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38 Colorful Slang Terms From Colonial Times

For some the English language already has way too many "vulgar" terms, but those of us who like a bit of colorful language in our lives are always on the lookout for new entries to add to our book of bad words.

People in Colonial times used all kinds of smutty slang terms like crinkum crankum, apple dumpling shop and twiddle-diddles that sound pretty classy when compared to the coarse terms we use for those body parts today.

And thanks to Francis Grose's book Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence, which was first published in 1811 and is now available in its entirety via Project Gutenberg, we can talk trash like they did in the olden days.

Read The 38 Most Amazing Vulgar Slang Terms From Colonial Times here


The Most Hardcore Way To Shred An Electric Guitar

Legendary guitarists don't use industrial machinery to shred on guitar, but Auguie Henry of SSI Shredding Systems, who never got to live out his rock 'n' roll dreams, prefers to let the Dual-Shear Shredders do all the shredding for him.

For Auguie, the sound of an electric guitar being shredded by the whirling Dual-Shear blades is the sweetest rock ballad he will ever play.

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Watching this video may result in feelings of nausea and dizziness if you love guitars, but you've gotta appreciate the efficiency of their shredding machine!

-Via Laughing Squid


5 Tolkien Villains Too Big For The Big Screen

The works of J.R.R. Tolkien have yet to be fully adapted for the big screen, and even though Peter Jackson's films delivered a few dozen hours of material from Tolkien's stories lots of great content and characters haven't made it into the movies.

Some of the biggest and baddest villains in Tolkien's lore, such as Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, or Ungoliant, mother of all giant spiders in Middle Earth, were featured in The Silmarillion, a posthumous collection put together by Christopher Tolkien that many see as the prequel to The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings.

Morgoth will definitely make his way onto the big screen if an adaptation of The Silmarillion is ever made, and when he does we may get to see his dragon Ancalagon the Black in action.

Ancalagon was so large and fearsome it was said he could "blot out the sun from miles away", and when he died his fallen body was responsible for destroying a volcanic mountain range, which led to the destruction of the northwestern portion of Middle-Earth.

Something tells me that sequence will be done in CGI...

See 5 Tolkien Villains Too Intense For The Big Screen here


Florida Teen Bluffs His Way Into Being A Doctor By Opening His Own Medical Clinic

Many kids who grew up in the 80s and 90s dreamed of becoming a young doctor like Doogie Howser, because he made the whole thing look so cool. But there's a reason most doctors have to go through nearly a decade of schooling before the lives of patients are put into their capable hands, and that's because untrained doctors can lead to untimely deaths. However, those thoughts never entered 18-year-old Malachi Love-Robinson's mind when he set up the New Birth New Life Medical Center and Urgent Care LLC in Palm Beach, Florida. His bio at the website says,

Dr. Malachi A. Love-Robinson is a a well rounded professional that treats, and cares for patients, using a system of practice that bases treatment of physiological functions and abnormal conditions on natural laws governing the human body. Dr Love-Robinson utilizes physiological, psychological, and mechanical methods, such as air, water, light, heat, earth, phototherapy, food and herb therapy, psychotherapy, electrotherapy, physiotherapy, mechanotherapy, naturopathic corrections and manipulation, and natural methods or modalities, together with natural medicines, natural processed foods, and herbs and nature’s remedies.

Not only did he set up the website, he was also seeing patients! According to the Charlotte Observer, the Florida Department of Health sent him a cease-and-desist order, but Love-Robinson continued to practice.

The health department called the Sheriff’s Office and members of the Palm Beach Narcotics Task Force to investigate. They sent in an undercover officer. After that officer received a medical exam and advice from the young doctor, they arrested him.

Last year, Love-Robinson was briefly detained by West Palm Beach police after he was found wandering around St. Mary’s Medical Center wearing a doctor’s coat and interacting with patients. Kent said Love-Robinson, then 17, was in his office and introduced himself as an anesthesiologist, but Kent became suspicious because of Love-Robinson’s youthful looks.

The teenager’s grandfather said it was a big misunderstanding, and that Love-Robinson never claimed to be a medical doctor, just a holistic doctor, for which he had online degrees. Now Love-Robinson has been arrested and charged with practicing medicine without a license, and with any luck Malachi will get to play doctor again...with his cellmate!

-Via The Daily What


Dax And Kristen Do Africa

Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are one of those Hollywood couples who like to share their love with the world, appearing alongside each other in everything from commercials to big budget movies.

And while it may seem a bit sappy at times their partnership is also enviable, sharing the spotlight and helping each other shine.

But they are both actors after all, and sometimes they don't know how to shut off that star power and just enjoy a trip abroad, which results in the creation of "projects" like this ridiculous music video called "Africa".

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They said their "sole objective was to rage hard and honor Toto properly." Mission accomplished famous folks!

-Via FAIL Blog


The Dos And Don'ts Of Funeral Etiquette

With virtually every death comes the funeral service, where people get together to bid the dearly departed farewell and hopefully get a bit of closure from the whole experience.

But these memorial gatherings also make people feel mighty anxious, as they wonder what to wear, who to bring, and whether they should attend if they're of a different faith.

As a rule the dress code is conservative and earth toned, you should bring kids because they'll brighten spirits at the service, and out of respect for the dead you should leave your religious hangups at home.

Read 9 Dos And Don'ts Of Funeral Etiquette at mental_floss


A Hilarious And Honest Review Of Tetris

Believe it or not, there are actually gamers out there who have never played Tetris, and for their sake someone needs to deliver an honest and trustworthy review of the game so n00bs know what they're getting into.

But Video game vlogger Darkk Mane is definitely the wrong man for the job because, for one thing, he keeps calling the game "Teetris".

It's like come on, how are you going to review a game if you can't even read the title? (NSFW due to language)

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Man, if this review had come out back in 1984 Tetris might not have made it out of the Soviet Union!

-Via Laughing Squid


What Is That Small Pocket On Your Jeans Meant To Hold?

It's something most wearers take for granted, and something we all use to hold different things, but when asked few people actually know the intended use for that little pocket on your jeans.

We know it's handy for holding change, loose keys, packs of gum and lighters, but what did Levi Strauss actually intend jeans wearers to do with that tiny pocket?

Well, back in 1873 when jeans first came out most men carried pocket watches, and that little pocket is where the timepiece was meant to be held, for easy access while working.

-Via Esquire


Project Offers People A Chance To Anonymously Message Their First Love

It's hard to forget your first love, especially if they're the "one that got away" or, adversely, the one that you ran away from after a messy breakup, and most of us leave that first relationship with some unspoken sentiments.

Whether these sentiments are good or bad most exes have a burning desire to speak their mind after a breakup, so artist Röra Blue is giving them the chance to have their say with the #UnsentProject.

Röra turns unspoken sentiments people submit to her, plus the color the sender associates with their first love, into small notes she sticks up around town.

Now the exes can have their say without having to face their first loves, and the world can share a smile about the time they felt the same way about someone they once loved.

-Via Dose


Preacher Rails Against The Satanic Wickedness Of Wonder Showzen

Once upon a time MTV aired a twisted satirical kiddie show called Wonder Showzen, which featured puppets doing inappropriate things, on the spot interviews that made people angry, and overdubbed clips from old kids shows like Vegetable Soup.

Wonder Showzen was obviously meant for adults and was cancelled after its second season about 10 years ago, but that didn't stop pastor Daniel Castle from condemning the show for being a gateway drug to Satan addiction.

It seems pastor Castle thinks that quaint little MTV show was the real deal, and he's not gonna stand by and watch the youth of America be "spiritually exploited" by one the most evil shows ever made.

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"I've got the spirit in me, and it's yummy in my tummy" Now I see why pastor Castle took the show so seriously...

-Via Dangerous Minds


This Dog's Scream Is Worse Than His Bite

This is Cody, isn't that a cute name for a scruffy little dog?

Cody is a seemingly ordinary animal when he's running around playing with his fellow pets, but when Cody opens his maw he lets out a scream that sounds like something you'd hear in a horror movie.

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Some dogs will do anything to fetch their human's attention, but Cody's methods are a bit ruff on the ears, and the nerves!

-Via Boing Boing


The Trippiest Cat Video On The Internet

The internet was built upon the backs of hard working cats who let themselves be filmed, photographed, dressed up and harassed for the sake of human amusement.

And because of our fascination with cat videos we search, and sometimes actually stumble upon, a cat video that's like no other we've ever seen.

Viaje al cielo de los gatos, which roughly translates to "a trip to cat heaven", is one of those videos...or is it?

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Turns out this isn't an ordinary cat video, it's a segment from the rarely seen 1964 film The Three Lives Of Thomasina, where Thomasina gets a taste of heaven before being sent back because she has eight more lives to go.

It may predate the internet by three decades, but it's definitely the trippiest cat video I've ever seen online!

(Terrible quality video with original English voice over here)

-Via Dangerous Minds


Rich Old Dude Surfer Gang Is Terrorizing A Los Angeles Beach

As we get older some of us put our roughneck ways behind us and try to live a more peaceful life, while others seem to get more violent and aggressive in their later years.

One particularly feisty gang of old dudes in Los Angeles are fighting to keep their beach local, giving Southern California surf culture a bad name.

People who try to surf Lunada Bay in Palos Verdes Estates are encountering a gang of rich guys calling themselves the "Bay Boys" who pick fights with anyone they don't want surfing their beach.

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It may sound like the plot of a cheesy 80s movie, but this harassment has been going on since at least 1996, with assault charges filed against a few of the "Bay Boys" over the years.

And last May this localism lunacy was caught on video by Rory Carroll and Noah Smith of The Guardian, who came out to find their car egged with "kooks" written in surf wax on the windows.

Read more about A Rich Old Dude Surfer Gang Is Terrorizing A Los Angeles Beach here


Son Tosses Eggs To Unsuspecting Mom Who Proves She's A Real Catch

Mothers and sons have a special kind of bond, one that can be a bit creepy but more often than not is just an endless source of brattiness for them both.

Sons cruelly torture the woman who gave birth to them, and in turn moms have carte blanche when it comes to dishing out payback, which sometimes goes on until they both have egg on their faces.

But the guy in this video isn't sadistic when it comes to pranking his mother, he's just trying to keep her on her toes by tossing a raw egg her way every once in a while...for over a year.

Luckily, she's got mighty quick reflexes! (Barely NSFW due to language)

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Something tells me she's not a big fan of scrambled eggs...

-Via Daily Mail


Common Myths We Were Taught To Believe About Cars

It's hard to believe that we've been driving automobiles for over a hundred years, and yet some people still don't know how to check their oil, replace an air filter or, worst of all, pump their own gas.

However if you believe any of the 15 Common Myths You Were Taught To Believe About Cars then your misunderstanding is forgiven, because even savvy automobile enthusiasts believe some of these myths.

Think a bigger engine block is safer in a front-end collision? That giant hunk of steel will shift back towards the driver just like a small block in an accident.

Think convertibles are more dangerous than regular cars?

While that used to be true, the convertibles of today have to adhere to strict safety standards, and many models feature roll bars that protect a passenger's head in case of a rollover.

And speaking of pumping gas- did you know getting in and out of your car while at the pump can generate unsafe levels of static electricity? Don't risk your life, just wait until you're done pumping before you get back in your car!

Read 15 Common Myths You Were Taught To Believe About Cars here


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