highways has driven past a semi-trailer truck with a personalized paint job and had a good laugh at what that nutty trucker has painted on the side.

Truckers who put some tacky advertising eyesore on the sides of their trucks are annoying, but those truckers who put something meant to make us laugh on the side of their rigs and trailers are the comedy kings of the road.

If you see a hilarious truck or trailer design as you're heading down the highway try to keep your eyes on the road, because truckers appreciate the laughs but they hate bad drivers.

See 15+ Truck Signs Made By A Few Hilarious Mother Truckers here

It's mighty hard to get an internet signal in North Korea, and the government tries to control all information shared online, which means posting pics can make you an enemy of the state.

So any intrepid travelers who want to visit North Korea and go home with photos taken inside the country must either find a way to smuggle them out or become friends with Dennis Rodman.

Michal Huniewicz shot some amazing and insightful photos during his visit to North Korea, and even though the tour guide told him he'd likely have them taken away he managed to make it out of the country with all of his pics.

Michal's bystander images reveal some dark things about North Korea, like the constant military presence in Pyongyang, grocery stores with barren shelves, and massive city centers where the people aren't allowed to go.

But his images also show us moments of vibrant life within the capital city, as people crowd the city streets during the day and carry on like nothing's wrong with the country they're forced to call home.

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While Mickey Mouse, Garfield the cat and Donald Duck have long been the most popular write-in candidates those characters just aren't tough enough to deal with the modern state of affairs.

That's why we need a candidate who knows when it's time to go out drinking with world leaders and when it's time to teach the world our peaceful ways...by force, a candidate like Bending Unit 22 Bender Rodriguez.

Imgur user bigllamas posted these pics taken in his neighborhood with the caption "My neighbor is a graphic designer. And smartass." Well Bender couldn't be any worse than Robot Nixon!

Gold is the standard for wealth just like it has been for thousands of years, and people think adding the precious metal to everything from food to clothing to paper money will magically make these things more valuable.

But sometimes adding gold to something actually devalues an object, like the time PaperGold swore adding a tenth of a gram of laminated gold to a ten dollar bill would make it more valuable. It actually made that ten dollar ripoff worth a whopping $3.82.

Other times adding gold to something is simply a waste of time, resulting in low sales and a bunch of innocent gold ore going to waste.

Do we really need to dip our staples in gold? The Dutch designers behind the OOOMS gold staples seem to think so, but they claim their staples are meant to be "applied to clothing" as a "form of jewelry".

You know what else is gold and makes good jewelry? Gold jewelry!

Read 5 Times Gold Made Something Less Valuable here (contains NSFW language)

It's easy to live frugally when you buy used, but the cheaper everything you buy becomes the less you're willing to pay for all that normal priced stuff you need.

That's why scrimping is a slippery slope, and once you become a haggler you can never go back to paying the price marked on the tag.

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I'm An Expert Haggler At Garage Sales is a dramatic performance of Jory John's cheapo script by David Harris, acted out as it is published on McSweeney's by the perfectly perturbing Matt Ingebretson.

It's so slice of life that you've probably met someone like this at one of your own garage sales, a penny-pincher who made you consider breaking a lamp over their head!

-Via Laughing Squid

Power armor is an integral piece of gear in Fallout 4, and every self respecting Wastelander knows that customizable suit of armor can make the difference between besting your foes or becoming dinner for a Deathclaw.

That being said, it's hard to keep all that fusion core power from going to your head.

Level up however you see fit, but keep those poor settlers out of it!

Electric Bunny Comics makes a good point about XP in Fallout 4- just because it's easier than ever to level up doesn't mean you should kill the entire Commonwealth just for the sake of dinging sixty!

-Via Geeks Are Sexy

Living a nomadic lifestyle is easier now than it has ever been before, and travelers who prefer to be a citizen of the world now have a ton of cool camping gear and gadgets at their disposal.

Nomads who prefer to travel as light as possible used to have to worry about finding shelter for the night, but thanks to designer David Shatz they can carry a durable shelter around on their backs.

This nomad backpack tent is called "Melina", and it allows travelers to feel safer and more comfortable while sleeping outside without having to make camp or carry around a tent.

Wherever they go “Melina” goes with them, and when they're ready to count some hitchhiking sheep they can just expand the unit and crawl inside for a safe night's sleep.

-Via Designboom

Going on a first date means worrying about making a good impression and hoping everything goes smoothly, but more often than not something crappy happens during the date that makes things awkward.

That's why they say you shouldn't get drunk or otherwise before you go out on a date, but a young lady named Maleka, who goes by @_blotty on Twitter, would like to add coffee to the list of pre-date don'ts.

She had a crappy experience on a date because she had to poop...and the toilet wouldn't flush.

I am a confident, calm and self assured woman...so I felt comfortable popping in his bathroom. This was a mistake. His toilet did not flush

— misunderstood worm (@_blotty) March 22, 2016

Maleka told her first date horror story on Twitter with a couple dozen Tweets she probably didn't expect very many people to read.

But when a story starts with "I have a story to tell. It is about my poop" and then proceeds to hook you in with a really bad decision involving poop in a purse you feel inclined to read on...

Read A Woman Tweeted About Pooping On First Date And It Got Pretty Uncomfortable here

Parents used to live in fear of their video game obsessed kids playing Grand Theft Auto then deciding it would be a grand idea to steal a car and lead the police on a high speed chase, but thankfully no kid was ever that dumb.

However, convicted dumb criminal Ryan Stone proved age does not guarantee wisdom back in 2013 when he started his GTA in real life crime spree by stealing a red Ford Edge left running in a gas station parking lot.

But Ryan had just stolen a car with a four-year-old in the back and realized he needed to bail out, so he pulled a GTA move and blocked off another car on the road, dragging the driver out before speeding off again.

After a failed attempt to jump cars once again Ryan took off on foot, the scene ending dramatically yet unlike GTA because the helicopter didn't mow him down in the middle of the street.

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Whether he was actually trying to imitate the video game series or not is unknown, but everyone involved is thankful the incident did not play out like GTA because nobody was killed or seriously injured during the spree.

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Many people have wondered what human flesh tastes like, but cannibalism is a totally taboo topic unless you approach it scientifically, a method of inquiry that may require a bit of self sacrifice.

Brit Lab's Greg Foot learned that lesson the hard way, as he submitted to having a piece of muscle extracted from his leg in his quest to find out what human flesh tastes like.

Greg doesn't eat his own flesh so don't worry, but in order to figure out what combination of meats would approximate the taste of human flesh he had to cook his leg meat to get the aroma right.

(Warning: video is not for the squeamish)

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-Via BuzzFeed

The Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco was the official heart of the Summer of Love, the hippie mecca that attracted flower children from all over the country while repulsing the nation's squares.

Things got mighty freaky in Frisco during those free love days, and you could see all kinds of strange sights and interesting people on the sidewalks in and around Haight-Ashbury, making it a prime stop for a bus tour.

In 1967 San Francisco Chronicle reporter J. Campbell Bruce and photographer Art Frisch took a ride on one of these ridiculous Grey Lines bus tours dubbed the “Hippie Hop” to shoot some pics and show the world what the squares were squawking about.

This "descent into psychedelia" looks pretty tame to our modern eyes, but imagine the wonder and horror those (mostly Midwestern) squares felt when they saw what those hippies were up to on those acid soaked SF streets!

-Via Dangerous Minds

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Spring is in the air, and people are starting to feel alive again as the winter chill starts to thaw and melt into the bodies of water we'll be swimming in come summer.

As the temperatures rise our sweaters go into storage and out come the short sleeves, and if you're looking for some new tees to put a spring in your step and make you feel fresh again then check out these tees from the NeatoShop. 

Spring means new life, new green growth and a new season to explore the natural world

Protect The Forest by BazNet

It also means new jobs, new responsibilities, new births and lots of new responsibilities

Adulting Sucks by Oneskillwonder

At least we get a new season of our favorite shows, complete with new neighborhood badasses

Penny And Dime. by Hope2198

It's the nightmare story the identity protection companies would love to tell you in order to sell you on their services, but unlike most of their made up scenarios this one actually happened to a writer from Lifehacker.

His name is Eric Ravenscraft, and his identity was stolen by someone who was kind enough to file his taxes for him too, which is how he discovered the identity theft had taken place.

He received a letter from the IRS stating he'd filed his taxes twice, and all the strange emails and the fact that his Spotify account kept playing Enrique Iglesias suddenly made sense.

Eric told his tale of identity theft, and the ways he is now protecting himself against a repeat theft, so that others may learn from his mistakes and act before it's too late.

Enrique Iglesias as the soundtrack for identity theft, sounds legit to me!

Read A Stranger Stole My Identity And Filed My Taxes here

Imagine being one of the avid Tom Green fans who rented Freddy Got Fingered on VHS fourteen years ago and forgot to return the tape, what would you expect to happen?

Probably not much since VHS tapes have gone the way of the Dodo, but a North Carolina man discovered that failing to return a VHS tape can result in an arrest warrant and a fine.

James Meyers, aka MadInfluence, was pulled over for a broken tail light and then served by Concord police officers for failing to return a VHS copy of Freddy Got Fingered 14 years earlier.

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When Tom Green heard about the incident he offered to pay the $200 fine if that would help James out, but James should really just sell the VHS tape on Ebay as an "internet oddity" to raise the funds.

And speaking of oddities:

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-Via The Daily What