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This Spoiled Little Chihuahua Has His Own Room Under The Stairs

If you think your pet is spoiled ask yourself this- does your furry family member have their own custom built, and fully furnished, room under the stairs?

If the answer is yes then you should contact Poncho the chihuahua's humans and arrange a meetup, because you're two of a kind!

Poncho became internet famous when his human's nephew Fatisbac posted pics of the pampered pooch's sweet sub-staircase doggy digs on Imgur, following it up with this video a few days later.

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I don't think the expression "it's a dog's life" applies to this particular pooch...

-Via Laughing Squid


A Tom Hanks Biopic Starring Captain Sully Sullenberger

When word spread that a movie would be made about the day Captain Sully Sullenberger saved a plane full of people by making a miraculous emergency landing on the Hudson people were like “What?”

Even Sully himself wondered why they would make such a movie, but then he heard Tom Hanks hired on to play the role so he stopped objecting and got on board with the project, stating "If Tom's in then whatevs".

And now that Sully is out in theaters Captain Sullenberger finally got to play the role of a lifetime on Jimmy Kimmel Live!- Tom Hanks.

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And the viewers muttered "WTF?!", wondering what they'd just watched...

-Via The Hollywood Reporter


The Impossible Dungeons & Dragons Quest

It can be hard to serve as gamemaster and maintain your friendship with the players in your tabletop roleplaying group, because gamers take character death very seriously.

They also get pissed off if you don't award them enough experience points, give them enough magic items, or if you keep rolling really high for enemies.

But, as this Is It Canon comic by Rock Paper Cynic and Big Simple Comics shows, there's one quest which will defeat even the most experienced role players and make your group hate you at the same time- trial by noob.

-Via Geeks Are Sexy


How Hollywood's Sex Scenes Are Made

Sex scenes are an integral part of the Hollywood movie experience, and these titillating scenes are constructed to make audiences aroused and keep them coming back for more.

In fact, audiences are often disappointed when they see a Hollywood movie that doesn't include a sex scene, so filmmakers feel obligated to include sexiness in every movie they make.

Which is why Hollywood filmmakers become students of scopophilia, mastering the craft of visual stimulation.

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As you can see in this video by The Film Theorists Hollywood filmmakers have sex appeal down to a science, so it's not our fault sex scenes turn us on, because Hollywood has been perfecting them for over 80 years.

-Via CinemaBlend


These Pinball Machines Really Rock

Pinball may have lacked a soundtrack back in the 40s and 50s, but by the 70s and 80s pinball machines were imbued with the power of rock 'n' roll, catering to the player's preferred genre of music.

Groups like KISS, the Rolling Stones, AC/DC and Metallica have all lent their likenesses, and their music, to pinball machines so their rocker fans can worship the rock gods while hanging at the arcade.

Some of those rock gods have been featured on multiple pinball machines virtually spanning their career, although the later games are often so bad they make a grown man cry.

But the fact that rock bands actually have their own machines, which actually play their music, seems pretty cool to an arcade lovin' 80s kid like me.

And many of those rock 'n' roll machines let the whole arcade know how cool you are every time you got a multiball by blasting a blistering track as a reward for being a prime pinballer.

See Pinball machines featuring The Stones, Elton John, The Who, AC/DC, KISS and many more here


Strange Insults From Around The World

Most travelers like to learn a few phrases in the language spoken in the country they're about to visit, in case they need to find a hotel, food or the bathroom in a hurry.

But experienced travelers also pack an insult or two in the native tongue for the trip ahead, because you never know when some "dog baby" is going to push you over the edge...

Travel blog Just The Flight put together this full color guide to colorful, and extremely insulting, phrases from around the world, so you can memorize a few new ways to speak your mind no matter where you are.

See the full infographic here

-Via DesignTAXI


The Most Delicious Saxophone Ever Played

Music nourishes the soul, uplifts the spirit and feeds our heads, but only this pancake saxophone can play the breakfast blues and feed a family of five at the same time.

This feast for the eyes and ears dubbed the "stacksophone" was shared by Denny's Diner last year but the concept is timeless, especially if you're thinking about becoming a restaurant-based busker!

-Via Laughing Squid


Black Metal Cats Reveals The Dark Thoughts Of Our Feline Friends

There's no telling what runs through a cat's mind as they sit there staring at humans, but if their facial expression is any indication those thoughts are rarely good.

Which is why the memes shared by the Twitter account Black Metal Cats may actually be a faithful representation of what our feline friends are thinking.

Black Metal Cats masterfully combines lyrics from heavy metal songs with the appropriate cat pictures in order to slash away human sadness with the power of kitteh-style kerrang.

Because combining cats and brutal metal is like firing a furry bazooka at the darkness lurking inside you, so Black Metal Cats are the ultimate weapon in the war against boredom and ennui.

-Via FAILBlog


The Difference Between Good And Bad Horror

Horror movies are often churned out just to make a quick buck for studios at the box office, hence the PG-13 ratings and overabundance of supernatural and slasher-themed flicks.

But if the storyline is good, and the gruesome visuals make you clench your cheeks in fear, then that horror movie is sure to stick with you for a while.

However, if you haven't watched a horror movie in a while yet keep having a spine-tingling feeling something's wrong then take it from Webtoons Bluechair Comic and watch your back...

-Via Geeks Are Sexy


Rey's Jedi Training As Directed By Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino wasn't asked to direct the Star Wars sequels, and he bluntly stated he had no interest in being involved with anything produced by Disney.

But, as you can see in this video by How It Should Have Ended, a Tarantino-style Star Wars sequel would have been full of that kung fu cool QT is known for, and Uma Thurman as Rey for some reason.

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This parody video also shows us why Quentin's version of Star Wars would have flopped at the box office- American audiences hate subtitles!

-Via comicbook


How Contestants Claim Their Prizes After The Price Is Right

Every episode of The Price Is Right features contestants winning some sort of prize, cash or otherwise, ranging from a small appliance to a new car, but contestants don't receive their prizes on camera.

So how do contestants claim their prizes after the show?

According to former contestant Aurora De Lucia, who won camcorders and a Chevy Cruze LS on the show in March of 2013, winners are immediately sent to a “winners room” backstage to sign paperwork.

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The camcorders were shipped to Aurora's house from the vendor, but she had to go pick the car up from the dealership after the show's producers made arrangements which, as stated in the contract, could take up to 90 days.

Aurora had to pay $2067 in sales tax for the car, as well as federal taxes on all her prizes, since they're considered income, and California's income tax of 8 percent before she could take possession of the car.

In total she had to pay around $9000 for a $20,000 car, which isn't a bad deal overall but is a hell of a lot more money than most Price Is Right contestants expect to pay when they go on the show.

Read How Do Contestants Collect Prizes On 'The Price Is Right'? at mental_floss


The Time Pablo Escobar And His Family Went To Walt Disney World

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There's one funny thing about notoriously dangerous and evil men like Pablo Escobar- they look silly doing normal things, and utterly ridiculous when they go to happy places like theme parks.

But Pablo wasn't just a murderer and drug kingpin- he was a daddy, so when his kids wanted to go to Walt Disney World he begrudgingly complied, although he refused to be happy about the trip.

These pics of Pablo and the fam at Walt Disney World were taken in 1981, when he had yet to be outed as a drug lord and still felt relatively safe traveling, although his bodyguards did accompany him on this trip.

Pablo was obviously a fan of theme parks, since he turned his Colombian ranch Hacienda Nápoles into an amusement park of sorts, with three zoos full of exotic animals, 27 lakes, a go-kart track and a mechanical bull.

But even though Hacienda Nápoles was full of fun and amazing stuff for a kid to do Pablo's son Juan Pablo had to take a trip to Orlando to meet his favorite cartoon star Mickey Mouse.

-Via Dangerous Minds

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The Mass Grave That Holds The Remains Of Five Dozen Circus Performers

Circus performers, vaudevillians and carnival folk are a breed apart from the actors we think of as the backbone of the entertainment industry today.

They also form a much more tightly knit communities than those who work in Hollywood, because trust in your fellow performers is paramount when you're constantly traveling from town to town.

So it makes sense circus performers would want to be buried alongside their own, spending the afterlife with their fellow showfolk so the show can go on for eternity.

But Showmen's Rest isn't the realization of circus performer dreams- it's a mass grave where around 60 circus performers from the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were buried after a tragic train wreck claimed their lives back in 1918.

On June 22, 1918, an empty Michigan Central Railroad troop train collided with their stopped circus train around Hessville, Indiana, because the troop train's engineer was asleep at the wheel.

The Showmen's League of America had just purchased burial land in Woodlawn Cemetery in 1913, so the victims of the wreck, many of whom couldn't be identified, were some of the first to be buried in the Showmen's Rest section of the cemetery.

Read A Mass Grave Holds These Circus Performers. They're Buried Together For A Tragic Reason here


Comic Artists Discuss The Weirdest Drawing Requests They've Received

Illustrators get used to receiving requests for drawings, especially as they develop their skills around friends and family members who feel requests are the best way to encourage a budding artist.

But those encouraging folks don't ask the artist to draw sick and twisted scenes featuring pop culture characters in sexual and/or gratuitously violent situations, at least not in public.

However, any artist who has worked the fan con circuit, sold their artwork online or taken commissions knows there are sick people out there looking for an artist to draw the stuff of nightmares.

Tom Fowler, artist/writer for Rick and Morty, was asked to draw a gross scene featuring Sauron, the Pterodactyl man from the Savage Lands, hypnotizing a teenage Storm into becoming his sex slave, akin to this panel:

Tom drew up a much tamer version for that weirdo, stating "I'd robbed this creep of his boner, and that's the real satisfaction that a cartoonist should feel".

Believe it or not the requests aren't always sexual- Tristan Jones, artist from ALIENS: Defiance, one got this request:

There was this guy that asked me to draw him, which is usually an immediate no from me on the spot at conventions, but as Jack Skellington (whatever that meant, I assumed it meant drawing Jack slightly heavier set and with this dude's hair) as a Ghostbuster, busting the ghost of his mother (who he had a photo of) from Jack's reindeer sleigh.

But then he talks about a different request which was racy to say the least...why, perverts, WHY?

Read We Asked Comic Artists About Their Weirdest Drawing Requests here (NSFW)


Guy Turns Keurig Coffee Machine Into Bionic Hand

People often see Keurig coffee machines as a good purchase while at the store only to find the overpriced and underwhelming Keurig isn't as useful as a standard coffee machine.

So what's a jittery MacGyver to do when they discover their Keurig machine is a disappointment?

Take that Keurig apart and turn it into something far more useful, like a bionic hand.

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Evan Booth of Terminal Cornucopia spent nearly 200 hours turning a Keurig K350, a 12v power supply and various adhesives into Hedberg the bionic hand.

It's cool looking, but can it make a decent cup of coffee?

-Via That's Nerdalicious


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